Throne Steps

Li Chen immediately arranged for the black swan team to go to the disaster area in the Northland, led by him and Fudexi himself.

Fudexi didn't have any objection, but asked in confusion: "What's the problem with this matter? Why do you want to lead the team yourself?"

"There is no problem with the matter itself. When a natural disaster comes, no one can stop it." Li Chen replied, "It's just too coincidental. If no one takes advantage of it, it is almost impossible."

"Nonsense." Fudexi said, "Of course he will make use of the topic, but what does it have to do with whether the black swan goes or not, and whether you go or not?"

In fact, Li Chen didn't have a precise answer, he had many guesses in his mind, but he didn't say any of them, he just said: "What's the relationship, or what will be the relationship, you'll know when you go."

Asking is like not asking, Fu Dexi glanced at him, and said again: "Then why did you bring that Menzel?"

"Oh, your tone seems to be jealous." Li Chen didn't care about Fudexi's white eyes, and replied, "He is indeed accomplished in alchemy and herbalism, and after natural disasters, there may be diseases, let him bring A few alchemists went to the disaster area to help, what's the problem?"

Menzel's suspicion is huge, and Fudexi doesn't believe that Li Chen brought him by his side for no purpose.However, since Fudexi hadn't returned for five years and hadn't fully understood the situation, he decided to wait for the development of the matter.In other words, wait and see what drama Lichen will play.

A few days later, the flood-stricken area in the Northland.

"what!"

Li Chen suddenly rolled down from the saddle, and staggered a few steps to push aside the black swan asking for directions, with a grim expression on his face: "You said His Highness...was swept away by the flood?!"

The victims who were questioned were taken aback by his expression, and it took a while to recover: "Yes, yes, when the torrent broke the dam, His Royal Highness Saenz was leading people on the dam to rescue..."

Speaking of this, the faces of the victims were also very sad, and their eyes quickly turned red: "We all want to find someone, but His Highness's guards won't let us go..."

"They did the right thing." Li Chen's face turned cold, "You will only add to the chaos if you go. You should stay here honestly and don't let the guards guarding you bother, so that more guards can devote themselves to finding His Highness. and emergency rescue."

The face of the victim changed: "What did you say...!"

"I'm telling the truth." Li Chen wiped his face, and glanced sideways at the black swan standing beside him, "Have you heard what happened just now? Go find Your Highness immediately!"

The black swan nodded: "Yes."

Li Chen turned back and said, "Menzel?"

"coming!"

Menzel in short clothes walked over quickly.He is obviously a magician and alchemist, but after traveling long distances, he is still quite energetic, which shows that his physical fitness is really good.

"Take your people to find the medical director in the disaster area." Li Chen said, "The epidemic must not be allowed to break out."

"understood."

"I'm going to look for His Highness too. I'll go in that direction later." Li Chen walked quickly towards his horse, pointing in a direction, "Fodesi, Ogyseus, follow me."

Fudexi didn't speak, just sat on his horse, quietly watching Li Chen get on the horse.

The victims looked at the group of people who appeared in a hurry and seemed to disappear immediately, and asked in a daze, "Wait... who are you?"

Li Chen said coldly, "His Royal Highness's follower", and rode away first.

It was night, a temporary resting place with no human habitation.

"Good acting."

Leaning his back against the tree trunk, Fudesi suddenly threw out a comment.

Li Chen swallowed the mouthful of dry food: "...what?"

"I said, your acting skills are good." Fudexi said, "Yesterday you knew the news of the person who fell into the water and disappeared, but today you pretended to hear it for the first time. Obviously you deliberately asked someone to inquire about it." of."

Li Chen shrugged his shoulders, and then thought that the other party might not be able to see his movements in this dim environment, so he could only secretly sigh: life is like a play, it all depends on acting skills.

Fudexi couldn't hear his answer, so he asked again: "You deliberately asked again, deliberately exposed the identity of the black swan, what exactly do you want to do?"

Although Li Chen only replied "His Royal Highness's follower" when the disaster victims asked about their identity, but as long as this matter and this answer spread, coupled with the degree of black swan "popular" Retia these years, people are afraid Soon everyone will know that the rumored most fanatical follower of His Royal Highness Saenz - "Black Swan" is coming.

"Nothing." Li Chen finally replied, "Since Your Highness wants to make things big, I'll just cooperate with the show."

"Making things worse?" Fodhi paused, then asked back, "You mean that he was hit by the flood and his whereabouts are unknown?"

"Of course." In the darkness, Li Chen's tone was still slightly smiling, "This sounds dangerous, but Fudexi, he is a pure white man, do you think he will be in danger so easily? ? No, I should ask: Do you think he would put himself in real danger so easily?"

Fu Dexi frowned and said: "You mean... direct and act on your own?! This method is too extreme! What if..."

"Whether he did it on purpose or by taking advantage of the trend, Fudexi is absolutely impossible to be unprepared." Li Chen replied, "Now everyone in the disaster area knows the news of his disappearance, which is the best evidence. "

Fudexi asked: "Is he trying to publicize...he cares so much about the disaster area that he doesn't even care about his own safety?"

