Chapter 361 He was skinned alive
What?
What is this?
Jin Diandian was dazed and confused from being hit.
I opened the booklet without daring to breathe.
A list.
"Chen Liuzi, age eighteen, from Yinhuai Village, Luding County."
"Feng Youtian, age 20, Fengjia Village, Yinyang County."
"Zhao Jiaxiang, age sixteen, from Daliushuwa, Langhe County..."
The list is several pages long and contains about five or six hundred people.
Jin Diandian and Jin Duoduo didn't know what kind of list it was, but they were frightened by Lu Qingqing's face, which was colder than winter, and didn't dare to ask.
"This is a list of soldiers who died fighting on the frontier." Lu Qingqing spoke slowly, as if she was trying hard to suppress her emotions.
"The people on the list died in a small battle three years ago."
"But after that battle, the camp was missing a thousand men. Five hundred men disappeared without a trace."
On the battlefield, it's normal for people to vanish. Sometimes, if the battlefield isn't cleaned up in time, they'll be dragged away by wild animals and eaten.
But if half of them disappear all at once, that's definitely not normal!
"Where did those people go?"
Lu Qingqing leaned down and stared into Jin Diandian's eyes, her gaze sharp as if trying to see through her heart.
"Those who disappeared were all seriously injured. They were gathered in one place for treatment and never returned."
"The soldiers thought they were all dead, but their names were not on the court's death list."
Therefore, their families did not even receive any compensation.
"Three years ago, in early April, at the border of Wanshui, the army led by Shangguan Yu."
"The two top leaders of the Holy Healer Sect should know whether any members of the Holy Healer Sect were in the military at that time, right?"
What does this mean?
Jin Diandian looked at Lu Qingqing blankly.
Younger people are generally more intelligent, Jin Duoduo exclaimed, "You're saying those disappeared people are related to the Holy Medicine Sect?"
"Using living people for experiments, practicing surgical techniques or blood transfusions! Isn't that what you did?" Lu Qingqing viciously grabbed Jin Duoduo's throat.
"Can you honestly say you know absolutely nothing about it?"
"Let him go! We really don't know anything!" Jin Diandian slapped Lu Qingqing's hand.
Suddenly, someone floated over, grabbed Jin Diandian, and flung her far away.
Seeing Jin Duoduo's eyes roll back as she was being pinched, Jin Diandian burst into tears: "Really! We didn't know! We only care about the herb fields! Ouyang Bingyan doesn't allow us to get involved in anything, and we're even followed when we leave the city. We really don't have that much power!"
Lu Qingqing released Jin Duoduo.
She just interrogated those people, and Jin Diandian was indeed not involved in any of this.
But over the years, they have remained completely unaware of the dirty deeds of the Holy Physician Sect.
That's incredibly stupid.
Lu Qingqing stared at the two of them for a while, then gave up.
The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried bitterly.
Lu Qingqing tried her best to calm the anger in her heart.
She needs to be rational and not let her overwhelming anger control her.
The line that Xu Fengshang mentioned that day was the military camp on the border of Wanshui.
She was utterly shocked to learn that the Holy Physician Sect was colluding with the military.
She was initially frightened, unaware that they had dealings with numerous military camps.
Upon further investigation, it was discovered that the general in the battle three years prior was Shangguan Yu, the Empress's younger brother, and the troops currently stationed there were also under Shangguan Yu's command.
She felt relieved.
It makes sense that the Empress favored the Holy Physician Clan, and that Shangguan Yu had close ties with them.
They've colluded together, all for personal gain.
Other armies, the Holy Physician Sect probably didn't dare to take the risk.
What a magnificent empress! With such an empress, how could the world not be dark?
"Cripple his martial arts and send him to work in the mines!" Lu Qingqing said.
Jin Diandian and her son thought they were being talked about, and screamed, "No—!"
Then I thought: They don't know martial arts?
Then a group of people appeared, their knives gleaming with a blinding silver light, and walked toward the people tied to the trees, after which blood splattered everywhere.
Eerie screams echoed through the woods.
The tendons in those people's hands and feet were all severed.
Jin Duoduo rolled her eyes and fainted.
Lu Qingqing frowned, "Useless!"
"Jin Diandian, help me kill Ouyang Bingyan and eradicate the Holy Physician Sect. This is your only way out!"
After Lu Qingqing finished speaking, she had Mo Lang drag the two of them away.
She went around to the back of a big tree and saw Sixi and Wang Jincai squatting there with their heads down.
"You heard everything?"
Si Xi looked up, her face covered in tears.
"Aunt, wasn't my father also killed by the Holy Healer Sect?"
Sixi's father was conscripted into the army ten years ago while working as a laborer in another city. If it were a normal conscription, he wouldn't have been chosen.
After the villagers ran back and told Grandma Sixi, there were letters for the first two years, but then there was no more news.
Grandma Sixi asked the security escort agency to help her inquire at the military camp.
When the escort agency returned, they told her that he was probably dead, but they hadn't found his body. The people in the military camp said not to ask any more questions, as it was already a mercy of the court not to treat him as a deserter.
Lu Qingqing had previously asked Ji Ruyan to inquire about the matter. It turned out that Sixi's father had indeed joined Shangguan Yu's team. The death list and the disappearance of 500 people were also discovered at that time.
However, due to the passage of time, no useful clues were found later.
This time, after receiving information from Xu Fengshang, I checked the most recent battle again, and that's how the events came together.
Si Xi's father disappeared even earlier, which means they had already started doing this a long time ago.
No one knows how many more people have perished under the swords of the Holy Healer Sect.
"I've always fantasized that Dad is still alive," Sixi sobbed.
"He might have hurt his head, just like in the stories, and can't remember where he lives. He'll come back when he remembers."
"He may have been captured by the enemy and won't be able to come back for a while. Anyway, since we can't find his body, let's just assume he's alive."
"But...but now..."
The facts speak for themselves.
His father had already been skinned alive by the Holy Physician Sect.
"I'm going to kill the leader of the Holy Healer Sect, that devil!"
Wang Jincai was also so angry that he clenched his fists. The two of them wished they could take revenge right now.
Lu Qingqing sighed, just about to offer some words of comfort, when something suddenly flashed through her mind.
She remembered the group of assassins she had encountered at the nunnery.
Those assassins were controlled by Gu poison, unlike the people we've captured now. They weren't afraid of pain or backing down; their only goal was to kill.
At the time, Mo Lang also said that those assassins were not necessarily skilled in martial arts, but they had a strong ability to cooperate. They were like an army forming a battle formation, which made it difficult for people to break through.
Therefore, the two of them dared not separate and fought together.
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