Chapter 127: 126 Exposure

「……」

Damn, I just came here to leverage my favor and try to get access to the anomaly’s use—yet you’re already eyeing my people…

He placed his hand against the sheep’s head, checked the female prisoner’s soul state, and found her invitation was genuine; Li Ang couldn’t help but sigh:

“Forget it. I have no interest in rebels. Your methods are far too extreme.”

「……」

After hearing Li Ang’s words, the number of people in the interrogation room left speechless doubled from one to two.

We’re too extreme? We’ve carried out over two hundred attacks in all these years, and the total number of *** we’ve killed doesn’t even match what you wiped out in one night! How dare you call us extreme?

After sitting in silence for a long while, both feeling the other was insane, Li Ang finally broke the silence:

“Since you already know what happened at the Rayne household, I’ll be direct… I’m very interested in that bandage. I want your approval to gain its usage rights.”

“Fine.”

The female prisoner blinked slightly upon hearing this, but didn’t get angry—she nodded and said:

“If you can get me out of here, I’ll immediately relinquish my usage rights to the bandage and hand it over to you.”

“That’s impossible.”

Li Ang shook his head and said:

“Setting aside the crime of attempting to assassinate the Princess, Yi Sha showed me part of your file—you’ve participated in numerous attacks since joining the rebels, causing the deaths of at least dozens of innocent people…”

“So… you’re saying I deserve this?”

Upon hearing Li Ang’s words, the female prisoner’s gaze sharpened instantly; she glared at him coldly:

“Fine. If you’re going to count it that way, take the Kingdom’s noble roster and check every name from top to bottom! Judge each family by the Kingdom’s own laws! If even one noble family has committed fewer crimes than I have, I’ll smash my head right here on the spot!”

“You misunderstand. I’m not accusing you. That’s not within my jurisdiction.”

Li Ang shook his head:

“What I mean is, your accumulated crimes already warrant execution. I don’t need to free you—just wait a while longer, and once you’re hanged for these crimes, I’ll still gain ownership of the bandage.”

「……」

After listening to Li Ang’s serious, earnest explanation, the female prisoner’s face turned livid with rage.

She had expected Li Ang to say something like the female officer—something about how once you start harming innocents, the victims become new perpetrators. She’d already prepared rebuttals for such arguments over the past days.

But this guy was terrifyingly pragmatic—he didn’t argue or defend himself, just brushed her off with a casual reply, like throwing a flirtatious glance at a blind man.

“Then why the hell did you come here?”

Looking at the slightly slender, handsome man before her, the female prisoner snapped:

“I’m going to be executed anyway—why don’t you just wait for me to die?”

“Because that would take too long.”

Li Ang answered calmly:

“You’re one of the suspects in the Princess assassination case. You won’t be executed until the case is fully closed. And the people who can decide to close it are all tied up with the Rayne Blood Night—they might not even remember you for a long time. I don’t want to wait that long.”

“So whether I agree or not just comes down to whether I help you save some time?”

“Yes.”

「……」

Looking at Li Ang—who was even younger than the female officer but radiated an “unbendable, unyielding” aura—the female prisoner felt a deep sense of helplessness.

After staring at him for a moment, she let out a heavy scoff:

“Fine, I admit you killed Bobby Rayne and destroyed the Rayne household—that did get me revenge. But I’m not some grateful, sentimental fool!

Besides, if you hadn’t interfered,

I could’ve killed that female officer right on the carriage, then broken into the Rayne household and strangled Bobby Rayne myself!”

As she spoke, the more she thought about it, the angrier she grew; she glared at Li Ang with fury:

“If you count it that way, you’re actually my enemy. Why the hell should I help you? Want my bandage? Then just wait until I’m dead!”

「……」

Of course it wouldn’t be this easy… time to escalate.

Li Ang shook his head, then asked:

“Your daughter… is still alive, isn’t she?”

Seeing the female prisoner’s expression instantly harden, Li Ang said softly:

“Your file says your daughter died of starvation and illness. But when you talk about revenge, you never mention avenging her—you only speak of avenging ‘my husband’ or ‘what happened to my family.’

So I suspect either your love for your daughter is so negligible you can’t even bring her up, or… she never died at all. That’s why you unconsciously ignore her when speaking of revenge. Am I right?”

「……」

You damn bastard!

Knowing she couldn’t deceive Li Ang’s interrogation, the female prisoner gave up all pretense. She glared at him, gritted her teeth, then bluntly nodded:

“You’re right. My daughter is still alive. But the day I joined the rebels, I arranged for her to be sent away. Even

So you’ll never find her—and don’t even think about using her to threaten me! If you join us, I’ll give you the bandage outright. Otherwise, wait until I’m dead.”

“Fine. Let’s assume I can’t find her.”

After locking eyes with the woman’s determined gaze, Li Ang nodded silently, then continued softly:

“What about your spy inside the Secret Investigation Bureau? Do you think I can’t find him?”

“？！！！”

“Don’t deny it. The moment I walked in, you already betrayed him.”

Li Ang took out the [Bloodstained Plague Bandage] from his pocket and placed it on the table, his expression calm:

“When I first told you about Bobby Rayne’s death, your exact words were: ‘The Rayne household fell into chaos; nearly all its core members were wiped out…’ right?”

After repeating her words, he lightly tapped the blood-smeared bandage on the table and said pointedly:

“I admit I was forced to kill some Rayne family members. But even I only learned afterward that most of those I killed were core members of the household.

So how, exactly, did you know—while locked in a cell, with only this bandage as your ‘eyes’—that the dead weren’t ordinary clan members, but the core ones?”

“You?!”

“Your slips are too numerous. I didn’t even need to check your soul state to narrow it down.”

As he subtly pressed his pinky against the sheep’s horn, Li Ang watched the female prisoner’s soul churn violently, his face serene:

“As a key suspect in the Princess assassination case, everyone who meets you must be registered, and no interrogation can occur without a witness present.

Getting a spy into the Secret Investigation Bureau isn’t easy. To avoid drawing suspicion and exposure, he wouldn’t risk contacting you unless he was already part of the investigation team.”

「……」

“Oh, and since you learned about the Rayne household’s fate from me, your spy must have contacted you after the Rayne Blood Night—so the pool shrinks further.

I just glanced at the interrogation log as I entered. You’ve been interrogated about thirty times recently, by four teams totaling eight names. Exclude Yi Sha—who clearly isn’t the spy—and the remaining names are…”

“No! Don’t!”

As the spy’s name was about to leave Li Ang’s lips, the female prisoner’s mental defenses shattered; she screamed:

“Stop! You want the bandage? Take it! Take it all!!!”