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Chapter 364 Choices and Doubts

When this sentence was uttered, the clothing store fell silent for a moment, and even Bernice herself was taken aback.

Ke Lin didn't expect her to ask such a question, so his first reaction was: Could it be that the female officer had an accident with the Grand Duke, so she had to contact foreign spies to escape?But after thinking about it again, this doesn't sound like something a person who is in a hurry to run away would say.

On the contrary, it seemed like he was going to elope with someone.

with who?And me?Hmm... do we know each other well?

"Can't you take it seriously?" Bernice knew that she had slipped a word, but she didn't show any panic at all, so she remedied it with a smile:
"It's just a whim to tease you, don't worry about it."

"Uh... I don't really care."

Following her words, Colin just spoke slowly.The loneliness that flashed across the female officer's face just now did not escape his eyes.There was never anything on a whim, maybe, she really wanted to escape from something.

However, if you take this moment of loneliness as Bernice's real thoughts, it is also too much for granted.

Do you want to cling to the court and become a canary, or go away and fly high as a free shopkeeper?Choosing one side means giving up the other side, which inevitably makes people worry about gains and losses.But Bernice should have made a choice for herself a long time ago... when she worked hard to enter the garden palace in her early years, she had already made it.

This person has always been sober, don't look at her lonely nostalgia for the freedom of the past from time to time, and even simply want to escape to a place where no one is there to take a breath, but she never regrets her past choices.Even if she had the chance to choose another [-] times, she would probably just make the same decision over and over again.

If anyone stretches out a helping hand presumptuously, she will only wave it away.

The so-called choice is such a thing, and everyone has to face it sooner or later.

If it were you, how long would it take to understand this?

Colin?

Because of this episode, the conversation with Bernice had some wonderful twists and turns.The momentary embarrassment can make everyone relax, but judging from the results, Colin didn't get the information he wanted.The grand duke Bernice spoke of also didn't show anything special... On the contrary, it seemed a bit annoying.Then they chatted casually for a while, and the lady officer said:

"In the next period of time, I'm afraid I won't have so much time to come here...I mean I can't even go out of the palace once a week, so this store will probably have to close for a while." She smiled nonchalantly and said:
"Although there is no business at all."

"That's it." Colin nodded, knowing that this news channel has almost come to an end:

"Is it because of the Grand Duke?"

"Almost." She said ambiguously.

"...If you need anything in the future, you can go to the ninth bureau to find a man named Frank, and you can contact me through him." Colin thought for a while and said:
"You should have guessed my identity. It's not difficult to arrange for someone to leave Danaro."

"If necessary, I will go to him." Bernice said with a final kiss on the cheek of the doll, but it seemed that she had no intention of accepting it.

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After walking out of the clothing store, Ke Lin walked to the middle of the empty road, and looked back at the store on a whim, but another doubt gradually appeared in his heart.

Before the recession at the beginning of this year, the embassy district had always been the most prosperous area in Danaro, not to mention every inch of land, but not far behind.But the female officer seems to have bought the store directly, so she didn't consider issues like rent at all, and just let it go for a year or two without pain or pain.

I don't know what the market price of such a store was at that time, but I don't need to think about it to know that it is a figure that an ordinary person can hardly reach in a lifetime.According to what Bernice herself said some time ago, it seems that she only recently got close to the Grand Duke, so before this year, she should be just an ordinary female official.

So, would a position in the court bring Bernice such an exaggerated income?It's impossible... Could it be that she tampered with the purchase list or something, and secretly searched for some oil and water?
Judging from the impressions I have been in contact with during this period, the female officer does not seem to be such a person...

Ke Lin felt that this matter was a bit weird, but he didn't take it too seriously.I just vaguely feel that Bernice is not as simple as she appears on the surface... although she is never simple on the surface.

If there is a chance in the future, let the informant of the investigation department in the Garden Palace check this person.

Colin made his decision, and then gently swept this little matter into the corner of his thoughts.

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The game of cards in the dark river safe house is still very dark.

The wounded still need a wizard to look after them, otherwise if they are unlucky and run into by some secret detective, they will not even have time to transfer them.

Before Nancy's body recovered, the matter fell to Colin's shoulders.

"Is it over?" Nancy asked Colin, sitting sideways on the head of the hospital bed.

"Well, by the way, I took a few laps outside."

"Have you discovered anything new?"

"It's almost the same as in the report." Colin thought for a while and added: "There may be some riots in the near future, and the scale will not be too large, but some people think that Zalwente actually has a lot of party members in the court. When the time comes There may also be some movement ... or maybe the riots themselves are organized by them."

"But if the Grand Duke is not dead, these are meaningless." Nancy said.

That's right, so whether the theater ceremony of General Vanus can be carried out is the key.

The ritual that was almost entirely carried out by Nancy alone in the dark.

"I heard that when you found McBride, there was a special trap prepared..."

For some unknown reason, Ke Lin asked about the details of the attack seven days ago.Nancy looked at him, reached out and raised her left arm, and rolled down the sleeve of the hospital gown.

On her left arm, a stitched scar from surgery is clearly visible.

"In it." Nancy said, touching the scar:
"I implanted a modified coordinate stabilization ritual. After the old models I wore on my body exploded, it probably resisted me for seven or eight seconds."

Seven or eight seconds, not bad, but still far from enough to escape from the mammoth.

"and then?"

"What then?"

"How did you survive after the coordinates failed?"

"What else?" Nancy rolled her eyes and said:
"Run out on two legs."

After the coordinates were forcibly shifted and all the spiritual connections were invalidated, he escaped from McBride with his flesh and blood. "Run out on two legs", she said lightly, and she didn't know how many hardships and dangers were involved in this understatement.

It's a miracle to be alive.How much Nancy's life was hanging by a thread at that time, just look at her bandaged body.

(End of this chapter)