Chapter 1221: Torture

From this, one could see that the people's livelihood in Ju City was truly bad. So many shops had closed down, and some had been vacant for a long time without anyone taking over. Finally, the Soul-Absorbing Mirror gave an early warning: "There is an array ahead, be careful, there is an array!"

Thirty zhang away was a three-story shop.

This one had also closed down, and the sign hadn't been removed. It used to be a cloth shop. The ground floor was the storefront, the middle floor didn't know what it was used for, and there was an attic at the very top.

Looking out from this attic, the vision was unobstructed, and one could easily overlook the county government office.

Both inside and outside the shop were pitch black, with no lights on, just like the three empty houses He He Lingchuan had visited earlier.

But before He He Lingchuan got close, a black-clothed man pushed the door open and walked out, standing on the street and looking around.

This person was expressionless, with faint red light in his eyes.

He He Lingchuan happened to jump into someone else's courtyard, so he stood still.

After a while, this person walked back into the cloth shop.

"What kind of ghost thing is this, with such sensitive senses?" He He Lingchuan came wearing the skin of Lord Boshan. Not to mention sneaking in the night, even in broad daylight, few people could see the clues.

He thought for a while, no longer got close, and chose to release the eyeball spider—

This little thing could now act according to his will, which was much more convenient than before.

He He Lingchuan controlled the eyeball spider to pass through the street, jump into the cloth shop, climb up the outer wall along the wooden window, and then drill in.

It was only the size of a grain of rice, and the sky was dark, so it wasn't easy to attract attention.

It was pitch black in the shop, but this kind of spider had large eyes and first-class light-gathering ability, so it could easily see two government runners standing and sitting in the shop, somewhat restless.

One of them whispered, "What happened to the government office?"

Staying here, they could also hear the commotion coming from the government office and the prison.

"It seems someone attacked the prison to rescue prisoners, and the superiors just sent a message asking if the prisoner is still there."

"Does the Boss Situ family really dare to attack Ju City?" the questioning runner whispered, "It hasn't been peaceful for a few days."

"Can General Boss Situ bear to watch his son be beheaded and ignore it?"

"You say, who can win?" the first runner muttered.

"That depends on who you hope wins." The companion sneered, "Gao Pu is already gone. If your heart is toward the Boss Situ family, be careful—"

He raised his finger and pointed to the attic above, not finishing his words, because two 'mm-mm' sounds came from above again, as if someone was screaming, but their mouth was blocked, and they could only make this kind of sound.

The floorboards were also knocked creaking, and dust fell down.

The two runners shivered and swallowed, not making a sound.

The screams in the attic came one after another, low and chilling. The two runners sat in the dark, listening until their hearts felt hairy.

The eyeball spider immediately climbed up the ladder to the attic.

The light in the attic was no better than downstairs. A person was tied up with five flowers and bound to a chair, with a hemp ball stuffed in his mouth.

His two hands were tied to the armrests of the chair, and the nails on his eight fingers were all pulled out, becoming eight bloody holes.

The reason it was said to be eight fingers was that a black-clothed man in front of him had just used scissors to cut off his ring finger.

As for the left little finger, it had been cut off long ago.

These small scissors were probably abandoned in the cloth shop, but they were as sharp as cutting cloth when cutting fingers. The black-clothed man specifically used slow motion to cut the fingers, just to make him suffer more.

Fresh blood gushed like a spring, dripping onto the dusty floor, and then seeped down.

The captive was sweating profusely, staring until his eyes were about to crack, and all his screams were blocked in his mouth. He He Lingchuan called the first-person perspective of the eyeball spider and could still recognize at a glance that this was his old acquaintance, the former student of Profound Heaven City, Boss Situ He! The black-clothed man waited for him to ease up a little before taking the hemp ball out of his mouth: "Don't be in a hurry to faint; we have the whole night to play slowly."

Boss Situ He gasped for breath, his face pale, but he stared at him and said, "Ban Jing, you are also from Gao Pu, and you were promoted by my father. Why betray your master!"

Ju City was broken months ago, and the garrison here had no other way, finally surrendering to the Pi Xia people.

Not surrendering meant death, Boss Situ He understood. But he had just been transferred to Ju City, and Ban Jing came to torture him.

What exactly was this for?

Ban Jing laughed, his voice cold, and red light gradually rose in his eyes.

"Ban Jing is my ghost slave clone, but I can answer your question: whatever I tell him to do, he does. This is called a wise man who submits to circumstances. Like you, being stubborn and wanting to suffer all kinds of torture before you die."

Boss Situ He said hatefully, "You are the Profound Lu Ghost King!"

"You destroyed two of my clones; did you think I would let you go?"

"The injustice has its head, the debt has its owner. You help the Pi Xia people poison Gao Pu..."

The Profound Lu Ghost King interrupted him: "No need for nonsense. I keep your tongue just to let you persuade Boss Situ Yu to surrender tomorrow. If you are obedient, you will suffer less. If you are still stubborn to the end—"

It chuckled twice: "Your eyeballs are useless too; let me dig them out for you."

The pain of broken fingers made the cold sweat on Boss Situ He's forehead flow to his neck, but he still retorted: "Persuade my father to surrender? Ha, ha, just like you persuaded your father-in-law back then?"

He also knew those few disreputable experiences of the Profound Lu Ghost King before his death.

This sentence successfully angered the Ghost King. Its red light flared, and it lowered its head to get close to Boss Situ He: "I just like you heroes who are iron-boned in front of me, which allows me to grind for a long time. The last hero who was iron-boned in front of me, I pulled out all 206 bones of his body one by one. Later, he couldn't bear it, but begging for mercy was useless. Finally, that lump of soft meat that couldn't scream, I raised it well with ointment, sprinkled some honey, and threw it into the fire ant nest in the forest."

It licked its lips, and the smile on its face was distorted: "The night is still very long; you must hold on and don't let me down."

Boss Situ He moved his throat twice and spat at it.

The Profound Lu Ghost King dodged easily, stuffed the hemp ball back into his mouth, found a spoon from somewhere, and went to poke his eyelids.

This pair of eyeballs, he wanted to dig out very slowly, very slowly, letting Boss Situ He suffer well.

The pain of living people was the source of his happiness.

Seeing this, the eyeball spider sprayed a thin thread, floating forward.

It wanted to swing onto Ban Jing's neck, and then take a light bite—

Just a small bite, and it could inject poison into it.

The eyeball spider upgraded by Zhu Da-niang could secrete very intense toxins. Those bitten would feel the nerves in the wound as if they were soaked in boiling water, hot and rolling, painful and unbearable.

However, before the eyeball spider jumped into place, Ban Jing noticed it and turned around immediately.

Red light flashed in his eyes, and such a grain-of-rice-sized thing could reflect its figure in his pupils.

Who sent this little spy?

As soon as the eyeball spider was discovered, it immediately turned and sprang backward, its eight legs paddling, 'swoosh swoosh swoosh' slipping toward the wooden window.

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