LOL: I'm a bad prince in Demacia

Chapter 280 The cruel truth

"Thank you for the compliment, sir."

Quinn bowed slightly without arrogance.

Xin Zhao handed the list to Jarvan III. After Jarvan III took it, he looked at it, and his calm eyes became colder and colder.

Then he handed it to Jarvan IV.

Jiawen IV knew what he meant, and said solemnly after receiving it, "I will go and handle this matter now."

He gave Galen a look, and the two had a tacit understanding without saying much, and soon brought a group of people and separated from the team.

Obviously to deal with the names on the list.

In the face of such a major event, anyone who is related to Stuart, Josie, Croger, and Eldred cannot escape.

They must be interrogated one by one clearly.

And this is also an idea that Lu Qi has been brewing for a long time.

Today's Demacia looks glamorous on the outside, but the inside is already corrupt. The ministers and nobles have their own ghosts and evil intentions.

It can be seen from the fact that these few ministers joined forces and easily planned a mage rebellion in the capital, the moths parasitic in the country have long been everywhere.

In fact, Stewart, Eldred and others were right.

Today's Demacia must need a crisis to wake up, and it needs a heavy slap to wake everyone up from the glorious dream of the past.

However, Lu Qi took advantage of this a little bit.

If not, if I want to find out these moths one by one, I don't know if I have to wait until the year of the monkey.

Lu Qi's original intention was to use this mage rebellion to start a cleansing from the inside out!
And Quinn's investigations day after day for nearly half a year finally ushered in the results.

As the mages' rebellion was gradually suppressed, the king's capital did not return to peace.

On the street, there are armies going in all directions.The atmosphere in the whole king's capital is always in high tension.

Things are clearly not over yet.

As the time came to five o'clock in the afternoon.

Led by Quinn, Lu Qi and the others walked along the streets of the capital, meeting Fiona, Bobby, Sona and the others on the way.

Anticipating that something would happen today, Lu Qi arranged for them to go to various streets in advance to suppress the mage who launched the rebellion as soon as possible.

In fact, today's mage rebellion seems to be very big, but it only took more than two hours from when they launched the rebellion to suppressing the rebellion.

Even, at this moment, it's not even evening.

The real highlight was all staged in the palace.

On the way, they also joined Lacus and Galio, and the giant statue followed at the end of the team, attracting the attention of many people.

As a result, more and more people followed the team, and Lu Qi did not stop the people from following.

The next thing needs to be witnessed by everyone.

"Where is this going?"

"do not know."

"The king and the two princes are in the procession, and the colossus is also following."

"Anyway, we'll follow along"

"I see that there are still many mages."

"Isn't that the mage who will be beheaded at noon? Silas in Biangou Town."

"That's right, it was him, I still remember, it was he who led the rebellion."

"So what's the situation now? Have these mages surrendered?"

"I also saw Miss Crownguard using magic. She is actually a mage."

"What I saw was Sona. If it wasn't for her, we might be hurt by other mages."

The crowd talked a lot, and as the incident subsided, the panic caused by the mage's rebellion gradually subsided.

The crowd attracted by Galio from different neighborhoods kept talking about what they saw and heard today.

Among them, the mages were mentioned the most. They didn't understand the relationship between the army and these mages for a while.

So when I saw such a strange team, I couldn't help but follow it.

When they learned that even Miss Crownguard and Sona were mages, this surprised some people who had just learned the truth.

They were a little confused about the situation, why the mages and the army seemed to be walking together in harmony.

The team walked out of the capital all the way to Clarion Bay outside the capital.

It is not very far away from the capital, and close to the river port of the capital, there is a harbor with the size of a small town here, which is Clarion Bay.

The incident in the royal capital obviously also affected here. Every household on the street hid in their houses, and only soldiers patrolled.

The usually lively harbor can be said to be relatively quiet at the moment.

It was not until the team arrived that people from every household dared to come out.

On the street, Quinn said: "I found the base of the demon seekers after following a cadre of the demon seekers named Hesbeth, and he seems to be the chief scientist of the demon seekers."

"This guy has a cautious personality. I have been following him for half a month, and it is usually difficult to find an opportunity to start. Only today, such a day, allowed me to find an opportunity."

As she spoke, she came to the side of the road, kicked down a wine barrel box, and rolled out a bound magic seeker.

