Chapter 579: Not a Coward, but

Not a Coward, but...

Although their cellmate had fainted before their eyes, the other two didn't seem panicked.

This still-conscious man and woman seemed to have long been accustomed to this scene; they simply withdrew their gazes silently and closed their eyes again.

Failed to act cool...

Fortunately, no one noticed.

Cheng Shi coughed twice and walked nonchalantly to the Grand Justice in the middle, carefully examining the man with graying hair and a face full of wrinkles.

He had once been one of the six supreme members of the Grand Tribunal. What kind of mistake could he have made to be locked in such a place?

Cheng Shi's previous probing had always been subtle, but today was different. This was a dungeon, and there was no one to avoid, so he got straight to the point.

"I know you, but you don't know me, Lord Laquis. A stranger who doesn't belong to the Grand Tribunal has walked before you. Aren't you curious?"

"..."

The elderly Laquis didn't even open his eyes. After moving his lips for a long time, he looked as if he had given up on speaking and remained silent.

"You don't want to know what happened in the Howling Iron Prison today?"

"..."

"Oh, I see. So you weren't wronged; you pleaded guilty, so you don't want to step out of here at all, wanting to use this to atone for your sins to 【Order】, right?"

"..."

Laquis opened his eyes. He lifted his eyelids weakly, cast a glance at Cheng Shi with turbid eyes, looked down, and remained silent. It seemed his spirit had been completely worn away.

Seeing this, Cheng Shi frowned.

What had he encountered? What kind of crime could turn a powerful Grand Justice into this, completely losing interest in the changes around him, and even losing the desire to survive?

Cheng Shi couldn't figure it out. The only thing he noticed was that the other party still had a slight reaction to the word '【Order】'. Perhaps he... was still pious?

No, he had to change his method of questioning; normal communication wouldn't yield anything.

So Cheng Shi rolled his eyes, raised his eyebrows slightly, and spoke again in a disdainful and mocking tone:

"It seems our Grand Justice has given up on upholding justice.

How pathetic. Even the followers closest to 【Order】 are no longer pious. It seems this 【Order】...

is afraid it has reached its end."

As soon as he finished speaking, Laquis slowly raised his head, and a response finally echoed in the stone dungeon.

But the response didn't come from him, but from the former Grand Investigator Lideyala, who was hanging to his left. Her voice was extremely weak, but the words she spat out were sonorous and forceful.

"There has long been no 【Order】 in this world."

"?"

Cheng Shi's gaze sharpened, and he turned to look at her.

Lideyala had the same haggard appearance and exhaustion as Laquis, but she was far younger than him.

With her neat short hair, rugged features, and clenched teeth, even though she didn't know how long she had been imprisoned here, this Grand Investigator still possessed a pair of eyes as sharp as a falcon's beneath her listless appearance.

She looked at Cheng Shi with burning eyes and said the most determined blasphemous words in the weakest tone: "We... have long since lost the target we followed..."

Hearing this, Cheng Shi's eyes widened, his pupils shrinking.

They knew 【Order】 had a problem!?

Could it be that they were locked in here because they discovered 【Order】 had a problem?

So, who locked them in here?

Was it the 【Iron Law of Order】 that faked the decree, or did the Supreme Judge set the charges?

If it was the former, it meant there was still the radiance of 【Order】 in the Grand Tribunal, but if it was the latter...

Hiss—

This group of power-holders knew 【Order】 had a problem but still chose to follow?

Then what were they following? 'Order,' power, or perhaps... desire?

Did 【Filth】 strike up from the underworld?

Cheng Shi was shocked, but on the surface, he remained calm, nodding in agreement:

"It seems I guessed correctly. You really do know He has a problem."

Hearing Cheng Shi's words, the two hanging prisoners were slightly shaken. Laquis finally raised his head, a flash of despair in his turbid eyes, and stammered:

"He... has already begun to openly promote a new will?

He... no longer considers the thousands upon thousands of followers in the Grand Tribunal?

Why did He choose to go down this path of depravity and never return!?

Why let this world, which already lacks justice, completely lose justice!

Why! Why!"

The old man's tone grew higher and higher, his shouting desperate. His eyes were bloodshot, and he was nearly going mad. The saliva flying from his mouth sprayed Cheng Shi all over his face.

But as all the indignation and unwillingness in his heart were vented, Laquis's state quickly withered. By the time he hoarsely roared the last three words, his state was like the final flicker of a lamp after a flash of brilliance. His two turbid eyes dimmed, and he fainted.

Watching the second insider faint before his eyes, Cheng Shi wiped his face with his sleeve, speechless.

This old guy shouldn't have any infectious diseases, right...

"..."

That wasn't the point. The point was that he heard an extremely important piece of information from the other party's limited words: this Grand Justice didn't seem to know that 【Order】 had been replaced by the 【Iron Law of Order】. In the other party's cognition, he felt that 【Order】 Himself had fallen!

No wonder!

No wonder this Grand Justice had lost the desire to survive and all his spirit. This pious follower of 【Order】 was afraid that on the path he was walking, he had suddenly seen, at the place infinitely close to the end, that the holy, radiant throne had collapsed at some unknown time!

It was like walking and suddenly discovering a cliff at one's feet, realizing with a shock that one's path of faith had already reached its end!

In Laquis's view, 【Order】 was no longer orderly, so what was he, a follower walking on the path of 【Order】?

This weary old man had never felt despair because the world lacked justice, but this time, he was deeply desperate.

A flash of brilliance appeared in Cheng Shi's eyes. He began to wonder what kind of change had allowed the other party to discover the flaws in the 【Iron Law of Order】, and he kept thinking about how he could extract more information from this information gap.

But to extract information, there had to be someone to tell it.

There was only one conscious prisoner left on the scene. Cheng Shi didn't dare let her have any accidents, so he quickly looked at Lideyala, trying his best to keep his tone from stimulating the other party while still piquing her interest.

"Lord Lideyala, if you still want to make one last effort for the remaining spark of 【Order】, then don't be like that coward Laquis and faint."

Lideyala was startled and shook her head slowly:

"Laquis was never a coward. It was he who discovered His abnormality and pointed it out in public."

"?"

Hearing this, Cheng Shi was genuinely amused.

Good fellow, so this old man wasn't a coward, but a reckless fool!

A pious reckless fool!

That you could be locked in here is well-deserved for your recklessness... ===== CHAPTER 580 =====