Chapter 768: Village Defense Battle (10)

Han Er had already heard Gao Di's howling outside.

That sound wasn't faked.

On top of that, Han Er had seen with his own eyes how Gao Di was dragged out, and his heart was already filled with terror.

When he was dragged into the room by Gu Qing, he was so scared he lost control of his bowels.

The whole room stank.

And they hadn't even started interrogating him yet…

Zhao Chi had no choice but to move the interrogation to a grove in the wild.

Han Er couldn't even string a full sentence together.

After all, Han Er and his lot were bandits, and they knew perfectly well what the end would be like if they fell into enemy hands.

They also knew that if they didn't cooperate, they'd die a terrible death.

Before Zhao Chi even asked him, he took out every last item from his system space.

"General Zhao Chi, hero Zhao Chi, all my stuff is right here, it's all yours, don't torture me, I can't take it."

Zhao Chi frowned.

Although Han Er was cooperating, he was a bandit by origin — he couldn't be trusted.

Besides, there was plenty of blood on his hands, so Zhao Chi felt no psychological pressure dealing with them.

If he didn't put some pressure on him, he might start scheming.

All in all, it was better to turn up the intensity a bit.

"Gu Qing, since he's being so cooperative, let's start with one needle. We'll see how he behaves after that."

Hearing this, Tang Ruan stepped forward and pinned Han Er down hard.

Han Er immediately started wailing loudly.

Gu Qing sighed: "What a useless piece of trash — I haven't even pricked you yet, why are you already screaming?"

Han Er ignored everything, throwing his head back and yelling at the top of his lungs.

Gu Qing, displeased, stabbed down hard.

Pfft!

Once the long needle went in, Han Er stopped wailing.

Just like Gao Di, his eyes bulged almost out of their sockets, mouth wide open.

Only breathing in, no breathing out.

A few seconds later, a pig-slaughtering howl finally burst out.

After waiting a while longer until he calmed down, Zhao Chi began to bluff him.

"Han Er, I see your things here seem a bit few — Gao Di said you had a lot of good stuff."

Han Er wailed: "Don't listen to Gao Di's nonsense, he's trying to get me killed! I really don't have anything left, my system space is completely empty, I really don't have anything!"

Watching him, he seemed very sincere, and his crying looked real too.

This kind of thing really wasn't easy to tell apart.

Gu Qing suddenly said at this point: "My lord, isn't the system space's capacity only one cubic meter? We can find one cubic meter of water and have him store it. If he can store it all, that proves his system space really is empty. If he can't, then there's still stuff in his space."

Zhao Chi's eyes lit up.

"Right! Gu Qing, that's a great move! You're the clever one."

Being praised, Gu Qing's eyes curved into happy slits.

"Hehe, then I'll go prepare right away and test him immediately."

"Good, test Gao Di along with him, and those three beastman heroes too."

Facts proved they really had emptied their system spaces clean.

Looks like they were more cooperative than expected.

That's good then.

Finally, all that was left was the questioning.

Han Er was a town-level lord, so he knew more than Gao Di.

Facing Zhao Chi's questions, he answered one after another without stopping, terrified that if he spoke too slowly, Zhao Chi wouldn't be satisfied.

"From what I know, this rebellion had at least several dozen groups acting together.

"Not just River Valley Town — Binghe County, Nanchuan County, Xijiang County, and all the other counties launched their revolts at the same time.

"And besides us, quite a few allies from the alien races also took part.

"From the looks of it, the rebellion was a great success — the nobles from several nearby counties were all driven out.

"Some died, some were wounded, some ran. We also killed several nobles in the county towns and towns.

"We also looted the big households in the county and the towns.

"But I'm just a small fry, I didn't get any share worth mentioning.

"What I did get was only enough to restore my strength — very little.

"And before the rest had even warmed my hands, it all fell into yours.

"Can you let me go?"

Zhao Chi asked: "Why did the alien races act together with you? Who contacted whom first?"

Han Er shook his head: "I really don't know about that. Those things are decided by the higher-ups — how could I possibly know?"

Zhao Chi snorted: "Are you questioning me?"

Han Er said nervously: "No, absolutely not. Although I don't know the reason, we all guessed that those alien races had long coveted the nobles' wealth. They'd wanted to move against the nobles for a long time, and joining forces with us this time was a pincer attack from inside and out. Everyone benefits."

"What do the alien races get out of it?"

"What benefits could there be? Even though it was a joint operation, the nobles' resources and territories were basically all seized by the alien races. We only managed to seize the goods of commoner families. But how could the goods of commoner families compare with those of the nobles?"

"How many people did the alien races deploy?"

"I really don't know, but it must have been quite a lot. After all, even the nobles were no match for them, so the alien races must have also been operating on a large scale."

Zhao Chi nodded: "Then what about the magical beast quotas from outside? Why haven't any magical beasts invaded yet?"

Han Er said with a tearful face: "I really don't know about that either, I truly don't know. Although I'm a town-level lord, I'm no different from a village-level lord. I'm also at the bottom of the pile — the boss doesn't even look at me."

Zhao Chi believed this.

He asked quite a few more details, supplementing some related knowledge about the resistance army.

Then he tied him up and tossed him aside.

Within the resistance army, there were several factions.

They could roughly be divided into 3 types.

The first type: bandit factions.