Mario rushed into a small yard near the center of the village. Just as he was about to enter the house to search, he heard the excited voice of his companion coming from an abandoned barn nearby: "I found the tunnel! Here!"
"No!" Mario's face darkened.
Before he could react, Mario heard a voice coming from a dry well not far away: "I also found the tunnel, here!"
"I… "
"There are some here too, please come quickly..."
Mario's face turned completely dark.
…
More than an hour later.
Mario stood in the small square of White Crow Village in a very bad mood.
Too bad, there were a total of five tunnels found in and around the village. Five tunnels, but he found none of them.
Of course, there are people who are in a worse mood than him, that is, the more than a hundred villagers from Baiya Village who were forcibly gathered into the square and are being watched vigilantly by soldiers from the Red Maple Cavalry Regiment. They are suspected of being collaborators.
After all, there is a tunnel outside the village, so it doesn't matter. There is a tunnel in the village, and you can say that you don't know about it.
But there are a total of six tunnels inside and outside the village, so this matter is a bit difficult to explain. Could it be that the village and the prairie dog had an enmity, and the prairie dog led the entire family members to hollow out the village and bury the entire village
How funny!
Stop being funny!
Be honest!
In the corner of the square, the leader of the Red Maple Cavalry stood upright, squinting at the suspicious villagers of White Crow Village. Logically speaking, the interrogation matter was out of his hands, but he really didn't want to waste time here anymore and was ready to resolve it as quickly as possible so that he could return to the battle order.
Fighting is what it means to be an officer.
"call-"
The leader took in a breath, exhaled it slowly, and opened his mouth to speak. His voice was hoarse and cold.
"Tell me, do any of you people here know anything? Don't tell me that there are six tunnels inside and outside the village, and you know nothing about them. In that case, I will be very angry, because you are not only insulting my eyes , still insulting my intelligence.
You don't think I'm a fool, do you? If you don’t think so, then it should be clear that I don’t believe your innocent lies. Even if you are really innocent, we can still convict you because there are so many passages near you that were not discovered!
Okay, that’s all I have to say, now it’s your turn. If you take the initiative to speak up, you can be considered for pardon. If you don't take the initiative, you will be sent to prison, and the warden will have means to make you speak up. "
After hearing the words of the leader of the Red Maple Cavalry Regiment, the villagers in White Crow Village were trembling with fear. In the crowd, the short and fat Winter had beads of sweat on his face, he was scared and angry.
Angry, really irritated.
When the tunnel outside the village was discovered, he was not present. He was sleeping in the house and preparing for night duty. It was someone else in the village who reported the incident to the village chief.
Then the cavalry entered the village. He tried to stop them and was almost whipped.
Immediately afterwards, tunnel after tunnel was discovered, and he and the people in the village were forcibly brought here.
The situation was almost like this: before going to bed, he had a high hope of succeeding the village chief and becoming a hidden baron in the Sika Kingdom, but when he woke up, he became a prisoner.
If he did something wrong, he would admit it. The problem is that he didn't do anything wrong, he just slept.
This is so unfair!
Is his bright future just gone
He is not willing to give in, absolutely not!
Grit your teeth and breathe in!
"brush!"
Winter stood up suddenly and looked directly at the leader of the Red Maple Cavalry: "Sir, I have something to say! Sir, I have a secret to tell you!"
"Oh, not bad." The group leader praised.
The village chief looked quickly, glared at Winter, and threatened: "How dare you!"
"Hmph." Winter snorted coldly, clenched his fists tightly to reduce the trembling of his body, and said, "Sir, in fact, all of us are guilty. We are..."
As they spoke, the faces of the villagers in Baiya Village changed, as did the faces of the commander and soldiers of the Red Maple Cavalry Regiment.
…
In the afternoon.
Reef Castle, command room.
Not long after lunch, Sauron brought Richard to the sand table and was explaining the latest trends of the army and how to take specific actions to annihilate the infiltrated army from the Sika Kingdom.
Halfway through, the white-robed staff officer walked in with a strange expression. He didn't look at Sauron, but looked directly at Richard, as if he was looking at a monster.
"What's wrong, Mr. Kun?" Soran noticed and turned to ask.
"That's right, General." The white-robed staff officer replied, "The Red Maple Cavalry Regiment's search for the village has yielded results."
"Did you find anything?"
"Yes." The staff officer nodded.
Sauron raised his eyebrows, slightly surprised: "Did you really find another tunnel?"
"Yes, and there are more than one."
"More than one? How many?"
"There are five in total. Counting the ones discovered at the beginning, that's six."
"Liu Tiao?!" Sauron suddenly stopped talking, "..."
In the command room, the other staff officers and civilian staff who were busy subconsciously stopped what they were doing. They all turned to look at Richard, their eyes flickering, but they hesitated to speak.
In the end, it was the white-robed staff officer who asked the question that many people wanted to ask: "Your Excellency Richard, may I ask... why are you so sure that there is really a passage in the village and there is more than one? After all, you just arrived at the front line yesterday."
"Well... didn't I say that I simply think that location is unlucky." Richard said calmly.
"You..." The staff members collectively lost their composure, their expressions were extremely complicated, and their eyes seemed to say: I used to be superstitious about logic, but I don't know what the truth is until now.
This... is very convincing...
"General Sauron, if there is nothing else, can I leave now?" Richard did not continue to let the staff watch. After all, his wish was not to be an animal in the zoo. He looked at Sauron at the right time and asked.
Sauron listened and did not refuse: "Of course, Sir Richard. You can go back and rest. Thanks to you this time, we were able to find the tunnel so quickly and avoid future troubles. The Alliance will remember your contribution."
"It's nothing, this is what I should do."
"Goodbye then. If anything happens in the future, I will send someone to inform you."
"Okay, goodbye General Sauron." Richard waved and walked out of the command room and walked to his temporary residence in the reef fortress, thinking in his mind: Nothing will happen next, right
As a result, just a few hours later, he discovered that the reality was slightly different from what he thought.
He was having dinner in his residence. Halfway through his meal, Sauron sent someone to urgently invite him back to the command room.
"What's wrong?" Richard stepped into the door of the command room again and asked with a puzzled expression, "Something happened. Is the battle lost?"