Three days later.

After repeated analysis of the pros and cons, Zhou Ming decided to meet the four captured members of the Blue Handcraft Union first.

Talk to them a little.

That morning.

Under the escort of an elite team of guards, Xiu Te and others were taken into the palace. In a side hall, they saw Zhou Ming sitting in the upper head, wearing a gorgeous imperial uniform.

"It's you?"

Shute was shocked and couldn't help blurting out.

"Oh~? Do you know me?" Zhou Ming asked lightly. Why is this guy so surprised?

"No, I don't know you, but I've heard of you, the respected Emperor Noctis!" Shute put his hand on his chest, bent his knees slightly, and bowed his head.

"Dear Emperor, I have also heard of you. You are my idol. I didn't expect you to be so young!" Atlam, who was standing beside him, quickly approached him.

"I have also heard of your story, dear Emperor!" Picker also bowed quickly.

"Your Majesty, peace~" Irias gave a graceful gift.

"Shut up! Your Majesty is wise and powerful, and everyone in the empire knows it. Do you think that if you have heard of His Majesty’s achievements, you can forgive your death penalty?"

Reggie, who was standing next to Zhou Ming, said with a stern face and habitually entered the black-faced singing mode.

capital offense?

Shute and others were surprised.

Atlam even shouted: "Give up your life, Your Majesty the Emperor, we just passed by a place by chance and found someone. How could this be a death sentence?"

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor, we saw a group of people making bricks at the foot of a mountain, so we ran to take a look curiously... It wasn't that true?" Picker also said.

"The place you are going to see is the construction of the empire center floating port, which is of great strategic significance to the empire. This will definitely attract some foreign spies and sabotage elements. The Orunian Empire has always been highly vigilant about these people. If you catch one, you will execute one." Zhou Ming said in a cold tone.

"Dear Your Majesty, we are not spies or sabotagers. We are here to carry out a task issued by the Federation of Trade Unions and come to find someone, without the intention of spying on the secrets of the Orunian Empire."

Atlam spoke loudly and tried his best to deny it.

"What you said doesn't count. The judges of the empire will investigate and judge you. Even so, according to your crime of trespassing into the strategic location of the empire, you will have to be sentenced to at least 10 years. So you'd better be honest and frank and strive for a lighter punishment." Zhou Ming sacrificed the imperial law and spoke out for ten years in prison.

"What...what? Ten years? We have to go to jail for at least ten years?"

Atlam's face was pale and he felt cold all over.

"Your Majesty, can you forgive us for your recklessness for the sake of the Canglan Hands Union? We are willing to apologize and promise not to commit any more... Your Majesty, the relationship between the Empire and Canglan Hands has always been good, and there should be no gaps in this matter."

Picker said that the Blue Handcraft Union has a transcendent status, and there is no one who disrespects this union in the mortal empire.

In the past few hundred years, the relationship between the Orunian Empire and the Canglan Hands Union has always been good. If the four of them were convicted of "peeping secrets" this time, they were imprisoned for at least ten years. The punishment was so severe that it would definitely affect the relationship between the Empire and the Canglan Hands!

"Ba~"

Zhou Ming patted the back of the chair he sat down and said expressionlessly: "The state has its own laws and family rules. In the territory of the Orunian Empire, no matter who violates the law, he will be severely punished. No one is the exception. Can you, the people with the blue hands, want to be above the laws of the empire?"

"Your Majesty, we don't mean this. We just want to have an opportunity to explain and prove our innocence, Your Majesty!" Picker shouted, and at this moment he felt crying without tears.

"I will give you a chance to explain, above the court of the empire." Zhou Ming said lightly.

"this--"

Picker and Atlam looked at each other, feeling a little desperate.

At least ten years of prison will soon come to their heads?

"Dear Emperor, this should be the best solution you have come up with? Killing us will offend the Canglan Hands Union. If we use a seemingly fair trial to imprison us for ten years, this will not completely offend Canglan Hands, and it will ensure that your secret will not be exposed too early. It will kill two birds with one stone. It is indeed the safest way to deal with it... Are I right, Dear Emperor?"

Shute, who had been in a state of silence just now, suddenly spoke.

Well……

Zhou Ming immediately looked at Xiu Te, and the bad expression on his face immediately disappeared, turning into a look of surprise and curiosity.

