Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections

After Su Xiao successfully dealt with Joseko, the morale of the Royal Guards was boosted, and they rushed into the courtyard of Chief Judge Elvi like a hot knife through butter.

"What did you find?" Su Xiao turned his head slightly and signaled Bubuwang to look for the trace of Chief Judge Elvi to prevent this guy from escaping through the secret passage.

Bubuwang barked and then disappeared from everyone's sight.

As for Am, accompanied by a deafening roar, Am charged directly towards the wall of the courtyard.

The gate was right next to it, but Am had a special liking for the wall, and I don't know why it liked to break through the wall so much.

Am's huge body was like a heavy chariot, and it burst out with amazing power at the moment it was about to hit the wall.

With a loud bang, the wall collapsed under Am's impact, raising a cloud of dust.

"The old man Rowan Harvey can't hold back and is ready to run away. He is packing up at home now. After he finished packing, the old man has been sitting in front of the table, looking like he is waiting for something." Su Xiao quickly approached Lin Yi and looked at the tablet in Lin Yi's hand. He saw that Rowan Harvey didn't pack too many things. He only brought a few of his most commonly used items.

Since he was going to run away, Rowan Harvey couldn't use the items here.

"Rowan Harvey is too conspicuous. I'm afraid this guy will do something to divert our attention tomorrow. Otherwise, it won't be so easy for him to run away." Lin Yi frowned slightly and said thoughtfully.

Since playing the puzzle game of Pi Pang, Lin Yi gradually began to understand some criminal psychology.

After he put himself in the role of Rowan Harvey, he found that if he wanted to escape, the best way was to leave quietly when no one else was paying attention to him.

"The old king will hold a banquet tomorrow to entertain all the ministers and the crown prince."

"It seems that something will definitely happen at the banquet tomorrow. I will take away twenty of your guards."

"Yes." Su Xiao nodded. The number of these guards did not have much impact on him.

Even if Su Xiao was the only one here, he had the confidence to lead Am to kill through the entire courtyard.

The role of the guards is mainly to represent the will of the old king, and at the same time, they also act as a spy to keep an eye on Su Xiao, so that he would not know something that he should not know. The previous high priest was a lesson.

Lin Yi selected twenty guards and took Hicks away from the courtyard of Chief Judge Elvi.

"You go back and tell him that Rowan Harvey may be at risk of defecting, and ask him to send me more people."

Hearing Lin Yi's words, the guards assigned by Lin Yi knelt on one knee to express their acceptance of the order, and then stood up and ran towards the palace.

About twenty minutes later, Lin Yi brought a dozen guards to the vicinity of Rowan Harvey's mansion.

Rowan Harvey's mansion is located near the royal palace, and the surrounding mansions are all inhabited by officials who are very important to the kingdom.

Here, killing anyone at random is likely to have a great impact on the political stance of the entire kingdom.

Lin Yi is well aware of the interests involved and does not dare to act on his own.

After all, Rowan Harvey has not really run away yet, but has only shown the intention to run away.

If he acts privately, it is likely to alert Rowan Harvey and make him alert, which will cause the undead behind him to disappear.

Soon, the soldiers sent by Lin Yi before appeared near Lin Yi with 300 guards.

At the same time, the soldier also brought a secret letter from the old king.

Lin Yi took the secret letter, which only had a simple sentence on it.

"If Rowan Harvey leaves the royal city tonight, he will be killed without mercy."

The old king did not fall asleep. Since taking the powder made by Lin Yi, he was shocked to find that his sleep time was getting shorter and shorter.

This is definitely not a good sign. Obviously, the old king's body is evolving in an inhuman direction.

When the old king learned the news from Lin Yi, he was not shocked.

He had expected it, but he had not been able to catch Rowan Harvey before.

Since the other party showed his hand this time, the old king did not mind cleaning him up, but the old king still wanted to use Rowan Harvey to fish, so he did not order Lin Yi to act immediately.

He was eager to see how rampant the power behind Rowan Harvey could be.

Whether they could successfully send Rowan Harvey out when he had already noticed it.

If the power behind Rowan Harvey could even do this, then the old king was determined to bloodbath the entire upper class of the kingdom.