He was wearing the cadre uniform of the Demon Seeker, and he couldn't make a sound with something stuffed in his mouth, but after seeing Jarvan III and Lu Qi and the group, he still showed shock and fear in his eyes.

With just one glance, he knew that the team leader's plan had failed.

At this moment, his heart felt cold, knowing that his ending might not be much better.

"He is weak, but he is obviously the core participant in this incident. The gate of the secret base is locked, and he must know how to open it."

Quinn stepped forward and pulled out what was stuffed in Hesbeth's mouth.

Hesbeth didn't know whether he was guilty or frightened, he took a few breaths, turned over in a kneeling position, and slammed his head on the ground: "Your Majesty, spare me!"

Jarvan III looked at him without the slightest pity: "Forgive you, how should I explain to the crowd behind me?"

How light is the crime of rebellion.

Most of those mages were used by those who wanted to, but what really persecuted them was Demacia's long-standing oppression.

It is those who secretly plan the rebellion behind the scenes that are truly heinous.

Hesper's face was ashen for a moment, and he trembled in fear.

People brought him to the entrance of the Demon Seeker's base, which is located on the first floor of the sewer at the bend of the river. The colossus can only stand outside when he arrives here. He is being looked at by the crowd with curiosity and admiration, and he looks pretty good. enjoy.

People enter the waterway, the water circulation system inside is running, and they have to continue to walk for a while.

Until, people stopped in front of a heavy iron door that covered the entire space. The iron door was reinforced with forbidden magic stones, so it might be difficult to break through easily.

Here, there are a few demon hunters guarding, but they were subdued by the hidden guards sent by Xin Zhao immediately.

Lu Qi looked at Hesbeth, whose eyes were already full of despair, and offered him a chance in a humane way: "Do you want to live or die?"

Hearing this, Hesbeth quickly raised his head: "Of course I want to live."

"Well, I'll give you two choices." Lu Qi showed a gentle smile: "The first one, you know that we have a torture called thousands of cuts in Germany, which is to punish those who have committed the most heinous crimes. They cut flesh and blood, but they won't let him die easily."

"The second option is to be more decent and kill him with a single blow. You can choose one."

Hesbeth, who originally showed a little expectant expression, immediately turned pale, like white wax, when he heard this. He looked at the gentle smile on Lu Qi's face in shock.

At this moment, this smile is almost like a devil.

"I choose the second one."

However, in such a situation, Hesbeth naturally knew how to choose.

Because he knows that even if he does nothing, the secret behind this iron door cannot be hidden from everyone.

When the secret behind this door is revealed to the public, he may not have a chance to choose, and what awaits him may only be choice one.

Instead of this, it is better to choose two.

He walked forward, the rope had been untied, stretched out his hand, groped on the iron door, and pressed a groove.

Pressing it in with his hand, there is obviously a password mechanism inside. He locked something and adjusted it up and down a few times. After entering the password-like mode, there were bursts of gears locked in the iron door.

Finally, with a "click", the iron door slowly opened.

Seeing the iron gate open, people continued to go deeper.

Since there was a water bay right in front of them, the secret base of the Demon Seeker was actually built in the sewer.

Walking on the steps, the torches are lit one by one, lighting up the tunnel.

After a few steps, there was another iron door.

"It's the same as some military important place."

Lu Qi glanced at Hesbeth.

The latter understood, stepped forward again, and opened the iron door, but this time his hands trembled slightly.

After the door was opened, the space inside was a little wider, and some painful groans could be heard slightly.

When the fire illuminated the inside, one after another small iron cages appeared in people's eyes, like animal cages, each of which contained a mage.

And in the corridor between the walls, there are also large cages, and there are many mages in each of them.

Their expressions were far more desperate than those in the dungeon of the capital, and their expressions were even worse.

When he saw the light of the fire, he shrank to the corner of the wall in fright, and there was nowhere to hide. He leaned hard on the iron rod as if he was hiding from something terrifying.

Some bloodstains can be seen everywhere, on the iron bars of the cage, on the ground, and on these mages.

Many people could smell the faint smell of blood in the air. The magic seeker sprayed a kind of perfume to cover up the smell, but they could still smell it.

The scene in front of him was like entering some horrible scene by mistake.

It's eerie and weird, just like the cult base that Lu Qi went to.

The people who saw this frowned, and Jarvan III ordered: "Open these cages."

Seeing this scene, he already had a premonition of something, but he didn't dare to think about it.

As long as I think about it, my heart feels like being stabbed.

