The morning after Wu Lai carved the 71st shallow groove on the stone wall, Night Blade Dancer appeared outside his "cell" again.

Ye Jianwu looked very energetic, more heroic than the last time Wu Lai saw her more than ten days ago. In fact, she appeared in front of Wu Lai every ten days or so, routinely asking Wu Lai whether he had decided to join the Heavenly Fellowship. Of course, she always heard a negative answer. Every time, Wu Lai also made the same request: "I want to see Helen."

But today Ye Renwu did not ask him.

"Wuliglindo, I'm here to say goodbye to you." said Ye Renwu.

"Goodbye? Going back to Tianjuan territory?" Wu Lai frowned.

Ye Renwu nodded, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I want to go back to attend Queen Helen's coronation ceremony."

"Queen? Ascend the throne?" A hint of surprise flashed across Wu Lai's eyes.

"Yes, Her Excellency the Saint is about to become the first emperor of this continent." Ye Renwu suddenly frowned, "Wuliglindo, the imperial system, it was you who taught Her Excellency the Saint."

"It seems that you are quite dissatisfied with this system." Wu Lai sighed. At the beginning, he was the one who told Helen the contents of the imperial system in detail, but at that time he just regarded it as a topic of conversation or a story.

"But Her Excellency the Saint has already accepted it, Wulai Grindo. You have a great influence on her." Ye Renwu's eyes fell on Wulai's face. "So I think the reason why she finally decided to spare your life is not just because of love."

"Tell me, what does Helen plan to do after she ascends the throne?" Wu Lai suddenly thought of something that made him feel terrible.

"You will know soon. My replacement has arrived here. According to Her Excellency the Saint's arrangement, she will regularly tell you what is happening in the outside world." Ye Renwu said, "But there is one thing I can tell you. Her Excellency the Saint has created a catapult. The fire bombs it throws can easily shatter city walls, destroy houses, and set the city on fire. No matter how thick the heavy armor is, it cannot withstand its power. Every time a fire bomb bursts, it will make a thunderous sound..."

The masseter muscles in Woolley's cheeks twitched.

"Goodbye, Wuleglindo." Ye Renwu waved his hand and turned to leave.

After she left, Wu Lai leaned against the gate in a daze for a long time, until Shelley noticed something was wrong and called out to him, which brought him back to his senses.

"Night Blade Dance! I want to see Night Blade Dance! I want to see Night Blade Dance!" Wu Lai suddenly shook the gate violently.

"Woolley! Wu Lai!" Shelley called anxiously.

"I'm fine!" Wu Lai waved at Shelley and continued to shout, but the female guards did not appear until lunch was delivered. After listening to Wu Lai's questions, one of them shook her head and told Wu Lai that Ye Renwu had left.

"Who will replace her?" Wu Lai asked quickly.

"It won't be until the evening," the guard replied, opening the gate of Woolley's house. "I have to clean up."

Wu Lai sighed and walked out of the stone chamber.

After the gate was opened, Shelley quickly ran to Wu Lai and asked in a low voice: "Wu Lai, do you want to do something?"

Woolley nodded, then shook his head: "I don't know what else I can do."

"What's wrong?" Shelley frowned.

After Wu Lai repeated what Ye Renwu said to Shelley, he sighed heavily and continued, "The Tianjuan Territory has been silent for too long, so long that everyone has almost forgotten how powerful they were before. The imperial system means dictatorship. A dictator who has mastered cutting-edge weapons can bring nothing but bloodshed to the continent. I don't know what else he can do."

Shelley's expression was gloomy: "You are right. If you look closely, the three territories are all the sworn enemies of the Tianjuan people."

"In fact, the way to rise does not necessarily have to be... Alas..." Wu Lai did not finish his words after all, because he knew that it was too late to say anything now.

…

After the grand coronation ceremony, Helen returned to the Tianjuan Palace, which was originally the residence of the Saint of the Tianjuan Generation. However, she would move out soon because the palace would be fully completed in about a month.

Although a little tired, Helen still summoned Night Blade Dance after returning to the hall.

"Greetings to my emperor." Ye Renwu knelt on one knee and bowed her head while speaking loudly. Although she was not used to this, the current Helen was no longer the Helen in the Assyrian Citizens Academy. She had become the emperor.

"Get up." Helen waved her hand, her brows full of the aloof and domineering aura of a superior, without any trace of the weak and shy look she had in the Assyrian period.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Ye Renwu stood up.

"You're still a little uncomfortable." Helen asked.

"I dare not." Ye Renwu replied. She returned to Tianjuan City four days ago. She thought Helen would summon her immediately, but she was arranged to learn new etiquette for three days.

"How is he?" Helen hesitated for a moment, but gave up the idea of ​​letting Ye Renwu sit next to her. Wu Lai once said that the emperor's majesty depends not only on his civil and military achievements, but also on his control of distance. It is not good to be too intimate with his ministers both inside and outside the court.

