Chapter 95 My Fingers Saw Them (3K)
"Kud, I need an explanation."
As soon as he entered the office, Kud felt a sharp gaze falling on him, accompanied by a deep male voice.
Kud turned his head and looked at the middle-aged man who was sitting in a high-back chair and looking at him. His name was Finley, and he was the supreme leader of the Skeleton Army.
"Mr. Minister." Kud gave a standard knight's salute, "Sorry, I'm late."
"You should apologize, but not for this." Finley's face was very bad. "Do you still remember the task I assigned you a year ago?"
Kud nodded slightly: "Remember, you asked me to let the rebel Gerald die within the prescribed scope."
"It's amazing that you still remember this." Finley's words were full of sarcasm. "Do you think you have done it?"
Kud was silent for a while, then shook his head: "No, Minister."
"Yes, Kud, you didn't do it." Finley pointed at Kud and said, "Kud, you are my most trusted subordinate, that's why I handed this mission to you, but not only have you never completed it, you have also kept causing him to get into bigger troubles. Kud, in the two days since he came back, two innocent people have already lost their lives. If our people hadn't arrived quickly today, there would have been a third victim, and this victim would have been your comrade-in-arms. If something like that really happened, wouldn't you feel guilty?"
At this time, Kud raised his head, looked at Finley who was still indignant, and said softly: "Minister, I heard that the knight had a mechanical arm installed on his body that did not comply with regulations... Is that true?"
Hearing this, Finley's face instantly became even gloomier.
"Captain Kude." His face became even darker, but his tone became calmer. "What do you mean? That knight did something against the rules. Should he be killed at will?"
"I never said that, Minister." Cooder seemed to have anticipated Finley's reaction. He said softly, "I just thought about last night."
"Last night?" Finley asked. "What happened last night?"
"Last night, Gerard killed the assistant named Ocot. According to him, the assistant had undergone unauthorized modifications, with eight robotic arms installed, and used pollution sources to control these robotic arms." Kud said, "At that time, we all thought he was talking nonsense, because there was no body to be found, and there was no evidence, so he could make up whatever he wanted... Is that right?"
Finley did not answer Kude directly, but stared at Kude: "What do you want to say?"
"What I want to say is that what we thought he was talking nonsense last night has been verified today." Kud said, "Although the knight did not go to the extreme of adding eight mechanical arms, and no pollution source was detected on his body, but does the addition of two mechanical arms mean there is no problem? Moreover, the skeleton knight is different from the affairs assistant. All the modifications on us must be approved and inspected annually. So how did this skeleton knight pass the annual inspection? Gerard said that the knight mentioned an organization called 'New Chasing Society'. Does this organization really exist?"
Kud asked all his questions in one breath.
After listening to him, Finley did not answer immediately. He just leaned back in his chair and stared at Kud. After a long time, he said calmly, "I understand what you mean, Captain Kud. You saw that I blamed you for not doing your job well, so you brought up these things that other people didn't do well either, just to shut me up, right?"
"No, Minister." Kud was surprised, "I didn't mean that at all."
"Then what do you mean?" Finley looked directly at Kude, "What do you think we are talking about? A guy who betrayed Lyra and made the entire Vesperia team die with him, but because there is no clear evidence, he is still alive today. What kind of person is this? Captain Kude, you should know very well that countless people have died because of him, in the past, now, and in the future... But you, as a knight of bones, as my most trusted captain, you turn a blind eye to all this and even talk nonsense to me!"
Finley's voice became louder and louder, and by the end he was completely furious. He grabbed the model of the Tower of Babel on the table and smashed it hard on Kud's head.
For a skeleton knight like Kud, this kind of model naturally couldn't hurt him. He just stared blankly at the miniature Tower of Babel falling to the ground and breaking into pieces. At the same time, he recalled the look on Finley's face when he got this model and couldn't let it go... This should have been the minister's favorite thing.
