Cui Mi frowned and snorted. "Cooperate honestly, and you still have a chance to atone through meritorious service."
"If you dare play any tricks..."
He narrowed his eyes, a threatening look showing in them.
Wu Mengliu paid it no mind and merely giggled. "I know, I know."
"But officer, since you've already caught me, if you want to learn my sect's secrets and cultivation methods, couldn't you just use the Soul-Searching Method and find out everything?"
"Why go to the trouble of setting up a great formation?"
Hearing Wu Mengliu's question, Cui Mi curled his lips in disdain. "Do you think everyone in Heaven's Deputy Office is a lowlife like you, stealing chickens and dogs and stopping at nothing?"
"Oh..."
The girl wore a look of sudden understanding. For some reason, the sight infuriated Cui Mi.
"Enough nonsense. I have a Heaven and Earth Bag on me. Steal the Divine Capital Prefecture Guards token inside it."
"Officer, you still haven't told me what I'll get out of this..."
Wu Mengliu looked pitiful. "Officer, helping you would be tantamount to betraying my sect. If my elders found out..."
"If there's nothing in it for me, I'll die either way. I might as well die now."
Cui Mi exchanged a glance with the young man and nodded slightly.
"You can rest assured about that. If you cooperate, I can report to the Heaven's Deputy Office headquarters in the Divine Capital and have your punishment reduced as appropriate."
"A novice like you hasn't committed particularly grave sins yet, so you wouldn't be sentenced to death, but having your cultivation crippled and being imprisoned for several decades would still be unavoidable."
"This could shave quite a few years off your sentence."
"All right, but..."
Wu Mengliu raised both arms and waved her bound hands.