Chu Wu swallowed back all her words, and was somewhat surprised to see the man hanging upside down struggling violently.

"Who are you? How do you know my name is Ma Laosan?"

The others in the room fell silent. They had initially thought Ouyang Zhenyu was bluffing, but the man's words proved that his real name was Ma Laosan.

The melodious voice spoke slowly, carrying a strangely soothing quality.

“There are three brothers in your family. You are the youngest, with two older brothers.”

Your two older brothers joined the army with you.

My two older brothers are dead.

If Ma Laosan was somewhat agitated and struggling just now, he is now in disbelief.

Where did things go wrong? Why does the other party know so much about my background?

He didn't believe in fortune telling or feng shui masters at all.

But how would the other party know my detailed information?

Unless someone has seen your file.

Even someone who has seen their own file might not know this much detail.

After all, no one knew that his two older brothers had passed away; everyone assumed that his two brothers had lost contact with him during the war.

"Who are you? Who told you this? What are you doing here?"

"Your boss told you that as long as you complete the task here, he will send your parents to that island to enjoy a life of luxury. They will receive your pension and use it to support them in their old age and until their death."

"That's why you're looking forward to death and trying to provoke us in various ways. Once you're dead, the pension will be enough to take care of the two elderly people."

How could Ma Laosan not know this by now? Clearly, the other party knew him better than he did.

They even know such confidential matters.

"Since you know this, you should understand that I am a specially trained assassin, and my purpose is to die."

It serves no purpose other than death.

"Even if you torture me severely, I will grit my teeth for their sake. If I die, they can live."

"Do you really think they can live if you die? Your superiors have never told you that."

Your parents never went to that island; they were just ordinary people.

Given your status, they wouldn't have been able to board that plane, so they were among the abandoned family members.

"Your superior has been keeping this from you in order to get you to work for him. If you die, your parents won't get a single penny."

Do you know where your parents are now?

Ma Laosan actually opened his eyes at this moment, even though they were swollen like that.

They were all glaring angrily at Ouyang Zhenyu.

"You're talking nonsense, that's impossible."

You're lying to me. You're trying to drive a wedge between me and my superiors. I'm telling you, that's absolutely impossible.

My superior and I are like brothers, having gone through thick and thin together.

I almost lost my life because of him, and he promised to take care of my parents. He would never lie; he's my brother.

"Don't think I'll believe what you're saying. I'm telling you, I won't."

"You think you can get information out of me? Dream on."

"Either you let me die, or I won't believe your nonsense."

"Your parents were thrown out of the plane."

They migrated from Sichuan Province all the way to Nanjing.

The elderly couple, living in a village near Nanjing, have lost their land due to their family background, and they are trying their best to atone for their son's sins.

“Your father suffers from rheumatism every winter, and the pain is so severe that he can’t walk.”

He has been unable to walk properly for the past few years.

Your mother, longing to see her son again, had already cried until she went blind.

The old couple is in a terrible state now, so bad that they can only eat one meal a day, and even then, they can only eat until they are half full.

The two elderly people were so thin they were practically skin and bones.

How long can a man in his fifties, so thin, maintain this appearance?

"Your mother often calls your nickname at night."

Gousheng, oh Gousheng, where are you?

You're all Dad and Mom have left.

I hope you live a long and healthy life, even if you're disabled, it's better than death.

"If you lose the Ma family line, the line will end."

After saying that...

Ma Laosan immediately burst into tears.

It would be difficult to move him with anything else, but "Gou Sheng" really was his nickname.

Moreover, my father's chronic leg pain is not just nonsense.

Thinking of how his mother had cried herself blind for him, Ma Laosan felt a surge of urgency, as if he wanted to smash his head against a wall and die.

"Put the person down."

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, they had someone put Ma Laosan down.

Half an hour later, Chu Wu and Ouyang Zhenyu were in the courtyard looking tense.

The information obtained was not to be underestimated; unexpectedly, the other party had more than 100 people under their control, and they were located overseas.

This group of people are helping that small country outside the border to carry out a subversion mission.

On one hand, they earn money by fighting for various local armed forces. On the other hand, they expand their own fighting capacity and occasionally return to the country to cause trouble.

Almost every one of these 100-plus people was armed, and they were all firearms.

Besides detonators, they also had hand grenades and even a mortar.

Hearing this news was disheartening. Under such heavy firepower, their fifteen hunting rifles, even if they found fifteen more from the village, would be of no use.

"What do we do now? The enemy already knows our location. The two people who went back to report will be able to bring their men here in 15 hours at most."

I felt a chill down my back on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

He had never known who Tiger and his gang were, but now he understood that they weren't just roving bandits or anything like that.

They were nothing more than remnants of bandits and soldiers.

To be precise, in the trendy language they've learned, these are spies.

"Either we take a desperate gamble and go back to the village, or we retreat to the mine. There are more than two hundred people here; we can't just stand here and wait to die."

Ouyang Zhenyu had not expected the situation to be so dire; the other side had more than 100 men, and they were armed.

They also learned that the group actually had horses. If they hadn't relied on human legs and had only used horses, these 100-plus people could have gotten here in less than seven or eight hours.

“You’re right. We can’t go back to the village now. We don’t know what’s going on there. What if we go back to the village?”

The enemy is chasing us; we're caught in a pincer movement, and we'll be wiped out in one fell swoop.

"And we can't let these people cause trouble for our families. If they storm into our village and start killing indiscriminately, how many people would die?"

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, I was unusually clear-headed and didn't want to bring danger back to the village.

The other young and middle-aged men nodded in agreement; their parents, wives, children, brothers, and sisters lived in the village.

"We can't go back."