the next day.
When Edkin, Simon, Holgay and Doric interrogated the man who had been whipped and lost half his life, at this time there was absolutely no good part on his back or buttocks, so that only When Fauci came to the interrogation room lying on a stretcher, the other party couldn't wait to crawl to his feet as soon as he saw the four of them, especially his majestic old friend Edkin who was wearing a suit of bright armor. And he began to plead with all his humility.
"Edkin!"
"For the sake of our friends, and for the sake of me helping you take care of Kira for two full years, please!"
"Get me out of this damn place!"
"I beg you!"
It can be seen that Fudge's life is indeed very bad now. He has completely lost the high-spirited and cheerful arrogance he had when he was the city lord in Neverwinter City and had great power.
However, if you think about it carefully, you can understand it. After all, whoever is the lord of a city suddenly becomes a prisoner and is locked up in such a cold place to eat chaff and drink water. Even yesterday, he was hung in the cold weather. If you were whipped dozens of times outside the frozen prison gate and almost died, you would definitely never be proud again.
"Fuch..."
"I never thought you would be here today!"
After first taking a step back and avoiding the opponent's pull, Edkin shook his head and sighed with emotion and sarcastically said:
"Return friends?"
"If I hadn't known everything a long time ago, if I hadn't already known that you had sent people here to kill Holgai and me, and if you hadn't repeatedly thought about executing us, I might have believed it just now. That's nonsense of yours."
Edkin is not talking nonsense, because he indeed already knows everything!
At the beginning, the five of them went to steal the treasure together, but they were fooled by the guy in front of them from the beginning to the end. Everything was the conspiracy of the other party.
After the other party became the city lord of Neverwinter, he clearly had the opportunity to come here to save him but did nothing. Not only did he seize the share of the treasures they deserved, but he also often talked about him as a father and Hall in front of Kira. Gai's bad words, and then, when they escaped from prison and came to find them, he wanted to secretly execute them, and then threw them into the arena. After all the times he tried to kill them, he didn't directly stab them with a sword. Even if the other party is dead, it will be considered a good thing. How can we get the other party out of this prison?
At first, he and Holgai had suffered here for two years, but now, he felt that it was only fair that the other party had to suffer here for at least twenty years!
"you!!"
After hearing what Edkin said, Fudge, who originally wanted to cry and plead, froze, and then he could no longer pretend.
"Ah!"
"I see!"
"Hahaha……"
Then, he looked at Edkin and the other four people standing in front of him, looking at their gorgeous clothes, and then thinking about his current situation, Fuchs felt sad at the same time, but his eyes turned upside down. Twinkle laughed loudly and lay directly on the ground and said:
"You come to me at this time, you must be asking for something from me!"
"You want to ask something, right?"
"Don't ask any more questions!"
"Let's put it this way, unless you get me out of this damn place, otherwise... I won't say anything!"
"I swear!"
Fudge is truly a cunning hypocrite and fraud. Therefore, before the four of them asked him formally, he roughly guessed that the four of them came to Icewind Valley to ask for something from him. Therefore, he simply asked Instead, he acted like a rogue, pretending to be able to defeat the four of them.
"!!"
Upon seeing this, Holgai, who originally didn't want to see Fuchs, was of course very angry. Then she strode forward in an annoyed manner, waving her terrifying fists, ready to step forward and give Fuchs a lesson. A meal.
"No!"
"That's no use!"
Fortunately, Edkin was calm and stepped forward to grab Holgai.
Now Fuch was beaten to the point where he was left with only half life. With Holgai's huge barbarian strength, if she punched him a few more times, he would probably be dead. That was not what he wanted to see. of.
"Fuch..."
"I advise you to think about it carefully?"
"It's impossible to save you. I'm afraid I can't do it. After all, the things you did were so bad. You should have been guillotined."
"but……"
"With our authority, maybe we can make your life here a little easier?"
After stopping Holgay, Edkin thought for a while and pondered for a while before stepping forward and squatting in front of Fuch, who was lying on the ground due to a back injury, and persuading him in a persuasive manner.
"I bother!"
"Cut the nonsense!"
"I heard about that little girl. She is now the Queen of Neverwinter City, and you have also become the Prime Minister of Neverwinter City, right?"
"I still said what I just said!"
"Find a way to get me out of here, otherwise, there will be no need to discuss anything!"
First, he raised his head mockingly and refuted Edkin a few words. After refuting Edkin directly and having nothing to say, Fuchs grinned again and lay down on the cold floor, then buried his head in the crooks of his arms without moving. He stopped moving and acted as though he was determined to fight the four of them?
