Du Dian glanced at him, said nothing, and slowly got into the prison car.
The entire prison cart is made of steel, so it is extremely strong, even with his current strength, it is difficult to break it open.
Seeing that Du Dian didn't resist, the middle-aged man curled his lips, feeling a little bored, locked the prison car, jumped to the front and sat down, and said to the young man who was also wearing standard armor as the driver: "Let's go, wait for this kid to be sent there. He's fine."
"At such a young age, I have deep plans, dare to flirt with a noble lady, and don't even look at myself."
"It's ridiculous to want to reach the sky in one step."
"It's cheaper for us. It's been a long time since there's been any fresh goods, and the brothers are itchy."
"This kind of thin skin and tender meat is the most popular among them."
"Still a baby, haha..."
The two chatted and laughed, and drove away. On both sides of the prison car, four trial knights escorted them along the way.
Du Dian sat cross-legged in the prison car, looking at the scenery along the way. After leaving the small town, everyone entered the desolate radiation area. They were occasionally attacked by wild beasts along the way, but they were easily beheaded by the trial knights who escorted them along the way.
After passing the inspection of the frontier fortress, everyone entered the fortress and came to a remote wilderness, where a prison stood far away.
The carriage stopped in front of the prison, and the middle-aged man opened the cage and said, "Come down."
Du Dian jumped out of the prison car and said to him, "I want to appeal."
"You can only moan now." The middle-aged man sneered and said, "Do you think there is still a chance for your matter to be heard in court? From the moment you came here, you have been a mute, and no one will hear you. When the notice of the ruling comes out, you will have no chance to stand up. If you want to blame, you can only blame you for being overwhelmed. It is not good to be your hunter and earn wealth for the consortium. Why not hook up with the noble lady and seek death? !"
Du Dian looked unchanged, stared at him coldly, and said, "Aren't you the warden?"
The middle-aged man sneered, and said, "Do you think that with me here, you would still have a chance to see the warden to appeal? It's easy to cover up you, a brat with no identity and background. You're just a trainee priest. Do you really think I can save you?"
Du Dian took a deep breath, clenched his fingers, and said, "Thank you for your teaching." After speaking, he shot suddenly and punched him in the face.
With a bang, the middle-aged man fell backwards, his nasal bone was broken, and blood flowed out.
This sudden attack stunned everyone. No one expected that Du Dian would dare to attack the prison officer in front of the prison gate.
The middle-aged man fell to the ground, covered his face with one hand, desperately trying to stop the blood, looked at Du Dian angrily and frantically, trembling with anger, and screamed: "Kill him!!"
The surrounding trial knights immediately drew out their weapons, standard trial guns and trial swords, and rushed towards Du Dian.
However, Du Dian did not fight them as they imagined, but... turned around and ran away! While running, he yelled at the top of his voice: "Kill, kill!!"
The sound came into the prison, and in a short while, many people from the prison castle rushed over.
"stop!"
The prison door was opened, and seven or eight people ran out. The leader was a woman wearing glasses, with a beautiful and hot figure. Seeing Du Dian and the eight trial knights who were jumping around, he angrily shouted.
The eight trial knights stopped quickly and looked at each other.
Du Dian immediately ran to the woman and said, "They took black money to kill me, I want to appeal, are you the warden?"
The woman glanced at him, frowned slightly, and said, "I am the secretary of the warden. If you want to appeal, I can help you apply. I don't know if the higher-ups will approve it."
Du Dian was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, thank you."
The middle-aged man walked over holding his nose, his face was ugly, and he looked at Du Dian sternly, full of murderous intent and anger, and said to the woman: "Secretary Leiya, this little devil first complained, he just wanted to attack me and escape , Attacking the prison officer, the crime is aggravated, and should be executed immediately!"
The woman's complexion darkened, and said: "Look at your own embarrassment. It's embarrassing to be beaten like this by a child. Also, you'd better pay attention to what you say. We are only responsible for detaining prisoners and have no right to execute them. You can Don't talk nonsense and implicate the entire prison."
The middle-aged man knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, his expression changed, he lowered his head and said, "Yes."
