Dean looked at him but didn't say anything. He slowly got into the carriage.
The whole carriage was made of steel. It was extremely strong. Even with his current strength, it would be difficult to break it.
The middle-aged man saw that Dean didn't resist. He curled his lips and locked the carriage. He jumped to the front and sat down. He said to the coachman: "Let's go. We'll send this kid over. He'll have a good time."
"He's so young but he dares to hook up with a noble lady. He doesn't know what kind of trash he is."
"You want to reach the sky in a single bound? Ridiculous."
"It's been a long time since we've had fresh goods. Our hands are itching."
"This kind of soft skin and tender flesh is the most popular."
"Still a fledgling, ha ha …"
Both of them talked and laughed as they drove away. There were four knights escorting them on both sides of the carriage.
Dean sat cross-legged in the carriage as he looked at the scenery along the way. After leaving the town, they entered the desolate radiation zone. They occasionally encountered beast attacks along the way but were easily killed by the knights escorting them along the way.
After passing through the border fortress's inspection, everyone entered the fortress and came to a remote wilderness. In the distance, there was a prison towering there.
The carriage stopped in front of the prison. The middle-aged man opened the cage and said: "Come down."
Dean jumped out of the carriage and said: "I want to appeal."
"You can only groan now." The middle-aged man sneered, "Do you think you still have a chance to go to court? From the moment you arrived here, you have been a mute. No one will hear your words. When the ruling notice comes down, you will have no chance to turn things around. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for overestimating yourself. You should have been a hunter and earned wealth for the consortium. Why did you have to seduce a noble lady? You're courting death!"
Dean stared at him coldly: "Are you the warden?"
The middle-aged man sneered: "Do you think that you will have a chance to see the warden with me here? It's easy to cover up a kid with no identity or background like you. Do you really think that you can be protected with your identity as a trainee magistrate? "
Dean took a deep breath and clenched his fingers: "Thank you for your teachings." Then he punched him in the face.
With a bang, the middle-aged man fell backward. His nose was broken, and blood flowed out.
Everyone was shocked by the sudden attack. No one expected that Dean would dare to sneak attack the warden in front of the prison gate.
The middle-aged man fell to the ground, covering his face with one hand, desperately trying to stop the blood. He screamed: "Kill him!"
Knights of the magistrate pulled out their weapons. Spears and swords of the magistrate rushed towards Dean.
However, Dean didn't fight with them as they had imagined. Instead, he turned around and ran! As he ran, he shouted at the top of his lungs, "Murder, murder!!"
His voice traveled into the prison, and in an instant, many people rushed over from the prison castle.
"Stop!"
The prison gate was pulled open, and seven or eight people ran out. The leader was a woman wearing glasses. She had a hot figure. She angrily shouted as she saw Dean and the eight knights of the magistrate running away.
The eight knights of the magistrate quickly stopped and looked at each other.
Dean immediately ran in front of the woman and said: "They have received black money to kill me. I want to appeal. Are you the warden?"
The woman looked at him and slightly frowned: "I'm the secretary of the warden. If you want to appeal, I can help you apply. But I don't know if the higher-ups will approve it or not."
Dean was overjoyed: "Thank you, thank you."
The middle-aged man covered his nose and came over. His face was ugly as he looked at Dean. His eyes were full of killing intent and anger. He said to the woman: "Secretary Leah, this kid was the first to complain. He obviously wanted to sneak attack me to escape. Attacking the warden is a serious crime. He should be executed immediately!"
The woman's face sank: "Look at your embarrassing appearance. You were beaten by a child. It's a disgrace. Also, you better pay attention to your words. We are only responsible for the detention of prisoners. We don't have the right to execute them. Don't talk nonsense and implicate the entire prison. "
The middle-aged man's face changed as he bowed his head: "Yes."
The woman turned to Dean and said in a cold voice: "You better behave after entering the prison. No matter what the reason is, I won't let you off lightly."
Dean immediately nodded. His attitude was very sincere.
The woman looked at the middle-aged man: "Send him in, but you don't need to be responsible for supervising him. I will arrange someone else to come over." She turned and left.
After she left, the middle-aged man turned his head and looked at Dean fiercely. He lowered his voice and said, "Little devil, don't think that your life can be safe. As long as I am here, I will absolutely make you wish you were dead!"
Dean said in a cold voice: "Still not leading the way?"
The middle-aged man clenched his fists in anger, but gritted his teeth and continued to lead the way.
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In a luxurious office on the top floor of the prison.
"Oh? This kid turned out to be a hunter. " In front of the desk, a bald man was sitting on a chair. He took the information from Leah's secretary and scanned it. His eyebrows slightly raised: "A hunter from the Mellon consortium has committed the crime of theft? Interesting, interesting. Moreover, the dog raised by the Mellon consortium has personally delivered it to me. This is the first time I've seen a consortium wanting to cut down their own money tree. You should immediately talk to the Mellon consortium about this matter and see their reaction. "
Leah's secretary was puzzled: "What about the appeal?"