In addition to the "Iron Hand" like a sharp blade, the hyena Heslet, the commander of the kingdom's army who held military power, and the governor Joe Valentine who was responsible for managing most of the officials, would be involved in this turbulent storm.

After all, even the treasurer Rowan Harvey dared to betray the country, so why wouldn't others?

If the matter of Rowan Harvey cannot be properly resolved tonight, the old king would not mind taking a group of people with him before he dies.

He wants to leave a clear political environment for the new emperor, even if it costs a huge price.

"Tsk, this fishing trick again." Lin Yi looked at the content on the note and understood in his heart that the old king intended to use Rowan Harvey to draw out the forces behind him.

In this case, let's take a good look at who is the mantis and who is the oriole.

At this moment, as Su Xiao began to vigorously clean up dissidents, the entire king's capital was like a turbulent sea. It seemed calm on the surface, but in fact it was surging underneath.

[Tip: The Hunter has completed the side mission: Purge, and has obtained 100,000 Paradise Coins. 】

"It looks like Bai Ye's work is over."

After hearing the reminder from Samsara Paradise, Lin Yi knew that Su Xiao's work was done.

Because of the Rowan Harvey incident, the old king urgently ordered Su Xiao, who had just completed the cleaning task, to enter the palace.

The old king handed Su Xiao a longer list. Some of the officials on this list were originally planned to be cleaned up later, but now the situation has changed and they have to act in advance.

There are also some people on the list who are quite close to that old guy Rowan Harvey.

In order to avoid subsequent trouble, the old king decided to let Su Xiao clear out all these people at once.

Su Xiao looked at the list of nearly a hundred people in his hand and knew clearly that this time the old king was obviously ready to take action.

A large-scale cleanup operation began.

At around one o'clock that night, a total of 119 officials, big and small, were taken away from the royal capital.

Eighty-six of them were sentenced to death, 19 were imprisoned for life, and the rest faced several years in prison.

The old king had carefully arranged this purge operation, so the entire power system was basically not affected too much.

That night, corpses were transported out of the royal capital one by one, one by one.

The streets were filled with a strong smell of blood, which was nauseating.

Those princes and princesses had no idea that before they arrived at the royal capital, the old king had dealt with the instability here resolutely.

The relationships among these officials who were dealt with within the kingdom were as intricate as the roots of a tree.

They have all been officials throughout their lives and have gone through countless ups and downs.

Although those princes and princesses are very capable in their respective fields, when it comes to power struggles, they are no match for these sophisticated people.

After all, the territory they govern is too far away from the royal capital and is beyond their reach.

At this special point in time, the danger level in the royal capital is no less than that on the frontline battlefield.

The evil in people's hearts is the most terrifying thing.

As for Rowan Harvey, he had already stood up and left the room.

He knew in his heart that since the kingdom suddenly purged so many officials, someone would definitely need to search their homes, and at this time, no one was more suitable than him.

If the old king had not given the order at this time, then Rowan Harvey would be preparing to run away now.

Sure enough, after Rowan Harvey left the room, he immediately saw a knight riding a big red horse rushing to his mansion like lightning.

The knight held the old king's secret letter, and Rowan Harvey understood what the old king's order was without even opening it.

Lin Yi, on the other hand, followed Rowan Harvey from a distance to prevent the old guy from disappearing suddenly.

That night, everyone in the royal capital was in danger.

When the "iron hand" knocks on their door, it means their death is coming.

Therefore, all the officials in the royal capital stayed awake all night, their hearts filled with fear and uneasiness.

They didn't know if they would be taken away next, so they could only wait in this long dark night.

…

Early the next morning, as the sun rose in the sky, nothing seemed to happen in the capital. In other words, the civilians had no idea what happened last night.

The princes and princesses closest to the royal capital will arrive at the royal capital today.

At the gate of the royal capital, an extremely luxurious carriage slowly drove in from the city gate.

The entire carriage is carefully made of metal, showing solemnity and luxury with gold patterns on a black background.

The driver is a sharp-eyed knight, and the cart is pulled by two black horses with single horns on their heads, which is an extremely rare species.

