On the other side.

It was still night, but it was likely that no one would be able to sleep soundly tonight.

According to the dispatched mission, five guards rushed to the East District where Liens and the other Trainees were located.

Since the officer had made a request, those under him naturally had to complete it diligently.

Moreover, given the current situation, they all wanted to complete the mission assigned by Lord Leinajin as quickly as possible and report the results to their superiors.

That way, they would have some merit for their work and could avoid the punishment that Lord Leinajin might impose on them later.

"Everyone out, get out now!"

The guards banged on the doors of each dormitory, shouting loudly to the Trainees inside.

Seeing that the distant fire showed signs of gradually extinguishing, Liens and the others, feeling that no more accidents would happen, had consciously returned to their rooms.

The accident was over; why would they still wander outside? Wouldn't that be asking for trouble?

If they were seen by the guards outside, they might be directly blamed as "the culprits who caused the fire."

That would truly be too unjust.

Hearing the banging on the door and the not-so-friendly shouts, Liens quickly got up from his bed.

After returning to the dormitory earlier, he had not re-entered the instance, nor had he even slept, but rather rested on the bed.

He knew that a round of investigation would soon arrive after the fire.

No matter what he did, this round of investigation was inevitable; he had already verified this in the instance.

The instructor was very cautious; even knowing the restrictions of the contract, he had not completely given up his suspicion of Liens and the others.

However, Liens had already handled everything, enough to deal with this investigation.

Moreover, those guards were not that meticulous; eager to complete their mission, they would only use very crude methods to carry out their work.

In the dim environment, through the moonlight refracted from the window, Liens and Ben saw each other getting up.

But in this situation, the two could not say much, only silently walking out of the dormitory together.

Outside the dormitory.

Under the bright moonlight, the environment outside was much brighter than inside the dormitory; at least, seeing figures a few meters away was not a problem.

Liens looked around and saw that people, in varying numbers, were emerging from the dormitories that still had living occupants.

Everyone stood by the doors of their respective dormitories, tacitly refraining from making a sound.

"Everyone stand still… don't move around randomly."

"Next, we will interrogate each of you one by one, and you must answer truthfully… If we find any lies, you can just wait to die."

After a while, seeing that no one else was coming out of the rooms, one of the guards spoke.

His tone was aggressive, and his words were full of menace.

"You two first… Everyone else stand still, it will be your turn soon."

Then, he selected Liens and Ben as the first subjects for interrogation because, among the dormitories with living occupants, theirs had the fewest people.

"You two, come inside with us."

The guard said to Liens and Ben in a commanding tone.

Subsequently, three guards entered Liens's dormitory, while the remaining two stayed outside to monitor the others.

It seemed they did not want others to know the content of the investigation too early.

Liens and Ben did not resist this and followed them into the room.

The room was a bit dim, so one of the guards turned on his magic stone lamp.

Instantly, dazzling light appeared, and everyone present unconsciously closed their eyes to adjust to the sudden strong light.

The brief blindness quickly passed, and Liens opened his eyes to see the guard holding the lamp searching around the simple room.

He moved around the room, looking left and right, turning things over, seemingly wanting to turn the small dormitory upside down.

Perhaps even he himself did not know what exactly he should be looking for and could only show his seriousness and effort in this way.

Because the room layout was extremely simple, Liens and Ben had no personal belongings.

So, this lamp-lit search quickly ended.

The guard with the lamp shook his head at his two colleagues, indicating that he had not found anything suspicious.

The other two guards did not show any signs of disappointment about this. He*lp@ us out by r$ead%in@g% on *.

In reality, finding nothing was normal.

After a criminal commits a crime, would they still keep the crime tool at home?

The previous actions were just a formality, and even their investigation was just a formality, an attitude shown to those above.

"What did you two do tonight?"

Once the lamp-holding guard returned to the group, one of the guards began to question Liens and Ben seriously.

"After we finished Teacher Marvin's class, we went straight back to our room to sleep."

"It wasn't until a loud commotion outside a short while ago that we were startled awake and curious enough to go out and take a look."

"Everyone else did the same; after seeing the commotion die down, they also returned to their rooms."

"Since then, before you arrived, we haven't left our room."

Ben sincerely explained to the guards, word by word, and Liens also chimed in, affirming that what Ben said was true.

Ben had better speaking skills, so when facing questions directed at both of them, Ben was the primary responder.

"Did you encounter anyone suspicious? Or do you think anyone else acted strangely?"

The guard continued his interrogation.

Ben pondered for a moment before responding, "We haven't seen anyone suspicious, and we aren't very familiar with the others, so we don't know if they acted strangely."

Upon hearing this answer, the guard frowned, showing a hint of difficulty.

Although he knew that the two in front of him probably wouldn't have any clues, he was still somewhat disappointed to hear the answer.

"Why do you have so much mud on you?"

The guard then questioned Liens.

This could have been Liens's biggest point of suspicion.

After all, he had been running around and going through tunnels, so his clothes would inevitably get some hard-to-remove mud stains.

But this biggest point of suspicion was resolved by the Training Camp itself.

Liens responded, showing a hint of fear at the appropriate moment, "Well, because I was worried about my wounds getting infected, I didn't take a bath tonight, and many people probably did the same."

The Training Camp was very stingy with them, only issuing a few sets of clothes to wear back and forth, and there was no special place to wash clothes.

They all washed their clothes while taking a bath.

And given the intensity of the Training Camp's training and various physical punishments,

After more than four months, their clothes were already covered in various hard-to-remove bloodstains and mud stains, so the extra mud on him was not noticeable among the many other stains.

"Yes, I didn't take a bath either."

To confirm Liens's answer, Ben held up the injury on his left arm for the other party to inspect.

"Alright, I understand."

The guard waved his hand, signaling Ben to put his arm down, and said impatiently.

He certainly knew why Liens's clothes were covered in both blood and dirt; asking this question was just a formality.

"Alright, you two stay in the room and don't wander around… If there are any problems, we'll come back and ask you."

The guard instructed Liens and Ben.

After speaking, the three guards left the room with the light, leaving only Liens and Ben to look at each other in the dark environment.