Throne Steps

In fact, the video that Li Chen saw was not long, and the screen seemed to be fast-forwarded by one level. It really did not exceed ten seconds.The moment the image disappeared, his mind was in turmoil.

For a while, I wondered whether this image was a normal phenomenon or an accidental situation, for a while I wondered what it represented, and for a while I wondered what my most capable subordinate had said to Su Can.Li Chen even thought of Zhang Zhen turning against him, Xinlik is actually a pawn, and Su Can is the driving force behind everything. The "conspiracy theory" swirled uncontrollably in his mind, and the resulting plot was unprecedented. Every step forward made Li Chen more gloomy.

People at that time still kept silent, and Li Chen tried his best to keep calm, but the darkness in his heart could no longer be illuminated by soft light.He originally wanted to hide it, and then find a chance to find out.But he didn't wait for him to recover completely, and now he encountered a fierce star, which caught people off guard.

He is just an outsider, but his first opponent is Saenlich, who can be regarded as the strongest in the mainland.

Li Chen looked at the boy in front of him.The young man smiled as before, as if the aggressiveness just now was Li Chen's illusion.

"I...I saw two people." Li Chen's expression hesitated slightly.He sat on the chair with his head slightly lowered, his hands hanging on both sides quietly grasped the hem of his clothes, and his dangling feet did not shake at all—like a child who was caught doing bad things: "A man and a woman, I... no I know if it is the magician that the young master said."

Saenz stood in front of Li Chen, he bent down again, and covered the little hands holding the skirt with his hands.His fingers were slender, his palms were warm, and his gentle soothing movements made Li Chen let go of his clothes.His voice is so beautiful: "What else?"

Their foreheads were almost touching their foreheads. The 12-year-old child seemed to be at a loss as to what to do, and his little face gradually turned red: "It's nothing... I don't know them."

A hand suddenly pinched his chin, forcing him to look up.

"I'll give you one more chance."

The young man's tone was cold, his other hand was pressed on the back of the chair, Li Chen was facing him, so close that he almost breathed.Looking at the face that must be a disaster when he grows up, he still smiles, but the atmosphere around him is full of faint oppression. The 12-year-old swallowed inadvertently.

Unable to lower his head, he only closed his eyes slowly, took a deep breath, and then opened them.The black pupils stared at the nearby heterochromatic pupils, and no longer looked away: "Your Highness, can you keep it a secret for me?"

There was some faint excitement in Saenz's eyes, but he just let go of Li Chen's jaw, with an invariable smile, and his voice returned to the gentleness that healed the body and mind: "Saenlich will not bring suffering .”

"But they have brought me misery," said the child softly. "I did see a man and a woman. I can't be sure, but I think it must be... my parents."

"Parents?" Saenz was certainly not that easy to fool, "My dear Regsella, this is not..."

"They abandoned me in the forest and left me nothing." Li Chen looked away from each other and focused on the distance.

"Even if I'm starving and staggering, forgetting time and human speech... maybe they weren't my parents after all."

"I'm sorry." Saenz put away his smile and interrupted the child gently, "I don't know..."

The child smiled and seemed to want to say "I'm fine", but his expression looked like he was about to cry.His tone was flat, but his voice trembled uncontrollably.Saying goodbye to "abandoning his parents" made him shocked, confused and angry. He was a child who was burdened with great hatred and grievances.

"I once thought that I had forgotten what they looked like, and they were dreams that I would never forget."

He turned his face back, his eyelashes fluttered slightly, and Saenz's appearance was reflected in his black pupils.

"It's not your fault, Regsella." Saenz approached, their foreheads were pressed against each other, the boy's voice was like a bubbling spring, "Why didn't you say it? Maybe we can solve this matter better .”

The question finally comes, the "why" is more complex than the "what".Li Chen chose his words carefully, with a clear logic.He was quiet for a while, seemingly hesitating to answer, and then said, "Because I'm... afraid."

"Afraid?" Saenz stepped back slightly, as if to see the other person's expression clearly.

There are many reasons for fear, such as fear of being told a lie, such as fear of "seeing" a sign of bad luck.But Li Chen is playing a child, he doesn't have to choose such a complicated route.He just lowered his head and said softly: "I'm afraid of being sent back."

Saenz did not forcefully lift Li Chen's chin, but squatted down by himself, looking up at Li Chen's face: "Why?"

"Just as they abandoned me..." There was faint resentment and stubbornness in the child's eyes, "I will abandon them too."

Saenz asked, "Even though they might have come to terms with it? Or did they not mean to dump you?"

"Your Highness." Li Chen slowed down his speech, speaking clearly as if expressing his determination, "I don't need them anymore!"

"It's your choice..." Saenz finally straightened up, but he was still standing very close, "Then you don't have to hide the 'seeing' too. It was caused by their crime , you won’t necessarily be sent away.”

"Your Highness, people always like to see happy endings, and you tried to persuade me just now." Li Chen's eyes showed a trace of sadness, like a real "forced to grow up" child, "Everyone thinks I'm Orphans, they all pity me...although they also laugh at me as an abandoned child.

"If I speak out, everyone may want to send me back. At that time, refuse or accept, it is not possible for me... I don't want to make this possible. Your Highness, I don't want to see them—you promised I would confidential!"

Although what you said is actually "will not bring suffering"... Li Chen added silently in his heart, but just pretend to be stupid like a child.

