Chapter 1978

Su Xiao closed the footage on the tablet; he had no interest in watching the Moon Goddess take a bath all the time.

At present, the imperial capital seemed calm, but in reality, undercurrents were surging. The death of the Eagle Marquis had caused the Old Saint King and the Moon Goddess to temporarily stop their confrontation, as both had to deal with the legacy, military power, etc., left behind by the Eagle Marquis.

Su Xiao first had to determine one thing: where the Moon Goddess hid the Will Rune Stone. As long as the location was clear, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had a high probability of being able to steal it.

It was unrealistic to let Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang search the Moon God Monastery on his own; that place was not only large but also heavily guarded.

Su Xiao quickly drafted a plan, the content of which was roughly as follows:

First, make the Moon Goddess feel that the Will Rune Stone had been stolen. In that case, she would personally or send someone to check, at which point Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang would follow closely and could obtain the location of the Will Rune Stone.

A very simple plan, but how to execute it depended on Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's performance.

With the Moon Goddess's terrifying intelligence, if told by others that the Will Rune Stone had been stolen, she simply wouldn't believe it, nor would she go to check, which would lead to exposing the location of the Will Rune Stone.

Making the Moon Goddess feel for herself that the Will Rune Stone had been stolen—this was the key point. As for how to do it, the answer was equally simple.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang needed to steal something very important to the Moon Goddess. Once an important item was stolen and the Moon Goddess couldn't find any clues, she would inevitably become suspicious.

If that still didn't work, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang would continue to steal until the Moon Goddess's mentality exploded.

Just as Su Xiao was preparing to execute the plan, the door was suddenly knocked. After the Little Adjutant opened the door, she discovered it was a messenger.

The Little Adjutant handed an oil-paper envelope to Su Xiao. After tearing open the envelope, Su Xiao saw a long string of codes written on the paper, some of which were in the languages of the Simoro Empire and the Lodan Empire.

This was a highly encrypted letter. By deciphering it according to the sequence in his memory images, Su Xiao deduced four characters.

'Saint King assassinated.'

Su Xiao crumbled the letter into fragments. According to what he knew, the Saint King had always been in the Lulunfei Palace, so the possibility of an assassination was not high, but this letter was sent by Crow Eye.

"Sir, is something major about to happen?"

"The Saint King was assassinated."

"!!!"

The Little Adjutant had an expression of "holy crap" on her face.

"Then what should we do? Take the opportunity to curry favor? Was he already dead, or half-dead?"

"If that old guy were so easy to kill, I'll call you Sir from now on."

"Uh, that's true. Then who did it? The Moon Goddess? Someone from the Simoro Empire?"

The Little Adjutant scratched her head. Every time she acted with Su Xiao, she felt like her intelligence wasn't enough. The only good news was that her superior wouldn't scheme against her.

"The one who did this is very likely someone from our Ninth Unit; otherwise, what was sent wouldn't be a secret letter, but a direct summons for me to the Lulunfei Palace."

Su Xiao lit a cigarette; this habitual action allowed him to think more focused.

"Sir, I'm timid, don't scare me. There are... uh~, come to think of it, really a bunch of people in the Ninth Unit who could do this. Then we..."

The remnants of the Ninth Unit indeed had a large group of people who dared to do such things.

"Just pretend we don't know."

Su Xiao knew very well that this was another muddy water he didn't want to get involved in.

However...

Knock, knock, knock.

The knocking sound came again. This time, the Little Adjutant took a steam bomb from inside her jacket.

Opening the door, two soldiers and an imperial official stood outside.

"Is Lord Kukulin in?"

"He is, maybe."

The Little Adjutant answered vaguely.

"Maybe?"

The official who came to deliver the order looked at the Little Adjutant in confusion and pressed:

"Is he in or not?"

"Cough, it seems, he is not..."

Before the Little Adjutant could finish speaking, Su Xiao had already pushed her aside as she blocked the doorway. Both the official outside and the Little Adjutant were embarrassed.

"Lord Kukulin, the Saint King summons you."

"Time."

