The laws of the Red Tide clearly state that under the military household system, if a rebel appears in the village, the entire village is responsible for supervision.
Louis turned around and looked at the elderly village chief in front of the crowd: "Did you not know? Or are you unwilling to speak?"
The old man leaned on a cane, his face ashen, his lips trembling slightly in the wind.
His gaze flitted evasively past Louis, as if trying to find an escape route.
"I...I am just an old man. They usually don't tell me anything...I saw them leaving and they said they were going hunting...How could I have known they'd...do something like this..."
The Barbarian village chief explained urgently, his words were broken and his eyes were evasive.
"I truly didn't know, sir. If I had known, how could I not have stopped them? They...they were just talking, not serious. I thought it was nothing..."
The more the Barbarian village chief spoke, the lower he stood.