"If the Mellon consortium wants to kill him, then we will sell them face and help them cover it up. Of course, the fees can't be reduced. This is free money. How can we not earn it?" The bald middle-aged man smiled and said, "Moreover, this matter is also beneficial to our consortium."
"I know." Leah's secretary nodded.
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Dean sat in an independent prison cell, quietly waiting.
"I don't know if the Mellon consortium will bribe the warden after they get the news." He was worried, "I have to think of other ways to get out. As long as I can get the opportunity to appeal, then I will have the opportunity to prove that I am wronged."
"Unfortunately, no one can bail me out. Even if they have a little background."
"But if they have a little background, then they will collapse under the pressure of the Mellon consortium."
"I don't know if Aunt Jura will be implicated by me."
"Damn!"
His heart was sullen, angry, and a trace of fear.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
For the past three days, no one had brought him food or water. He also understood that although there was a new person in charge of supervising him, that person had most likely been bribed by the middle-aged man. As for him, he was just a prisoner. Perhaps it would only take a silver coin for someone to mercilessly hurt another stranger.
However, the most worrying thing in his heart was that there was no movement outside for three days.
"There should be no hope to appeal …" Dean looked at the glimmer of light outside the window. There was some sadness in his heart, but there was more despair and anger, as well as a strong killing intent. "I can only escape from here. Otherwise, I will be trapped here and suffer humiliation."
"If I escape from here, I will live in the darkness for the rest of my life."
"In that case, I will never see Aunt Jura, Macon and the others, and … I won't be able to see her!"
Dean was sad, but his instinctive desire to survive inspired his determination to live. He began to seriously think about ways to escape from the prison.
In the blink of an eye, two days passed.
On this day, the cage suddenly opened.
Dean, who was leaning against the wall to sleep, slightly opened his eyes, and thought: "The opportunity has come." His heart was filled with killing intent, but suddenly, a familiar smell floated into his nose, making him slightly startled.
"Dean!" At this moment, an incredible voice came, panicked: "You, how did you become like this?"
Dean was shocked when he heard the voice. He couldn't help but stare at the source of the voice. He saw Jenny in a white dress standing in front of the dim cage. Her white fingers were grasping the cage, forming a sharp contrast with the dark and thick steel column.
Dean's eyes widened. He almost suspected that he was too hungry. His nose and eyes were hallucinating. He couldn't help but say: "Jenny? You, how did you come here? "
"My father sent me here. Did they abuse you?" Jenny's eyes were red.
Dean hurriedly climbed up and grabbed her hand. He said excitedly: "Are you okay? Your father didn't hurt you?"
Jenny was startled. She immediately broke away from his hand and stepped back. She rubbed the tears in her eyes and bit her lower lip: "Don't say that about my father. He won't hurt me! I'm here to ask you, why, why do you want to steal? "
Dean was shocked. He felt that the blood that had just boiled suddenly became cold again. Moreover, it was cold to the bottom of his heart, and there was a bone-piercing pain. He thought bitterly in his heart, "Yes, you are your father's precious daughter. He will naturally not hurt you. Why should I worry?"
He looked at the pure white girl and said bitterly, "Do you also think I will steal?"
Jenny gritted her teeth: "The evidence is conclusive. I found a Dragon Mountain Ruby from the Milan family in your safe. It is one of the three treasures of the Milan family. There is no second one in the world. Why did you do this?"
Dean's body trembled as he clenched the iron column of the cage: "If I say that I don't know the Milan family and have never seen the ruby, will you believe me?"
"Why are you lying to me!" Jenny's eyes were full of tears: "I have inquired everywhere. I know the truth of the matter. Why do you still want to lie to me?!"
Dean was full of bitterness: "I have never lied to you. All of this was done by your father in order to separate us. He deliberately framed me. Why don't you want to believe me? Don't you know my character after a year of getting along with me? "
Jenny squatted down in pain and said, "At first, I thought so too, but I asked the people from the Milan family. Two months ago, the Milan family's young lady invited you to visit their house. After that, their Longshan Ruby was lost! At that time I still thought that it was impossible for you to do such a thing. Even if I found the Dragon Mountain Ruby in your safe, I still believe that someone framed you! "
"But, but deacon Huey personally accepted the case. After a few weeks of investigation he verified that it was indeed you who stole it!"
Dean was startled. He suddenly understood. No wonder they didn't interrogate him but issued an arrest order. It turned out that deacon level deacon had accepted the case and investigated it clearly!
However, he knew very well that he had never seen Miss Milan at all. All of this was false, it was all a false accusation!
"The deacon should have been bought by your father." Dean gloomily said.
Jenny angrily raised her head: "Don't talk about my father again!"
Dean's tears almost fell. He said bitterly: "Do you believe in your father so much?"
Jenny slightly gritted her teeth and said: "It's not that I believe you, but you really did it. You may not understand that although our Burong family is very big, but it's impossible to bribe a deacon of the magistrate! The deacon is very noble and pure. It's impossible for him to be bewitched by money! Moreover this deacon has nothing to do with our family. So he has no reason to slander you! "
Dean bitterly said: "No one can't be tempted by money. Even the deacon of the magistrate is no exception. Even the Knights of Light of the Holy Church are no exception."
