"I admit that I took out my anger on others because of my teammate’s death. At that time, with the dual blow of my teammate’s death and my own disfigurement, I lost the awareness I should have had. I speculated about everything with a narrow mind. In the end, the lying businessman fled abroad, and my convictions collapsed. It was when my willpower was at its weakest, and anyone could have broken me."

"To put it bluntly, it’s because of your malicious speculation that you betrayed the country."

The man lowered his head, enduring a long silence.

The captain of the team said coldly, "Do you think you’re worthy of your fallen teammates?"

"I..."

Recalling the teammates he spent every day with, the man broke down in tears.

He was an orphan, raised by the country and kind people since he was young.

Later, there was an accident at the welfare home, a misunderstanding with alcohol used for disinfection, leading to a big fire.

It was the firefighters who saved him. At that time, he felt that the most handsome heroes in the world were firefighters, and when he grew up, he also wanted to become a heroic firefighter.

Later, with this dream as his goal, he finally became a firefighter. He lived day and night with his comrades, filling the void of not having a family. They were like his own brothers, like his family.

If it were just an accident, with comrades sacrificing themselves to save others in the fire, he would have no complaints. It was their duty, something they were ready for when they became firefighters.

Sacrifice, to them, was glorious, heroic, something to be proud of.

As an orphan, if he died of old age, there might not be anyone to take care of his remains. If he sacrificed himself, he would become a martyr, who could be buried in the martyrs’ cemetery, which was, in a way, a good thing. So he wasn’t afraid of death, and even faintly thought that becoming a martyr was a wonderful thing.

But fate always played tricks on him—all of his "family" died because of one lie!

The lying businessman was the murderer!

It was he who murdered his "family"!

But in the end, the businessman escaped and evaded all punishment.

He agreed with those people, besides their promise to help him undergo surgery to hide his disfigurement, the biggest reason was... they captured that businessman.

At the moment when the captain of the team thought he had no words to respond, when he thought he wouldn’t speak again, he suddenly laughed, laughed while crying, cried while laughing, his expression becoming somewhat manic.

"I... avenged them."

The team captain was startled, realizing something, looking at him in shock.

The man extended his hands: "With these hands, for every brother who died, I stabbed him once. One stab after another, I avenged them."

"You’re insane!" The captain said solemnly, "You killed someone."

"Yes, I killed someone, but it wasn’t a Chinese person." The man laughed, his eyes blank, "I’m not a Chinese person anymore either."

"My hands are full of blood, yet I avenged them. I killed someone, violating the laws of Hua Country. I’m no longer qualified to call myself Chinese. I changed my nationality because I deemed myself unworthy, unworthy of this identity, and unwilling to mention I was once a firefighter because I can’t bear to say it."

"I’m very tired, really tired."

"I became a person I didn’t recognize, following their orders like a puppet person, all for the sake of slaying the dragon with my own hands. But the one who slew the dragon eventually became the evil dragon. They wanted me to get close to her. She was so kind, not minding my past ugliness, willing to stay by the evil dragon’s side. I just wanted to leave with her, to find a little island where no one knew us, and live peacefully... but in the end, it was just a fantasy of mine."

"She’s innocent, I beg you to spare her."

The team captain pressed his lips together, finally saying nothing, and walked out of the interrogation room.

Little Taotie’s hands that were resting on her knees somehow ended up on her waist, hands on hips, her little face puffed with anger.

Shen Cang leisurely sipped his tea, his eyes caught sight of her hands on her hips, and he coughed softly: "Don’t forget to copy the laws."

Little Taotie was startled!

Her large eyes filled with innocence and confusion.

She lowered her head to look at her little hands, feeling extremely frustrated!

She really didn’t know when she’d put her hands on her hips!

"Head Grandpa~~~"

"Acting cute won’t help. Not a single one can be left uncopied."