23: Chapter 23 Torture

Xia He's fingertips condensed a pink, radiant Qi once more, and the properties of the "Bone Scraping Knife" slowly slid down along Mia's spine.

The smell of rust in the basement seemed to be mixed with wisps of rose fragrance.

"I heard that the nuns of the Cleric are all representatives of purity..." Xia He's nails pierced into Mia's shoulder blades from behind.

"I wonder, if I make you impure, will you be punished by the Cleric headquarters?"

"Does it hurt?" she asked softly, her voice sweet and cloying like a lover's greeting.

"This is just the beginning."

Mia let out a muffled grunt, her eyelashes trembling as she gritted her teeth to suppress a moan.

Xia He smiled with satisfaction, reaching out to stroke her cheek, and said softly, "So beautiful. The way you look when you cry is exceptionally alluring.

How about you become my little sister? I'll teach you how to handle men, what do you think?"

"A natural-born Outcast, teaching me?" Mia, with a flushed face, lowered her head and mocked Xia He.

Lv Liang stood to the side, observing Mia's reaction.

"Her soul structure is a bit strange," he mused.

"For a normal one person, mental defenses weaken with pain, but she..."

"What about her?" Xia He's eyebrows arched slightly.

"No," Lv Liang shook his head.

"Her mental barriers are devouring the pain, and I feel like there's something else inside this female soul body I'm observing that I haven't discovered yet."

"Oh? Hehehe~ Alright! I've already agreed to acknowledge her as my little sister, let me give her a lesson first..." Xia He laughed a bit maniacally, her finger pointing towards Mia's glabella again.

"Try this—"

The pink Qi burrowed into Mia's limbs and bones like earthworms, wandering through her body, and finally invading her mental world.

Mia's pupils constricted violently, her toes curled, and her whole body trembled.

In the illusion, she found herself in a church. Surprisingly, he was still in his Luo Yu male form. Although weak, he possessed a solid body. Before he could even feel happy, the door behind him was pulled open by a person completely hidden in a hood.

She sat behind him, and then, a hand painted with familiar nail polish slowly wrapped around his neck from behind. The familiar fragrance drifted from the person's hair tips, infiltrating the surrounding air, lingering and refusing to dissipate.

"Yo, long time no see." Under the black robe, Mia's face was half-hidden by shadows.

"Is my body easy to use? You despicable guy!"

Luo Yu was startled and wanted to get up, but was firmly pressed down on the pew by Mia.

"Even your soul is wearing my appearance; that silly boy outside has been deceived too. Little brother."

"So, I just used your dying corpse. What do you want?" Luo Yu calmed down.

"You also devoured my soul! What do I want?! Now you have become Mia, and I have become Luo Yu, and then I will take back everything you owe me. Just like what that woman outside is doing to you, or even more!!"

As she spoke, a red light flashed in her eyes, and the space between the two of them seemed to be stained with ink, beginning to blur.

After a short while, the blurred scene of the two became clear again. It turned into Luo Yu embracing Mia.

"Oh? Looking at you this close, you seem to have become even prettier? What a pity, I have no interest in my own former body." (This system testifies, how dare you, with a mere 8 points of Charm, challenge a face and figure with 20 points of Charm?)

"Damn! Swapped?" Luo Yu turned back into Mia's appearance again. The victim behind him had turned into his appearance, exuding an aura of decay.

"Repay your debts! Repent, you succubus!!" Looking at her original face shouting this insane sentence at her, she felt a complex mix of emotions...

"Ahhhh—!!" Mia suddenly let out a lung-tearing scream, struggling violently, as if someone had imprisoned her on the pew, the iron chains clanking loudly.

Xia He whistled with satisfaction, appreciating this scene.

"Although I don't know what she experienced, it doesn't seem very pleasant, does it?"

Just as Xia He was about to continue, the basement door was blasted open by a telekinetic cannonball. The shattered door panel pierced deeply into the wall.

"This is our temp candidate. You Quanzhen really don't take our North China region seriously!" Xu Si blew a smoke ring at Xia He.

He glanced sideways at the shackled Mia, and he completely, absolutely couldn't hold it in.

"What the hell? This binding is quite professional, it really brings out all of our Mia's beauty? And you made this ice beauty cry? Not bad, Xia He, I didn't expect you to have such a way with men, and you have such methods with women too..." Xu Si suddenly turned on a strange mode.

"How did you find this place?" Xia He asked indignantly.

"You bad woman, I had Zhang Chulan imprint his shougongsha on the back of Mia's hand earlier." Sister Baoer stuffed the remaining hand-grab pancake into her mouth and said indistinctly.

"Zhang Chulan said this thing can sense each other."

"I'm still super witty; I made Zhang Chulan imprint it when he was taking the clothes, otherwise I would have helped him say goodbye to pain."

"Chu Lan, you are still very obedient to your master." Feng Baobao tapped Zhang Chulan's head with the hilt of a knife.

"Ma, Master, your decision is my direction!" Zhang Chulan prostrated himself flatteringly to show his stance.

"How about we rescue Sister Ya first?"

"You are surrounded, surrender now!" Xu San said righteously.

Xia He looked at Lv Liang, who shook his head.

"Sister Xia He, I checked just now, the back door is also blocked by them. Shall we surrender?"

"Alright?" After saying that, Xia He raised her hands, and together with Lv Liang, they were handcuffed by the Everywhere-Connect employees and taken to the car.

Feng Baobao walked to Mia's side, knelt down, swung her knife to cut the iron chains, and picked her up in a princess carry.

She rubbed her face against the wound she had made on Mia's body with a kitchen knife, and sent this woman, who was drenched in cold sweat and still trembling in her coma, onto the ambulance that had followed them.

On the ambulance, Xu San's phone rang.

"What? You let them run away? With so many of you, you couldn't watch two people? Lv Liang's Soul Manifestation Technique? Controlled the driver? The car fell off the mountain? Fine, hurry up and rescue our colleagues."

Xu Si stubbed out his cigarette butt and casually pinched Sister Baoer's chubby, tender cheeks.

"Ran away?"

"Yeah, ran away." Xu San said bitterly.

"Alright, Chu Lan overused his Qi and fell asleep; Baoer is one of us. Mia is still unconscious. Stop pretending." Xu Si teased.

"If I'm not mistaken, it should be our people who were thrown down the mountain, not the car falling off the mountain."

"Isn't it because you said something about headquarters orders to use them to fish for big prey?" Xu San punched the armrest.

"What else should we do? Kill the Lv family genius and the Celestial Master's disciple's wife?" Xu Si patted Xu San on the shoulder.

"The pugilistic world isn't just about killing, San'er."

On the van, Lv Liang was boasting, "This time, not only did I get Zhang Xilin's secret, but I also caught this beauty who is just as seductive and charming as Sister Xia He. It's a guaranteed profit. It's a pity I couldn't bring her back for you to train."

"Wait, let me think, hiss~~ Hmm? Her Qi attribute is very similar to mine? She doesn't look like a company person. Yet Xu Si said she is a company temp." Xia He rubbed the fingers painted with rose-colored nail polish that had held Mia's chin.

"I injected a lot of my Qi into her body today, she's in for it! Maybe there will be some strange changes." Her beautiful eyes narrowed, as if thinking of something interesting.

"Lv Liang, I'm tired, I'm going to sleep for a while."