Deposed Crown Prince: After three years of service on the frontier, the entire court knelt and begge

Yin Pan'er was clearly following Xiao Ce in showing weakness.

After Yin Pan'er confronted them so forcefully, Ed White's expression was quite interesting.

Clearly, he hadn't expected Yin Pan'er to be so assertive.

However, it seems that the four council members are now on Yin Pan'er's side.

Ed White then understood why.

Victor King and his group did indeed intend to cause trouble at first, and they disagreed with what Yin Pan'er said.

They had originally planned to retaliate.

However, after seeing that all four council members had spoken up,

They were momentarily speechless.

Victor King then bowed to the Fourth Councilor and replied, "Your Excellency, no, we truly have no evidence here... We rely on our respective experience..."

The four councilors smiled. "Experience? Then, based on your experience, tell me, what's the situation in Lingas City, British Empire, right now? How could our Illuminati's reputation be attacked? How could it have fallen? What happened there was told to us by Agent Yin, not you..."

Yin Pan'er was somewhat surprised after hearing what the Fourth Director said.

The reason was simple: he could sense that the four councilors were speaking on his behalf.

Yin Pan'er didn't know what was going on.

Because Yin Pan'er clearly didn't recognize the man wearing the four-cake mask in front of her...

However, it was also clear that the four councilors were biased.

Yin Pan'er could hear the difference, and the others could hear it even more clearly.

The group remained silent, looking rather dejected.

In fact, these family patriarchs had heard about the General Association, but they had never actually met anyone from it.

They hadn't seen each other even once in all these years.

So now that the four council members have said this, these people no longer dare to say anything more.

Seeing that they remained silent, the four council members addressed them, "Victor King, do you have any further objections? If you think I'm wrong, you can speak up..."

Viktor King smiled awkwardly and waved his hand: "Fourth Cardinal, you are right. I was too subjective. Acting Director Yin, I apologize on your behalf."

Even if Viktor King were stupid, he could figure out roughly what was going on.

Isn't persisting just courting death?

Yin Pan'er glanced at him but did not answer, her arrogance evident on her face.

Seeing Yin Pan'er's actions, those around her stopped talking nonsense...

They realized that Yin Pan'er might have gotten involved with the Fourth Director.

Although, it's unclear how Yin Pan'er got this connection.

However, judging from this situation, Yin Pan'er has truly become involved in this relationship.

Seeing that no one spoke, the Fourth Councilor addressed them, "Alright, for now, no one has any objections. I had Acting Secretary Yin come here today to discuss the problems that have arisen in Lingas City, and the overall situation in the British Empire."

Then, the fourth director said to Yin Pan'er, "Acting Yin, you speak first."

After listening to what the Fourth Director said, Yin Pan'er nodded and then said, "Yes, Fourth Director."

Yin Pan'er thought he would be asked to sit down, but he wasn't.

Instead, let her speak directly.

However, Yin Pan'er didn't care.

She then began to speak as Xiao Ce had instructed.

"Your Excellency, let's start with the sudden riot in Lingas City, where Frank and his men rioted."

"That night, the Darklight brand fireworks went on for a long time, and the Frank pirates probably took advantage of the noise during the fireworks to start their rebellion. I don't know exactly what happened in the Lingas City prison."

"However, I didn't fall asleep immediately after the fireworks ended. My guards, who are all professionally trained, reported to me right away that there were sporadic gunshots in Lingas City. At first, I didn't think much of it and assumed it was just small fireworks set off by the Darklight brand."

"But my guards immediately told me that this wasn't fireworks. It was very likely gunfire... and it was one-sided. These gunfire sounds weren't from our side. So we sent people out to investigate."

"Upon investigation, we found something was indeed wrong. They were burning, killing, and looting, and they were specifically targeting the rich. Since we saw no resistance, we left!"

"However, we were a step too late. They placed the entire city of Lingas under martial law... We couldn't escape, so we disguised ourselves as ordinary people. We thought we could get away with it, but the islanders and the prisoners seemed to be able to spot us immediately. We were captured."

