Chapter 351: Justice and Protection

"Yes, in my opinion, the most feasible way is to smoke it!" Hearing this, Retch couldn't help but smile and nodded.

"But Lord Viscount, it may be true that the rats can be smoked out of the hole, but this underground cavern under the chaotic rocky beach is no more than a rat hole, and its exits are quite numerous! If the cavemen hadn't come out of the cave we guarded, and even went deeper, wouldn't we have worked in vain?" a female guard questioned.

"That's a good point," Reich said with an appreciative look at the guardess, then laughing, "so we can't use ordinary smoke, we need to use tear gas!"

"Tear gas?" is the kind of tear-jerking alchemy potion created by an alchemy master named gas?" As a witcher, these Lyra Patrol Guards are no strangers to all kinds of alchemical potions.

"That's right, it's that tear gas potion, and I have already ordered someone to go back to prepare it when we left for this place, and I think it should be almost ready by this time. Leitch smiled slightly, a kind of strategic confidence on his face.

"But even if we had tear gas, we couldn't seem sure which hole the Crypt Leader would have come out of, right?" Davis said with a frown.

"That's because you don't know enough about tear gas, which has a strong stimulating effect on the respiratory tract and tear ducts of all kinds of organisms, which can make the smelling creatures gather tears, breathe rapidly, and produce a feeling of suffocation!

Hearing Leitch's explanation, Daviston suddenly realized, but then she wondered, "But how do we determine which is the closest cave entrance to the Cryptman leader?"

"I can't be sure of that, but we don't need to. ”

Seeing that Leitch shook his head first, and then a mysterious smile appeared on his face, which made Davis can't help but glance at him, and said angrily: "Don't show off here, just say what you can do!"

"Of course, my Queen!" Reich first gave Davis a gentlemanly salute, and then said, "The point is that this time we will be using an enhanced version of tear gas - an expert-level weak tear gas potion! Compared to ordinary tear gas potion, this weak version of tear gas potional can also make the enemy lose combat effectiveness in a short period of time! After two hours, if we can't catch the leader of the cavemen, we'll have to go into the underground caverns and search. But by then, the resistance we might encounter will be negligible. ”

"Lord Viscount, are you talking about shooting them all, including the humans who came out of it?" Squadron Leader Niza, who had always been taciturn, looked straight at Leitch at this time, with reluctance and determination in his eyes.

"Why, are you unhappy with my decision?" said Leitch lightly.

"Lord Viscount, my subordinates just think that your actions are too bloody, and I am afraid that this will have an extremely negative impact on your reputation. Niza didn't flinch from Reich's disguised indifference, and she still looked at Leitch with a determined look in her eyes.

This abrupt conflict suddenly made the female guards nervous, but they knew very well the character of their squadron leader—taciturn, decisive and capable, extremely upright, and possessed the knightly creed that they adhered to! In the face of the creed, the silent squadron leader often showed a sharp stubbornness unexpectedly! Originally, under Captain Bonnie, because the captain was generous and a little arrogant, he didn't care much about these, and he got along well with his sisters, so this personality of the squadron leader has not been very prominent;

"Bloody?" Ratchet didn't get angry at this, but chuckled inexplicably, "Although there are some things that I haven't told you clearly, I guess you will have some bad conjectures in your minds, but what I want to tell you is - you are right, the territory is now facing a serious challenge, and the survival of the entire territory is at stake!"

The heavy word 'survival' in Lei Qi's words suddenly cast an indelible shadow on the hearts of all the female guards, and many of them even involuntarily turned their heads to look at the location where the black fog appeared, even if it was impossible to see them in their current position!

"So I want to tell you - very moments, very means!"

"Extraordinary moments, extraordinary means?" said Niza, repeating in a low voice what Reich had said, but there was a deep confusion in her clear pupils.

"Squadron Leader Niza, although I have been in contact with you for a short time, in my eyes, I can be sure that you are a true knight, with your own beliefs - loyalty, kindness, justice and protection!

"Which do you think is more important, justice or protection?" asked Retch suddenly.

Hearing this, Niza fell into a deep silence, and after a long while, she raised her head again to look at Retch, a trace of confusion flashed through her eyes, and finally she said in a firm tone: "In my opinion, guarding is to uphold justice!"

"You're right, guarding is for justice!" Reich nodded approvingly, and continued, "But first you should understand - what are you protecting? What is true justice?!"

"First of all, you are a knight of the Black Wind Territory, then the people of the Black Wind Territory are the objects of your protection, and your duty is to protect the legitimate rights and personal safety of these people from being violated!

"And who are those Cavemen? The so-called non-our race must have different hearts, whether it is these Cavemen to us or us to the Cavemen, in the eyes of both sides, the other party is an absolute anomaly! Think about it, based on what you have seen and heard, is it true that there have been fewer evils caused by the Crypt People over the years? Now do you think you should protect those creatures who endanger the safety of the people of your territory? Is this kind of kindness without measure the creed you adhere to?! What's even more terrifying is that if our next action fails due to your so-called kindness, and in the end we are powerless to prevent the entire territory from falling into the abyss of no return, is this the result you expect?!"

"In fact, even if I hadn't had it, I'd one day have a purge of these cavemen hiding beneath the Chaotic Rocky Beach!"

"But Lord Viscount, what you just said is to shoot all the creatures that come out of the underground caverns, that is to say, including the humans who have escaped from them! I admit that Chaos Rock Beach is indeed a paradise for countless criminals, but apart from these criminals, there may be a very small number of people who will come here, should we shoot even these innocent people?"

"You're right, the human beings who come out of the underground caverns, in addition to rapists, smugglers, murderers, gamblers, evil black mages and other heinous scum, there may indeed be some innocent people, but what I want to tell you is that even if these people are really innocent, their fate is already sealed!"

"Lord Viscount, I want to know why, you can open up the net for these humans!"

"Because we don't have enough men!" Leitch stated with a flat face, "because of this unprecedented crisis, each of our men will have to stick to their posts! If we open up on these humans, it means that we will have to send additional men to arrest and tie them up, and we will have to guard them afterwards, and we will have to deal with the complications of the human and crypt people rushing out of the cave together! But I would say that we don't have enough manpower!"

"Of course, you might be tempted to say that we can just let these humans go, so that we can avoid unnecessary manpower consumption. But you have to understand that there may be some innocent people among these people, but the vast majority of them are absolutely heinous villains and criminals!, once they are allowed to enter the territory openly, they will cause great chaos to the already tight territory, and even because of the leakage of information, it is more likely to cause the territory to fall into great chaos!"

Leitch raised his hand to stop Niza, who wanted to continue speaking, and said without question: "Well, you don't need to say more, I have already decided on my orders, and I will not change them! No matter what kind of infamy I will bear for it afterwards, everything will be left to me! Now that I have given you an order to the knight, I just want to know if you will do what you are told?!"

Niza did not shy away from Reich's sharp gaze, she slowly knelt on the ground and replied calmly: "Although I don't agree with your methods, Lord Viscount, I also understand that your orders are the most correct!

"We will always follow the Viscount!" and the Lyra Patrol Guards also knelt on the ground.

"Very good, you are all real knights! No matter whether the road ahead is smooth or the abyss, whether tomorrow is rain or sunny or stormy, today, we will use the sword in our hands to split a way forward for the territory! Now let's go, hahaha!"