During the day, he was still facing the scenery of Before the Doomsday on the remote southern island, but at night, he was discussing his marriage with the king's aunt with the King of the Northern Kingdom. This once again made Outlander understand something. It's "Fate is impermanent", but unlike Claire who felt that his promotion was unreal, Shade confirmed that it was all real. After all, everything was achieved through his own efforts.
[Will this night end like this?]
After "she" made some profound inquiries, there were other changes in tonight's story.
That was what happened at the end of Shade's meeting with the king. Silent Night made some more noise. Shade looked up at the window behind the king. Larus III also stopped talking, shook his head and said to Shade:
"Don't worry, the guards will take care of it."
But instead of stopping, the noise became louder and louder. Just when Shade and Larus III stood up together, a bang came from a gunshot very close to the window, and spider web-like cracks appeared on the study window, but the glass did not crack Shattering.
"This glass is bulletproof special glass."
Larus III was still calm at this time, and even had time to explain to Shade that just when Shade was about to ask whether the bulletproof glass could protect against other things, he saw a black, smoking "stone" flying from the side of the window, hitting the glass and then falling to the bottom of the glass window.
"Steam Bomb!"
Boom!
The sound of the explosion and the crashing of glass Shattering almost made Larus III dizzy, but when he came back to his senses, he found that he was being pressed by Shade on his shoulders and hiding under the desk. What he could see in his field of vision was a pen holder that was blown away under his feet, a few pieces of document paper, and ink flowing from the edge of his vision in a zigzag direction toward his shoes.
He was so shocked that he couldn't even figure out for a moment whether he was fearful or furious. Fortunately, although the Steam Bomb explosion just now directly shattered the glass in the study room, the walls of the room were not affected in any way.
Because of the obstruction of the desk and the large distance between the desk and the window, Larus III was not injured.
Just when he was wondering how he was pulled into the bottom of the desk by Shade, he heard the sound of someone climbing over the window again.
Three strangers wearing black coats came in with guns. After scanning the room and seeing no one, they looked at the desk. However, the door of the study was also pushed open from the outside at this time. Then three eunuch attendants in red with guns pointed at the window and pulled the trigger. The three strangers who climbed into the window were immediately shot and fell to the ground.
The marksmanship of the three attendants was very accurate. When Shade and Larus III climbed out from under the desk, the explosion sound also came from the corridor outside the door. The eunuch attendant with the gun said:
"Your Majesty, Yodel Palace was attacked. Someone in Royal Guards rebelled and surrendered to the enemy. They helped the assassins break in. Now our people are exchanging fire with the rebels."
His Majesty the King has regained his composure after the shock:
"Leave through Exit 3 first."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Then one of the three people came to the window, one stood at the door, and the other walked to the bookshelf on the left and did something unknown. The bookshelf opened outwards, revealing the entrance to the secret passage.
"Let's go together."
Larus III said to Shade, and Shade followed.
One of the three attendants stayed behind, and the other two entered the secret passage first. After all four people entered the secret passage, the door was closed. Shade followed Larus III without any idea. The three assassins who died just now were ordinary people, and his keen sense did not detect any trace of anything wrong. This should be just an ordinary assassination.
Although it was a bit exaggerated that the assassins broke into the Yodel Palace with the cooperation of the rebellious Royal Guards, and even blew open the window of the king's study, but after all, the war years were about to begin, and Outlander believed that the current situation was still normal.
His "Enhanced Space Perception" let him know the direction of Secret Passage. Not long after, a group of people appeared from a corner of the courtyard surrounded by the building where the study was located.
The wall in the corner of the courtyard was opened, and Shade recognized that this was the courtyard where many foreign envoys were waiting to be summoned when he arrived. However, there was no one in the courtyard at this time, but the gas lamps standing around the courtyard illuminated the place very brightly.
There is still a firefight going on in the building. What Shade is most curious about right now is which force attacked Yodel Palace today. After all, there are too many people who have reasons to take action.
"Your Majesty, go this way."
The tall and thin attendant in red said softly, trying to lead Larus III around the courtyard and out of here. But a bang~ gunshot came from behind, and the attendant who spoke covered his lungs and fell to the ground, immediately losing consciousness.
Shade looked to the side. Another attendant with a slightly plump figure and an extremely clean face did not reload his gun. Instead, he turned the muzzle of the gun and pointed it at Larus III, whose face finally turned ugly next to Shade:
"Your Majesty, you didn't expect that, did you?"
