Carrying the little lucky star, leading the villain on the road to exile

Chapters 556 and 557: Darkness
Next, Saburo Inoshita and his companions faced the most tragic and darkest days of their lives.

Their eyes were the first to be affected; they went blind, then recovered, but then went blind again...

What terrified them most was that this was just the beginning.

Soon, they discovered that they had contracted many diseases, or that their skin was undergoing various abnormalities that caused them to scratch their hands raw. But before long, the demoness helped them solve the problem again.

However, this led to various internal organ problems, and he lived a life worse than death every day.

What makes them feel most helpless is that they can't even wish for death. They often bring themselves to the brink of death, thinking they are about to be free, only to have their lives miraculously restored...

Unable to speak, they could only kneel down and beg for mercy every time the witch and the old woman came.

Compared to them, their accomplices who were taken to the county town by oxcart to exchange for the bounty were the luckiest.

After all, with the poisoned arrows, they didn't suffer any hardship and didn't even know why they lost their lives.

The only problem was that the magistrate was very interested in the poisons used on the corpses, but Granny Pang and her team had prepared for this beforehand. They provided the names of some poisons, which immediately stopped the magistrate's curiosity. They also repeatedly warned him that such poisons should not be used unless absolutely necessary.

Lin Hua and his group readily agreed, promising not to use it again.

This was just as they had anticipated. After all, the poison was far too potent, and even the magistrate wasn't confident he could control it. If it harmed his own people, it would be a huge loss.

Just kidding, Granny Pang has at least dozens, if not hundreds, of kinds of medicine, and she has to carefully select which ones to use in rotation.

After receiving the reward, Gu Kaiyuan immediately distributed the silver to the men who had worked hard that night, praised them, and ordered several tables from the restaurant to celebrate a small celebration.

Bai Suihe felt that they couldn't remain passive, so she discussed with Gu Kaiyuan whether they should investigate the other party's hideout.

Gu Kaiyuan: "Weren't all those people rendered mute by your poison?"

Bai Suihe chuckled, "It's alright, wasting one dose of medicine will allow them to recover temporarily."

Having been silent for so long, and with the experiments they've been doing during this time, these people are probably on the verge of collapse. At this point, there's no need for them to use any more methods; as long as there's even the slightest hope, these people will confess anything.

What else is there to say? Gu Kaiyuan agreed without hesitation.

After Jingxia Saburo and the others were cleaned up and forced to drink a bowl of medicine, Bai Suihe and the others slowly appeared in front of them.

Gu Kaiyuan: "Tell me, who are your accomplices, and where are they?"

Inoshita Saburo and the others shook their heads. What could they say now?
"Seriously? You're covering for them? You've been here for so many days, and no one has come to check." Bai Suihe said casually.

Little did they expect that the very next day they would send the people to the county government office in a grand manner. In order to intimidate them, the county government office also hung these people on the city wall and left them there for two days. Later, they couldn't stand the smell anymore, so they took them down and burned them.

His accomplices should have already heard the news. These rabble don't care about human relationships or morality, so of course they won't avenge them and risk getting themselves involved.

“You can speak now,” Gu Kaiyuan said kindly, recalling how these people had tried to open their mouths but couldn’t speak these past few days, and how they must have been in despair.

"You..." Before he could finish speaking, Inoshita Saburo and the others were overjoyed. They could finally speak again. The first thing they did was kneel down and kowtow repeatedly, "We know we were wrong, please let us go."

We are willing to give you all our possessions, please spare us..."

The incessant pleas for mercy were so annoying that Gu Kaiyuan slammed his hand on the table and yelled, "Shut up, all of you!"

Now you'd better answer whatever I ask, or I'll have plenty of this medicine.

When Inoshita Saburo and the others saw the medicine bowl resting on the table, they were so frightened that they immediately fell silent. That chipped, large bowl had become their nightmare these past few days.

As soon as this thing appears, they will suffer a lot of trouble.

This time, without even needing Gu Kaiyuan to speak, they immediately rushed to say, "I said... we'll recruit..."

Seeing their lack of backbone, Gu Kaiyuan was not surprised. If it weren't for the sea area, any general in the court could easily deal with people like them.

Unfortunately, the court did not pay much attention to the navy and did not train it much, which allowed these people to take advantage of the situation.

Gu Kaiyuan smoothly recorded the details of the other party's personnel and hideout. After confirming that everything was correct, he said to them in a sinister tone, "Seeing how cooperative you are, we'll let you off the hook for the next two days. But if there's a single lie among you, don't blame us for being impolite."

"No, no," the group trembled with fear, secretly relieved that they hadn't harbored any ill intentions out of fear.

Fukishi mustered his courage and said, "But we don't know if they'll stay there, since they haven't been back for several days..."

Gu Kaiyuan said, "Then it depends on your luck."

If they come back empty-handed, someone will have to take the blame, so the only one to blame is those people who are too cunning.

Saburo and the others looked even uglier. So all that they had said was only for these two days of peace.

But they have no choice now, even though they can't even beg for death.

Upon receiving the news, Gu Kaiyuan naturally wanted to strike while the iron was hot. In recent days, the shipyard has also built some small boats, which are sufficient for near-shore use.

“We’re not very familiar with this sea,” Bai Suihe said, worried that they would go out to sea like this. “Go ask around the area and find an old fisherman to guide us.”

Gu Kaiyuan has memories of his previous life and is quite familiar with this sea area, but he also knows that Bai Suihe's worries are unfounded. In his previous life, his deputy generals were all carefully selected, and some of them were even fishermen, so he really needed to find help.

Gu Kaiyuan readily agreed and went out to find someone familiar with the sea area. He had also met such a person in his previous life and quickly found one.

But when they heard that they were going out to sea to find the lair of those little dwarfs, they were so frightened that they quickly waved their hands.

Just kidding, those people are ruthless, how could they possibly defeat them?
Having no other choice, Gu Kaiyuan displayed his military might and promised them that as long as they took people out to sea and arrived at their destination, they could leave immediately if they found anything amiss. He also promised them a small boat.

This condition indeed moved the other party...