The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 57 Torture
Let’s not talk about how Li Miao made things difficult for the Taishan Sect’s cook every day after that night, constantly complaining about things like “the jelly is too cold”, “the hot soup is too hot”, “the chopped green onions are not evenly spread”, etc., causing the Zuo Da Zhangzong, who dared not show up and was healing his injuries in secret, to not get a hot meal for several days.

Let's put aside the following few days, how Liu Baiyun used his power to bully others and debate with the heroes every day, and how he piled several meters high hats on the heads of several leaders and Zuo Lishan, and in the meantime scared those people from small and medium-sized forces to come down the mountain.

Let’s turn the focus back to Wang Hai and Xiao Si.

Since they separated in Pingshanwei, the two of them rushed all the way to Jinan Prefecture, where they waited for the remaining Jinyiwei to arrive for more than half a month.

What are they doing at this moment?

"ah!!!--"

In a dark dungeon, the firelight flickered, outlining hideous and twisting shadows on the wall.

A man was tied to a stake, his head hanging limply, blood mixed with saliva dripping from his mouth, and he no longer had the strength to struggle.

Wang Hai stretched out his hands, washed them in a basin of clean water, raised his head and said to the man, "Mr. Li, don't hold on any longer."

"Tell me about this technique, this light skill..." He pointed at the two secret books on the table: "Where did you get it from?"

No one answered.

Wang Hai stepped forward and gently placed his hand under the man's armpit.

"Ah!!! - You bastard, you dog official! Your emperor is my concubine! Your queen is my mistress!!!"

"Kill me! Kill me!"

The man suddenly raised his head, which had been lowered, and shouted wildly.

Wang Hai moved his hand away. The skin under the man's armpit was intact, but it was black and red, with blood oozing out of the pores.

It seemed as if he had just pressed it gently, but the true energy penetrated his body and "twisted" all the muscles under the skin together, barely preventing them from breaking.

But the man was still only concerned with shouting crazily, his words were incoherent and illogical, and there was even a sound of water dripping under his clothes. It was as if he was just an ordinary person who had been tortured to madness.

Wang Hai grinned: "Mr. Li, pretending to be crazy and stupid is useful to others, I have seen it many times."

"I've dealt with hundreds of people who pretended to be crazy, and dozens who were really crazy. You should think about what you should say while you're still sober."

"Even if you're really crazy, it will still hurt."

Wang Hai put his hand on the man again.

The shrill screams rang out again in the dungeon. Some of the murderers in other cells who had committed murders were trembling like little chickens. They hid in the corners, covered their mouths and noses tightly, and dared not make a sound.

Half an hour passed like this, and the man could no longer make a sound. His whole body was black, and his joints were loose and drooping limply.

"Okay, that's all I have to do." Wang Hai walked back to the table and sat down: "Fourth sister, please help me."

"Okay! Brother Hai." Xiao Si, who had been sitting at the table eating snacks, stood up, wiped his body and mouth with his little hands, and ran to the man in small steps.

The two little hands just pressed on the man.

"Ho-ho-"

The head that had been drooping down weakly was raised high again, but this time he couldn't even scream. His eyes were bloodshot, and his mouth was opened into a black hole, from which came out a beast-like scream. As mentioned earlier, in Li Miao's future plan for Xiao Si, Wang Hai, and Mei Qinghe, Wang Hai was responsible for shoveling things, and Mei Qinghe was responsible for kicking doors.

The seemingly harmless Xiao Si was actually the one responsible for the torture.

No matter how harmless Xiao Si looks, she was tortured by witchcraft for several years when she was a child and was turned into a human poison. And she is actually more evil than Zuo Lishan.

With such experience and such nature, how could she be just a lively and money-grubbing little girl?

Wang Hai was the one who did the dirty work and shady things under Li Miao. He was vicious and extreme in nature, but he restrained himself somewhat because of Li Miao's wishes.

On the day when the Huwei Escort Agency went out of the city to catch up, Li Miao deliberately told Wang Hai "not to kill anyone", not because Li Miao was soft-hearted. But because he knew that if he didn't say this, all the escorts would have died tragically at the hands of Wang Hai.

How could an ordinary girl end up with Wang Hai?
To put it bluntly, if Xiao Si was really an ordinary girl, Li Miao would just kick Wang Hai on the butt and tell him to get lost. He would never add fuel to the fire and let the two of them flirt with each other under his nose.

The sweet talk they had all day long was not just ordinary love talk. If an ordinary person accidentally heard it, they would probably report it to the police immediately.

Back to the present, why was this person being interrogated by Wang Hai and Xiao Si in turns?
As mentioned above, You Ziang, the flying thief who dressed up as a ghost to scare people in the home of Wu Yuanwai in Pingshanwei, was escorted to Jinan Prefecture by Wang Hai. You Ziang's inner strength and lightness skills from the Plum Blossom Thief were stolen from this man's home.

Wang Hai originally thought that this Plum Blossom Thief was a little scoundrel who had died long ago, and that the secret book might have accidentally flowed into his hands, so he didn't care much about it. He just arranged for the Jinyiwei to check the situation of this person as a "background check" for You Ziang.

However, he accidentally discovered that this person had a copy of "The Wisdom Sutra on the Origin of All Things" hidden in his home.

This is the fundamental scripture of Manichaeism and one of the seven scriptures of Manichaeism.

Manichaeism, its name in China is - Mingjiao.

The Ming Cult is a religious organization that wins people's hearts with faith. So no matter how deep those deadly spies hide, they can always find something related around them.

After all, religion itself has little to do with rationality.

Li Miao found out in Tai'an City that the Plum Blossom Thief was not dead, and the secret book obtained by You Ziang was just a cover for his fake death and escape. Wang Hai didn't know what Li Miao found out after they separated, but he knew that the Plum Blossom Thief was involved in the case of the Ming Cult and escaped from Li Miao.

Now that the classics of the Ming Cult were found in the house of the person who hid the Plum Blossom Thief's secret book, Wang Hai immediately became suspicious.

So he sent out a message to have the man escorted to Jinan Prefecture, where he would interrogate him personally.

As soon as Wang Hai took action, he knew that he had caught the real culprit.

Although this man had no true qi in his body, his muscles and bones were strong. He must have used a sophisticated method to deliberately endure the torture. And if he was an ordinary person, Wang Hai would have confessed that he drank a few more mouthfuls of milk when he was a child after interrogating him for so long.

This person seemed to be saying nothing, but became more and more crazy and silent. However, Wang Hai didn't know that this was a typical behavior of a secret agent. The more confused he was, the less he spoke, for fear that he would leak out information while he was unconscious.

However, no matter how devout your faith or how firm your convictions are, in the hands of Xiao Si, you will just suffer more.

Xiao Si's methods are not as simple as scraping the skin, cutting the flesh, or pinching a few fingers.

Sure enough, within an incense stick of time after Xiao Si’s hand was on the man, he heard the man struggling to squeeze out a sentence: “…Move…I move…”

"That...that secret manual...was given according to the instructions of my Ming Cult's Right Envoy..."

"Put it...put it with me..."

(End of this chapter)