“Hehe.” Liu Chen gave a dry laugh, “Jian Changsheng, I don’t know how you broke out of prison, but if you don’t want to experience the pain of soul-crushing interrogations again, you’d best let me go right now… I’ve been missing for so long, the Chamber of Commerce must’ve already sensed something’s wrong. A large number of people are already on their way here. Once they arrive, not even wings will let you escape.”
Jian Changsheng stared coldly at Liu Chen. He hadn’t expected the other party to be so tough. Judging from this stance, getting useful information out of his mouth wouldn’t be so easy.
At the same time, Chen Ling also slowly opened his eyes. He glanced at Liu Chen, who was pinned against a tree trunk by Jian Changsheng. An invisible heart python outlined itself from the center of his brows and swiftly approached.
“Don’t worry.” Jian Changsheng pulled out a dagger, speaking unhurriedly, “They won’t catch me… We have plenty of time.”
As his voice fell, the sharp dagger directly stabbed into Liu Chen’s body, and under Jian Changsheng’s control, it twisted forcefully.
“AAAAAAHHHHHH!!”
The intense pain tore at Liu Chen’s nerves, and he let out a painful scream. At the same time, Jian Changsheng’s devil-like low growl rang in his ear, “Speak! How many people did you send to catch me this time? Where are they lying in ambush?! Did you use any of those foreigners?!”
One question after another came out of Jian Changsheng’s mouth, but Liu Chen had no intention of answering. He gritted his teeth through the intense pain in his body, displaying a look of absolute resistance...
Chen Ling knew this guy was a tough nut to crack. If he used conventional methods, it would be difficult to pry anything useful out of him, so as he raised his fingertip, the heart python coiled around Liu Chen’s body suddenly began to bite.
“Speak!!” Jian Changsheng shouted again.
“You want to get information out of me… dream on!” Liu Chen gritted his teeth and replied.
Jian Changsheng was also enraged. He slapped Liu Chen repeatedly across the face, nearly knocking out all his teeth. The muscles on his cheeks visibly swelled red like a pig’s head.
Yet Liu Chen remained unafraid, raising his head and shouting, “If you have the guts, just kill me!!”
“You really think I don’t dare kill you?!”
Jian Changsheng threw the dagger aside, turned his hand and punched Liu Chen in the body. Even though he had restrained most of his strength, most of Liu Chen’s ribs still broke. The whole person fell from mid-air to the ground like trash.
Liu Chen’s wailing echoed through the dense forest, but Jian Changsheng had no intention of letting him go. With a blur of his figure, he straddled Liu Chen and rained down punches on his face like raindrops.
“Gonna talk or not?”
“No!”
“Talk or not?!”
“No!!”
“……”
Jian Changsheng gritted his teeth, his punches becoming fiercer and fiercer. He cursed inwardly that something was off—back when he was in the Yan family, he never felt that Liu Chen was this tough…
After over a dozen punches, Liu Chen was already covered in blood. Jian Changsheng was about to continue forcing a confession when a voice suddenly came from the side.
“That’s enough.”
Jian Changsheng’s fist halted mid-air.
He turned to look and saw Chen Ling standing up unhurriedly, patting the dust off his coat. “If you keep beating him, he’ll die.”
“If I don’t beat him, how will he talk?” Jian Changsheng frowned.
“Your kind of clumsy interrogation technique… really is rare.”
Jian Changsheng’s face darkened. He glanced at the nearly dead Liu Chen beneath him and coldly snorted as he stood up. “Then you do it. I want to see what high-level method you’ve got.”
Chen Ling didn’t refuse. He walked directly to the blood-soaked Liu Chen and slowly stood still.
At this moment, Liu Chen had already been beaten nearly unconscious. Through the one eye he could still open, he saw an unfamiliar young man coming to interrogate him. He opened his mouth hoarsely and weakly, “If you’ve got the guts… kill me…”
“I’m not like that idiot. I won’t kill you, and I won’t hit you either.” Chen Ling said slowly,
“But next, it’s best that you answer whatever I ask… otherwise, I can’t guarantee what might happen.”
Seeing this, Jian Changsheng’s frown deepened… Was he really planning to rely on such laughable threats for the interrogation?
He couldn’t figure out what medicine Chen Ling was selling in his gourd, but the other party indeed seemed to have no intention of making a move. His hands were still in his pockets, as if he were not interrogating a prisoner but rather strolling through a garden.
“First question.” Chen Ling spoke calmly, “Who ordered you to deal with the corpse?”
Liu Chen was about to sneer and tough it out, but the heart python coiled around him suddenly opened its huge mouth, and all the “fear” that had been stolen earlier poured back into his mind in a rush. That was the fear brought about by Jian Changsheng’s repeated punches just now. At this moment, it all gathered together, stacking atop one another, like a surging tide crashing into Liu Chen’s brain!
Liu Chen’s pupils shrank instantly!
At that moment, in his eyes, Chen Ling transformed into a violent, merciless, trembling demon, stirring up the deepest, most primal fear in his heart, making his entire body tremble uncontrollably in the pool of blood!
Liu Chen didn’t know where the strength came from, but he struggled up from the pool of blood, then thump, knelt down before Chen Ling, kowtowing as he answered:
“It… it was the Young Master! He ordered me to do it!!”
Jian Changsheng: ???
Jian Changsheng was dumbfounded. From his perspective, Chen Ling had merely asked a casual question, and Liu Chen suddenly went mad, kowtowing like crazy as if encountering something terrifying to the extreme.
When he was interrogating him, Liu Chen’s mouth was as hard as a stone—why did he chicken out as soon as Chen Ling showed up? What kind of trick did this guy use?!
“Who is the Young Master?” Chen Ling asked again.
“Yan Xishou!”
“The organ trafficking across the seven districts before—was that you guys too?”
“That… maybe? I’m not sure.” Liu Chen hesitated.
Chen Ling saw this, and his eyes narrowed slightly. He slowly stepped forward and grabbed Liu Chen by the collar, his tone icy cold, “You’d better think clearly.”
“I… I really don’t know! I was just ordered to deal with that corpse! I’m just a runner who cleans up messes! I really don’t know anything else!”
“Then in this recent period, how many hearts has the Stellar Chamber of Commerce handled in total?”
“About… thirty-some?”
“Who took them?”
“These things aren’t usually sold… most of the time it’s through favors, or other kinds of benefit exchanges. This time, it seemed to be the vice president of the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce—his child was sick, so he begged the Young Master for one… I don’t know where the others went.”