"Taking risks with one's own body is indeed a good way to win people's hearts." The pure white color personally casts a bitter trick, and the effect is definitely not covered. I am afraid that after this move, the Raetia Alliance will appear to praise Saenz soon." The legend of "Dashan".

"But that's only part of it, at least it's just part of it for ordinary people. What other people see and think of is not only that." Li Chen continued, "For example, the royal family."

"Royal family?" Fudexi replied, "They also let the recovered northern troops go to rescue. Isn't this a good opportunity for them to further control the military power?"

"Yes, they have not only handed over military power before, but now they can actually control and actually command, so the military forces in the north don't need them to continue to have headaches for the time being." Li Chen replied, "And what they see now is: one First, His Highness's power in the north is already weak enough to put him in danger; second, His Highness may win the hearts of a large number of people in a short period of time by taking risks for the disaster area. , the royal family will not, and there is no need to pull it out in a short time."

Fudexi was silent for a long time before asking: "Then the northern riots you mentioned earlier...?"

"After this time, Your Highness may find a new balance point." Li Chen thought for a while, "After all, if the royal family's eyes are turned away from the north, His Highness will not want it to come back. However, the riots in the north cannot be completely stopped, otherwise it will be a disaster." Give the breathing time, and let the royal family have a chance to give the northern troops a big shake-up."

Fu Dexi replied: "It seems that there will be a big excitement in the southwest soon."

"Tsk tsk, Fudexi, your brain..." Li Chen sighed, "I'm glad I pried you over more than once."

Fudexi thought to himself that it wasn't you who forced these thoughts on me, but he didn't say anything after all, he just sneered twice.

The "giant" Ogysius who passively listened to the whole process heard the two stop, and finally commented quietly: "You two, can you talk about something I understand next time?"

Li Chen seemed to have his own direction, but neither Fudeshi nor Ogysius asked, just followed him blindly.

The three horses ran to the next afternoon and met a small team of 40 victims.They come from several nearby villages and are heading towards a nearby temporary resettlement site.Because I happened to meet the bodyguard team that came out to look for Saenz earlier, I also assigned two bodyguards to take care of them and lead the way for them.

Li Chen asked the direction of the group of victims and the remaining distance, and then decided that the three Black Swans would escort the team along the way.

The guards who could be arranged to participate in the "show" of "Looking for the Missing Saenz" knew a little about the relationship between His Royal Highness, Black Swan, and Li Chen, not to mention that it was a good thing to share their own pressure, so they agreed.

One of the guards also introduced the situation of this group to Li Chen.

"There are 37 people in this team. There are old people and children. They all escaped after the disaster when they ran out of food at home." Chen warned, "Because of the composition of the personnel and their lack of physical strength, although the scheduled itinerary is three days, it may be extended. Moreover, due to lack of food, people who are not from the same place are not very orderly... ..."

Fudexi listened coldly from the side, and now he really believed that Saenz was fine.One or two are minding their own business and not looking for someone seriously, and it doesn't matter if they are delayed on the road. This is by no means the true state of the boss in distress.

When Li Chen heard this, he understood: "In short, you didn't manage them at all."

The guard said helplessly: "There are only two of us, and we just came out with the team to look for His Highness, and there is no more food supply..."

"I understand, but there may be troubles." Li Chen touched his chin, "Well, let me count the number of people under the age of 12 and over the age of 60. These people can get one from me every day during the journey. pause."

The guard was taken aback.

"On the other hand, it's good to set up rules and exchange conditions, so that they don't delay their trip." Li Chen said again, "After all, we are actually out to find His Highness, and escorting them is just incidental."

The guard thought for a few seconds, then showed a clear expression, said "I understand" and turned back to the group of victims.

"What are you doing, Charity?" After the guards walked away, Fudexi finally approached.While looking at the victims resting not far away, he asked Li Chen: "You are the one who wants to delay escorting people, and you are the one who wants others to leave quickly. What do you want to do?"

"It's nothing, since the team looking for him is spreading their forces, it means that he doesn't want to reappear in the public eye so soon, so we should cooperate and slow down." Li Chen smiled, "Besides, this group of people The disaster victims will eventually enter the resettlement site, wouldn't it be more appropriate for them to 'propaganda' that the black swan has followed His Highness' footsteps to the disaster area?"

Fudexi raised his eyebrows and said: "So slow down to help them, but because you are in a hurry to find him, you ask the victims not to delay the trip?"

Li Chen patted his face: "Tsk tsk, Fudexi, you understand the script, but your acting skills are not good enough."

Fu Dexi knocked off Li Chen's hand: "If it's a script, I think you'll let this group of people cause something to happen on purpose, otherwise how would you, as the protagonist, make your grand debut?"

"Good idea, I have to ask you to write the script next time." Li Chen smiled mysteriously, and said, "By the way, we have to write a letter to Amoya, asking him if the chamber of commerce wants to 'do good deeds anonymously'."

"Chamber of Commerce?"

"Oh, didn't I say that?" Li Chen seemed to remember, "Last year, Amoya was officially elected as the next president of the chamber of commerce—although he will not succeed until his father retires."

[The author has something to say]: I should act with you and turn a blind eye~