Chapter 222 Hazard: Impossible, absolutely impossible!
"I... I don't know, I really don't know... Please let me go back, I promise I won't touch anything like this again, please! Let me go!"
Harrisi finally endured the pressure and cried out sadly amid four burning gazes.
"Whether you can go back as soon as possible depends on you," Seno's expression remained unchanged, completely unmoved.
"His name, appearance, where he lives, where he does business... it's impossible for you to not know all of this."
"I don't know! I don't know anything!!"
Harisi held his head and shouted in rebuttal instinctively. He felt that his defense was about to collapse. The easy-going boy in front of him seemed to have become a different person after entering the door. He was not moved by his pleas, and every question he asked was accurate and to the point.
But he was fucking aware of how kind and generous Master Dolly was, how much risk she had taken and how much profit she had given up by selling the textbooks to them at that price.
Although his remaining rationality told him that the wealthy master would not take this little trouble seriously,
But every time he wanted to say Dolly's name, the little pink figure would flash through his mind, and the words "I stand here to sell hope!" would linger in his ears.
Through the praise and emphasis that Seno expressed on those textbooks between the lines, he now feels that this is not just a slogan, but a vision that can be realized.
Master Dolly is our great benefactor!
It was the first time he had realized this so clearly, and he was extremely upset that he had to realize it in the interrogation room of the Ordinance Court.
"…If you could provide some useful information, your crime could be mitigated accordingly, but you chose to conceal it.
Why, is that businessman related to you by blood? Does he have a deeper interest connection with you? "
Seno was still aggressive, and the two discipline officers behind him were staring at him, waiting for him to reveal more information.
“…No, it’s really not!”
But she is our benefactor! As long as she is safe, there is hope for our future! The cubs are not young anymore. The eldest is already thirteen years old. He should be able to take good care of his younger brothers and sisters.
Harisi shook his head repeatedly, his expression distorted by pain.
The balance was broken at this moment. He was extremely eager to see Dolly not be affected by this storm and continue to help the desert people. He hoped that what she did would benefit his people and his descendants.
Seno pursed his lips and remained silent for two seconds, revealing a little dissatisfaction in his expression: "You are unwilling to cooperate?"
Harisi shrank his neck. Facing the people from the Order House, he was still full of fear, but he still said sternly, "Yes, of course I don't want to, but I really don't know!"
After he finished speaking, he felt the gazes cast on him became increasingly hostile. The three disciplinary officers in the room could see that he was hiding the truth, and they were angry at the mercenary's sudden change of words.
He was clearly planning to say it just now!
"Then let's take it slow. We have plenty of time." Seno said, placing his clasped hands on the table with a serious expression, as if he was ready to take a long-term view.
Then Seno attacked from all sides, occasionally hitting a straight ball, which caught Harisi off guard and almost made him lose the defense, but he did not spit out any more information.
During these two long hours, he learned to answer all questions with short and repetitive sentences.
The three disciplinary officers behind the two witnessed the game. Although they were just spectators during these two hours, they were extremely nervous. It was not until Seno rubbed his forehead and the battle was paused that they had time to turn their necks.
Seno stopped to give the mercenaries in front of him and the disciplinary officers who were responsible for recording behind him a chance to catch their breath, and then began the next round of questions.
...
Another half an hour later, Seno nodded to the discipline officer behind him, indicating that the work was over, and then said to Harisi in front of him:
"I'll stop here today. Please rest next door for the night. I hope I can hear the answer I want tomorrow."
Harrisi relaxed after hearing this and felt thirsty. At the same time, he was surrounded by a feeling of despair, wondering how long he would be imprisoned.
Two disciplinary officers took Harisi out. During their work at Seno, the disciplinary officers in charge of field work and the thirty-man team did not catch the next mercenary who secretly kept a paper book.
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A week later, Seno handed in the compiled work report to the Great Sage's office.
Hazard immediately put down his work, picked up a thick stack of documents and read them carefully.
Setale and Seno looked at each other and got the answer they wanted silently. She breathed a sigh of relief, and walked out of the office with joy at Azar's signal, closed the door, and stood outside the door to create conditions for the two to talk without worry.
Azar looked at the report submitted by Seno, and he read faster and faster, frowning more and more. In the end, he slammed the document on the table and asked:
"'It's a collection within the tribe'. Is this the 'result' of your week-long investigation? I gave you a search warrant and asked you to call in all the disciplinary officers in Xumi City to re-examine the case. This is what you found out?"
Facing the wrath of the Great Sage, Senor said indifferently: "Thirteen of the fifteen arrested gave the same testimony, which is consistent with the confessions of the mercenaries outside the city.
I think their answer is reasonable. Paper documents and other books did circulate in the desert, although most of them were in the form of animal leather scrolls.
But as the Order of the Lords recruited a large number of mercenaries to guard Kawan Station, Daliang mercenaries poured into the rain forest to seek work, and their economic conditions improved. Mercenaries could buy paper through various channels to copy books. I think this is probably the source of those manuscripts.
—You should have noticed that among all the contraband seized, the majority were manuscripts and notes, rather than bound paper books. "
Although he knew that what Seno said was true, the report Seno submitted was flawless, and the conversations recorded by several disciplinary officers also confirmed it, Hazard was still unwilling to accept this result.
He then asked, "Where is the mercenary that the storyteller bought from the merchant now?"
"He was held in solitary confinement in the Ordinance Court. Indeed, his testimony was suspicious, so I have been interrogating him during this period, and the process is also recorded in the report." Seno said calmly.
Azar quickly flipped through the files again, coming to Harisi's personnel file and his interrogation records.