"Guys, what on earth are they trying to do?" He wanted to continue gathering intelligence.
"I'm not sure, but they've cleared out a separate room over there. I guess they want to do an assembly line interrogation? They seem to suspect that there's something wrong with us..."
“……” He had a more ominous feeling.
This premonition soon came true. As Grimm came over to confirm the notice, Pippen and the others realized that this was indeed an interrogation.
But the two sides are not fixed, and members of Team 17 will also be interrogated.
"They are messing around!" Hem also changed his clothes and appeared on the street. After hearing this decision, he stomped his feet again, "What does this have to do with us?"
Pippen agreed with him, but he still... gave his partner an extra look.
"The first wave will be disrupted in order..." Grim was still explaining the rules. "Among us, I, Ovis, Blit and others are also on the first list. If we have no problems, the captain will also be interrogated by Agent Anmi..."
"Can you tell us what she suspects?" someone asked loudly. "We have to know the reason, right?"
"The reason is that there is a traitor among us." Grimm hesitated, "If we can't find this person, all our subsequent plans may be ruined."
"traitor?"
"What traitor?"
"What is the act of a traitor?"
"Hide the movements of the parasite?"
"Or should we tip off the Slit-Mouth Wolf?"
But this did not satisfy the police officers, and they kept asking more questions. It took Grim a long time to calm them down.
These people are too nervous.
As he stepped down, the black agent wiped his sweat.
First, his colleagues were isolated in a thatched house as suspects, and then he himself began to be suspected. Add to that the environment and situation...
If we tell them that the Ash Legion is still guarding outside and may blow this place to the ground at any time, many of them will definitely collapse.
This sudden interrogation soon officially began.
The police officers lined up and entered the small house one by one.
The people who came out breathed a sigh of relief.
They were put aside separately and were not allowed to communicate with others.
Those who had not yet entered had tense expressions and were secretly watching each other.
Soon it was Pippen's turn.
The corner of Pippen's mouth twitched because he noticed that Zafira, who was standing guard at the door, suddenly raised his head and looked at him meaningfully.
I don't think I've revealed any flaws, right?
Pippen was terribly panicked.
So he walked into the cabin and sat down on a chair, facing the darkness.
There was no light in the room, only a small candle lighting the middle, while the front and sides were almost pitch black.
This is probably to simulate the interrogation scene at the headquarters and increase psychological pressure on the person being interrogated.
"Tell me what you have done during this period of time."
The voices of Xia Yibing and Agent An Mi came from the darkness.
Despite his uneasiness, Pippen answered a few questions.
He gradually regained his composure.
Because he found that these problems were quite common, and if they were all of this kind of problems, there should be no problem in passing the interrogation.
"You can go now, Orvis."
At the end of the interrogation, Xia Yibing finally used this sentence to "declare him not guilty."
Pippen heaved a sigh of relief and stood up from his chair.
"Anmi isn't here right now."
He heard Xia Yibing say another sentence.
"He asked me to urge you to act quickly."
Pippen was stunned.
At that moment, the door was slammed shut.
His face changed drastically, and he realized instantly that he was exposed!
They are all professionals, and his instant reaction, whether it was confusion or questioning, those changes in expression could not be hidden from his colleagues.
"His spirit is fluctuating."
He also heard Hitzfeld's voice.
"I saw a little bit of his dream..."
Yes.
That's what Hitzfeld came up with.
Each person on trial would go through the same process as before. At that moment, their inner fluctuations would be fed back to their spiritual thoughts, and she could... use this eye to more or less tell whether they were lying.
Due to the limitations of the situation, this method is not very clever, and can even be said to be rigid and stupid.
But it doesn’t matter, as long as it works.
“I still don’t understand it.”
Pippen sat down dejectedly.
"Why did you look for the suspect outside the thatched house?"
"And the way Mr. Zafira looked at me...don't tell me you've already suspected me?"
"Not completely, but a little bit."
Hitzfeld slowly walked from the darkness into the light.
"When did it start?"
"Since you pretended to stay in the yard for the sake of appearances."
"That was one of the few opportunities for you to act alone, Pippen-Ovis. If you had to find someone suspicious in Team 17, you would be the most suspicious since you got this opportunity."
"It seems my disguise is not good enough."
Pippen smiled bitterly.
"Tell me, what do you want to know?"
He accepted his fate.
"In that case." Hitzfeld nodded. "Explain who you work for and why you asked someone to remind me of... Ethan's problem."
Chapter 48: The Tip of the Iceberg
"I work for Mr. Daniel Vista," Pippen said. "The reason I'm passing that information to you is because... I suspect Ethan Doyle is a traitor to humanity."
What kind of answer is this?
At this moment, Xia Yibing and Agent An Mi, who were still hiding in the dark, both widened their eyes.
I thought the real traitor had been caught, but Pippen's words showed that... he might have been wronged?
Of course, this doesn't mean that he has no problems at all - he is obviously not the same kind of person as them - but that his actions and the people who gave him instructions behind the scenes may not be bad for Sarah or human civilization.
