The interrogation room of the MI is a room tens of square meters square.

One of the wide walls is embedded with a single-way mirror, and the narrow walls and four top corners are equipped with 360-degree cameras without blind spots.

The four walls and the floor are welded with a single sheet of steel, and the entire ceiling glows with a dull white glow.

A rectangular table that seats 10 people is not too crowded, and on one side of the table where the prisoners are interrogated are nailed several iron rings for handcuffing.

Everything seemed regular, calm, and rigid, and the air seemed thin enough to breathe.

Without warning, the door to the interrogation room was opened from the outside. Two winged soldiers in white uniforms escorted a middle-aged man in a suit in. The man was pressed to the side of the square table, where the prisoner was located, and his hands were handcuffed to the table.

After the two wingmen had settled the prisoners, they left through the entrance door.

The prisoner had an extremely ordinary face in Chinese characters, and looked like he was forty or fifty years old. He has a Mediterranean head, wears black, square-rimmed glasses, and wipes the sweat from his face with his sleeve from the moment he sits at the table, as if it's hot here. Although his hands were cuffed, the metal chain of the handcuffs itself was of a certain length, so if it was only one hand, he could still reach his face with his sleeve. However, the repeated friction between the handcuff chains and the iron rings on the table made a screeching sound, which only increased the tension and made him sweat even more.

Ten minutes later, the door on the other side of the interrogation room was opened. Phoebe, dressed in a crisp green military uniform and holding interrogation materials in her hands, walked in with brisk steps, turned around and slammed the door shut.

"One of the trustees of Mendel University, Mr. Zhao Jingcai." Phoebe walked over to the interrogation table and stood still, and the materials in her hand were also placed on the table, "I'm the person in charge of this interrogation, Detective Phoebe of the Military Intelligence Service. ”

The middle-aged man glanced up at her, and saw that the person who came had a beautiful face that was too immature to look like an adult, and his big eyes were bright and moving; Although she has tried to tense her facial features, she still can't hide her innate intimacy. The school director is nearly fifty years old, and he feels that such a little girl is only the age of a college student at most, and she can be regarded as calling for wind and rain in the school, and no student has ever seen it, so she felt less nervous at the moment, and leaned back on the back of the chair in a pretentious posture.

"To get straight to the point, how much do you know about the illegal wing-planting phenomenon that has always existed in Mendel University?" Phoebe asked.

"I don't know what you're talking about." can sit in the position of school director, Zhao Jingcai can be regarded as the best batch among the original people. After decades of social career, from self-made to partner of a well-known university, he believes that what he has experienced is by no means understandable to the yellow-haired girl in front of him, and of course he does not think that he has any handle in her hands, so he acts fearlessly.

Phoebe didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, so she casually turned on the embedded computer on the wall, and the sound of Nina talking to herself came from the stereo:

"What the Winged Man can give you, I can give it to you. Didn't you find it? Although we don't have evidence yet, you should already know in your hearts how far we can do it with the technology and resources of Mendel......"

"Illegal wing-planting...... Is it true? ”

"I'd rather you get rid of the word 'illegal.' Is there anything wrong with the idea of having the ability to fly? It is not for the sake of wealth and death, nor for the sake of harming others. In the Sheffield region, where they have a monopoly on wings, they smoke marijuana legally, so why should we use the technology we have developed to plant wings, and this thing is illegal? ”

"You're sophistry!"

"Good...... Even if I'm a sophistry. Are you really not tempted at all? ”

The recording was cut off at this point, and Phoebe looked up at the school director again, who no longer had the same fearless appearance as before, leaning forward and lying on the table, and his tone was very nervous: "What kind of recording is this......?" ”

"This is an excellent wingman student from your school, and he has recruited our investigators to make a recording of 'illegal wing-planting'. How? Can't get it? Phoebe stared at him.

