Battle of the Twin Cities: The Ninth Councilor

Chapter 182 Serve the people!
The source project, a research and development project launched by the Philos family more than ten years ago, has not produced any substantial results so far.

The person in charge of this scientific research project is Camille's uncle "Abus Ferros".

But what Camille couldn't understand was that most of the Yuan Project, even members of the Philos family, had never heard of it. Who leaked this scientific research project that was kept very secret?
Camille frowned deeply, thinking about all the secret letters collected by the Ferros family, trying to find a flaw in them.

Marcus didn't bother her, and calmly sipped the sugar-free milk tea. The rich aroma of black tea was refreshing, and the thick taste and aroma of milk mixed in the tea water, which raised the flavor of the already excellent black tea to a higher level.

He likes the black tea from Ferros's family very much, but Camille is very stingy and never willing to give him some, so he can only drink a few cups to satisfy his hunger when he comes to the Ferros Manor for business.

The moment Marcos finished drinking the milk tea in the quilt, Camille seemed to think of something, and said slowly, "Marcos, where did you find Hakeem?"

Marcus was slightly taken aback: "I remember telling you when I brought him here that I found it from Belguen."

"Then when did you set off for Belgun?" Camille asked immediately.

"I sent my police officers to search for scientific research talents more than a month ago. He found Hakim in Belgun." Marcus answered truthfully, and the next moment he laughed at himself: "Miss Camille? Do you think I'm the one behind the scenes?"

"Isn't it?" Camille's eyes flashed with insight: "Ms. Pale!"

"..." Marcus was silent for two seconds, and smiled wryly: "I explained five years ago that I am not the so-called Pale Lady. After five years, how did you come to such a conclusion?"

"Hmph." Camille sneered: "I remember all the secret letters sent back by the secret agents of the Philos family. After retrieving those secret letters just now, I found that there is only one outsider in the world who may know the secret plan of the Philos family, and that person It's you!"

Marcus is the largest shareholder of Hex Technology, and he has a coveted heart for Hex Gems. It is not difficult to understand. After all, obtaining the development site of Hex Gems can save Hex Technology a lot of expenses. It can eliminate the Philos family and swallow up the shareholding in her hands.

More than a month ago, Marcus sent people to the Shurima Desert, claiming to have found Hakim Nedry there, and sent him to the Philos family to work.

This question is very doubtful. Hextech has just started, and it is the time when talents are needed. Why didn't Marcos keep Hakeem to work for him, but sent it to the Philos family?

Unless he wants to get something from the Philos family through Hakim!

What's more, the people he sent out also had the opportunity to come into contact with the Shakar bandit group. It cannot be ruled out that the Shakar bandit group was hired by him to attack the returning team of the Philos family.

The third point, and the most crucial point, was that Camille exposed the existence of Project Yuan in front of Marcus without any precautions!

Although that happened after the death of his father Ryan, it is hard to guarantee that Marcos had learned about the plan of the Ferros family through some channels before that!
All the clues point to Marcus, which makes Camille suspicious.

Maybe Marcos is the scheming and deeply hidden pale lady!

At this moment, Camille felt a little ridiculous.

What's ridiculous is that she found out that someone was against him in the theater a few days ago, and she even came forward to warn him.

Marcus smiled bitterly: "If I were Pale Lady, I would go to the Shurima Desert to investigate what the murderer who killed your father did?"

Camille sneered: "In order to gain my trust, to gain the trust of the Pheros family, so as to further steal the secrets of the Pheros family!"

"..." Marcus was speechless, bitter in his heart.

What Camille didn't know was that he didn't need to steal the secrets of the Ferros family at all, because if he had enough points, he could directly exchange for the blueprint of the source plan through the system.

Originally, he wanted to take out the blueprint at the right time and find the Philos family to cooperate in the development of the source plan. With the assistance of the other party's larger R&D team, the speed of the source plan's release could be greatly accelerated.

However, now that Camille has misunderstood him, even if he has enough points, it is difficult to share the blueprint of the source plan with the other party, so he can only let Hextech develop it secretly.

In this way, the speed will definitely be much slower.

