Book of Gods and Demons

In Hyderabad in September, the night is a bit cool.

Hydra Palace, in the roadside flowerbed, iron-gray thorns bloom in full bloom. The wind blew through the thick branches, and there was a clear and sweet bird's song from the flowers.

In the north of the Durham Empire, there is a peculiar nightingale. They are petite and like to nest in thorn bushes.

According to statistics by court gardeners, in Hydra Palace, among the large thorny bushes, at least 30,000 or 40,000 nightingale couples are nesting here. At night, especially when the moon is beautiful, these birds will sing and make sounds of nature.

Margaret III walked slowly along the road in the flowerbed, and the crisp and sweet birdsong, like wisps of clear spring water, slowly extinguished the boiling anger in her heart.

"Do you know? Just now, I really wanted to beat Conrad on the ground...it must be because he was beaten too little when he was a child, so he was so unreliable in doing things; it must be that I beat him too often when he was young Less, now my hands are itchy when I think of him!"

Mata XIII was like a silent and loyal old dog, quietly following her, holding his hands behind his back and saying nothing.

In the end, Margaret III reached the end of the trail and stopped by a secluded water lily pond. An arched bridge spans a small pond, and on the surface of the water densely covered with duckweed, many water lilies bloom quietly.

Margaret III stepped onto the bridge, leaned back on the bridge guardrail, and sat cross-legged on the bridge.

She gently patted the bridge next to her, and Mata XIII laughed ‘haha’ and sat down next to Margaret III. The two sat side by side, the night breeze blew through, shaking their hair and clothes, and the water lilies swayed gently on the water.

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

"My dear, I'm a little flustered, a little scared." Margaret III murmured softly.

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

Margaret III was silent for a long time.

"You know my current situation, if, if I fail, I can't stick to the past, we have spent most of our empire, can you rest assured to give it to them?"

Margaret III sighed and continued to mutter softly.

"When I came to the throne, the empire was plagued by wind and rain. You and I are like a pair of male wolves and female wolves forced to desperation, grinning unscrupulously, hysterical violent violence, exhausting countless dark, bloody, Cruel and merciless tricks dragged the empire out of the quagmire little by little."

"We search wantonly and fill the treasury."

"We treacherously and robbed our interests."

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

"So, I became the craziest warmonger in Medland; and you, how many royal princesses toss and turn, dreamless, erudite, talented, handsome, elegant, and known as the royal model of Medland, Prince Mata, Become the craziest butcher around the warmongers!"

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

Margaret III curled her lips and said coldly: "Because we are still alive, everything looks okay."

"The empire is stronger and stronger than ever before. It is ten times or a hundred times stronger than the previous emperors in power! The territory of the empire is unprecedentedly vast, the treasury of the empire is unprecedentedly enriched, and the army of the empire is unprecedentedly large and capable of fighting.

"Such a powerful empire, an empire that makes us full of confidence, but Zhong Qiu's murder seems to be a blow to me, and it wakes me up."

"Such a powerful empire, the church, Saint Xia, the Highland Kingdom, and those **** heretics... They didn't put the empire in their eyes. They still dared to set off a **** storm in the empire for their own benefit."

"Such a powerful empire, the Ice Sea Kingdom, or the Ice Sea Kingdom of our allies, they, a little **** from the Carter family, dare to ignore the power of the empire and brazenly break into the empire's territory and kill the loyal fighters of the empire."

"Such a powerful empire, an empire that is ambitious and ready to fight a big battle, the most secret strategic plan, the most secret core information, unexpectedly appear in the port of Tulum tens of thousands of miles away!"

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

Mata XIII strongly hugged Margaret III's shoulders. He looked at his lover tenderly and said firmly and forcefully: "Of course we are strong!"

Margaret III muttered a little bit willfully: "I am still here. When you are still there, the empire is undoubtedly strong, but if I fail this time, I am no longer, and you are not behind? Our children, the group of **** around our children, can they take over the burden of the empire and keep the empire strong?"

