Urban Sims

Three days later.

After repeatedly analyzing the pros and cons, Zhou Ming decided to meet the four captured Blue Hand Guild members first.

Talk to them a little bit.

This morning.

Under the escort of a team of elite guards, Xiute and others were escorted into the palace. In a side hall, they saw Zhou Ming sitting at the top, wearing a gorgeous imperial uniform.

"It's you?"

Shute was taken aback and couldn't help blurting out.

"Oh~? Do you know me?" Zhou Ming asked lightly, why is this guy so surprised?

"No, I don't know you, but I have heard of you, Your Majesty Emperor Noctis!" Shut put his hand on his chest, slightly bent his knees and bowed his head, and gave a salute.

"Dear His Majesty the Emperor, I have also heard of you. You are my idol. I didn't expect you to be so young!" Atlam on the side also quickly approached.

"I have also heard your story, Your Majesty the Emperor!" Picker also quickly bowed.

"Good day, Your Majesty~" Ilyas bowed gracefully.

"Shut up! Your Majesty is wise and mighty, and everyone in the empire knows it. Do you think that just because you have heard about His Majesty's achievements, you can be forgiven of your death penalty?"

Reji, who was standing next to Zhou Ming, said with a straight face, habitually entering the bad-face mode.

capital offense?

Xiute and others were surprised.

Atram even screamed: "Spare your life, Your Majesty the Emperor, we just happened to pass by a place and look for someone. How can this become a capital crime?"

"Yes, His Majesty the Emperor, we saw a group of people making bricks at the foot of a mountain, so we ran to take a look out of curiosity... Isn't that the case?" Picker also said.

"The place you are looking at is the construction project of the central floating port of the empire. It is of great strategic significance to the empire. This will definitely attract some spies and saboteurs from foreign countries. For these people, the Orunian Empire has always been highly vigilant and caught. If you live with one, you will execute one." Zhou Ming said in a cold tone.

"Dear Your Majesty, we are not spies or saboteurs. We are here to find a person to carry out a task issued by the Federation of Trade Unions. We have no intention of prying into the secrets of the Orunian Empire."

Atram defended loudly, trying his best to deny it.

"It doesn't matter what you say, the empire's judges will investigate and try you. Even so, according to your crime of trespassing into the strategic strategic areas of the empire, you will be sentenced to at least 10 years, so you'd better be honest and frank and strive for a lighter sentence. Punishment." Zhou Ming invoked the imperial law and said ten years' imprisonment.

"Wha... what? Ten years? We have to go to jail for at least ten years?"

Atram's face turned pale and he felt cold all over.

"Your Majesty, could you please forgive us for our recklessness this time for the sake of the Blue Hand Guild? We would like to apologize and promise never to do it again... Your Majesty, the relationship between the Empire and the Blue Hand has always been good, and we cannot do it because of This incident created a gap."

Pickle said that the Blue Hand Guild has a transcendent status, and no mortal empire would disrespect this union.

In the past hundreds of years, the relationship between the Orunian Empire and the Blue Hand Guild has always been good. If the four of them are found guilty of "peeping at secrets" this time, they will be imprisoned for at least ten years. The punishment is so severe. , will definitely affect the relationship between the empire and the Blue Hand!

"Pa~"

Zhou Ming patted the back of the chair he was sitting on and said expressionlessly: "State laws and families have family rules. In the Orunya Empire, no matter who breaks the law, they will be severely punished. No one is exempt. You guys Do the people of the Blue Hand want to be above the laws of the empire?"

"Your Majesty, we don't mean this. We just want a chance to explain and prove our innocence, Your Majesty!" Picker shouted, feeling like crying without tears at this moment.

"I will give you a chance to explain in the empire's court." Zhou Ming said calmly.

"this--"

Pickle and Atram looked at each other, feeling a sense of despair.

At least ten years in prison are about to befall them?

"Dear His Majesty the Emperor, this should be the best solution you have come up with, right? Killing us will offend the Blue Hand Guild. If you imprison us for ten years with a seemingly fair trial, this will Not completely offending the Blue Hand also ensures that your secret will not be exposed prematurely. Killing two birds with one stone is indeed the safest countermeasure... Am I right, Your Majesty the Emperor?"

Xiute, who had been silent just now, suddenly spoke.

Well……

Zhou Ming immediately looked towards Xiute, and the unkind look on his face immediately disappeared, turning into a look of surprise and curiosity.

