Although Huanhuan almost died from the kidnapping, it was an unexpected gain to be able to find Sang Ye.
Huanhuan was in a very good mood.
She counted on her fingers as she waited for Shuang Yun and the children to come home.
Shuang Yin came to her. "I got someone to interrogate the beasts of the Divine Wood clan. They don't know how they avoided the backlash of the contract either."
"What about Xue Hui?"
"I asked her myself. She said she has to see you first before she's willing to tell the truth."
Huanhuan was a little surprised. "She wants to see me? Why?"
Shuang Yin shook her head. "She didn't say. I don't know."
Bai Di didn't want Huanhuan to have anything to do with the Divine Wood clan anymore. He said to Shuang Yin, "I'm going to see Xue Hui."
Hence, Shuang Yin brought Bai Di to the cell.
Xue Hui was locked in the cell at the far end. She sat on the dirty ground. Her hair and clothes were in a mess, and she was still bruised from the torture. She looked very disheveled.
She kept scratching her back. She kept feeling something crawling on her back these days. It itched and hurt.
When Xue Hui saw Bai Di and Shuang Yin walk in, her expression changed slightly. She immediately lowered her hands and questioned them in a low voice.
"I want to see Huanhuan. Why did you bring Bai Di?!"
Bai Di looked down at her as if she were an ant that could be stepped on at any moment. "You have no right to negotiate with us now."
At this moment, he had completely taken off the usual gentle mask that he usually wore in front of Huanhuan, revealing his cold and heartless nature.
Shuang Yin was not surprised at all.
When she was young, she was innocent. She used to think that Bai Di was the gentlest male beast in the world, but as she grew older, she gradually realized that Big Daddy was not as gentle as she thought.
The tiger had just retracted his sharp claws and fangs, turning into a docile and cute house cat. However, he was not a house cat.
He was a beast through and through.
Being looked down on, Xue Hui's expression was extremely ugly. "If I don't see Huanhuan, I won't say anything."
Bai Di smiled.
His smile was cold.
"You won't cry until you see the coffin."
Bai Di had someone grab Xue Hui and drag her out of the cell.
Xue Hui's expression changed drastically. "What do you want to do to me? I'm a female. Even if I make a huge mistake, you can't kill me!"
She was dragged into the interrogation room and tied to a metal seat.
The house was dark and cramped. There was blood on the floor and walls. The smell of decay was nauseating.
Electricity flashed on Bai Di's fingertips. He looked coldly at Xue Hui in the chair and said softly, "I won't kill you. I'll just let you know what it means to wish you were dead."
…
When Bai Di and Shuang Yin walked out of the interrogation room, the sun was almost setting.
At this moment, Shuang Yin's mind was filled with the scene of Xue Hui being tortured. The cruel and bloody scenes made her blood run cold. She didn't even dare look at Bai Di.
Bai Di washed his hands. "Don't tell your mother what just happened when we get back, lest she let her imagination run wild again."
Shuang Yin nodded. "Okay."
Even if he hadn't told her, she wouldn't have dared to tell her mother.
After all, her mother was so timid. What if she had nightmares?
Bai Di carefully dried his fingers with a cotton handkerchief. "It's getting late. I should go back and cook. I'll make seafood noodles tonight."
Shuang Yin had no appetite now. It didn't matter what she ate. She replied vaguely, "Okay."
When they returned home, Huanhuan had just returned from school.
She went to the school in the city in the afternoon and distributed the papers she had bought from the secret dragon continent. She also told them how to use them.
These pieces of paper were light and portable. They were very good for writing or drawing.
Whether it was students or teachers, they liked these papers very much.
Huanhuan even discussed with the teachers about using these papers to customize books. Due to the limited number of papers, it was impossible for each student to have a book. Huanhuan planned to make a shared library and place the bound books in it for everyone to read.
At that time, not only students but even the residents of the city could come and borrow books.
Huanhuan felt that this was a great plan. When she returned home, she was still nagging at Sang Ye. "Books are very fragile things. When the time comes, we'll have to arrange for a special administrator to protect them. Borrowing books is free, but beasts who come to the library to borrow books need someone to vouch for them. They have to use something as collateral so that they won't destroy the books after getting their hands on them…"
Sang Ye listened to her quietly, looking very focused.
When she was tired of talking, Sang Ye handed her a glass of water.
Huanhuan finished the water in her cup in one go with a bright smile. "Our Rock City will get better and better in the future. You'll definitely like this place!"
Sang Ye thought that as long as she was here, he would like it here.
In order to make seafood noodles, Bai Di took out the seafood they had caught at sea. Due to the space's time-stopping characteristic, the seafood was still very fresh when he took them out.
Bai Di quickly washed and cut the seafood. He marinated them in a special sauce and poured them in while the noodles were cooking.
The soft and smooth noodles were delicious when paired with the fresh and sweet seafood!
Huanhuan held the bowl and chopsticks, slurping up the noodles. She ate the entire bowl of noodles in one go.
She leaned back in her chair and touched her bulging belly. She burped contentedly.
After eating and drinking her fill, Huanhuan suddenly remembered Xue Hui. She sat up and looked at Bai Di. "Did you meet Xue Hui with Big Goody?"
Bai Di swallowed the food in his mouth before explaining, "She confessed."
"That was fast!" Huanhuan was very surprised. "You're really amazing!"
Shuang Yin wanted to say that it was all thanks to Big Daddy, but she remembered what he had said in the afternoon. She tactfully shut her mouth and didn't mention what had happened in the interrogation room in the afternoon.
Bai Di said, "There's a secret technique to transfer the backlash to others."
He briefly described this secret technique.
He didn't say much about the details, but in short, it was a very sinister method. After those unfortunate beasts suffered the backlash, they died in extreme pain. Even their souls would continue to be tortured after they died.
Huanhuan was very stunned. "There's actually such a method in this world?!"
"Evil knows no bounds. As long as one has the will to study it, one can find a way to restrain anything."
Huanhuan was very worried. "If that's the case, won't the contracts we sign with others be useless?"
"It's not to that extent. Although that secret technique can transfer the backlash, it'll also leave a curse mark on the back of the person who uses it. Even if Xue Hui and the others weren't captured by us, they wouldn't have a good ending either way."
In this world, one couldn't gain benefits for nothing.
How could others not resent the curse if they forcefully transferred the backlash to others?
Everything that went around would come back around.