(2-in-1 Chapter)

As soon as he realized that something was wrong, Solandale suddenly asked anxiously, "Why didn't you tell Brother Bolton about these things when he came to Danyu City?!" ”

Ma Ban said unwillingly: "I don't have a chance... After the Dragon Fire Festival, all the guards who were guarding the granary that night disappeared mysteriously, and I was also subjected to several waves of assassinations, but fortunately they all escaped... On the day Prince Bolton came, I was so busy with myself that I couldn't get close to him. ”

Speaking of this, Mamada looked around and said quickly, "Your Highness, I have said everything I can tell you. You must leave quickly, and the people of Gomex must not see me with you, or they will obstruct your investigation in every way. ”

"Farewell, Your Highness. The millions of creatures in Danyu City... It's all in your hands! ”

After Ma Ban left, Solandale raised his head and looked in the direction of the Ruling Mansion, his gaze became deeper and deeper, and his immature voice was full of oppression: "Gomer, Lin Gengsen, what do you want to do..."

The various conditions described by Ma Ban convinced Solandale that there must be something wrong with the fire at the Dragon Fire Festival in Danyu City, and as for what the problem was, she had not yet found out the clue.

But one thing is certain, there is nothing seamless in this world, and no matter how well these officials in Danyu City are hidden, they must have left clues in some places.

And this place is most likely the place where the fire occurred during the Dragon Fire Festival - the Eight Great Granaries.

Solandelle secretly came to the vicinity of the granary, the original eight granaries have been destroyed by fire, and the current granary was temporarily built on the ruins after the incident, very simple, all of them are tents.

According to the Dogourand Emergency Law, during the disaster relief period, civilians can go to the local granary every day to receive a certain amount of relief food with their identification.

Of course, the aristocracy can also receive it, but they generally do not do such "humiliating" things.

Slaves who are defined as animals and do not enjoy civil rights are not treated in this way.

Solandale had previously forged identification with Chino's help, and with her dirty face and clothes, there was no sense of disobedience in blending into the crowd.

At this time, there was already a long queue outside the tent, all of which were civilians waiting to receive relief food.

Solandelle lined up in the line, in order to avoid startling the grass and snakes and revealing her identity, she even took off the red rope "thread" in her hand and buried it under a tree, and then queued for more than two hours, and finally it was her turn.

The new grain officer, who was in charge of the cashier, was sitting in a chair with a cigarette in his mouth, and there was no open fire in the granary, so he chewed on the tobacco and sucked it, shaking his legs.

The grain officer casually took Solandale's identification card, checked it and looked at her.

The grain officer's eyes were quite good, even if Solandelle was ragged and dirty like a little flower, he could still recognize the delicate facial features, his expression became smiling, he returned his identity certificate, and pretended to be careless and said: "Give me a bag, not half a bag." ”

Solandale looked at the grain officer in shock, and said unwillingly: "During the disaster relief period, each person receives one bag of relief grain per day, which is a legal provision, how can there be a reason to only give half a bag if you don't touch it?!" ”

The grain officer didn't say anything, just casually took the cigarette and put it under his nose and sniffed it, as if he hadn't said anything just now.

Seeing this, the soldier next to him shook his legs and said, "Half a bag to the left." ”

Solandale gritted her teeth, glanced at them angrily, and walked to the left without saying a word.

Before she could enter the curtain tent, the next civilian came in again, and the voice of the grain officer sounded again: "Touch one bag, not half a bag." ”

Solandale subconsciously turned around and found that it was a little girl of her age who walked in.

The little girl was confused, took out two identification documents, and said in a milk voice: "Uncle, my mother is sick, can I take her share home?" ”

The grain officer glanced at the identification certificate, and showed that disgusting smile again: "Then will you accompany your uncle to play games in the back?" As long as you are well-behaved, your uncle will give you three bags. ”

When the little girl heard that she could take an extra bag, she hurriedly nodded and agreed, so that she could go back and boil a few more bowls of porridge for her mother!

Seeing that the little girl was led to the curtain on the right by the grain officer, Solandale cried out in a lost voice: "Don't! ”

The little girl was startled, and looked back blankly, looking at Solandelle at a loss.

Looking at the little girl's clear gaze, Solandelle only felt like a knife in her heart, but she couldn't do anything.

If she reveals her identity, even if the food official doesn't believe it, she will be more or less empty, and the little girl in front of her will be saved from being poisoned.

However, this also means that the news will quickly reach the ruling office, and it will be difficult to find any more clues.

