Chapter 51: Extorting Confessions by Torture
Questions kept coming, but I didn't have a clue.
Looking at Shadow Four, who was looking at me and Cher with a frightened expression, my heart moved, and a bold idea was born.
However, since this idea was too bold for mere mortals, and potentially dangerous, I felt compelled to ask Cher's opinion.
"If I say I'm going to go into the palace and ask the crown prince, do you think it's too risky?"
Xue'er listened to my words and said without hesitation: "My sister will go wherever she says, I will listen to my sister"
Well, the wrong person was asked.
After thinking silently for a while, my curiosity finally prevailed over reason, and I decided to explore the tiger's den.
And I have a hunch that there may be other gains from entering the palace this time.
But the palace is not an inn restaurant, you can enter if you want to, I need the help of someone, so I once again fell on the black shadow No. 4 with a tear-stained and bloodstained face.
That's right, I need his help.
Of course, he will definitely not take the initiative to help with this favor, but at the moment I am a knife warrior, he is a fish and meat, he has to help with this favor, and he has to help if he doesn't help!
I pulled out a small green box from the shell packet and poured out a green ball the size of a peanut, and I held it back to Shadow Four.
When Shadow Four saw the ball I pinched between his fingers, he immediately looked horrified and said, "Y-what are you going to do?"
I sneered and said to Cher, "Break his mouth!"
Xue'er immediately made a move, and Black Shadow Four suddenly shook her head and struggled: "What are you going to do-ah-ah-ah-"
Seeing that Xue'er had successfully opened his mouth, I bent down to look at him with the balls in my hand, and sneered, "What are you doing?!, please eat something good!" and threw the balls into his mouth.
Cher immediately closed his mouth in cooperation, and clasped his chin and lifted it up hard, and the Adam's apple of Black Shadow Four slid up and down, and her eyes suddenly filled with tears.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't exactly a tear of fear, I guess most of the tears in his eyes at the moment should be a normal physiological reaction after the taste system is stimulated!
Why? Because I just fed him a mustard-flavored candy!
Presumably, friends who eat mustard for the first time must understand what it is like for him to live and die at the moment!
Black Shadow Four said with tears in his eyes, "You-what did you give me?!"
"Poison"
After listening to my words, Shadow Four shook violently and there were more tears in his eyes, which should have been tears of fear at this time.
I decided to add another fuel to his fire of fear, so I said: "To be exact, this poison is called the Five Poison Corpse Pill, which is extracted from the toxins of the five most poisonous insects in southern Xinjiang, and if there is no antidote within three hours after taking it, the five internal organs will turn into blood, and then the flesh and bones on your body will also turn into blood, and then you will die in this severe pain."
As soon as I finished speaking, I heard Shadow Four cry and say as I cried, "Woo...... I don't want to die...... I can't die...... I still have a wife to take care of...... Whining...... I don't want to die......"
To be honest, Black Shadow No. 4 is really pitiful crying at this time, but I have made up my mind, so I can only continue to intimidate him, "It turns out that you still have an old lady, if you really don't worry about your old lady, when you die, I can send her to be your companion!"
Sin, sin! I can't imagine that one day I will say such crazy things!
Sure enough, Shadow Four cried even more pitifully when he heard my words.
I felt that the threat was almost over, so I said coldly: "Of course, if you don't want to die, and you don't want your mother to die with you, do as I say!
Hearing that he still had hope for life, Black Shadow No. 4 immediately cried: "I listen to you, I listen to you, you can do whatever you want me to do!"
Hearing him say this, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, but I still threatened in a cold voice, "If you are obedient, I will give you the antidote in three hours! But if you dare to be careful, then wait for the painful death!"
"I'll listen to you! I don't dare! I'll listen to you!"
"I'm going to let you take me into the palace to meet your master!"
After listening to me, Black Shadow No. 4 was stunned and cried: "This is the crime of killing the head!"
Trespassing into the palace is indeed a crime of killing the head, but I didn't enter the palace to plot misdeeds, and with my understanding of Zhu Zhanji, he may not kill me because of this. Besides, even if he wanted to kill me because of this, it wouldn't be so easy! With Cher and I's abilities, it shouldn't be difficult to escape.
"Whether your master will kill you for this, I don't know, but if you refuse to take me, you won't survive."
Looking at the tearful face of Black Shadow Four, full of tangled fear, I deliberately sneered and added: "Oh, by the way, and your mother will definitely not survive!"
Black Shadow Four cried and began to make difficult choices.
However, I think he will do what I say, after all, the multiple choice question of may die and must die is not difficult to choose.
