“I’ll talk! I’ll tell you everything!”
Dai Lina was clearly shocked by Xia Xia’s sudden confession.
She had originally thought Xia Xia would be like those Empire Secret Guard, refusing to reveal even a single piece of information no matter what, but she hadn’t expected her to surrender so quickly.
“Hmph, I thought the Empire Secret Guard were all strictly trained and wouldn’t let a word slip. I didn’t think there would be cowards among them too.”
There was a hint of mockery in Dai Lina’s words.
Xia Xia was speechless at this, but then she quickly reconsidered. She was only a spy, not a real Empire Secret Guard. Being afraid was only natural.
She hurriedly explained:
“I’m… I’m not Empire Secret Guard!”
“Even now, you still want to argue!”
Dai Lina obviously didn’t believe her.
“Please let me finish! I’m really not Empire Secret Guard, just Intelligence Personnel!”
Xia Xia pleaded anxiously, trying to make her believe.
“Intelligence Personnel?”
Dai Lina looked at her doubtfully, as if reevaluating her identity.
“Even if you’re not Empire Secret Guard, your mission is still to investigate me, right? Just like during the Celebration.”
Xia Xia nodded, admitting Dai Lina’s guess.
She knew that being honest at this moment might win her a sliver of hope.
“That’s right, it was me who delivered the information during the Celebration too.”
Xia Xia’s voice trembled as she spoke.
“So it was you!”
Dai Lina’s anger flared at her words. She realized all this trouble started because of Xia Xia.
“I’ll kill you right now!”
Dai Lina was furious, her finger about to pull the trigger.
“Eek——!”
Xia Xia screamed in terror.
“Calm down, Li Na!”
At the crucial moment, Luna rushed forward to stop Dai Lina. The bullet whistled past, brushing through Xia Xia’s hair, narrowly missing her life.
“——!?”
Dai Lina was also stunned by this scene, realizing she had almost made an irreversible mistake.
“Thank goodness…”
Luna breathed a sigh of relief, glad she had stopped the tragedy in time.
She knew if she had been a second later, a deadly hole would have appeared in Xia Xia’s head.
Luna turned to Dai Lina, scolding her sternly:
“If you kill her, how are we supposed to get any information? The priority now is to extract all the intel.”
Dai Lina snapped out of it, guilt showing on her face.
“R-right… I’m sorry…”
Luna’s intervention calmed Dai Lina down, while Xia Xia had been scared half to death, her face pale and her body shaking.
A warm yellow liquid seeped uncontrollably from between her legs, silently testifying to her extreme fear.
She trembled all over, her voice quivering with sobs as she pleaded:
“Please, I beg you, don’t kill me!”
Tears fell from Xia Xia’s eyes like broken beads, her voice sharp and shaking with terror.
“I really don’t want to die! Wuwu…”
She tried to trade her endless tears and humble pleas for a chance to live.
Choking, she explained in broken sentences:
“I… I really didn’t mean to get involved with you! It was all a coincidence, just a coincidence!”
At her words, Dai Lina frowned, her face full of scorn and suspicion.
“Coincidence? The first time you disguised yourself to sell fried chicken at the Celebration, and the second time we caught you here, and you tell me it’s all coincidence?!”
Xia Xia nodded desperately, tears and snot streaming down her face, her voice blurred by crying.
“It’s true! I swear! It’s all coincidence! Wuwu…”
The sight left both Dai Lina and Luna dumbfounded.
They had never seen such a cowardly, terrified person claiming to be Intelligence Personnel.
“What should we do, Li Na?”
Luna turned to Dai Lina, full of doubt.
“She really does seem like she’s telling the truth.”
Luna studied Xia Xia’s desperate, pleading eyes, finding no sign of deception.
Dai Lina was momentarily at a loss for words.
Naturally, she didn’t want to believe Xia Xia, but faced with her hysterical crying, she couldn’t help but waver, thinking Xia Xia might really be telling the truth.
Sensing her chance, Xia Xia quickly explained:
“It’s true! I just wanted to make some money at the Celebration, I never thought I’d run into you there. It really was a coincidence!”
To prove her innocence, Xia Xia added urgently:
“If you don’t believe me, you can check! I have records of winning the right to set up a stall at the Youle Yuan Qingdian! That should clear my name!”
Her sincere words made Dai Lina and Luna believe her a little more.
“Sigh…”
Dai Lina sighed in frustration.
She hadn’t expected to encounter a situation like this, where her usual interrogation techniques were completely useless.
She looked at Xia Xia, her gaze helpless, but her tone was still aggressive.
“I’ll tentatively believe you’re telling the truth, but if even a single word is a lie, next time the bullet won’t just hit the wall.”
As she spoke, Dai Lina put away her gun, easing the tense atmosphere.
Seeing this, Xia Xia showed a look of relief.
However, Dai Lina’s warning wasn’t over.
“But even if you’re telling the truth now, if you can’t answer the remaining questions…”
She deliberately paused, then spoke coldly,
“There will be a hole in your head too.”
In Dai Lina’s eyes, there could be no relaxation when dealing with prisoners. She had to make sure to get all valuable information from Xia Xia.
Xia Xia felt Dai Lina’s threat, but at this point, she had no way out.
“Y-yes… Whatever you want to ask, I’ll answer.”
Dai Lina nodded, then began her questioning.
“Alright, tell me. How many Empire Secret Guard infiltrated here, like you?”
Xia Xia answered truthfully:
“Ten, ma’am! Including three squads and Colonel Hamos, who led the operation. They all got in.”
To save her life, Xia Xia also explained how they infiltrated and how to identify them, hoping to dispel Dai Lina’s urge to shoot her.
When Xia Xia finished, Dai Lina and Luna both broke out in a cold sweat.
“Nine Empire Secret Guard possessed students, and the most dangerous one is…”
Dai Lina’s voice was heavy.
She looked at Luna, remembering clearly how Colonel Hanmos had disguised himself as Luna, as Xia Xia had just described.
“Are you… really Luna?”
There was a trace of doubt in Dai Lina’s tone.
Luna answered unhappily,
“Is there a fake one?”
But then she realized the seriousness of the problem.
No, there really could be a fake!
Luna’s heart tightened.
To prove her identity, she described in detail her first meeting with Dai Lina, finally easing Dai Lina’s suspicion.
At that moment, Xia Xia, still the prisoner, suddenly interrupted.
“Actually, ma’am… Hanmos’s Disguise Technique still has flaws. He can’t easily mimic the eyes, so you can tell just by looking at them.”
Xia Xia said.
She had noticed the difference in Luna’s eyes when Hanmos impersonated her, and now shared this observation with Luna and Dai Lina.
“The eyes…”
Dai Lina muttered, looking closely at Luna’s eyes again.
She saw Luna’s heterochromatic eyes shimmering gold and red, unique and enchanting—something Hanmos could never imitate.
“I didn’t even notice, Xiao Lu.”
“Hm?”
Luna looked at her, puzzled.
“Now that I see, your eyes are really special.”
Dai Lina’s gaze lingered on Luna’s eyes, as if captivated by their mysterious light.
Luna gave a self-deprecating laugh.
“I’ve had them since I was a child. Strange, isn’t it? People always called me a freak.”
“I think they’re beautiful.”
Dai Lina said sincerely.
It wasn’t meant to comfort Luna, but was her true feeling.
“Thank you…”