No clues can be found, and as soon as the 24-hour time limit arrives, the lives of more than 6 million people in Danyu City will be unpredictable.

The people in front of you, all the living beings... She could only save one side.

"I'm sorry—" Solandale's lips quivered, her eyes clouded with water.

The commissar glanced at the soldier, motioned for him to take the man away, and then led the little girl himself to the right side of the tent.

The little girl looked back at Solandale blankly, her eyes as clear as the water of a lake without impurities, and finally disappeared from Solandale's sight as the curtain fell.

Two girls of the same age have gone to very different destinies.

...

Solandale was taken to the left side of the tent, where the soldier took a palm-sized bag and nonchalantly filled it with food with a shovel.

Time was ticking, and every minute and second were crucial, and Solandale had no time to be sad, scanning around while the soldiers were loading their food, trying to find possible clues.

Where is it...

Where is it...

Where is it...

Where are the clues that hide the truth...

"Hey." Suddenly, the soldier's voice rang out, and he pointed to the half bag of grain on the table, "Take it, the next person is coming." ”

Solandale was already sweating with nervousness, and she stood there pretending not to hear, her eyes wandering around.

"Do you have a problem with your ears?" The soldier came over and shoved Solandale and yelled, "Grab the bag and fuck off!" ”

Solandelle staggered, but before she could steady, she caught a glimpse of something pitch-black in the corner of the wall where the soldier had been standing.

It was some soot scattered in the corner of the wall, so fine that you couldn't notice it if you didn't stare at it, and it was very likely that it was left over from the cleaning of the granary.

Solandale didn't know if the soot was useful, but it was the only clue that could be seen right now, and it had to be tried anyway.

She secretly peeked at the soldiers, if she just picked it up in such an open and honest way, it would definitely attract attention, and she must find a way to divert her attention.

So, without saying a word, she walked to the table, and when she took the grain bag, she deliberately shook her hand, so that the bag fell to the ground, and the wheat kernels contained in it were sprinkled on the ground.

"cubs!" The soldier exploded directly, rushed over and kicked Solandelle's waist violently, scolding, "Lao Tzu just finished cleaning today, do you want to die?!" ”

Solandale couldn't afford such a kick, and the whole person was kicked out like a ball and slammed into the wall.

The soldier felt still angry, and came over to step on and kick Solandale, slapping her head more than a dozen times in a row, and the nosebleeds did not stop, swearing while beating: "Cub seed!" Cub Seed! I'm going to kill you! ”

Solandelle has been pampered since she was a child, and she has been cared for by everyone in the palm of her hand, and she usually bumps and bumps it will make her father and queen mother nervous, at most, when she made a mistake in the academy, she was beaten in the palm of her hand by Yuanwen's ring ruler, when did she suffer this kind of beating? It hurt so much that tears flowed out.

She struggled to curl up in the corner, protecting her head on one side and hiding behind her with the other, and squeezed a handful of soot into her pocket, because the range of movement was small, and the soldiers were patronizing and beating people, and did not notice the action.

Getting the soot, Solandale stumbled outside, and the soldier chased her out in three or two steps, and kicked her to the ground again: "Run? Keep running! ”

Running all the way, being kicked all the way, Solandale was kicked from inside the account to outside the account by the soldiers, and fell to the ground with bruises all over his arms, and he almost couldn't get up when he fell to the ground.

The ordinary people outside were afraid of angering the soldiers, and when the time came to give food, they were short of two catties, and none of them dared to meddle in their affairs, so they could only look at her with sympathetic eyes.

"Bang!" The soldier finally gave Solandale a kick in the stomach, pointed at her and scolded, ", get out!" See you once hit you once! ”

After the soldier left, Solandale gasped on the ground for several minutes before dragging his bruised body to his feet, staggering to the corner of the tree, and digging out the red rope threads buried in the earth.

"Uhhhh

One is the pain, it hurts so much, the head, face, arms, stomach, legs... It hurts everywhere, and I can't hold back my tears.

The second is the pathos in my heart, I was beaten like this after only being a "civilian" in Danyu City for a few hours, so how much oppression have the civilians who really lived here suffered? She simply couldn't imagine...

Solandale leaned against the tree and cried for a long time, until her legs no longer hurt so much that she could walk, then she staggered to her feet, washed the blood from her face with stagnant water, and clutched her soot bag to the barracks where the Death Legion was stationed.

At the gate of the barracks, Niko, who was patrolling here, took Solandelle in as soon as she saw her.

