Chapter 206: Interrogation

Borrowing the force of Louis Lund's collapse, Lu Mian gave a light tug and landed in the coachman's seat.

At this moment, Franca had already replaced Louis Lund, pulling the horse's reins and stopping the carriage on the side of the road where there were no lights.

The two had just cooperated with great tacit understanding. Without any prior communication, one attacked the front and the other ambushed the back, subduing Louis Lund, a Beyonder equivalent to Sequence 8, in just a few seconds.

"Carry him into the carriage." Franca seemed to have quite rich experience in such matters and had her own ideas about how to handle the aftermath.

Lu Mian did not object, hoisted Louis Lund up, and got him into the carriage of the four-wheeled rental carriage.

Franca followed behind him, casually closed the carriage door, and then began to take off her hood and black robe, in the posture of someone returning home and preparing to change into a nightgown.

Halfway through undressing, she noticed Lu Mian's slightly puzzled gaze and only then realized, ordering awkwardly:

"Turn around."

Lu Mian could roughly guess what Franca wanted to do, so he turned around quickly, looking out the window, letting her do as she pleased.

Rustling sounds arose behind him, lasting for over a minute.

"You can turn back." Franca's clear, water-like voice entered his ears.

The rental carriage's cabin wasn't very high. Lu Mian, already over 1.8 meters tall, bent his back, lowered his head slightly, and turned back.

He saw Franca had already put on the red vest, tied the white tie, and was dressed in the blue formal wear with a row of yellow buttons, holding the waxed hat and the horsewhip in her hands.

This, paired with her straight, delicate nose, slightly flamboyant brown eyebrows, slightly thin red lips, and bright, spirited lake-blue eyes, produced an absurd sense of disharmony and a strange beauty.

"That was fast." Lu Mian looked at the "newly promoted" Imperial Carriage Company coachman, Miss Franca, and praised her.

"This is called professional! If it weren't for this row of buttons wasting so much of my time, I could have been even faster." Franca grumbled while stuffing her flaxen-colored long hair into the waxed hat.

Once the disguise was complete, she took out the eyebrow pencil and other items she carried with her, quickly and simply applying makeup to make her facial skin tone appear deeper and darker, and her eyebrows look messy, so that at a glance, she looked like an ordinary man, not eye-catching under the black night illuminated by the streetlights and the red moon.

"I'll be the coachman, you do the questioning." Franca opened the carriage door, jumped down, and moved to the seat Louis Lund had just occupied.

Immediately after, she pulled the reins, letting the horse move smoothly from a standstill.

Feeling the rental carriage moving steadily, Lu Mian helped Louis Lund to the opposite seat, then took out the "Truth Serum" obtained from the pervert Hedesi and poured one-third of the bottle into him.

Once the drug began to take effect, Lu Mian controlled the urge to wake the target directly with the ritual silver dagger, and through methods like pinching the bridge of the nose and the lips, pulling Louis Lund's hair, and tickling his nostrils with hair, he made the unconscious person wake up bit by bit.

During this process, he did not dislocate the other party's joints, nor did he tie his hands and feet, presenting a posture of friendly conversation.

*Achoo! *

Louis Lund sneezed and woke up.

He looked at the opposite side somewhat blankly and saw Lu Mian, who was smiling and leaning back leisurely.

"You!" Louis Lund was shocked, remembering what had just happened.

"No need to be nervous." Lu Mian smiled and pressed his right palm down. "If I wanted to harm you, you would already be food for stray dogs by now."

Louis Lund's first reaction was to try to force an escape using his own abilities, but thinking that the attack he had suffered earlier came from behind, he cautiously looked out the carriage window.

The light in the distance and the shadows nearby connected together, making the sound of the wheels and hooves pressing against the road surface exceptionally quiet.

"What do you want to do?" Louis Lund didn't risk a counterattack and asked in a deep voice.

In his view, Lu Mian not taking any control measures against him was a sign that he was confident enough that he couldn't escape.

The other party might be careless, or might have omissions, giving him an opportunity, but this would never be reflected in a head-on battle.

And that helper of his could sneak up behind someone without them noticing and launch an attack; the strength was self-evident!

Lu Mian smiled:

"I just want to see an old friend."

Louis Lund, who had been stripped down to only a linen shirt and a pair of shorts, said with a gloomy face:

"I won't be threatened by you again. The Lady already knows about the mistake I once made and has forgiven me."

So I really did get hold of your leverage? Lu Mian was momentarily dazed.

He remembered in the dream, he had discovered Louis Lund having an affair with a woman in the village and secretly selling some artifacts from the administrator's castle, using this to threaten him and obtain the news that Lady Pualis and the parish priest were having an affair.

Thinking about it later, these might not be true.

If the parish priest really had slept with Lady Pualis, there was no reason he wouldn't believe in that evil god representing the harvest, and no reason they wouldn't have had a few children to play with.

