"Thank you for the compliment."

Quinn bowed slightly, not arrogantly.

Zhao Xin handed the list to Jiawen III, and after Jiawen III took it, his gaze was raised, and his calm gaze became colder and colder.

He then handed it to Gallvin IV.

Jiawen IV knew what he meant, and after taking it, he said solemnly: "Erchen will go and handle this matter." ”

He gave Galen a look, and the two tacitly agreed without saying much, and soon took a group of people and separated from the team.

Apparently to deal with the names on the list.

In the face of such a major event, anyone who is related to Stuart, Josie, Kroger, and Eldred cannot escape the relationship.

It must be interrogated one by one.

And this is also the idea that Lu Qi has been brewing for a long time.

Today's Demacia looks glamorous on the outside, but in fact it has long been corrupt on the inside, and the ministers and nobles have their own evil intentions.

From the fact that these ministers joined forces, they could easily plan a mage rebellion in the royal capital, and it can be seen that the moths parasitic in the country have long been everywhere.

Actually, Stuart, Eldred and others were right.

Today's Demacia must need a crisis to wake up, and it needs a heavy slap to wake everyone up from the dream of honor in the past.

It's just that Lu Qi took advantage of it a little.

If not, if you want to pull out these moths one by one, you don't know if you have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.

Luffy's original intention was to use this mage rebellion to start a purge from the inside out!

And Quinn's investigation day after day for nearly half a year has finally ushered in results.

As the rebellion of the mages was gradually suppressed, the royal capital did not return to peace.

On the streets, there are armies going in all directions. As a result, the atmosphere of the whole king is always in a high tension.

It's clearly not over yet.

With the time came five o'clock in the afternoon.

Under Quinn's leadership, Luqi and the others made their way along the streets of the royal capital, meeting Fiona, Bobby, and Sana on the way.

Expecting something to happen today, Luki arranged for them to go to various streets in advance to suppress the mages who started the rebellion as soon as possible.

In fact, today's mage rebellion seems to be very big, but it only took more than two hours from the time they launched the rebellion to the suppression of the rebellion.

Even, at this moment, it is not even evening.

The real highlight is all staged at the palace.

On the way, they also joined up with Lux and Galio, and the Colossus followed at the end of the group, attracting the attention of many people.

As a result, more and more people followed the team, and Lu Qi did not stop the people from following.

What follows needs to be witnessed by everyone.

"Where is this going?"

"I don't know."

"The king and the two princes are in the procession, and the colossus is following."

"Anyway, we're going to keep up."

"I see there are more mages."

"Isn't that the mage who was going to be beheaded at noon? Silas in the town of Sidegour. ”

"That's right, it's him, I remember, it's him who led the rebellion."

"So what's the situation now? Have these mages already surrendered? ”

"I've also seen Miss Crownguard use magic, and she's actually a mage too."

"What I see is Sona, if it weren't for her, I'm afraid we would have been hurt by other mages."

The crowd was talking, and as the incident subsided, the panic caused by the mage's rebellion gradually subsided.

From all over the neighborhoods, the crowd attracted by Galio kept talking about what they had seen and heard today.

Among them, the most mentioned are mages, who have not figured out the current relationship between the army and these mages for a while.

So when I saw such a strange team, I couldn't help but follow.

When they learned that even Miss Guanwei and Sona were mages, this surprised some people who just learned the truth.

They couldn't figure out why the mages and the army could seem to walk together in some harmony.

The team walked all the way out of the royal capital and came to Clarion Bay outside the royal capital.

Not very far from the royal capital, near the river estuary of the royal city, there is a small town harbor the size of Clarion Bay.

The incident in the royal capital has apparently also affected here, and every house in the streets is hiding in their houses, and only soldiers patrol it.

The usually lively harbor can be said to be quieter at the moment.

It wasn't until the team arrived that people from every household dared to come out.

On the street, Quinn said, "I followed a Demon Hunter cadre named Hesbeth to discover the Demon Hunter's base, and he seems to be the chief scientist of the Demon Hunter. ”

"This guy has a cautious personality, I've been following him for half a month, and it's usually hard to find a chance to start. It is only today that I have found an opportunity. ”

With that, she came to the side of the road, kicked down a barrel crate, and out of it rolled out a demon seeker who had been tied up with a lot of flowers.

He was dressed as a cadre of the Demon Finder, and he couldn't make a sound with something stuffed in his mouth, but when he saw Jiawen III and Lu Qi and the others, he still showed shocked and frightened eyes.