"Well, it seems that you have figured out some things? Tell me and let me see how much you know." Zhou Ming asked him.

"You should know, I basically..."

Just as Shute was about to speak, his wife Ilyas next to him squeezed him and said to him: "Xute, stop talking, we will be killed!"

"That's better than staying in a dark cell for ten years, not to mention..."

Xiute shook his head, without any fear on his face, looked at Zhou Ming and said, "His Majesty the Emperor has no intention of killing us, otherwise he would have been dead when he was caught."

"Don't talk too much. Whether you have plans to kill you or not depends entirely on how well you understand the situation."

Zhou Ming waved to the people around him and said, "Reji, the guards in the palace, please go out for now. I want to talk to them alone."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Reggie and others retreated one after another, leaving only five people in the empty hall.

"Tell me, Xiute, tell me everything you know!" Zhou Ming waved his hand.

Xiu Tong nodded, and the first sentence he spoke made Zhou Ming's eyes gleam.

"First of all, Your Majesty the Emperor, I think you should be the target that the president asked us to find: a talented self-connector."

"Well……"

Zhou Ming pondered for a moment, nodded, and admitted directly: "Yes, your guess is not wrong, please continue."

Seeing Zhou Ming nodding his head and admitting so calmly, Xiute and others were also surprised, and Ilyas had a bitter look on her face.

"Secondly, Your Majesty the Emperor, you have not only become a self-connector, but also a 'self-connector' in a short period of time. Those suspected of being a 'self-connector' we met before The Magic Network Walker should be your masterpiece, Your Majesty." Shute continued.

"Yes, you actually guessed this... smart, you are very smart."

Zhou Ming admitted frankly again, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and continued to extend his hand to indicate: "If you have any bolder guesses, you can tell them all."

At this moment, Ilyas was desperately trying to bump into her husband with her shoulder. She said extremely anxiously: "Shute, don't say any more! If you say anything else, we are all dead!"

"Don't worry, the more we know, the safer we will be."

Shute looked confident and expressed the last guess in his heart: "Your Majesty the Emperor, I know you have a more ambitious plan. You may be planning to rule the entire continent, or you may be planning to control the entire magic network... ...It can be seen from the giant floating port under construction that you must have a very big plan in your heart!"

"Snap, snap, snap!"

Zhou Ming couldn't help but clapped his hands and said with admiration: "It's amazing, it's indeed amazing. You have almost guessed my hidden identity and the plan I'm ordering people to execute. Mr. Shute, you asked me to You are impressed, but..."

Zhou Ming then asked: "What I'm more curious about is, how did you infer so many things with just a few clues? What is the basis for your inference?"

"It's simple, Your Majesty, you are a genius!"

"Because Your Majesty is a genius, you can invent hundreds of thousands of tools and items."

"Because Your Majesty is a genius. Connecting to the magic network and becoming a self-connector is not a problem at all for you."

"After becoming a self-connector and mastering some tricks, it is reasonable to help others connect to the magic network."

"Finally, because Your Majesty is a genius, your dreams and ambitions must be the greatest. I can only imagine the earth."

Shute explained.

Zhou Ming suddenly realized: "So all these speculations are based on the fact that I am a 'genius'?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Xiu Te nodded.

"Okay, Shute, since you have told all your guesses, in return, I will also tell you three basic situations-"

"The first situation: you are safe for the time being. I will not kill you for the time being. I plan to give you a chance to choose."

Zhou Ming stretched out a finger of his left hand and waved his right hand. The ropes tied to Xiute and others broke instantly, and they regained their ability to move freely.

"Second situation: Congratulations to you Xiute, your wife Ilyas is pregnant, and you will soon be a father."

What?

Hearing this, Shute's face changed wildly, and he quickly turned to look at his wife, Ilyas, with a very surprised look in his eyes.

However, Ilyas shook her head at him repeatedly, with a very helpless look on her face.

"The third situation: In order to ensure that the news will not be leaked, from today on, your scope of activities will be restricted; in addition, in order to prevent you from escaping, from now on, you will no longer be Magic Network Walkers."

As he spoke, Zhou Ming waved his right hand in the void and struck out with a 'Soul Knife', instantly cutting off the four 'Soul Strings' extending from Xiute and others in the void.

"Pfft~!"

After the soul string was cut off, Xiute and others felt as if they were severely injured, and at the same time a large mouthful of blood spurted out, and their complexions looked like gold paper.