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"Baisa! Remember, you can't say it. Never say that Kino is a visitor from outside the world. Remember what I told you before! Once he falls, you and I will be implicated and liquidated! Never say it!"

Baisa was carrying shackles on his back, and the guards responsible for escorting him stood on both sides, preparing to put him into the prison car. Paladin's anxious instructions before his arrest kept echoing in his ears, and his auditory hallucinations continued to sound, and cold sweat fell down.

"Is he the only one in the family?" one of the guards asked.

Another guard was browsing the list and nodded and said: "Baisa Hugel, the military commander of Twilight City, previously served in the Shilin Town Border Guards. His parents died when he was young. He still has no wife or children. According to the family tree,

He is the only one."

"Very lucky." The guard said something that seemed inappropriate but was actually very correct.

No father, no mother, no wife, no children, this kind of lonely life is something no one wants to experience.

But in the face of the kingdom's unshakable dragnet, this loneliness has become extremely lucky.

Baisa was put into the prison car, his mind still blank. He thought that he had experienced so many storms and waves, and he should be able to think of countermeasures very calmly in this situation.

But when disaster really struck, he found that he could think of nothing in his mind, only blank space.

Just when the guards were about to close the cage door, Baisa suddenly saw Paladin's figure.

As the bodyguard said, he was lucky and Paladin was unlucky.

This arrest was a series of arrests, and all people involved with Chino were arrested. At the same time, their family members were also arrested.

Paladin's parents are dead, but his wife and daughter are still there, and he has taken him to Twilight City long ago, and the whole family lives together.

At this time, both mother and daughter were implicated and arrested indiscriminately by the Guards.

Paladin's wife was in shackles, connected to the same iron chain as Paladin, and followed him weeping.

The 10-year-old girl was not threatening and was given the gift of being exempted from the shackles, but she was so frightened that her parents were arrested that she cried loudly and hugged Paladin's waist tightly without letting go.

Baisa subconsciously called out: "Paladin"

Paladin was at a loss for words at this time. When he heard the call, he suddenly turned to look at Baisa.

Paladin's eyes widened in horror, his mouth opened and closed, he didn't dare to make a sound, he was just mouthing something.

Baisa's mind went blank, and the guards quickly closed the cage door, so he didn't react for a while.

It was not until he was escorted to the royal city that Baisa suddenly came back to his senses and finally realized that what Paladin was talking about was

"can not say"

"Ta, ta, ta." The regular tapping of fingers on the table rang out, calling back Baisa who was distracted.

This is a quaint interrogation room, with a simple and clean layout. There are tables and chairs on both sides. There are no frightening torture instruments. However, because there are no windows and only weak candlelight illuminates, the room looks very dim, with figures looming, and at the same time.

It brought an unspeakable sense of oppression.

The chief judge's voice came from the shadows: "You were distracted just now. What were you thinking about?"

Baisa muttered: "It's nothing, just distracted."

Chief Judge: "Then let me repeat my question again. How did you and the Chino Civil Affairs Officer know each other? To be more precise, he was the Civil Affairs Officer in Shilling Town at the time."

Baisa swallowed his throat subconsciously and did not avoid the question: "There is nothing special. When I became an adult at the age of 16, I was drafted into the army and joined the Shilin Town Border Guards. It was under the jurisdiction of the Chino Civil Affairs Officer. I met him at the enlistment ceremony.

That’s all.”

Inquisitor: "How did the Chino Civil Affairs Officer treat you?"

"Not bad." Baisa gave a very perfunctory answer.

Judge: "Do you fear him?"

Baisa: "Of course, he is my commander, and it is a soldier's principle to respect your commander."

The conversation suddenly stopped here, and the room fell into silence. The figure in the darkness seemed to disappear, but if you look closely, you will find that he is still sitting there, but the chair behind him has leaned back.

Soon, the chief judge's voice sounded again: "Record it, lie to resist the interrogation."

"Lying to resist the interrogation has been recorded." The sound of the deputy interrogator writing notes could be heard in Baisa's ears, and his heart suddenly became cold.

Chief Judge: "According to the information I have received, your Xilin Town Border Guards do not respect the Civil Affairs Officer of Chino because he is from a down-and-out noble family and has a weak character. Many people in the Border Guards are dissatisfied with the fact that he relied on his family's remaining wealth to get to the position, so his daily work is very difficult.

Uncooperative. I think you are not an exception, right?"

Baisa was flustered and subconsciously argued: "We were indeed not very cooperative before, but later he enforced strict rules and made rewards and punishments clear, and our attitude towards him also changed accordingly."

"So, that information is true." The chief judge interrupted Baisa, his voice as steady as the well water, "On one day, the character of the Chino Civil Affairs Officer suddenly changed, as if he became another person?

"

Baisa was tricked into talking and fell silent for a moment, not knowing how to speak.

But in fact, silence itself is a yes answer.

Chief Judge: “What specific day is it?”

Baisa kept his head silent.

"Record it, silence resists censorship." As the deputy judge started writing, the voice of the chief judge came slowly, "Last year, on the 8th of God's Blessing in the 512th year of the Fire Calendar, the smuggler Vic Milo

Entering the country from Xilin Town, he was found to be carrying salt crystals in his body, and all members of the caravan were killed."

"On the 9th of the next day, in the early morning of the next day, Tivin Williams, the frontier guard commander of Shilling Town who had offended the Chino Civil Affairs Officer the most, disappeared, and there has been no news to this day."

"On the morning of the same day, at the black market in Xilin Town, a black marketeer known as 'Old Tang' had his tongue pulled out due to transaction issues and choked to death on his own blood."

"Bang." The information was thrown on the table. The sound made Baisa tremble unconsciously, and the voice of the chief judge came: "From that time on, the character of the Chino Civil Affairs Officer underwent a drastic change, which continues to this day.

All of this, you who have experienced it, have seen it all."

Baisa bit his lower lip hard and asked with a pale face: "You have already found out everything, why are you still asking me?"

Chief Inquisitor: "Because I want to help you. If the Kino Administrator is identified as an extraterrestrial visitor, he will either become a living specimen of an alchemist, or he will be executed for blasphemy, and his men will not be able to escape implication. You

Do you think that if you remain silent and don’t say anything, you will be safe then?”

Baisa pursed her lips tightly, and clenched her fists so hard that her nails dug into her skin, causing blood to flow.

Chief Judge: "Baisa, I learned from the soldiers and civilians of Twilight City that you are a soldier with a sense of justice. Many of your deeds make me admire you very much. A just soldier like you is really willing to take the place of a potential soldier."
Chapter completed!