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Soon, a kingdom policeman came running over.
"Captain Barry!" The kingdom police raised their hands and saluted Barry, shouting in Andrei.
"Please help me watch this girl."
Barry looked at him and instructed him in Andre's language: "Remember, don't let those other people hurt her, but don't let her out either. Do you understand?"
"Yes, sir!"
The alarm had stopped. After giving instructions to the kingdom police, Barry nodded, looked at Karasuma Ying meaningfully, then looked at the other prisoners in the cell, then turned and left.
Those people's plans have already begun, and he has more important things to deal with.
Everyone has their own thoughts
Chapter 201: You want to trap me in this prison?
Wu Wanying never thought that one day he would end up in jail.
In a large cell somewhere in the dungeon, Wu Wanying squatted in a corner, supporting his chin with one hand, and silently looked around the cell.
Perhaps because it was a castle before, the style of this dungeon is also very medieval, with uneven stone brick walls, slightly rusty iron fences, and a big head padlock that seems to be from the last century...
To be honest, before being taken to this dungeon by Barry, Wu Wanying was still a little worried whether she would be locked up there for a long time.
But after she got here, she felt relieved. Should I say it's really a feudal country? With your medieval prison configuration, as long as she can find a way to deal with the kingdom police who is always staring at her outside the cell, she can easily complete the escape.
After having a clear idea in her mind, Wu Wanying was not in a hurry to leave. Since she was already here, she still wanted to get some information from these criminals before leaving.
In addition to Karasuma Ying, there are nearly twenty other prisoners in this cell. I don’t know what the royal family of this country is thinking. Locking so many people in one cell, aren’t they afraid that they will riot?
Scanning each of these prisoners one by one, Wu Wanying began to speculate on their identities.
From any perspective, it is inappropriate to lock up so many prisoners together.
This dungeon doesn't seem to be full of space. When she sneaked in before, she found many empty rooms.
When Wu Wanying was brought in by Bali before, she also noticed that there seemed to be only this one cell in use in the entire corridor. The others were either empty rooms or empty cells.
There is obviously something wrong. The identity of the prisoner in this cell is likely to be questionable.
Is it a room dedicated to holding death row prisoners? Or is it a detention center for special criminals who will never be released?
Looking at the completely hopeless and depressed looks on the faces of these prisoners, Wu Wanying always felt that her guess might be correct.
But if that was the case, why did Barry put her in this cell?
Although she did sneak into the dungeon, Karasuma Ying felt that she would not be sentenced to death, so she just temporarily locked her up here?
After all, Karasuma Ying still hasn't figured out how Barry could come back so soon and find her by such a coincidence?
This is not difficult to think about, but she can't be sure, because there are two most likely situations. One is that Barry just happened to come here for something and happened to run into her sneaking in in the corridor, so he caught her along the way.
The second is that Barry might have noticed her sneaking into the dungeon early on and was targeting her from the beginning.
I always feel like...she seems to have been tricked...
Suddenly, this thought popped up in Wu Wanying's mind.
"Little girl, you are not from our country, right?"
Suddenly, an old and weak voice interrupted Wu Wanying's thoughts.
She turned her head and saw an elderly man speaking fluent English, moving towards her tremblingly.
But the old man did not get too close. He sat three body lengths away from Karasuma Ying, just to make sure that the two could communicate normally in a low voice.
Outside the cell, the kingdom policeman noticed the old man's actions at the first moment, but he did not say anything and just stared at the old man closely.
"Yes, I am a detective commissioned by the royal family of this country." Seeing that the old man could communicate, Karasuma Ying immediately began communicating.
"The royal family? I see..." The old man leaned against the stone brick wall behind him, nodded, and then asked, "Then how did Barry catch you? He never arrests people randomly..."
"Well, I was caught by Commander Barry when I was sneaking into the dungeon..."
Sensitively aware that the old man seemed to have a good relationship with Barry, Wu Wanying did not tell him about her previous beating of the old man.
"No wonder……"
The old man nodded again, but there was still doubt in his cloudy eyes.
"That shouldn't be the case. Why would Barry lock you up here?"
"Is there anything special about this cell?" asked Karasuma Ying.
"If I say it's special, it's only special to this kingdom..."
The old man sighed softly and said meaningfully: "From the time we were locked up here ten years ago until today, people have only been carried out of this cell, and no one has been locked up again. Little girl, you are the first one in these ten years..."
[Another ten years? This time is really special for this country...]
"Is it because it's on the way?" Wu Wanying asked tentatively.
"On the way? No, Barry won't make such a mistake. People like us are not allowed to see the light of day in this country. Barry won't lock up irrelevant people 'on the way', unless... hehehe."
The old man suddenly let out a strange laugh with some unknown meaning. He suddenly turned his head to look at Wu Wanying with sharp eyes, and a glimmer of light appeared in his turbid eyes.
"Little girl, do you want to know the biggest secret of this country?"
"Well, if there's something you really want to say to me..." Feeling a little creepy by the old man's stare, Wu Wanying moved slightly to the side.
"How is life outside now? I'm asking about the citizens." The old man suddenly asked, asking a seemingly irrelevant question.
"It's okay." replied Wu Wanying.
