Chapter 60: Interrogation

Wei Chen smiled and did not say anything. He was trying to bluff his way through. It would be great if he did not need to use any of the options. The second option would stain his eyes, while the third would waste his killing license.

Scarface stared at Wei Chen without saying a word. This time he was trying to discern something from Wei Chen’s expression. He wanted to know whether Wei Chen was bluffing or not.

He looked at Wei Chen’s hands and eyes before letting out a smirk. This guy was only bluffing. He definitely did not know the soul searching technique.

As a vice leader of a large mercenary group, Scarface knew the characteristics of those who practiced soul searching techniques very well.

Veins of red and dark energy encroaching into one eye, pale fingers, black nails like a cursed being, traces of white hair, and breath as cold as ice. These were the characteristics of those who practiced this forbidden technique.

Seeing that none of these characteristics appeared on Wei Chen, Scarface regained his confidence. He smirked and was about to provoke him again.

“Err… can we choose option two?” one of his men said.

“Yes, option two sounds better,” another agreed.

Scarface wanted to curse these two idiots, but on second thought maybe it was a good thing. He did not want to die yet. If he chose option three and this guy suddenly called someone who truly knew how to soul search, that would be the end of him.

Wei Chen made a face as if he had heard the most disgusting thing in the world.

“Sigh. And here I thought you would choose option one so we would not need to go through this,” Wei Chen said with a tired sigh before standing up.

The three smirked. Kill them socially? What was this guy going to do? He was not killing them, not torturing them. What could he possibly do? Bad reputation? That was nothing. In fact, the more infamous a mercenary was, the more fearsome their name became. It was actually beneficial since customers knew how ruthless they were.

Suddenly, both of Wei Chen’s hands were covered in powerful death energy, alarming the three. With a few swipes of his Underworld Bone Claw, all of their clothes were destroyed.

Now the three were completely butt naked without a shred of cloth left.

“What!? What the hell are you trying to do!? Are you… are you the kind of person who is interested in men!?” Scarface’s face paled. He never thought he would fall into the hands of such a demon.

Hearing this, Wei Chen made a face as if he had just heard the most disgusting remark imaginable. His lips curled in revulsion.

“What the f*ck are you talking about!? I am completely straight! Do not drag me down to your standard, you f*ck face. Seeing a maggot with two balls between your legs already makes me want to puke!” Wei Chen cursed in disgust.

“Then… then why are you stripping us!?” one of the now naked men asked nervously.

“Was it not you who asked for it!?” Wei Chen muttered, trying to hold back his nausea. These guys did not even clean down there. It was messier than the Amazon jungle after a tornado.

“Ask what!? No we did not…” another protested. But Wei Chen ignored them. He immediately poked their acupoints, immobilizing them and stopping them from speaking.

Then he quickly arranged their posture into extremely explicit positions. He even used rope to tie them up in questionable styles that could only be seen in rare documentaries from the island country.

Yes, Wei Chen knew how to tie rope in turtle style, just like those explicit contents from the island country. He only learned it for pranking purposes.

The three wanted to scream as they were tied into multiple spicy and revealing poses. Many of them were shameful, and he even positioned them so that their “elephants” touched each other.

While the three wanted to scream and protest, Wei Chen took pictures. However, he ran to a bucket several times and puked out his dinner before finishing.

After about two hours, everything came to an end. Wei Chen threw some spare clothes he took from their storage rings back to them. The three were already dead inside. Their eyes were hollow, and the experience of the past two hours was more than they could handle.

Only Scarface still glared at Wei Chen as if wanting to kill him. As expected of the leader, his nerves were stronger than his men.

“Ahem.” Wei Chen cleared his throat and continued.

“Here is the deal. You know who I am, so tell me what I want to know. Otherwise, tomorrow at noon there will be a special broadcast that contains the special content I just took from you guys,” Wei Chen said matter-of-factly.

“You… you monster!” Scarface said through gritted teeth.

Of course he knew who Wei Chen was and how he broadcast. If Wei Chen followed through on his threat, the three of them could forget about living among people. Everyone would remember their faces and the shameful poses this demon had captured.

“What?” Wei Chen shrugged and smirked with a very punchable smirk. “You three asked for it. I already gave you three choices.”

Scarface could not retort or argue back. He could only glare at Wei Chen and grit his teeth.

“Fine. What do you want to know?”

Wei Chen smiled brightly. “I want to know a lot of things. But let us start with who hired you to kidnap my fiancée.” He stated his and Mo Xingyao’s supposed status exactly as she wanted others to believe.

“She is your fiancée? No wonder you are so ruthless,” Scarface said, nodding as if he understood something.

“Do you not already know? She announced it about a week ago at Thousand Treasure Pavilion,” Wei Chen said.

“No, we did not. The latest information we received was from the information guild. We only know what our employer wants us to know.”

“Need-to-know basis. I get it,” Wei Chen said with a nod. “Now spill it. Who hired you?”

“It was Azure Sky Conglomerate. As for the reason, we do not know. We only had one mission, and that was to kidnap Mo Xingyao and deliver her to the designated place,” Scarface answered.

“Where?” he asks.

“If you want to go there now, it’s no use. It already exceeded the delivery time, they won’t wait for us. We already failed this mission the moment we exceeded the delivery time,” said Scarface.

“Tell me where first, and I’ll see what I can do,” Wei Chen insists.

“Fine… it’s in the old barn in the north just outside the city,” said Scarface.

“Thanks, and… one more thing.” Wei Chen took out the broadcasting orb and showed the explicit picture he took of the people who tried to rob him when he had just left the Flaming Lotus Secret Realm.

“Do you know these guys?” he asks.

Scarface looked at Wei Chen as if looking at disgusting garbage, because the picture was of cultivators receiving the same treatment they themselves had just gone through a few minutes ago. But he did not dare say anything.

Scarface took a good look at the people in the picture. “These… these are warriors of the Gu Clan. Especially this guy, he’s the Gu Clan butler.” Scarface pointed at a man with a noble mustache in the picture.

The Gu Clan?

Wei Chen remembered. It was the clan of that sky-something elder who was the young master who served as Jian Heng’s nemesis. The clan survived Jian Heng, but that elder had his cultivation crippled, lost a large amount of his life force, and needed to re-cultivate.

“Oh? From what I know, these people are all Nascent Soul. Isn’t Nascent Soul considered to be experts? And if I remember correctly, wasn’t the Gu Clan thrashed a long time ago?” he asks.

“That’s true,” Scarface nodded. “But there’s a saying that a dying camel is still larger than a horse. The Gu Clan’s accumulation of wealth and resources is no joke. If that incident had not happened, the Gu Clan could rival the Ximen Clan of the Vermilion Bird Province,” said Scarface.

Wei Chen nodded. After that, Wei Chen asked some more questions and Scarface fully cooperated. After everything he wanted to know had been answered, he let the three go with a threat not to take revenge or bother him, otherwise he would release their ’explicit content’.

….

After everything was done, Wei Chen went back to Mo Xingyao’s room and told her about everything.

“I see…” Mo Xingyao uttered, then she fell into silent thought.

She did not know what the Azure Sky Conglomerate wanted with her. They even hired a mercenary group to kidnap her, disregarding all pretenses. Did they have something that guaranteed they would be safe from Sky-Severing Demon Valley retaliation?

“What do you want to do next?” Wei Chen asks, so that he could prepare in case Mo Xingyao wanted to do something reckless.

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