Me! Cleaner!.

Chapter 520: The Empty Palace
what? !

After hearing the third question raised by Leon, not only was the emerald-eyed girl shocked, but the four cleaners from the Scorpio branch also trembled unconsciously and looked at Leon in shock.

"No way?"

The female cleaner said in disbelief:

"I have already checked with the Director. Although the Korok royal family rarely goes out, there have been many signs of activity in recent years. Even at the celebration at the end of last year, the King of the Korok Kingdom gave a speech in front of the public. They shouldn't be almost completely wiped out, right?"

"Senior Mona, I will explain why I am so suspicious later. Please don't interrupt me now."

After giving the cleaning lady a light look, Leon stared at the emerald-eyed girl who seemed a little at a loss, and said without letting her be rejected:

"Your Highness Filia... Although I don't know what's going on with you, I'll call you that for now... I hope to hear your direct answer. Is there a third living person in the royal family? Yes! Or no!"

"Of course there is more!"

After being interrupted by the female cleaner, Filia calmed down a little, blinking her big eyes and said:
"I don't know about the others, but my father and mother are still alive, and all the other familiar people are fine. I even said hello to my mother the day before you kidnapped me."

This...did I guess wrong?
After getting this answer, Leon couldn't help but frowned, and Frankie in the sheep's mouth, after identifying the state of Felia's soul, said carefully:
"Although I'm not very perceptive, I do understand a little bit about spiritual matters. What she said should be true."

"..."

Phew... I finally got through it...

Seeing that Leon didn't refute Frankie's judgment but frowned and said nothing, Filia couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

I didn't expect that when I was just pretending to be unconscious and eavesdropping, I was slightly delighted, but I was caught and almost completely exposed. I even guessed part of the situation of the royal family. This is really...

After taking a terrified look at Leon, although it was difficult to be completely realistic without the computing power support of the main body, Felia still followed her usual "behavior model" and blinked her eyes and said pitifully:
"Ask whatever you want. I...I can answer them all. I just ask you not to hurt me. What I say is really the truth."

It's all true...

After taking a look at the weak and cute appearance of the emerald-eyed girl, Leon's frowned brows slightly raised, as if he had received some key reminder, and he stared at Princess Felia again.

The truth doesn't prove anything! Didn't I tell the truth when dealing with the internal investigation of the Cleanup Bureau? But did this delay my attack on the palace?
"Well, let me ask it again in a different way."

Having figured it out, Leon's brows relaxed, and then, in the frightened eyes of the emerald-eyed girl, he asked again:

"Are the bodies of the members of the Korok royal family other than you and Prince Andre still the same? Are their souls still the same?
Or to go deeper, what they call "alive" is living like a normal person, being able to run, jump, eat, and chat, or is it simply just "existing"? "

"..."

……

Just when Princess Felia was at a loss for words and didn't know how to answer, Prince Andre, who was always lazy, did not bask in the sun on the balcony of his bedroom, but took the royal family's exclusive hovercraft to arrive at the palace of the Kingdom of Korok.

"Boom~~~"

Along with the melodious sound of the giant pendulum hitting the chime, the steam clock towers on both sides of the palace gate twisted slightly, and the old huge balance wheels on the bronze doors staggered left and right, and the doors behind the balance wheels also opened left and right, revealing a brightly lit glass corridor. The corridor with a large number of lamps hanging above was wide and beautiful. Behind the spotless glass walls on both sides was a magnificent hall that was evenly divided into two halves by the corridor. Hundreds of small exhibition stands were scattered in the hall.

Rather than a palace where royal family members live, this building is more like a huge exhibition hall. On the small exhibition stands with clock scales underneath, there are one ingenious and precise mechanical creation after another.

Airships, hovercrafts, mechanical hearts, huge differential units, nearly five-meter-tall mechanical giants...even on the largest booth on the left, there is a whole miniature model, which looks like the entire Korok Kingdom, and it keeps twisting like a Rubik's Cube.

Under these exquisite exhibition stands, on the specially reserved slope, there are detailed records of the inventors and functions of the mechanical creations, a series of iterative design processes, and even the more core design ideas and reasons. Almost every one of them is a rare treasure.

Prince Andre, with a slightly tired look on his face, ignored these treasures that could drive all the kingdoms crazy, and walked through the glass corridor with an indifferent look. After passing a clock-shaped shielded roundabout corridor, he pushed the door and entered the main hall at the back of the hall.

"Who?"

The moment Prince Andrei entered the main hall, a slightly doubtful shout came from the depths of the main hall.

Prince Andre looked in the direction of the voice and found that on the high throne facing the gate, a handsome middle-aged man wearing a royal robe and holding a jeweled hour-hand scepter was looking at him with a look of surprise.

"You are..."

After staring at Prince Andrei with his emerald eyes, the heroic middle-aged man on the throne opened his eyes wide unconsciously, then first looked at the little boy of twelve or thirteen years old beside him, then looked at the young man in front of him who was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, and then said with a confused look on his face:
"Who are you? Why do you look so much like my Andre?"

Compared with the front hall which was filled with numerous exhibition stands but empty, the main hall of the Korok Palace was several times smaller but much more lively. In this main hall with closed windows on all sides and better privacy, there were more than thirty rows of seats, seating nearly one hundred and fifty people.

After hearing the handsome middle-aged man's question, the people sitting on the chairs turned around in surprise, looked at Prince Andrei, and then uttered exclamations.

"It really is……"

“They really look alike!”

"I feel like in another fifteen or sixteen years, Prince Andrei might look like this."

"Indeed, but his face is too cold. He is not as cute as His Highness Andre."

"Hey! Who are you?"

"What an impolite fellow, the guard! Where are the guards?"

"Where is it? Where is the person? Let me see too!"

The strange thing was that no matter what was said, no one in the main hall, including the handsome middle-aged man on the throne, stood up. Instead, they sat firmly in their seats and tried to turn their heads to look towards the door.

The problem was that the main hall was not particularly large, so no matter how some people turned their heads, they could not see Prince Andrei's appearance. Even though they could do so by just moving their buttocks slightly, no one stood up. They would rather twist themselves into strange postures and sit in their original seats.

"..."

After standing silently at the door for a few seconds, Prince Andrei did not respond to anyone, but strode directly into the main hall, stepped on the red carpet laid in the middle, walked through the more than thirty rows of seats, and stood in front of the handsome middle-aged man.

(End of this chapter)