The woman turned her head to Du Dian and said coldly: "And you, you'd better be honest when you enter the detention center. If something like this happens again, no matter what the reason is, I will definitely not let you go lightly."
Du Dian nodded immediately, with a very sincere attitude.
Seeing his expression, the woman calmed down a little, and said to the middle-aged man: "Send him in, but you don't have to be responsible for supervising him, I will arrange someone else to come over." After speaking, she turned and left.
After she left, the middle-aged man turned his head, looked at Du Dian viciously, and said in a low voice: "Little devil, don't think that your life will be safe, as long as I am here, you will definitely make your life worse than death!"
Du Dian said coldly: "Not leading the way yet?"
The middle-aged man clenched his fists in anger, but still held back his teeth and led the way.
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On the top floor of the prison, in a luxurious office.
"Oh? This brat turned out to be a hunter." In front of the desk, a bald man with a fleshy face sat on a chair, took the information from Secretary Leiya in front of him and scanned it, raised his thick eyebrows slightly, and said, "Meilon The hunters of the consortium actually committed the crime of stealing? Interesting, interesting, and it was personally sent by the dog raised by the Mellon consortium. This is the first time I have seen such a thing that the consortium wants to cut down its own cash cow. Immediately tell this matter to the Mellon Foundation and see the reaction there."
Secretary Leiya asked suspiciously, "What about the appeal?"
"If the Mellon consortium really wants to kill him, we'll sell them face and help them cover it up. Of course, the cost is indispensable. This is free extra money. How can we not make money?" the bald middle-aged man said. With a smile, he said: "Moreover, this matter is also beneficial to our consortium."
"I see." Secretary Leia nodded.
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Du Dian sat in a separate guard cell, waiting quietly.
"I don't know if the Mellon Foundation will bribe the warden after they get the news." He was a little worried, "We must find other ways to get out, as long as we can get a chance to appeal, we will have a chance to prove that I was wronged. "
"Unfortunately, no one outside bails me out, even if I have a little background."
"However, with a little background, it is estimated that under the pressure of the Mellon Consortium, it will collapse."
"I don't know if Aunt Jula and the others will be implicated by me."
"Damn it!"
He felt aggrieved, angry, and even a little scared.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye.
No one brought him food or water for the past three days, and he also understood that although a different person was in charge of supervising him, most likely that person was bought by the middle-aged man, and he was just a prisoner, maybe he only needed one silver coin , can make a person mercilessly hurt another stranger.
However, what worries him the most is that after three days, there is no movement outside.
"The appeal should be hopeless..." Du Dian looked at the dim light outside the window, feeling a little sad in his heart, but more despair and anger, as well as a strong killing intent, "I can only escape from prison, otherwise, I will only be trapped alive Here, and humiliated."
"If you escape from prison, you will live in darkness for the rest of your life."
"In that case, I will never see Aunt Jula and the others, nor Macon and the others, nor... can I see her!"
Du Dian was sad in his heart, but his instinctive desire to survive still inspired his determination to live, and he began to seriously think about escape methods.
In a blink of an eye, another two days passed.
On this day, the cage suddenly opened.
Du Dian, who was sleeping against the wall, opened his eyes slightly, and said in his heart: "The opportunity has come." Just as killing intent appeared in his heart, suddenly, a familiar smell floated into his nose, which made him startled slightly.
"Dean!" At this moment, an unbelievable voice came, panicked: "You, how did you become like this?"
When Du Dian heard the sound, his whole body shook violently, and he couldn't help but open his eyes wide, only to see Jenny standing in front of the dark cage in a snow-white skirt, with her slender fingers grasping the cage, and the dark and thick steel pillars. In sharp contrast.
Du Dian's eyes widened, almost suspecting that he was too hungry, hallucinations appeared in his nose and eyes, and couldn't help but said: "Jane, Jenny? You, why did you come here?"
"My father sent me here, did they abuse you?" Jenny asked with flushed eyes.
Du Dian hurriedly got up, grabbed her hand, and said excitedly: "Are you okay, your father didn't hurt you, right?"
