Chapter 42: Can We Torture Us?
There was a commotion outside the conference room, and the sound of the floor being stepped on became more and more dense, and all the Hades Kings also temporarily withdrew from the mood of bidding farewell to the Hades Palace, and raised their eyes to look outside.
Soon, Bai Wuchang pushed the door in, his expression was the same as before, and he glanced at everyone present calmly: "We're back." ”
"Oh."
A few of the Immortal made a brief response, and many more just stared down and clasped their fingers, or stared at the torches in a daze. Their brightly colored clothes were now dull, and their beards seemed to have lost their spirits, hanging limply from their chins, crumbling.
They are now ...... It seems to be much older. For hundreds or thousands of years old, age was just a number, but now they are visibly haggard.
After all, when they have to say goodbye to their thousand-year-old residence and move to a new home, the pressure of life is thrown on their shoulders.
Li Jianguo remembered a sentence, how to say it: A boy will only become a man after he bears the pressure of life.
Then this meeting should be the coming-of-age ceremony after the reign of these Hades kings.
Obviously, they were not in the mood to communicate about other matters at the moment, only King Yama turned his eyes and asked, "How is the situation over there?" ”
Bai Wuchang replied: "Indeed, most of the lost souls in the Yang Realm are in the border town of the Demon Realm in the north of the Heaven Shaking Cliff, Hanguang Town, we didn't encounter any problems in the past, and we have brought all the souls back. But the souls of a few sinful people have been annihilated by Cui Ling, and the other ...... We didn't find any orphans. ”
Li Jianguo was taken aback.
"Didn't find it? Could it be that they have been erased by the people of the demon world? ”
Bai Wuchang shook his head.
"It shouldn't be, except for the traces of the battle between you and Huang Si that Lord Li said before, there are no other signs of follow-up battles. It should be that the orphans have moved by themselves, and they don't know where they are yet. ”
Li Jianguo looked at the Hades King, who were muttering about the move with a frown.
Qing Xian took a deep breath helplessly, spit it out slowly, leaned out of the chair, walked in front of Bai Wuchang, and whispered: "The Hades should have their own affairs to deal with now, let's go, let's go to Master Bao to discuss the next things." ”
Bai Wuchang nodded, but his gaze swept over the faces of the Hades Kings in confusion, and asked suspiciously, "Hades Kings...... What's wrong? ”
Qingxian shrugged: "Midlife crisis, it should be." I've been working for most of my life, and I've had a meeting, but my home is gone. Understand. ”
……
Bao Zheng was still in Cui's mansion, and the conference room was still full of people. Li Jianguo suspected that Bao Zheng might not have rested at all, because he could now see rounds of tired dark circles on his dark face.
But Bao Zheng still greeted everyone who came in with a smile, very briefly, just raised his head from the table, and soon buried it in the dense file: "You guys are here, it's going well, right?" ”
"I don't know if it's good news," Qingxian said, taking out a volume of documents from the desk and reading it, and casually responded, "Thanks to Lord Li, the Hades Palace is going to be demolished." ”
Bao Zheng was stunned for a moment.
Slowly raised his head, fixed his eyes on Li Jianguo, carefully re-examined Li Jianguo, and then lowered his head again, and muttered softly: "Awesome." ”
Li Jianguo remembered that when he first met Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng once said that the key to the problem of Hades was the Hades Palace.
It was less than 48 hours before then, and the Hades Palace was soon gone.
It's really mine, Li Jianguo.
But Li Jianguo couldn't really be happy.
When he got up from the conference room just now, he had already found the yellow hair that had fallen on the chair, and afterwards he found a mirror and confirmed again and again that the yellow hair had indeed fallen by himself.
In other words, his own guidance to the king of the tongue war group is actually the credit of the great sage.
The great sage gave himself no hair in the early hours of this morning, and there was one less in the afternoon.
Poor hair, before he could say hello to the other hairmen around him, the relationship was not familiar, and he died young.
Now I only have two chances to save my life, I must be cautious in my words and deeds, and I must not use it again until I have to!
"I'll report on the progress as well." Bao Zheng sank himself into the back of the chair, sorted out the file in front of him with both hands, handed it to a staff member next to him, looked at everyone again, and motioned for everyone to sit down.
Bao Zheng's gaze paused on Lin Ling: "Oh? There are new members in the team, is it a family member of Master Li? ”
Li Jianguo hurriedly waved his hand: "Lord Bao, be cautious in your words and deeds!" Be careful with your words and deeds! This is the Onmyoji I told you before that I couldn't find a job, do you remember it? ”
Bao Zheng nodded suddenly and greeted politely.
Lin Ling obviously hadn't been able to integrate into the environment of the underworld, so he just nodded dumbly, standing behind Li Jianguo in a cramped and uneasy manner, Li Jianguo had no choice but to turn around and say to Lin Ling: "Hey, you are about to find a job, you have a little eyesight!" Quick, say hello, say hello to Lord Bao! ”
"Package...... Lady Bao is so ......"