"..."
After staring at the other person for a while, Edkin, knowing that it was useless to talk more at the moment, could only wave his hand and motioned to the jailers to take him back first.
"Oh well!"
"Let's talk tomorrow?"
"I'll have someone treat your injuries, and then I'll get you something delicious."
"After all, the taste of potatoes and stinky bread is really not good."
In this way, due to Fudge's lack of cooperation and the inability to use force, the first day of interrogation ended in a hurry without any progress.
On the morning of the third day, when Fauci's injury improved a little, the four came to the interrogation room again.
This time, they were going to use some psychological tactics, and Edkin personally acted as a red face, while Holguy continued to play a black face, trying to show affection and reason to Fauci, hoping to use those little tricks to force him to Fauci told the truth.
Unfortunately……
When it came to conspiracies and intrigues, they were still a little too young, so Fudge remained silent throughout the whole process and ignored them at all.
No matter what they say, Fauci has made no admissions about his crimes and has no shame whatsoever.
Whether it was the murder of tens of thousands of people in Neverwinter City or other things, such as stealing huge amounts of treasure, etc., he could admit it with confidence, but when it came to anything about the Ser and the red-robed wizard, even if Dejin and others carefully tried to make insinuations, but he cunningly kept silent.
In this way, on the third day, Edkin and others not only failed to ask for the information they wanted, but also allowed Fuch to find out the purpose of the four of them coming here to find him this time?
then!
Edkin had to ask the jailer to take him back to the cell again, preparing to let him go for a few days. At the same time, he could think about how to force Fudge to speak out.
Three more days passed.
On the sixth day after Edkin and others arrived at Icewind Dale Prison, when the seriously injured Fudge was once again escorted into the interrogation room by the guards, he no longer behaved as contemptuously and arrogantly as he did in the first two days. .
On the contrary, he seemed a little nervous and seemed to have realized that this time, things might not develop as he expected?
Because, he saw that Edkin in the interrogation room had a relaxed and comfortable look on his face, and the expressions of Holgay, Simon and that Druid bitch were also a little wrong?
Of course, it's not quite right for him.
"Please sit down!"
"Mr. Fauci, we meet again."
"Would you like a cup of hot milk tea?"
Seeing the difficult guy being brought into the interrogation room again, Edkin of course smiled at him and pointed to the chair opposite him.
"..."
Fudge sat up hesitantly, and then did not refuse Edkin's kindness. He silently reached out and took the cup of hot drink handed over by Edkin and drank it hastily.
Although it has been more than two months since I drank this kind of good stuff, for some reason, Fuchs always felt a little bit boring, like drinking wax?
"Drink slowly, don't be in a hurry. I know it's a bit uncomfortable to drink ice water and eat frozen potatoes here?"
"However, I hope this time..."
"Can we cooperate honestly?"
I don’t know if he really has some great confidence, or if he has really found a good way to deal with the stubborn Fudge? Therefore, during this interrogation, Edkin's performance was completely different from the previous two. He looked confident and didn't seem to be worried that Fudge would continue to fight against them as before.
"cooperate?"
"whispering sound!"
"You idiots, think you can make me compromise by torture?"
"Stop dreaming!"
Looking at each other with Edkin, and then looking at the torture instruments around them and the terrifying whips in the hands of the two jailers, Fuch, who had been recovering from his injuries for several days, sneered after drinking the hot milk tea in his hand. Said disdainfully:
"bring it on!"
"The most I can get is one more beating from you?"
"If this is all, I won't be scared by you."
After saying that, and throwing away the empty wooden cup in his hand, Fudge lay down on the chair and started to mess it up.
Of course, Fuch was indeed afraid of being beaten again, but in order to be able to get out and make sure that the other party would not kill him, he continued to be stubborn and prepared to continue to hold on until one of the two parties could no longer hold on.
Unfortunately, he felt that his confidence and determination to go out were definitely stronger than these idiots in front of him?
"Not urgent!"
"We will if necessary!"
What surprised Fudge was that after he finished speaking, the four people, especially Edkin, didn't react much at all?
"Trust me, we don't just want to scare you!"
"Mr. Fauci."
"That's right, we just want to know some things from you, and those things may have some bad effects on the safety of our Neverwinter City?"
"As long as you tell the truth, we guarantee that we can make your life here more comfortable within the scope of our authority."
"For example..."
"We can give you a room with a fireplace and always have good food and wine?"
"how?"
Although he had spent enough time in this hellish place these past few days, Edkin still calmed down and tried to coax Fudge into submission when he thought of the importance of this trip.