The moonlight illuminated this scene at this moment. Shade did not expect that there would be such a wonderful show to watch during tonight's trip, and the middle-aged king, who was a head shorter than Shade, was frowning:
"I really didn't expect that, Luke, you have served Yodel Palace for twenty years. In these twenty years, I think I have never treated you badly. Why is this? Or is there something wrong with you from the beginning?"
"You should wait until you die to ask my poor sister this question."
The short and fat eunuch attendant said, Shade immediately thought of a long list of love and hate stories.
"I know about your family's affairs. Your sister died of illness. What does this have to do with you pointing a gun at me now?"
The attendant holding the gun had a ferocious look on his face, and he wouldn't be surprised even if he pounced and bit Larus III Shade next moment:
"Oh, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, do you really believe any information given to you by your subordinates? If that information is accurate, why are you being pointed at by me with a gun at this moment?"
"Luke, no matter what happened back then, at least you still have a chance to look back now."
"Your Majesty, from the beginning you never gave me a chance to turn back and confess to my poor sister."
"Wait a moment!"
Although the two were chatting intensely, Shade was indeed standing by. When the resentful attendant was about to shoot, he stood in front of Larus III. He felt that he had been ignored just now.
"Hamilton of Leijed, do you want to die for Larus III?"
So the fat attendant looked at Shade again, and said that he was going to shoot Shade first. But at this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps came. Unfortunately, the person who appeared here was not Yodel Palace's guard, but another stranger in black.
The other person has a typical southern appearance, and it is absolutely impossible for anyone with three generations of southern ancestry to become a staff member of the Yodel Palace.
The stranger was also an ordinary person. When he saw the three people confronting each other in the courtyard, he immediately raised his gun. Of course, his gun was also pointed at Larus III.
"This assassination is bound to succeed!" (Kartherian Language)
"Huh?"
"Do it!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Three gunshots exploded in the courtyard together, and after the gunshots ended, Larus III, who was holding a small pistol in his hand, trembled at the corners of his mouth when he saw Shade's fist right in front of him. At the same time, he felt that his heart was beating at an unprecedented speed.
But this is what it feels like to be alive.
Shade withdrew his clenched fist and opened it, allowing Larus III to see the black warhead lying in his palm.
The three shots just now were fired by the fat attendant, the man in black and Larus III. The man in black's bullet was caught by Shade. The fat attendant's bullet grazed Larus III's cheek and flew past, while Larus III's bullet directly penetrated the fat attendant's eyebrow.
There were quite a few sharpshooters tonight, and as the fourth person present, Shade certainly didn't fire, because he followed the rules and didn't even bring a gun.
"You"
His Majesty the King tried his best to slow down his heart rate. He looked at Shade, then at the man in black who seemed to be frozen. Shade looked at the bullet in his hand and explained:
"I have suspended the time of that man. He is just an ordinary person. You can shoot him again later. In this way, even if the Church reads the memory afterwards, nothing will happen. This bullet"
At this moment, gunfire was still ringing in the surrounding buildings, but it was no longer as intense as before.
Larus III put down the small pistol that slipped out of his sleeve. He looked at Shade up and down, but he didn't look that surprised:
"So, you are indeed the same as my aunt, as I guessed before. It is indeed impossible for my aunt to choose Pu."
"Some things don't need to be said."
Shade said, and looked at the situation in the courtyard at this time. Standing were him, Larus III, and the man in black whose time was suspended; those who fell were the tall and thin attendant who was shot by the traitor at the beginning, and the fat attendant who was shot to death by Larus III just now:
"These people are ordinary people, but there is something wrong with this warhead. The Church will definitely ask what happened later."
"The four of us shot separately, but both of their shots missed, while both of our shots hit."
As Larus III said, he took out another exquisite small pistol from his pocket and handed it to Shade. Shade pointed it at the man in black and pulled the trigger.
Time Stop ended, so the other party clutched his chest and fell to the ground with a look of disbelief. But then there was another gunshot, Shade looked over, and saw Larus III shot and killed the tall and thin attendant lying on the ground who was unconscious and had been shot in the lungs:
"I'm not sure if he was awake just now and heard our conversation and was hit by a stray bullet. I will take care of his family."