Chapter 372: Interrogation

"What if you are the culprit who killed Zhang Chen Zongyang? Doesn't that make it possible for you to kill me?"

Li Fei's words were like thunder, exploding in Feng Feng Sanniang's ears.

Taking advantage of her momentary distraction, Li Fei lunged at her!

Feng Feng Sanniang's reaction was swift; she raised her arm, and three flying knives, imbued with deep blue internal energy, shot straight at Li Fei's face.

At the same time, the hand she had pressed against the gate exerted force, intending to push it open and retreat.

This gate was crafted from special materials and equipped with a mechanism that could only be opened using a specific technique, so as long as she escaped behind it and it closed again, she could buy time to flee.

But the next instant, an endless sea of blood appeared before her eyes.

The three flying knives exploded in mid-air, as if three grenades had gone off!

Not only that, the internal energy attached to them instantly froze the surrounding air, forming a wall of ice.

But a second later, the ice wall shattered, and blood-red crystals pierced out from behind it.

Li Fei rushed to the side of the just-recovered Feng Feng Sanniang in one step and threw a punch.

The protective internal energy Feng Feng Sanniang had erupted with was shattered instantly, and then her lower abdomen was struck by Li Fei.

Bang!!!

Feng Feng Sanniang was lifted off her feet by this punch and slammed heavily into the gate.

The gate vibrated; the outer layer of wood was shattered, and the steel inside was dented inward.

From the moment he infiltrated the sixth floor and landed, Li Fei had activated 【Blood Rage】, and while charging at Feng Feng Sanniang, he had also unleashed the Vajra Seal: Dragon-Elephant, so the power of this punch was astonishing, nearly breaking Feng Feng Sanniang's heart and intestines!

However, this woman was also ruthless; she spat a mouthful of fresh blood onto Li Fei's face, and over a hundred strands of deep blue internal energy shot out from the acupuncture points all over her body like sharp arrows, raining down on Li Fei!

The high-level internal energy she cultivated was called Frost Heart Energy, and its greatest feature was that it could be frozen in advance and hidden in various acupuncture points throughout the body, to be fired like hidden weapons when needed, with power even greater than bullets!

In this instant, Feng Feng Sanniang fired all the Frost Heart Energy stored in her acupuncture points; at such close range, it was almost impossible to dodge.

She felt that even if she couldn't kill Li Fei, she could at least buy herself time to escape.

Yet Li Fei simply lowered his head to use his mask to block the two strands of energy aimed at his eyes, ignoring the rest.

A large cloud of blood mist exploded between the two; the barrage of Frost Heart Energy pierced Li Fei's protective True Blood Energy, and Li Fei also drove his blade through Feng Feng Sanniang's protective energy and protective clothing, stabbing into her abdomen!

Feng Feng Sanniang let out a cry of pain, feeling as if her internal organs had been shattered, and for a moment, she was unable to resist.

She struggled to open her eyes to look at Li Fei before her, only to see that the black martial arts uniform on his body had been pierced with many holes, and the protective clothing underneath also had holes, but he was completely unscathed, without even a single wound.

"How is this possible?"

Feng Feng Sanniang looked at Li Fei in despair.

Li Fei did not stop his movements, driving strands of True Blood Energy into Feng Feng Sanniang's body to sever her meridians and destroy the implants within her.

A moment later, Li Fei withdrew his blade, grabbed Feng Feng Sanniang's neck with one hand, lifted her up, and looked straight into her eyes:

"Tell me, who did you cooperate with, and why did you want to kill Zhang Chen Zongyang?"

"Haha!"

Fresh blood spilled from Feng Feng Sanniang's mouth, and her abdomen was also bleeding profusely.

Fortunately, the vitality of a Dao Foundation realm expert was strong enough that she could not die yet.

"What makes you so sure I killed Zhang Chen Zongyang? What, are you trying to find a scapegoat just to save Shangguan Xiao?"

Feng Feng Sanniang looked at Li Fei with resentment, "If you kill me tonight, you will never have peace again!"

What made people fear this 'Queen' the most was never her personal strength, but her terrifying connections.

Just thinking about how the previous Garrison Commander and the current second-ranked person on the Feng Province Wind and Cloud List, Gu Vanguard Commander, had both been guests of this woman, one could understand how powerful her connections were.

People like the 'Beast King' Yu Yu Longqing, once dead, were dead; very few would avenge him, and there wouldn't be many lingering consequences.

But Feng Feng Sanniang was different; if she were killed, there would be plenty of people willing to avenge her!

Li Fei did not care about this at all and continued to press her:

"You don't have to die, as long as you tell the truth!"

Feng Feng Sanniang sneered: "You're certain I'm the culprit based on just a bit of speculation? Don't you find that ridiculous?"

Li Fei: "Of course it's not just this speculation. The reason Zhang Chen Zongyang went out quietly alone to that villa that night was to meet a woman, a woman who looked exactly like Shangguan Xiao's mother. When it comes to using women for honey traps, in the entire Feng Province, who is more adept at it than you, Feng Feng Sanniang?"