Su Xiao also wanted to say he wasn't in, but the messenger had already arrived at the door.

"Now."

The official smiled somewhat obsequiously, which made the development of the matter unfathomable.

Lulunfei Palace, back garden.

When Su Xiao arrived at the back garden, the Old Saint King was standing in front of a white wood tree, wearing formal attire.

"Is the Soul Speaker still alive?"

The Old Saint King looked no different, but Su Xiao smelled a faint scent of blood.

"Still alive."

"That's good. There is something I need you to do. This morning, the Simoro Empire sent an envoy to discuss the issue of post-war reparations. The representative on the Goddess's side is the Flower of the Empire, Sonia. You should also appear as our representative. The time is the day after tomorrow at 10:00 AM."

The Old Saint King didn't mention the assassination at all, instead asking Su Xiao to participate in the negotiations between the two empires as a representative.

Until Su Xiao walked out of the Lulunfei Palace, the Little Adjutant following behind him was terrified.

"Sir, was it really our people who did it?"

The Little Adjutant finally couldn't help but speak.

"The Old Saint King never mentioned this to me."

"That's good, that's good."

The Little Adjutant patted her chest. She wasn't afraid of dying in battle, but was worried about being branded with a trumped-up charge and then dying inexplicably.

"The Old Saint King didn't mention it, which means this must have been done by people from our Ninth Unit."

"I..."

The Little Adjutant grabbed her short tea-colored hair with both hands, muttering something.

Su Xiao didn't take the negotiation with the Simoro Empire envoy the day after tomorrow too much to heart. Although it was a ceasefire on the surface, the Dawn Empire could barely be considered the victor among the three empires. Today's meeting was just the Old Saint King's attitude; what the Ninth Unit remnants did had nothing to do with Su Xiao.

Returning to the two-story residence, Su Xiao began to prepare for the plan on Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's side.

"Xiang Bubu, can you hear me?"

Su Xiao pressed the wireless headset on his ear.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's bark came through, and a chorus could also be heard from his side. At this time, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was nine times out of ten in the cathedral.

"What beloved object does the Moon Goddess have?"

"Woof~ (thinking)."

After thinking for a moment, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang gave his answer: the Moon Goddess cared very much about the Moon Goddess statue in her prayer room.

"Then steal it. Are you sure she can predict the future?"

"Woof (Sure, witnessed her predict it once with my own eyes)."

"Specific details."

Through Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's description, Su Xiao learned of one of the Moon Goddess's abilities: predicting the future. To what extent she could predict was unknown for the time being, but what she predicted should only be small fragments, text information, or a short sound, etc.

If the Moon Goddess could frequently predict the future and obtain complete images of the future, the Old Saint King would have been killed by her long ago, and there wouldn't be the current evenly matched confrontation.

And Su Xiao felt that this almost shameless ability should have multiple restrictions, such as having to personally see the person needed to be predicted, or obtaining the person's personal belongings, etc., to be able to predict.

Otherwise, none of Su Xiao's plans would have succeeded, let alone sending the surveillance bees into the prayer room through the Flower of the Empire, Sonia—that was simply an impossible task.

At this point, Su Xiao determined that the Moon Goddess was slightly inferior to the Old Saint King in terms of being an old schemer, even with her precognition ability.

At 5:00 PM that day, inside the Moon God Monastery.

The Moon Goddess, as she did every day, walked into the prayer room at 5:00 PM. She moved her somewhat sore arms and knelt very devoutly on the square velvet cloth.

"Oh, Moon Goddess..."

The Moon Goddess was just about to pray. Before closing her eyes, she inadvertently looked at the Moon Goddess statue, which made her movements freeze.

The Moon Goddess was stunned for at least 2 seconds. She was thinking about one thing: where did her Moon Goddess statue go? It was still there this morning; how could it be gone!

At this moment, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was squatting beside the Moon Goddess, really wanted to ask: "How is it? Are you surprised? Is it unexpected? Is it exciting? It's gone just like that. Don't worry, there will be many more such surprises until your mentality explodes."