"Aha!"
“A room with a fireplace and then wine and food?”
"I bother!"
Fudge, who was half lying on the chair, said coldly, still looking indifferent.
"You can tell by listening to it that it's a charity from a bunch of stingy people!"
"Based on this, do you think I will confess everything to you?"
"Stop dreaming!"
"Let me out or you will get nothing!"
That's right!
The purpose is very clear. Fudge, who just wants to get out of this prison as soon as possible, will obviously not be swayed by the small favors Edkin verbally promised.
"..."
Edkin frowned.
"Futch!"
"Speak directly, don't waste time!"
"We all know that you have been related to the Ser and the red robe wizard before!"
"This time, we're here for that too."
"Ser is becoming active again. We think you may know something else, so we came here to find you. Those Sear people..."
"What other conspiracy is there?"
Although he had predicted that asking this question would not work, Edkin decided to give it a try first.
"Oh, is it so?"
"But I've never heard of a Ser."
"I've never seen it before!"
After seeing Edkin and others' direct explanation of their purpose, thinking that the other party had lost their patience, Fudge felt even more proud. He actually looked away with a sneer, and acted like a fool.
"!!"
"Stop wasting our time!"
"You bastard!"
At this time, Holgai suddenly became furious and strode forward:
"Futch!"
"You'd better tell us everything we asked honestly, otherwise you'll regret it."
"I promise!"
While scolding, Holgai directly grabbed Fuchs by the collar, lifted him up from the chair, leaned over and roared, spraying spittle in his face.
"regret?"
"Hahaha!"
"I never regret anything I've done."
Fuch laughed, not minding that Holgay held him by the collar and made it difficult for him to breathe, and then continued to ask:
"What are you going to do?"
"Beat me?"
"Should we continue to beat him again?"
"Then what?"
"Do you have any other means?"
Fuch seemed to see through the two people's pretentious tricks at a glance, and just let Holgai lift him up in the air.
"You'd better not underestimate us!"
"If we want you to tell the truth, there's no way you can escape."
Holgai frowned, stared at Fuchi's proud face and continued to speak through gritted teeth.
"the truth?"
"What truth?"
Fudge raised an eyebrow.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Ahem!"
"Damn it! You almost strangled me!"
Then, after Holgay slammed him back to the chair, Fuchs actually complained dissatisfiedly.
"Mr. Fauci."
"Please don't underestimate our determination. I advise you to answer our questions properly?"
At this time, the Druid girl Doric also spoke.
"That's right!"
"We are now protecting the people of Neverwinter."
"And what you are doing now, like those of the Cyres, is endangering the safety of Neverwinter."
Simon also echoed.
"Endangering the safety of Neverwinter?"
Shaking his head, Fudge asked with a sarcastic smile:
"You guys have such a rich imagination!"
"But what does that have to do with me?"
"I'm just a prisoner. I've been locked up in this hellish place for almost three months. What's the use of asking me about things that you don't even know?"
This painless interrogation method was obviously within Fauci's acceptance range and expectations, so he naturally continued to cheat without any cooperation.
"Futch!"
"You'd better say it now!"
"Otherwise, I will make you regret it!"
Seeing Fuchi like that, Holgai was so angry that he clenched his fists loudly and threatened fiercely.
"Oh, really?"
"Then I'll wait and see?"
After saying that, Fudge simply closed his eyes and remained silent.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
Seeing this, the four of them were speechless for a moment.
They had long known that Fudge was difficult to deal with, otherwise they wouldn't have been struggling for so many days. However, given that it was about the safety of Neverwinter and the Serres' conspiracy, they couldn't give up no matter what, and they couldn't give up. More information must be obtained from Fauci.
"All right!"
"Since you don't want to tell, we have to use some special measures to force you to tell the truth."
Finally, after seeing that Holgai, Doric and Simon took turns to fight in vain, Edkin became impatient and decided to use the last resort they had discussed.
"measure?"
"What measures?"
Fudge smiled slightly, opened his eyes and looked at Edkin, clearly not believing that Edkin could find any way to get him to speak.
"You'll know."
Unfortunately, Edkin didn't say anything clearly, he just looked at Fudge with a half-smile.
"oh?"
"Really?"
"I am looking forward……"
Fudge sneered.
At this time, his twinkling eyes finally showed a trace of vigilance involuntarily, but he still refused to say anything and just faced Edkin.
"..."
"..."
"..."
In this way, time passed by minute by minute. Finally, Holgai became impatient and looked at Simon next to her.
"that……"
"Folky, that's it."
