Knowing that her husband was also involved in this matter, Tiana was terrified, just like Pete just now, fearing that this guy would drag the Crown Guard into the water.
Fortunately, she felt relieved knowing that the king would not hold them responsible.
After summoning eight companies of fearless vanguards, Tiana ordered two companies to deal with the Cartel and Omar families, and the other four companies to follow Barrett's command to seal off the other four complicit families. She followed the king and led the remaining two companies to the Crown Guard Mansion in Xiongdu.
Out of concern for his family, Pete also applied to follow the king back to his family, and Jarvan IV and Xin Zhao should naturally follow Jarvan III.
At first, Li Lin didn't want to interfere too much in Demacia's handling of the rebels, and prepared to return to his room to wait for the results.
However, to his surprise, Jarvan III actually took the initiative to invite him to arrest Eldred, so that he could have a guarantee to prevent any accidents.
After all, according to Newman, Eldred is very likely to have colluded with the Noxians. Moreover, the mysterious man who pretended to be the Illuminator has not been found yet, so he must have a very safe hiding place.
Tiana believed that the Crownguard family's mansion was one of them.
After comprehensive consideration, Li Lin agreed to the king's request. Together with them and two companies of fearless vanguards, more than 200 people rushed towards the south of Dawn Castle.
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More than ten minutes ago, in the Crownguard Mansion, Eldred's room.
Eldred, dressed in casual clothes and with his gray hair in tangles, paced back and forth in the spacious room, looking extremely anxious.
Ever since the problems of the Demon Hunter Society were uncovered a few days ago and a large number of officials in important positions were arrested, Eldred was dismissed by the king and placed under house arrest in his room.
Outside the door, there were two shield formations with 16 fearless vanguard soldiers on duty 24 hours a day. Three meals a day were delivered by special servants, and he had no chance to step out of his house.
If he had never personally met or assigned those people to do their work, he would have been betrayed by those idiots who couldn't even do their work cleanly just by using a "truth serum" and would have been in jail instead of his own room.
"Damn it... How the hell did this damn Li Lin show up out of nowhere!" Eldred cursed.
Fortunately, the fearless pioneers outside knew that he was the husband of Grand Marshal Tiana. Even though their relationship was not good, they respected him very much and basically did not bother him.
In addition, Eldred overheard during the Fearless Vanguard's shift change that the king would convene the Shield Council today.
For some reason, he always felt an inexplicable unease in his heart, as if it was some kind of bad premonition, which made him very worried that something might happen to those three idiots.
Especially with the effect of the special potion "Veritaserum", Eldred is even more worried that accidents may happen in the near future.
If I am exposed at that time, it will be all over.
"No, we have to arrange for Fabrice to leave the city quickly..." Eldred muttered.
But he had also seen Li Lin's mechanical troops. Even the sewers leading to the Galaxy and the Conqueror's Sea were guarded by floating machines, which made him quite anxious.
Then Eldred glanced at the door and walked over quietly.
Even in Xiongdu, the Crown Guards' mansion looked like a small manor. Its walls were made of marble mixed with anti-magic lime powder, which not only suppressed magic but also had excellent sound insulation.
To be cautious, Eldred opened the door and told the guards that he was going to take a shower, which happened to be in line with his bathing habits in recent days, so he asked the guards not to disturb him.
Then he gently locked the door, closed and locked the window, ran into the bathroom and turned on the shower head, then quickly walked to the side of the bookshelf, quickly rummaged through the books in the top row twice, and pressed on a flat wall.
The next second, with a not-too-loud muffled "boom," the wall next to the bookshelf slowly opened.
There was no secret room in the Crown Guard mansion. It was a secret room that Eldred had his confidants secretly carve out over two years. Anyway, he and Tiana always slept in separate rooms and never lived together, so there was no need to worry about being discovered.
Walking into the passage that stretched downwards, he pressed the wall again, and the mechanism door behind him closed, fitting tightly with the wall next to it without leaving any trace.
Only then did Eldred feel at ease as he walked down the stairs step by step until he reached a small, dark room of about 30 square meters.
Before he could open his mouth, he felt a sudden chill on his neck, accompanied by the sound of a sharp weapon cutting through the air, and a sharp dagger was pressed against his neck.
"Fabriche!" Eldred frowned and called out softly, removing the dagger from his neck. "I told you, I'm the only one who knows this place. You're safe here."
"As long as I'm in Demacia, no place is safe for me." A clear female voice answered him.
She spoke fluent Demacia, even with a hint of the official accent of Xiongdu.
At first glance, she sounds like a child who grew up in Xiongdu and is a true capital city native.
But if someone who is careful and attentive talks with her, they will find something unusual - her accent is not natural, and even seems to be imitative.
In fact, just from her name "Fabrice", you can hear something unusual.
Demacia has always advocated elegance and refinement, even in its name.
Not only does Fabrice sound like a man's name, but it also has nothing to do with "elegance" and is rather rough.
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