Jenny was taken aback for a moment, and immediately broke away from his hand, stepped back, wiped away the tears from her eyes, bit her lower lip tightly, and said, "Don't you say that about my father, so he won't hurt me! I'll come Here, I just want to ask you, why, why are you going to steal?"
Du Dian's heart was shocked, and he felt that the blood that had just boiled suddenly became cold again, and it was cold to the bottom of his heart, with a piercing pain. He thought bitterly in his heart, yes, you are your father's precious daughter , of course he won't hurt you, so why should I worry
He looked at the pure white girl, and said in a shy voice, "Do you also think I will steal?"
Jenny gritted her teeth and said: "The evidence is conclusive. In your safe, I found a piece of Longshan ruby from the Milan family. This is one of the three treasures of the Milan family. There is no other piece in the world. Why would you do this? ?”
Du Dian clenched the iron pillars of the cage, his body trembling, and said: "If I say, I don't know this Milan family at all, and I have never seen the ruby you mentioned, would you believe it?"
"Why do you still lie to me!" Jenny said with tears in her eyes, "I have already inquired everywhere and know all the truth about the matter. Why do you still want to lie to me?!"
Du Dian was full of bitterness, and said: "I never lied to you. All of this was deliberately framed by your father in order to separate us. Why don't you want to believe me? Don't you know that I have been with you for a year? character?"
Jenny squatted down in pain, and said: "At first, I thought so too, but I asked the people of Milan's family that you were invited by the lady of Milan's family to visit their house two months ago. Later, they The Longshan Ruby was lost! At that time, I still believed that you could not do such a thing, even if I found the Longshan Ruby from your safe, I still believed that someone framed you!"
"But, but, Deacon Hollett of the court personally accepted the case, and after several weeks of investigation, he also verified that it was indeed you who stole it!"
Du Dian was stunned, and suddenly understood, no wonder the arrest warrant was issued without interrogating himself. It turned out that the deacon-level priest accepted the case and had already investigated it clearly!
However, he knew very well that he had never seen that young lady from the Milan family, and all of this was nothing but a false accusation!
"This deacon priest should have been bought by your father." Du Dian said gloomyly.
Jenny raised her head angrily, and said, "You are not allowed to talk about my father again!"
Du Dian's heart was blocked, tears almost fell down, and he said bitterly: "Do you trust your father that much?"
Jenny gritted her teeth slightly, and said: "It's not that I believe so, but that you really did it. You may not understand that although our Bron family is huge, it is absolutely impossible to buy a deacon of the court! The priests are all very noble and pure, and they cannot be fooled by money! Moreover, this deacon has never been in contact with our family, so he has no reason to slander you!"
Du Dian said shyly: "There is no one who will not be tempted by money, even the priests of the Trial Office, even the Bright Knights of the Holy See."
Jenny looked up at him, wiped away her tears suddenly, her expression calmed down slowly, and said: "Because you are a thief, and you love money yourself, so you think everyone is like this. It is said in the book that the despicable In the eyes of the noble, everyone is despicable, but in the eyes of the noble, everyone is noble."
Du Dian held the iron pillar tightly, and said shyly, "If you no longer believe in me, why did you come here again?"
Jenny trembled, her eyes were flushed, and she said: "I just want to see you admit it yourself. As long as you admit it, I don't care about these things, and I'm still with you. I can forgive you for committing a crime, but you are still stubborn. Also trying to frame my father, and even slander the priest, to cover up your own crimes, I am really disappointed in you... "
"Disappointed?" Du Dian smiled, but tears rolled down his eyes, "You would rather believe the words of an outsider, a deacon of the court, than believe me. You are right, I am guilty, and my sin is my fault." So stupid and naive, thinking that we can break the shackles of love between nobles and commoners! My crime is that I am too self-sufficient, thinking that you can follow me to the ends of the earth!"
"However, birds and fish, even if they love each other, can't be together after all!"
With a creak, suddenly, the door of the cage was pushed open, and a stalwart middle-aged man stepped in, with an extraordinary temperament and full of majesty, and said to Jenny: "My child, it's time to go back."
