At night, Xibolier was arranged in a room in the Viscount's mansion. The female ensign sat at the desk with a sad look on her face.
As an established fact, she still has to behave like a loyal soldier. She must solve the existing troubles for the superior Viscount Normans, which is an act of bullying the higher-ups. .
If it was just a guy like Viscount Normans who thought he was smart and only knew how to do some fancy power checks and balances, it would be easy to fool him.
But in the morning, he met the duke's daughter and was asked about specific ideas on how to investigate the stolen goods. After the exchange, Xiboril did not dare to take it lightly.
The girl named Tallulah was completely different from the easy-to-fool Viscount Normans. Her thinking was clear and logical, and she seemed to have some investigative experience.
During this period, the other party either intentionally or unintentionally inquired about his information. Xibolier was a smart man and could sense that this person was making insinuations and wanted to find out about Viscount Normans through himself.
Before bidding farewell to her tonight and returning to this room, the other party even used some suggestive words to vaguely express to herself that she was a fair and strict person.
The subtext is that if Viscount Normans has a problem, she can report it to the other party, but the other party will not turn a blind eye to some unfair things like some imperial prosecutors.
If the other party only said this, Xiboril would also regard this person as a smart but somewhat ignorant daughter of an innocent duke who only has a sense of justice and nowhere to vent...
However, the opponent finally stepped out of his side at the right time, followed by two internal guards.
Xiboli immediately understood that this was the other party saying that he had the ability to behead people and had the ability to directly control the supreme ruler here, Viscount Normans.
Facing such a powerful person, Hibberil felt a little pain in his head. Viscount Normans hinted that the difficulty of framing, finding a scapegoat, and coaxing the other party to be good could be said to be very high.
"If I mess up, I'm afraid I won't have any good fruits to eat..."
"What a mess, what good fruit are you going to eat?"
Xiboril muttered to himself.
Just when she was worrying about what she should do to solve the existing problem.
A sudden sound interrupted her thoughts and almost made her jump in surprise.
"Pap~"
The chair fell, but the female ensign stood up.
He turned his head and looked at the young man who appeared behind him in surprise.
"Why are you here?"
"Well..."
Wu Ke told her frankly that he had been following her and monitoring her.
Xibolier was sweating coldly after hearing this. If she said the wrong thing and sold the guerrillas after meeting Viscount Normans, what would this young man do? He would probably dig a hole and directly marry her to Normans. Buried together with the Viscount?
Wu Ke did not notice the psychological changes of the female second lieutenant, and continued to talk about the purpose of his sudden visit here tonight: "Sibril, I hope you can help me test the person named Tallulah."
"What?"
Xiboril blinked, which meant several things.
"That person is the first person I have ever seen in this world who has clearly shown his goodwill to the infected and is an official member of the Ursus Empire.
So, after giving it some thought, I thought I should get in touch with this guy.
After all, I was the one who robbed her of those medical supplies, and those supplies were originally going to be distributed to infected people in the army and in the mines, right? "
"..."
Xibolier was silent for a while, then said: "There should be infected people in the army, but to be honest, I don't know about the infected people in the mines."
Xiboril expressed his opinion about Tallulah: "If the other party is a simple duke's daughter, I believe this is true, because such things as kindness are always easy to overflow in noble people who are not familiar with the world.
But when I came into contact with the other party, the wisdom and methods shown by that person prevented me from treating her like an ordinary noble girl.
She gives me the impression that she is more like a seasoned politician who has been tested in the political arena for a long time..."
Xiboril looked at Wu Ke and thought to himself: [Just as I look at you, I don’t think you are a young man, but a humanoid monster.
Having said that, what have I encountered in recent days? 】
"It is precisely because I am not sure that I need you to help me test it out. The main test is about her attitude towards the infected people in the mine. Is it a show or is it true?
I need to know the real situation so that I can judge whether I am in contact with them or whether I need to deal with them directly and get to the bottom of the problem. "
Wu Ke clenched his fists, obviously he had the idea of getting rid of the people who caused the problem if he couldn't solve the problem.
"If the Duke's daughter dies here, it will be a very big deal." Xiboril reminded with twitching eyes.
"Why did you die? You don't think I raised my fist just to kill others, right?"
"Isn't it...isn't it?"
Siboril clearly remembers the people in the transport team, witnessing with his own eyes the butcher's behavior of punching a child, breaking everyone's throat, and leaving no one able to escape.
"Who do you think I am? The people I beat to death are all bad people who have no regard for human life. For those who are a little bad, but not bad enough to deserve death, I usually just give them a righteous education, such as slapping the palm and punishing them. The same behavior as facing the wall or slapping the buttocks will not kill anyone."
Wu Ke looked serious.
[The first two are normal, but what about the last one slapping the butt? 】
Imagine that Miss Tallulah, who behaved decently and seemed somewhat noble in front of him today, was slapped on the butt by this boy grabbing the dragon's tail, and Xiboril felt a very subtle feeling inexplicably.
Sure enough, the thought of staining pure white things black, humiliating an unattainable existence, and being happy to see this scene is exactly a kind of bad nature that humans have.
"Can you help?" Wu Ke asked again not knowing what the wolf ear in front of him was thinking.
Xiboril came back to his senses, looked at the fist, and smiled stiffly: "Of course, you can!"
. . . .
The method of testing is very simple. It is enough to take the other person to the mine and see those injustices. There is no shortage of such situations in this world.
Wu Ke saw a similar situation in the mine near Normans City.
And if it weren't for the wrong timing, he wouldn't have been able to move away the miners in those mines in time after attacking those mines.
Maybe, he would take action directly.
. . . .
"stop!"
As soon as they arrived at the first mine, Xiboril and others happened to come across an incident of whipping miners. Tallulah directly called out to the guard soldier holding the whip.
