Zheng Ya urged Brigade Commander Lei to send a telegram to the brigade headquarters to thoroughly investigate whether Tao Sheng had indeed planted a time bomb in the armory.
Brigade Commander Lei and Lei Yanyun rushed towards the radio station, catching Tao Sheng's eye and sparkling with excitement. This aroused Zheng Ya's vigilance; something was amiss. He immediately devised a plan for Tao Sheng: to cut ties.
Eight streams of planned supernatural energy flashed and entered Tao Sheng's elbow, shoulder, knee, and hip joints respectively: "Pfft."
"Ahhh!" Tao Sheng screamed and collapsed, startling the soldiers who had retreated from his side with their guns. They scrambled to the ground, mistakenly thinking that Tao Sheng had gone mad and detonated the explosives strapped to his body.
Even the wounded thugs rolled away, trying to get as far away from Tao Sheng as possible, fearing that they would be killed by the bomb he detonated.
The scene was like a boiling pot, with everyone scrambling to get away.
Only Old Yuan immediately dodged towards Tao Sheng and used his Bone-Dislocating Technique on him: "Crack, crack!"
Only after dislocating all of Tao Sheng's joints in an instant did he finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Fu Qingyao and the old director rushed forward immediately, ready to sacrifice themselves and blow up Tao Sheng together to protect their own people.
However, it was all in vain.
Old Yuan turned around in surprise and said, "Good lad, your method of quietly cutting human cartilage is quite impressive!"
"Haha, you flatter me, Commander Lei. Don't send the message yet, let's wait and see." Zheng Ya was worried that Tao Sheng was trying to create a mystery, so to be on the safe side, he decided to interrogate Tao Sheng before making a decision.
Brigadier General Lei broke out in a cold sweat and sent a telegram without thinking, saying, "No, what if the time bomb Tao Sheng planted in the armory explodes after we've dealt with it all? That would be a huge disaster..."
"If your telegram turns into a detonation signal, can you, as a retired brigade commander, take responsibility?" Zheng Ya frowned and asked.
Brigade Commander Lei was taken aback and wanted to refute, but then he thought of Tao Sheng's madness and cunning, and couldn't make up his mind: "Ah, then, what should we do?"
"Yes, this matter can't be delayed!" The old bureau chief rushed up to Tao Sheng and slapped him across the face: "Slap! Slap! Slap!"
Even making mistakes warrants punishment; Tao Sheng is truly despicable.
People like Tao Sheng, who bring disaster to the country and its people, deserve to be torn to pieces or burned alive.
Fu Qingyao stepped forward and grabbed his hand, saying, "I hate him more than you do. Let him go for now and let me conduct a surprise interrogation..."
"It's no use. You don't know how the Thousand-Faced Butcher inherited his martial arts, so don't try to reason with him based on common sense."
Besides, interrogating a martial artist is a joke. Old Yuan was at a loss with Tao Sheng and didn't want everyone to waste their time on him.
The will of a martial artist is to break rather than bend.
Therefore, a martial artist's will is nothing compared to the Thousand-Faced Butcher; it's insignificant.
It is said that the way the Thousand-Faced Butcher's martial arts are passed down is by having someone destroy their own face in order to be able to wear the human skin mask left by their predecessor and receive the martial arts techniques passed down inside the mask.
This is a unique way of passing down the skills of the Thousand-Faced Butcher.
Cruel and ruthless.
So imagine, would an ordinary person who could harden their heart to destroy their own appearance, endure the pain of a thousand-faced killer mask and life-or-death skin grafts, have the psychological resilience that ordinary interrogation methods could overcome after they become strong?
That's a joke.
After all, the interrogation methods of the security department and the police station are nothing but questioning, emphasizing human rights and humanity, and never resorting to torture to extract confessions. How could interrogation alone possibly make a ruthless killer like Tao Sheng tell the truth?
In order not to waste time, Zheng Ya didn't care about revealing his supernatural abilities and directly used his supernatural illusion spell on Tao Sheng, who was in excruciating pain: "Let me do it, Tao Sheng, what are you doing?"