"It can't be!" Cold sweat fell on the school director's forehead, stabilized his emotions and said, "Our school only recruits original students, and there is not even a single winged student in the school, you must have made a mistake!" ”

Phoebe didn't rush to answer, but turned on the video headset and projected another video onto the wall. In the video, Nina is covered in flour, and her wings are in shape under a large amount of white powder. Winged Man raised his head slightly, and his expression was very proud: "I want to solve the problem through dialogue...... Is it that hard? Don't you just want to be 'winged'? Like I am now. ”

Phoebe cut off the video again and added, "Nina. Parker is a second-year student in the Department of Life Sciences, Mendel University. There is no name for this person in the 'Winged Humanization Permit Index' filed by the Empire, but she can fly. May I ask Mr. Zhao, as a member of the board of trustees of Mendel University and the top head of the three departments, including the Department of Life Sciences, how do you explain this matter? ”

"This ...... This ......" the school director's eyes rolled in his sockets, and he thought for a moment and said, "she ...... Is she a Winged Man? I don't know about it! It is simply impossible for our school to do such an illegal thing...... Ah, by the way, she must have done illegal wing implantation surgery in private, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the school! ”

Phoebe snorted from her nose and operated her hand on the video headset a few times, and Nina's figure hovering in the air appeared in the projection on the wall, and her voice also played from the stereo: "There is no money, there is no money, isn't the system of 'sage seed' set up for this...... Otherwise, why do you think everyone is desperate to keep the position of the president of the club? Because the 'Seed of the Sage' can be exchanged for things that cannot be circulated in the normal market - such as the legal indicator of 'Winged Humanization', or some other ...... Something that has nothing to do with what we're talking about right now. ”

Phoebe paused the video and looked at Zhao Jingcai: "The 'sage seed' - the highest reward that Mendel University provides to students, can only circulate on campus, has great value, and only a very small number of elite students can get this resource. I don't need to explain anything else, right? Or do you have to play dumb to the end? ”

The school director was already sweating at this time. It was something he had never thought of and could never have anticipated. However, at this point, he knew that it was useless for him to panic. This is the MI interrogation room, where all privileged forces from the outside world are ineffective, and no one he knows is capable of getting him out. But confessing is a dead end, so he made a mistake and said: "This girl must have mental problems and talk nonsense." There has never been any illegal wing planting in our school, and there has never been any illegal trading. She was deliberately framing the school...... That's right! It must have been because she failed the exam, or because she didn't get some high-quality resources from the school for top students, so she wanted revenge...... In short, the 'sage seed' has nothing to do with what she said, and we will not provide students with any so-called opportunities to 'plant wings', and the school does not have the technical ability to 'plant wings' for the original people! ”

"Does it have to be like this?" Phoebe interrupted coldly.

"W-What ......?"

"Do you have to be like this, I ask? Mr. Trustee! Phoebe's tone hardened, "You must not be so stupid that you don't even know where you are, do you?" In order to ask for the information we want to know, there is no way to exaggerate. ”

With that, she switches the screen again, revealing Nina's wings broken, bloodied, and dying on the ground.

Phoebe looked at the screen, then at the school director, and said word by word, "Any way......"

Zhao Jingcai gasped, feeling that his heart had been hammered with a one-ton sledgehammer. He looked at Phoebe again, so nervous that his body stiffened: "You, you...... ...... her."

"yes, I did it." Phoebe narrowed her eyes, "Breaking her wings one by one with a beam pistol, that feeling is as fulfilling as shooting a target with live ammunition." ”

As she spoke, she propped her hands on the table, leaned forward with her upper body, and slowly approached Zhao Jingcai, who was sweating profusely: "You think she is an invincible warrior, an excellent student with both civil and military skills, and the future hope of the original world." But in fact, she was just a criminal who couldn't hold me up for even five minutes before she confessed everything. ”

"You...... You are a native ......" The school director's eyes widened in shock, "How can you give the winged people ......"

"You may not have heard me introduce myself as I walked through the door—" Phoebe squinted her eyes and looked down at her interrogator with contempt, "I'm the person in charge of this interrogation, MIA Ombudsman Phoebe. Do you think that a casual original person can enter the MIA? ”

Without giving the school board any time to react, she continued to release pictures on the screen on the wall that were comparable to mental bombs—Ho Yingjie's body falling from the freezer, doctored diagnostic reports, Phyllis being blinded in the left eye with a throwing knife, and the body being shot......

Every time a picture was broadcast, the corners of Zhao Jingcai's mouth twitched uncontrollably, and by the end his face was as white as paper.

