When Barney walked up to him, Flower's smile suddenly disappeared.
He raised his palm and put it on Barney's shoulder.
Barney felt an incomparable force coming from his shoulders, and he fell to his knees heavily without warning.
boom!!
"ah!"
His knees made a dull sound as they collided with the hard wooden floor.
He felt as if his knees had been shattered! He couldn't help but let out a cry of pain!
He raised his head and looked up at Flower in surprise, as if asking why?
The apprentices who were watching around also felt their hearts skip a beat, but they all smiled after reacting.
Regina is the one who gloats the most.
Barney is a complete villain. His popularity cannot be said to be bad, it can only be said that he is not popular at all.
Flower turned around and sat back on the recliner. He looked at Barney and slowly asked:
"Where were you last night?"
"I was on duty..." Barney subconsciously wanted to answer that he was on night duty last night.
But he quickly realized that since Flower asked this question, he must know that he was not on duty last night.
"...Why didn't you go on night watch?" Flower continued to ask.
‘Didn’t go on night watch... Didn’t Colin go on night watch instead of me?!’ A trace of confusion flashed in Barney’s eyes.
Flower did not wait for his response and continued to talk to himself:
"Last night, at No. 79 Tulip Street, a woman and twelve of her maids were brutally killed, and their hearts were taken out.
It wasn't until early in the morning that the guards noticed something strange..."
Flower paused for a moment and then asked:
"Barney, you know what?
...The woman’s house is only twenty meters away from the sentry tower.”
Flower spoke unhurriedly, but Barney's face became paler and paler, and sweat continued to break out from his forehead.
His heart was beating like thunder, as if he were standing on the edge of a bottomless cliff, and Barney felt his body feel sore.
Flower leaned back in his chair and stared at him quietly, waiting for an answer.
"I, I..." Barney was so nervous that he didn't know how to answer for a moment.
But the next second, he seemed to think of something, and shouted quickly as if grabbing a life-saving straw:
"Lord Flower! Last night, it wasn't me who was on duty last night! That's right!... It wasn't me who was on duty last night, it was Colin who was on duty last night!"
As if to prove the persuasiveness of what he said, he suddenly turned back, stared at Colin with resentful eyes, and asked sternly:
"Why didn't you go on watch last night?!"
Flower raised his brows and shifted his gaze to Colin.
Things have taken a new turn, and all the apprentices are looking at Colin and Barney with great interest.
"Night watch? What night watch?" Colin looked confused, "Barney, what are you talking about? Why don't I know."
Barney looked at Colin's innocent expression, suddenly suffocated, and then said:
"I clearly ordered you to stay on duty on Saturday last week..."
"Sorry, Barney!...I really can't understand what you are saying?" Colin waved his hand and raised his voice to interrupt him.
"If what you want to say is that you came to me to help you with night watch before... then I want to ask, did I agree?"
"When will everyone be on night watch?" He pointed to the bulletin board on the wall not far away. "It's clearly written on it. My night watch date is every Friday. And last night was Saturday..."
He spread his hands and shook his head.
Barney was furious, and he subconsciously said angrily:
"I'm the deputy captain. If I give you an order, you have to go, you idiot who doesn't obey orders!"
"Hahaha!" Regina on the side suddenly laughed.
"Oh, respected Vice-Captain Barney..." Her tone was full of teasing.
"Hahahaha!" The other apprentices next to him also laughed.
"I really think I am a person."
"That's right, deputy captain, how majestic he is!"
If you look closely, you will see that these people who made the noise are all transferred from the mountain patrol team.
They are not afraid of Flower's displeasure. They know Flower much better than Barney.
"I am following Lord Flower's order." Colin replied with a smile at the right time.
"That's enough." Flower said calmly.
He has figured out the cause and effect of the matter.
He didn't care about the dispute between Barney and Colin, nor did he care whether he went to Colin to replace him on duty, or how he asked Colin to replace him on duty.
He only knew that according to his rules, Barney should be on duty last night.
But there was no one on duty last night.
Whatever the reason, whatever the reason... from his perspective, this is Barney's problem.
It's not that Barney shouldn't find someone to replace him on duty, but he shouldn't find someone to replace him, but he didn't ensure that the replacement was good.
Especially when it's so important right now...
Especially when the murderer's methods resemble those dirty bugs...
Maybe...if someone was on duty last night, they could catch their tail...
Flower sighed in his heart. This thought made him feel even more unhappy, and also made him decide to punish Barney severely as a warning to other monkeys.
He glanced around at everyone impatiently and asked:
"I have emphasized the importance of night watch to you before, right?"
"Yes, Lord Flower." Everyone paused and responded in unison.
"Very good." Flower nodded.
"Then remember, Barney is your lesson!"
"Sir Flower...me," Barney felt something bad in his heart when he heard this, and his expression changed drastically.
"Barney..." Flower said solemnly, "You have been transferred out of the patrol team!"
"Besides, you can go to the mountains to collect the punishment yourself and go to the mines to mine for one year."
Barney felt cold and his face gradually turned gray.
He didn't expect that the punishment would be so severe just for missing the night watch...
Mining in mines involves digging magic stone mines. In the depths of the magic stone veins, along with a large amount of primitive magic energy, comes a strange ferocious disease. Ordinary people will mutate and die within a day of being there.
Although the wizard can resist, an intermediate wizard apprentice like him will naturally not have it easy. This is undoubtedly a hard job.
But that's okay, what he really couldn't accept was that he was kicked out of the patrol team.
The Lapp school has a complete structure, but it also means solidification. Only by upgrading the level can one climb up, but he does not have this talent.
So we fell into an endless loop. If we don’t have the talent to advance, we can’t climb up; if we can’t climb up, we can’t get more resources and we can’t advance; we can’t advance…
Therefore, he spent a lot of effort to recruit the patrol team, a newly established organization, just to make meritorious service and to have more opportunities to climb up!
But now...everything is ruined.
"Yes, Lord Flower." He responded in a low voice.
Although no one spoke at this moment, he felt that the eyes of everyone behind him were like rays of light on his back.
I also had mixed feelings in my heart and wanted to escape from here immediately.
But a figure gradually appeared in his mind.
"Colin..."
As soon as this figure appeared, all the mixed feelings in his heart were only anger, incomparable anger!!
So, under the surprised eyes of everyone, he slowly stood up.
Barney turned around and looked at Colin,
He took off the triangular silver badge he wore on his chest and threw it at him.