Sure enough, after a while, the Black Shadow Four made a choice, "I can take you to meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but you must promise to give me the antidote, and you can't embarrass my family"
I glanced at him and said lightly: "Don't worry, as long as I see the crown prince, I will give you the antidote"
After hearing this, Shadow Four showed a look of death, I guess this unlucky guy is thinking crookedly, he must have thought that I didn't have any good intentions because I ventured into the palace to meet the crown prince.
I didn't care what he thought at this time, I made a fuss in the middle of the night, and now it was almost three o'clock in the morning, and I couldn't delay any longer.
After making a simple plan, Cher and I escorted Shadow Four out the door.
Of course, before I went out, I bandaged the two unlucky ghosts who had been poked in two blood holes by Cher, and I didn't want them to lose too much blood and become ghosts.
To be honest, although I made the decision to enter the palace, I was still very nervous in my heart, and this uneasy emotion became stronger and stronger after I successfully entered the palace, and my heartbeat became more and more irregular. Of course, I admit that the irregular heartbeat is partly due to excitement in addition to the anxiety about an uncertain future.
First of all, I have only seen it in film and television dramas before, but I didn't expect to experience it myself today, and it is inevitable that I will have nervous and exciting emotions, and secondly, because of the person I am about to see again!
This is a real historical celebrity!
Zhu Zhanji, Yongle was made the emperor's grandson when he was fourteen years old in the ninth year, and he was very loved by his grandfather Zhu Di since he was a child, and he followed Zhu Di to conquer Mongolia several times.
Although he is still the crown prince, he will soon become the fifth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and although he and his father have only reigned for eleven years, they have been called "the rule of Renxuan" by later historians.
How could I not be thrilled to meet and talk to such a historical figure!
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should still be resting in Ciqing Palace at this hour, see if we can go over later"
After listening to the words of Black Shadow Four, although I felt that it was not good to disturb people's dreams, but if I waited any longer, the sky would be completely bright, and the people in the palace would start to move around. So I lowered my voice and said, "No need, you just take us to Ciqing Palace, and I have my own arrangements for the rest!"
Black Shadow Four didn't say more, and led the way in front with a bitter and hateful face.
At this moment, although the sky is not clear, but I can vaguely see things, I carefully look at this Ming Palace as I walk.
This imperial palace took more than 20 years to build, the scale is large, and the construction is exquisite, even the Forbidden City in Beijing is also built on it. The Nanjing Forbidden City, which I visited two years ago, is no longer as magnificent as it was at this time, and only some of the ruins remain. If Renzong had lived another year and a half and moved the capital back to Nanjing, perhaps the world's first palace in the Middle Ages would have been preserved, which is a pity.
"Arrived"
Hearing this, I looked up at the plaque on the palace in front of me, and the three big characters of Ciqing Palace were impressively on it, and there were several heavily armed guards standing guard in front of the palace.
Since I got to the place, I didn't need him, I looked left and right, and saw that no one here was busy and lowered his voice: "Xue'er, you can do it"
As my voice fell, Black Shadow No. 4 lay on the ground softly, and Xue'er appeared to look at Black Shadow No. 4 who had fainted, and asked me, "Sister, what should I do with this person?"
I took out the loot I had seized from my body, and after shaking it back and forth a few times under the nose of Black Shadow Four, I said to Xue'er: "If the effect of this ** is really as he said, the amount just now should be enough for him to sleep for most of the day."
"You find a palace where no one is around, and put him in it"
Xue'er nodded, grabbed the Black Shadow No. 4 and prepared to leave, I hurriedly told her: "Try to find a remote palace, and after the people are settled, come here to find me as soon as possible!"
Xue'er obediently agreed, and used the spell to hide her figure again, and I was busy hiding and walking towards Ciqing Palace.
After looking for a moment and feeling into the dormitory, and quietly knocking out the palace people who were staying in the palace, I showed my figure, in case the crown prince was awakened from a sweet dream and shouted to summon the guards outside the palace, and I set up an enchantment in the palace.
Everything was arranged, I took a deep breath and walked towards the big bed on the east side, only to take two steps before I was startled because the person on the bed was talking.
"What time is it?"
There was a bit of hoarseness and laziness in the shallow voice, and I shuddered and stopped and thought for a while, "It's almost the end of the day!"
There was no sound on the bed, and I thought that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had fallen asleep again, and was hesitating to make a noise to wake him up, when the yellow curtain on the bed was suddenly lifted from the inside, and then half of his body leaned out of the bed.
In the dim light of the morning and the dim light of the hall, I met the people on the bed in an unexpected way.