At a glance, he knew that the regimental commander's plan had failed.

At this moment, his heart was cold, and he knew that his ending would not be much better.

"He's weak, but he's clearly a core player in the incident. The door to the secret base was locked, and he must have known how to open it. ”

Quinn stepped forward and pulled the stuff from Hesbeth's mouth.

Hesbeth didn't know whether he was weak or panicked, he gasped a few times, turned over and made a kneeling position, and slammed his head on the ground: "Your Majesty spares your life!" ”

Jiawen III looked at him without the slightest pity: "Spare you, how should I explain to the crowd behind me." ”

The sin of rebellion, how to forgive.

Most of those mages were used by people with intentions, but what really persecuted them was the oppression that Demacia had been all along.

The real heinous ones are those who are secretly plotting the rebellion behind them.

Hessbeston's face was as dead as death, and he trembled with fear.

The people brought him to the entrance of the Demon Hunter's base, which was located on the negative level of the sewer at the bend, where the colossus could only stand outside, and he was receiving the curious and reverent gaze of the crowd, and it seemed that he was enjoying it.

When people enter the waterway, the water circulation system inside is running, and they have to continue walking a little further.

Until, people stopped in front of a heavy iron door that covered the entire space, and the iron door was reinforced with forbidden magic stones, which were afraid that it would be difficult to break through easily.

Here, there were a few demon seekers guarding it, but at the first time, they were subdued by the secret guards sent by Zhao Xin.

Luch looked at Hesbeth, who was already full of despair, and humanly offered him a chance: "Do you want to live or die?" ”

Hearing this, Hesbeth hurriedly raised his head: "Of course I want to live." ”

"Alright, I'll give you two options." Lu Qi smiled gently: "First, you know that there is a kind of torture called a thousand knives in our country, which is to punish those who have committed the most heinous crimes, cutting off their flesh and blood one by one, but it will not let him die easily. ”

"The second option, that is, be decent, kill directly with a knife, you choose one."

Hessbeth, who had been showing a little expectant expression, suddenly turned white as white as white ash when he heard this, and he looked at the gentle smile on Luqi's face in shock.

At this moment, the smile was like that of a demon.

"I choose. The second. ”

However, in such a situation, Hessbeth naturally knew how to choose.

Because he knows that even if he doesn't do anything, the secret behind this iron door can't be hidden from everyone.

When the secret behind this door is made public, he may not have a chance to choose, and what awaits him is afraid that it will only be a choice.

Instead of this, it is better to choose two.

He stepped forward, the rope was loose, reached out, groped for a moment in the iron door, and pressed into a groove.

Pressed his hand in, there was obviously a password mechanism inside, he buckled something, adjusted it up and down a few times, as if entering the password-like pattern, the sound of gears interlocking sounded in the iron door.

Finally, with a "click", the iron door slowly opened.

When the iron gate was opened, the people continued to go deeper.

Since it is a water bay in front of it, this secret base of the demon seekers is actually built in the sewers.

Walking on the steps, torches are lit up and the tunnel is lit.

After a few steps, there was another iron door.

"It's like a military place."

Luch glanced at Hessbeth.

The latter understood, stepped forward again, and opened the iron door, but this time his hand trembled slightly.

When the door opened, the space inside was a little larger, and some moans of pain could be heard faintly.

When the firelight illuminated the inside, one after another small iron cages appeared in people's eyes, like animal cages, and each one contained a mage in it.

And in the passages of the walls, there are also large cages, each of which has multiple mages.

Their expressions were far more desperate than those in the dungeons of the royal capital, and their faces were even worse.

When he saw the light of the fire, he immediately shrank into the corner of the wall in fright, and there was nowhere to hide, leaning the iron rod as if hiding from something terrifying.

There was blood everywhere, on the irons of the cages, on the ground, and on the mages.

Many people could smell the faint smell of blood in the air, and the Demon Seeker sprayed a perfume to cover up the smell, but they were still able to smell it.

The scene in front of me was like straying into some terrifying scene.

It's eerie and weird, just like the cult base that Lu Qi went to in the first place.

The people who saw this were already frowning, and Gavin III ordered: "Open these cages." ”

Seeing this scene, he already had a premonition, but he didn't dare to think about it.

Just thinking about it makes my heart feel like it is stinging.

