Chapter 70: Li Pingan, did he really die like this?
“Aaaaaa——”
In a room of the hot spring hotel, miserable screams echoed.
Unfortunately, the room was set up with a soundproof barrier, so no sound could get out.
Lu Chen picked up the water snake that was pressed in the bathtub, looked at him without mercy and said, "It's time for you to confess now."
The water snake lying on the edge of the bathtub vomited water in pain. Its face was beaten like a pig's head and it curled up on the floor, twisted into a ball. Just like its code name, it became a weak, helpless and pitiful water snake.
Hearing Lu Chen's question, he trembled reflexively, with a look of pain on his face.
He opened his mouth and was about to speak, but was interrupted by Li Chengfeng who was standing nearby.
Li Chengfeng: "Friend Lu, he doesn't look very good. How about letting him take a break and drink some water before continuing to interrogate him?"
Water snake: Damn you, this is an insult to me. You clearly put me in the bathtub and I have been drinking water all the time, okay, gurgle gurgle gurgle…
Lu Chen continued to press the water snake's head into the bathtub and said to Li Chengfeng sternly: "Don't be gentle to bad guys. If they don't speak, torture them until they speak."
Li Chengfeng said with a "tsk tsk" sound twice, "Fellow Daoist Lu, this is not very humanitarian." Then he sighed, "How exactly does the current organization train its members? They are so tight-lipped. It seems that if we want to get some useful information, we have to increase the pressure."
"Wait!" Hearing that Li Chengfeng was going to intensify the interrogation, the water snake pretending to be dead in the bathtub finally couldn't sit still anymore. He desperately raised his head from Lu Chen's hands, struggled and yelled at Li Chengfeng: "What else do you want me to confess? Isn't my confession thorough enough? I have told you all the information I know!"
The location of the base, the number of people in the base, the names and superpowers of the members, and other information about the organization. He said everything that should and shouldn't be said. What else does the other party want to know?
The water snake was so sad that it could not even cry.
Li Chengfeng looked at the confession list in his hand, touched his chin and said, "You said you said a lot, but the truthfulness of it, tsk, I always feel that you confessed too easily."
Shuishe was a Spartan. Did he suffer so much because Li Chengfeng thought he spoke too quickly?
Could it be that he has to first fight to the death and refuse to surrender before confessing everything, so that he would appear more credible?
What should he do then?
What else does he need to explain to Li Chengfeng before he lets him go?
Thinking of the tortures it had endured before, the water snake wished its eyes would turn black and it would faint.
Looking at the wilted water snake beside the bathtub, Lu Chen said calmly: "Li Chengfeng, you have a really dirty heart."
Li Chengfeng smiled, "Friend Lu, it's the same for you. You showed no mercy when you pushed him into the water."
Lu Chen picked up the water snake on the ground and urged, "Stop playing and save people. Don't you worry about your niece's safety at all?"
Li Chengfeng put away the confession and said with a relaxed look: "Don't worry, I just read the fortune and they are safe this time. I think they are already first-grade students and should learn to face the storm on their own."
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At this moment, in the prison of the organization’s base, Li Pingan and others are facing the biggest storm of their lives.
Not long after Falcon and Chameleon left, another group of people arrived at the prison.
They were all dressed in black monk robes, with their entire faces hidden in huge monk caps, so their appearance could not be seen clearly. Hanging on their chests was not a cross, but an eye-shaped pendant.
They stood in a row at the door of the cell where Li Pingan and others were imprisoned, holding the eye pendants on their chests with both hands devoutly, and conveyed the mission of the organization to everyone in the cell in unison: "We are not aliens, but evolvers. Our power is not used to rule, but to liberate those oppressed extraordinary people. We call on all extraordinary people, regardless of race or nationality, to work together to bring hope, light, and change to this world. Let us use our power to create a world where extraordinary people are no longer afraid, without hatred, and without oppression. Our goal is to conquer the world, let extraordinary people stand at the top of the world, and lead mankind to the right future."
"Newly arrived extraordinary people, do you agree with our views? Are you willing to join us and create a better world together?"
The black monks looked around at everyone in the cell, trying to find someone who shared the same ideals as them, but no one spoke.
Not only that, Zhang Dongyang also muttered quietly: "Isn't this brainwashing?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he was lifted up high by a mysterious force from the air and thrown hard into the corner.
With a loud "bang", Zhang Dongyang cried out in pain, slid from the wall to the ground, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
The rest of the children were stunned by this sudden change and stood there in silence. Only Li Pingan and Qi Yu reacted and quickly ran to Zhang Dongyang in the corner and helped him up.
"Are you okay?" Li Ping'an looked at Zhang Dongyang who was spitting blood with concern. Without thinking, he grabbed his hands and wanted to use his healing power for him.
