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“Edmund, after I finish asking you, I’ll wake up Booth and ask him again. I hope your answers to me won’t be different. Do you understand what I mean?” Amelia said, looking at Edmund.

“Yes, I understand.” Edmund nodded quickly.

"Okay, then let me ask you, do you know the Black Crow Adventurers?"

"The Black Crow Adventurers?"

Edmund's face immediately showed a look of bewilderment.

He thought Amelia would ask about some confidential information about the iris, but he never expected that Amelia would ask a question he had no idea about.

Judging from the name, they seem to be an adventure group, but what does this adventure group have to do with their Iris Flower?

While Edmund was bewildered, Eileen was also taken aback.

'Could it be that His Majesty left behind those who contacted the irises actually to help me find out about the Black Raven Adventurers?'

Eileen only realized this at this moment, and her feelings were inevitably complicated.

“You don’t know?” Amelia looked at Edmund.

“I don’t know, I’ve never heard of this adventurer group.” Edmund shook his head helplessly.

"You know Leicester, right?"

“Leicester? There was a man named Leicester in the organization before, but he died a few months ago in Rhine City.”

"Are you aware of Leicester's background?"

"I've heard a little about him, I remember he is..."

Edmund began to speak slowly.

According to him, Lester was originally a merchant, but he had a good talent and successfully became an apostle. Later, he came into contact with the Iris and joined the Iris.

This explanation made Amelia frown.

Lester's true origins are clearly not like that, but Edmund shouldn't dare to lie to her, which means that Lester might have even fooled the people of Iris?

After a moment's hesitation, Amelia asked more detailed questions, which Edmund answered truthfully.

After asking her enough questions, Amelia said, "Eileen, knock him out."

Without hesitation, Eileen struck, knocking Edmund unconscious with a single chop to the neck.

Next, Eileen fetched a basin of cold water and poured it directly over Boots' head, instantly waking him from his unconscious state.

“Boos, now it’s your turn to be asked questions. I hope you will answer honestly,” Amelia said, looking at Booth who had suddenly woken up and still had a somewhat bewildered look on his face.

Upon hearing Amelia's words, Booth immediately recalled his situation and nodded hastily.

Next, Amelia asked Booth about the situation, and Booth answered honestly, giving roughly the same answer as Edmund.

This answer clearly disappointed Amelia.

She stayed behind hoping to find out about the Black Crow Adventurers through the iris, but it seems unlikely she'll succeed.

After thinking for a moment, Amelia asked, "Are there still any Iris people left in Rhine City?"

Booth nodded: "There are seven more people, they are..."

Booth then named seven more people.

In his view, Amelia had most likely already asked Edmund about this, and if he gave a different answer than Edmund, it might anger her, so he could only answer honestly.

"What are so many of you doing staying in Rhine City?" Amelia asked again.

"This..." This question made Booth hesitate for a moment.

"What? You don't want to talk?" Amelia's eyes sharpened when she saw Booth's hesitation.

Eileen then raised her sword and placed it against Booth's neck.

"I'll talk, I'll talk!" Booth froze, feeling the cold blade against his neck, and hurriedly said, "We're responsible for helping the people of the Akti Kingdom secretly capture young men and women from Rhine City."

"Arrest people?" Amelia was taken aback, then realized: "So many people have gone missing in Rhine City, was it really done by your Iris Flower people?"

"Yes, but this was orchestrated by the Akti Kingdom. They don't arrest people themselves; they specifically have us Iris Flower Company handle this kind of thing."

Why are they arresting these people?

"I don't know about that; we're just responsible for making arrests."

"So where are all the people we captured?"

"We will transport the people to the city lord's mansion."

Booth dared not hide anything and told everything.

After asking a few more questions, Amelia had Irene knock Booth unconscious.

Next, they woke Edmund up again and asked him the same questions, which he answered one by one.

However, perhaps because of his slightly higher status, Edmund knew a little more.

"The people we capture seem to be transported out of the city in batches by the soldiers of the Akti Kingdom, heading southeast. From what I understand, it seems the Akti Kingdom has discovered a mine, so they've taken everyone there to mine," Edmund answered tremulously.

Arresting people for mining?

Amelia seemed lost in thought.

Mining in this world is not a safe activity. The equipment is not perfect, and mine collapses are almost inevitable during the mining process. One wrong move and you could be killed.

Therefore, it is not easy to get people to mine through normal channels.