Saenz frowned inexplicably.He was silent for a while, as if he was thinking about something, then he ignored the language trap he had laid, and asked directly: "Even if you promise not to send you back, don't you want to say it?"

Upon hearing this, Li Chen immediately put on an obvious defensive posture.Although he was on guard from the beginning, at this moment he almost superficially expressed his doubts—he was playing a "little hedgehog" anyway.

"Why do you have to say it?" "Little Hedgehog" asked back, "What does seeing these represent?"

"It's hard to say clearly." Saenz didn't look like the distressed state of "unclear" at all, he dropped a blockbuster, "But if all goes well... Wiggins is likely to enter Pesa without a test !"

Li Chen was stunned.

He just thought that this matter was unusual, but now it seems that it has something to do with talent!Wiggins has been confirmed to have no fighting spirit since he was a child, and his knowledge is quite mediocre, but His Royal Highness Sarnlich just opened his mouth and said, "Entry into Pesa without the test"—could it be that Wiggins really has an astonishingly high magical talent... ? !

Saenz's expression was still serious, as if he was still pitying and regretting, but there was an unnecessary sense of "victory" in his tone: "So, do you still want to keep hiding it?"

Li Chen looked at Saenz and understood where the other party's feeling of "winning" came from.Indeed, the words "enter Pesa without the test" can almost instantly break down all the high walls of rejection.But Li Chen sat on the stool and gently shook his foot—the touch on his left ankle was still the same—he knew how much his current affinity for the elements was.

Maybe if the shackles were released, he would also be worthy of the exemption from the test.But after trying to solve it in various ways but failing, he understood that it was not that simple.He was imprisoned by the necromancer, taught by the necromancer, and had a close relationship with the necromancer-probably only the dagger of the necromancer could completely liberate him.

Maybe Sarnlich will be able to untie it too, who knows?Li Chen hasn't figured out how to explain the origin of the handcuffs, let alone how to describe his relationship with the necromancer.If he dared to speak out, the future troubles would definitely not be solved by him, a foreigner, with his current strength alone.

On the other hand, he couldn't tell what he really saw, and it was even more impossible to continue editing—these people who issued the "exemption card" were not simple residents in small towns who only loved gossip. Are you really going to check it out?

Therefore, the "test-free card" seems attractive, but it is not something he can reach out immediately.

It's depressing.Obviously such a good opportunity, but can't seize it.Not only to refuse, but also to come up with a reasonable reason for the rejection - who would refuse the olive branch thrown by the city of Lonely Island!

Li Chen has no time to think about whether there is a more reasonable reason.To complete a lie requires a bigger lie. In order to quickly break out of this endless loop, we must quickly end this topic.

"I..." He had already made up his mind not to reach out, but his expression showed the greatest hesitation, "I can't just..."

Saenz looked at him.

Li Chen originally planned to slow down the pace of speaking in order to increase the credibility of the senses.But now Saenz didn't seem to want to interrupt, so Li Chen had no choice but to continue talking.

"Your Highness, this matter is impossible because I said 'saw' even if I 'saw', and I must verify it, right?"

Saenz was a little surprised, because he had deliberately avoided asking questions that would reveal this clue.Although "verification" is something that can be thought of with a little reasoning, the child in front of him who looks only eleven or twelve years old is still far beyond his peers. At least that Wiggins looks much more innocent than him.

The boy's heart was full of twists and turns, but on the surface he nodded calmly.

Li Chen saw that he didn't deny it, and then said: "If I really entered Pesa because of this matter, and you were alarmed when you went to verify it... let's call it 'my parents' for now—Your Highness, if they Come to me, what should I do?"

Saenz still didn't speak.The child was asking him, but he felt that the child already had the answer himself.For some reason, he was a little distracted, and the child's every move in front of him suddenly showed a sense of disobedience.

"Of course they can say that they have repented long ago, but who knows why they came to me. Parents who abandoned their children turned their heads shyly to recognize the children who are eligible to 'enter Pesa without examination'. Isn't that ugly? ?” The child sneered contemptuously, “If I don’t refuse to recognize each other, their sins will be erased from people’s hearts; It's going to lean towards them -- it's not what they deserve anyway."

"I thought it was every child's wish to enter a good school, be praised by people, and have a happy family." Saenz didn't know what he was thinking, and suddenly said, "It turns out that your heart is already full of hatred."

Li Chen couldn't figure out what he meant by changing the subject, so he could only follow the other party's words: "So what? Are you going to correct me now, Your Highness Saenlich?"

This sounded ironic, but Saenz didn't care. He then asked, "So what do you want? When you grow up, you will become famous, and then you will punish them with the help of the law?"

Li Chen looked at Saenz with a look of surprise: "Why should I let them know that I am their son? I don't need them at all, and I don't want to bring them any glory. If they are too poor to support If they have children, let them continue to be poor; if they have regretted it, let them continue to regret it; let them bear their own mistakes, and it is not up to morality and sympathy to cover up their sins."

This was a surprising answer, but Saenz didn't show any surprise, instead he laughed rather amusedly.He just jumped out of the "abandoned" story to sort out the dialogue, and suddenly found that the child in front of him had set him a hidden trap.

This little thing called Rigsella probably thought out the final statement at the beginning, and then layered layers of lies on it, so that every time a lie is exposed, people will believe what he said later—— Until Pesa's temptation appeared, there was almost no flaw.

However, Pesa's "exemption card" came suddenly and was hard to guard against, and finally broke the child's pitiful and stubborn mask, revealing a sly smile that he had no time to put away.