"In that case, let's end today's conversation." Marcus got up and said, "You are preconceived now, and nothing I say will work. Only time will prove my innocence. I hope that when the truth comes, you will not regret."

"stop!"

Camille stood up from the sofa angrily, swept over with a long, full and strong leg, and shouted coquettishly, "If you are Ms. Pale, you won't be able to walk out of Philos Manor today!"

Marcos subconsciously raised his hands, supported Camille's thighs, twisted his waist and hips, took a step forward and threw her back the same way: "You can't beat me!"

Singed's "over-the-shoulder drop" skill is simply a magical skill that is invincible in melee combat. As long as the difference in physical strength between the two sides is not large, Marcos can throw the opponent's uniform away.

He had kept his hands back just now, and didn't use all his strength, otherwise he could have pushed Camille against the corner just now, followed by Wei's "Bomb Punch" continuous attacks, completely incapacitating Camille.

If the hands were firmer and the heart were a little more ruthless, it would not be impossible to kill her on the spot.

Camille fell down on the sofa, her legs felt hot where Marcus touched, feeling ashamed in her heart, she grabbed the riding whip that she brought back from training not long ago, unfolded it, shook her hands, and rolled it towards Marcus .

Marcus raised his hand to resist, the whip was soft and had nowhere to focus, it actually bound and tightened his right hand.

Camille pulled back hard, and Marcus's feet took root, and he remained motionless like a mountain.

Camille was taken a few steps forward by the reaction force, she simply jumped up high, followed the pulling force and flew towards Marcos in the air, bent her slender legs back, and pressed her knees to the top of Marcos' head.

Hex ultimatum?

Marcus' eyes moved slightly. Even without the special hex leg armor, the power of Camille's move should not be underestimated. If she was hit by her, it would be easy to break the neck bone.

'Splendid Fireworks! '

Marcus decisively used Zeli's skill, the magic power in his body surged, and the figure disappeared from the spot, appearing three steps away, and pressed down hard with his right hand tied with a horsewhip, throwing the brought Camille to the ground.

"What a fast speed! What a lot of strength! What amazing fighting skills!" Camille was startled and angry, her legs stretched out like springs, a little bit on the ground, and her knees and wrists unloaded into the air again: "We need to fight quickly, Otherwise, I will be dragged down by him!"

"This girl already has some shades of Mrs. Cinderella. She is so confident in her own judgment, she doesn't care about the possibility of making mistakes, and she is extremely decisive!" Marcos said in his heart: "And she should want to avenge her father with her own hands, so Didn't you call your subordinates?"

With a sudden change of mind, Camille's relentless offensive was already in front of him, and Marcos was also a little angry. He adjusted the magic power in his body and used 'Brilliant Fireworks' to appear three steps away again. The whip brought Camille over again.

After landing, he grabbed the horsewhip with his backhand, turned his waist to exert force, and spun like a top, throwing Camille who was in the air to the side.

"Oops!"

Marcus looked up, startled in his heart, he shot out in anger, didn't grasp the direction, and even threw Camille towards the window!

This time, Camille failed to hold onto the horsewhip tightly, and flew towards the gorgeous windows made of colorful glass.

The study room of Philos's house is on the third floor, with a height of about six or seven meters. If you fall from here, you will inevitably be injured.

If Camille is injured because of this, the misunderstanding between the two will be completely irreconcilable, and Marcos' situation in Piltover will be difficult in the future.

Judging the situation in an instant, Marcus launched the 'Brilliant Fireworks' continuously to catch up with Camille, raised his hand to catch her, and started softly.

"Huh? So soft? Didn't touch the bone?"

Without thinking about it, Marcos used the over-the-shoulder throw technique. Marcos hugged Camille three times and threw her back to the direction of the sofa. However, he himself was unsteady on his feet and only had time to protect her with his arms. Head and face, knocked out of the window.

Camille bounced on the sofa, turned over, touched her chest, ashamed and angry: "Shameless!"

Quickly came to the broken window, and found that Marcus fell from the third floor unscathed, and a few flashes disappeared at the gate of Philos Manor.

The gate of the manor was closed, and he quickly climbed over the flashing gap like walking on the ground.