Du Dian raised his head and looked at the man who planned it all, with resentment in his eyes, and said: "If you want to break us up, why don't you be more open and aboveboard, you can give me requests and goals, if I can't do it, I will leave voluntarily , why, why did you use such despicable means?!"
"Enough!" Jenny interrupted Du Dian, looked at him in pain, and said, "Why do you just refuse to admit your mistakes? You still have to frame my father until now! If a person is innocent, who can wrong you? ? Are the people in the entire consortium wronging you? I asked, your magic mark ability is the sense of smell, right?"
Du Dian stared at her blankly.
"You knew my identity when we first met, right? You used your sense of smell to deliberately arrange coincidences again and again, just like in the bard's story, to create a scene of chance encounters, just to get close to me, right? Sent me back on a rainy night, and later accompanied me to the priest assessment, and then came over again and again, deliberately accompanying me, approaching me... "
Jenny said, tears rolled down her eyes, "Even knowing this, I still like you so much, like your tone of voice, like your maturity, I know, these can't be faked, but, why, why do you Just refuse to admit your mistake? Why are you going to be a thief?!"
When Du Dian heard her words, he felt as if his heart was being pierced by a dagger again and again, and the pain seemed to be suffocating.
He suddenly understood that when a person doesn't trust you, all your explanations are lies! All sincerity is hypocrisy!
Even if you try everything, you can't get unconditional trust once, just once!
Is this love
He looked at her and suddenly wanted to laugh.
For you, I am willing to give up everything, even my own ideals!
For you, I even gave up on myself, willing to live the life you like.
Because of your father's calculations, I almost lost my life in this hunt!
However, all of this did not come to a good end. Instead, he became a despicable person, a dirty thief!
He felt ridiculous.
How ignorant, should have known earlier, there will be no good results.
It's ridiculous that I have hope, a humble and pitiful hope, thinking that as long as I treat each other sincerely, I can overcome all difficulties.
Naive, in exchange for calculation.
Goodwill, in exchange for framed.
He tilted his head back and laughed, laughing so hard that he coughed.
The stalwart middle-aged man looked at Du Dian indifferently, and said gently to Jenny: "Let's go."
Jenny looked at the crazy-looking Du Dian, and said hesitantly to the middle-aged man: "Father, will he be all right?"
The middle-aged man smiled slightly, and said: "It's just the crime of theft. Although the value of the stolen items is enough to sentence him to two hundred years in prison, I have already told Milan's family that he will be relieved. With our family relationship, Help him reduce his sentence, and he will be released after three to five years at most, although this method is a bit illegal, but... I hope he can take care of himself!"
Jenny breathed a sigh of relief, took a deep look at Du Dian, her eyes were red again, she held back her tears, turned and left.
Looking at the leaving figure, Du Dian instinctively wanted to stretch out his hand to keep it, but he raised his hand, but put it down again. He suddenly understood that once some things are lost, they are irretrievable.
He was silent, standing in the cage.
Like a cold and hard stone, standing silently.
Two days later, someone came outside again. It was the middle-aged man who was injured by Du Dian before. His nose was wrapped with gauze. After pushing the door and entering, he saw Du Dian standing upright like a dead body, motionless, scared He had to jump, and then found that Du Dian hadn't hanged himself, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and said coldly: "Pretending to be a ghost, brat, wake me up."
Du Dian didn't respond, as if he had never heard of it.
The middle-aged man sneered, shook out a parchment in his arms, and said: "This is a notice from the court, your verdict has come out, the crime of 'death reprieve'! Sent to Thorn Flower Prison, five years later Execute the verdict!"
Du Dian, who had been standing still for two days, moved his body slightly, slowly raised his head, his eyes slowly swept across the sheepskin scroll in his hand, and then moved to the face of the middle-aged man, a smile suddenly appeared between his lips.
Seeing his smile, the smile on the middle-aged man's face suddenly disappeared, and he felt his hairs stand up slightly.
In the 305th year of Sylvia's giant wall, during the black snow season, "Du Dian", who was only 13 years old, was escorted to the No. 1 criminal prison on the outer wall - Thorn Flower Prison, and became the youngest criminal in Thorn Flower Prison in fifty years!
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