Bao Zheng smiled and waved his hand, motioning for Lin Ling to sit down with everyone. After sitting down, Bao Zheng put away his smile and said in a deep voice:
"This sudden disaster in the Three Realms has caused many things to change in the underworld. The Soul Hunting Organization, which was originally expected to start operations today, has only completed the screening and training of its first staff, and is expected to officially open tonight. The central bank has been temporarily suspended due to Princess Qingxian's trip to rescue and relieve the disaster, and I believe Princess Qingxian has made arrangements. Meng Po has carried out relief work for the victims in several large disaster areas, and in terms of defense, it is also being carried out in an orderly manner under the leadership of Lord Hei Wuchangfan......"
Li Jianguo sighed secretly in his heart: It is worthy of Master Bao, it sounds like everything is in order.
However, Bao Zheng's brows did not stretch: "The biggest problem now is still Cui Ling's problem." Regarding the hidden annihilation soul of the Three Realms that Cui Ling mentioned to Master Li before, we explored several locations and found that it did exist, but we don't know how many and how many locations it has now. Moreover, Cui Ling was unwilling to explain no matter what, and said that he was only willing to talk to Master Li alone. ”
Everyone focused their eyes on Li Jianguo again.
Li Jianguo sighed.
"Then what else do you have to say, let's go."
……
For a moment, in the dungeon of the underworld, Li Jianguo, accompanied by the jailer behind him, looked at Cui Ling, who had changed into a prison uniform, through the heavy wooden door of the prison.
Perhaps contrary to what many people think, the dungeons of the underworld are not rancid and filthy dilapidated scenes. On the contrary, the dungeon is spacious and generous, with a faint scent of pine. Both the passage and the cell are refreshing and refreshing, without the slightest smell of dampness. Torches were also neatly scattered on the walls, and there were few dark corners that could not be seen.
This is mainly because the Hades was not designed at the beginning of the design of the dungeon, after all, there are eighteen layers of hell next to it, and it is good to throw it directly if you commit a crime. With the continuous improvement of the judicial system of the underworld, it was necessary to set up a place for the detention of prisoners awaiting trial and administrative detention, but unfortunately, the architects who came down from the sun really did not have much to frighten their imagination, so this dungeon fully embodies the concept of civilized rule of law that is incompatible with hell.
Some of the cages are iron windows, some are wooden windows, and now there is a wooden window in front of Li Jianguo, and Cui Ling inside does not seem to have any shackles on his hands and feet.
"Master Cui," Li Jianguo cautiously kept his distance from the cage, "I haven't seen you for a long time." ”
Cui Ling lowered his head and looked at Li Jianguo with calm eyes: "Didn't you see it in the early morning?" ”
"Ah, that's right, so you want a way to say hello?"
Cui Ling looked at Li Jianguo's face, as if he was thinking, and soon, Cui Ling said, "Forget it." Change the subject. By the way, when you came out of my house today, was my house still bright? ”
"It's on, I'm still curious, why is the underworld just your house shining, I obviously haven't found where the light source is."
Cui Ling smiled: "It seems that it really came out of my house, so it means...... You did come here after consulting with someone. Cui Ling's smile became a little oozing, "Master Li, since you are here, it means that you don't know where the annihilation souls I prepared in the Three Realms are, don't you?" ”
Li Jianguo also nodded without hesitation: "How is it, are you going to tell me and Pan?" ”
Cui Ling raised his head, a hint of excitement hung on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were like a weak hungry wolf, fierce and crazy.
"Then I haven't lost yet," Cui Ling said with a smile, "You still have time to consider my proposal for a new underworld, otherwise, disasters in the Three Realms are still inevitable." ”
Yes. Li Jianguo wanted to understand why Cui Ling wanted to see him.
As long as he sees himself, it proves that the underworld still has nothing to do with Cui Ling.
Li Jianguo thought for a while, turned around and whispered to the jailer behind him: "What, can't we torture or something?" ”
The jailer shook his head innocently.
Li Jianguo was a little surprised: "You guys are the underworld!" Is the prefecture also so civilized in enforcing the law now? What about your gloom? What about your violence? At this time, it is time to push three and four? ”
"I hear it all, Master Lee."
Cui Ling lay on the railing of the prison and said unhappily.
Li Jianguo laughed awkwardly, turned his head, and proposed to Cui Ling hopefully: "Master Cui, there is no point in resisting. You think about your dad, think about your mom......"
"Shut up!"
Li Jianguo thought about the social relations he could use: "You just need to tell me the location of the Annihilation Soul, I still have a little friendship with a handful of immortals in the Three Realms, I guarantee that you are okay, you can also be your underworld judge, we all laugh at the grudge, just treat it as if nothing happened, how about it?" ”
Cui Ling just stared at Li Jianguo, smiled, and didn't speak.
