CH 71.1

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After returning to the palace, it was almost their usual dinner time, but today no one was idle, and the kitchen didn’t even start cooking under Rowlett’s instruction.

Looking at the guards who were waiting at a loss as they pushed the treatment cabin out of the hover car, Ji Mingjiang thought for a moment and then suggested, “Would you like to put it at my place? There happens to be a place on the second floor. I have a lot of questions I want to ask Kiro after he comes out.”

Rowlett’s hand that was looking through the spare rooms in the palace paused, and after a brief moment of thought, he lowered his hand with a smile. “It’s naturally fine if Your Highness thinks it’s okay. After all, at the moment, we don’t feel comfortable letting anyone else have access to His Highness Kiro anymore.”

Leiden also nodded. Anyway, the effect of the treatment cabin has always been very good. Kiro’s body will not be so weak that he needs special care after he comes out, and it will not trouble Ji Mingjiang too much. If he needed someone to brief him on the situation, it is naturally most appropriate for Ji Mingjiang to do so himself.

“Then move the treatment cabin to the second floor of my place first.” Ji Mingjiang said this to the guards after seeing that neither of them had any objections. Then he looked at Clarice and Bisnar Orfield, who had been separately brought over and not sent away with the other Orfield family members.

“Let’s go; I’ll take him to the interrogation room with you.”

While at it, he would try to help this guy patch up his spiritual sea so he could give valid testimony and wouldn’t be considered mentally disabled.

***

The sudden clanging and banging of the bells echoed through the empty corridor, waking up Gus and Menguse Hollimawi, who were bored out of their minds with sleep.

“Who is being sent here again?”

After yawning, Menguse Hollimawi, who had just fallen asleep less than an hour ago, muttered lazily.

He had already been woken up once this afternoon.

He can’t remember how many hours ago it was, but Wang Weiming, the well-known director of the institute who often appeared in various news reports, was also arrested. But how could someone like him, who has always been of high status and respected, be easily resigned to his fate like him, who’s just a powerless little officer? Along the way, he kept threatening and cursing the female guard who brought him over. Finally, he succeeded in waking up Menguse Hollimawi and giving quite the shock.

“…%#@￥%fuck, I’m %￥, where’s Clarice!!!”

Just like it is now.

He couldn’t quite make out the first few slurred words, but the last, almost-yelled name still penetrated his ear canals with perfect clarity.

Ah……

Menguse Hollimawi turned over irritably. Why is Wang Weiming still so energetic? Didn’t he experience any threats on the way here, such as a one-stop wrestling service? This is quite biased.

And speak of the devil.

As Wang Weiming’s cursing continued, a familiar figure—oh no, three familiar figures—were walking past the door of Menguse Hollimawi one after another at this time.

His Majesty Clarice came with a mermaid named Ji Mingjiang, who suddenly grew two human legs and subverted his understanding of the mermaid clan, but was still somewhat hard-spoken and soft-hearted. Oh, and they were accompanied by Bisnar Orfield…

“!”

Sitting up with a start, Menguse Hollimawi came to the door in quick steps and pressed his face against the glass window. His pupils were trembling as he stared at the figure that was about to disappear at the end of the corridor.

“Damn it, they actually caught him…”

This is incredible.

Although he is just a small officer, he still works for the government. Through years of experience, he has a certain understanding of the current situation of the empire. However, the more he understands it, the less he understands why Clarice has been so aggressive this time.

Was he being plotted by Bisnar Orfield?

“What are you doing there, making so much noise?” He was still pressing his face against the window, feeling the coolness and the breath of freedom coming through the cracks, but the sound from the next room frightened Menguse Hollimawi so much.

Listening to the calm voice of the other party, Menguse Hollimawi curled his lips.

If he hadn’t heard the other man’s woeful screams, he would have almost given Gus some kind of calm and collected big brother persona.

“Didn’t you see? Just now, His Majesty and the mermaid took Mr. Orfield to the torture room. I was just wondering why His Majesty actually captured him this time.”

The voice on the other side disappeared for a few minutes before reappearing. “Who knows, Dean Wang has also been arrested; perhaps there is some connection. Even if there is no connection, it’s possible to take action simply because he thinks the time has come. How can we understand the twists and turns inside?”

“Makes sense……”

After the other person finished speaking these words, there was no sound at all. Menguse yawned and slowly returned to his bed to continue sleeping.

“Clarice!!!”

“F*ck!!!”

The familiar roar came again. Menguse opened his eyes, covered his ears in pain, and shouted in the same breakdown.

Damn, I almost forgot why I couldn’t fall asleep earlier.

