In Hyderabad in September, the night is already a little cool.

Hydra Palace, in the roadside flower garden, iron-gray thorn flowers are in full bloom. The wind blows through the thick branches, and the crisp and melodious birdsong can be heard from the flowers.

In the northern part of the Delen Empire, there is a peculiar species of nightingale, which is petite and most fond of nesting in thorn bushes.

According to the statistics of the court gardener, in the Hydra Palace, there are at least thirty or forty thousand nightingale couples nesting here in the large thorn bushes. At night, especially when the moon is beautiful, the birds sing and make a heavenly sound.

Margrethe III walked slowly along the path in the flowerbeds, and the crisp and melodious sound of birdsong, like a wisp of clear spring water, slowly extinguished the boiling anger in her heart.

"You know what? Just now, I wanted to press Conrad to the ground and beat him up...... It must be that he was beaten too little when he was a child, so he was so unreliable; It must have been that I beat him too little when he was a child, and now I think of him with itchy hands! ”

Like a silent and loyal old dog, Mata XIII followed her quietly, holding his hands behind his back without saying a word.

Eventually, Margrethe III made her way to the end of the trail and stopped at a secluded pond of water lilies. A small arched bridge spans a small pond, and water lilies bloom quietly on the water covered with duckweed.

Margrethe III walked onto the bridge, sat cross-legged on the bridge with her back against the railing.

She patted the bridge next to her, and Mata XIII laughed and sat down next to Margrethe III. The two sat side by side, the night wind blowing through their hair and clothes, and the water lilies swaying gently on the water.

Just like 80 years ago, when they fell in love for the first time, the two sat quietly on this secluded bridge, quietly enjoying this quietness.

"Honey, I'm a little flustered, a little scared." Margrethe III muttered softly.

"Don't panic, don't be afraid, I'm always by your side." Mata XIII gently stroked Margaret III's long hair.

Margrethe III was silent for a long time.

"You know my current situation, if, if I fail, I can't hold on to the past, and the empire we have spent most of our lives on, can we rest assured that we will hand it over to them?"

Margrethe III sighed and continued to babble softly.

"When I ascended the throne, the empire was in turmoil. You and I, like a pair of male and female wolves who have been cornered, grinning with unscrupulous means, hysterical and tyrannical, using countless dark, bloody, brutal, and ruthless tricks to drag the empire out of the quagmire little by little. ”

"We loot and fill the treasury."

"We are treacherous and plundering profits."

"We are tyrannical and bloodthirsty, suppressing the enemy."

"So, I became the craziest warmonger on Metland; And you, how many princesses of the royal family tossed and turned, dreamed of, erudite, talented, handsome, elegant, known as the model of the Medland royal family, Prince Mata, has become the craziest butcher around the warmongers! ”

Mata XIII looked at Margaret III dotingly: "Now, everything is fine. ”

Margaret III pursed her lips and said coldly, "Because we are still alive, everything looks fine." ”

"The empire is stronger, more powerful than ever, ten times more powerful than when all previous emperors were in power! The territory of the empire is unprecedentedly vast, the treasury of the empire is unprecedentedly full, and the empire's army is unprecedentedly large and capable of conquest. ”

"Such a powerful empire, an empire that makes us full of confidence, but the Mid-Autumn Bloody Case is like a blow to the head, which makes me wake up."

"Such a mighty empire, the Church, St. Sia, the Highland Kingdom, and those damned heretics...... They did not take the empire into account, and for the sake of profit, they still dared to set off a bloody storm in the empire. ”

"Such a powerful empire, the Ice Sea Kingdom, or the Ice Sea Kingdom of our ally front, they are a little bastard from the Carter family, who dares to ignore the strength of the Empire, brazenly break into the territory of the Empire, and kill the loyal warriors of the Empire."

"Such a powerful empire, an ambitious empire that is ready to do a big job, the most secret strategic plan, the most confidential core information, would unbelievably appear in Tulun Port, tens of thousands of miles away!"

Margrethe III turned her head and looked at Mata XIII deeply: "My dear, is such an empire really powerful?" ”

Mata XIII put his arm around Margrethe III's shoulders, looked at his lover tenderly, and said firmly and forcefully: "Of course we are strong! ”

Margrethe III muttered a little waywardly: "I'm still here, when you're still there, the empire is undoubtedly strong, but if I fail this time, I'm gone, and you're gone?" Our children, the bastards around our children, can they take over the burden of the empire and keep it strong? ”

Mata XIII's eyes widened and he fell into a long silence.