Feng Feng Sanniang scoffed: "Heh, if you want to condemn someone, you can always find a pretext, can't you?"

Seeing that she still refused to admit it, Li Fei revealed his greatest piece of evidence:

"The poison Zhang Chen Zongyang was struck with is related to you; you suddenly purchased a large amount of rosemary half a year ago, which was used to concoct that kind of poison for someone, right?"

Before going into seclusion, Li Fei had asked Yang Zhe to check the large-scale transaction records of rosemary within the last year, and the result Yang Zhe found was that, apart from a few large hospitals, only Feng Feng Sanniang's side had been purchasing large quantities of rosemary successively half a year ago.

Hearing this, Feng Feng Sanniang's expression finally changed.

It wasn't that Feng Feng Sanniang wasn't cautious enough to leave purchase traces, but that she had never even considered that there could be such a thing as a 'poison formula' in this world.

The person who concocted the poison was also a master-level figure, and at the time, he had told her very confidently that it was impossible for anyone in this world to trace any clues based on the poison he used!

In fact, if Li Fei hadn't proposed the concept of a 'poison formula,' even Mo Mo Yizhou would not have been able to analyze the poison Zhang Chen Zongyang was struck with.

So, normally, Feng Feng Sanniang and her associates had actually left no flaws.

It was just that Li Fei brought a variable beyond common sense.

"Anything else to say?"

Li Fei stared into Feng Feng Sanniang's eyes and asked coldly.

"Hehe, hahahaha, hahahahahaha—"

The woman whose neck was being gripped by him suddenly burst into loud laughter.

At this moment, footsteps could be heard in the corridor outside the room.

The commotion in the room had finally attracted the attention of the others.

"Don't any of you come over—"

Feng Feng Sanniang suddenly shouted loudly.

The footsteps outside the room stopped accordingly.

"Feng Sanniang?"

Someone outside called out with concern.

"Everyone wait outside!"

Feng Feng Sanniang continued to command, her tone stern.

After waiting for a while, the people outside still did not rush in rashly.

Only then did she look at Li Fei again, seemingly wanting to see the face beneath that mask:

"You actually managed to find out about the rosemary; that really was unexpected for me, but so what? Based on this alone, you can't overturn the verdict for Shangguan Xiao."

Li Fei was silent.

This was the reason he hadn't come to find Feng Feng Sanniang immediately after knowing the result, because with only this one clue, it was indeed impossible to overturn the verdict for Shangguan Xiao.

The poison formula itself was a concept that transcended this era, and toxicology was a very profound field of study; expecting everyone to understand and believe the results analyzed by Li Fei and Mo Mo Yizhou was, in itself, impossible.

Or perhaps using the authoritative status of Mo Mo Yizhou, a master of toxicology, to make people believe the analyzed results.

If it were another case, it might be possible, but the Zhang Chen Zongyang case involved too much; Mo Mo Yizhou's authority alone was far from enough.

Unless Mo Mo Yizhou could have the reputation and status of someone like Shi Caiming, only then would there be a glimmer of possibility.

Therefore, more and more critical evidence must be found.

But this required time, and Shangguan Xiao was already about to be convicted.

Li Fei had originally thought about leveraging the Martial University, then going to talk to the investigation team, cooperating with Yan Yan Shijin, and handing this clue about Feng Feng Sanniang to the other party to let them investigate, while simultaneously delaying the time for Shangguan Xiao's conviction.

With this two-pronged approach, plus having already found the breakthrough point of Feng Feng Sanniang, perhaps there was still a possibility of breaking this trap.

But he hadn't expected the attitude of Yan Yan Shijin's side to be completely beyond his expectations, and Hao Yi had already arrived at Datong Prefecture City; the enemy behind the scenes was likely about to start closing the net.

Thus, Li Fei could only, as the Green-Faced Ghost, simply and brutally kill his way to Feng Feng Sanniang to attempt to break the situation by force.

"Why did you do this? If you tell the truth, I will spare your life and promise to provide you with protection afterward. If you don't believe me, we can sign a contract."

Li Fei said to Feng Feng Sanniang.

He did not believe that such a large trap could be accomplished by Feng Feng Sanniang's own power alone.

There must be someone else behind this!

"Heh, you have no idea who you are going up against."

Feng Feng Sanniang sneered.

"Then tell me."

"You think you can protect me? The Iron Blade Gate was wiped out; is your Qingyuan Property Management Company more powerful than the Iron Blade Gate? The 'Blade King' is dead; are you more powerful than Gu Vanguard Commander?"

Feng Feng Sanniang looked at Li Fei with pitying eyes and shook her head, "You can't even protect yourself."

Li Fei looked at her with cold eyes: "At least the people behind you can't make you die right now, but I can. If you tell the truth, there is at least a glimmer of survival. If you don't, you will definitely die tonight!"

