Eagle’s Glory

In the dark cave, the treasure chest shone dazzlingly under the light of the torches. Aigron and Chanel stood silently beside the treasure chest, and in front of them lay a thirty-year-old man. of young people.

What a majestic and eerie picture.

Aigron looked down at Edmond Dantès at his feet in silence, checked his injuries, and confirmed that his life was not in danger. He just fainted because of physical pain and mental tension.

Not only did Aegron feel a little pity in his heart, after all, he didn't like to bully someone who was already so miserable.

However, this is what he had to do.

Fortunately, he has the opportunity to make up for this poor man.

After sending Edmund Dantes away, Aigron knew in his heart that he would definitely go to the treasure trove to see, so after Chanel led the way back, he immediately told Chanel that he felt Edmond- Dantès looked and acted a bit wrong, and I was afraid that he would do something unusual.

Then, he and Chanel spy on Edmond-Dantès' room - sure enough, it didn't take long for the guy to sneak out of the room, so the two of them followed him all the way.

As expected by Aigron, Edmond Dantès ran directly to the location of the treasure-although Monte Cristo Island is only a small island, if he hadn't memorized the cardinal's will, he would certainly not. It will be so easy.

"Your Majesty, what should we do with him?" In his silence, Chanel asked him. "Should I just kill him here and throw it into the sea?"

Her expression was serious and solemn, without any hesitation.

Although she was gentle and caring in front of Edmond Dantes before, her love and tenderness were only reserved for her comrades, and she did not have any tolerance in her heart for those enemies and traitors Arguably.

She didn't know the inside story, so in her opinion, Edmond Dantès had committed heinous crimes and was a hateful traitor——

This guy was serving hard labor in prison before, and it was His Majesty who spent so much money to redeem his freedom, and even at his request, an extra sum of money to save his adoptive father, but he was ungrateful and wanted to steal His Majesty's Treasure... This is a precious asset to restore the empire!

Thinking of this, her heart was filled with anger and hatred. After all, all she wanted to do was to help His Majesty return to the throne as soon as possible, how could she allow someone to destroy the Master's career?

Since she is a traitor, she must be punished as a traitor, so she looked at Edmond Dantes with such disgust just now.

If Aigron had ordered her to shoot right away to finish off this nasty traitor, she would have shot without hesitation—in fact, she was ready.

However, to her surprise, the young man did not show any anger, but shook his head gently.

"Don't shoot yet, Chanel."

"Why?" Chanel was greatly surprised and couldn't help asking. "He's obviously...he's obviously trying to steal your property."

"Don't you think it's strange? Why does he know this place?" Aegron asked calmly, "He was only on the island on his first day, but he somehow knew about this treasure. You can see that his search route was even smoother than ours. . . . This is an extraordinary situation."

"It doesn't matter to me," Chanel replied stubbornly.

Then, she pointed to the treasure box in front of her, "Your Majesty, this is your property, I will never allow anyone to violate it... I don't care what reason he has, since he does this, I will never forgive him. If ...If you find it troublesome, then I will do it, you can go back and rest."

She was afraid that the master would be too soft-hearted, so she proposed to let her do it herself.

"No, Chanel, you got it wrong. It's not that I can't do it. If necessary, I will kill him, but now is obviously not the time." Aigron was afraid that Chanel's brain would really kill Edmund. "This treasure is very important to me, anyone in the know is a threat to me, I have to figure out where he got this secret... so that I can continue the secret. Block it down. Moreover, since this guy knows this treasure, maybe he knows other treasures, and we may get unexpected gains by keeping him.”

"That's not wrong..." Chanel thought for a while, and felt that His Majesty had a point.

So, she put down the gun and apologized to the teenager. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty... I'm still not thinking enough, I almost caused you trouble."

"It's okay, you are just dazzled by anger, which just proves your loyalty." Aigron replied with a smile, "Chanel, I have never worried about sharing the secret of the treasure with you, and your reaction also proves that I did nothing wrong."

Being praised by him like this, Chanel was instantly overjoyed, and the resentment in his heart disappeared. "You are more important than treasure in my heart, Your Majesty."

"Okay, let's take him away," Agron said.

"Where to take?" Chanel asked.

"Take it to his place, and then we'll see what the priest will say," Aigron replied, "I always think that the priest is a bit of a mystery, maybe Edmond Dantès learned the secret of the treasure through him. "

"I remembered when you said that..." Chanel nodded, "I took care of the priest in the morning. Although he is paralyzed on the right side, he is very educated and graceful, and he looks very smart, not ordinary Bad old man."

"Then let us meet him." Aegron shrugged.

Between their conversations, Edmund Dantes' body began to move slowly, apparently already awake.