"You're not sure, either." Margrethe III muttered: "So much confidential information, so much confidential information related to the strategy of the Empire, just so silently, without our knowledge, appeared in the port of Tulum? ”

"If it weren't for that lucky little fat Joe, he would have been lucky enough to intercept these documents, if they fell into the hands of the enemy...... Whether it's St. Chia, or Nice, or the Ice Sea......"

Margrethe III shuddered, she looked at Mata XIII and said in a deep voice, "I am not afraid that we have internal problems, and no empire can make a monolithic ...... What I'm afraid of is that we don't know anything! ”

"I am afraid that the man who does such a thing is right next to our heir, and we know nothing!"

"Simon, Freret's staff, his close retainer. He is suspected of stealing the top secrets of the Empire, and he is suspected of treason. ”

"Hanievi, Freret's lover, his confidant, his right-hand man. She is suspected of murder and uses disgraceful means to obtain the property of the people of the empire. Oh, and now there's one more charge of smuggling arms to damn pirates! ”

"Hanks, Marcos, they are also Freret's staff, and they are his right-hand men...... But look at the things they did, is this what the nobles of the empire should behave? ”

Margrethe III looked at Mata XIII very seriously: "My dear, we are old! Even, we will die soon. If our heirs are surrounded by such bastards of bad character; If our empire is full of such unscrupulous bastards for their own gain...... Can the empire be handed over to them? ”

Mata XIII was silent.

It took a long, long time before Mata XIII said in a deep voice: "I have sent someone to investigate with all my might...... From top to bottom, no matter who is involved, we will track it down to the end. ”

"Also, my dear, there must be no hurry, there must be no hurry. You have to believe our boys, Salian is good, isn't he? Salian has always been very good, much better than his father, much better than his brothers. ”

"And, you see, Vigrar, a good lad too. He's also our royal blood, he's such a good boy. ”

"You have to believe in our children, you have to believe in ourselves, you have to believe in yourself!" Mata XIII looked at Margrethe III with great tenderness: "You will succeed." ”

Margrethe III pursed her lips and looked up at the sky: "I have a few small plans. ”

Mata XIII smiled and nodded: "Everything is up to you, my Majesty the Empress!" ”

In the darkness of night, in the streets of Hyderabad, groups of inspectors in black inspector uniforms were in action, together with a large group of palace guards dressed in court knights' uniforms.

With the clatter of wheels and the sound of horses' hooves, a large group of people arrived at the building of the Naval Armament Department on the east side of the Hydra Palace, five streets apart. They silently blocked the front and back doors of the building's courtyard, and then quickly took control of the entire building.

It was already night, and there were still many officers working overtime in the building of the Navy Armament Department.

In a brightly lit office that occupies half a floor, dozens of naval officers are busy under the lights. Vast numbers of forms and ledgers were piled up on desks, and a few orderly men were running back and forth with hot water kettles, filling the cups of these busy officials with espresso coffee.

The door to the office was pushed open with a bang, and a large crowd of procurators and palace guards poured in.

The naval officers present raised their heads one by one blankly, and looked at the inspectors who rushed in at a loss.

A senior ombudsman took two steps forward and shouted in a low voice with an expressionless face, "Who is in charge here?" ”

Dozens of naval officers looked at the innermost part of the large office, separated by frosted glass. The doors of several individual offices were locked, and four had no lights in them, except for the leftmost window-side one.

With a 'click', the door to the office was opened, and a young man in a lieutenant colonel's uniform poked his head out with a gloomy face: "What's going on, why is it so noisy?" ”

Outside in the office, a naval officer hurriedly said: "This is Yu Lian, the second-level confidential secretary of our equipment department, ......."

"Lieutenant Colonel Yu Lian, please stop what you are doing and cooperate with our investigation." Several inspectors quickly walked towards Yu Lian: "On the orders of the empress, during the investigation, you will be restricted in your personal freedom, please ......"

Yu Lian's fairly upright face contorted sharply, and he let out a hysterical scream as he looked at several of the Inspectors approaching him, then slammed the door open and slammed into the floor-to-ceiling window on his right-hand side with a scream.

"Catch him!" Seeing Yu Lian's reaction, everyone present realized that there was a ghost in this guy!

More than a dozen palace guards let out a low wolf howl, and their bodies suddenly turned into translucent shadows and flew away.

Yu Lian smashed the floor-to-ceiling glass and crashed into the courtyard outside with a strange scream.

In the distance, southeast of Hydrera, a dull sound of gunfire suddenly rang out. Immediately afterward, gunfire rang out one after another, and firefighting broke out in more than a dozen places inside Hyderabad during the night.