Chapter 282: Seize, Interrogate

The black-clothed men who had intended to attack Qiao Sheng were shocked and stepped back several paces.

An Liu and An Shi didn't have time to think further; seizing the opportunity, they disposed of two black-clothed men.

"Be careful, she will poison."

A black-clothed man whose attire differed somewhat from the others shouted; without doubt he was their leader.

The other unharmed black-clothed men thought for a moment and covered their eyes.

Seeing this, Qiao Sheng raised her hand and scattered a spray of concealed weapons, saying to An Liu and An Shi, "An Liu, An Shi, the concealed weapons I scattered are poisonous; be careful, don't step on them."

"Mm."

"Oh."

An Liu and An Shi Yi replied in turn.

Compared to An Shi.

An Liu was sly; upon learning that the concealed weapons must not be stepped on, he repeatedly lured those black-clothed men onto the weapons. Their leader could not stand it and ordered them to remove the coverings from their eyes.

That was when this happened.

Qiao Sheng's voice rang out: "An Liu, An Shi, dodge!"

Having followed Qiao Sheng for so long, An Liu and An Shi still had basic tacit understanding; they hardly thought twice and directly leapt aside.

That was when this happened.

Qiao Sheng threw a handful of powder into the wind.

None of the black-clothed men escaped; all were affected.

One black-clothed man's mentality broke, and he shouted loudly: "It's over, it's over, I'm going to die, I don't want to die!"

"Shut up!"

The leader among the black-clothed men thrust a sword forward.

"Capture them!"

At Qiao Sheng's command, An Liu and An Shi sprang into action; their strikes were swift, and before long they had sealed the acupoints of six black-clothed men.

The other black-clothed men, upon reacting, all glared at Qiao Sheng.

The leading black-clothed man was furious beyond restraint: "You deceived us?"

"How could there be?"

Qiao Sheng tossed the antidote to An Liu, instructing her to give it to those few black-clothed men.

Seeing this, the other black-clothed men panicked; they had not taken the antidote, so weren't they about to die imminently?

"I..."

A black-clothed man uttered only a single word before the leader among them killed him; he swept his gaze over the few black-clothed men not yet captured and said, "Suicide is not allowed, nor surrender; otherwise you know the consequences."

Upon hearing this, the several black-clothed men on his side simultaneously raised their swords and slit their throats.

He was the last to commit suicide.

Qiao Sheng did not intervene.

After An Shi confirmed that these black-clothed men were all dead, Qiao Sheng took from her own room the corpse-dissolving water she had prepared when she was unharmed and handed it to An Shi.

Upon learning that a mere drop of this water could dissolve an entire corpse,

An Shi was stunned; after regaining his composure, he carefully poured it out.

"Be careful."

An Liu truly feared that if he were even slightly careless, the water would spill onto his own hand.

That would surely make the other Dark Guards laugh themselves to death.

After the corpses were dealt with,

Qiao Sheng went to comfort Xiao Shitou and the others, then together with An Liu and the others interrogated the few captured black-clothed men.

"Who ordered you to come kill me?"

Each one remained silent.

An Liu donned the ring he used when interrogating people, then began striking them one by one; whoever refused to speak got hit.

The ring he wore differed from an ordinary ring; a punch not only caused internal pain but also left several bloody punctures on the outside from the ring's spikes.

Watching made An Shi feel pain, yet he stood aside and said nothing.

This was not the first time he had seen An Liu do such a thing.

An Liu told him, as a Dark Guard one cannot be merciful, otherwise it would be oneself who dies.

Die oneself or die another.

Is that even worth thinking about?

Of course it's to die another!

Seeing that their mouths were tougher one than the next, Qiao Sheng had An Liu and the others guard them first, then she went to prepare poison.

A quarter of an hour passed.

Qiao Sheng brought over a bottle of the prepared poison and said, "This, make them drink it."

(End of chapter)