"You disappoint me so much, Coode." Finley said coldly, "What you just said has made me begin to doubt whether you are still qualified to be the captain of the team. You'd better think carefully about what you are going to say next, okay?"
Kud looked at the shattered Tower of Babel on the ground, and after a long silence, he spoke softly.
"As you wish, Minister."
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"I thought your daily routine was pretty fixed." Bai Wei said lazily, "Eating, sleeping, killing, and staying in jail. It's a smooth and seamless process... You really don't look like a good person."
At this moment, Gerard was sitting in a cell with iron bars, with shackles on his hands and feet, which really fits Bai Wei's teasing of him.
But to such a joke, Gerard answered seriously: "It's not every day, but only yesterday and today, and the process is different. I killed the person yesterday, but I didn't go to jail. I am in jail today, but I didn't kill the person... You killed him."
"So you are sitting in jail for me?" Bai Wei said, "That's so embarrassing. How about you talk to someone outside and let them dig my eyeballs out. Then I will sit here and you go outside to rest first?"
There was no need to respond to such pure ridicule, but because of the deal, as long as it was Bai Wei's question, Gerard had to think seriously and then give an answer.
"I don't think so."
Bai Wei smiled, and then asked him: "What do you think about the 'Zhu Xin Hui' that guy mentioned earlier?"
Seeing that Bai Wei finally asked a normal question, Gerard could answer it properly: "I have never heard of such an organization. From the description of the knight, the organization helped him complete his transformation and also helped him avoid the annual physical examination of the Skeleton Army. Such an existence..."
Gerald paused, then spoke softly.
“It’s really scary.”
Bai Wei rarely heard the word "terrible" from Gerard's mouth. You know, when this guy first faced him, he dared to die with him.
So Bai Wei asked curiously, "Is it because you feel that this organization has penetrated deeply into the Skeleton Army, and the number of people affected by it is far more than you imagined?"
"...It's more than that." Gerard said softly, "I don't know how much you know about Tianqin, but I can tell you one thing, there is no 'extra' organization in Tianqin."
"Oh?" Bai Wei raised Gerard's eyebrows again. He had become more and more proficient in this action. "Is it because of the existence of 'rules'?"
"Yes." Gerard nodded and said, "The entire Tianqin is like a running machine. Its various formal organizations, such as the Pioneer Corps and the Guardian Corps, were established from the beginning and work to ensure the normal operation of the machine. As for the machine, there will only be old parts replacing new parts, but new parts will not appear out of thin air because there is no place for them."
"And this 'Zhu Xin Hui' is a brand new component, is that what you mean?"
"Yes, that's what makes me uneasy." Gerald said softly, "Of course, yesterday that guy named Okot made me realize the existence of such a new thing, so I'm not particularly surprised. But I don't know what this 'New Chasing Society' wants to do."
This is also the point that Gerald has never been able to figure out.
Now he has a hunch that his mission ten years ago was most likely caused by these guys.
But what is it for?
Tianqin is a very pure city, and everything in it revolves around rules. That is why, for thousands of years, even though it is located next to the most polluted land, there has never been any internal strife in Tianqin.
Its unique system also means that it does not have the various scandals like other churches, nor does it engage in various intrigues for so-called power.
Stories of bloody fights over money and wealth seemed no different from fairy tales to the Lyrans.
We are all "parts" of Tianqin, and we are all working in an orderly manner for the existence of this machine, which is called a city but is actually a machine.
So, when did the change occur?
Was the Eve incident ten years ago the beginning or the end?
This is the biggest mystery that is bothering Gerard right now.
Bai Wei was about to say something else to Gerard, but at this moment, he suddenly felt something and narrowed Gerard's eyes slightly.
"I say, you'd better get out of here as soon as possible."
Gerald was slightly stunned: "What's wrong?"
"Someone is approaching your room."
"Near my room?" Gerald was even more surprised. "How did you know?"
"You left my finger there."
Bai Wei said with a chuckle.
"My fingers, saw them."
(End of this chapter)
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