"Why did you hit him?"
The guarding soldier was a little dazed when he was asked, but from the military uniform on Tallulah and the senior officer following behind him, he could tell that this was a senior officer with a higher status than his uncle and the director of the mine.
Facing the girl's question, the guarding soldier, who was obviously not in a very high position, had to answer.
However, he couldn't say why.
After all, it is a sin for an infected miner to breathe. If he is in a bad mood, he will be caught and whipped. Is there any need for a reason?
And this kind of thinking is not only shared by this guard soldier, but also by most people. The closer to the city, the more this kind of thinking becomes.
Compared with the harsh environment of the snowfield, the guard soldiers and miners have a somewhat similar feeling of suffering in the bitter cold environment. However, in the mines on the edge of the city, it is easy to find contrasting happiness.
Under the look of the mine chief, the guard soldier who whipped the miner responded: "Report to the chief, he made a mistake, so I beat him."
"What mistake did he make?" Tallulah asked.
"this……"
The guarding soldier suddenly hesitated.
"Then tell me, what mistake did you make?"
Tallulah asked the whipped miner.
Wu Ke originally thought that the miner would speak out about his injustice, but the other man just timidly said, "I did make a mistake."
As for what mistake he made, the miner who was whipped said that when he was picking up something just now, he failed to hold it firmly and dropped something important to the ground.
However, this man had just been knocking on the hard Originium mines in the mine, and until he was taken out to be whipped, he was not ordered to pick up any items, let alone important things.
"Yes, yes, that's it." The guarding soldier who whipped him nodded quickly and agreed.
"Major, look..."
The chief of the mine rubbed his hands together, looking very flattering.
The silver-haired girl glanced at the other party, but ordered: "Gather everyone in the mine, whether it is the guards or the miners, I have something to say."
The warden of the mine went to summon the people in the mine.
"Inspecting the mine and letting me see these things, is this your way of diverting attention, Your Excellency Second Lieutenant Xiboril?"
[No, it’s not me, I didn’t, don’t talk nonsense...]
A somewhat appropriate apology appeared on Xiboril's face: "I'm sorry, I really didn't expect this kind of thing to happen."
Tallulah looked at her and said seriously: "Whether you do it intentionally or not, I will keep an eye on the things you are responsible for."
The people in this mine were summoned. It was slightly different from the mine in the snowfield. This place had its own high platform. Tallulah walked up to the platform with a long sword in her hand.
The girl's figure stood on the high platform that was watched by everyone, but she loudly read out the new laws of the Ursus Empire.
"The new policy stipulates that infected people must perform hard labor, but it does not mean that you lose your human rights. If you have made no mistakes in obeying the management, if the guards punish you for no reason, it is a violation of military discipline."
The miners' eyes were numb. Although the guarding soldiers seemed to be listening, they occasionally showed a perfunctory look.
There was even a hint of contempt on the faces of some soldiers, as if they were saying, 'Sir, you really know how to joke.'
"Pa~"
The black snake's flowing whip shadow hit several people's faces one after another, and several guards were knocked to the ground.
"Soldiers, I see contempt on your faces. Are you despising me, or...are you despising the empire's new policy?"
Tallulah walked down from the stage, put away her black whip, pulled out the long sword from her waist, put the long sword on the neck of one of the people who fell to the ground, and asked the other person softly, her voice was a bit cold.
The soldier with the sword resting on his neck was shaking a little. The sword edge pressing on his neck had cut his skin, and some blood flowed out.
The girl was surrounding her, and no one from the mine guards dared to look at her.
"Remember, you are soldiers of the empire, so you should act in accordance with the laws of the empire. Any wanton behavior is not allowed."
After convincing everyone, Tallulah snorted coldly, withdrew her sword and looked at the person in charge of the mine.
"I think, as the commander here, you should know how to deal with your subordinates who have made mistakes?"
"Yes."
The person in charge of the mine was sweating on his forehead.
"What are you waiting for? Pull Calaf down for me. He will be whipped as much as he can be whipped by others. Give him a hard whip!"
Painful wails rang out, and the man who had whipped him just now was dragged down. Under the glare of the mine director, the person who carried out the whipping did not dare to hold back at all, and hit the man with one whip after another.
Soon, the man's clothes were torn and blood seeped out from under his skin.
After a while, Tallulah and others who inspected the mine left the mine.
After confirming that the person was gone, the whipper stopped.
"Ouch, it hurts me to death..."
"Calaf, I'm sorry, under the circumstances just now, we couldn't hold back."
"Nephew, are you okay?"
The chief of the mine ran back and helped his nephew up with some distress.
"Uncle, you..."
"There's nothing we can do about it. That person is the chief after all. If you make her look down on her, things may get worse if you don't get a whip."
The two uncles and nephews sighed, but they confirmed that the girl just now was someone they could not afford to offend.
And soon, they transferred their hatred to the weak.
"After all, it's all the fault of these damn infected people."
"No, I have to take this whip away from them."
the nephew said angrily.
"Besides, that's the guy I want to hit first."
The other party pointed at the miner who just said that he was wrong.
"At the same time, his four-year-old daughter was also pulled out and beaten."
The miner's face turned pale and he quickly kowtowed and begged for mercy, asking the other party to let his daughter go.
"You all listen to me. Don't think that what the new policy says is true. You infected people have human rights..."
The mine director ran to the stage and shouted arrogantly at the people below: "Those are all lies. Here, I am the one who controls your life and death."
"I see. Does this mean that the county magistrate is not as good as the current one?"
The mine director heard the voice coming from behind and turned around quickly.
"Who are you?"
There was someone standing behind him.
"Me? I'm just passing by..."
