CH 63.2

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Ji Mingjiang looked at Clarice with a face that said, “Are you making trouble for no reason” He confirmed it repeatedly, and after poking Gus’s powerless head twice, he pointed at himself in disbelief but didn’t know what to say. He pointed to the man on the cross, who looked like he was dead. Finally, he choked out, “How could he scam us like this?

“Maybe it’s ptsd.” Recalling how Gus screamed so wretchedly in those short ten minutes, Ji Mingjiang seemed to be trying to help him mend his mental barrier to prevent him from entering a manic period and causing trouble for them. Troubled, Leiden patted Ji Mingjiang on the shoulder and comforted him.

“Don’t worry, it’s not your problem. It’s because he is too fragile and misinterpreted your kindness.”

“…” Ji Mingjiang, who understood how the person in front of him fainted after being reminded by Clarice, widened his eyes slightly.

Good lord, how did he not know that Clarice was so good at telling lies with a straight face?

“Take him down first; it doesn’t make sense to hang him here.” The two looked at each other for a moment, and Ji Mingjiang was still defeated by Clarice’s firm and confident eyes. He scratched his hair and took the lead as he walked behind the iron cross and began to untie the chains wrapped around Gus’ body.

***

The screaming in his ears went on for about ten minutes or so, and Menguse Hollimawi gradually evolved from his initial curled-up-in-bed jitters to a somewhat annoyed circling of the room afterward.

It can’t be helped. The sound was way too loud for anyone to sleep.

There was no timer in the room. He only felt that he had waited for about ten minutes before the scream disappeared.

Menguse Hollimawi froze for a few seconds before he tried to look out through the glass window in the door, hoping to catch a glimpse of his new roommate. But after tiptoeing left and right and after waiting for a long time, no one came, so he gave up and instead leaned against the wall and began to wonder in his mind what kind of torture the man had been under to make him confess so badly and so quickly.

The means of extorting confessions that he had seen in the Starnet Hunting Forum kept drifting through his mind. Just as Menguse Hollimawi’s face turned paler and paler from his own imagination, another scream came from the depths of the corridor, which had already quieted down.

Menguse Hollimawi was suddenly interrupted from thinking, and he shivered immediately. He put his ears on the door to carefully capture other sounds, but only felt the dead silence of the corridor after the scream. A frightening guess came to his mind: that person…that person wouldn’t just die, right? ! Didn’t they make a sound just now? Did they faint from pain or was killed directly???

The more Menguse Holimawi thought about it, the more he felt that he had guessed right, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.

So, when Ji Mingjiang helped to carry the dead weight of Gus to this interrogation room, before he could open an empty cell door, his attention was drawn away by a sudden violent rattling coming from the next room.

He frowned. What’s wrong with Menguse Hollimawi? The noise he heard when he came over should have been caused by him. Why is this person still restless in the interrogation room? Does he have ADHD?

Before he could say anything, a teary face was pasted on the glass window of the interrogation room that kept making noises. Because of too much force, the half of the face that was pasted on the glass window was even deformed.

Under Ji Mingjiang’s shocked gaze, Menguse Hollimawi, who was terrified by the way of death he imagined and cried so much, saw Jimingjiang as if he saw a savior. He didn’t even give Clarice a single glance. He began to cry and wail as his eyes stared at Ji Mingjiang with a deadpan stare.

“I’m sorry, I’m wrong, and I really know I’m wrong! Don’t kill me, don’t kill me; you see that nothing has happened to His Majesty; let me go!!!” Not noticing Ji Mingjiang’s gradually confused expression, Menguse Hollimawi was covered with tears and didn’t even bother to wipe them; he just pleaded for himself. “I know you mermaids are the kindest and gentlest; please help me, please help me, please. As long as you let me live, I can do anything…”

Looking into Ji Mingjiang’s increasingly subtle eyes, Leiden pulled Gus’ other arm over and silently moved a step aside.

In the next second, Ji Mingjiang interrupted Menguse Hollimawi’s crying, “Who told you that you would die?”

“Spare me… hiccup?” Hearing this, Menguse Hollimawi paused, hiccupped, and turned his eyes to Ji Mingjiang.

The mermaid’s silky silver hair cascaded behind his head and hung naturally. The light came from behind, and the fine strands of hair at the top and around his ears shone. Coupled with the mermaid’s flawless face and exquisite, neat clothes, Menguse Hollimawi looked at him in fascination, and there was no moment that made him feel as if he were looking at a god as he did now.

Then he saw his god take a few steps closer to him, his icy eyes looking straight at him. Menguse Hollimawi was brought back to some sanity by the look, and he felt as if something wrong was about to happen.

Sure enough, immediately after, the mermaid whom he regarded as a god just now spoke, but what he said made his heart shudder, just like the look in his eyes.

He said, “I would have indeed left you alive, but unfortunately, what you just said put me off, so….”

Before Ji Mingjiang finished, he saw the face lying on the window disappear quickly, and then there was a muffled sound in the room in front of him, and there was no other movement.

Ji Mingjiang:…

Ji Mingjiang:?

