Chapter 221 Deep Pool
"You are trying to scare me. I won't sign." The mercenary made up his mind and threw the pen on the ground.
The feather pen dipped in ink fell to the ground with a "click", and drops of ink splashed out.
The sudden change made the several discipline officers on duty look at each other in bewilderment.
They usually dealt with scholars who violated the rules, or desert people who trembled in fear like stray dogs when they saw them, and they lacked experience in dealing with such brutal mercenaries.
A second later, a disciplinary officer finally reacted. He immediately slammed the table and shouted, "Don't sign?! Do you know what the sentence is for obstructing public service?! Three years in prison is not enough!"
The mercenary's attitude was tough at first, but he immediately backed down when he heard "three years". This nearly two-meter-tall adult male actually showed some shyness.
He stood there at a loss, glancing at the quill he had thrown on the ground from time to time, wondering whether to pick it up.
At the same time, he cursed himself in his heart, "Why did you mess with them for no reason? I've never seen you so fierce before, but you have to vent your anger now? If you are imprisoned for a few years by these people for revenge, who can you go to for justice?"
"What happened?"
At this time, the door of the interrogation room was pushed open, and Seno walked out, his eyes sweeping over everyone present and the quill on the ground.
He frowned and asked, "Explain the situation."
"Sir, the suspect is unwilling to sign!"
Seeing Sino, several disciplinary officers seemed to have found their backbone and immediately briefly recounted everything that had just happened.
It’s bad, the leader knows it.
Judging from their appearance, the man is a high-ranking official.
The mercenary became even more panicked. He wanted to refute but didn't know how to open his mouth. He wanted to cover the mouths of the disciplinary officers to stop them from talking, but he didn't dare to rush forward. He could only stand there with a red face like a wooden stick.
After listening to this, Seno showed no anger or ridicule, which made the mercenary feel a little relieved.
Seno turned to the tall mercenary and called out, "Harisi?"
"Here!" Hearing his own name, the mercenary named Harrisi straightened up unconsciously.
Seno nodded and continued:
"Sign it, for your own sake. This is a necessary process, which means that you personally acknowledge the contents of the document and are willing to cooperate with our investigation. So if you have a good attitude, we will convict you at our discretion.
But if you are unwilling to cooperate, or even resist violently, it means that you are unrepentant and have a bad attitude and are unwilling to obey discipline.
If we have already obtained certain physical evidence, we have the right to skip this process and detain you directly. We are not doing so now to give you a chance to repent. "
Harisi couldn't help but feel relaxed when he heard the gentle words coming out of the mouth of a boy with a similar skin color to him.
The young man in front of him even deliberately added a desert accent to his words, which made him feel more at home.
Being isolated and helpless, he unconsciously wanted to trust the "fellow villager" in front of him.
But is signing really the best option? Wouldn't signing and putting fingerprints on the document mean admitting guilt? Harisi was still skeptical.
"These are clearly stipulated in the decree issued by the Fatwa Council. There is no need for me to lie to you. If I wanted to harm you, I could arrest you right now for obstructing public service."
Seno continued speaking in a calm tone.
"You may not understand the relevant regulations. If you don't believe me, I can give you a brief introduction first."
"No, that's not necessary... Since you said so, it must be true."
Harisi smiled awkwardly, and at the same time he was somewhat flattered. He couldn't believe that the boy who was feared by the discipline officers could persuade him so calmly.
Such a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Education actually spoke with contempt and insults, treating him like a wild dog. Such a huge gap made him feel panic and shame in an instant.
So he immediately bent down, picked up the pen on the ground swiftly, wrote his name in the "Name" column without hesitation, dipped his thick fingers in the ink pad, and pressed hard next to his name.
Several disciplinary officers nearby watched this scene quietly, thinking that Lord Seno was really capable and knew how to deal with these desert people.
After Harisi signed, Seno told the disciplinary officer on duty to put the document away, and then took Harisi and two disciplinary officers on standby outside into the interrogation room.
"sit down."
After sitting down, Seno said to Harrisi, whose eyes kept looking around.
Harisi sat down opposite Seno somewhat awkwardly, not daring to look him in the eye.
Behind the two men, three discipline officers picked up the feather pens in the bottle, dipped them in ink, and held down the open notebook with one hand, preparing to record the entire process.
Everything was ready, and Seno asked a similar question again.
"How did you get those books? Your tribe and your work income should not be enough to support you to buy such expensive books."
"I bought it... with the money I saved up bit by bit. That money was enough for my family's food rations for four months. It was all saved up by me bit by bit! Sir, I really didn't do anything illegal!
I haven't stolen or robbed anyone. I don't even dare to think about these things. I come to the rain forest every year for 17 years without leaving a criminal record. I don't dare and I won't. Look at me, I'm as stupid as a mushroom pig. If I really want to do that, I will definitely deliver myself to you without making any money. Haha...
Please let me go! I have three children at home waiting for me to go home..."
Harisi looked tangled, smiled bitterly, and then held his head and lamented.
He didn't want to answer some of the questions asked by Seno, so he just told in detail what he wanted to say, and talked a lot about his own situation, trying to use the emotional card to impress the law enforcer in front of him and let him go easy on him.
As he spoke, he thought of his own failed life, how he had tried his best just to stay alive, and the absent role of father in his children's lives. His emotions instantly got out of control, and he sobbed silently under the eyes of the four people.
“…Did you buy it?”
Seno pretended to be in deep thought. The three discipline officers behind him were still conscientiously recording everything the two said, but his heart was already surging with emotions.
They thought that things were just as the mercenaries captured outside the city and the first few mercenaries who entered here had explained, but now someone suddenly gave a completely different answer.
Could it be that, as the great sage has guessed, there is another hidden story behind this matter?
But after listening to the narration of the burly mercenary in front of them, they felt some sympathy.
After all, rainforest people like them usually don't care about the situation of mercenaries. Although they know that the desert people on the other side of the sand barrier are in a difficult situation, they don't want to do anything to change the status quo.
But I was still moved when I saw and heard the desert people describing their experiences, even crying.
"You still haven't answered a few of my questions. In Xumi, there are some things that cannot be bought with money, such as knowledge, especially knowledge that has not been recorded in the void.
And what you have in your hand is something like this. I don’t know if you realize that what you are touching is actually something that most people don’t have the opportunity to touch. The Great Sage attaches great importance to it and wants to know the origins of those things. "
Seno paused and continued,
“…You just said, you bought it? Who sold those things to you? As long as you tell me where those things came from, the Great Sage will pardon you.”
After knowing what kind of precious items he had held in his hands and pressed under the quilt, Harrisi felt a lot of admiration and guilt towards Dolly, and Seno's relentless pressure made him feel that he had been pushed to the edge of a cliff with an abyss under his feet.