"Then just kill me, hahahahaha—"

Feng Feng Sanniang laughed loudly, her eyes wild.

Li Fei looked at this woman held in his palm; at least at this moment, he felt that this woman had gone mad.

The killing intent in his heart surged like a tide; for a moment, Li Fei really wanted to split the other party in two with one blade!

Resisting the killing intent, Li Fei took a small medicine bottle from his bosom, then pried open Feng Feng Sanniang's mouth and forcibly fed her two pills.

This was the latest version of the Nether Spring Poison (Execution Version) that Li Fei had concocted; this version of the poison was even more violent than the version Li Fei had given Zhao Yi to force him to tell the truth, and it could bring even more pain to people!

Having attended Mo Mo Yizhou's classes for so long, Li Fei naturally had gained something.

After Feng Feng Sanniang took the poison, her complexion changed quickly.

She looked at Li Fei, gritting her teeth:

"Is this your method? You think this will make me submit?"

Li Fei said nothing, merely waiting silently for the drug's effects to continue taking hold.

Soon, Feng Feng Sanniang's body began to tremble, but because her body was restrained by Li Fei's internal force, she could not move at all.

Fresh blood flowed continuously from her mouth, yet she endured it stubbornly without letting out a cry of pain.

"Feng Sanniang, are you alright?"

A shout came from outside the door again; Feng Feng Sanniang's subordinates could no longer hold back and wanted to rush in.

"If you don't want her to die, stand there and don't move!"

Li Fei turned around and roared.

He knew he did not have much time left.

If there was someone behind Feng Feng Sanniang, they would surely send experts to intercept and kill him immediately upon learning that something had gone wrong here.

This was the reason he had not risked taking Feng Feng Sanniang away first before interrogating her.

What if she died on the road during a fight?

Therefore, he had to interrogate her directly to get the answer first; that way, it would be convenient whether he chose to leave or stay.

Li Fei unleashed another full-power 【Blood Might】 upon Feng Feng Sanniang, who was already suffering intensely from the poison.

Under the circumstances of being severely injured and tortured by the poison, Feng Feng Sanniang's resistance to techniques had dropped to its lowest point, so this 【Blood Might】 left her unable to recover for a long while.

"Who ordered you to kill Zhang Chen Zongyang?"

Li Fei took the opportunity to press her.

Following his research into the techniques of the Nightmare Sect, he had also mastered some minor mental-level tricks:

In a mental illusion, Feng Feng Sanniang was sinking endlessly into a boundless sea of blood, and then a majestic voice came from all directions:

"Who ordered you to kill Zhang Chen Zongyang? Tell me, and you will be liberated!"

"Just say it."

"Say it—"

"The Zhang family all deserve to die!"

"What?"

"The Zhang family all deserve to die!!"

"The Zhang family should be destroyed!"

"Whoever helps the Zhang family, I will kill them!"

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In the sea of blood, Feng Feng Sanniang roared hysterically.

Li Fei could sense from her mental fluctuations the deep-seated hatred she held for the Zhang family!

The person behind the scenes must have utilized this point to make Feng Feng Sanniang move against Zhang Chen Zongyang.

And the reason Feng Feng Sanniang had secretly leaked the location of Li Fei's delivery to Yu Yu Longqing to eliminate Li Fei was not only out of fear that Li Fei would learn the truth in the future, but also because Li Fei was helping the Zhang family overcome their difficulties under the identity of the Green-Faced Ghost.

Thinking about it this way, it was possible that the attack on Li Fei's true self by the 'Bullet Shell' team was also Feng Feng Sanniang's doing.

Whoever wanted to help the Zhang family, she would kill!

Boom—

The large door behind Li Fei was suddenly smashed open, and a figure rushed in from behind the door.

The newcomer held a long spear, the strike like a dragon, thrusting toward Li Fei:

"Let Feng Sanniang go—"

He roared in anger.

This was a Dao Foundation realm expert under Feng Feng Sanniang, and also an admirer who was infatuated with her.

Li Fei stopped the interrogation, turned, and slashed out with his blade.

Clang—

The long spear in the newcomer's hand was knocked aside by a massive, overwhelming force; his arm muscles bulged as he forced himself to pull the spear back to sweep it horizontally at Li Fei.

The next second, a boundless sea of blood appeared before his eyes.

By the time he regained his senses, his protective internal force had been instantly shattered by Li Fei's Vajra Blood Demon Force, and then his head was sent flying.

After killing this Dao Foundation realm expert in seconds, Li Fei picked up the limp Feng Feng Sanniang with one hand and stepped forward to rush outside.

With his current combat power, looking across the entire Datong Prefecture, there were few who could kill him.

He wanted to see what kind of lineup the person behind the scenes would send to intercept and kill him tonight.

"At most, you'll send a Martial Arts Master, and that will expose your identity."

Li Fei thought to himself.

The next second, he had already reached the corridor and then broke through a window with Feng Feng Sanniang to escape.

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