"Name?"
"...Bai Zhi."
"Age?"
"Eighteen."
"Gender?"
"...Can't you see for yourself?"
"Take this seriously. You're a criminal now—do you still want to get out!?"
The Big Guy behind the desk slammed his hand down, glaring furiously.
"I'll tell you the truth: you people destroyed nearly half of the precious medicinal field that the Li Family painstakingly cultivated! And you were the ringleader, which makes your crime even worse. If you don't give us a proper account, then prepare to spend several decades in the mines!!"
Bai Zhi: "..."
Things had changed too quickly. Honestly, he was having a little trouble processing it all.
...This was supposed to be a thrilling adventure in the Shan Hai Realm, so how had it turned into this?
Come to think of it, wasn't the tone of this whole thing a little off?
Half an hour ago, he and Mountainside Li's group had been happily harvesting precious herbs in that swamp. Half an hour later, they were in jail as suspects accused of deliberately destroying someone else's valuable medicinal field, awaiting the judgment of the law.
It might have sounded ridiculous, but that was exactly what had happened.
They had been happily gathering herbs when several people came swooshing over on Flying Swords beneath their feet, holding Megaphones and solemnly announcing their crimes before issuing three warnings... Who could have known that those things had been deliberately planted there?
Of course, that was not what shocked them most. What shocked Bai Zhi and the others most was that not only were there still humans in the Shan Hai Realm, there was even a town with quite a substantial population.
—Before this, Bai Zhi had thought that the Shan Hai Realm had already been completely corrupted.
Then, following the principle of adapting to circumstances, and since