The per capita living standard in Kingdom Andrew was actually pretty good; not rich, but not poor either.
"Hehehe, is it okay?" Suddenly, that weird laugh came out again, and the old man said faintly:
"Little girl, do you know? Our kingdom was actually a very poor country in the past. It was small in size, had no resources, and was exploited endlessly by the nobles... so everything was extremely bad.
More than a decade ago, a large Japanese company suddenly came to our country. I still remember the name of this company. It was called El Pharmaceutical..."
[El Pharmaceuticals?! ]
Karasuma Ying was a little surprised. That El Pharmaceutical that was involved with Blue Gem and Onimare?
Not noticing Karasuma Ying's abnormality, the old man continued to speak to himself:
“They came to our country and said that they had discovered a special mineral with research value in a border village in our country. They wanted to mine and study it, so they negotiated with King Heninggu and signed a contract, and eventually bought the mining rights for that vein.
In this way, El Pharmaceuticals bought the mineral vein, and King Heninggu also obtained funds to invest in the development of our country. At that time, everything was moving in a good direction.
Until ten years ago, when no one expected it, the worst thing happened suddenly..."
Chapter 202 The Past of This Country
"boom."
In the dungeon, the old man loosened his clenched hands and made a gesture to represent an explosion. He looked straight at Karasuma Ying and continued:
"On that night ten years ago, there was a sudden explosion in that border village. The explosion was so powerful that half of the village was flattened in an instant. There were fire and corpses everywhere.
The center of the explosion was the research institute built by El Pharmaceutical in the village. It was an ore explosion!
It turns out that those minerals not only look beautiful, but under special operations they can actually explode, and their power is far greater than that of ordinary bombs.
The people in that company gradually discovered this during the research process. Over the past few years, they have been trying to find a way to activate those minerals, and they finally succeeded.
But what they didn't expect was that the explosion of the ore would be so powerful. All their previous precautions were useless. In just a moment of explosion, the entire research institute disappeared, half of the village was gone, and many people died...
King Heninggu knew about this matter at midnight that day, but little girl, guess how the king handled it?
Hehehe, not only did he not arrest those who were conducting illegal and dangerous research, but he also deliberately suppressed the matter. He did not allow anyone to report it, and under the guise of expulsion, he protected the remaining El Pharmaceutical people from leaving our country.
In exchange, the king received a large sum of money from those people, and he also used the money to develop our country. He is truly a saintly king...
Hey, little girl, do you know why we are locked up here?"
The old man's laughter gradually became more and more crazy, and his frail body kept shaking because of this strange way of laughing, which was very weird.
"Because we are the ones who survived in that border village. The king kept his promise. He was afraid that we would tell others what happened that night, so he immediately arrested all of us survivors and threw us all into this cell. We have been locked up for ten years.
In these ten years, none of us has ever walked out alive. We were the only ones who were carried out after being exhausted. There were more than sixty people in this prison in the beginning. The king couldn’t bear to kill his own people, hehehe… Holy King, our king is a Holy King, hehehe…”
The crazy laughter came to an abrupt end. The old man suddenly stopped, lowered his head and sighed deeply.
"Bali also grew up in the border village, but he was abroad when the explosion happened. He received a call from the villagers and rushed back. However, flights in our country are not always available. By the time Bali came back, everything was over.
Later, I don’t know what happened, but he became the chief of the kingdom’s police.
A few days ago, Barry came to me and said that he had a way. Not only could he expose everything that happened ten years ago, but he could also free all of us..."
Having said that, the old man looked at Wu Wanying again with a meaningful look in his eyes.
"Little girl, now you should know how special our cell is, right? We are special to Barry and this country. He will never put irrelevant people in here.
Bali may be trying to do something dangerous for the country. This is unnecessary, really unnecessary. We have been locked up here for ten years. The country is doing fine now, isn't it?
Little girl, tell him for me, if that’s the case, then don’t do those meaningless things anymore, for people like us, it’s really not worth it…”
After listening to this long story from the old man, Wu Wanying couldn't help feeling a little emotional.
I see. I never thought such a small country could have such a hidden past...
It’s a pity that the old man’s final guess was wrong. She and Barry really had no relationship. Although there were still doubts, Wu Wanying still didn’t quite agree that Barry locked her up in this cell for some special reasons.
But anyway, if it was just to convey a message to the old man, she had no reason to refuse...
It's time to go out and go out.
As for the question that Wu Wanying originally wanted to ask, after listening to the old man's story, there was actually no need to ask.
This cell is isolated in this dungeon, and she is the first person to be imprisoned here after them in the past ten years. How could they know the information about the Asian assassin who was also imprisoned here a week ago?
"Old sir, can you please do me a favor?" Wu Wanying asked, glancing at the kingdom police outside the cell.
"beep--"
In the banquet hall of the annex, a long alarm suddenly sounded, and the entire banquet hall fell silent in an instant.
Then Andrew's rapid voice was heard on the radio, and he seemed to be talking about something very serious, but none of the foreign detectives on the scene could understand him. They only saw the faces of the surrounding officers and nobles gradually becoming solemn.
"Belinda? What happened? What did the radio say?" Mary spotted the maid Belinda among the crowd, and immediately stepped forward, grabbed her and asked.