Chapter 2041: The Torment (3)
The food that the mussel smelled was one of its favorite grilled meat. Tempted by the sweet smell, it could not help but open its shells. Unfortunately, what came before its eyes was not food, but boiling oil.
It could not hide from the tempting smell the first time. The boiling oil slipped through its shell’s opening and burned its flesh. Luckily, it had closed its shells quickly enough to avoid even greater disasters. Unavoidably, some parts of its soft, supple skin were burned. There were many blisters scattered on its body. Even the slightest movement came as a pain to it.
The mussel had never encountered such brutal torments throughout its whole life. Every second was torture. It started to hope for death.
It then heard a voice, as cold as ice. "Do you still refuse to confess to your crime?"
Confess? The mussel would never confess. It felt utterly wronged as though living the tragedy of the innocent Dou E [1]. It only wanted to hunt for a musk deer and make a feast for its master. Fond of good food, it ended up hunting more musk deers for its own indulgence. That was when it fell into the ambush!
There were three Senior Immortals who wanted to hunt the mussel. They accused it as the mastermind behind the recent massacre of the majestic beings. The mussel was not afraid to fight the Senior Immortals to show them its strength, but before it made any move, it was overwhelmed with fear from a foreboding threat.
The mussel was sensitive enough to notice the threatening, ominous aura. It was so strong that it made its shells tremble. Instinctively, it knew that it was a sign of danger, so it abandoned the fight and quickly ran away.