Phoebe watched his expression change with satisfaction, and flipped the pictures to the end, which was a middle-aged man lying face down on the table: "The principal and vice principal of your school, one committed suicide in fear of crime, the other absconded overnight, and two of the remaining five directors are missing. Mr. Zhao, you may be the most valuable witness in our hands...... Trust me, we'll go out of our way to get all the information we need. ”

Hearing this, the school director showed a frightened look in his eyes: "Don't mess around! I am a citizen of the Qingyun Empire, and my personal safety is protected by the Constitution! ”

"Huh...... Protection? Mr. Zhao, I don't think you have figured it out that the Constitution is conditional on the protection of citizens' personal safety. ”

"Y-What are you talking about......!?"

"The condition is that you are not an enemy of this country." Phoebe stared at the school director's pale face, "You don't know, do you?" Why should the empire severely limit the indicators of winged humanization. In the 25 years between 1975 and 2000, about 7 million original people underwent wing transplantation each year, and the ranks of the Daybreakers grew rapidly, resulting in the Black Independence Day event that shocked the nation. 800,000 radical Daybreakers raised their banners, claiming to make a part of the Empire, the Fana region, independent and sovereign. It was also in the same year that the incident occurred, the Qingyun Empire issued a decree that only a very small number of outstanding primitives who had passed the assessment and were absolutely loyal to the empire could undergo wing transplantation surgery, and this assessment index could only be issued to the outside world by a very small number of military organs. ”

"You...... What does it mean to say this? Zhao Jingcai vaguely felt bad in his heart, but he still wanted to make the last struggle, "These histories have nothing to do with today's interrogation!" ”

Phoebe slapped on the table: "Pretend to be stupid, right?" Is this the only IQ that a member of a high-ranking institution of higher learning has to offer? Or do you think you can fool me around? 'Illegal wing planting' is a crime against national security, and both the unit performing the operation and the implanted individual are considered potential offenders for events such as Black Independence Day. Once verified, MI has the authority to try criminals as traitors. Am I clear enough now? ”

The meaning of Phoebe's words has been made very clear - you, Zhao Jingcai, from the moment you sit in the interrogation room, your personal safety is no longer protected by the Constitution. If you don't confess, the MI can torture, violence, and use all inhumane means to force you to spit out the truth.

"Ahh I say...... Whining...... But after that, you ...... You must keep me safe......"

"Huh?" Phoebe clasped her hands in front of her chest, "Still want to talk about conditions?" ”

"A knife to stretch out your head and shrink your head is also a knife! I don't know much, but the principal and vice principal don't know much more than I do! Zhao Jingcai pointed hoarsely to the corpse of the principal projected on the screen and lying face down on the table, "They didn't say anything, and they could still give themselves a good time." If I do, I, I'......."

Before he finished speaking, the school director's whole body was already shaking like drying rice, as if he recalled something extremely painful.

Phoebe looked at him coldly, and was about to announce the suspension of the interrogation and let the person think clearly, when he heard Carl's voice coming from the headphones: "Promise him." ”

Phoebe was stunned.

Standing behind the one-way mirror, Carl could of course see everything that was happening in the interrogation room, and he could also see Phoebe's confused expression, and immediately added: "This kind of person is just a pawn, there is no need to waste time on him." Let him spit out everything he should spit out, and then we can go fishing for big fish. ”

Phoebe thought about it along Carl's train of thought, and thought it was right, and then said to the school director, "You can add your name to the MIA's 'Witness Protection Program'." But ah...... If you dare to lie, or hide the facts, we can always remove your name from that list. Got it? ”

"Of course, that's of course." Hearing this, the school manager nodded repeatedly.

Phoebe turned on the recording program on the video headset, pulled out a chair opposite the prisoner and sat down, picked up the recording board and a pen with the interrogation materials in it, and said in a commanding voice: "Let's start, tell me everything you know." ”

Zhao Jingcai raised his sleeve again to wipe the sweat on his face, and said slowly: "I joined the board of trustees of Mendel University the year before last. At that time, I heard that there was a problem in the family of a previous school manager, and after suddenly deciding to return the equity to the board of directors, he left in a hurry. I received the invitation from the chairman of the board of directors to take over the work of the director and take the lead in maintaining some basic processes of clinical science and technology. Among these basic processes, one of the most important is the extraction and cultivation of wings, which is simply to cooperate with the Department of Medicine to develop a set of standard surgical procedures for extracting healthy wings from terminally ill wings. ”