"Well, it looks like we'll have to take a step back." Li Jianguo sighed helplessly and continued to negotiate.
"How do you take a step back?"
"In this way, what about you, tell me those souls that are about to be annihilated in the yang world, and I will not use my connections, nor will I guarantee that you are okay, how about this?"
The crazy smile on the corner of Cui Ling's mouth converged a lot, his eyes were a little confused, his mouth moved, ready to speak, and he stopped when his voice was about to come out.
"Forget it," Cui Ling said tiredly at last, "you can think clearly and then tell me, but you only have one hour. I'm tired, Master Lee, please. ”
Li Jianguo shrugged.
Okay, I did my best.
Although he knew that the Three Realms were about to be in a catastrophe, he didn't have any good ways to do it now.
Hurry up and finish replying to Bao Zheng.
Li Jianguo turned around, slowly shook his head twice, expressed regret, raised his legs, and prepared to walk out full of energy.
I saw a light "flash" past the tip of my nose.
Got into the wooden railing of the prison and hit the back of Cui Ling's neck, and there was a bang, and smoke and dust were everywhere. Wait until the dust and smoke clear, and the smell of meat overflows.
Li Jianguo's expression froze on his face.
He turned his neck mechanically and slowly, and his gaze moved down with difficulty, and he saw Cui Ling lying motionless on the ground.
Li Jianguo retracted his neck, looked in the direction where the light wave flew out, and on the steps of the entrance of the prison, he saw a petite and weak figure holding the dust!
Li Jianguo felt that his emotions could not even be mobilized properly, should he be shocked, angry, speechless, or helpless now?
Li Jianguo, who had mixed tastes, muttered to Lin Ling in a low voice:
"Lin Ling!? You...... What are you doing? You...... How did you get in here!? ”
Lin Ling was stunned by Li Jianguo's reaction: "It's not you...... Did you let me go with you? ”
Li Jianguo thought about it: he really said this in the morning.
Good, good, awesome.
Li Jianguo turned his gaze to the jailer again: "She...... How did she get in!? Aren't you all going to stop it? ”
The jailer was so frightened by the loud noise just now that he had collapsed to the ground, and looked at Li Jianguo with his head raised and trembling: "I...... I saw her following you, and thought she was with you......"
Good, good, awesome.
Li Jianguo was stunned in place for two seconds, waiting for the emotions in his mind to decide a winner. During this time, Li Jianguo's gaze slipped back and forth like a crosshair, Cui Ling, Lin Ling, and the jailer.
Two seconds later, anger took over Li Jianguo's mind.
What the hell I'm in!
Li Jianguo walked in front of Lin Ling in two steps, snatched the dust in Lin Ling's hand, and scolded Lin Ling and asked, "Why are you bombing him so decently!?" ”
Lin Ling bit her lip and red eyes, lowered her head and lowered her eyelids and looked at Li Jianguo's boots: "I heard you say that you are going to be tortured or something...... You told me before that I had a little bit of an eye...... I think I can help...... I'll just ......"
Li Jianguo thought for a while: It's over, I really said this just now.
However, Li Jianguo's anger did not fade at all:
"You just slapped him to the outside and scorched him inside? I'm talking about torture, not execution! It's not a death sentence either! ”
Li Jianguo almost shouted. He felt that the world was spinning, and he even had a speculation: Zhen Yuanzi's clone should have an enmity with him, how long has this Lin Ling been down, and how much trouble he has caused himself!
Blame yourself too, how good it would be for her to stay in the Hades Palace! Anyway, the Hades Palace is going to be demolished, and if she really releases a few light waves, she might be able to help a lot.
The anger in my mind withdrew, replaced by remorse. Li Jianguo stomped his foot hard. But there was no time for a long sigh now, he hurried to the jailer who was still sitting on the ground, took the key from his waist with a sharp tug, turned around and opened Cui Ling's cell door.
Cui Ling lay on the ground, motionless.
Li Jianguo said over and over again in his heart:
Cui Ling, you who were killed by the heavens, don't be killed at this time!
If Cui Ling really died at this time, he wouldn't be able to wash himself by jumping into the Yellow River! I went into a dungeon, and then in front of the jailer, I let my subordinates kill Cui Ling, how does this look like I'm killing people! Moreover, when they demolished the palace of Hades, they had doubts about themselves, and they were fooled and lame, and they could be washed away from suspicion; Now that this matter is on the table again, unless they are fooled to death, they must be dead!
Li Jianguo turned Cui Ling over, and reached the tip of Cui Ling's nose with one hand to feel his snort.
My heart fluttered and fell to the bottom.
It's over, no breathing.
Li Jianguo made a quick decision.
"Quick, hit 120!"