However, in the end, they were all Dornish, with lives and homes in Dorne, muttering and cursing persisted until Strauss was escorted into an armored vehicle temporarily serving as a prison transport, yet no one was bold enough to approach and free the prisoner.
The armored car rattled on, and Strauss finally spoke with his eyes closed, "This doesn't seem to be heading south."
"Your sense of direction is still very good," said the Deputy Commander sitting opposite Strauss, his voice somewhat aged.
"Then, are you preparing to execute me right here?" Strauss scratched his forehead with his bound hands and asked casually.
"The order I received was to do just that... To avoid prolonged nightmares, to deal with you—a huge problem—right here," the old man replied.
"You're still the same," Strauss remarked. "Have you thought about the consequences of what you're doing?"
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"In this world, there are many who act without considering the consequences. Our King does, and so do I. I must admit, in this regard, I am very much like our King," said the General after an indeterminate amount of time, feeling the armored car slowing down and then speaking to Strauss.
Soon, the doors of the armored car were pulled open from the outside, the General stood up and crawled out of the vehicle, and then someone helped Strauss out of the car as well.
"I was ordered to choose a place to shoot you," the Deputy Commander pulled out a folding knife from his pocket, revealed the blade, and cut the rope around Strauss's wrists.
Then, he removed the black cloth blinding Strauss's eyes and looked at him with a pair of murky eyes.
A row of Dornish soldiers stood behind the General, saluting Strauss at attention. The General gestured with an invitation, "Go! Leave this place! Go!"
"What will happen to you if I go?" Instead of moving, Strauss asked the General.
"What can I do? I am a soldier; I must follow orders!" the General sighed and waved his hand impatiently, "Go! Hurry up and scram!"
"Thank you!" Strauss stood at attention, saluted the General with a Dornish military salute, then turned and headed into the darkness to the north.
This was the border between Dorne and Jade City, and a few hundred meters north one could see the closed trading port.
"Go!" Watching Strauss's retreating figure, the General ordered the soldiers behind him, "Strauss has escaped... We pursued him to this point, but we simply cannot cross the border."
"Yes!" All the soldiers turned around, then climbed back onto the truck behind them, following the armored car slowly back south.
Just as the King of Dorne completely disregarded his two daughters marrying the Kingdom's two heroes, preparing to take action against the two generals from the Great Tang Military Academy, Strauss and Bolton strangely vanished in the midst of hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
All the generals were clueless, and quite a few even resigned from their military positions afterward. To avoid further agitating the military and risking a chaotic mutiny, the King of Dorne had no choice but to begrudgingly accept the story of their disappearance.
What made him even more frustrated was that his two daughters, after crying, creating a scene, and threatening suicide, actually demanded to live in Brunas, no longer wishing to stay in Dorne. As a father, he was helpless but ultimately hardened his heart and refused his daughters' request.
With the mind of a petty man, he feared that someone would use his daughters to blackmail the King, forcing him to concede benefits at critical moments—not that his daughters' lives were of much importance, but rather... the face of the Dorne Kingdom was!
At this moment, his regret wasn't about the two estranged daughters, but about not being able to take out the once renowned Dual Stars of Dorne...
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