***

Ji Mingjiang and Leiden didn’t expect Wang Weiming to be so energetic, despite his age. Probably hearing their footsteps, the other party’s angry scolding hasn’t stopped since they walked in.

And when they walked past the torture chamber where Wang Weiming was held with the unconscious Bisnar Orfield, the anger reached its peak.

—”Clarice! You madman, tyrant who imprisoned others without evidence! Release me now. Without any evidence, what gives you the right to arrest me? Even if I’m guilty, you shouldn’t be the one to judge me! Can you bear the loss of the research institute for a day?!”

However, compared to the sincere anger before, the panic hidden in these frightened and angry words and Wang Weiming’s evasive eyes when he saw Bisnar Orfield were still clearly seen by Ji Mingjiang.

“Be sure to keep up your brave act later because you’ll be the one to cry in a while.”

After muttering something in a low voice, Ji Mingjiang withdrew his gaze, and together with the indifferent Clarice, he opened the torture chamber next to Wang Weiming and expertly tied Bisnar Orfield to the cross.

The clanking sound of the iron chains and the iron frame when they collided reached Wang Weiming’s ears clearly, making the ominous premonition in his heart intensify.

“Okay, that’s enough. I’ll replenish his mental power now. We can start after his mental state stabilizes.”

After Clarice injected him with the muscle relaxant, Ji Mingjiang stretched out his hand and pulled the chain. After confirming that Bisnar Orfield could not break free even if he went crazy, he nodded with satisfaction.

The mental power with the fresh breath of the ocean poured out, rushing towards Bisnar Orfield’s spiritual sea without decreasing by an inch.

“Ho-ho ho…”

“Ding–”

The moment Ji Mingjiang’s mental power rushed in, Bisnar Orfield’s turbid eyes suddenly opened, his dim gray pupils were dilated, and his still purple lips opened and let out meaningless sound.

The two people didn’t even move their eyebrows under the crisp rattling of the chains mixed with Bisnar Orfield’s raspy voice, but when it passed through the next door, Wang Weiming’s face turned pale again.

Although the mental power with the main purpose of repair is said to be menacing, after entering the party’s spiritual sea, it honestly didn’t cause any damage. The scattered mental threads hooked the fragments of the mental barrier floating everywhere and then passed them between each other as quickly and efficiently as if they were workers on an assembly line.

Soon, the prototype of the spiritual barrier could be seen.

Ji Mingjiang had no intention of repairing him completely. He left a small part of his mental power here and continued to go deeper, finding the wild boar with only brutish nature left in his eyes.

Not bothering to calm it down like he did to Clarice’s cute black dragon, Ji Mingjiang simply twisted his mental power together, wrapped around the wild boar, and ignored its crazy counterattack.

“Bang! Bang! Bang!”

The sound of the wild boar hitting the ground was loud and muffled, and it was obvious that the wild boar had hit it with all its strength.

After a while, when Ji Mingjiang’s mental power was released, the boar that had just raised its tusks with scarlet eyes itching to tear the mental power in front of it to pieces was already powerless and limp on the ground.

It rained a little in the nearby area. After seeing that there was some life in the barren land, Ji Mingjiang began to withdraw all his mental power without hesitation. He also pulled back the few strands that were diligently repairing the mental barrier.

—If he stayed in this spiritual sea for a second longer, he would feel that his mental power stinked.

“Crack.”

As soon as the mental power that he had withdrawn was freed, it manifested its owner’s emotional tendencies clearly.

Part of it was taken back by him into his spiritual sea; part of it stayed between his fingers and didn’t want to leave; and a part of it, not knowing what it was thinking, wrapped itself around Clarice and ran into the other party’s spiritual sea.

Glancing at Clarice, whose expression remained unchanged, Ji Mingjiang gritted his teeth.

He almost laughed in anger. That good-for-nothing mental power!

“He should wake up soon. You can go to Wang Weiming’s side.”

After giving the eviction order unceremoniously, Ji Mingjiang turned around and went to the corner to get a bucket of bitterly cold ice water, preparing to pour it on Bisnar Orfield if he still didn’t wake up.

Feeling the mental power of Ji Mingjiang, who was having fun with that silly dragon in his spiritual sea, a little smile overflowed from Leiden’s eyes. He pressed the soundproof button and then walked to the next door.

“Be careful and stay safe.” When he reached the door and looked at the room where only Ji Mingjiang was alone, he still urged with some uneasiness.

“I know. What could possibly happen?” Ji Mingjiang was adjusting the recording equipment on the table. He looked back in surprise and said in a very relaxed tone, “Besides, you’re right next door; even if there’s really an accident, there’s nothing to worry about.”