Chapter 186 : Chapter 186
Chapter 186: If Apologizing Were Useful, What Would We Jinyiwei Be Needed For?
Cheng Yu released the hand gripping Ning Cen’s neck and threw him onto the ground.
With his hands behind his back, his gaze was cold as he looked down disdainfully at this overbearing young lord of Duke Dingguo’s household.
A useless wretch who relied entirely on his father.
And he was worthy of acting arrogantly before him?
Ning Cen gasped for breath in great mouthfuls, his eyes wide as he looked at Cheng Yu, his expression filled with extreme resentment.
“What did you say? Have you lost your mind?”
He had killed a Ninth Rank ten days ago?
For him to say such a thing was simply absurd to the extreme!
A Jinyiwei who looked so young claimed that he had killed an expert who stood at the peak level under heaven.
How was that possible?
Did he think he was the Thousand-Household Commander Cheng Yu, the one whose terrifying infamy had spread from Jiannan Circuit not long ago?
Wait!
Cheng Yu seemed to have been transferred into the Great Qian Capital, and he would arrive in the next few days...
At that thought.
Ning Cen’s vicious expression froze. The pupils in his eyes abruptly dilated, and his whole body began trembling.
He reached out and pointed at Cheng Yu.
“You are... You are that Cheng Yu...”
Crack!
A gust of force swept out from beside Cheng Yu. Ning Cen could not even see his movements clearly.
The finger he had extended was suddenly severed and fell to the ground.
“Ah! You!”
Cheng Yu stepped on the finger on the ground.
He turned back coldly and looked at Song Nian.
“A prisoner refuses confinement and insults the guards. According to the rules of the Imperial Prison, how should he be dealt with?”
Song Nian looked at Ning Cen’s miserable state. His eyes were round and wide, and the flesh beneath his jaw trembled unconsciously.
His eyes were filled with disbelief and uncontrollable excitement.
When he looked at Cheng Yu again, tears swirled in his eyes.
Ning Cen, this overbearing and hateful beast.
Finally, someone had come to deal with him!
“My lord, in the Imperial Prison, there are no specific punishment rules for people like this...”
Over the past few decades.
The Jinyiwei were far weaker than before, and the terror of the Imperial Prison had gradually declined as well, no longer retaining its former hellish reputation.
Those without backgrounds who dared defy the Jinyiwei guards could simply be dealt with at will.
But those with backgrounds could not be dealt with.
The rules had become an empty shell.
In order to protect young lords with extremely powerful backers from being beaten, scolded, or heavily punished at will.
The previous rules had slowly been abolished.
Ning Cen was arrogant and domineering to this extent, yet there truly were no detailed rules saying that he could not act this way.
The moment Ning Cen heard this.
Joy instantly erupted on his face, and a vicious light flashed in his eyes.
“Did you hear that?! I know who you are, Cheng Yu!”
“You think you can look down on nobles just because you have some ability? In truth, you are nothing more than a slave of us princes and nobles! If you dare touch me again, I will have my father invite a Grandmaster to wipe out—”
Smack!
Cheng Yu kicked the clamoring Ning Cen in the face. Ning Cen screamed, and blood gushed from his nose.
“If there are no rules now, then count back five hundred years, back to when there were rules!”
Five hundred years?
Song Nian’s heart shook. He recalled the era he had yearned for the most when he first joined the Jinyiwei—the peak age of the Jinyiwei.
The Imperial Hounds, whom the Jianghu paled upon hearing of. The Flying Fish Uniforms and Xiuchun Sabers, which represented institutionalized force and terror.
“F-Five hundred years ago, if someone in the Imperial Prison refused confinement, he would receive eighty Intimidation Rod strikes... If he insulted the guards, the tendons in his hands and feet would be severed, and he would be suspended upside down in solitary confinement for half a month. If the circumstances were severe, he could be executed on the spot without reporting upward...”
Intimidation Rod strikes, severed tendons, execution on the spot?
When Ning Cen heard these things, his whole body trembled in fright. He stared at Song Nian with wide eyes.
Then he roared hysterically.
“Song Nian, do you no longer care about your family’s lives?! What nonsense are you spouting?!”
Cheng Yu was also surprised. Song Nian could actually answer such an obscure question.
