Tortured to the point of mental breakdown, Shi Hu roared in agony.

"What do you want me to say? Just ask..."

Didn't I ask?

Li Zhu glanced at the guard beside him. The guard looked at him with fear and subconsciously shook his head to make sure that Li Zhu hadn't asked anything!

"Why didn't you say so earlier when I asked..."

Li Zhu directly shifted the blame to Shi Hu, who was tied to the wooden frame. Although Shi Hu felt wronged, he dared not show it and could only silently endure Li Zhu's shamelessness...

"gender…"

Li Zhu spoke off the cuff without thinking at all…

Everyone looked at Li Zhu with surprise. Did he really have to ask such an obvious question?

However, after the incident with the black and white discs, the guards had no doubts about Li Zhu's actions, but Shi Hu himself couldn't stand it. Wasn't this an insult to him? Couldn't this burly man, who was two meters tall, see through it?

"ah…"

Shi Hu roared in anger, but Li Zhu silenced him with a single sentence…

"See how cunning this person is? We can't get anything out of her without torture. Let's pry open her eyes and continue the torture..."

Hearing Li Zhu's words, Shi Hu felt a deep sense of shame, but no matter how angry and unwilling he was, he dared not face the black and white disc again at this moment...

"Male...I am male..."

Shi Hu's Chinese accent wasn't standard, but his answer to the question was clear enough, for fear that Li Zhu might cause some trouble again!

"See? This guy's just shameless; he won't cooperate unless you take drastic measures..."

Hearing Li Zhu's words and seeing Shi Hu's reaction, the surrounding guards wholeheartedly agreed, and their gazes toward Li Zhu were filled with respect and admiration!

"age?"

Li Zhu asked without even looking up!

Shi Hu felt incredibly humiliated. What did this have to do with his arrest? What was the point of asking?

However, having learned from his previous mistake, he was wiser and spoke directly.

"19!"

Upon hearing that the other person was only nineteen, Li Zhu was visibly taken aback. So young and already risking his life? Ancient times were truly cruel…

"Name?"

Li Zhu didn't give the other party a chance to react at all, and continued to ask without thinking!

Shi Hu was nearly driven to despair, thinking Li Zhu must be out of his mind. What kind of questions were these? But he dared not show the slightest dissatisfaction and could only calmly reply...

"Stone Tiger!"

"Profession?"

Li Zhu knew something was wrong as soon as he asked the question. Occupations weren't so clearly defined in this era, and besides, the other person genuinely couldn't answer it…

"Profession? What is a profession?"

Shi Hu asked, looking completely bewildered!

What do you do?

Hearing Li Zhu's question, Shi Hu was even more bewildered. How was he supposed to answer? Should he say, "I'm a rebel"? Would that be too high-profile?

"I…"

"Don't you even know what you do for a living?"

Li Zhu coldly rebuked him, startling Shi Hu into quickly saying...

"I just fought some battles under Shi Le when I had nothing else to do, I don't even know what that counts as..."

Shi Hu was almost in tears. How could anyone ask such a question? This was so frustrating!

"Fighting a war? That just makes you a soldier, is it that hard to answer?"

Li Zhu said irritably!

"Yes, I am a soldier..."

Shi Hu could only echo, saying that all he wanted now was to escape Li Zhu's humiliation and interrogation, and he hoped it would end soon!

"What are you and Shi Hu doing in Luoyang?"

Li Zhu finally got to the point, wanting to know what the Jie people were doing in Luoyang!

Upon hearing this question, Shi Hu shut his mouth, his eyes flickering as if he didn't want to answer...

"You won't talk, huh? Then use torture..."

As soon as Li Zhu finished speaking, Shi Hu struggled and roared.

"Just kill me, kill me..."

"Kill you? How would I know the Jie tribe's purpose if I killed you?"

"I'd rather die than tell you, so go ahead and torture me..."

Shi Hu said firmly!

"I love someone like you who's so stubborn. Since that's the case, then enjoy my service..."

Li Zhu waved his hand, and everyone left the spot. Then, a guard brought in more than a dozen pottery jars and placed them next to Shi Hu, opening the lids of the jars before leaving…

Buzzing…

A faint buzzing sound arose, and just as Shi Hu was wondering, he saw countless black dots appear in his field of vision!

He looked closely and then realized that they were actually countless mosquitoes…

Shi Hu couldn't help but think to himself, "Is this crown prince crazy? His questions are nonsensical, and his actions are equally nonsensical..."

What can a tiny mosquito do to him?

Shi Hu didn't even bother with these tiny mosquitoes!

But his arrogance was quickly shattered by reality, because as mosquitoes landed on him one by one, he realized how terrifying it was…

What does it feel like to be bitten by a mosquito?

itch!

After being bitten by a single mosquito, a normal person will feel itchy for a long time. Being bitten by two or three mosquitoes at the same time will cause an unbearable itch all over the body.

And how many did the stone tiger face? Dozens, hundreds...

The mosquitoes landed on Shi Hu and began to greedily suck his blood. But that wasn't the worst part; the worst part was the itching!

He was now bound here, and unable to stop the itching, so he was screaming in agony…

The guards outside the door felt a chill run down their spines when they heard Shi Hu's howl. They were horrified that their crown prince could come up with such a wicked idea…

Li Zhu was unaware that Wang Riqing and Xiaolongnu were spying on him from nearby. Everything he did was witnessed by them, and this scene had a significant impact on the two girls…

"I'll tell you... I'll tell you everything... Please make them stop, stop!"

Shi Hu's screams echoed throughout the dungeon. Everyone who heard them shuddered, and they resolved never to offend their own crown prince, for doing so would be worse than death. Shi Hu was a living example. You may not be afraid of death, but there are things in this world more terrifying than death...

"Tell me, why have you come to Luoyang..."

Li Zhu's calm voice came from outside the door. There were so many mosquitoes in the dungeon, and he didn't want to go in and feed them, so he asked from a distance.

"The Book of the Zodiac, it's for the Book of the Zodiac..."

Shi Hu's voice came again, this time without any concealment!

"I've already told you everything, just kill me...kill me..."

Shi Hu now desperately wants to die. He is itching all over his body, which is worse than death!

Li Zhu was stunned by Shi Hu's words, because the Book of the Yellow Path was a legend. It was said that Zhang Liang obtained a copy of the Book of the Yellow Path, which made him the greatest strategist of all time. This shows how enormous the influence of the Book of the Yellow Path would be if it really existed...

Even in his past life, he thought it was just a legend, something completely unbelievable, merely a tactic used by victors to glorify themselves…