CH 63.1

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“Stop, make it stop, ahhhhh!!!”

As if a slender and sharp needle were constantly stirring in his brain, Gus’s pupils narrowed, and the sweat on his forehead and temples quickly wet his sideburns. His painful screams resounded throughout the torture room.

Although the whole body was restrained, under Gus’s unstoppable struggle and trembling, the chains and the iron frame behind him clashed fiercely, becoming the accompaniment of his miserable screams.

“Very noisy.”

Ji Mingjiang frowned and made some complaints.

This level of sound was considered a kind of torture for him. The very sensitive ear fins on the upper part of the ears curled up unbearably and then snapped down.

The light blue ear fin is working very hard to help its owner block the tormented ears, but unfortunately, no matter how hard it tries to fit the auricle, its gauze-like existence cannot completely isolate this sound.

But although his mouth complained about the noise, the speed of Ji Mingjiang’s mental power did not slow down at all. The front end of the mental power that was condensed into the shape of a water arrow was very sharp, and it attacked the depths of Gus’s spiritual sea with an unstoppable posture, piercing through the other party’s spiritual sea barrier, and then it continued to wreak havoc on his spiritual landscape.

Gus, who was about to pass out from the pain but was forced to stay awake because of the stimulation from the spiritual sea, half-opened his eyes to see the disgusted expression of the mermaid in front of him.

Though his (Gus) ears were bulging and blurring as if they were separated by a watery membrane in the reception of external sounds, he heard the complaint “very noisy” with surprising clarity.

Gus’s bound wrist twitched, and his previously weak eye muscles were reactivated. His eyes widened, and he looked incredulously at the exquisite features of the mermaid, who looked like a fish that had lived a pampered life.

You fucking threw away the mermaid’s gentleness and serenity, and as if that wasn’t enough, you even adopted the brutal and inhumane look from Clarice. How can you be so shameless? ! Who gave you this appearance! ! !

“Ugh! Hah…”

“What do you want to say?”

Ji Mingjiang saw Gus’s already white lips move, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, what came out from the depths of his throat were still a few meaningless hissing noises. He relaxed the intensity of his mental power and gave the other party a few seconds to reflect, very thoughtfully, before adopting a listening attitude.

At the same time, he moved half of his body to make room for Clarice, who had been silently watching from the side just now.

“I said…I said.”

After just taking a few breaths without speaking, Gus felt the temporarily dormant mental power in his brain begin to move again. Gus widened his eyes in horror. And under the piercing sensation that seemed to be sweeping back, he frantically wriggled back and spoke quickly amidst the clattering of the iron chain, “It’s Mr. Bisnarr Orfield! It’s the Orfield family who sought me out!!!”

Ji Mingjiang raised his eyebrows unsurprisingly and slowly withdrew his mental power under Gus’ horrified gaze.

The thread of mental power that had just gone out to play for less than ten minutes was not willing to go back just like that and was wrapped around his fingers coquettishly. Ji Mingjiang felt a little itchy. He chuckled softly under Gus’s abnormal-looking eyes, rubbed his fingers, and said, “Speak slowly, tell me everything you know, or else…my mental powers tell me they haven’t had enough fun yet.”

“…”

Pervert, this is it! ! !

Gus looked from side to side devastatingly. One moment, he looked at Ji Mingjiang, who had a smile on his face, and the other moment, he looked at Clarice and Rowlett, who were beside him with unchanged faces.

No one told him that this year’s royal family members are all psycho! ! !

Seeing Gus’ mental breakdown, Ji Mingjiang knew that he would definitely not hide anything later, so he handed over the interrogation and recording process to Clarice and curiously wandered around this room by himself.

After receiving Clarice’s signal, Rowlett handed over the notebook in his hand and followed Ji Mingjiang to explain to him, one by one, some of the torture tools that the mermaid was curious about.

Gus collapsed even more when he heard the conversation between the mermaid and the chief steward, one humbly inquiring and the other amiably answering.

“If you explain honestly from the beginning, the incident from before won’t happen again.” Leiden glanced at Gus, who was dripping with cold sweat. The gentle indulgence he had shown when he looked at Ji Mingjiang just now faded from his golden pupils, and his eyes were cold and ruthless.

He bent his knuckles and tapped the notebook in his hand. “Now, let’s talk.”

“Yes……”

Gus swallowed his saliva, stared straight at the ground, and tried his best to recall the cause of this incident.

