Charlie barged in in a military uniform.

Behind him, followed were a neat, solemn column of knights.

And the five people in civilian clothes with different expressions, but all with the same superior posture, are obviously the mysteries brought by Charlie.

In the hall, Hippo sat alone at a long table, which was so old that it was somewhat mottled.

The light coming from outside the glass window hit his face, but it blurred his expression.

With his hands crossed and placed under his straight nose, his eyes deep seemed to see through everything.

Charlie looked at Hippo, then looked around.

There were no guards, no servants, and not even a knife by Hippo's side that could barely be used to maintain a semblance of security.

"Was it confidence, or did you give up resistance?" Charlie shook his head, amused at his hesitation, which of course was the latter.

In this case, where does a down-and-out aristocrat in the countryside get his self-confidence?

Hippo looked at Charlie as well, and at the people he had brought.

The rate of the heart's beating involuntarily sped up a few points.

However, Hibodu was well controlled, and it was not revealed.

According to Chu He's explanation, he silently counted the numbers in his heart.

When the number jumps to nine, raise your hands: "Please tie my hands or feet together!"

Charlie was stunned again.

He thought that Hippo would quibble, roar, deny, even threaten, intimidate, and even beg for mercy.

I never thought that Hippo would 'confess' so calmly and calmly.

This gave Charlie a hint of frustration that he didn't even perceive.

His lover disappeared and fled back to his family alone, and then begged his father to borrow elite soldiers and return to his hometown to avenge his love.

It's an experience that can be recorded and sung as poetry by the bard.

Ophelia's disappearance is still heartbreaking for Charlie. But to open the darkest and most incomprehensible areas of human nature, even Charlie himself didn't realize that he actually yearned for and even looked forward to this kind of feelings and stories. People want to live themselves in a story...

But now, Hippo's cooperation has ruined the strange 'coolness' that he finally stimulated.

This kind of discomfort can even be comparable, the young hero was knocked off the cliff by the enemy, accidentally learned peerless martial arts, and went back to take revenge, but found that the enemy had already died unexpectedly. A certain emotion was pushed to the extreme, but suddenly it couldn't explode, and the sense of decadence that had nowhere to show made Charlie, who didn't plan to talk nonsense with Hippo, said: "So you admit that you killed my fiancée, your sister Ophelia?"

Hippo shook his head and said, "No! I didn't kill her, in fact... I've never actively killed anyone. I'm letting you tie my hands and feet just to reassure you. There are things I need to say to you. ”

Hippo's voice is as calm and soothing as possible, and this quiet attitude will affect the opponent and make the opponent unconsciously relaxed.

Of course... If Hippo's opponent is a persecuted delusional person like Chu He, then such an approach will only be more and more counterproductive.

It's still the same sentence, specific people, specific responses.

No trick or idea can be absolutely universal.

"What are you going to tell me? What can't you say directly?" Charlie was not a complete idiot, and he could at least understand Hippo's reason for asking him to do so.

He was actively tied hand and foot, in order to reassure him, and then communicate alone in an environment where there are only two parties.

Hippo replied, "My eyes can see the future, and the present... Don't you want to hear about your own future?"

Charlie's original plan for a comprehensive veto turned around and didn't say anything.

Everyone is curious about their future.

Charlie is no exception.

"Go and tie his feet and hands... With chains!" Charlie added another suffix very carefully.

Hippo breathed a sigh of relief.

So far, the development has been exactly the same as Chu He expected.

Hippo was a little confused.

Is it he who sees through time, or is Chu He the one who holds the future?

Hippo was sturdyly strapped to the chair, unable to move. Only the head is free.

Charlie temporarily sent everyone out the door, and in the hall, only the two sat opposite each other at the end of the long table.

"So, what is my future?" Charlie said in a mocking tone to ease the tension in his heart. Although he is not a mystic, he is still clear about the origin and ability of the Crystal Knight.

Hippo didn't answer directly, but said, "There's still a lot of time, and I don't have any ability to resist." Since that's already the case, why don't we talk more?"

"Let's talk about the present first! If it was really me who killed Ophelia, if you killed me directly, and occupied the Amethyst territory with a tough attitude, then have you thought about the next result?"

When Charlie heard this, he really thought about it in the direction that Hippo said, but he didn't have much of a clue.

Hippo suddenly sang a strange ballad: "The same room, the brothers are feuding, the young lion king bites his brother who has gone away, the monkeys watch and applaud from the trees, the light of the morning shines on the broken corpses, the mosquitoes sing happily... See what happened to the saboteur, let's drink its flesh together. ”

Charlie's face was gloomy, and he got up and walked directly to Hippo.

Scold!

The long sword was unsheathed, and the piercing and cold blade rested on Hippo's neck.

Hippo smiled nervously, trying to hide the fear and chill in the corners of his eyes.

"Why do you want to kill me? If I'm just talking nonsense, then you can laugh it off. Did I poke at the pain you don't want to admit?" Hippo asked with a laugh.

Charlie gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, you're right, I did cross the line." I begged my father to give me the strength I shouldn't have, which would make my eldest brother jealous. In the same way, without the permission of the empire, I ignored the tacit agreement between the nobles, took revenge on you directly, and then seized the territory of the Amethyst family, which will attract the hostility of many old nobles and even some new nobles. ”

"When my father was alive, he was able to shelter me. But when the new Lion Duke appears, then I will be directly torn apart. ”

Xi Bo once again sighed in his heart at the incredibleness of the Chu River.

Of the many futures he had seen, there was no such possibility as the present.

But as the 'story' evolved, new possibilities were born.

There are a lot of changes in the future.

And along with these changes, and along the follow-up 'plot' that Chu He compiled for him, Hibo really saw a bright future.

Looking at these futures, Hippo was full of confidence, and the last trace of timidity disappeared without a trace.

"Look, your future seems to be doomed, I won't say it, you know it in your heart. You are carried away by anger and immediate gain, and your father dotes on you and overestimates the brotherly affection between his sons. What are you going to do now that you've laid the root of the curse?" Hippo asked, ignoring the sword still hanging around his neck.

As if at this moment, it was not him who was in a disadvantageous situation, but Charlie.