"Reporting to the Emperor, Wuleglindo is in good health and still refuses to submit until I return," replied Ye Renwu.

"Refuse..." Helen was silent for a moment, then nodded gently, "Let him be for now, as long as he is not used by others. At most, I can imprison him for a few more years and send more people to avoid accidents." When she said this, Helen herself couldn't help but tremble in her heart. The feeling of being with Wu Lai still made her obsessed. Everything about him had intoxicated her so much that she almost gave up her mission for him...

"Since you are so worried, why not kill him and get rid of it once and for all." Ye Renwu frowned slightly.

Helen heard a hint of dissatisfaction in Ye Renwu's words, but she didn't take it seriously. After all, in order to promote the imperial system, she had suppressed a group of people, and among these people were Ye Renwu's relatives, but they were also her relatives.

"You don't know Wu Lai. He knows how to adapt to the times. So, when my Tianjuan Empire dominates the continent, he will definitely agree. This is his habit." Helen glanced at Ye Renwu and said, "You and I both know that his intelligence is not limited to weapons and war."

Ye Renwu could only nod, because what Helen said was right.

"In two days, the three armies will set out, and I will lead the army in person. You will stay in Tianjuan Palace and keep an eye on those restless guys for me. If anyone makes any unusual moves, they will be killed without mercy." Helen said.

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Helen's nonchalant tone made Ye Jianwu feel unfamiliar and helpless. After a slight hesitation, she nodded seriously. As a member of the Tianjuan Palace, she had the responsibility to assist the Saint. Although Saint Helen has now become Emperor Helen, she, Ye Jianwu, is still Ye Jianwu.

Helen smiled slightly: "Come, come to me and tell me about his situation in detail..."

…

Cleo looked at Wu Lai in the stone chamber jokingly, giggled, and asked, "You didn't expect it to be me, right?"

"Why should I think about it?" Wu Lai frowned.

"It's good that you don't want to think about it. You said we are old acquaintances. I am very disappointed that you have this attitude towards me." Cleo shook her head with a playful look on her face. "I will give you a few days to reflect on yourself. When you have figured out your identity, let the guards notify me."

Woolley said nothing.

Cleo narrowed her eyes and raised her voice as she walked out: "Cancel the hot water! Reduce the food portions by half! Clean once every five days! This is the Queen's order."

The Queen's order? Is this an excuse or is it true? Wu Lai frowned...

…

Cleo's actions were even worse than what she said, so the treatment of Woolley and Shelley suddenly dropped to many levels. For example, the food was reduced from three meals a day to three meals every two days, and the quantity was only half of the previous amount, not to mention the quality. This hardtack mixed with wheat bran was usually the staple food of slaves, but now it became the meal of Woolley and Shelley...

As he held Shelley's hand again, Woolley whispered his apology: "I'm sorry, I got you into trouble."

"No, my Wulai, you shouldn't be so depressed. You are a legendary Assyrian general. Your heroic stories are circulating throughout the Assyrian territory. So, you have to hold your head high like before, and then one day in the future, take me back to the Assyrian territory." Shelley stood on tiptoe and gently pressed her face against Wulai's cheek. "That will definitely happen. When that time comes, I will leave the temple and become your wife. What do you say?"

"Okay, okay..." Wu Lai gently hugged Shelley's shoulders and whispered in her ear, "Give me a little more time, I will do it."

Woolley was both comforting Shelley and hinting that she was making some preparations.

Yes, he had planned to leave here a long time ago - from the moment he was taken into this stone chamber, he had been making preparations, using everything he could get his hands on.

No one knew that the shackles on his hands had become a decoration twenty-nine days ago, because from the surface, the shackles that were originally buckled around his wrists were still buckled, not to mention the "little flaw" that the shackles on Woolley's hands were a little shorter than Shelley's.

This was actually thanks to Night Blade Dance, who agreed to let Wu Lai wrap the buckle with a cloth strip because Wu Lai complained that the buckle was not only heavy and cold, but also caused great pain to his wrist.

After listening to this, Ye Renwu thought for a while and then agreed, because every time she saw Wu Lai, she could always recall certain times in the past, and she also knew that Wu Lai was the person Helen wanted, no matter in which aspect.

It was certainly not an easy task to remove the shackles with empty hands, because Woolley's method was to grind on the edge of the stone bed - there were straight lines given by the texture of the granite, which was hard enough for use.

Every night, Wu Lai would untie the strip of cloth wrapped around the buckle, lift the mattress covering the edge of the bed, and fumble, grinding, grinding, until sleep came, then stop and rewrap the strip of cloth. The next morning, he had to clean up the stone chips on the ground before the guards arrived. Of course, this was easy to "destroy the body and cover the traces."

But it was obviously not enough to just remove the shackles from his hands, so Wu Lai had to stay busy for a while because there were still things he needed to prepare...