Chapter 445 Confession
Windmill Village, in Cap's private vacation villa.
By the swimming pool, he chatted with Bogart who was lying under a parasol nearby.
The two men reeked strongly of alcohol and were almost completely drunk.
"Pirates, soldiers, I don't know how the Celestial Dragons are setting up their naval policies. Bogart, there are more and more deserters and rebels around the world recently."
After Karp finished speaking, he took the pear in his right hand and forced it down his mouth.
Blah blah blah, blah blah.
At this time, it started to rain lightly, and the rain dripped into the swimming pool.
“Most rebellions are caused by the fact that the people the soldiers protect hate the army, which leads to the collapse of the soldiers’ mental health and faith.
Why should we protect these civilians who only curse at us all day?
Why should we care if they live or die? You know, Bogart, it's just not fair."
Bogart pushed back the brim of his hat with the handle of his knife, stared at the dark sky with a serious look, and replied,
"There's nothing we can do about it, right?"
"Well, that's true." Garp sighed, "At least some soldiers still kept their original intentions."
Heavy rain fell suddenly, washing the land of the Kingdom of Goa like a waterfall.
There was lightning and thunder, with a loud rumbling sound.
In a noble mansion in Gao Zhenhuan, faint screams were drowned out by thunder.
In the bedroom of the mansion amidst thunder and lightning, Neoli II was naked, tears of fear in his eyes, and he knelt on the ground begging for mercy in a heart-wrenching manner.
"Nailing your body to the gate of Gaozhen may cause the country to fall into a brief panic."
Arthur played with the knife in his hand without any bloodshed, sitting cross-legged in the center of the big bed in the bedroom, as cold as ice.
His shadow was magnified by every lightning bolt, but what was projected was not a human shadow.
The second generation, a demon with two feet on its head and covered with sharp thorns, loomed over the young nobleman in front of him.
"I was wrong just now!" Neoli II suppressed his fear and adjusted his posture. He knelt before Arthur and prayed with all his might.
"Please spare my life, I can give you anything! Money, you need money, right? I have plenty of money! Please... please! I don't want to die yet!"
There were bloodshot eyes filled with fear, but the strong desire to survive and pleading could not shake Arthur's expression in the slightest.
The rainstorm only lasted for one night, until dawn——!
Many navy officers, fully armed, gathered outside the villa and made a lot of noise, as if something big had happened.
When Cap woke up from his drunken state, he saw several people in noble costumes and many royal guards shouting around him.
"You, Lieutenant General, are the protectors of the Kingdom of Goa. Something as big as this has happened. Garp should take full responsibility for this terrible and horrific thing. Do you understand?"
"What happened?" Cap sat up, sobered up, and pushed away the beautiful girl lying on him and beside him.
"Assassination. The entire family of Neoli II was killed last night, along with their thugs and gangsters, as well as the waiter and owner of a high-end hot pot restaurant outside Gao Town."
"Oh..." Garp asked in shock, "Could it be caused by a power struggle among the nobles?"
"Go to hell! Garp!" Upon hearing this, the nobles cursed Garp, "Don't forget that you are also a citizen of the Kingdom of Goa!"
"Okay, okay, okay!" After waking up, Garp quickly entertained the nobles.
"If the guards can't solve the problem, our navy will go to the scene to investigate immediately."
Upon hearing the news, Garp had to temporarily give up his vacation and gather his troops to rush to the capital Gaozhen to investigate the crime.
A port town in the Kingdom of Goa, where the rudder of Arthur's ship was docked.
Leia woke up in the cabin, poked her eyes, and whispered,
"Arthur, I thought about it for a while and thought it would be better for us to call the police, um..."
She just opened her eyes, but the dazzling dawn light outside the porthole made it difficult for her to open her eyes. Only later did she realize that it was already dawn.
Leia pushed open the door and found Cooper washing the dirt from his feathers and the tip of his beak in the sea water.
Arthur, who was killing fish, turned around and stared at him, "Morning."
"Ku..." Cooper in the water had sharp eyes, and he, like Arthur, stared at Leia like a wooden man.
They remained motionless, watching every move she made.
"Where are the bruises on your body...?" Leia suddenly realized that the bruises on Arthur, who was beaten badly yesterday, had completely disappeared.
It's as if it never happened.
She quickly squatted in front of Arthur and used her hands to check his body.
"No...! No!" Leia was very surprised and held Arthur's cheek.
"What's going on? Where did you go last night? Is the medical level in the capital so good?"
"Kill some fish for breakfast," Arthur said to her calmly.
"Look, it's already been killed and can be roasted and eaten."
Arthur picked up some large mackerels, about half a meter long, and showed them to Leia.
"..." Leia felt a little strange and looked at Cooper underwater again. She found that the sea water around its body was trembling and spreading around like waves.
It was Cooper's first experience of killing someone and caused his heart to beat too fast.
"It's so strange. Why are there so few people at the port today? By the way, are you okay, Arthur? I didn't expect something like that to happen yesterday. People can change their personalities in an instant. It's terrifying."
Gurgle, Cooper dived into the sea and washed the dirt off his body.
Arthur smiled slightly when he saw it, and said to Leia, "Get ready and go to the auction of good things at noon."
