Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 26: Torture? Why don’t you ask?

A dungeon was built under the health hall.

Although this dungeon was built underground in the Health Hall, almost none of the masters and children in the hall knew about it.

Only Owl Guard and a few other people knew about the existence of this dungeon.

Outside the cell, Zhao Qi'an and Tie Wuhen were sitting in the place where the guards who originally guarded the dungeon rested. There was tea on the table, and it was obvious that they had been waiting for a while.

Just then, the cell door opened and an owl guard led a short old man in.

The old man, carrying a backpack, walked slowly into the dungeon with his back hunched.

He was hunched over, as if his back had been bent by the years. The skin on his face was like dry bark, covered with deep wrinkles, but his chin was completely smooth without a single hair.

Zhao Qi'an stood up to greet him: "Eunuch Wei."

Eunuch Wei bowed and said in a sharp voice: "I have retired from the palace a long time ago. Fortunately, my master has appreciated me and I have a meal. My master, please call me Wei Jiang."

Zhao Qi'an said with a pleasant face, "I only asked the Xiaowei to send someone who is good at interrogation. Master Wei could have sent a student. Why did you come here in person?"

"Those students are useless and I'm afraid they will delay the master's work. I may be an old slave, but my skills are not rusty, so the master can rest assured."

Wei Jiang responded with a smile, and looked around the dungeon with a gloomy look, and asked: "Miss Third sent this old servant here, but did not tell me who she was going to interrogate? Is he in the prison?"

Zhao Qi'an shook his head and said, "Not in prison, but right here."

"here?"

Wei Jiang looked surprised, but besides him, the only people in the room were Zhao Qi'an and Tie Wuhen behind him.

Zhao Qi'an did not keep the person in suspense and directly pulled off the black cloth of the cage on the table, revealing what was locked inside.

In the cage, the beauty's head was already dying, and her neck, which was three or four feet long, was coiled up like a snake, as if it had no bones.

Wei Jiang had lived for so long, but this was the first time he had seen such an evil thing and he screamed, "Ah!"

Zhao Qi'an asked, "Master Wei, is there any way to dig out some useful information from this creature?"

Wei Jiang hesitated and asked, "Does she understand human language?"

"If you can understand and speak, your wisdom is no different from that of ordinary people."

"Do you know the pain?"

“Yes.”

"Then there's no problem."

Zhao Qi'an held up the cage and said, "There is a torture chamber inside. Elder Wei, follow me to the torture chamber."

"No need to."

Wei Jiang smiled as he took off the bag he had been carrying and took out a palm-sized needle bag. When he opened it, he saw golden needles of varying thicknesses tied inside.

In addition, he took out a dagger, a golden hook, a bamboo stick and other items from his bag and laid them out on the table.

He looked at the torture instruments lined up on the table, and his slender fingers ran over them one by one, his eyes showing unconcealed fondness, and he murmured, "Which one should I use first?"

Wei Jiang picked out a golden hook and bowed to Zhao Qi'an, saying, "Master, please step aside."

Zhao Qi'an waved his hand and said, "No need. I'll just watch from the side."

……

Half an hour later.

Zhao Qi'an left the dungeon with a grim look on his face.

In the dungeon, the painful screams and shrill roars of the beauty head could still be heard:

"Kill me, kill me now!!!"

"No hurry, no hurry... Haha, there are still many treasures that I haven't tried yet." Zhao Qian'an silently closed the cell door, trying not to recall the scene just now, so as not to vomit it out.

Tie Wuhen at the side sighed: "In my life, I have killed quite a few people. It was not until today that I realized that 'death' is the most satisfying thing. It turns out that I can pull out the flesh and blood one by one like silk threads and ensure that it continues..."

"do not talk!"

Zhao Qi'an covered his mouth and his expression became even uglier.

After a long pause, he put down his hand, looked at Tie Wuhen and said faintly: "Master Tie, you only stayed for half a cup of tea."

Tie Wuhen's expression remained unchanged: "I'm old, I can't stand watching these things."

How immoral!

He receives such a high salary every month, but he runs faster than a rabbit!
Zhao Qi'an silently took note of this and deducted Master Tie's monthly salary when he returned.

No wonder he was so angry.

Although the beauty's head was seriously injured by Old Nie and was dying, she was a celestial warrior after all, while Old Eunuch Wei had never practiced martial arts. If she suddenly attacked, Zhao Qi'an would lose an "expert" who was hired at a high price.

Tie Wuhen left after just a while, so Zhao Qi'an had to stay inside by himself until he was sure that the beauty's head had completely lost its threat, and then he came out.

Zhao Qi'an and Tie Wuhen stood outside the dungeon, listening to the noise inside.

Every time the screams turned from shrill to weak, people thought that the beauty's head was going to be killed, but the next second, no one knew what other torture the old eunuch Wei used, and the screams became shrill again.

So over and over again.

I don't know how long it took, but there was finally no movement inside.

The door of the dungeon opened, Wei Jiang walked out, and bowed to Zhao Qi'an: "Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission."

Zhao Qi'an returned to the dungeon again, which was filled with a faint smell of blood.

Before he could ask, the beauty suddenly straightened her neck like a snake, her eyes full of bloodshot: "I confess, I confess everything... Why don't you ask, wuwuwu, I would have confessed a long time ago!"

……

The subsequent interrogation was not difficult at all.

Even the questions that Zhao Qian'an didn't ask, the beauty answered them one by one like picking beans.

Zhao Qi'an's expression remained unchanged, but his heart sank slightly.

"My brother and I are the gold and silver guardians of the Red Lotus branch of the Salvation Cult. A branch within the cult? I only know some of the people in the Red Lotus branch. Our cult has always been secretive, and even the internal members don't know the full picture."

"Gong Xinying is the Saint of my sect. We came to Kyoto City for the reincarnation of the Golden Boy. It was she who hooked up with Princess Yuzhen. The leader seemed to be happy with this and asked us to follow the Saint's orders."

"The leader? I don't know. I don't think even the Saint knows the leader's true identity."

"There is more than one reincarnated golden boy. The leader clearly told us to find a Buddha boy who is the reincarnation of Buddha. I don't know why it is a little Taoist boy. I am just following orders."

"The Taoists in Baiyun Temple are all controlled by the 'Blood Bodhisattva'. The 'Blood Bodhisattva' only believes in the leader. Only the leader's token can make them obey his orders. I really don't know who has the token..."

After questioning, he put the beauty's head back into the cage.

"Give me a quick death! Give me a quick death!"

The beauty kept banging her head against the iron cage, looking like a madman: "I've told you everything, kill me, just give me a quick death!"

Zhao Qi'an ignored him and slapped the iron cage with his hand.

The iron cage was not damaged at all, but the force penetrated into the cage and stunned the beauty inside.

Zhao Qi'an covered the black cloth again, and then slowly recalled what the Beauty Head had just told him.

Salvationism…

A cult that the Daqian Dynasty wants to eliminate as soon as possible.

Yuzhen doesn't want to be a good princess and instead hooks up with a cult?
(End of this chapter)