Rhodes walked out with the man in gray under everyone's gaze.
The entire common room was silent, not a sound at all.
Everyone knows about the Internal Affairs Tribunal. Its reputation has long been resounding throughout the royal city, but only a handful of people have actually seen it.
Today, most people have seen the real Internal Affairs Chamber for the first time, and seen it take away a person for the first time.
Or their companions.
It wasn't until Rhodes and the man in gray left for a long time that there was any sound in the common room.
It was Wayne's mournful voice.
"Isn't it possible that Rhodes won't be able to come back?"
As if a switch was turned on, all kinds of sounds erupted in the lounge.
"is this real?"
"It can't be fake, right?"
"Impossible. It's impossible for the academy to let counterfeiters in, and it's impossible to counterfeit the Judgment Badge."
"Oh my God, the Inspector General, this is the most important person after the Chief Adjudicator."
"What did he do?"
"I don't know... I heard in town before that some doomsday cultists deliberately poured corrosive water into the water tank, and the Internal Affairs Bureau only sent investigators to arrest them."
"Isn't it?"
Everyone could not imagine what the matter was that required the Inspector General to personally dispatch, and they talked about the reasons they imagined. However, many people were optimistic because the Inspector General looked very polite and did not look like he was arresting someone. Catching criminals.
Only Kashan remained silent, her face gloomy and uncertain.
——
When the long-awaited trial finally arrived, Rhodes was no longer so nervous.
And the man in gray, Lauren, was also very friendly. The moment he walked out of the lounge door, he smiled and said, "Hello, my dear sir, Vermeer's White Wolf asked me to say hello to you."
Rhodes was a little dazed: "You also know this?"
Lauren smiled and said: "Of course I know, Miss Qingyu told me everything."
His gray eyes gave him a meaningful look.
"Otherwise you would have been subject to special interrogation in our dungeons."
Rhodes was slightly thankful that my practice of magical skills was not in vain, and I made the right choice to hold my thigh.
He was also a little sad. He just said that the white wolf said hello to him, but the little sister Lanbai didn't, which proved that his skills were not good enough.
Looks like I need to practice more.
Rhodes thought to himself.
The inspector general seemed very talkative, so maybe the situation wasn't as bad as I thought.
The two walked through the tree-lined path and came to the main road of the college. A blue-purple four-wheel carriage stopped on the roadside.
It has a simple style and a wide body, making it a very standard carriage.
Just no horses.
Lauren opened the door and said with a smile: "Get in the car, your husband will be everywhere in your eyes."
Rhodes was a little unhappy, how could you say my true words casually?
But now he had no right to protest, so he could only silently step onto the door sill and sit in the car.
The space inside the carriage is more spacious than expected, but the bench is made of wood and is very hard.
Lauren then got in the car and sat across from him.
Then the carriage started.
The wheels made a slight collision sound on the cobblestone road. The scene outside the window moved backwards, and the students on the road gave way to it.
No one expressed surprise at the horseless carriage.
"Okay." Rhodes thought to himself, "This is another strange thing in this strange human society."
But after thinking about it, this is not strange. After all, people here can use even stranger powers. What happened to a carriage without horses?
The cars in my world don't use horses.
Lauren had been observing him with interest, until then she spoke:
"Rhode from Red Rock Village, congratulations on becoming a student of Jinworth Academy. You are also a fire bearer. I hope you can fight to protect the fire in the future."
Rod politely replied: "Thank you, I will."
"However, you have to know that just being a student at Kingworth does not exempt you from such a felony."
Rhodes was slightly shocked.
Lauren's gray eyes looked at him, and her voice was thick and magnetic.
"Rhode, you have to understand that all the evidence now is very unfavorable to you. The only reason why you have not entered prison yet is the guarantee of the guardian Qingyu. Although I also support her judgment, the Internal Affairs Judgment Office does not Using emotions and subjective inferences as evidence, we can only make judgments based on facts. If your suspicion reaches a certain level, we will initiate a special investigation."
Rhodes asked nervously: "What will happen to the special review?"
Lauren replied calmly: "Your soul will be damaged and your soul body will be broken. It is difficult for one out of ten people to survive."
Rhodes felt a chill coming from his back: "Then what should I do now?"
"Do your best to cooperate with my investigation. Your attitude is very important, which is why I came to see you today." Lauren took out a letter from her arms and put it on the table: "Do you know what this is?"
Rhodes looked carefully and saw that the letter paper was yellow and wrinkled, and the handwriting was clear, but he could only recognize a few of them.
"do not know."
He looked up and saw Lauren's gray eyes staring at him.
"This is a letter you wrote to Alai, the gray cat, the clerk at Gray Moss Street Office. You used code words in the letter and asked him to place a box at a designated place."
Rhodes felt something was wrong.
"I don't remember anything at all..."
Lauren nodded: "I know, User testified for you, your soul state is very complicated. But you can ignite the soul fire, proving that its state is within an acceptable range."
Rhodes felt a little happy, but also a little sad, and asked, "Are we going to find him now?"
Lauren shook her head: "The gray cat Alai disappeared a long time ago. We just found his body in the sewer of Iron Shield Street yesterday."
Rhodes' heart sank, and he had a bad premonition:
"What should we do? Are there any clues?"
Lauren said: "Someone confirmed that the gray cat Alai went to Blessing Church the day before he disappeared, but the pastor of Blessing Church was found to be a believer of the Doomsday Sect and had already escaped. I found a clue using a special method, I learned that he is currently near District 1 of the Outer City of Xiacheng District, and you need to go there with me to investigate."
"Okay." Rhodes agreed without hesitation.
"I remember you are of the Spark sequence. What is your soul fire?"
Rhodes was a little depressed and reported the official answer: "Black rice bucket."
Lauren didn't look like she was smiling, "What is the ability?"
Rhodes hesitated for a moment and replied: "I'm not sure, I feel like my eyes are a little sharper."
"Have you ever learned how to fight?"
"No, Teacher Karaman has talked a little bit about how to use psychic energy in combat, but I have never done it in actual combat."
Lauren nodded: "It doesn't matter. You follow me and try to use your abilities to assist my investigation."
His gray eyes looked at Rhodes.
"The chief officer in charge of this case is my teacher, the chief judge, Aligheili Dan Black Bear. This is your chance."
Rhodes felt that there was something behind his words. Although he didn't quite understand, he still replied cautiously: "I understand."
After a while, the horseless car stopped.
This is a dirty and muddy neighborhood, with even the lights in front of the dilapidated houses dim.
Before getting out of the car, Lauren suddenly asked again: "What did you say is the fire in your soul?"
"Black rice pail."
"Hahaha."