The shattering of the window attracted the attention of all the guards and secret sentries in the manor. Many people rushed out from every corner and gathered in the courtyard, waiting for Camille's order to pursue.

Camille opened her mouth, thinking in her heart: "He obviously didn't have to save me and let me fall, but he saved it..."

Hesitating again and again, she looked down and saw the maid Selena standing at the gate on the first floor, and ordered: "Selena, prepare a carriage and follow, and send Marcos off!"

Selena bowed her head and said yes.

"Wait!" Camille looked around, but didn't see her younger brother Stevan. How could he not appear after such a big commotion?
"Where's Steve?"

Selena replied: "The young master went out to meet friends early in the morning, but he hasn't come back yet."

Camille's face darkened: "Go with the carriage and tell Marcus for me, just say that I don't care about this matter with him for the time being, and I will never spare him when I find substantive evidence! By the way, find Si Tiwan, bring him back to me! If he resists, use force!"

"Yes!" Selena replied, and immediately turned to look for a carriage in the backyard.

The guards were still in the courtyard, and Camille ordered: "Leave a few and fix the windows, and put the rest in their places!"

The guards in the yard immediately started to move. The three closest people entered the study room and cleaned up the broken windows. The other three came to the study room with tools after cleaning outside, and cooperated with the previous three people to quickly install new windows.

Others re-patrol or hide in the dark and become secret sentries.

Camille sat behind the desk with a gloomy face. She didn't know what to think about, then got up and went to the underground research institute.

"Hakim is a civilian researcher, and his tongue is not tight. As long as he is tortured, all the truth will be revealed." Camille is going to start with Hakim Nedry to find out Marcos' true identity.

Hakim never expected to die, because of the arrival of Marcus, not only did he fail to develop a relationship with Camille like in the original story, but now he is tortured by Camille.

Walking on the path, Marcus pulled out the tiny shards of glass stuck in from his forearm. The injury was not serious. He went to the infirmary and applied some healing potion, and healed up tomorrow morning, but the fine and dense pain was unbearable.

"Made, it was out of good intentions to find out the real murderer behind the assassination of Renn Fellowes and win over Camille. Why did the situation take a turn for the worse and suddenly become like this bird?" Marcos grinned, "I can't figure it out. "

"Sheriff Marcus, please stay!"

There was a call from behind, and Marcos looked back, only to see a carriage of the Philos family speeding towards him, and Selena poked her head out of the window to look at him.

"Huh?" Marcus stopped in surprise: "It's not a chaser?"

The carriage came to a slow stop, Shenjun's horse snorted heavily, the driver came down and opened the door for him, and asked him to get on the carriage, Selena leaned inside to make room for him.

Marcus looked inside and found that there was no one else except Selena. For a moment, he was not sure what Camille meant, so he hesitated and climbed into the carriage and sat down.

"The sheriff is injured?" Selina noticed that Marcus's arm was stained with blood, and quickly said to the driver: "Hurry up, send the sheriff to the hospital for treatment!"

The coachman closed the door without saying a word, and went back to drive.

Inside the carriage, Selena took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood for Marcus gently.

Marcus didn't hide: "What does your lady mean?"

"I'm a servant, I don't dare to ask more about the master's affairs, and I don't know what happened between the sheriff and the lady." Selina said without raising her head, "But before coming, the lady asked me to The sheriff brought a sentence, she said that this matter is not up to you for the time being, she will continue to search for clues, and once she finds substantive evidence, she will never let you go."

"..." Marcus sighed helplessly: "I've said it several times, I'm not some pale lady, why doesn't she believe me?"

Camille said before that he was the only outsider who knew the existence of Project Yuan, so why didn't she think about the possibility of leaks from the insiders of the Philos family?

Or, is there anything about me that makes Camille absolutely convinced that she is the Pale Lady?

He carefully recalled all the process of contacting Camille, and after going backwards, he realized that some of his actions were very consistent with the trajectory of Black Rose's attack on the Philos family.

"It's a fucking coincidence!" Marcus couldn't help but wryly smiled. After discovering the problem, even he himself doubted whether he was under Lady Pale. Otherwise, how could those coincidences be explained?