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a handsome man about 40 years old with a mustache on his chin leaned out of the carriage. He was the eldest prince in the old king's mouth.

"We finally arrived at the Royal Capital." The eldest prince looked at the scenery of the Royal Capital from a distance. The smile on his face was very gentle, giving people a feeling of spring breeze.

"Your Highness, we have many opponents this time, and there are many people we need to win over."

An old man in the carriage spoke. He was a confidant of the eldest prince.

"There are indeed many enemies, but there are not many people who need to be won over. The kingdom's treasurer Rowan Harvey, the consul Joe Valentine, and the commander of the army Huslett, as long as they have the support of these three people, there is no need to win over. People are my opponents, and the three of them are my father’s right-hand men.”

"What about the Iron Hand? If these three are his right-hand men, then the Iron Hand is almost His Majesty's representative."

The old man spoke, he wanted to win over Su Xiao, the iron hand.

"Iron Hand? That is the ruling party, not something we can fight for. His support is too fantastic, so I didn't even consider it. Last night he bloodbathed the royal capital. How glorious was the chief judge Hervé Anthony? It's just a corpse now."

The eldest prince sat back in the carriage. He was the first heir of the old king to arrive in the royal capital, and he also had the 'right to avoid death' secretly granted by the old king. He was the favorite in this power struggle.

But he didn't know that the Rowan Harvey he was planning to win over had already been targeted by Lin Yi and the old king.

If the eldest prince rushes to win over Rowan Harvey at this time, he will undoubtedly be lighting up the toilet - courting death.

The old king is now extremely suspicious. Anyone who has anything to do with Rowan Harvey can be said to have been included in the cleanup list.

At the same time, Su Xiao received another summons from the old king. In fact, all the middle and upper-level officials in the capital were summoned.

The reason is that the first batch of princes and princesses arrived.

There are a total of ten candidates for the throne who arrived in the capital this time, including six princes and four princesses.

Their arrival, like a stone thrown into a calm lake, instantly set off waves in the capital.

All forces are secretly observing and speculating on the movements of these princes and princesses, as well as the real intentions of the old king.

The old king has a total of 49 legitimate heirs, which is a lot.

As for illegitimate children, it is even more difficult to count, after all, the old king has many women.

As long as his body can bear it, it is just a matter of chance to get heirs.

Illegitimate children are naturally not qualified to inherit the throne. Only the heirs born by the queens are the legitimate heirs of the old king.

Of course, there is not only one queen. Each of these queens has a different background. Some are the daughters of a powerful official, and some are the daughters of some wealthy businessmen.

The thirty-six queens together represent a huge network of power.

The center of the power network is the old king, surrounded by powerful officials and wealthy businessmen, and it is these queens who connect the two.

They are an important part of the power structure, but they cannot have real power in their hands, or they should not have real power at all.

They only need to be a link. Once they have power, things will be bad.

Queens without real power are basically playing soy sauce in the struggle for power.

The new king's accession to the throne does not actually have much impact on them. The new king also needs to rely on them to maintain the powerful officials and wealthy businessmen around him.

The royal power is like a spider web, and the structure becomes more complex as it moves to the periphery.

The old king is the spider in the center of the web. He has to shake the web from time to time to check where it is damaged and whether there is prey on the web.

Naturally, not all of the old king's forty-nine heirs will devote themselves to the fierce struggle for power.

Eighteen of them have given up the power struggle this time. It's not that they don't have ambitions, but they were squeezed out in advance and lost the capital to compete. However, they will rush to the capital this time.

Among the remaining thirty-one people, sixteen people hold an attitude, that is, don't mess with me casually.

They will not give up the power struggle voluntarily, but they will not compete actively.

If a prince or princess has an absolute advantage in the power struggle, they will support that party in order to obtain a large official position but no real power after the other party succeeds to the throne, which is commonly known as the prince.

These sixteen princes or princesses who are like soy sauce are relatively young. They know that they can't compete with their brothers, so they choose to give up temporarily.

But don't think that these people are completely harmless. They are harmless only in most cases.

If there is a godsend opportunity, they will also transform themselves and become the next king. Of course, this possibility is very small.

When Su Xiao stepped into the banquet hall in the palace, he found that more than a hundred people had gathered here.

