When the short man with the hand injury saw Su Dahu looking at him, he hurriedly turned his face away and then reached out to pull at the face mask and headscarf, clearly flustered after being caught.

The tall man glared at Xiao Jinhan with an unfriendly look, "Don't try to act tough in front of me! If you want to know about Su Hua, you'd better listen to us brothers and give us another five hundred taels of silver."

Otherwise, even if you kill us, we won't tell you a single word.

"Then you can just wait to collect Su Hua's corpse!"

"Are you threatening me with Hua'er?" Xiao Jinhan raised his eyes, his deep pupils churning with dark emotions.

What he hates most in his life is being threatened.

In particular, he uses people he cares about to threaten them.

Seeing his pale face, the tall man assumed his words had worked and became even more smug. "Time waits for no one. It's almost six hours until 11 PM. If you delay any longer, it might be too late to collect Su Hua's body..."

"How dare you!" Before the man could finish speaking, Xiao Jinhan had already pounced on him like a ferocious cheetah, grabbing his neck tightly and lifting him off the ground.

The tall man's mouth gaped open, all the words he hadn't finished saying stuck in his throat. He stared wide-eyed at Xiao Jinhan, his previous smugness vanishing in an instant, replaced by fear and panic in his pupils.

This man actually dared to kill him!

He tried desperately to shake his head and beg for mercy, but his neck felt as if it were welded to him with iron, and he couldn't move it at all.

Crack! A muffled sound came from deep inside the neck.

Her eyes instinctively looked down, only to see that her neck had been broken by the man. Immediately afterward, a sharp, piercing pain spread from her neck down to all parts of her body.

The pain was so intense that he could no longer bear it.

Finally, he closed his eyes and completely passed out.

"Ah!!! Murder!! Murder..." The short man next to him screamed in fright and tried to run away.

He didn't care about five hundred taels or a thousand taels at the moment; all he could think about was escaping Little Black Mountain as quickly as possible.

However, after taking just one step, everything went dark.

Looking up, she was met with Xiao Jinhan's expressionless face. The man's lips moved slightly. "And you? Are you going to speak, or... be like him?"

Each word he uttered was icy and chilling, as if it were being forced out from between his teeth.

"You...you...you can't kill me!"

The short man's feet seemed to be nailed to the spot, and he was so anxious that his tongue twisted, and it took him a long time to finally utter a coherent sentence.

He's dead!

Right now, I'm the only one in the world who knows anything about Su Hua.

If you kill me, you'll never hear from Su Hua again…

Hearing the familiar voice, Su Dahu finally put down his boots, which had been holding his doubts.

It really was him!

Xiao Jinhan raised his foot and kicked the unconscious person on the ground, causing the person to groan in pain even while unconscious.

She looked up at the man again, "He's not dead, he's just suffering worse than if he were."

I'm getting impatient, so I'll ask you one last time: where exactly is Hua'er?

The short man looked at his companion curled up on the ground, a chill of fear creeping up to his spine. He swallowed hard. "You, you let me down the mountain first, and then I'll tell you... Ah!!!"

Halfway through his sentence, the man was suddenly kicked hard in the right knee, causing him to fall straight to his knees.

The pain was excruciating, even in the very bones.

The flesh below his knee was like a lump of mud. The man clutched his leg, tears and snot streaming down his face. "Ouch! It hurts! My leg hurts so much!! It hurts! It hurts so much! What did you do to my leg?"

"Didn't I say that as long as you let me down the mountain... I'll tell you about Su Hua..."

“People who go back on their word are never trustworthy.” Xiao Jinhan’s pupils were as cold and sharp as a hawk’s. “For every second you delay, I will break a leg.”

Now it's the right leg, next it's the left leg.

After the legs are broken, it's the hands' turn!

"If you don't tell me your hand is broken, I'll gouge out your eyes, cut off your ears, and skin you alive."

"You, you, you...you stop, stop talking." The short man clutched his right knee, his groin burning uncontrollably, and a strong stench of urine spread across the hillside.

"I'll talk, I'll talk, okay...?"

Hearing the commotion at the foot of the mountain, Su Bai and her group could no longer stay and hurried up the mountain.

However, just as they reached the mountainside, they heard a man's shrill and slurred plea for mercy.

Su Bai paused slightly, glancing instinctively at Su Erhu beside her. "Erhu, is that Qian Dabao's voice? I'm not mistaken, am I?!"

Su Erhu frowned. Before he could reply, he saw the man on the ground dragging one leg and crawling over to hug his leg.

"Brother-in-law, mother-in-law, please save me! This man is going to kill me! Please save me, please save me..."

In the chaos, half of the cloth covering the man's face had been pulled off, and now it hung loosely on his face, revealing half of his round face in the moonlight.

If it's not Qian Dabao, then who else could it be?

Su Bai looked at the man on the ground, tears and snot streaming down his face, and was momentarily stunned. "Kill you? Who wants to kill you..."

"Wait, Qian Dabao, it's so late at night, what are you doing in these mountains?"