Urgent Report
Crash—
A bucket of cold water was dumped over his head, and the bone-piercing chill instantly tore a gap through his muddled consciousness.
"Cough, cough... cough, cough..."
Li Gui jolted violently and began coughing hard.
He opened his eyes in a daze. Damp stone walls and dim firelight greeted his gaze.
"Where... where am I..."
Two disdainful snickers came from beside him.
"Yumen Pass prison, naturally."
Li Gui froze. His mind was still a mess as he instinctively asked, "Yumen Pass? I... I'm back?"
"Hmph."
The two Demon Suppression Guards watching over him exchanged a glance and both shook their heads, too lazy to waste words on him.
Though the man before them was a Team Leader, he had left the pass without authorization, defied military orders, and had nearly led demons into the pass, bringing about a catastrophe of monstrous proportions.
With crimes like these, even if his father were a deputy general in the Longyou army, he would not be able to protect him.
Li Gui's mind was blank. It was as though someone had forcibly gouged out a piece of his memory, leaving it hazy and incomplete.
Yet what remained still made him remember something.
He suddenly struggled, crying out hoarsely, "Right... demons! There are demons! Hurry... hurry and report to Lord Jiang!"
One of the Demon Suppression Guards looked at him as if he were a fool.
"Demons? Lord Jiang already killed every last one of them herself. Since when was it your turn to worry about it in here?"
"If you know what's good for you, stay put and wait until Lord Jiang remembers there's someone like you. Then she'll decide your sentence."
"K-Killed them all?"
The terror on Li Gui's face instantly froze.
Then an indescribable sense of absurdity surged wildly from