28: Chapter 28 Han Lie finally breaks down, intelligence revealed!

"General Han, look."

Gu Han grabbed a rebel's hair, forcing him to lift his head.

"Your brother's face is pale from the pain."

Han Lie's eyes were nearly splitting from rage, and the Dragon-Locking Chains rattled loudly as he struggled.

"Beast! If you have the guts, come at me!"

Gu Han suddenly smiled.

He let go of the rebel and pulled a sharp short blade from his waist.

"No rush, we'll take our time playing."

A flash of blade light, and the rebel's ear fell to the ground; the rebel also breathed his last.

[Slayed a sinful person, plundered forty remnants of fate.]

Gu Han raised an eyebrow slightly.

Beside him, Zhang Qi looked at Gu Han, unable to help but frown.

He knew Gu Han's interrogation methods were decent, but he hadn't expected them to be so inexhaustible.

Such a way to kill the heart by targeting the mind.

At this moment, he was glad Gu Han was a Zhenwu Guard.

If Gu Han had strayed into the Demonic Path, he would surely have become a ruthless figure for the Zhenwu Guard to deal with.

At the same time, he felt more confident about prying Han Lie's mouth open.

"General Han, next one!"

He said indifferently.

Just as Gu Han approached the third rebel.

This was a burly man with a face full of scars, but at this moment, his legs were shaking with fear.

"I'll talk! I'll tell you everything!"

The burly man suddenly broke into tears and snot, crying out.

Han Lie was furious.

"Bastard! You dare betray the Great Marshal?"

A sharp light flashed in Gu Han's eyes.

This was exactly what he was waiting for!

"Very good!"

"I like brave men like you."

Gu Han's short blade lightly patted the burly man's face.

"Tell me everything you know."

The burly man said haltingly.

"Sir, could you come closer?"

"I can only tell you alone."

Hearing this and seeing the killing intent in the man's eyes, Gu Han instantly guessed his intentions.

Immediately, a plan brewed in his mind.

He would use this to kill all the rebels present and then bring in another batch.

That way, his gains would be even greater.

Thinking of this, Gu Han leaned in as if following along.

A fierce light flashed in the burly man's eyes as he suddenly yanked the tight Profound Iron Chains on his body, using his head as a weapon to smash violently toward Gu Han's throat.

Seeing this, Gu Han was secretly delighted.

"Watch out!"

Zhang Qi shouted loudly.

He immediately executed a movement technique, stepping forward to pull Gu Han away.

Seeing this, Gu Han feigned rage.

"You dare to assassinate me!"

"Die!"

He immediately bypassed Zhang Qi and stabbed the burly man several times.

After confirming the man was dead, he began to "go crazy."

He went on a stabbing spree against the other rebels.

After finishing, Gu Han feigned panic and hurriedly knelt on one knee.

"S... Sir."

"This subordinate lost his temper."

"Please punish me, Sir!"

Zhang Qi's eyes twitched as he looked at the corpses littering the floor.

Gu Han stole a glance at Zhang Qi and saw that he wasn't angry.

Only then did his heart settle.

At the same time, through this test, Gu Han understood.

As long as he could pry Han Lie's mouth open, Zhang Qi wouldn't blame him no matter how many rebels died.

"Get up!"

"Don't do it again."

Zhang Qi said perfunctorily.

Seeing this, Gu Han stood up and asked with feigned trepidation.

"Sir, could we bring in more rebels?"

"Men, bring in twenty more rebels!"

Zhang Qi ordered the Jailers.

Clearly, he also felt that Gu Han's method could break Han Lie.

Besides, they had captured so many rebels this time; dozens or even a hundred dying wouldn't matter.

Therefore, he didn't care about the lives of these rebels.

At this moment, Han Lie was incomparably furious as he watched the rebels die before his eyes.

"Han... Brother Han..."

The last rebel to have his throat slit collapsed in a pool of blood, a "ho-ho" sound coming from his windpipe.

"Broth... Brothers... are leaving... first."

