Zhao Yi gave an order, the two soldiers pressed the man's shoulder, and Ma Liu picked up a bucket of water and slowly poured it on the other party's face covered with cotton cloth.

Waterboarding, this kind of punishment will give the victim a sense of suffocation about to drown, a large amount of water will continue to pour into the towel or cotton cloth, and will prevent you from spitting out the water, at this time the prisoner will still feel the air being sucked away even if he holds his breath.

This punishment has been recognized as an extremely cruel form of torture since the advent of the Middle Ages, and was explicitly forbidden in the civilized era in which Zhao Yi lived, and people felt that the method was too cruel and contrary to the spirit of humanitarianism.

Although the outer killers of the killing house have undergone more rigorous training, one of them is that they can endure most punishments.

In fact, killers like them who lick blood with knives should have killed themselves the moment they were caught, but if they didn't die because of an accident, such as now, then they must have enough perseverance to support themselves and not fall under the torture of the other party.

But when did they try Zhao Yi's methods? The fear of life and death of the drowning person instantly made the tortured killer feces and urine flow, and he collapsed and shouted, but as soon as his mouth was opened, more water was choked into the trachea and lung lobes, and he wanted to cough it out, but more water fell from above, and in the haze he seemed to see his long-deceased grandmother, who snuggled at the old man's feet, babbling to hug and eat preserved fruit.

Zhao Yi saw that this person was already incontinent, pinched his nose again, and motioned to Ma Liu to stop pouring water, and first clean up this guy's filth, and then help him up and remove the towel on his face.

"Ahem, cough, cough~~~~Wow~~!"

The tortured killer coughed violently and then vomited all the water that had just choked on his trachea.

He coughed for a while before he gradually calmed down, his face turned pale at this moment, his lips trembled, and he looked at Zhao Yi as if he was seeing a demon crawling out of the underworld.

"You devil...... You're not human...... You're hurting the heavens! If you have the ability, give me a knife! ”

Zhao Yi pouted and applauded this person, nodded and said: "Amazing, it is worthy of being cultivated by the Killing Academy, in this way, you are right, this method is indeed against the harmony of heaven, and I don't want to use it often, let's take a step back, you only tell me the peripheral information you know, and I promise to let you go, and the same is true for a few of you, whoever says it first I will let whoever leaves, kill the others, so that no one will know that you leaked the news." ”

As soon as Zhao Yi said this, the other killers who had not yet been tortured suddenly stiffened, and looked at each other's companions, for fear that the other party would say it before him.

A few people, you look at me, I look at you, there are both mutual warnings and mutual embankments in their eyes.

Zhao Yi put everyone's expressions in his eyes, and snickered in his heart, just your little bit of caution still want to hide from Lao Tzu? Let's see that Lao Tzu will give you some means.

Just when the nerves of those killers were about to burst, Zhao Yi suddenly turned his ears to the side and said to the person who had just been tortured: "What? What did you say? Be louder, I didn't hear it clearly. ”

As he spoke, he pretended to get up and squatted next to the man, and the other killers were frightened, and they couldn't care about any killer qualities, so they hurriedly shouted: "My lord! I...... I say! I know, I say! ”

"I know it too! My lord, I know more than they do! ”

"My lord, don't believe them, they don't know anything at all, they will only use fake news to deceive you, I, I am the liaison of the four counties of Jingnan, and I am responsible for docking with the above!"

Seeing that Zhao Yi played a trick, all his companions were abandoned, and the killer who had just been waterboarded felt a chill in his heart, and just wanted to call him and said nothing, but Zhao Yi patted him on the shoulder and said: "What you said is very good, this information is very useful to me, thank you for your hard work, come here, take him down to change into clean clothes, good wine and meat are served, we have always been very generous to our friends." ”

"What did I say? You...... You devil...... Devils who play with people's hearts! You guys...... You're all fooled, you're all fooled~~~~"

He wanted to shout loudly to remind his companions, but after repeated torture and waterboarding, no one else could hear what he was yelling at even if he screamed with all his strength.

And Ma Liu and the others replied quite cooperatively: "I know, I know, you said it first, we will testify for you, they all have to die, and before they die, they will taste the punishments in our prison one by one, don't worry, no one will know that you said it." ”

The man who was taken down could not defend himself even if there were hundreds of mouths, and the other killers had already decided that this person had defected, and for a moment they were scrambling to pour out all the secrets they knew.

Zhao Yi didn't stop them, let them think of what to say, and then reorganize and summarize the content of these killers' confessions, and finally came up with the following information that was more valuable to him.

First, these peripheral members of the Killing Courtyard were gathered by a person named Kong Shang, even if this person was not a core member of the Killing Academy, he must be inextricably linked to him, and if he was found, he should be able to find out the reason why the other party assassinated him.

Second, the person who provided food and weapons for these people was a steward surnamed Kuai.

Third, it is also the news contributed by the guy who claims to be the liaison of Nanjun, his news is very targeted, unlike the ambiguity that several other people said, this person is very sure to point out that one of the funders behind the killing house is the Cai family in Jingzhou.

"It seems that the power of these gate valve clans is even greater than I imagined......"

After getting the news he wanted, Zhao Yi waved his hand and asked people to dig and bury all the killers on the periphery of the killing courtyard.

"My lord, what should I do next?"

Lu Lingqi asked in a low voice.

Zhao Yi thought for a while and said, "I am going to send people to verify them one by one according to these three clues and collect corresponding information...... Jingzhou Cai family, is it Cai Mao's family? People are dead and they don't stop...... You help me find Ji Changlai, they are both wealthy families in Jingzhou, and there will be some connection between them. ”

"Yes."

After about a stick of incense, Ma Liang pushed the door and walked into Zhao Yi's room, saluted and said, "The general is looking for me?" ”

Zhao Yi beckoned and said, "Why is Ji Chang still polite to me?" I said that you can call me Hongfei, come and sit, I have a few questions I want to ask you. ”

Ma Liang closed the door with his backhand, sat down next to Zhao Yi and said: "Hongfei is now the virtuous son-in-law of the lord, his identity is different, of course, we are still friends in private, you ask, what's the matter?" ”

"I don't know how much Ji Chang knows about the Cai family in Jingzhou?"

"The Cai family?"

Ma Liang recalled for a while, looked at Zhao Yidao: "The Cai family was the largest family in Jingzhou before, as far as I know, the daughter of the Cai family has married Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian, Zhang Wen and other big names, Cai Mao's eldest sister married Huang Chengyan, and her sister became Liu Biao's stepfamily, and her niece married Liu Cong as her wife.

When Cai Mao was still alive, the Cai family occupied an island in Xiangyang, the pavilions and gardens on the island were quite luxurious, and there were hundreds of maidservants alone, and the limelight was unrivaled for a while, and the locals called the island 'Cai Zhou' at that time. ”