"You don't think I'm having an affair with the Slit-Mouth Wolf, do you?"
Pippen reacted quickly. He obviously sensed something different in the silence and quickly defended himself: "That's not the case! Listen carefully... Villefort was not the only one who knew that something was wrong with the incident forty years ago. The royal family knew it, and Mr. Vesta naturally knew it too. But protecting Ethan Doyle was an agreement that Villefort had made with His Majesty. We can't interfere. We can only influence him from the side and find an opportunity to expose his true colors..."
"Wait." Hitzfeld interrupted him, "I don't understand... Why do you think Ethan Doyle is problematic?"
"You didn't know?" Pippen looked at her in surprise. "I thought you had already concluded that 'Elnak Town is just an experimental site'!"
"Experimental field?"
"Don't you think about it, if those bastards can accurately control where those seeds are and at what time period, why don't they just move this location to Wayne Port?"
"Of course you can say that this is because Phil Lawrence, the seed, doesn't know that he has a problem. His whereabouts, where he stays, and whether there is a problem with his condition are all uncertain...but doesn't this mean that it is unstable?"
"Moreover, there is a force in Wayne Harbor that is against Your Majesty!" He said decisively, "This force is so strong that some of Your Majesty's orders are difficult to implement! Mr. Vista suspects that Villefort may have been bewitched by those people. Is that a problem?"
"So based on this assumption, you suspect that it is Team 17 that was transferred here... This matter itself is highly suspicious." Hitzfeld murmured.
First of all, we need to determine the original cause: the theft of the Broken Sword Fragments and the Book of Roaring.
Villefort could find ten thousand reasons to prove that this matter had nothing to do with him, but he was undoubtedly responsible. It was this point that aroused the suspicion of Vesta and others. They felt that Villefort might have betrayed them, and the two storage items were his token of allegiance.
It is logical that they would be extremely wary of Villefort's direct subordinate Squad 17 and of themselves who have a close relationship with the captain of Squad 17.
Vesta considers the town of El Nak to be an experimental field.
There must be experimental tasks in the experimental field.
He felt that this mission was not as simple as testing a Seed of Destruction. If he took into account the suspicion of Villefort's betrayal, there might be a hidden agent of the other side in Team 17.
The most likely person could only be Ethan.
He suspected that Ethan was also part of the experiment.
The mission he was sent to the town of Elnac by Villefort was what Pippen wanted to investigate and stop.
She almost understood Pippen's role.
He is indeed a traitor.
But he was only a traitor to the Seventeenth Squad, a traitor to Villefort. He only betrayed these concepts.
Although he worked for Daniel Vista and was a pawn he had planted in the Security Bureau, the goal of these people was not to subvert anything. They were still trying to protect the royal power and were still thinking about how to become the sharp sword of Sarah VII.
From a national perspective, their approach is correct.
"How much information do you know about the Death Tree?" Xia Yibing and An Mi also walked out of the darkness. "Tell us everything you know. There's no need to hide it now."
"Even if you don't do it, I will find a way to remind you." Pippen said while looking around.
"Where's Ethan Doyle?"
"You won't let Ethan Doyle be here too?"
"He's not here." Hitzfeld's eyes flickered. "He's been sent on a special mission... Just tell me what you know."
"Okay." Pippen breathed a sigh of relief again, "Listen... what I'm about to say may subvert your perception, so you'd better be mentally prepared."
Hitzfeld and Xia Yibing remained indifferent.
Only Agent Anmi's throat moved slightly.
"I said before that there are people in Wayne Port who are against His Majesty." Pippen said seriously, "These people... this force may have existed for a long, long time. They may be older than the Slit-Mouth Wolf and have been lurking among those false believers!"
Hitzfeld and Xia Yibing looked at him as if he were a fool.
"...Aren't you surprised?" Pippen was stunned.
Only Agent Anmi "gassed", which was in line with his expected reaction. The other two did not move at all, as if they had known this for a long time.
"So," Hitzfeld said, "Vestal... His Majesty pushed him to the forefront. The purpose of your existence is not only to check the power held by the Director of the Security Bureau, but also to secretly investigate who has joined this organization."
"exactly."
That would explain it.
Hitzfeld remembered that Annual Ring once complained that she didn't understand what Vesta was doing, and she clearly mentioned that the actual power of the Balance Security Bureau was the Flint Knights!
She knew more than anyone else present, and she was obviously reminding and hinting at Hitzfeld, leading her to guess the true functions of those people at Vesta.
Unfortunately, she didn't notice it at all at the time.
"How is your investigation going?" she continued to ask.
"Not very good." Pippen shook his head. "My position is not high, and I have little access to intelligence information. As you know, undercover agents cannot communicate too much, or they will be easily exposed... But I can judge the general situation from the situation. We should be at a disadvantage."
"The Thorn Birds Alliance?" Hitzfeld uttered a word.