"In... the next... life... we will... repay... your... kindness."

The chains all over Han Lie's body suddenly pulled taut, and the veins on his neck bulged like wriggling earthworms.

He stared at Gu Han with bloodshot eyes, his voice so hoarse it didn't sound human, like a beast's roar.

"Little Beast..."

Before he could finish, Zhang Qi stepped forward and struck his Dantian with a palm.

Poof!

Han Lie spat out a mouthful of black blood, and his Dantian visibly caved in.

Zhang Qi's palm strike directly crippled the cultivation he had painstakingly built over thirty years.

At this time, the new batch of rebels was escorted in.

Immediately, Gu Han started his routine again.

...

Several hours passed.

It was unknown how many waves of rebels had been brought in.

Han Lie's mouth still hadn't been pried open.

By now, Gu Han had condensed quite a few life origin crystals.

He also put away his thoughts of continuing to gather life origin crystals.

At this point, his blood and Qi were also quite depleted.

If he continued, he was afraid of exposing himself.

Just as Gu Han was planning how to end this interrogation.

"Little Beast... you will die a horrible death!"

Han Lie's roar echoed in the interrogation room, but his voice was already hoarse beyond recognition.

He had watched helplessly as his fifty-seventh brother was either having his neck snapped by Gu Han, being stabbed, or dying from brutal torture.

His bloodshot eyes were almost bulging out of their sockets.

Hearing this, Gu Han gave a playful, cold laugh.

"General Han, these brothers of yours are quite tough."

"Every time I use torture, I have to expend a lot of effort."

Gu Han looked Han Lie in the eye, his mouth continuously muttering.

"What a pity!"

"Until they died, they thought you would keep the secret."

"Otherwise, they wouldn't have died."

"Their wives, children, and parents are all waiting for them to come home."

Han Lie's breathing suddenly hitched, his eyes going blank.

Gu Han keenly caught this reaction, a cold smile curling on his lips.

He turned to take out a slender long needle and roasted it back and forth over the charcoal fire.

"Do you know what this is?"

Gu Han brought the red-hot needle tip close to Han Lie's eyes, continuously waving the glowing long needle.

"This is called the 'Soul-Searching Needle,' specifically designed to target Meridians and Acupoints."

"One needle, and the pain can make a person see eighteen generations of their ancestors."

"Anyway, General Han has many subordinates. I believe there will always be one or two who can't hold out and will reveal the information."

"It's just that, by then, I don't know how many will be left."

The Soul-Searching Needle glowed with an eerie red light in the firelight. Gu Han deliberately let the molten iron dripping from the tip spark at Han Lie's feet.

"Ah!"

A rebel pressed against a torture rack suddenly screamed. Without looking back, Gu Han flicked the long needle—the tip accurately pierced through the man's forehead.

The body twitched twice and then went still. Brain matter slowly seeped out along the blood groove at the end of the needle.

[Slayed a sinful person, plundered sixty remnants of fate.]

"See, another needle wasted."

Gu Han shook his head regretfully and pulled a second red-hot iron needle from the charcoal fire.

"Look, General Han, I still have many long needles here."

Han Lie's Adam's apple bobbed, and the chains made a faint clinking sound.

Gu Han suddenly lunged, quickly pulling out a long needle and stabbing it directly toward a rebel's acupoint.

"Stop!"

"I'll talk, I'll talk!"

Han Lie finally broke down and roared, the Dragon-Locking Chains rattling violently.

Gu Han's long needle stopped just in front of the rebel, the glowing needle burning a tiny hole in the rebel's clothes.

Hearing this, Zhang Qi suddenly stood up straight and secretly gave Gu Han a thumbs up.

"Three days from now, at the hour of the rat at midnight."

"A red firework signal will rise over the capital."

"Each unit will attack their respective targets."

"Red fireworks..."

Zhang Qi's pupils shrank, and he asked hurriedly.

"Be clear! How much strength does each of your units have? Where is the main attack?"

Han Lie coughed up bloody froth with a miserable smile.