Jenny looked up at him and suddenly wiped away her tears. Her expression gradually calmed down as she said, "Because you are a thief. You love money, so you think that everyone is the same. The books say that in the eyes of the despicable, everyone is despicable. In the eyes of the noble, everyone is noble."
Dean clenched the iron pillar: "If you no longer believe me, then why did you come here?"
Jenny's body trembled and her eyes reddened. "I just want you to admit it. As long as you admit it, I don't care about all this. I can still be with you. I can forgive you for your crimes. But you still refuse to repent. You even tried to frame my father and slander the clergy to cover up your crimes. I'm really … disappointed in you."
"Disappointed?" Dean smiled, but tears fell down from his eyes: "You would rather believe an outsider, a deacon of the magistrate than me. You are right. I am guilty. My sin is that I am too stupid and naive. I thought that we can break the shackles of love between nobles and civilians! My sin is that I overestimated my capabilities. I thought that you would follow me to the ends of the earth! "
"However, birds and fishes, even if they love each other, can't be together!"
Suddenly, the door of the cage was pushed open. A middle-aged man stepped in. He had an extraordinary temperament and was full of majesty. He said to Jenny: "Child, it's time to go back."
Dean raised his head and looked at the man. His eyes were full of resentment: "If you want to break us up, then why not do it openly? You can ask me for a goal. If I can't do it, then I will voluntarily leave. Why, why do you use such despicable means?!!"
"Enough!" Jenny interrupted Dean. She looked at him: "Why don't you admit your mistake? Until now, you are still falsely accusing my father! If a person is innocent, then who can wrongly accuse you? Is the entire consortium wrongly accusing you? I have asked. Your magic mark ability is the sense of smell, right? "
Dean looked at her in a daze.
"You knew my identity the first time we met, right? You used your sense of smell to deliberately arrange a chance encounter. Like in the bardic stories, you created a chance encounter scene in order to get close to me, right? You sent me back on a rainy night. Later, you accompanied me to participate in the magistrate exam. Then, you came again and again to accompany me … "
Tears rolled down from Jenny's eyes. "Even if I know all these, I still like you so much. I like the tone of your voice. I like your maturity. I know that these can't be faked. But, why, why don't you admit your mistake? Why do you want to be a thief?! "
Dean heard her words. He felt as if his heart was stabbed by a dagger again and again. The pain was suffocating.
He suddenly understood that when a person doesn't trust you, all your explanations are lies! All the sincerity is hypocrisy!
Even if you do everything, you can't get unconditional trust, just once!
Is this love?
He looked at her and suddenly wanted to laugh.
For you, I am willing to give up everything, even my own ideals!
For you, I even gave up myself, willing to live the life you like.
Because of your father's calculation, I almost lost my life in this hunt!
However, all of this did not exchange for a good end. Instead, he became a despicable person, a dirty thief!
He felt ridiculous.
How foolish he was. He should have known that there would not be a good end.
It was ridiculous that he held hope, humble and pitiful hope. He thought that as long as he treated her sincerely, he could overcome all difficulties.
Naivety in exchange for calculation.
His good intentions were met with framing.
He looked up and laughed. He laughed so hard that he coughed.
The middle-aged man looked at Dean indifferently and said to Jenny: "Let's go."
Jenny looked at the crazy Dean and hesitantly asked the middle-aged man: "Father, will he be alright?"
Middle-aged man smiled: "It's just a theft. Although the value of the things he stole is enough to sentence him to two hundred years in prison. But I have talked to the Milan family and they will reduce his sentence. We will use our family's network to help reduce his sentence. At most he will be released after three to five years. Although this method is a bit illegal, but … I hope he is on his own!"
Jenny was relieved. She took a deep look at Dudian. Her eyes were red again. She held back her tears and turned away.
Dean looked at her back. He instinctively wanted to reach out to stop her, but he put down his hand. He suddenly understood that once something was lost, it would be difficult to get it back.
He was silent as he stood in the cage.
Like a cold and hard stone, it stood still and silent.
Two days later, another person came from outside. It was the middle-aged man who was previously injured by Dean. His nose was bandaged with gauze. When he pushed the door and came in, he saw Dean standing straight like a corpse, motionless. He was shocked, but then he found that Dean was not hanging. He was relieved and said coldly, "Stop pretending to be mysterious. Brat, wake up."
Dean didn't respond as if he didn't hear anything.
Middle-aged man sneered and took out a sheepskin scroll: "This is the notice from the magistrate. Your verdict has come out. 'Death sentence' is suspended! You will be sent to Thorn Flower Prison. The verdict will be executed after five years! "
Dean, who had been standing still for two days, moved slightly and slowly raised his head. His eyes slowly swept over the parchment in the middle-aged man's hand, and then moved to the middle-aged man's face. His lips revealed a smile.
Seeing this smile, the smile on the middle-aged man's face suddenly disappeared, and he felt his hair stand on end.
Silvia's giant wall calendar year 305, black snow season. Dean, who was only 13 years old, was escorted to the number one prison of the outer wall – Thorn Flower Prison. He became the youngest prisoner in the last 50 years of Thorn Flower Prison!
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