"Pfft~" Selena wiped off the blood on Marcos' arm, and couldn't help laughing out loud: "Although I don't know who the pale lady the Sheriff is talking about, I am absolutely sure that the Lord is a man,"

As she spoke, she held up Marcus's arm, and stroked the tough lines on the arm with a handkerchief: "May I ask which woman can grow such a masculine and masculine arm like an adult?"

Marcus remembered the time five years ago, when Camille misunderstood that she was Pale Lady, he just proved himself by playing a rascal.

Today, this approach no longer works.

Camille seems to have learned that the 'Pale Lady' has many identities, including men, women, and children. Even if Marcos strips her naked, she will not trust herself as easily as she did five years ago.

Unless she is allowed to find substantive evidence that Marcus is Marcus, not the so-called Pale Lady.

"LeBlanc, you really...have hurt me a lot!" Marcus was angry and angry in his heart, but he could tell the true identity of 'Pale Lady' LeBlanc, and he could also tell Camille about this. At that time, he should be planning to seize the power of the empire in the Noxus Empire, and it is impossible to appear in Picheng.

But he couldn't explain the source of his news. How did a small police chief of the Law Enforcement Bureau get information that even Piltover Councilors didn't know?
Not to mention the unknown spies of the Philos family, even they failed to find out the whereabouts of the pale lady. If Marcos said it casually, it would only arouse Camille's vigilance even more.

In the past, when Selena came to pick up Marcos, the two would have a friendly chat on the carriage because they had saved her.

But today Marcus has no spirit of chatting, and because of the pain in his arm, he grins his teeth from time to time, let alone chatting.

There was no words all the way, the carriage stopped at the entrance of the hospital, and the coachman opened the door to let Marcus get down.

Before leaving, Marcos said to Selena: "Go back and tell your lady, I will clear up all misunderstandings after the evolution day, before that, I hope she will not embarrass Mr. Hakim, he is innocent. "

He had already guessed that Camille would definitely start with Hakim in investigating him, and he might suffer a lot. He was invited all the way from Belgun by him, but he didn't make much money, so he suffered from flesh and blood first. What's the matter?

After the news spread, who would dare to come to Hextech to work for him?

"I will take the words for the Sheriff." Selena nodded while sitting in the carriage.

Then the coachman closed the door, and the carriage drove away, disappearing from sight.

Turning around and entering the infirmary to treat the wound, a familiar voice came from behind: "Marcos?"

He turned his head to look, but it was Ms. Grayson, his former immediate boss.

Grayson was holding a little girl who looked about ten years old. The girl was not in a good mood, and her face was a little sick.

"Ms. Grayson." Marcus couldn't get up, and greeted with a smile: "Why are you here?"

"My daughter has a cold, take her to see the doctor." Grayson explained, and then asked: "What about you? Speaking of which, since you became a deputy sheriff, you have hardly seen it a few times in five years."

In fact, Marcos would prepare a gift for Hank to send to Grayson's house during the holidays in previous years, but the number of times he met her in person was indeed very small, and he only occasionally met her on the street and would have a quick chat.

"I'm really sorry, the Law Enforcement Bureau is busy with work, so I don't have time to spare." Marcus apologized: "You should have heard about the situation in Dicheng. Since Silko came to power, it seems to be calm on the surface, but hidden I don't know how much ambition.

The recent assassination of Patriarch Ryan Fellowos also kept me busy. I just returned from investigating the case in the Shurima Desert. "

He showed Grayson the wounds on his arm, but didn't tell him how the wounds came from, but said nothing.

Grayson brought his daughter over and apologized: "I'm sorry, after I left, all the burdens fell on you, thank you for your hard work.

By the way, I haven't congratulated you on becoming the sheriff yet. Come to my house someday when you have time. My daughter has heard me tell you a lot about you, and she used to be clamoring to see you. "

She looked down at her daughter. The little girl's eyelids were almost drooping together, and she obviously didn't have the energy to talk to Marcos.

"Haha." Marcus smiled and waved his hands modestly: "Whatever I do, I do it for the people!"

(End of this chapter)