Chapter 139: I Will Take Action Myself
Xiao Ye had deliberately left an opening tonight, all to lure his opponent here.
Sure enough, the people behind the scenes had gotten impatient.
Even knowing it was a trap, they still had to come and try their luck.
Xiao Ye didn't stay in bed. Instead, he appeared silently behind the door.
The intruder was an expert. He didn't enter the room right away, instead investigating cautiously from the outside.
A full half-hour passed.
Only after confirming there were no issues did he push the door open and enter.
The next instant.
Xiao Ye appeared from behind the door and instantly pinned the man to the ground.
Then he swiftly dislocated the intruder's jaw.
The whole sequence, as fast as lightning, took less than two seconds.
The man didn't even have time to react.
The man was dressed all in black, with only his eyes showing. He found Xiao Ye's speed utterly unbelievable, and his eyes were filled with shock!
Xiao Ye closed the door and kicked the man, sending him sprawling onto the carpet.
Turning on the light, he ripped off the black-clad man's hood!
It was a plain, unremarkable face, on which a few scars were faintly visible.
This was the first time Xiao Ye had captured one alive, and he certainly wasn't going to give the man a chance to commit suicide.
Without mercy, he ripped out the tooth containing the poison sac, root and all.
He then forced a pill down the man's throat that would leave him completely weak before popping his jaw back into place.
Xiao Ye sat on a chair, crossed his legs, and looked down on him.
"Speak. Who sent you?"
"I don't know! You won't get any information out of me!"
Xiao Ye had expected as much. The loyalty of a Death Warrior was beyond question.
Moreover, most of them underwent surgery to reduce their sensitivity to pain.
This way, even when subjected to brutal interrogation, they could hold out until the very end.
Xiao Ye leaned down slightly, looking at the ordinary face opposite him. "My greatest specialty is prying open stubborn mouths."
"You think falling into my hands means you get to die? I'll make you beg for death, but you won't be so lucky!"
There wasn't much fear in the Death Warrior's eyes.
With his reduced sensitivity to pain, he could endure any amount of agony.
Xiao Ye took out a silver needle. "You probably don't know this, but the human body has several acupoints."
"When they're all activated, they can amplify the sensation of pain!"
"I know you Death Warriors have a low sensitivity to pain, but that also means you've never experienced what true, ultimate agony is like."
"Today, I'm going to let you experience it for yourself!"
As his voice fell.
Xiao Ye's silver needle descended!
Activating the acupoints didn't cause much of a sensation.
But everything Xiao Ye did next made the Death Warrior wish he were dead.
「Twenty minutes later.」
The Death Warrior lying on the floor had a dazed look in his eyes. His entire body was drenched in cold sweat, as if he had just been pulled from ice water.
His hands were a bloody mess, his fingernails long gone, lost amidst the gore.
"They say the pain from your fingers travels straight to the heart. If you still won't talk, I'll have to start on your thighs."
"You probably don't know this, do you? Even though there's a lot of flesh on a person's thighs, the pain is even more intense than in the arms!"
Fear appeared in the Death Warrior's eyes. "I... I'll talk!"
'From the day he began his training until now, he had never felt such intense pain.'
'He'd had the surgery as a child, so how could it still hurt this much?!'
Xiao Ye unhurriedly took a towel and meticulously wiped the blood from his hands.
"Speak. Who sent you? And who wants me dead?"
"I don't know! I only follow orders. I have no idea who the mastermind is."
Xiao Ye hadn't expected to get everything out of him at once. "Then who's your superior? You have to know that, right?"
"It's someone called Silver Fox. But I've never seen him. Every time he appears, he's wearing a silver outfit and a mask."
Xiao Ye narrowed his eyes. 'The mastermind is more cautious than I thought, not even showing their face to a direct subordinate.'
"So, is this person a man or a woman? Any distinguishing features? How tall?"
"Probably a man, but I'm not sure. I don't know anything else. I've only ever seen him from a distance a few times... Just kill me!"
The Death Warrior now only wanted to die, muttering that he didn't know anything.
This was a captive he had gone to great lengths to catch alive; Xiao Ye wasn't about to let him die just like that.
Xiao Ye pulled the silver needles from the Death Warrior's body and contacted Huo Wenqing to come and take the man away.
As for what they could get out of him later, that would depend on the military's capabilities.
After a peaceful night, Jiangpan No. 1 was quiet once more.
It was as if nothing had happened.
The bloodstained carpet had also been thrown out by Xiao Ye.
「In the distant Imperial City.」
In a dim, subterranean structure.
A person in a silver mask sat languidly on a sofa, listening to their subordinate's report, and slowly opened their eyes.
Their voice was androgynous. "So, you've failed again?"
The subordinate kept their head bowed. "That Xiao Ye is simply too cunning, and his skills are exceptional."
"Now, one of our men has been captured—alive. If we continue to make moves... I'm afraid it will be difficult to succeed."
The successive failures had already put Xiao Ye on high alert.
Moreover, the military had gotten involved and had even captured one of their people.
To strike again at this moment would surely not be worth the risk.
But the orders from above were to kill Xiao Ye as soon as possible—the faster, the better.
He truly had no other choice but to come and ask for Silver Fox's opinion.
Silver Fox let out a cold laugh. "This is the first target this troublesome we've had in a long time."
"Alright, you may leave. I'll handle this myself!"
The subordinate was ecstatic. "With Lord Silver Fox taking action personally, success is guaranteed!"
「A few days later, in Jiangcheng.」
Lin Chuyue was playing on her phone, bored out of her mind.
Suddenly, a message popped up in a group chat.
Meng Die: "I'm back in the country."
A group of classmates chimed in below, congratulating her on her return and asking when she was free for a get-together.
Lin Chuyue was filled with mixed emotions. Although she had lost touch with most of her classmates...
...Meng Die had been her best friend back then.
Unfortunately, she had gone abroad right after high school graduation, and there had been no news of her since.
'To think she's actually back after all these years.'
Lin Chuyue thought about it, but in the end, she didn't say anything.
To her surprise, a second later, Meng Die sent her a private message. "Chuyue, I'm back in the country, but I can only stay for three months at most."
"My family is planning to move abroad with me, so I won't be coming back often in the future."
"Are you free? How about we have a proper reunion?"
"My flight gets into Jiangcheng tomorrow. I hope you can come pick me up."
Lin Chuyue sat up. She had wanted to refuse, especially since it was a difficult time for her.
But she hadn't expected Meng Die to be moving her entire family away. This meeting might be their last.
At that thought, she immediately went downstairs to find Xiao Ye. "I... I have a good friend who's come back from abroad. C-Can I go see her?"
"This might be the last time I ever see her."