The environment in which an organism grows determines what kind of organism it becomes.
Timid and cowardly.
Brave and strong.
It all depends on the environment you grow up in.
It turned out that Cooper was not a coward in his previous life. He just became like that because he endured humiliation for ten years because he was ignorant and incompetent at that time.
"A noble family of the Kingdom of Goa was killed last night?!"
"Hurry up and go to the gate of Gaozhen to watch the excitement. The navy is here!"
Countless people flocked to the inner ring of the capital to watch the excitement and want to know who did it.
Everyone was shocked that something like this happened so early in the morning.
"The nobles were killed?" Leia ate the roasted fish, her eyes flickering among the crowd.
"Oh, that's quite unfortunate." Arthur replied calmly in front of the makeshift bonfire on the deck.
Cooper was eating salmon sashimi and Arthur was eating grilled fish, as calmly as ever, without any disturbance.
"You're so calm..." Leia noticed Arthur's nonchalant calmness.
Arthur pointed the fish at her, "What else? I was implicated in your matter yesterday and was beaten up by a noble young master. Should I sympathize with them?"
"Sorry!" Leia felt guilty and quickly bowed to Arthur to apologize.
Seeing Leia apologize, Arthur said again,
"The things you yearn for are not so beautiful, but I hope that my beating has given you some knowledge."
"I'm sorry, I didn't listen to your warning and got beaten."
Arthur found it funny to see Leia apologizing so honestly.
She was so coquettish in her last life, but now she is so pure and cute.
"Sure enough, what I do can affect everything." Arthur thought to himself.
Then he took out a wet suitcase and handed it to Leia.
"I was out last night during a brief rainstorm and I found a suitcase you can open and take a look."
"A suitcase?" Leia took it with a look of surprise. "What's in it?"
"Just open it and you'll know." Arthur stared at her and said.
Leia tried to pry the buttons open, then looked at Arthur and asked, "You've never opened it before?"
"not yet."
When the suitcase was opened, stacks of tens of thousands of dollars in bills were placed in front of Leia.
"Bailey..." She had never seen so much money before, and her heart was beating wildly with fear. She quickly closed her eyes and looked around.
As cautious as a female thief.
"How much is this? Oh my God!" She hurried into the cabin carrying the suitcase.
"I don't know. How many millions of Baileys? Ten million Baileys? You'll know if you count them." Arthur thought it was fun and followed her in. With a smile on his face, he watched her happily counting the money.
After counting for a while, Leia was surprised to find that there were actually 10 million Baileys in front of her.
The huge amount of money made her panic, and she stared at Arthur in amazement.
"No! We have to hand it over to the Goa Kingdom Guard. It must be someone's lost property."
"Why?" Arthur pretended to be confused and retorted to her, "I was beaten yesterday. It was a blessing in disguise. You are going to give my blessing away. I don't agree."
"But so much money, Arthur...! It might be a disaster!" Leia strongly objected.
"What disaster? I don't think I can buy Adam Wood with just those few bluefin tuna, but now it's possible."
"My conscience feels bad...!" Leia said righteously, holding the money.
"How much is your conscience worth? Hand it over? Are you stupid?
Using this money to buy you some high-end clothes, skirts, cosmetics, perfumes, sexy clothing, etc. to please me, isn't it better than you continuing to be a bumpkin after handing it over?
Who cares? Who can hold it against you? Grow up.
Besides, I am not a saint who should pity the people who have lost their things."
Leia's mouth trembled, and she resisted the temptation to say, "You say that... I seem to..."
She glanced at the new clothes she had bought at a store on sale yesterday, and suddenly felt that Arthur's words made sense.
"That makes sense... But it's too embarrassing for me to please you! You're still a..."
She pointed at Arthur in shock, "Baby, a little baby."
Baby, these two words made Arthur feel overwhelmed. He patted his cheeks in confusion and treated himself as a seventy-year-old baby, as if there was nothing wrong.
Anyway, Leia didn't know who he was, how old he was, or what terrible things he had experienced.
After getting goosebumps all over his body, Arthur shook his body and said, "That's it, eat quickly, and then we'll go to the auction."
After breakfast——!
Arthur brought Leia and Cooper to the outside of Gaozhen city wall and mingled with the people to watch the fun.
The navy blocked the hot pot restaurant area and a noble mansion in Gao Town.
"It's really abominable, even more cruel than the pirates. Not a single person was left alive. Even the people in the homes of nearby residents who could have investigated the information were killed." The navy led by Garp said after investigating the crime scene.
"There is no loophole left. What a meticulous assassination plan and thought."
It was discovered that Neoli I and his entire family were killed tragically at home.
Only the second generation young master of this noble family and a group of burly, pale men were nailed to the gate of Gaozhen city wall.
It was the same group of people who beat Arthur yesterday, and the person who gave the order.
"The bodies are intact, and the wounds were all fatal. The technique was very skillful."
Bogart checked several bodies and said to Cap, "It shouldn't be a matter of power struggle. The killers they trained simply can't do this quietly."
"Arthur...!" Seeing the wet, bloated faces of the corpses on the wall, Leia pulled at Arthur's T-shirt.
