873 interrogation

"Have you brought the people back?" Having removed his gloves, he tossed them onto the table beside him and glanced at the man sitting there, sipping tea, as the Great Tang intelligence officer from the southern part of the Empire asked with concern.

The lighting here was not very bright; the walls were built from large stones, and where torches once were, lighting fixtures had now been installed.

When it was still part of Chu Country, this place was a dungeon for prisoners, those who ended up here had offended the powerful and were out of luck.

After the Great Tang Empire took over, they renovated the place: all the prison doors were replaced with steel ones, and some of the rooms were even soundproofed.

The military officer drinking tea nodded his head to indicate the other should sit down and have a cup: "They've all been brought back, we took the overland route, by train, very safe. The helicopter unit pulled out directly without delay."