He had not expected Song Nian to truly be a talent.
He stepped on Ning Cen’s roaring throat and took out a sharp little dagger.
Then he smiled coldly.
“You heard that clearly, did you not? I do not like repeating other people’s words.”
A majestic surge of Internal Energy suddenly erupted.
Ning Cen was suppressed until his whole body went powerless. As he twitched, his eyes widened and stared at Cheng Yu.
“You... What are you going to do?! You are courting death!”
He was the young lord of Duke Dingguo’s Estate, a man upon whom ten thousand affections had been gathered.
Whenever he caused trouble or made mistakes.
That father of his, who held lofty status and great authority, had never said much.
Even when the Great Qian Emperor, Xiao Wuji, had ordered him thrown into the Imperial Prison, he had not felt the same extreme unease he felt now.
Because he had discovered.
No matter how he threatened him, Cheng Yu did not react at all!
He was a madman!
Seeing that Ning Cen was still shouting, Cheng Yu raised his eyebrows and revealed a cold smile. “I am courting death? Do not worry. I guarantee you will die first.”
He turned back and threw the dagger to Song Nian.
“You, sever the tendons in his hands and feet first.”
Song Nian tremblingly caught the dagger and nervously swallowed hard.
His heart was incomparably complicated, with worry and excitement intertwined.
But when he looked again at Cheng Yu’s domineering figure.
A trace of resolve ignited in his heart. Lord Cheng was absolutely not someone who acted rashly without preparation.
To hell with this and that.
They would deal with this brat Ning Cen first!
“This humble subordinate obeys!”
A cold smile flashed across Song Nian’s face. He grabbed one of Ning Cen’s legs, and a sharp cold glint flashed across the dagger.
“Song, have you gone mad too?! I will kill your whole family!”
When Ning Cen saw that the situation was wrong, he shouted and kicked his legs wildly.
But what awaited him.
Was the agonizing sensation of the dagger slicing across his ankle. In the next moment, a feeling of release and slackness erupted in his foot.
The tendon in his left leg had been severed!
“Ah!!!”
And this was only the beginning. There was still another leg, and two hands.
Not long after.
Ning Cen howled in pain and broke out in sweat. His hands and feet drooped onto the ground, and he struggled there like a bedbug.
“I will kill you! I will kill your whole families!”
Enduring the intense pain, boundless rage erupted from him again and again.
Once he left this place.
After his father found someone to heal him, he would definitely make the two of them experience this same feeling.
Definitely!
Seeing that the other party still had the strength to issue threats, Cheng Yu revealed a chilling smile.
He still had the strength to curse. It seemed he was not frightened enough.
Cheng Yu took another small bottle from his robes and handed it to Song Nian.
“Apply it to him.”
Song Nian frowned and asked in confusion, “My lord, what is this?”
Cheng Yu sneered. “Blood-Rolling Powder. Does he not still have the strength to shout? Let him bleed for a while and calm down...”
When Ning Cen heard this, his whole body trembled.
At that moment, the anger in his heart was completely overwhelmed by terror.
Cheng Yu was not merely planning to torture him!
He truly was not afraid of playing with him until he died!
“My lords, I was wrong! Let me go!”
When Cheng Yu saw that Ning Cen had finally panicked, he nodded in satisfaction and spread his hands as he looked toward Song Nian.
“You were wrong? It is useless to tell me.”
Ning Cen immediately begged Song Nian like a wagging dog. “Brother Song, I was wrong. Forgive me! I will kowtow and atone before your honored younger sister. Do not kill me!”
Hatred flashed once more in Song Nian’s eyes, and he shook his head firmly.
“Now you know the fear of having life and death toyed with by another person, do you not? It is useless to say you were wrong to me either. You have killed far too many people!”
“I was wrong. I will never dare do it again. I will go kowtow and apologize to those people!”
Cheng Yu sneered with incomparable coldness. “If apologizing were useful, what would we Jinyiwei be needed for?”
...
In the Jinyiwei Command Office.
Zhang Fen walked outward with his hands behind his back, feeling pleased with himself.
He had just offered his elder brother a scheme, receiving praise and the authority to take full responsibility for the matter.
His whole person felt somewhat light and buoyant.
If not for the inexplicable chilly sensation on his back right now.
Everything would have been even better!