Qi Yu stopped her in time and mouthed to her: "Don't expose yourself." Then he stood up and stood in front of the two of them calmly.
The situation suddenly became tense.
Seeing that brainwashing failed, the group of black monks showed ferocious faces one by one. While stretching their muscles, they threatened with words: "You newcomers, you'd better be obedient. You are not members of the organization yet. At most, you are consumables."
They opened the cell door and prepared to sharpen their knives to attack the newcomers.
The children locked up in the cell were all scared to death.
In the corner of the cell, Li Pingan and Zhang Dongyang snuggled together tightly. Qi Yu stood in front of them with his lips tightly closed and a faint flash of lightning in his palms.
At the critical moment, a hoarse voice sounded: "Missionaries, what problems have you encountered? Why are you so rude to our newcomers?"
Everyone was attracted by the voice and turned to look.
I saw a human-shaped shadow appear in the dark corner at some point. The man walked out slowly from the darkness, revealing a white priest robe and a necklace on his chest with a huge eye painted on it.
Seeing the priest appear, several black monks immediately put away their ferocious faces and respectfully addressed him, "Reverend Priest."
It turns out that this is the "priest" that the falcon and the chameleon mentioned.
The priest obviously held a very high status in the organization. When he appeared, the others immediately pushed him aside and made room for the center position at the cell door.
The pastor walked to the middle and stood still, looking at the children in the cells, and said, "Extraordinary children, you are the hope of the organization's future. If there is anything wrong with the missionaries' educational methods, it is all a misunderstanding."
He looked much kinder than those black missionaries.
Hearing his words, Qi Yu suddenly walked quickly from the corner to the door of the cell and said to him anxiously: "Hello, this is indeed a misunderstanding. We are not extraordinary children and we don't have super powers. Can you let us go home?"
"Oh? You are not extraordinary people?" The pastor turned to look at the missionary beside him.
The missionary immediately said in fear: "Reverend Pastor, he is lying."
"Oh? Are you lying?" The pastor turned and looked at Qi Yu.
Qi Yu used all his acting skills and said sincerely, "I definitely did not lie. It was your subordinates who deceived you. If you don't believe me, you can ask other children."
The priest glanced around the cell, watching the children inside nod their heads, and his expression changed from kind to gloomy in a second.
"I see. You all agreed to say you don't have superpowers in advance just to trick us into letting you go home, right?"
Qi Yu quickly said: "It's not like that..."
Before he finished speaking, the pastor pointed his finger casually and said, "Then it's you."
Everyone looked in the direction of his finger and saw Li Pingan and Zhang Dongyang in the corner.
Qi Yu had a bad feeling in his heart: "What are you going to do?"
The pastor hooked his finger and said, "Come out."
Immediately, a ferocious-looking missionary rushed into the cell.
But after entering the cell, they were in trouble again.
"The Reverend only wants one person, who should we take out?"
"Uh, never mind, just pick one at random."
The missionary looked around Li Ping'an and the other man, and suddenly fixed his gaze on Zhang Dongyang, "You..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Pingan, who was not chosen, suddenly rushed out and stood between the missionary and Zhang Dongyang, "You are not allowed to take Zhang Dongyang away!"
The missionary quickly grabbed her and said, "Shut up."
Zhang Dongyang struggled to get up from the ground and said to the missionary: "Let go of my junior sister, cough cough cough..."
The noise in the cell attracted the pastor's attention, and he asked unhappily, "Haven't you brought the person out yet?"
The missionary who caught Li Pingan didn't care about anything else and simply pulled her out of the cell and pushed her in front of the pastor: "Pastor, the person is here."
The pastor looked at Li Pingan in front of him and asked, "Tell me, what is your superpower?"
Unexpectedly, the pastor asked people to go out to ask about super powers. When Qi Yu in the cell heard this, he immediately looked at Li Pingan nervously, fearing that she would honestly reveal her super powers.
Li Pingan said nothing.
Expressed his attitude with silent silence.
Ten seconds later, the pastor smiled. He put his hand on Li Ping'an's head and said, "It seems that you are not going to cooperate with me."
Li Pingan looked up at him.
The next second, he was lifted into the air by a huge force.
"Li Ping'an!" Qi Yu cried out.
The pastor brought Li Ping'an to his eye level and said sinisterly, "It seems that you won't take my words seriously unless I teach you a lesson."
After saying that, he turned his head gloomily and looked at the children in the cell with different expressions, then grabbed Li Ping'an's collar and dragged her into the darkness.
Seeing Li Pingan being taken away, Zhang Dongyang panicked, "What are you doing? Where are you taking my junior sister?"
He threw himself to the door of the prison cell, but was blocked by the iron bars in front of him. He could only watch Li Ping'an's figure disappear completely.
