“The one who sent us was… was…” Ninth Lady Lust opened her mouth, but she couldn't say anything. She suddenly seemed to have realized something. She grabbed her head and shook it back and forth frantically, her expression full of alarm.
“What’s wrong?” Zu An asked, feeling a bit dejected.
Right at that moment, Ninth Lady Lust’s head exploded like a watermelon.
Zu An was speechless. Even though he had already spent enough time in this world and had witnessed his fair share of slaughter, he still felt a bit out of sorts when he saw that. However, he endured the feeling to examine Ninth Lady Lust’s remains. It wasn’t poison, nor was it some kind of bug. Could it be a kind of imprint on her soul or something?
These top-tier assassins had actually been given such a soul imprint without any knowledge of it. If they gave out any extreme secrets, it would trigger and they would die. The one who had used this skill really was ruthless! To be able to accomplish something like that… Could it be the Shadow Group again?
With a wave of Zu An's hand, a flame enveloped Ninth Lady Lust’s remains, quickly burning her away into nothing before waking up another assassin. He didn’t want them to see Ninth Lady Lust’s gruesome fate and decide to hide information. Then, he used the same words he had used on Ninth Lady Lust again.
Sure enough, the assassin's will quickly broke down and he was willing to confess. But when he was about to say something, Zu An stopped him and said, “I'll ask the questions; you only need to answer.”
The assassin was stunned, but he still nodded in the end.
“I won’t ask about your association, and will only ask about the employer this time. Do you know who that is?” Zu An asked, staring carefully at him. He wanted to see if he could avoid triggering that soul imprint.
“I do. They are…” the assassin began, sighing in relief. As long as he didn’t have to sell out the association, he wouldn’t have that much of a mental burden.
And yet, once again, his head still exploded like a watermelon!
Zu An was stunned.
You can’t even talk about this?
He burned up the corpse and woke up the next one.
“Don’t take the initiative to speak. You can only answer my questions.”
“Okay.”
“Is the employer male or female?”
“They’re…”
Boom!
Zu An was speechless. He continued on to the next one with a numb expression.
“You don’t need to speak. You only need to nod or shake your head."
“Is the employer male?”
The assassin's head twitched.
Boom!
Zu An was dumbfounded.
What the hell is this? You can’t even answer such basic information?
He woke up the next person.
“The employer should be female, right? Did she come from…”
The assassin's head twitched.
Boom!
Zu An was speechless once again.
Why did his head move before I even finished my sentence? And it even exploded, at that…
From the start until now, he hadn’t even gotten to ask anything, and yet most of the assassins had already died. He thought over the questions he had asked, and suddenly thought of something.
Then, he woke up the last assassin.
“Is the employer… a eunuch?”
The assassin was stunned. He reflexively nodded... and then, his head exploded!
Zu An burned away the remains until there wasn’t even a drop of blood left. Then, he returned to the room.
Xie Daoyun had already calmed down considerably. Zu An wanted to support her, but Xie Daoyun said in embarrassment as soon as he touched her ice-cold skin, “Big brother Zu, I’m already awake. I think I should get up on my own.”
“Okay," Zu An said as he walked outside. With a wave of his hand, he moved the screen between the two of them to cover her. He began to think over the intelligence he had received. Don’t tell me that…
Xie Daoyun gave the figure outside a look with a strange expression.
Why is big brother Zu staying in the room when I’m changing?
But when she recalled how he had already seen everything he wasn't supposed to see, and they had even touched, she felt that it was meaningless anyway. She could only swiftly wipe down her body with a towel before hastily putting on her clothes.
Achoo!
When he heard the sneeze, Zu An asked, “Little sister Ling’er, it was a bit cold just now, wasn’t it?”
“It was a bit cold,” Xie Daoyun said, feeling a bit embarrassed. She'd pretended to faint, and could thus only soak inside the whole time. She was actually feeling unbearably cold.
“You’ve gone between both extreme heat and cold today, so you might be a bit weak and sick for the next few days. Make sure to take care of your health,” Zu An said. He took out several nourishing pills after thinking things over. With his current status, he obtained some designated pills every month from both his official post and noble title. Even though they weren’t especially precious, they were still good medicine.
“Okay. Thank you, big brother Zu,” Xie Daoyun said, moving over to his side. Her lowered head was still flushed red. What had happened earlier was way too embarrassing… Just the thought alone made her want to faint again. She quickly changed the topic and said, “By the way, I seem to have heard you interrogating those assassins outside earlier. Did you learn anything?”
“Didn’t you faint earlier?” Zu An said with an ambiguous smile.
Xie Daoyun was speechless.
Just let me die, ahhhh!