Chapter 529

"..."

Good grief, I just wanted to "leverage a favor to make a demand" and try to get the usage rights for an anomalous object, and you're actually eyeing me as a recruit...

Reaching out to press against the sheep head, he checked the female prisoner's soul state and found that her invitation was actually sincere. Li Ang couldn't help but say speechlessly:

"Forget it, I'm really not interested in rebels. Your style of doing things is just too radical."

"..."

After hearing Li Ang's words, the number of people in the interrogation room who felt speechless suddenly went from one to two.

We are too radical? We've carried out over two hundred attacks over so many years, and the high-ranking officials we've killed don't add up to as many as you killed in one night! And you have the nerve to call us radical?

After the two of them, both feeling the other was absurd, sat opposite each other in silence for a good while, Li Ang finally spoke first:

"Since you already know what happened to the Laien family, I'll be direct... I'm very interested in that bandage. I want to obtain recognition from you and thereby gain the usage rights for that bandage!"

"Fine."

The female prisoner was slightly stunned when she heard this, but she wasn't angry. Instead, she nodded and said:

"As long as you can get me out of here, I will immediately give up the usage rights to the bandage and hand it over to you."

"That is impossible."

Li Ang shook his head when he heard this:

"Not to mention the charge of assassinating the Princess, Miss Yisha showed me some of your files. In the years you've been with the rebels, you've participated in quite a few attacks, causing the deaths of at least dozens of innocent people..."

"So... are you trying to say that I deserve what I got?"

Hearing Li Ang's words, the female prisoner's gaze suddenly sharpened. She stared at him and said coldly:

"Fine. Since you're prepared to calculate it that way, why don't you take the Kingdom's noble registry and check them one by one from top to bottom! Judge them one by one according to the laws promulgated by the Kingdom! If there is even one great noble family whose crimes are lighter than mine, I can smash my head against this wall and die right here!"

"You misunderstood. I didn't mean to accuse you, and that's not within my scope of work."

Li Ang shook his head and said:

"What I want to say is that your cumulative charges are already enough for the death penalty. So, I don't need to rescue you. As long as I wait for a period of time, after you are hanged for these crimes, I will be able to obtain ownership of the bandage all the same."

"..."

After listening to Li Ang's earnest explanation, the female prisoner's face turned blue with anger.

She had originally thought that Li Ang would be like the female police officer, saying things about how once one starts harming innocent people, the victim becomes the new perpetrator. She had already prepared her rebuttal in these past few days.

She never expected this guy in front of her to be shockingly pragmatic. He didn't argue or defend against her questioning, but just casually threw it back at her, giving her the feeling of casting pearls before swine.

"Then why did you come to find me?"

Looking at the handsome man in front of her who was slightly thin, the female prisoner said indignantly:

"Anyway, I'm facing the death penalty sooner or later, so why don't you just wait for me to die?"

"Because that would still require waiting for a period of time."

Li Ang replied with a calm expression:

"You are one of the perpetrators in the Princess assassination case. You certainly won't die before the case is completely closed. And now, the people who can decide to close the case have had their energy tied up by the Laien Blood Night. I don't know when they'll remember you, and I don't want to wait that long."

"So whether I agree or not, the difference is just whether it can save you some time, right?"

"Yes."

"..."

Looking at Li Ang, who was clearly a few years younger than the female police officer but had a sense of being "impervious to reason," a deep sense of powerlessness welled up in the female prisoner's heart.

After staring at him for a while, she let out a heavy snort and said:

"I admit, you killed Bobby Laien and destroyed the Laien family; it does count as avenging me. But I'm not someone who knows how to repay kindness!

Besides, if it weren't for your interference, I could have killed that female police officer in the carriage back then, and then broken into the Laien family to strangle that dog Bobby Laien with my own hands!" When she reached this point, the female prisoner was probably getting angrier the more she thought about it. She glared at Li Ang with anger filling her face and said:

"If you calculate it that way, you are even my enemy. So why should I help you? If you want my bandage, then honestly wait for me to die!"

"..."

As expected, it's not that simple... Then I'll have to use some methods!

Li Ang shook his head when he heard this, then asked:

"Your daughter... is still alive, right?"

Watching the female prisoner, whose expression suddenly became stern, Li Ang said softly:

"Although your daughter's file says she is deceased, with the cause of death being hunger and illness, when you talked about revenge, you almost never mentioned avenging her. You only talked about 'my husband,' 'the encounter of our family,' and so on.

So I think, either in your heart, your love for your daughter is far less than for your husband, to the point where she doesn't even deserve a passing mention, or your daughter didn't die at all, which is why you subconsciously ignored her when talking about revenge. Am I right?"

"..."

This damn dog!

Knowing that it was impossible to hide from Li Ang's "interrogation," the female prisoner simply gave up on pointless struggles. After gritting her teeth and glaring at Li Ang twice, she nodded and admitted it quite frankly:

"You guessed right. My daughter is indeed still alive, but on the day I joined the rebels, I found a way to send her away, and I didn't even leave an address.

So you have no way of finding my daughter, let alone thinking about using her to threaten me! If you join us, I can give you the bandage directly; otherwise, just wait for me to die."

"Fine, then let's assume I can't find her."

After exchanging a look with the female prisoner, whose eyes were full of determination, Li Ang nodded silently, then continued softly:

"Then what about your spy in the Secret Investigation Bureau? Do you think I can find him?"

"?!!!"

"Don't deny it. When I first walked in, you had already sold him out."

Taking the 【Blood-Stained Plague Bandage】 out of his pocket and placing it on the table, Li Ang said calmly:

"When I first tried to inform you of Bobby Laien's death, your exact words were 'The Laien family is in turmoil; the core members of the clan are almost all dead...' right?"

After repeating her words, Li Ang tapped the blood-stained bandage on the table and said pointedly:

"I admit, I was forced to kill some members of the Laien family, but even I only knew after the fact that the vast majority of those I killed were core members of the Laien family.

So, can you please tell me, since you have been locked in a cell the whole time and only have a bandage as your 'eyes,' why did you know that it wasn't ordinary clan members who died, but the core members of the clan?"

"You?!"

"You have too many flaws. I could guess a rough range even without looking at the state of your soul."

Secretly using his little finger to press against the sheep horn, Li Ang watched the female prisoner's soul churning wildly and said with a peaceful expression:

"As an important prisoner in the Princess assassination case, everyone who has seen you needs to be registered, and there must be someone accompanying you; you cannot be interrogated alone.

And it certainly isn't easy to get a spy into the Secret Investigation Bureau. To avoid him doing strange things that would lead to an investigation and exposure, that spy shouldn't rashly contact you, unless he himself is a member of the investigation team."

"..."

"Oh, and also, because he told you about the situation with the Laien family, the time that spy contacted you must have been after the Laien Blood Night, so the range can be narrowed down further.

I happened to glance at the interrogation registration form when I came in just now and found that you have been interrogated about thirty times in the past few days, by four groups of people, totaling eight names. Excluding Miss Yisha, who couldn't possibly be a spy, the remaining people are..."

"Don't! Don't say it!"

Seeing that the person's name was already on the tip of Li Ang's tongue, the female prisoner, whose psychological defense had completely collapsed, roared:

"Shut up! Don't you want my bandage? Take it! Take it all!!!"

(End of chapter)