Chapter 84: Torturing the eunuch
Frowning and clicking his tongue towards the patriot act, Bai Long who realized that this was going to be quite troublesome, decided to try his best, and if he failed, he'd just have to wait another day and kidnap someone else, while hoping that no one would notice the absence of the one he already kidnapped.
"You sure are a stubborn one."
Snorting in return, Chen Xiu refused to reply and looked away.
Sighing and resigning himself to his bad luck, Bai Long who never tortured someone before, began thinking back to all the movies he had seen, and novels he had read.
'Waterboarding? Tooth extraction? Sensory Deprivation? Phobia Exploitation?'
Thinking of these all, Bai Long suddenly remembered a very common line in the wuxia novels he read.
'Yes, that's it!'
"I'm going to skin you alive! Hahahahahahahahahah!"
Involuntarily laughing, Bai Long made the Yin Puppet he was controlling seen like the kind who enjoyed to torture others.
"And if that doesn't work, I'll pull your muscles out, and crush your bones!"
Saying so, Bai Long spoke through the Yin Puppet he was controlling and said, "Hold him down, men."
Even though his thoughts were more than enough to control the remaining Yin Puppets, Bai Long was too excited from conducting his first-ever torture session to care about the small details.
Moving per Bai Long's command, the remaining nine Yin Puppets all came and held the struggling Chen Xiu down, while the one he controlled lifted the left hand while licking his lips.
Hoping for Chen Xiu's right hand to be the dominant one, because he threw the quill and scroll with it, Bai Long began making his other hand reach it.
"You sure you won't regret your decision, fatty?"
"Regret? Hahahahaha I'm no longer a man if I cry or ask for mercy!"
"Oh?"
Secretly admiring the eunuch who really did seem like a patriot, and wasn't a fake one who was just all words, Bai Long gripped the nail of Chen Xiu's thumb finger with the Yin Puppet's right thumb and index finger.
Not holding back at all, since Bai Long didn't appreciate looking like a newbie or a fool, he made the Yin Puppet use all of his strength and pull the nail out.
The next instant, before Bai Long could even grasp the feeling of how it felt, an Earth shattering scream of pain came out of Chen Xiu's mouth.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Stuffing the rag which wasn't far into the eunuch's mouth, Bai Long began frowning and waited till Chen Xiu no longer let out a muffled scream.
Pulling the rag out, Bai Long was just about to say something, when Chen Xiu spoke first.
"Please forgive me! I'll tell you everything you want to know! Please have mercy on me! PLEASE!"
Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, Bai Long seriously askes him, "What happened to all that crap about not being a man if you ask for mercy?"
Freezing for a second Chen Xiu hastily said, "It's fine! I wasn't a complete man until now anyway!"
Sighing from how the torture he was so excited to conduct had ended so quickly, Bai Long once again asked, "What made you give up so soon?"
Looking all pitiful, Chen Xiu said, "I didn't think the pain would be so horrible."
Rolling his eyes, Bai Long realized that he thought too much of Chen Xiu.
"Whatever, now get started on drawing the blueprint. Also, don't even think of telling us any false information, if you do, hehehehehehe."
Not daring to ask what that creepy laugh meant, since he already knew. Chen Xiu profusely nodded his head and said, "I wouldn't dare deceive you!"
Next, Chen Xiu used his right hand to pick up the quill and scroll he threw away to draw a very large rectangle first, followed by very detailed images which represented the buildings inside it.
Nodding his head inwardly and feeling happy from the fact that the eunuch he kidnapped wasn't a bad artist, Bai Long waited until the blueprint was over, and started questioning him on the other details.
Starting from how many guards there were, their cultivation levels, which building inside the map was which, the locations which were most guarded, places which were restricted entry, and finally, if there were any vaults inside the palace.
Visibly shaken after hearing the word vault, Chen Xiu began trembling as if he remembered a bad memory.
"I... I might know about a particular vault... But I don't know if it is the one you are searching for."
Ignoring the scared look, Bai Long said, "Tell me what you know."
Nodding his head while still trembling, Chen Xiu started telling a very long and unneeded story.
The gist of it was, one day Chen Xiu lost his way inside the main palace and stumbled his way through a dark corridor and saw something peculiar behind the opened doors, which looked very much like a treasury.
After that, he was found by the special guards who were there to protect whatever was beside the room and then whipped for a whole week.
Listening to the whole story, Bai Long asked, "Make a mark at where that room is, and what do you mean by special guards?"
Making an 'X' on the well-drawn blueprint, Chen Xiu said, "The guards I met there were stronger than the normal guards who are everywhere inside the palace. But, there were only two of them."
'Stringer than the regular guards. That means, Martial General Realm.'
Being thankful towards the fact that he didn't attempt to infiltrate the palace with just a single Martial General Realm Yin Puppet, Bai Long asked a few more follow up questions.
"I see. Thank you for your cooperation fatty."
"No problem at all! You'll let me go now right?"
Nodding his head with a kind smile on his face, the Yin Puppet swiftly raised his hand and crushed the eunuch's head before he could even realize what was happening.