Don't underestimate these hundreds of people. Any one of them is a big shot.

If you don't have real power and huge wealth, you are not qualified to attend this lunch.

There are many long square tables in the banquet hall, on which are displayed high-quality wines, various rare fruits and exquisite snacks.

The old king has not yet appeared, so the atmosphere in the banquet hall is very lively.

Among the many officials, there are also many big businessmen.

Although they have a lot of wealth in their hands, their status in the banquet hall is not high.

The reason why the old king summoned these big businessmen is mainly to let them meet those princes or princesses. The meaning is very obvious, that is, to let them choose one of them to support.

The big businessmen who can catch the old king's eye are certainly not ordinary people, but in today's banquet hall, they have become insignificant little characters.

As soon as Su Xiaogang walked into the banquet hall, many eyes focused on him.

"Hey, this way."

A rough shout suddenly came. The person who dared to greet "Iron Hand" in this way was naturally not a small character.

This person is none other than the Kingdom’s Legion Commander Heslet, who holds the Kingdom’s military power.

Heslet is dressed in black, with several crisscrossing scars on his face, which are like marks carved by the years, showing the vicissitudes and glory he has experienced.

There are two people sitting next to Heslet, one of whom is Lin Yi’s target—the Kingdom’s Financial Officer Rowan Harvey.

The other person Su Xiao has never seen before, and according to his guess, this person is likely to be Archon Joe Valentine.

Su Xiao walked to the wooden table and sat down, with Rowan Harvey and three others sitting side by side.

This square table is closest to the old king’s seat. Except for Su Xiao and the other four, no one else is qualified to sit here, not even the princes or princesses.

As for Lin Yi, he is sitting at an inconspicuous table at the moment.

As the vice president of the Royal Capital Alchemy Academy, Lin Yi’s status in the capital belongs to the kind of low position but high power.

Many officials will come to Lin Yi for big and small problems. At this time, Lin Yi is talking to several crown princes.

After all, according to his status, Lin Yi is the cousin of these crown princes and is of the same royal bloodline.

In this case, these crown princes also want to try their best to win over Lin Yi.

Even if you can't win him over, you must not offend him. Otherwise, just imagining an alchemist master as an enemy will give you a headache.

"Iron Hand, you ran away early yesterday, but I haven't had a good sleep yet."

The old man Rowan Harvey spoke, his face showing fatigue that could not be concealed. It seemed that ransacking a house was not an easy job.

In the invisible state, Boo Boo Wang looked at Rowan Harvey's appearance, and couldn't help but admire the other person's acting skills.

If Su Xiao and Lin Yi hadn't noticed the abnormality of Rowan Harvey, it would be really hard to imagine that the old man in front of him was actually a spy planted by the Necrons.

"It's not easy to kill anyone. I met Yoseke last night." A smile appeared on Su Xiao's face.

Now that the old guy Rowan Harvey has started to excel in acting, Su Xiao doesn't mind acting opposite this old guy.

"Joseph Co?"

The commander of the Kingdom Army, Heslett, spoke. He obviously recognized Joseph Ke.

"He is now..."

Heslett asked seemingly unintentionally, but in fact, he wanted Joseph Co to live.

"He was killed by me. If you guessed it correctly, he came to repay a debt of gratitude."

"Is this so?"

Heslett sighed, with some regret in his eyes.

"Have a drink." Heslett picked up the wine glass. The wine in the glass was filled so full that it almost overflowed the rim of the glass.

Rowan Harvey and Consul Joe Valentine also picked up the metal wine glasses, and Su Xiao also picked up the wine glasses.

Ding~

The crisp sound of clinking glasses sounded in the banquet hall, and the four people drank all the wine in their glasses.

This seemingly simple act is actually a silent attitude.

"Bai Ye, let's talk about something private. When you killed the high priest last night, did he say anything interesting? That guy was a master."

Archon Joe Valentine spoke, a thin middle-aged man who was responsible for managing most of the officials.

Hearing Joe Valentine mention the high priest, Su Xiao immediately turned his eyes to look at him.

Sure enough, none of the guys in front of me were fuel efficient. (End of chapter)