At the military tent office, Chino is working on official documents here, and Lorna is in a daze.

As soon as Solandelle walked in, Lorna exclaimed, "You're back!" How did it get like this?! Hurry up and wash and change your clothes, it's so sinful! ”

Chino just wanted to ask about the progress, when suddenly his eyes were fixed, and he frowned and asked, "Are you injured?" ”

Solandelle didn't want to make a fuss, if she said now that she had been beaten in the granary, what would Chino do without mentioning it, and Lorna would definitely go over with a knife to ask for the crime, and the situation would be messed up again.

"It's nothing, it's not raining outside, and I fell while walking." Solandale lied about her injuries.

Lorna clenched Solandale's hand, looked at the wound on her arm, and her eyes were red with distress: "Tell you not to go, you have to go!" It turned out to be like this... In the future, you are not allowed to act alone! ”

Lorna's words reminded Solandelle of the helplessness when she was beaten in the granary, her eyes were hot for a while, she forced the sourness of her nose to squeeze out a reluctant smile: "Okay, okay, okay, isn't it okay." By the way, No, I'll bring you something. ”

Solandale carefully opened her pocket and shook the soot onto the table.

Chino stared at the soot and asked suspiciously, "What is this?" ”

Solandale explained, "I met Maban on the street today, the former grain officer of Danyu City, who was involved in the firefighting operation on the night of the Dragon Fire Festival. I learned from him that the fire in the granary that night was very strange, and it burned like a burning fire, and the water could not extinguish it, and I suspected that the source of the fire was a desert fire. ”

Lorna exclaimed, "Desert fire? How can it be! That's a military regulated product! And who will put the desert fire in the granary? ”

Solandale shook her head and said, "That's what I'm not thinking about. I think there are two possibilities - either Danyu City was destroyed by hostile forces, and the desert fire in the granary was arranged by the enemy in order to sabotage the royal family's plan. Or..."

Chino narrowed his eyes slightly, and said the words behind Solandelle: "Either the officials of Danyu City set the fire themselves." ”

Solandale nodded and said silently, "So, on the day of the fire on the Dragon Fire Festival, what was burned in the granary... If it was really grain, then the possibility of hostile damage was relatively high, after all, the officials of Danyu City had no reason to burn the good grain. ”

"But what if, the granary that day was burned not at all, but something else..."Solandelle pursed her lips, staring at the soot on the table, and whispered, "I just took the opportunity to receive the food into the granary, and found this soot in the corner. ”

"I don't know if this soot proves anything... After all, it's burned like this, and you can't tell what it was at all... But that's the only clue I can find. ”

As soon as he heard Solandale enter the granary alone, Chino's gaze became deeper and deeper, and he suddenly reached out and put his hand on Solandale's dirty little face, and pulled her hair back, staring at the scars on her face.

Solandelle subconsciously wanted to bow his head, but Chino pinched his chin and lifted it, so he could only lower his eyes and let him look at it.

Chino's eyes were open, and he could vaguely see blood spreading from the corners of his eyes to the center, and his pupils were almost dilated to the entire iris.

I don't know how long it took, Chino slowly withdrew his hand, without any expression on his face, but it was also the most terrifying: "Lorna, you take Solandel back to rest first, and I will handle all the rest of the matter." ”

"Okay." Lorna was careless, didn't notice anything unusual, and nodded stupidly.

Solandale knows that everything she can can has already been done, and it is up to people to do things, so let's leave everything to someone she trusts.

After the two girls left, Chino packed the soot that Solandelle had brought back with him in a small box and walked out of the tent.

Seeing that Chino had the intention of leaving the camp, Niko asked, "My lord, where are you going?" ”

"Don't come along." Chino only gave a brief order without much explanation.

"Yes." Niko is also very self-conscious, and doesn't care.

Chino: "Lugo." ”

Lugo, who was smoking with the soldiers, stood up: "Yes. ”

"All the officers and soldiers who are on duty in the granary today have their names found out." After Chino said this, his figure disappeared into the night.

Lugo stared at the direction where Chino disappeared for a long time, couldn't help but gasp, and stabbed the soldier's waist with his elbow: "... Do you see his face? ”

"What expression?" It was too dark for the soldiers to notice.

Lugo muttered, "I've only seen that look once. ”

The soldier had not long since arrived, and did not understand what he meant, and asked curiously, "And then?" ”

Lugo shook his head and rubbed his goosebump-covered arm: "It's scary... You'd better not know..."