The original God, Yasha, the Immortal Doctor, will finally become the law of heaven

(Sumi swear words)

You can understand the old Liyue saying that a scholar can be killed but not humiliated, right?

14. Desert mercenaries who defected to the enemy

"This is your so-called interrogation method? Can you regard this thing as an interrogation method? Are you a normal person? After all, who did you learn this method from?"

Hearing the blonde girl's high-speed questioning, Xue Kui rubbed his ears.

"I can't help it. This is already the cruelest punishment I've ever seen in my life. Interrogation is also torture. Why can't this method be used in interrogation? And look, isn't the effect pretty good?"

Ying looked in the direction Xue Kui pointed, and Prifa was explaining to Noel and Jessica exactly what they wanted to know.

... is outrageous.

Nuo Er recalled Xue Kui's unexpected actions just now, and fell into confusion.

He couldn't figure out how this behavior was related to the word interrogation.

But looking at Pulifa's honest appearance now, he had to admit that Xue Kui's approach had indeed had a good effect.

Perhaps, when dealing with certain groups of people, this humiliating method is actually surprisingly useful?

"So, who is the scholar who applied for the hallucinogenic material? Don't tell me that you don't know the name. Since you deliberately conceal it, it means that you have already taken over with the other party before."

Facing Jessica's interrogation, Plifa, who couldn't bear to lose his old face and could not bear the humiliation, answered the questions perfectly.

"A young scholar named Chalid."

"What a familiar name."

Ying muttered to herself, while Noel opened his eyes unexpectedly and looked at Jessica next to him.

The red-haired elder sister was expressionless at this time, but the words she asked became a little cold.

"Are you sure? Is it a kappa with glasses who seems to be afraid of doing anything?"

Listening to Jessica's abstract but vivid description, Plifa's eyelids trembled, and he nodded immediately.

"It is indeed similar to what you described, but there is one thing that is not quite right. The Chalid I saw did not have the feeling of shrinking that you said. On the contrary, I feel that he is very confident and talented."

Jessica frowned. She was similar to Chalid in the other party's eyes, but her personality was different?

Could it be that Chalid still has a brother?

No one bothered Jessica who was deep in thought. Even a straightforward person like Xue Kui understood the atmosphere a little at this moment, and waited quietly for Jessica's reaction.

"Do you know the purpose of his collection of hallucinogenic material?"

Seeming to have calmed down a bit, Jessica asked the question again, this time with a tangled look on Prifa's face.

Seeing this scene, Jessica made a show to Xue Kui, and Xue Kui immediately walked forward knowingly.

"Don't come here! I say!"

Pulifa seemed a little panicked, and hurriedly called Xuekui to stop, and explained Chalid's purpose.

"That young man wants to develop a spiritual potion. After people drink it, he will fall in love with the first person he sees at first sight. Because his strength is not in alchemy, he can only use a lot of material to forcefully advance research."

"Forehead......"

Recalling that Chalid was the scholar who failed to pursue Jessica before, Ying didn't know what to say for a while, so she glanced at Jessica quietly, and then closed her mouth.

"How did he steal the material out of the warehouse?"

Plifa shook his head.

"I don't know about that. I didn't participate in the matter of him stealing the material."

"Then how did you get along with him?"

Plifa smiled wryly for a while.

"What else can it be? Naturally, it is forced to make a living."

The slightly decadent eyes of the middle-aged man flicked across Noel and Jessica.

"I'm not like you. I have the extraordinary talent to settle down in the Academy. All these years I have been doing odd jobs in the Academy to maintain my life."

"However, if you don't have a brilliant project, it means you can't apply for funding, and the Holy Order won't give you much subsidy. Mora, who got a part-time job, can only provide for daily expenses."

"When I was finally discouraged and wanted to give up and continue to be a scholar, I realized that I didn't have any savings around me."

Noel and Jessica fell silent.

Geniuses like them are destined to be unable to understand what happened to Pulifa, so they don't make too many comments on it.

After all, the path is chosen by oneself, and it is difficult to judge whether it is persistence or stupidity to insist on such things without realizing that one is not suitable to be a scholar.

Plifa couldn't help shaking his head when he thought of the wasted time because he couldn't recognize the facts.

"At that time, Chalid came to me and told me that as long as he was willing to conceal information about him, he could support me with a large amount of Mora, enough for me to spend the rest of my life in peace."

"The one called Chalid, can he really get so many Mora?"

Ying felt incredible.

"If it's Chalid, this Mora is not a problem for him."

Noel stood up and responded to Ying's question.

"He has delved deeply into the research related to the application of elemental force. In that regard, many scholars have used his papers for reference. The research on the application of elemental force to living utensils also makes his research highly Many merchants have purchased patents from him, so it is not surprising that Chalid can produce so many moras."

Noel looked at Jessica.

"The birth of Chalid still started with his unconstrained graduation thesis. The technology of compressing elemental force into a stable solid to be used as an energy source was a sensation at the time. I remember that Jessica also wrote that thesis one of the participants."

Jessica shrugged.

"Don't put a high hat on my head. Most of the ideas are conceived by Charlie. I just help with calculations and other chores."

"Is that person so powerful?"