When he thought that it was all because he turned a blind eye, his heart became sour.

The mages in the cage were released, many of them were dying, and they were so thin that they seemed to have been drained of blood.

After carefully seeing that some of these mages were missing arms, some were missing legs, and some were even missing eyeballs, people couldn't help but take a breath.

There is a kind of pain called looking at pain.

Going forward, there is another iron door.

Behind the iron gate, a group of mages were also imprisoned. So far, the number of mages imprisoned here has exceeded one hundred.

There are men and women, old and young, and the youngest is probably only in his 20s.

Almost none of them are in good condition, just looking at the desperate appearance of frequency collapse makes people feel distressed.

After the third iron gate, there are no more mages.

They are workbenches one by one. To be precise, they are more like operating tables, and some residual blood can be vaguely seen on them.

Surgical tools can be seen neatly arranged on both sides of the wall.

Continue to go deep, behind the fourth iron door.

This place is like a storage room, with glass bottles and jars neatly placed on rows of shelves.

At this moment, many people exclaimed, then covered their mouths, their pupils shrunk, but their eyes widened.

Feeling like falling into the cold river all of a sudden, my whole body began to stiffen.

The bottles and jars contained broken limbs, stumps, eyeballs, hearts, internal organs and even skin. They were soaked in a liquid and floated slightly.

Every glass bottle is like this, and the scene is very terrifying.

As long as people think a little, they will instantly realize where these things come from.

"Are you guys doing human experiments with mages?"

Jarvan III's voice trembled a little, he couldn't imagine such a thing happening under his nose.

Seeing that the matter was exposed, Hesbeth knew that there was nothing wrong with admitting it, and he lowered his head: "Your Majesty doesn't know, the human experiment... started a few years ago."

The voice fell, and the audience was silent.

Such experiments have been going on for many years.

They can't imagine how many mages have suffered similar things in these years.

"Actually, it has nothing to do with me. Even if there is a little bit, Eldred asked me to do it."

Hesbeth lowered his head, not daring to look into people's eyes: "He was the one who asked me to do this first. He said that if you want to understand a mage, you have to include their hair, toenails, skin, flesh, and internal organs." , you have to understand clearly everywhere.”

"He ordered me to conduct an experiment to find a way...to allow people without magic power to use magic. The first method that came to mind was to peel off the organs that retain the magic power of the mage from the mage to see if it can be passed through a specific method. preserved in a way."

"In his eyes, mages are not human at all. Some mages died directly on the stage during the experiment, but their organs still have magic power."

After every sentence Hesbeth said, people's moods became more depressed.

There was no smile on Lu Qi's face. Looking at the scene in front of him, he felt that sometimes people are far more evil than demons.

You know, Runeterra doesn't have the modern medical technology and equipment.

Many operations, once started, are often fatal, directly aimed at death.

Even if there are potions and medicines, I am afraid that the demon seekers will not waste them on the mage.

If you are lucky and survived, probably the ending will not be so good.

Just like the mages they rescued just now, most of them can no longer be called complete people.

This is the cruel truth hidden in the secret base of the Demon Seekers.

They used living mages one by one to carry out inhumane human experiments.

Just to explore magic.

Silas and the mages, looking at the scene in front of them, were already furious in their eyes, and they clenched their fists one by one.

However, they are not the only ones who feel such emotions.

Even if it wasn't a mage, everyone present felt empathy.

This is a natural anger!
Looking at Hesbeth, Lu Qi asked: "Among these mages, are there any heinous ones? How many of them killed people? To be honest."

"These ... no one is going to count."

Hesbeth felt the ice-like atmosphere at the scene, and he didn't dare to raise his voice. He said cautiously: "Because in his eyes, mages are regarded as inferior people, on the same level as livestock. The mages brought here are Picked at random, some of them are exiled. Some of them may have committed crimes. But most of them are just ordinary mages."

This sentence once again made people feel cruel.

A mage, even if he didn't do anything, will be brought here for inhuman experiments just because he is a mage.

Their eyes were gouged out, their arms were cut off, and their internal organs were ripped apart
Only when Demacia treats the most heinous criminals will they use torture by cutting them into pieces.

However, most of these mages did nothing, but faced the same torture.

What an absurd thing this is, and it is even more absurd that such a thing happened in Demacia.

Who would have thought that such a dirty thing would be hidden under the surface peace of Demacia.

However, this is only the beginning.

(End of this chapter)