Knight Commander Lance has been very depressed recently.
Frieden is a country known for its freedom, and it is responsible for maintaining this freedom. Knight Commander Lance also knows very well that such "freedom" has an unspoken bottom line.
The various sects existing within the territory have always been a serious concern to His Majesty the King. After all, with the lessons learned from the Horli Kingdom, no one dares to underestimate those seemingly unknown small sects. If they are not careful, they may step on their own head.
Like this time, a partial sect in Riley City was attacked. It wasn't a big deal at first, but His Majesty still ordered him and another official to be sent out to investigate something.
But... what can he find out
The case is simple. A group of street gangsters attacked this street and burned down the temple here. And when they launched the investigation, the gangsters had long since disappeared. The leader of the crime also hanged himself on a nearby street.
If he was vague and held the guy's head, Lance could still close the case. It's a pity that His Majesty's character does not tolerate ambiguity at all, especially if it is involved with a sect, the matter will be even more serious.
—They won’t be able to leave this hellish place unless they figure out the ins and outs and get some decent authentication evidence.
This alone was enough to make him depressed.
In the following days, they were stationed near these streets, patrolling every day, and making surprise inspections from time to time to look for useful clues. However, whenever he tried to ask the residents here, the residents just babbled a bunch of nonsense and couldn't understand it at all, which made Lance even more confused.
These people have lived in Frieden for so long and can’t even speak common language
Lance definitely doesn't believe this. However, because sectarian issues were relatively sensitive, he could not use those strong methods, so he could only let the natives pretend to be deaf and dumb. There were living clues in front of him, but there was no way he could do anything about it.
In this way, they are stuck here, watching the days go by day by day without making any progress at all. The officials who came with him didn't want to deal with him, and after a while they came to disgust him. Then the soldiers under him were still restless. They had some friction with the local garrison a few days ago. The officers came over to question him, but what could he say? It's not just apologizing to others in a low voice.
When he woke up last night, Lance found that a lot of his hair had fallen out.
So much time has passed and the possibility of finding clues is getting smaller and smaller. How else can he solve this case
Just go back and apologize to His Majesty directly...
The thought of giving up became increasingly clear in his mind.
However, just today, his patrolling soldiers came back early and said they had arrested someone.
Someone was arrested? Is it because a clue was found? No, it was because that man was crazy, spoke rudely, and kicked a certain soldier in the butt so that the soldier twisted his waist.
“…”
Can you imagine how depressed Lance felt when he was hiding in his room, trying to stick his hair back with glue, but then he suddenly heard the news and almost tore off a piece of his scalp
He wants to kill someone.
Really, a very cruel one.
"Lord Knight, we..."
Lance endured his raging anger and interrupted the soldier: "Where are your brains? What do you think you are here to do? Fight with the soldiers from the next camp, it doesn't matter, I will apologize to you and it will be over. But now?" Your waist was broken after someone kicked you? What the hell are you supposed to be soldiers? Just go home and raise pigs!"
The soldiers panicked and quickly explained: "No! Lord Knight, we are because..."
Unfortunately, Lance was not in a state to listen to the explanation: "Okay! Let's release the person quickly! If the news spreads, what do you want the locals to think of us? We are soldiers who bully others, but in the end we are stood up as civilian heroes. I’ll teach you a lesson, that’s what the newspaper people like to write. Also, if the people in the camp next door find out about this, I will be laughed at for the rest of my fucking life!”
"No, Lord Knight..."
"That's enough. If there's anything to explain, why don't you let him go quickly? Don't make the matter a big deal. Otherwise, His Majesty will be alarmed and even I will be implicated."
"No, sir, Sir Mikel is interrogating that person now, and we can't let him go."
Hearing this, Lance was stunned.
Mikel…
That treacherous, cunning and accompanying official
It's over.
That guy was originally the accompanying inspector sent by His Majesty the King. He had a pair of small eyes staring at him all the time!
It's good now that this bunch of losers got into trouble, but they happened to fall into the hands of that guy. At this moment, the guy must be so happy that his buttocks are raised to the sky. Why not take this opportunity and try his best to kill himself
Lance's eyes felt a little dark.
It's a pity that he worked hard and worked hard to get to this point, but after only a few years as knight commander, he had to give up his position. He lost unjustly...
Tell me, why did he end up with such a group of subordinates
"Lord Knight? Lord Knight? What's wrong with you?"
Under the repeated calls of the soldiers, Lance gradually came back to his senses. He looked at the frightened soldier in front of him. Suddenly, his whole body was like a deflated rubber ball. All the anger disappeared, leaving only full of sadness.
No matter how much he curses, what's the use
Maybe... maybe the situation wasn't as bad as he thought. Mikel didn't ask anything useful.
He had to go and have a look.
"You guys wait here, wait until I come back, and I'll take care of you slowly!" After saying these words, Lance stood up and hurriedly walked out the door.
The mayor of Riley City didn't get along well with them and was unwilling to let them work in the city hall. Therefore, they could only requisition an empty house nearby. The basement here was also converted into an interrogation room.
Lance walked through the corridor, came to the basement, opened the door, and suddenly heard a burst of laughter.
Suddenly, his heart felt cold.
This laughter is the kind of laughter where Mikel pretends to be familiar with you, but in fact he doesn’t know how many bad things he said behind his back.
He is already interrogating others, but he can still laugh like this. What does this mean
Lance felt worse and worse.
When he walked into the basement, the scene in front of him surprised him. Mikel and a young man were sitting opposite each other and seemed to be talking about something. There were two glasses of wine on the table, as if they were having a great conversation.
This is not the usual treatment for interrogation.
"Knight Commander Lance, you are finally here." When Mikel saw him, he immediately stood up and came over with a smile. "I thought you would hide in the room and cry for an hour before coming out because of your incompetence. I didn’t expect it to show up so soon. The courage of a knight commander is really admirable.”
Lance also took a deep breath and smiled: "Mr. Mikel is still very good. As soon as he heard the news, he crawled out of the bodies of three prostitutes and rushed here. Sir Mikel is as fast as I am." The thing I admire the most in my life.”
"Excuse me, the knight chief is still awesome."
"The adults are joking, but you are still the best."
"You rock."
"No, you are awesome."
“…”
The atmosphere was stiff.
Just when Lance and Mikel were looking at each other silently, the smiles on their faces becoming more and more exaggerated, suddenly, the young man sitting in another seat seemed to finally be unable to bear all this, and spoke, breaking the Terrible atmosphere.
"It seems that this is the Knight Commander Lance who is in charge of the case. My name is Benjamin, and I am honored to meet you." Benjamin walked over, pulled the two people who were about to fight away, stood in front of Lance, and smiled. said.