What’s going on? One by one, they’re all here for him, aren’t they?

With an expressionless look, Ji Mingjiang turned to the room next door and helped Clarice open it.

“Why did you scare another one unconscious?”

After returning to Clarice’s side and hearing his question, Ji Mingjiang was silent for a moment before turning his head and looking seriously at him. “Do I look scary?”

He feels that he is obviously on the gentle side, right? The former employees greeted him kindly and warmly when they saw him. In the short half month, the little humpback whales and sharks got acquainted with him and were no longer afraid of him.

What’s going on with the people here?

Currently, there is still some height difference between Ji Mingjiang and Clarice, so he can only half-raise his head to look at him.

Leiden lowered his eyes when he heard his words.

Ji Mingjiang was facing the direction of the hanging lamp in the interrogation room. The bright light shone on his face, shone into those clear and piercing eyes, and turned into fragments of light.

Seeing himself reflected in those eyes, Leiden’s golden pupils trembled. Just as he was about to say something, Gus in his hand suddenly made a sound and started to struggle.

He took the lead by averting his gaze and throwing the person onto the particularly rudimentary bed in the interrogation room. Without looking back, he said to Ji Mingjiang next to him, “I’ve said it all; it’s not your problem; it’s their mentality that is too fragile.”

“If you dare to work for Orfield’s house, you should expect the worst.”

“…?”

Gus, who had just woken up after being thrown directly onto the bed without bedding, raised his eyelids when he heard Clarice’s words. He didn’t know what to react to for a moment.

The filter… At least put it away…

“Woke up?”

The movement of Gus turning over was not light. The three people who heard the sound turned their heads to look at him.

“You have a roommate next door. If you are bored, you can chat with him.” Feeling that Menguse Hollimawi’s appearance just now was probably caused by being too bored, Leiden was kind enough to remind him.

“Of course, I promise, there will be more people around you soon, and you will definitely not be bored.”

Facing Gus’ puzzled eyes, Leiden pondered for a moment and said, “How about letting Wang Weiming accompany you right away? It just so happens that the two of you can exchange some scientific research experience.”

“?” Gus, whose mind was a little slow, reacted half a beat later, and it took a few seconds for him to realize what Clarice meant.

He opened his eyes wide in horror and said in a hurry, “Why did you arrest Governor Wang? He really wasn’t involved in this!”

He was very certain that he had only mentioned the Orfield family earlier, and Wang Weiming was indeed unrelated to this matter.

If Clarice went directly to the research institute to arrest another person soon after, anyone would think he’s the one who framed Wang Weiming!

And Wang Weiming’s personality… If he were released after being locked up for a few days due to his deep background, Gus wouldn’t dare contemplate his own future.

“I know.” Clarice nodded very calmly. “But not participating in this matter does not mean that he is not involved in other matters.”

“When the time comes, you should know what to say.”

Gus looked at Clarice, and in the end, his survival instinct prevailed. He nodded silently and watched the three figures gradually go away.

Just after their silhouettes had completely disappeared around the corner, Gus inclined his head as a whine of pain came out of the room next to him, and then there was a knock on his side of the wall.

“Brother, are you dead?”

Gus:?

***

After walking out of the interrogation room and breathing in the fresh air outside again, Ji Mingjiang couldn’t help stretching himself and walked beside Clarice very comfortably, chatting with him in a casual manner.

“It feels sort of cold already; is winter coming soon?”

Although most of the plants in the palace are still emerald green with no hint of depression, a few already bald plants and a hint of cold brought by the howling autumn wind still announce the imminent arrival of winter.

Recalling the idea that came to him when he was in the research institute, Leiden nodded and said casually, “When this matter is settled, I’ll take you to pray for blessing at New Year’s time.”

To be precise, they currently don’t have the concept of praying for blessings or dedicated venues, but some buildings on some tourist planets with a long history can barely be used as replacements. If it’s for basic wishes or putting up a sign or something like that, those places can make do.

“Blessings? Us?” Ji Mingjiang looked at Clarice in a daze and then got an affirmative answer.

“Don’t you think that we have encountered too many troubles recently?”

Although it’s partly because some old affairs from the previous dynasty have been dragged until now to be dealt with again, generally speaking, things aren’t going well for them.

And beside……

“Just treat it as a vacation.” Leiden looked at Ji Mingjiang’s straight legs in slim trousers and said, “It wasn’t too convenient before when it was a fishtail, but now it’s just the right time to take you out for a walk.”

Hearing this, Ji Mingjiang’s eyes lit up.

He had only briefly seen the unique landscapes and customs of other planets on that learning light brain before, and while the holographic mode could also give an immersive feeling, it certainly didn’t have the same sense as experiencing them in person.

“Then it’s a deal; who shall we go and pull out now?” Ji Mingjiang’s eyes pleasantly narrowed slightly, and his ear fins, which had been standing straight up just a moment ago, swayed back and forth with a gentle beat.

“No hurry.” Leiden chuckled. “The news from Zhang Cheng hasn’t arrived yet, so you can wait.”