Moreover, Amelia had never heard of any mines being discovered in the Kingdom of Akti. She had good reason to believe that the Kingdom of Akti was keeping this information from the outside world. Perhaps the mines were of such high value that they were unwilling to disclose them.

Because the mine shafts cannot be revealed, it is even more impossible to openly recruit miners to mine. Therefore, it is not surprising that people are secretly kidnapped to mine.

Rhine City wouldn't even be the only place where people are forced to mine; this kind of thing probably happens in many cities.

Amelia immediately asked a few more questions and received confirmation from Edmund.

This made Amelia curious as well: what kind of mineral vein had the Kingdom of Akti discovered that made such a big fuss about arresting people to mine it?

However, to the southeast... Star River Territory seems to be in that direction as well?

Amelia planned to investigate the location of this mine when she returned to Star River Territory. If it was indeed a highly valuable mine, then she would not allow the people of the Akti Kingdom to acquire it so easily.

Moreover, as the former queen of the Kingdom of Steel, I also have an obligation to rescue those who were forcibly taken to mine.

After figuring it out, Amelia asked Edmund about the location of the other Iris members in Rhine City, and then the interrogation was considered over.

"Eileen".

"I'm here."

"Kill them all."

"Yes."

With a brief exchange, Eileen unleashed a moonlit sword light, instantly killing Edmund and Booth before her very eyes.

After dealing with the two, Amelia said calmly, "Eileen, now we'll go find the rest of the Iris people one by one."

Those who belong to the Iris Flower clan deserve to die; Amelia intends to find and wipe them all out.

Of course, when she finds each person, she also needs to interrogate them to obtain more information.

After leaving the house, Amelia and Eileen quickly traversed the streets of Rhine City and soon arrived at a general store.

This grocery store has been open for a short time, and the owner is also new. The nearby residents don't know much about the owner, only that he doesn't like to communicate with people.

Actually, this is also one of the Iris flowers!

Amelia and Eileen have already located all the Iris Flower members in Rhine City, and this is the closest one.

After the two entered the general store, a middle-aged woman behind the counter casually raised her eyelids and said, "Pick whatever you want."

After speaking, the middle-aged woman ignored the two men. However, she soon realized that something was wrong. When she looked up again, she found that her shop door had been closed.

The two girls who came in looked at her with icy eyes, so cold that it chilled her to the bone.

What are you trying to do?

Upon seeing this, the middle-aged woman's expression changed immediately, and she subconsciously stood up.

But in the next instant, Eileen appeared beside the middle-aged woman, placing her unsheathed sword against the woman's neck with such speed that the woman had no chance to react.

The middle-aged woman dared not move.

Amelia walked over and asked slowly, "I'm going to ask you some questions now, and you must answer me honestly. Don't try to lie to me. I've already asked the rest of the Iris Flower for information on this, and I'm just asking you to compare your answers. You understand what I mean?"

As she spoke, Amelia also told the others in the Iris Flower group where they were located.

Upon hearing Amelia's words, the middle-aged woman broke out in a cold sweat. She never expected that the person in front of her would know the location of all the members of the Iris Flower.

After the tapping, Amelia asked a question.

She first inquired about the Black Crow Adventurers, and after failing to get an answer from the middle-aged woman, she turned to ask about Iris Flower's capture of people. The answer she received was similar to what Edmund had given her.

After questioning her, Amelia gained nothing more and acted swiftly, having Eileen eliminate the middle-aged woman.

Next up!

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Before we knew it, it was evening.

The nights in Rhine City were quite bright, with lights twinkling everywhere, dispelling much of the darkness. Of course, many places in Rhine City remained shrouded in darkness, those dark spots appearing sinister and terrifying.

Amelia and Eileen slowly emerged from a dark alley, a corpse lying not far behind them, blood flowing down the slightly sloping ground towards the sewer entrance.

This is the last person to have an iris.

Although Amelia knew the location of each Iris member, these people were not fixed in one place, so it took her a whole day to catch all seven of them and deal with them after interrogation.

Unfortunately, the interrogation yielded no further useful information.

'The Iris people aren't all in Rhine City; they're helping the Akti Kingdom capture people across the land to mine, and clearly many are still in other towns.'

Amelia walked out of the alley, lost in thought.

There was a street lamp at the entrance of the alley, its light emanating a hazy glow in the night.

Amelia smoothed her hair and looked up into the distance. In the darkness, a massive building loomed in the distance; that was the Rhine City Lord's Mansion.

After glancing at her, Amelia looked away and turned to Eileen beside her: "Eileen, I'll need you to kill more people next, a lot of people."