Lu Mian suspected this was his own dream's peach-colored adaptation of the secret confrontation between the two camps. After all, whether it was the parish priest or Lady Pualis, both had numerous lovers, making it easy for the subconscious to make associations in that direction.

And things like Louis Lund having an affair with a woman and selling artifacts were clean and pure compared to other secrets in Lady Pualis's castle, almost like daily meals; he couldn't possibly be threatened by this.

But now, Louis Lund actually said he really had made a mistake and really had been threatened by him!

"Is that so?" Lu Mian returned to the state of the prank king of Cordu Village. "I was clearly helping you hide the mistake you made; how can that be called threatening you?"

Louis Lund was so angry he let out a laugh:

"You are the most shameless person I have ever met.

"I know you discovered a bit of abnormality at that time and wanted to find the root of the problem, but you did indeed threaten me and obtained some information about the Lady from me.

"Yes, at that time I wanted to betray the Lady, and I was seeking help from the parish priest, but that was because I hadn't yet understood the greatness of the Mother, and was still a believer in that false god, the 'Eternal Blazing Sun.' But now, my life comes from the Mother, and my future belongs to the Mother."

So that's how it is... Thanks to the "Truth Serum," everything that should and shouldn't be said has been said; I don't need to rack my brains to fish for information... In reality, I also noticed the strangeness in the village and started to conduct some investigations? Lu Mian nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile:

"When did you start to understand the greatness of the Mother? From the time you gave birth to that child?"

"How did you know?" Louis Lund looked shocked, almost standing up and hitting his head. "How did you know I gave birth to a child?"

Uh... The battle where the parish priest and the others raided the administrator's castle didn't include me? Otherwise, Louis Lund wouldn't ask like this... Lu Mian felt a joy in his heart and made a joke:

"When I was taking off your clothes just now, I saw stretch marks and a C-section scar on your stomach."

"Impossible!" Louis Lund argued fiercely. "The Lady has already removed them!"

Lu Mian took the opportunity to divert the topic and asked curiously:

"I want to know, how did Lady Pualis make you all pregnant?"

Louis Lund, who originally didn't want to answer, couldn't control his desire to confide:

"Whether male or female, as long as one has an intimate relationship with her and has an exchange of bodily fluids, one will become pregnant with a child according to her will."

So that's how it is... Lu Mian quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

What he had been most worried about before was that Lady Pualis could use Beyonder abilities to make him pregnant from a distance.

"Both men and women can, what about animals?" Lu Mian asked a follow-up question.

Louis Lund was a bit stunned by the question, and only after a few seconds did he say:

"It should be possible..."

"What about plants? Stones?" Lu Mian had a very academic spirit.

"No, I don't know..." Louis Lund couldn't give an accurate answer.

The Lady hasn't even considered similar things; how is this kid's imagination so rich?

Lu Mian regretfully changed the topic:

"Since it's a child conceived through the exchange of bodily fluids, how did that bird's nest-like thing in your stomach come about?"

"How did you know? When did you see it?" Louis Lund asked in astonishment.

"I'll tell you later." Lu Mian lied to the other party without blinking.

Louis Lund's face was full of confusion, muttering:

"That was conceived together with the child, like a fruit. It is the skin, and the fetus is the pulp. Originally, they were one, until it matured and a crack appeared."

"Sounds very magical. Does that 'bird's nest' count as an item rich in spirituality that can be used in the occult field?" Lu Mian deliberately rambled, making it impossible for the other party to grasp what he really wanted to ask.

"It is one of the main materials for a certain healing potion." Louis Lund spoke incessantly. "It can also be used in many other aspects, for example, improving the condition of human skin, providing power for spells..."

After he finished speaking, Lu Mian sighed as if casually:

"Your first child died in the parish priest's raid on the castle?"

"Yes, he was still so small." Louis Lund felt sentimental for the passing of life. "At that time, the parish priest brought too many people, and we kept retreating, dying several 'Gardeners' and also 'Warlocks.' If the Lady hadn't rushed back in time, we wouldn't have been able to escape either. Sigh, those children were all killed."

"How many people did the parish priest bring?" Lu Mian suppressed his inner concern and asked as if chatting casually.

Louis Lund recalled and said:

"Some were the original shepherds, Pierre Berry, Nior Best, and others; some were the parish priest's mistresses, Sibyl Berry, Madena Benet, Philippa Guillaume, and others; the rest were Pons Benet and his thugs. We killed quite a few of them, including the very powerful Nior Best..."

In my dream, Nior Best was killed by those three sheep... The actual situation was that he died in the battle raiding the administrator's castle? The people Louis Lund mentioned didn't include me... In other words, the battle scenes I saw came from some soul fragments within my body? Therefore, it wasn't complete and couldn't show the full scene and all the participants... Lu Mian felt more relaxed inside and asked with a smile:

"Where did Lady Pualis go at that time?"

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 207 =====