Chapter 1174

With a genial smile, she said, "Handsome guy, take out everything in your system space. It'll save us all some trouble."

Sun Cheng nodded rapidly. "No problem, no problem, but, could you let that woman over there come over?"

Zhuang Ya followed his gaze—it was Gu Qing.

Perhaps because he had just been entranced by Gu Qing's fragrance, he now disregarded his status as a captive and spoke such words.

Zhuang Ya's smile grew even warmer. "She's busy right now. I'm handling things here. Just take out the stuff—no need to do anything yourself. Just trade it to me."

Sun Cheng nodded. "No problem, I'll definitely cooperate, but could you let that woman—"

Zhuang Ya had already started pulling out a knife.

Several sharp little knives.

Sun Cheng shut his mouth.

Zhuang Ya said, "Just right, I haven't had my fill from that last battle. Now I'll give you two choices—you can pick either. The first choice is I'll help you take off your leather armor. But don't worry, I'm very experienced. I guarantee you'll come off a whole piece of leather, completely intact."

Sun Cheng didn't understand at first.

He thought Zhuang Ya was going to help him take off his leather armor.

But he was wearing iron armor.

But hearing what came after, seeing Zhuang Ya fiddling with the little knives, and combined with Zhuang Ya's smile, Sun Cheng suddenly felt a chill.

"No no no, don't, I was wrong, I'll give you everything right now."

Saying so, Zhuang Ya immediately received his trade request.

【Items Acquired】:

【Currency】 Equivalent to 183 gold

【Medicines】 319 units

【Items】 21 Quick-Work Talismans, 7 Quick-Growth Talismans, 8 Quick-Build Talismans

【Treasure Chests】 2 self-selected material chests, 1 self-selected medicines chest

【Other】 Some clothing, some other junk

The haul wasn't much, but for a town-level lord, it looked about right.

Zhuang Ya smiled. "Very good. So, do you want to pick the second choice?"

"The second... what is it?"

"That would be helping warm up your body. Are you cold?"

"I'm... not cold?"

"No, you are cold."

Flames rose in Zhuang Ya's hand.

"Holy shit! No no no, big sis, big sis, I was wrong, don't burn me, I was wrong."

Sun Cheng thrashed violently again.

Gu Qing's silk threads spread open and closed together—he couldn't break free no matter how he struggled.

"Big sis? Are you calling me?" Zhuang Ya was very surprised, then said with a faint smile, "Alright, alright, let me tell you—the palms and the soles of the feet both have lots of nerves; they're among the most sensitive parts of the human body. But then again, for flames, it doesn't really matter where you burn—it's all very hot. Wouldn't you say so?"

"Yes! Yes yes yes! You're right!"

"Mm, have you taken out everything in your system space?"

"Of course, of course I've taken it all out."

"Mm, that's good. In a bit I'll get 1 cubic meter of water for you to fill up. If you can't fill it, that means you still have items in your system space, and I'll burn you for 10 minutes."

Sun Cheng opened his mouth, swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Then he stammered, "S-sorry, I still have one more item..."

Zhuang Ya smiled. "Oh, hand it over."

【Items Acquired】:

【Attribute Jade】 ×1

This time Zhao Chi also laughed.

He hadn't expected him to still have an Attribute Jade.

Attribute Jade wasn't too expensive—just a few hundred gold coins.

But the main thing was it wasn't common.

If it were common, Zhao Chi would have bought it long ago.

Lords who got one would generally eat it themselves.

Not many would put it up for sale.

Zhao Chi controlled Zhuang Ya's mouth and asked, "Where did you get this Attribute Jade?"

Sun Cheng seemed a little reluctant to say.

Zhuang Ya had long been unable to hold back.

She directly set her fingertip ablaze and burned it toward Sun Cheng's ankle.

Sun Cheng immediately cried out for mercy: "No no no, I'll talk, I'll talk! I stole it. When we occupied Green Fish Village earlier, a lord resisted. After we killed him, it was part of the loot we split."

Zhao Chi asked again, "Then why didn't you eat it?"

Sun Cheng howled, "I wanted to sell it for money. I have no money. I couldn't bear to eat it."

Reasonable enough.

These low-level bandits were all very poor.

Zhao Chi, curled up inside Zhuang Ya, said nothing more.

Zhuang Ya burned him a while longer before withdrawing the flames.

Then he asked, "Continue. Keep digging it out."

Sun Cheng was in so much pain his eyes welled up with tears.

"Huh? Dig out what? My system space really doesn't have anything left, I swear, I'm not lying to you."

Zhuang Ya frowned. "Not telling the truth?"

As she spoke, flames spurted from her fingertip again.

Sun Cheng wailed.

"Dig it out. Whenever you produce something, the fire stops."

Sun Cheng thrashed violently and screamed, but could hand over nothing more.

Zhuang Ya 【my lord, it seems he really has nothing left. Once we're back at the territory, I'll have him drink some water】

Zhao Chi already was very satisfied 【Very good, Zhuang Ya. It seems you're quite suited for interrogation too. From now on, this job is yours.】

Zhuang Ya was of course willing 【Excellent. Leave it all to me.】

Zhao Chi 【From now on, every prisoner, slave, and jail in the territory is under your charge. We didn't have many captives before, but there will certainly be plenty from now on.】

Zhuang Ya was overjoyed 【Many thanks, my lord. I will definitely train every prisoner and slave into complete submission for you.】

Zhuang Ya had a natural talent for sadism and was extremely passionate about this sort of work.

This job couldn't have been handed to anyone more fitting.

She would surely maintain her enthusiasm for the work at all times.

And Zhao Chi was also very much at ease.

Although Zhuang Ya had such a talent, she was still very responsible.

She would not torment for torment's sake.

Gu Qing was directing soldiers and villagers to search through and haul away supplies.

All the captives had already been locked up.

Right now no one actually lived in Taoyuan Village; every room was empty.

The jails were all empty too.

They could all be used to hold the captives.

Zhuang Ya had already taken her orders and gone to suppress the captives.

The captives had just surrendered; their compliance was very low, especially when there were many of them, and they would easily rebel.

Zhuang Ya's job was suppression.

Screams rang out. Zhuang Ya's little face flushed red, very excited.

Zhao Chi already had disengaged.

The entire battle was not yet over; there was no battle settlement for now.