Seeing that it was finally time for him to come up with his trump card, Simon walked directly to Fudge and said:
"Back then..."
"In order to break the Mordenkainen seal on the treasure house door of Neverwinter, in order to steal your treasure and overthrow you, we have to look for something called the 'Helm of Spell Breaking'."
"That's it. When you wear this helmet, you can use an anti-magic pulse with a radius of three hundred feet centered on you. You saw its power at the beginning. It can indeed destroy Mordenkainen's seal, right? ?”
As he spoke, Simon took out a helmet and explained it patiently.
"However, this helmet has been lost for nearly a century. In order to find clues about it, we traveled thousands of miles to the Eternal Wilderness to dig up the graves of Holgai and his tribe's ancestors, and questioned hundreds of undead before we finally obtained it. clue and found it.”
"I won't talk about the process."
"The important thing is!"
"The reason why we can ask questions to the dead is because we have this. We got it when we went to steal treasure with you and Sofina. It's called the 'Priest Card'!"
"It can resurrect the dead and ask the dead five questions, answering all questions."
"so……"
At this point, when he saw Fudge's wide eyes and incredibly frightened expression, Simon knew that his goal had been achieved, and then walked aside with slumped shoulders and said no more.
"ah!"
"This is such a good idea!"
"I suggested this long ago."
Seeing that Simon had completed his work, Holgay grinned, took off the giant ax from her back, and then walked to Fudge.
"You can revive and ask questions even if you just cut off the head, right?"
"very good!"
"Hello!"
"You two, please stay away and don't get blood all over you?"
After speaking and asking Simon to confirm something, Holgai grinned and waved to the two equally stunned jailers to hide aside. Then she raised her head directly in front of Fuchs. That giant axe.
You know, it was the tomahawk made of meteorite iron in her hand that almost bit her and Edkin's heads, but now it's better, God has reincarnation, and it's her turn to use it to chop off Fu. Strange head.
"!!"
"What do you want to do?"
"etc!"
Fudge finally panicked and shouted in surprise.
"..."
Unfortunately, Holgai didn't intend to listen to him, and directly gestured to his neck, then twisted his waist and swung the ax, preparing to chop off his head.
Whoosh~!
"I!"
"I said!"
Finally, seeing that Holgay didn't seem to be faking it, and that Edkin didn't mean to stop, and that Simon actually took out a sign, he intuitively told Fuchs that it was not a fake, and then he made a decisive move. Starting to get timid.
"!!"
The ax stopped instantly in front of Fudge's neck, but the 'buzz' sound still made Fudge's head turn white instantly.
From the terrifying ax wind, it was not difficult for him to know that if he had not compromised just now, was he afraid that his head would really be chopped off by the barbarian in front of him?
"I……"
"Did I say it's not okay yet?"
With that said, Fuchs seemed to have lost all his strength, sliding directly from the chair to the ground and just slumped there so weakly.
"very good!"
Edkin waved Holgai to step back.
"I think it's better to kill him and ask questions later?"
"Anyway, you can ask five questions clearly, right?"
Even though he said that, even though he was complaining, Holgay still put away his ax angrily and walked aside muttering.
"Say it!"
"What else do you know about the conspiracy of the red-robed wizard?"
"I mean after Sofina's 'Crimson Death' magic failed, do they have any other plans?"
"Now……"
"Tell me everything you know!"
Edkin stood up and walked to Fudge, looked down at him and asked.
"You better think clearly."
"We have no patience anymore. You can choose to let us kill you before asking, or you can take the initiative to say it yourself!"
"We can identify whether you are telling the truth!"
"Don't doubt the methods of our druids!"
Then Edkin added a few more words and looked at Doric and Simon aside.
"really!"
"I am now going to cast the Domain of Honesty, which will make objects within the range unable to lie."
"There is also 'Detect Lies', which can detect certain deliberate lies."
With that said, Simon, the warlock from his family, began to make preparations, and quickly completed a certain spell, and then signaled to Edkin to start.
"soon!"
"Now, please tell us what the Serres and the red-robed wizards are planning."
"What are they going to do to Neverwinter?"
After receiving Simon's instruction, Edkin quickly asked.
After all, it was not easy to break through Fudge's psychological defense, and those two magics also had a time limit, and they could only guarantee that Fudge would not lie, but they could not stop Fudge from speaking, so he had to be faster.
"..."
Sitting on the ground, Fuchi raised his eyes and glanced at the four people. After a while, he sighed and said:
"All right!"
"I admit, you are right, I did hear about some of their plans."
"Maybe they want to capture Neverwinter City?"
