Urgent Report

Splash—

A bucket of cold water was dumped over his head, the bone-piercing chill instantly tearing a gap through his muddled consciousness.

"Cough, cough... cough, cough..."

Li Gui jolted violently and broke into a fit of coughing.

He opened his eyes blankly. Damp stone walls and dim firelight filled his vision.

"I... where am I...?"

Two scornful snickers came from beside him.

"Naturally, Jade Gate Pass's prison."

Li Gui froze. His mind was still a pot of porridge as he instinctively asked, "Jade Gate Pass? I... I'm back?"

"Hmph."

The two Demon-Suppression Guards watching him exchanged glances and shook their heads, too lazy to waste words on him.

Though this man before them was a squad leader.

He had left the pass without permission, defied military orders, and nearly led demons into the pass, bringing down a catastrophe of monstrous proportions.

With crimes like these, even if his father were a Longyou Army lieutenant general, he would not be able to protect him.

Li Gui's mind was blank. It was as if a chunk of his memories had been forcibly gouged out, leaving everything hazy and unclear.

Yet the fragments that remained still made him remember something.

He suddenly began struggling, crying hoarsely, "Right... demons! There are demons! Hurry... hurry and report this to Lady Jiang!"

One of the Demon-Suppression Guards looked at him as though he were an idiot.

"Demons? Lady Jiang already killed every last one of them herself. Since when is it your turn to worry about that?"

"If you know what's good for you, stay put and wait until Lady Jiang remembers a nobody like you, then she can 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 the depths of his