“About half a month ago, when I was resting at home, people from the Ofield family found me and asked me to help with research…”

He was at home mulling over the next step in his research when there was a sudden knock on the door. When the person at the door made his intentions known, Gus’s first reaction was, of course, to refuse.

They sought him out privately and hoped that he would develop a drug that induces the manic period of beastmen in advance. Even with his toes, he knew that this drug must be used in some shady places.

But then those people broke into his room directly; one group pushed him on the sofa, and another group started to pile up cash on his desk. Finally, a laser gun was pressed against the neatly stacked table of cash, with the muzzle pointed straight at him.

Gus hesitated.

It was not only because of the stack of money but also because of the fierce look of those people who had seen blood at first glance.

The research he was currently conducting needed a lot of money. Although the money allocated by the institute could certainly support him until the end if he went step by step, it would be too slow. If he wanted to come up with stunning results to impress Wang Weiming, he would inevitably have to pay out of his own pocket to move his experiments forward.

Moreover, at that time, his luck was still at work.

Those people immediately reported the family that wanted to hire him, the Ofield family. Of course, he knew that the most powerful nobles besides the royal family were this family. Although he has never seen the filth among the nobles, he can imagine it just by reading some novels, films, and television works. If it is to attack other nobles, then who can defeat the Orfield family? The answer is, of course, no.

In this case, it can be said that he has no worries about this one-time business.

Thinking about this, it was only natural that his heart was moved.

In addition, the way the other party directly mentioned the family behind it clearly gave him only two choices: “accepting the commission” or “going straight to hell”. He only considered it for less than three minutes and then nodded his head.

But……

Speaking to this point, Gus’s voice was very hoarse, and his words were full of remorse. Who would have thought! Who would have thought that those of Orfield’s family were a bunch of lunatics! ! The potion they asked for was actually used on the emperor! ! !

He was only aware of this because Bisnarr Orfield suddenly contacted him the day before yesterday and repeatedly confirmed the efficacy of the potion with him. Under his various guarantees, the other party finally uttered the words as if he were talking to himself: “That’s strange… A person who has gone through many manic periods and suffered from the ruined spiritual sea can actually resist the effect of the drug just because he was matched with a mermaid recently?”

Gus hadn’t associated this sentence with Clarice before. After all, who knew that the Orfield family would be so courageous?

Until today, when he used that money to forcefully push the progress of the experiment forward and planned to turn on his light brain to talk to Wang Weiming, he saw a picture posted by two people in the research institute’s internal group.

—The picture of Wang Weiming accompanying Clarice as if he were looking for someone.

He didn’t know what was going on at the time. As if he were suddenly struck by a bolt of lightning, he suddenly remembered Bisnarr Orfield’s words, and several key words were linked together with Clarice’s actions today. A sudden intuition told him: His medicine had been used on Clarice, and they came to catch him today!

Everything after that happened today. He rushed out when he saw the door open in a panic, was knocked unconscious by Clarice, and was brought back.

“That’s it…”

After explaining what he did clearly through his mental journey, Gus raised his head again and was taken aback by Ji Mingjiang, who somehow approached him. His back was tightly pressed against the iron pole that was warm from the body temperature behind him. Amidst a series of bang-bang sounds, he gasped and said incoherently, “Really, that’s all I know, and I’ve said it all!”

“Of course I know. What are you so afraid of?” Ji Mingjiang glanced at him inexplicably. Next to him, Clarice pressed the button to stop recording, and the transcript was also closed and handed over to Rowlett. It seemed that the interrogation was over.

“Relax. I’m sure I won’t do anything to you after you’re all accounted for. Let me help you mend your spiritual sea.”

Ji Mingjiang showed a bright smile at the pale-faced Gus, with one canine tooth showing a sharp point. It’s obviously a very sunny and healthy appearance, but it made Gus’s nerves tense up more and more.

Finally, after noticing that a familiar mental power penetrated into his mental sea again, although the other party’s movements were still hasty but not cruel this time, Gus still screamed miserably in response to the stress and then fainted completely.

“Sort out the things he explained, make two copies, keep one for later use, and file the other. Then…”

The suddenly resounding scream caused Leiden, who had stepped aside to start explaining the follow-up work, to stall his voice and look in unison with Rowlett in the direction of Ji Mingjiang.

After the three of them looked at each other for a while, Leiden walked up to Gus. After resting his fingers on the side of his neck for a while, he gave Ji Mingjiang a complicated look.

“He passed out from fright.”

Ji Mingjiang: …

Ji Mingjiang:? ? ?

“What did I do to make him pass out???”