Hesitantly, Fudge began to slowly tell what he knew.
"!!"
"Capture Neverwinter?"
Edkin and his companions looked at each other, not hiding their shock and surprise.
"absurd!"
"Neverwinter is so far away from Sere, how could they capture it?"
"Can't you fly here?"
Holgai gritted his teeth impatiently and sneered, and then he was ready to step forward to take action.
"I think it would be better to kill you and ask directly?"
Although she is a barbarian and has no brains, if Serge wants to deal with Neverwinter City, apart from the conspiracy of the red robe witch Sofina, if he uses other methods, such as directly conquering it, then it will definitely be impossible. Impossible!
Because the city of Neverwinter is almost thousands of miles away from Cyre, separated by the Sea of Fallen Stars, the Valley Bottom, Cormanthor, the Eno Oak Desert, the Supreme Forest, etc., there are humans, dwarves, elves, dragons, demons, orcs in between. , gnolls, kobolds, harpies and other hundreds of forces, races and kingdoms. It would be okay for the Sers to come with some sporadic personnel to assassinate or carry out sabotage and conspiracy, but if they want to directly capture the city of Neverwinter, then Isn’t it a fantasy?
"No!"
"That's another plan!"
"The shadow of death!"
Seeing Holgai raising the ax again, Fuch became anxious, quickly covered his head with his arms and said loudly.
"..."
"The shadow of death?"
Holgay stopped, then subconsciously turned his head to look at Edkin beside him.
"Yes."
Seeing Edkin holding Holgai, Fuchi relaxed and nodded.
"They were plotting it secretly."
"Perhaps they have already sent an advance team and are preparing to directly attack Neverwinter City in the near future?"
"I only know that they seem to be related to the Swamp of the Dead in the south and the Dragon Worship Cult."
"As for the specifics, I don't know."
"After all, the original 'Scarlet Death' plan was very good. If you hadn't interfered with it, Neverwinter City would have fallen by now. I'm afraid even they didn't expect to use that backup plan, right?"
Seeing the barbarian Holge standing in front of him holding a giant axe, Fuch didn't dare to neglect and hurriedly told all the information he knew.
"alright!"
"It's time for the spell."
"Edkin!"
"He didn't lie!"
At this time, both Doric and Simon, who was casting the spell, nodded towards Edkin, indicating that what Fudge just said was true.
"..."
Edkin did not rush to express his position. He just looked at each other and Holgai, then walked aside and began to pace, thinking and thinking.
Because, based on the situation they had before coming to this prison and what they just said to Fudge, he already knew that it was probably true, and now they must take action immediately, otherwise I'm afraid it's too late.
"Let's go!"
"Let's go back to Neverwinter!"
However, no matter what he did, he had to go back first, so Edkin didn't waste any more time, turned around and motioned for everyone to follow him outside. They wanted to return to Neverwinter now, the sooner the better!
"Hello!"
"Can't you get me out?"
"For the sake of our friendship with Kira?"
"Please!"
Seeing that Edkin and others were about to leave, Fuch became anxious and hurriedly pleaded and got up to step forward and leave with the four of them.
"stop!"
"Be honest with me!"
Unfortunately, two jailers behind him stepped forward and grabbed him arbitrarily.
"Then at least you have to fulfill the conditions just now, right?"
“A room with a fireplace!”
“And then there’s the wine and the food?”
After seeing the reaction of Edkin and others, and knowing that it was absolutely impossible for the four people to take him out, Fudge had no choice but to retreat and plead again.
"You just refused."
"so……"
"You get nothing!"
Waving his hand behind him, Edkin walked out of the door without looking back.
"you!!"
"??"
Seeing that Edkin and others were not keeping their word, Fuch was about to scold those guys. However, he saw the barbarian Holgai suddenly turned back, and he was so frightened that he quickly shut his mouth.
"Hello!"
"Don't he still owe you more than thirty lashes?"
"I strongly suggest that you proceed now as he appears to have recovered from his injuries?"
After saying that, regardless of the angry glare of Fuchi, whose face instantly turned red with anger, Holgai, who had done everything he could to hide his wounds and add insult to injury, walked away proudly.
"fraud!!"
"You liars!"
"You all deserve to go to hell!!!"
"I curse you!!"
Then, without any surprise, Fudge's angry roars and curses came from the interrogation room in the passage behind the four people.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
Unfortunately, the four of them did not respond. They just hurriedly walked towards the lobby on the first floor of the Icewind Dale Prison, preparing to leave immediately and return to Neverwinter City to report to their Queen Anne who never did anything. Condition.
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