Spy Miss

A closed fan blocked the seat beside where he was about to sit.

Looking at the slender arm, Amy smiled, placed her hand on it, and gently pushed it away.

"Come on, you know I don't like chatting with them."

"Nothing to do with me."

Li Qi's attitude was cold.

Actually, Li Qi did not feel much aversion toward Amy. If he had not seen those things yesterday, he would not have said anything to Amy today.

But precisely because he had witnessed that irrational method of communication yesterday, Li Qi had become wary of Amy.

Her identity might not be as simple as Li Qi imagined. Getting entangled with someone like her would only bring trouble.

Li Qi was currently half a fugitive. He did not want to invite trouble.

Besides, Amy's behavior yesterday had seemed somewhat frivolous, even for a girl.

As a "noble lady," it was perfectly reasonable for Li Qi to refuse to let this frivolous woman sit in front of him.

His arm struggled against her hand.

However, Amy was slightly stronger. Li Qi did not dare reveal his strength, so he could only raise his closed fan and impolitely smack her arm with it.

"Ms. Amy, please don't make things difficult for me." Li Qi issued a solemn warning.

The smile on Amy's face faded slightly, and her gaze toward Li Qi was filled with amusement.

Perhaps it was only his imagination, but Li Qi saw interest in her eyes. His heart sank slightly.

It seemed that his "unusual" actions had made her even more interested in him.

Damn it, where did this pervert come from?

Suppressing his urge to reveal his strength and beat her senseless, Li Qi took back his fan and prepared to leave.

Since Amy wanted this spot, he would give it to her. Li Qi could sit somewhere else.

However, just as he thought this, the door to the carriage compartment on the other side of the noble carriage was opened.

Two train guards and a standing sergeant walked in.

Since the train system now belonged to the military, the sergeant on this train was also an active military officer. Thus, Li Qi could easily find the insignia representing the rank of sergeant on his shoulder.

When they saw the sergeant, everyone in the noble carriage turned their gaze toward him, including Li Qi and Amy at the rear of the carriage.

Amy, however, did not pay much attention to the door.

Seeing that Li Qi's attention had been drawn away, she took the opportunity to sit opposite him, a slightly smug smile appearing on her face.

But her smile did not last long. One sentence from the guard captain made it vanish completely.

"Gentlemen and ladies, I'm sorry to disturb you. We just received a communication from the Royal Capital. A spy who stole our country's confidential documents has boarded this train, so we ask that everyone allow us to inspect your personal belongings."

The elderly guard captain spoke with a serious expression.

Two guards, a man and a woman, stepped out from behind him and saluted the nobles present with noble etiquette.

It seemed that they would not only inspect everyone's luggage but might also conduct a body search.

Li Qi's brows furrowed slightly beneath his veil.

Inspecting his personal belongings would not be a problem, but if they conducted a body search... it would be difficult to avoid exposing something.

Still, Li Qi was not too worried.

At worst, he could use Magic Entanglement to disguise himself. Besides, the nobles here probably would not so readily allow the guard captain to search them.

Sure enough, just after the guard captain finished speaking, a young man with a beard on his chin stood up and complained:

"You say there's a spy, so there's a spy? You say you want to search us, so you can search us? Do you know who I am? Do you know who we are? We're nobles! You lowly commoner!"

The young man pointed at the guard captain and spoke angrily.

He was only a sergeant at his age, and he worked in the largely profitless train guard team. That alone was enough to prove he was not a noble.

No noble liked doing this kind of work serving people on trains.

Someone without a noble title wanted to search the gentlemen in a noble carriage?

Who had given him the courage?

The young man's words were quite... unpleasant, but the guard captain's expression did not change in the slightest.

As a commoner without a title, he was already accustomed to these nobles ordering him around on the train.

In the past, he would probably have forced a smile and left the noble carriage.

But this time, that would not do.

His superiors had already issued an order: before the train reached the next station, he had to find the missing confidential documents.

For that reason, offending these nobles was no concern.

Thus, the guard captain did not retreat at all. He spoke respectfully, his attitude impeccable.

"Sir, I'm sorry, but regardless of your identities, we must inspect everyone's personal belongings today. After all, this is an order personally issued by the Marshal."

"The Marshal?"

As soon as he heard that title, the young man's expression changed. He then fell silent and said nothing more.

Li Qi noticed this and began to ponder.

There was probably only one person in the entire Duchy of Uno who could be called the Marshal.

The highest-ranking military commander in the country today, Remus Allerchius.

Li Qi knew of him but had never met him. After all, given Li Qi's status, he was not qualified to meet the Marshal.

He could not even meet an ordinary major general.

Bolent and the dean of the Military Academy were the highest-ranking officers Li Qi had ever met.

There was no need to mention Remus's prestige within Uno. He was a noble marquis as well as the military's supreme commander. No one in the country dared disregard his words.

Even though the guard captain was merely relaying the order, none of the nobles present dared disobey.

After all, most of the nobles here were children of viscounts and barons. There was not even a child of a count among them.

Although no one dared disobey the Marshal's order, they did dare raise objections.

Among the nobles who did not want commoners touching their belongings, someone asked:

"You said that the spy came from the Royal Capital? If that's the case, why do you think the spy is still on the train?"

The train had previously passed through a station. If the spy had escaped from the Royal Capital, the chances that he was still on the train were very small.

Even if he really was still aboard, there was no guarantee he had the confidential documents stolen from the Royal Capital on him.

There seemed to be no need to go to such lengths to investigate these nobles.

The guard captain answered:

"We have already investigated and detained the passengers who got off at the previous station. Now only you gentlemen and ladies remain unchecked... so please don't make things difficult for us."

The guard captain apologized again as he spoke.

As soon as he finished, the two men he had brought with him began to act.

Starting at the door, they inspected the nobles' luggage and bodies.

Seeing how they conducted the search, Li Qi quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

The guards' inspection was thorough, but it focused on the luggage they carried. When checking the nobles' bodies, they merely searched places such as their pockets as a formality.

They did not touch any private areas.

Thus, Li Qi did not need to worry about exposing himself.

But... Ms. Amy beside him was probably another matter.

Li Qi secretly sized up Amy beside him.

On the surface, Ms. Amy wore a smile and looked as calm as usual.

In reality, however, her heartbeat had begun to accelerate, her blood was flowing rapidly, and the temperature of her legs was rising.

These were signs of nervousness.

Good, the spy has jumped out on her own. What should I do now?

Based on Li Qi's current feelings toward this spy miss, what he should do was report her without making a sound.

But Li Qi was very close to her. If he reported her, he also had to take the spy miss's reaction into account.

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