"What are you making so much noise for! Stay still!" The prison guards walked forward with their fists raised, ready to teach Zhang Dongyang a lesson.
At the critical moment, Qi Yu pulled Zhang Dongyang back from the door in time.
Zhang Dongyang shouted, "They took my junior sister away! Qi Yu, how can you still sit still?"
Qi Yu wiped the blood from the corner of Zhang Dongyang's mouth, held his shoulder, and said, "Calm down. That person took Li Ping'an away. He probably planned to brainwash her alone. Maybe it will be our turn soon."
Hearing his words, the other children in the cell couldn't help themselves.
Someone broke down and cried, "Why? Why did it turn out like this? I don't want to be taken away alone, mom, I want to go home!"
His crying triggered a chain reaction, and sobbing suddenly broke out in the cell.
Just when everyone was immersed in a sad atmosphere, a scream suddenly came from the deepest part of the prison, the dark place where Li Pingan was brought into.
"Zhang Dongyang, Qi Yu, save me! Save me!" The tone of the cry was distorted at the end, as if the person was in great pain.
Everyone who heard the cry for help fell silent.
Zhang Dongyang couldn't help but hold Qi Yu's hand tightly, his nails digging into his flesh, "Junior sister, that's Junior sister's voice!"
Of course Qi Yu heard it too.
Just as he was about to speak, the cry for help was abruptly stopped with a scream, which made people shudder.
The entire prison fell into a deathly silence again.
Everyone swallowed their saliva, sweat broke out on their foreheads, and they were as dumb as chickens, not daring to speak.
After a long while, a child finally asked weakly, "What happened just now?"
Zhang Dongyang seemed to be frightened and kept muttering: "Junior sister, it's Junior sister, that was Junior sister's voice just now..."
As for what to say next, he didn't dare to say it out loud.
Qi Yu, who was always calm, also had a few drops of cold sweat sliding down his forehead.
It was indeed Li Ping'an's voice just now.
What on earth had the priest done to her when he took her away?
Why did she scream like that?
Could it be that his reasoning was wrong, and the pastor took Li Ping'an away not to brainwash her alone, but because he really wanted to kill her?
But this is illogical.
They had gone to so much trouble to capture them, so were they going to just let the priest execute them at will?
No matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn't understand it. Even Qi Yu, who had an extremely high IQ, couldn't help but get a little flustered when facing the critical moment when his close friend was in danger.
Before everyone in the cell could come to their senses, suddenly, heavy footsteps were heard from the depths of the darkness.
The footsteps gradually approached the cell, and as they got closer, everyone heard the sound of a heavy object being dragged on the ground.
Everyone held their breath and stared at the source of the sound without blinking.
As the owner of the footsteps slowly emerged from the dark passage, everyone realized that the person who appeared was the returning priest.
The priest was still wearing his priest robe, but unlike when he left, this time his robe was stained with blood, and gorgeous flowers bloomed on the snow-white fabric.
He held a pair of blood-stained scissors in one hand and dragged a corpse in the other.
As he walked, the corpse slid on the ground, leaving two long bloody marks.
With such a large amount of bleeding, it is hard to imagine how much abuse this body must have suffered before it died.
The priest slowly walked to the cell, threw the body in his hand in front of everyone.
The full appearance of the corpse was revealed to everyone, and everyone realized that it was Li Pingan who had been taken away not long ago.
Li Ping'an was like a rag doll, with his head tilted to one side, blood flowing from all seven orifices, and his entire lower abdomen was covered in blood, as if he had suffered a great trauma before his death.
The children in the cell couldn't help but cover their mouths when they saw such a bloody scene.
Some people with low psychological defenses have already lowered their heads and started vomiting.
"Is she dead?" someone asked in a trembling voice.
The pastor's sinister voice sounded at the side, "See? This is the consequence of not listening. If you want to die, I don't mind killing a few more. If you don't want to become like her, you'd better cooperate with our awakening ceremony honestly. I'll give you another night to think about it. I'll come again tomorrow. If you don't want to die, you should know what to do."
After saying this, he asked the missionaries to take Li Ping'an's body and leave the prison.
After hearing the pastor admit to killing Li Pingan, Zhang Dongyang's legs went weak and he could no longer bear it and fell to his knees.
The others were also frightened and fell to the ground, their legs trembling and their eyes filled with panic.
Before this incident happened, they were just a group of elementary school students who had never seen such a bloody scene since they were young.
The kids who were just talking to each other were beheaded in the blink of an eye. It would be too much for anyone to bear psychologically.
The only person still standing in the cell was Qi Yu, but he was now pale and unable to utter a word.
Cold sweat flowed down his forehead, drop by drop, dripping onto the ground.
Li Pingan, did he really die like this?
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