"They captured all the wealthy people among us, robbed us of our money, and then forced us to identify ourselves. They then attempted to exchange our lives for weapons, ammunition, and supplies..."

After saying this, the four councilors addressed the people present, saying, "Gentlemen, have you received any requests from the Frankish pirates to ransom your people?"

The members of the twelve families nodded: "Yes! They demanded warships and food from us, but we didn't give them any... We sent troops to rescue our people, but they turned out they had warships. Frank is a master of naval warfare, and they routed us. However, because we didn't satisfy them, they killed all our prisoners and sent us their heads..."

One of the family patriarchs spoke with a sinister expression.

"That's right, we received the message too. They asked us for various living supplies... We know the tragic situation of the Rust family, so we dared not disobey and had no choice but to send them the supplies they needed... But then they played word games with us and only released a small number of not-so-important personnel..."

...

Once one person spoke up, the others chimed in.

This also indirectly confirms the truthfulness of what Yin Pan'er said.

As these individuals continued to speak, the two association presidents' expressions became extremely unpleasant.

According to these members of the twelve families, they already knew that Lingas City had fallen.

However, none of them followed their lead.

Only Yin Pan'er sent out news.

The fourth council member addressed the crowd, saying, "So, you all knew about the situation all along? Yet you didn't report it at all, did you?"

The heads of these families looked extremely embarrassed.

So they stiffly began to explain: "No...it's not like that...Fourth Councilor, at first we just thought they had kidnapped some families from our country...and they said we couldn't make a fuss, or they would kill them all if the news leaked out."

"Not only that, they also said that if I leaked the information, they would not let us off the hook... We really had no choice but to keep it a secret."

"Yes, yes, yes... at first we just thought our people had been kidnapped... we didn't expect the situation to be this serious..."

These twelve clan leaders are all talking nonsense; they actually know the truth.

But the threatening letter they received from Frank was nothing more than a warning that if Frank found out who had leaked the information, they would be in serious trouble.

Frank will leave Lingas, lead his men to attack them, and slaughter them all...

These people were naturally terrified when they saw that the headquarters in Lingas City had been destroyed...

Victor King and Ed White originally intended to use this incident to attack each other.

But after hearing these words, their mouths seemed to be sealed shut.

No one dared to speak ill of each other, since neither of their subordinates fully trusted them, and even they themselves hadn't spoken to each other.

The excuses given by the patriarchs of the twelve families were actually quite lame.

It doesn't seem very plausible at first glance.

Fortunately, the four council members did not pursue the matter further.

Seeing the group's tense expressions, the Fourth Councilor said to them, "Alright, everyone, there's no need to be nervous. Relax... I didn't mean to blame you..."

After hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The fourth councilor, holding Yin Pan'er's hand, asked, "Acting Yin, who redeemed you?"

As he spoke, the four cardinal directors looked at Ed White.

Ed White usually seems to have a very strong presence, but after being looked at like that by the fourth councilor...

Ed White nervously waved his hands and said, "I don't know..."

After listening to Ed White's words, the four council members looked at Yin Pan'er.

Yin Pan'er shook her head and then said, "No, President Ed White is not aware of this matter. Actually, I originally intended to report to President Ed White this time. But I was afraid that if President Ed White was not here, I would be more cautious and report to various parties, so I sent out quite a few people... I thought of using a wide-net approach to report."

After listening to Yin Pan'er's account to this point, the four council members nodded and then said, "Alright, then continue. How did you escape from Lingas City...?"

Yin Pan'er nodded and continued, "After I was captured, I was planning to just name any nobleman. After all, I rarely showed my face after going to Lingas City, and nobody recognized me. But, to my utter surprise, there was someone in Frank's group whom I never expected... that was Targaryen Boudica and the Mr. Tze beside him..."

“That Targaryen Boudica and that Mr. Tze had seen me more than once, so they naturally knew who I was... I knew I was doomed at that moment…”