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

"You're not sure." Margaret III murmured: "So much confidential information, so much confidential information related to the strategy of the empire, so silent, we did not know, appeared in Tulum Port ?"

"If it weren't for that lucky little fat Joe, he would be lucky enough to intercept these pieces of information, if these pieces of information fall into the enemy's hands... Whether it's Saint Xia, or Nice, or Ice Sea..."

Margaret III had a shiver, and she looked at Mata XIII and said solemnly: "I am not afraid of our internal problems. There is no empire that can make a single piece of iron... What I fear is that we Know nothing!"

"What I fear is that the person who did this kind of thing is by our heir's side, and we don't know anything!"

"Simon, Frederick's staff, his close minister. He is suspected of stealing the top secrets of the empire, and he is suspected of treason."

"Hyneway, Frederick’s lover, his confidant, and his powerful subordinate. She is suspected of murder and used dishonorable means to obtain the property of the people of the empire. Oh, now I have to add another charge to the damned pirate. Smuggling arms!"

"Hanks, Marcos, they are also Frederick's staff and powerful subordinates around him... But look at the things they do. Is this what an imperial nobleman should do?"

Margaret III looked at Mata XIII very seriously: "My dear, we are old! Even, we are going to die soon. If our heirs are surrounded by such nasty bastards; if we The empire is full of such little **** who are unscrupulous for their own gain...Can the empire leave it to them?

Mata XIII was silent.

After a long, long time, Mata XIII solemnly said: "I have sent people to investigate with all my strength...From top to bottom, whoever is involved will be investigated to the end."

"Besides, my dear, you must not be in a hurry, you must not be in a hurry. You have to believe our children, Salian is very good, isn't it? Salian has always been very good, better than his father, better than his brothers. a lot of."

"Also, you see, Viglar, is also a good boy. He is also of our royal blood. He is really 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 Margaret III very tenderly: "You will definitely succeed."

Margaret III curled 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 queen!"

In the night, in the streets and alleys of Hyderabad, groups of inspectors in black uniforms of the Ministry of Supervision, together with the brigade of court guards wearing court knight costumes, were in action.

With wheels and hooves and the sound of horse hooves, a large group of people came to the Naval Armament Building on the east side of Hydra Palace, five streets away. They silently sealed off the front and rear gates of the building's courtyard, and then quickly controlled the entire building.

It was already night, and there were still many officials working overtime in the Naval Equipment Department building.

In a brightly lit office that occupies a half-story building, dozens of naval officials are busy under the lights, nervously busy. A large number of forms and ledgers were piled on the desk, and a few orderly men ran back and forth carrying a kettle, adding espresso to the cups of these busy officials~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The office door was pushed open, a large group of inspectors and The palace guards rushed in.

The naval officers present looked up blankly, looking at the inspectors who rushed in at a loss.

A senior inspector took two steps forward, and shouted in a low expression, "Who is in charge here?"

Dozens of naval officials looked at the innermost part of the large office at the same time, separated by frosted glass. The doors of several separate offices were all locked, and there were no lights in four of the offices, except for the one on the far left by the window.

With a ‘click’, the door of that office was opened, and a young man in a military uniform of a lieutenant colonel stuck out his head with a sullen face: "What's the matter, why is it so noisy?"

In the outside office, a naval officer hurriedly said: "This is Julian, the second-level confidential secretary of our equipment department..."

"Lieutenant Colonel Yulian, please stop your work and cooperate with our investigation." Several inspectors swiftly walked towards Julian: "By the Queen's order, during the investigation, your personal freedom will be restricted. Please... …"

Julian's fairly straight face twisted abruptly. Looking at the inspectors approaching him, he let out a strange hysterical scream, then slammed the door open, and screamed against the French window on his right hand side.

"Grab him!" Seeing Julian's reaction, everyone present realized that there was a ghost on this guy!

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

Julian smashed the floor-to-ceiling glass and fell into the courtyard outside with a strange cry.

In the distance, to the southeast of Hydra Palace, a dull gunshot suddenly sounded. Immediately afterwards, gunshots rang out one after another, and firefights broke out in a dozen places in Hyderabad at night.