Ying recalled the man who pestered Jessica before, and her eyelids shrugged instantly.

"The saying that people should not be judged by their appearance really makes sense..."

"Yes, it's like you can't imagine that such a person would actually do something like steal the material library."

The intervention of Jessica, the "participant", made Ying not know how to respond, and immediately decided to bring the topic to Plifa, the accomplice.

"Even so, we can't let such dangerous material leak out!"

"If he wants to make some highly addictive psychotropic drugs and use them to harm people, I will naturally not agree to him."

Plifa shrugged.

"But he just wants to win the heart of a girl, and won't cause large-scale harm, so I agreed to help him keep the secret, and I advised you to ignore this matter before. Because the victim is destined to be only one... ...and it doesn't matter if you can be called a victim or not."

Ying puffed up her cheeks.

"What kind of talk is this? Is a person not a person? And what's the difference between using that potion and forcing a girl to like him?"

"Chalid is a young man with both ability and financial resources. More importantly, he has great potential. The height he can reach in the future is unpredictable... Can someone who likes someone like that really be regarded as a victim?"

Ying is a little angry, everyone has their own ideas, how can you allow others to tamper with other people's consciousness because of the arrogant idea of ​​"I think this is good for her"?

The person involved is here, and Ying really wants Jessica to teach this self-righteous uncle a lesson.

But unexpectedly, Jessica did not act aggressively to Prifa's words, but continued to question her calmly.

"Where is Chalid now?"

Plifa shook his head.

"I really don't know about this. After Mora who took him in and moved to Kawan Station according to his instructions, I never saw him again."

Prifa looked at the desert mercenaries who were tied into a group in the distance.

"Even if he contacted me in the past few days, he relied on these people to spread the word."

"So, do these mercenaries know the whereabouts of Chalid?"

Noel looked at the desert mercenaries following Pulifa's eyes, and found that these people who have been licking blood with their knives all year round were staring at them with a playful look, and immediately moved to Jessica's side and lowered his voice and said .

"I actually feel that these people's gazes are a bit scary."

But Jessica turned her attention to Xue Kui.

"Or is it up to Master Shenzi?"

Xue Kui, who had been wandering in the sky, came back to his senses.

"Huh? Want me to go out again?"

Several people had just walked in front of the mercenaries, and the mercenary with a small cross scar on his left cheek sneered and spoke.

"No need to waste your efforts. As the people of Huangsha, what humiliating things have not happened to us? We will not succumb to the methods of dealing with children like that weak rainforest man."

Faced with this kind of person who doesn't care about face, Shenzi's move seems a little weak.

In desperation, Jessica squatted down, trying to negotiate with the other party.

"How much does Chalid pay you? Although he is very rich, I think it is still not as good as that of the Holy Order."

Scarface spat on the ground and said disdainfully.

"The most important thing about being a mercenary is honesty. If you just listen to whoever bids the most, then the mercenary industry has long since disappeared."

After the money negotiation failed, Jessica sighed and had no choice but to discuss it with Noel.

"Should I take it back to the Holy Order first and find a professional?"

"It's too time-consuming to go back and forth... But it seems that there is only one way. It's also because we didn't think carefully at the beginning, and didn't borrow a few tubes of Veritaserum from the people of the Sulun School."

At this time, Noel felt someone pat him on the back. He turned around and looked down to see Xue Kui standing behind him.

"Rang, let me have a few words with them."

"Master Shenzi, your interrogation method may not be effective for these people."

Xue Kui waved his hand.

"I want to persuade them, not force them."

Hearing this, the other three had confused looks on their faces.

How did the word persuasion come out of this guy's mouth?

Is it physical persuasion?

"The environment in the desert is too harsh. You come to the rainforest to make a living, but you are not accepted by the people in the rainforest, so you must be living a miserable life, right?"

Scar's face changed when he was poked at the pain point.

"You want to take care of it? Who are you?"

Facing the mercenaries with a bad attitude, Xue Kui smiled, then bent down and said something to the mercenaries.

Nuoer and the three watched the expressions on the faces of the mercenaries change from ferocious to stunned, then to incredulous, to shocked, and finally fixed on a look of longing, all of which turned into doubts.

What did this guy do again?Why does it feel like these rebellious mercenaries are about to join the enemy?

A moment later, in the dense rainforest.

"This way please, respected Lord of the Pure Land."

Scar turned his body sideways and stretched out a hand to guide Xue Kui on the way. He kept protecting the opponent's surroundings, as if he was afraid that Xue Kui would accidentally fall.

Ying and the three looked at each other, and they all saw puzzled expressions on each other's faces.

What is this creature that looks like a licking dog?

What about the rebellious desert mercenary from before?

Looking at the appearance of the other seventeen mercenaries, they seem to be acting as Xue Kui's guards, firmly protecting him in the center.

Eager for an answer, Ying tried to pass through the protective circle formed by burly mercenaries, but was stared viciously by the surrounding people with their defensive eyes.

Yes, there is no need to do this, right?

Looking at the mercenaries who had obviously become one of their own, Ying didn't know whether he should force his way in.

"You can't do this, let her come over."

Ying, who finally squeezed into the crowd, quickly shook Xue Kui's arm.