"Uh, it seems that some things seem to have been figured out by you? Tell me, let me see how much you know." Zhou Ming asked him.

"I basically all the ones I should know..."

Just as Sult was about to speak, his wife Irias next to him squeezed him with her body and said to him: "Sult, let alone, we will be killed!"

"That would be better than staying in a dark cell for ten years, not to mention..."

Xiu Te shook his head, with no fear on his face, and looked at Zhou Ming and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor has no intention of killing us, otherwise he would have died when he was arrested."

"Don't be too full of words. Whether you have any plans to kill you depends entirely on how much you have."

Zhou Ming waved his hand to the people around him and said, "Reggie, the guards in the hall, please go out for the time being. I want to talk to them alone."

"Yes, your Majesty!"

Reggie and others retreated one after another, and only five people were left in the empty hall.

"Tell me, Xu Te, tell me all the things you learned!" Zhou Ming waved his hand and signaled.

Xiu Qi nodded and said the first sentence, which made Zhou Ming's eyes ejaculate.

"First of all, the noble emperor, I think you should be the goal that the president asked us to find: the self-connected person with extraordinary talent."

"Well……"

Zhou Ming pondered for a moment, nodded, and admitted directly: "Yes, your guess is not wrong, please continue."

Seeing Zhou Ming nodding so calmly to admit, Shute and others were also surprised, and Irias's face showed even more bitterness.

"Secondly, the noble emperor, you have not only become a self-connector, but also become an "assistant" in a short period of time. The magic net walkers we met before who are suspected to be "self-connectors" should be your masterpiece." Shute continued.

"Yes, you guessed this... smart, you are very smart."

Zhou Ming admitted calmly again, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and continued to stretch out his hand and signaled: "Are there any bolder speculations that you can say all of them."

At this moment, Ilyas was desperately hitting her husband with her shoulders. She said anxiously: "Shut, don't talk anymore! Besides, we are all dead!"

"Don't worry, the more we know, the safer it will be."

Shute said his last guess in his heart with a confident look: "His Majesty the Emperor, I know you have a more ambitious plan. You may be planning to rule the entire continent or control the entire magic network... From the giant floating port under construction, you must have a very big plan in your heart!"

"Smack it!"

Zhou Ming couldn't help but plucked his palms and said with admiration: "Excellent, it's really amazing. The identity I hidden and the plan I'm ordering someone to implement are almost all guessed by you. Mr. Shute, you made me look at you with admiration, but..."

Zhou Ming then asked: "What I'm even more curious is how you infer so many things based on a little clue? What is the basis for your inference?"

"It's very simple, your Majesty, you are a genius!"

"Because your Majesty, you are a genius, you can invent hundreds of tools and objects."

"Because your Majesty, you are a genius, connecting to the magic net and becoming a self-connected person is not a problem for you."

"After becoming a self-connected person, it is reasonable to master some tricks and help others connect to the magic net."

"Finally, because your Majesty, you are a genius, your dreams and ambitions must be the greatest, and I can only imagine them to the earth."

Shute explained.

Zhou Ming suddenly realized: "It turns out that all this speculation is based on the fact that I am a 'genius'?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Xiu Te said first.

"Okay, Sult, since you have told all your guesses, in return, I will also tell you three basic situations-"

"The first situation: You are temporarily safe, I will not kill you for the time being. I plan to give you a chance to choose."

Zhou Ming stretched out a finger on his left hand, waved his right hand, and the rope tied to Xiu Te and others, broke instantly, and they regained their ability to move freely.

"Second situation: Congratulations to Sult, your wife Ilyas is pregnant, and you will soon be upgraded to become a dad."

What?

Hearing this, Sult's face changed wildly, and he quickly turned to look at his wife Irias, with surprise in his eyes.

But Ilyas shook his head at him repeatedly, his face feeling helpless.

"The third situation: to ensure that the news will not be leaked, from today on your range of activities will be limited; in addition, to prevent you from escaping, from now on, you will no longer be Magic Net Walkers."

As he said that, Zhou Ming waved his right hand in the void, and a "soul sword" was cut out, instantly cutting off the four "soul strings" extending from Xiu Te and others in the void.

"Puff~!"
Chapter completed!