When he thought of it, it was all because he turned a blind eye, and his heart was sour and unbearable.

The mages in the cage were released, many of them dying, as if they had been drained of blood.

When they saw that some of these mages were missing arms, some were missing legs, and some were even missing eyeballs, people couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

There is a kind of pain called "It hurts to look at".

Further on, there is another iron door.

Behind the iron gate, a group of mages were also imprisoned, and the number of mages imprisoned here has exceeded a hundred.

There are men and women, old and young, and the youngest is estimated to be in his twenties.

None of them were in good shape, and the desperate look of the frequency collapse was distressing just to look at.

After the third iron door, there are no more mages.

It's a workbench. To be exact, it was more like an operating table, and I could vaguely see that there was still some residual blood on it.

You can see the neat surgical tools on both sides of the wall.

Continue deeper, behind the fourth iron gate.

It's like a storage room, with rows of shelves neatly lined with glass bottles and jars.

At this moment, many people let out an exclamation, and then covered their mouths, their pupils shrunk, but their eyes widened.

It was as if I had fallen into the cold water of the river, and my whole body began to stiffen.

Inside these bottles and jars were severed limbs, stumps, eyes, hearts, internal organs, and even skin, which were soaked in a liquid and floated slightly.

Every glass jar is like this, and the scene is terrifying.

With a little association, people instantly realize where these things come from.

"You guys. . . Doing human experiments with mages? ”

Gavin III's voice trembled a little, he couldn't imagine that such a thing could happen right under his nose.

Seeing that the matter was revealed, Hesbeth knew that there was nothing to admit it, and he lowered his head: "Your Majesty doesn't know something, human experiments. It started in the early years. ”

The voice fell, and the audience fell silent.

Such experiments have been going on for many years.

They can't imagine how many mages there have been over the years. Something like that has happened.

"Actually, it has nothing to do with me, even if there is a little, it is Eldred who asked me to do it."

Hesbeth lowered his head, not daring to look into people's eyes at all: "He was the first to ask me to do this, he said that if you want to understand mages, you need to know everything including their hair, toenails, skin, flesh, and internal organs. ”

"He ordered me to experiment and look for one. A way to make magic accessible to people who don't have magical powers. The first thing that came to mind was to strip these organs that had the magic of the mage from the mage and see if they could be preserved in a specific way. ”

"In his eyes, mages are not human at all, some mages died directly on the stage during the experiment, but their organs still have magical power."

Every word of Hesbeth falls, and people's mood will be a little more depressed.

Lu Qi lost a smile on his face, and looked at the scene in front of him, feeling that sometimes people are far more demonic than demons.

You know, Runeterrae doesn't have the kind of medical technology and equipment that you have in modern times.

Many surgeries, once started, are often fatal and lead to death.

Even if there are potions and medicines, I'm afraid that the demon seekers won't waste them on the mage.

If you're lucky enough not to die, probably the ending won't be much better.

It's like the mages they just saved, most of them can't be called complete people anymore.

This is the cruel truth hidden in the secret base of the demon seekers.

They use one living mage after another to carry out inhumane acts. Human experiments.

Just to explore magic.

Silas and the mages, looking at the scene in front of them, their eyes were already furious, and they clenched their fists one by one.

However, they are not the only ones who feel such emotions.

Even if they weren't mages, everyone present felt empathy.

It's a kind of anger that is born human!

Looking at Hesbeth, Luch asked, "Among these mages, are they the most heinous?" How many of them have killed people? Let's be honest. ”

"These. No one counts it at all. ”

Hesbeth felt the atmosphere of the scene like an ice cave, and his voice did not dare to raise his voice, he said cautiously: "Because in his eyes, mages are uniformly counted as inferior people, and they are of the same level as livestock. The mages who were brought here were chosen at random, and some of them were exiled. Some of them may have committed sin. But most of them are just ordinary mages. ”

Once again, this sentence makes people feel cruel.

A mage, even if he doesn't do anything, is brought here for inhuman experiments just because he is a mage.

Eyeballs gouged out, arms cut off, entrailed

Demacia's treatment of the most heinous criminals was the only way to use torture with a thousand knives.

However, most of these mages, who have done nothing, face the same torture.

What a ridiculous thing to do, and even more ridiculous for such a thing to happen in Demacia.

Who would have thought that under the surface peace of Demacia, such a dirty thing would be hidden.

However, this is just the beginning.

(End of chapter)