Aigron made a gesture to tell Chanel to keep silent.

Just as they watched, Edmond Dantès slowly woke up and turned around.

He blinked, looking around in confusion.

Then he slowly woke up and recalled why he was in the situation he was in. Then, his expression was distorted by fear, because he clearly saw that he was still in that grotto, and the girl and the girl were still standing in front of him, looking at him like an enemy.

This nightmare is not over, and his pain doesn't know when it will end.

Looking at his face, Aegron couldn't help but feel a sense of desolation and sadness in his heart.

Fate was really cruel to this man.

"Mr. Dantès, don't panic yet, I haven't decided how to punish you." Because of the empathy, he could make his voice softer than usual. "You still have a chance to defend yourself."

Seeing that the young man didn't seem to be so angry that he was ready to execute himself immediately, Edmond Dantes was a little relieved.

"Can you believe it? I originally planned to dedicate this treasure to you." He replied sadly, "It just seems that you don't need me to dedicate it now."

Until now, he still can't figure out why this young majesty discovered this place, but it is obvious that he has already taken the lead, and the treasure has already been taken for himself by the other party - that is to say, the treasure that he and the priest were thinking about in the center of the prison , after all, it is just a fantasy, like a bubble, it looks beautiful but disappears without a trace when touched.

For a moment, he was even a little disappointed, and he didn't care much about his own life and death.

But there was only one person he couldn't let go.

"In your opinion, I may be offending your majesty and endangering your secrets. I can't argue with this... So what you do with me, I have nothing to say but accept." He stood staggeringly. He got up, then looked at the young man with a pleading, "But I beg you, don't hurt the priest, he is really innocent..."

"Guilty or innocence, I will naturally have a judgment in my heart." Aegron replied indifferently, "Trust me, I will not be easily influenced by emotions, I just want to find out what is going on, and then make a judgment. ."

Then, he waved his hand lightly.

"Okay, let's go, I'm going to see the priest."

Although Edmond Dantès wanted to say something, judging from the young man's face, he knew that he couldn't say more now, so he had no choice but to walk to the front and lead the way for the two behind.

"Mr. Dantes, you gave me a huge surprise today, and I don't want to do it again." Aigron walked behind him, reminding him just in case, "I can do whatever I want on this island, if you If I try to mess up again, I can no longer restrain those who want to punish the traitors, and not only you, but the priest will suffer."

Edmond Dantès knew in his heart that what the young man said was right, so he nodded silently, and then he took Aegron up the stone steps and left the cave.

Taking advantage of the darkness, Chanel covered up the traces of the cave again, and then they escorted Edmond Dantès back to his residence.

Father Faria, who has been awake all night, has been nervously waiting for his adopted son to return and tell him the final result.

He has been fascinated by this treasure for decades. Although he believes that the treasure must lie there, there is always some doubts in his heart.

Now is the time to unravel the mystery, and he himself doesn't know if he can accept the "it's just an open space" result.

Just when his mood was extremely anxious, the door was reopened, and then, his adopted son Edmund Dantes appeared in front of him.

"How is it, my child...?" The joy of the old priest was replaced by panic after only half a second.

"Oh, God!"

He clearly saw that there were two people behind Edmond Dantes, who happened to be the master of the island and his maid.

It's over... it's over...

Just looking at it like this, the old priest's mood suddenly fell to the bottom.

"What's going on?" He managed to calm himself down, hoping for that slim fluke, only hoping that Edmund was caught running around against the rules before he found the treasure.

"I think you know what's going on better than I do," Aigron replied, walking to the bed where the priest was lying.

And Edmond Dantes didn't answer, just gave him a desperate look.

The priest understood everything.

The treasure does exist, but it has already been taken away first by others.

Grief and despair gnawed at what little energy he had left, and he only felt that he was about to lose the strength to breathe.

"Well, God, you did a great job! I've been tossed by you all my life!" he murmured.

Strange to say, even at such a miserable time, he didn't have much anger.

That huge amount of wealth was robbed, but at the same time, it also showed that the treasure did exist, but he was just one step behind.

At least, his life is not meaningless.

Thinking of this, he calmed down.

"Your Majesty, I really regret that it was the first time I saw you in such a rude way." Then, he forced himself to struggle, and then leaned on the backrest and half-lying on the bed, then bowed down to the young man in salute , "I'm sorry, we offended you greatly, but we didn't know you had found the treasure... well, it's not my fault, it's all my responsibility, no matter what you do with me All right, I just ask you to let Edmund go, he was just bewitched by me."

Aegron did not expect that the priest reacted so quickly, and took all the responsibilities on his body carelessly.

He does have that kind of demeanor that has seen the world.

