Chapter 1163: The Reason (Part 1)

"I am very sorry!"

Looking at the hijacker siblings, whose hands were tied to the chairs with belts and whose faces were exceptionally ugly, the airship guard captain, who had rushed over from the auxiliary cabin, couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his head, then bowed to the ground without hesitation.

"It's our inspection that failed, causing you to be frightened!"

"It's okay, this matter is not your fault."

Li Ang smiled upon hearing this, then opened his mouth while playing with the fake gun in his hand:

"They didn't have real guns, and the material wasn't even iron, but wood painted with paint. I guess they took the parts apart and mixed them into the sundries in the suitcase to bring them on board.

Because there were no metal parts, your strong magnet scale used to check luggage couldn't make the luggage heavier, allowing them to mix these two fake guns in.

For this kind of inspection method, unless you can flip through every passenger's luggage, it is definitely unavoidable. You can be considered to have done your best."

"This... I am very sorry, thank you for your understanding..."

Seeing that Li Ang didn't seem to intend to pursue the matter, the airship guard captain breathed a long sigh of relief. After looking at the hijacker siblings with murderous intent, he hinted to the guards behind him to catch them, and bowed to Li Ang and the female reporter again:

"Your Highness the Prince, for what happened today, we are very, very sorry. I will take these two people down first, and I guarantee I will give you an explanation!"

"Not so fast."

Raising his hand to press down, stopping the guards who wanted to catch them, Li Ang smiled and said:

"I have some things I want to ask them. I don't know if there is a quiet, separate room on the airship. If there is, please arrange one for me."

"There is one..."

Hearing Li Ang's request, the guard captain hesitated, then reminded:

"But these two are, after all, hijackers who wanted to hijack the airship.

"That won't happen."

Li Ang shook his head, his expression brooking no refusal as he said:

"If I can catch them once, I can catch them a second time. You just go ahead and arrange the room."

"This... since you insist, my lord, then very well."

Seeing that the Prince insisted repeatedly, the Chief of the Guard, who was still drawing a salary from the Kingdom's Ministry of Transport, naturally dared not continue to object.

But fearing that Li Ang might be careless for a moment and truly capsize in the hands of the airship-hijacking bandits, the Chief of the Guard had men fetch several coils of thick rope used for binding air bags from the warehouse. After binding the robber siblings directly into the shape of rice dumplings, he led Li Ang and the female reporter to a small room, introducing it with an earnest expression:

"My lord, this room was originally a cabin for balancing weight to prevent the airship from rolling. Although it's a bit out of the way, it's definitely quiet enough. I'll have my men stand guard further away, ensuring no one will disturb you."

"Much obliged."

After nodding and thanking the Chief of the Guard, Li Ang closed the door from the inside and smiled at the robber siblings, who had been tossed onto the cabin floor and bound like two maggot babies:

"Shall we chat?"

"Pah!"

Seemingly provoked by the smile on Li Ang's face, the robber brother, having successfully transformed into a maggot, arched his back twice on the floor to shield his sister, then glared at Li Ang:

"You liar! We have nothing to talk about with you!"

"Calling me a liar is a bit excessive, isn't it?"

Li Ang blinked upon hearing this, then asked back with a smile:

"From the moment you appeared, I haven't said a single false word. How did I become a liar?"

"..."

"Besides, I don't even know you. I was just going out for a normal trip, and you pointed a gun at my forehead, threatening me to do this and that. In such a situation, even if I really did lie to you, it doesn't seem like there's any problem, right?" It seemed that was indeed the case...

Hearing Li Ang's retort, the robber brother couldn't help but feel a bit deflated, stammered twice, and then shut his mouth.

The robber sister, shielded behind him, observed Li Ang's expression for a while, then stared fixedly into his eyes and took the initiative to speak:

"This... sir, if you let him go, I can take you to find the Wang Gong of the Kroke Kingdom!"

Hmm?

Hearing the robber sister's words, Li Ang's eyebrows couldn't help but lift slightly, and he looked at her with some surprise.

This kid... seems a bit impressive, huh?

Having failed to hijack the airship and being bound like a maggot, an average person's brain should have already started to overload, but not only did she calm down, she even had the energy to ponder her own ideas, and was actually still thinking of ways to negotiate.

Although children in this world are generally more precocious, for a half-grown child who is probably only twelve or thirteen and hasn't been exposed to much, this calmness and rationality are not commonly found...

At the very least, she's already better than Nicole.

"She's asking you, why do you keep looking at me?"

Feeling awkward under Li Ang's gaze and instinctively sensing that he must be thinking of something impolite, the female reporter couldn't help but glare back, then turned her head and asked curiously:

"How did you know we wanted to find the Kroke Wang Gong?"

"..."

See, what did I tell you.

Watching the robber sister, who had relaxed slightly and showed a hint of joy in her eyes upon hearing the female reporter's question, Li Ang couldn't help but shake his head and look at the reporter with some helplessness.

Your brain... really has been left eight streets behind by this half-grown kid.

Before you asked that question, she didn't know what you wanted; she was just taking a blind guess to probe. If I had just coaxed her a little, I probably could have tricked the answer out of her.

But after you asked that question, she knew what we wanted. She will definitely hold onto this only trump card tightly. If we don't give her a solid promise now, like letting her brother go, she definitely won't open her mouth.

"I guessed."

After glancing at the stupid... the pure female reporter, the robber sister, while feeling fortunate that there was still someone not very smart here, began to flatter them:

"The temperament of you two, one look and you can tell you aren't ordinary people, and you don't seem like the cruel type either; it's unlikely you'd waste time on two failed bandits.

So I guessed that you two might want to know something, and among the things I know, the only thing that might be helpful to 'nobles' like you is the location of the Kroke Wang Gong."

"No wonder..."

After hearing the robber sister's explanation, the female reporter nodded in realization, then looked back toward Li Ang, her bright eyes flashing with a surprised luster, communicating through her gaze:

Li Ang, look at this kid, she's so smart!

Let me ask, is it possible that she isn't smart, but rather you are a bit... pure?

Watching the female reporter being led around by the nose by a half-grown kid, Li Ang, who had a bit of a headache, couldn't help but pinch his brow, feeling that this field mission of his probably wouldn't be too easy.

If nothing else, with Nicole's brain, being able to mix safely in the Cleanup Bureau until now, she probably relied on her dad's support quite a bit.

He could already imagine her executing missions in the front, with Director Aquarius following behind helplessly, rushing to clean up her messes. And now, this job of cleaning up messes had clearly fallen onto his shoulders.

Hmm... wait, if I'm currently doing the job her dad should be doing, doesn't that mean I'm her step...

(End of chapter)