The young man spoke soon enough. Haman must have tortured him quite badly.
When we saw him again, his eyes were filled with fear, and his body was still trembling.
But he deserved it. We had given him a chance to talk properly before, yet he refused and insisted on suffering first.
He told us that the school had already been taken over by them.
By those outsiders.
There were still several hundred students and twenty or thirty teachers inside the school.
I asked what the outsiders wanted to do. He shook his head and said he did not know. Their only task was to keep watch and report any unusual activity to those people immediately.
But he added that there were not many outsiders in the school, only seven or eight. One of them seemed to be in charge, and everyone called him Doctor. All seven or eight of them wore white lab coats and carried several large cases.
The young man said they seemed to be planning some kind of examination for the teachers and students. In any case, those people would never tell them what they were doing, nor would they let them see it.
This young man had not actually provided us with much useful intelligence.
He did not know much himself.
Still, I had caught some clues from his words. The outsiders were probably planning to do something to those students and teachers.
Haman asked me, "What should we do with him?"
Dian Ling said coldly, "Kill him."
Upon hearing that, the young man actually dropped to his knees. "Don't kill me. I was forced into it too."
I glanced at Dian Ling. "His crimes don't warrant death. Let's knock him out and leave him here. We're going to the school."
Ye Jinghong said, "Now