"Are you interested in hearing the story?" The priest looked at Aegron calmly. "I want to tell you how I came to know about this treasure."

"There is still a lot of time tonight." Aegron nodded, "Please speak."

Then, the priest served the descendants of the Spada family before, and was taken care of by the Count of Spada, who gave him the manuscript and family documents before his death. How did he accidentally discover Cardinal Spada? The will of the ... ... one by one, they were all told to the young man.

"This is the secret of my life." After speaking, the aged priest sighed with a wry smile, "Looking back, the treasure may have been a curse to me, it tempted me, and then drained my life. "

Then, he looked at the young man again, "As a dying person, can I ask you for a dying comfort? I don't need anything else, I just want to ask a question."

Aegron probably understood in his heart what he wanted to ask.

"Please." He nodded slightly.

"How did you find out about this treasure?" the priest really asked. "I thought I was the only one who held the secrets of the Spada family. After all, Count Spada gave me all the documents when he died."

Judging from the look on his face, if he doesn't figure out this issue, he may not be able to rest his mind for a lifetime, or even die.

"I got this secret from my father." Aigron replied flatly, "He led an army to sweep half of Italy and required huge military expenditures. At that time, the French Republic's economy was on the verge of collapse, so how could there be additional funds to support it? His army? So he can only steal money from the Italians everywhere, including unearthing those unknown treasure houses. He has a huge secret team who is specially responsible for checking the information of those historical treasure houses from the old paper piles. It has to be said that this is a huge project, but it was really worth the money, and he got a lot of money from this group in Italy to support his army.

The treasures on the island of Monte Cristo were inferred from the documents left by His Majesty Pope Alexander VI of the Borgia family and the historical documents of the Spada family. It's a pity that they didn't know the exact location, and the empire was destroyed before they could discover it, so they could only pass on this secret to me. After I got to the island, I took Chanel to excavate it and used it as funds for the restoration of the empire. By the way... I think, among the documents they referenced, there should be some documents from the Spada family that were confiscated after you were arrested. "

The priest listened to Aigron's explanation quietly.

Aigron has been watching the expression of the priest, and he found that the other party unexpectedly accepted this explanation - this is not surprising, the priest is Italian, he has seen with his own eyes how Napoleon tried to squeeze every drop of oil and water in northern Italy.

Moreover, the priest was arrested by the French army because he was involved in a political conspiracy, and his documents and books were naturally confiscated by the French, so it was quite normal for the priest to fall into the hands of someone with a heart.

Moreover, compared to "I am a traveler, so I know", Aegron's fabricated explanation is obviously more credible.

"Poor Italy, your fornication and depravity must have made God angry, so He punishes you for eternal doom!" After a moment of silence, the priest couldn't help but sigh again, "For hundreds of years the French and Germans People ravage you one after another, and you can only endure all this pain on your prostrate and watch them take away everything you've worked so hard to save!"

The priest's sigh was full of sadness. He was not only mourning for himself, but also for his motherland. He was arrested by Napoleon's police because he wanted to seek the unification of Italy and participated in a political conspiracy.

"Your love for the country really moved me." Aigron nodded lightly and praised the other party, "But sir, let's discuss practical issues first."

"Reality! What does reality have to do with me, an old man who is dying." The priest replied with a wry smile.

Then, he spread his hands generously, "It's over, I'll do what you want, but please forgive my poor boy Edmund—"

He looked at Edmond Dantès, who had been silent next to him, "This child is the most honest, enthusiastic, and kind-hearted person I have ever met in my life, and he can be your help. He just now Just tell me he wants to dedicate his treasure to you because you saved us and he wants to be loyal to you and use the treasure to help your cause! Your Majesty, I can vouch for the truth of every word I say with my life sex."

His words were full of emotion, and his eyes were full of incomparable sincerity.

Aigron glanced at Chanel, obviously Chanel was also touched, and his hatred for Edmond Dantès was shaken.

very good.

"Then what were you going to do with the treasure?" Agron asked.

"You take 80%, we take 20%." Father Faria replied without any hesitation, "It seems that maybe we are too naive, the treasure already belongs to you."

Aegron did not answer immediately, but pondered, thinking about something.

The eyes of the three were all focused on him, as if they were expecting him to give a final verdict and answer.

After a long time, Aigron raised his head again and looked at the priest.

"If everything is as you describe, then you did nothing wrong, because you didn't know I had found it...and this distribution seems to reflect your gratitude and loyalty."

He picked up a chair from the side and sat down, "Then let's see how to deal with the aftermath."

Although the surface is calm, at this moment, he is secretly happy in his heart - and a little fortunate.

He was sure that he had successfully brought the situation under control.