Chapter 42: Coerced Confessions
"So you can scare the monsters?"
Zhang Jing forcibly suppressed her anger and continued to ask.
"I heard from those people that they originally planned to feed the monster with us, but the monster wouldn't eat it, and then they started slaughtering children in front of the monster. We don't know exactly what they're doing it for. ”
The boy didn't know why the Hiko's people wanted to poison the children in front of the monster, but it was clear from his words that the monster had been reluctant to eat the child in the first place.
"I can probably guess why they did that."
Linglong, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke.
"In my opinion, they should be trying to use this method to stimulate the blood lion's divine beast bloodline. Legend has it that the Blood Lion is a descendant of the Divine Beast Qilin, but the strength of the Blood Lion is far inferior to that of the Qilin, and if it wants to multiply its strength, it must awaken the bloodline of the Divine Beast in his body. ”
"Could it be that killing a child in front of it can stimulate its divine beast bloodline?" Zhang Jing asked.
"No, I think they originally wanted to feed the Blood Lions with small children for their own purposes. According to ancient records, children's flesh and blood are purer than adults, and they have a miraculous effect on awakening the bloodline of divine beasts. ”
"It's just that I don't know why, but this blood lion is unwilling to devour children. It is precisely because of this that they choose to do it themselves, using killing and gore to provoke the primitive bestiality of the blood lion. ”
Linglong told the results of his analysis in one breath.
Zhang Jing thought for a while, and then said, "In this way, this blood lion is not a big evil existence. ”
Linglong nodded, it stands to reason that not only did this blood lion make no mistakes, but it was also a victim.
"Have you ever seen a monster devour a child's heart?" Zhang Jing asked the boy.
"No, those people only said that they fed the monster with their hearts, and they didn't say whether the monster ate it or not." The boy replied.
Zhang Jing was about to ask the boy some other questions, but Linglong said "Someone is coming", and then she rushed out like a gust of wind.
told the children to stay where they were, and Zhang Jing followed.
When Zhang Jing arrived outside the rockery, she happened to see Linglong standing not far away, and opposite her, an old man and a middle-aged man were confronting her.
"Who are you? How dare you trespass on our people's residence and kill our people! The old man yelled at Linglong.
"Kill your guys!"
Linglong shot directly, and the two people on the other side were shocked.
It wasn't until Linglong made a move that they felt the boundless pressure.
The masters of the Mahayana realm are indeed not existences that they can handle.
A moment later, the two of them were sealed by Linglong with a thunderbolt, and they stood there as lambs to the slaughter.
Zhang Jing came to the two of them and sealed their hands and feet, preventing them from moving freely, in case the previous suicide incident was repeated.
"Say, where did you get the blood lion in the dungeon?" Zhang Jing asked the old man.
Hum! The old man glanced at Zhang Jing disdainfully, and it seemed that he didn't mean to confess at all.
Zhang Jing was not angry, he smiled at the old man, and then turned to the middle-aged man.
"What about you, would you like to answer my question?"
The middle-aged man glared at Zhang Jing, and then ignored him like an old man.
Zhang Jing was not angry because of this, he still had a smile on his face.
His gaze swept back and forth between the two of them a few times, and then said: "The opportunity has been given to you, since you don't know how to cherish it, then I have no choice but to do it." ”
After a pause, Zhang Jing thought for a moment before continuing: "I have heard of a punishment called a thousand cuts. This kind of punishment is to cut the flesh of the human body piece by piece until there are enough slashes, and when there are not enough swords, the victim will not die. Well, which of you will experience it first? ”
Hearing Zhang Jing's description of the thousands of cuts, the two of them turned pale, and the fear in their hearts increased sharply.
"You devil, you don't have to die well." The middle-aged man held up the last bit of courage and cursed Zhang Jing.
It's just that from the way he kept trembling when he spoke, it could be seen that he was terrified to the extreme.
"Hahaha, demon, I like that name. Since you're complimenting me so much, let's start with you. ”
After speaking, Zhang Jing took out a knife and slice a piece of flesh from the middle-aged man's calf.
Seeing that he was chopped a piece of flesh alive, the middle-aged man immediately howled.
"Tut-tut, where is the hard bone just now, don't let me look down on you, keep it up."