"Ah, you, child, don't..." Fu Qingyao had just gotten up to stop him, not wanting Zheng Ya to cause trouble, when she saw Tao Sheng under the influence of a hallucinogenic spell, shouting and yelling incoherently: "Ah, you bitch, you kicked my manhood, I thank you for making me the Thousand-Faced Butcher..."
Tao Sheng admitted that he was full of foul language.
It corrupted the senses of the hundreds of people present, making them increasingly alarmed with each listen.
It turns out that after Tao Sheng failed in his attempt to retaliate against Zheng Daotong by kicking Fu Qingyao in the groin, he was instead targeted by Political Commissar Wu.
This made it very difficult for Tao Sheng to move forward in the army. He was also assigned by Political Commissar Wu to support the front-line combat mission and to conduct battlefield mobilization, which was a task directly under Tao Sheng's propaganda department.
In fact, Political Commissar Wu wanted to test Tao Sheng's fighting spirit, to see if he was the deserter Zheng Daotong and others described, a corrupt official who had taken advantage of loopholes to become a staff officer, and a potential threat if left in the army. He needed to put him to the test on the battlefield to test his party spirit.
The battle was brutal; not a single one of the hundred survived.
Tao Sheng had no chance to escape in that battle. Instead, he was fortunate to be buried in the grave of the Thousand-Faced Butcher by a shell fired by the Japanese, thus inheriting the legacy of the Thousand-Faced Butcher.
It was a coincidence that the Thousand-Faced Butcher was severely injured by Old Yuan's master and fled to the wilderness. He hid in a cemetery to recuperate, and eventually left behind his legacy due to his serious injuries.
Tao Sheng was blown into the cemetery by a cannonball. Despite his facial injuries, he immediately merged with the human skin mask of the Thousand-Faced Butcher and inherited his martial arts skills.
Unfortunately, Tao Sheng was too old and missed the best age to learn martial arts. Unwilling to accept this, Tao Sheng embarked on the evil path of killing and using the unique ability of the human skin mask to absorb the essence of humans and animals to become stronger.
Tao Sheng used this evil blood-sucking technique to improve his physique and practice the Thousand Faces Bone Shrinking Technique, a kind of evil cultivation method similar to bone shrinking kung fu, to kill people and become stronger.
More than 500 people died at Tao Sheng's hands.
With such ruthless killings, it's natural that they would collude with their subordinates and enemy agents.
After all, Tao Sheng possessed the ability to transform into various human forms, so he was not afraid of being exposed. He maintained close ties with enemy agents and underworld forces, profiting from them and hunting down martial artists to extract their essence and blood for cultivation.
Tao Xiangdong was one of those who died at the hands of Tao Sheng.
Tao Sheng originally had no intention of provoking national and military leaders, but he grew too fast and fell into the sights of enemy agents and two major Japanese gangs, who threatened him to kill Zheng Daotong's family and attract the appearance of a mysterious person.
Initially, the plan was simply to create a major upheaval, intercept classified documents from secret agencies, wreak havoc in the capital, and blow up a few armories, which would surely alert the mysterious person to hand over the Muchen Pearl Gold Foil.
During this time, Tao Sheng disguised himself as one of the two Japanese agents and finally figured out who Zheng Ya's son was. Tao Sheng then realized that Wu Wei was the mysterious person's daughter. She was playing tricks on the enemy agents, pretending to comply while secretly plotting to seize the Muchen Pearl for immortality.
In fact, Tao Sheng, under Zheng Ya's illusionary spell, revealed all the inside stories, giving Zheng Ya a bad feeling that Tao Sheng might have been used as a pawn by enemy agents and the Japanese.
Old Yuan wished he could kill Tao Sheng, this scoundrel who brought disaster to the country and the people: "Alright, sending a telegram is like sending a signal to the enemy to detonate the arsenal."
The crisis is not over yet, what should we do?
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