"Two days ago, First Battalion was ordered to sortie. Major Zhang Tie damaged the aircraft's remote-sensing communications equipment for no reason, disrupting communications between regiment headquarters and First Battalion, so I sentenced him to a week in solitary confinement!" Seeing the expressions on the two knights' faces, Xing Xiangtian repeated the reason for Zhang Tie's confinement before they could say another word.
"You... you... you're being absurd..." Wei Jingxian pointed at Xing Xiangtian, so thrown by the situation that he could not speak for a moment. "Take us there at once..."
Xing Xiangtian had no idea how he was being absurd, but he did not dare argue with Wei Jingxian. In the end, full of confusion, astonishment, and a trace of curiosity, he led the two knights to where Zhang Tie was being confined.
When footsteps sounded outside, Zhang Tie had almost simultaneously finished speaking with several people. The Lotus Blossom Eye shimmered; through layers of iron walls and curtains, Zhang Tie glanced outside and saw Xing Xiangtian leading two knights toward his room.
When he had contacted Zuo Qiu Mingyue just now, Zuo Qiu Mingyue had already told him that he had sent two people to "escort" him back to Xuanyuan Fortress. One was an Earth Knight and the other a Phantom Knight—they must be the ones Zuo Qiu Mingyue had sent.
The news of "his assassination and death" had already thrown Huan, Kang, Ning, and Bing Prefectures into a state of panic. Disorder had broken out everywhere; all flight academies had suspended classes, and the Agriculture Offices of every prefecture and county were at their wits' end. Inquiries had flown like snowflakes to the Agriculture Office in Kang Province City, leaving Lu Yanyu overwhelmed. The senior commanders of frontline legions and many knights stationed at Xuanyuan Fortress