After that, Zhang Jing came to the old man again, and without saying a word, he directly cut off two pieces of flesh and blood from the old man's legs.
The old man's endurance was not weak, and he didn't make a sound, he just kept staring at Zhang Jing with vicious eyes.
Zhang Jing was very unhappy with the old man's reaction, so he cut the old man three times again.
Without saying a word, he returned to the middle-aged man's side and cut three times.
The action goes back and forth, and the only change is that the number of knives Zhang Jing cuts on the old man's body is always double the number of knives in the middle-aged man.
He found that the old man's endurance was much stronger than that of the middle-aged man, and he had to achieve a balance, only in this way could the two of them always be on the same starting line.
After a short time, seeing that one of the old man's right legs had seen white bones in many places, his expression was not as calm as before.
When Zhang Jing came to the middle-aged man again and was about to go under the knife, the middle-aged man finally collapsed.
"Don't cut it, I say I'll say it." The middle-aged man hurriedly spoke, he was afraid that Zhang Jing would be too quick to stop the knife.
"Say, if your answer satisfies me, I'll consider letting you go." Zhang Jing said lightly.
"The Blood Lion was brought by the Qianyue Immortal, and he explained to us that we must feed the Blood Lion in the way he said. Pingyuan Town is located at the intersection of several major forces, and the personnel structure is chaotic, and it is not easy to attract detection by capturing children, so this place was selected as a base for feeding blood lions. ”
The middle-aged man explained a lot of things in one go.
"Who is the Qianyue Immortal? Where did he get the Blood Lion from? Zhang Jing asked again.
"I really don't know who the Qianyue Immortal is, I only know that he is very strong, he helped our Yan clan win control of the Immortal Sect two years ago, and he stayed after that. As for where he got the Blood Lion from, I really don't know about that. ”
The middle-aged man said tremblingly, looking at his appearance, as if he was afraid that missing something would cause Zhang Jing to be dissatisfied.
"Let me ask you again, who is usually responsible for feeding the blood lions, and how do you feed them?"
"Feeding the blood lion is my uncle and I in charge. The Qianyue Immortal explained that the blood lion must be fed with children, but I don't know what's going on, the blood lion just doesn't want to devour children. When the Qianyue Immortal found out, he asked us to kill the child in front of the Blood Lion, saying that this would stimulate the Blood Lion's madness. ”
What the middle-aged man said was exactly the same as his previous guess.
"Another question, those children said that after you kill the children, you will dig out their hearts, and then feed the blood lions with the children's hearts, is there such a thing?"
"Yes, this is the method that Uncle Clan thought of, he said that the blood in the heart is the essence of a person's blood, and feeding the heart to the blood lion can make the feeding effect twice the result with half the effort."
After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he also glanced at the old man next to him.
His meaning was very obvious, and it was the old man on the side who came up with the idea.
"Then you fed the blood lion so many hearts, did it ever go berserk?"
Zhang Jing needs to confirm this, if this is true, then the blood lion must be eliminated.
"No, the blood lion has never eaten a child's heart at all, no matter how we beat it, it just won't eat it." The middle-aged man shook his head as he spoke.
Zhang Jing and Linglong breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, if they hadn't stopped in time at that time, the blood lion would have really died unjustly.
Compared to what these people of the Yan clan did, the Blood Lion was much more noble than them.
Knowing what you want to know, then there is no need for this old and young to live.
Linglong stepped forward quickly, and the old man was killed by her blow, and then the old man's Yuan Ying was also detained by her into the lock spirit bag.
When the old man was killed, Zhang Jing saw excitement in the eyes of the middle-aged man.
Zhang Jing shook his head, he could probably guess why this guy behaved like this.
When the old man died, there was no one to tell him.
Afterwards, he could have put all the blame on the old man, how could he be unhappy about killing two birds with one stone.
O human heart! It's a strange thing!
After sighing, Zhang Jing went to the dungeon without looking back.
After Zhang Jing left, in the garden, the middle-aged man who was still glad that he could clear his name was also killed by Linglong and detained Yuan Ying.
He didn't want to be white until he died, Yin Yin had promised not to kill himself if he confessed, why was he killed in the end.
Where would he have thought that Zhang Jing promised not to kill him, and only represented himself.
As for what others will do, it's none of his business.