242 Torture (1/2)

Chapter 242: Torture

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Shangguan Ru and Maid Lotus arrived at the Heart Cleansing Yard but they discovered that Slave Huan was not there. They knew that something was wrong.

A torturer warmly received the Tenth Young Master and vowed that he did not arrest anyone. The torturer would not agree to allow Shangguan Ru to go in and check. ”Tenth Young Master, it's not that I dare to stop you, but this kind of place is not suitable for someone of your status.”

”Let her go in.” Shangguan Ru pointed at the assassin in black by her side.

Without waiting for the torturer to open his mouth to agree, Maid Lotus rushed past him and headed straight to the underground torture chamber. She shook her head when she came out, there were many prison cells in the Heart Cleansing Yard. Some of them were hidden deep down. Without a torturer to lead the way, she could not find her way around at all.

The torturer spread out his hands. ”As I said before, the people of the Heart Cleansing Yard must record each case and hand it in regularly. You see, tonight's records are blank.”

Shangguan Ru seized the book, and indeed, there was no text on the page for the day.

”Go find Eighth Sister-in-law. Slave Huan belongs to her, so ask her to think of a way. After half an hour, we shall meet in Kun Yard.” Shangguan Ru ordered them when they were outside the Heart Cleansing Yard. Although she had lost her killing desire, she was not a person who was in a state of panic. Her mind had quickly drawn up several plans, and any one of them would be effective for rescuing Slave Huan.

Infighting was beginning to rage around the killer. Someone was busy asking for evidence. Someone was busy destroying the evidence.

Upon entering the backyard, Maid Lotus saw a few pale-faced maids were struggling to scrub the floor. They did not even dare to lift their heads. When she left, Slave Xin's blood stains were just about to be wiped clean. It looked like someone else has suffered.

Luo Ningcha was yelling in the room next door. ”You are ungrateful, you are all ungrateful! Even the mute and the blind dare to betray me. Go to hell with your mean lover!”

Maid Lotus's heart sank. There was a large basket next to the working maids, and its contents were revealed to be very similar to the clothing that Maid Cui usually wore.

Maid Cui was a good friend of Maid Lotus. The two had met in the slave carriage of the slave trader. One was sold to the Bighead Kingpin, and the other was the dowry to the Stone Castle. After what happened to Maid Cui, the friendship between them had not diminished, but rather it had grown day by day.

Maid Cui was poor; Miss had her eyes dug out and her tongue cut off, and afterward, Maid Cui had to serve this vicious woman, who always abused her. Therefore, if someone was kind to her, she hoped to return their kindness tenfold. Slave Xin was probably taking this advantage to approach Maid Cui for getting some secrets between her gestures.

Maid Lotus had warned Maid Cui not to trust Slave Xin, but in the fort, even false affection was extremely rare. Maid Cui could not refuse Slave Xin's sweet talk and had not expected they would be discovered by Miss.

Maid Lotus became furious and clenched the sword shaft uncontrollably. She was a killer people expected to be good at emotion management. But she so hated the woman in the room, even the hate was not a way to stirp up her strength, instead, it was a blind hate that solely pushed the owner to act.

”Maid Lotus! Where have you been that you have come back just now? I have so many dead people here and I have not seen you coming to protect me. Why should I keep you any longer?” Luo Ningcha saw Maid Lotus outside the room and started to snap at her.

Maid Lotus loosened the hilt and allowed the hatred to ferment. It would become the mellow wine of revenge sooner or later.

”Miss, Slave Huan was taken away.” Maid Lotus entered the house and whispered the news.

Luo Ningcha was stunned. ”By whom?”

”It may be Blademaster Shen Liang, but the Heart Cleansing Yard did not admit it. They said there was no arrest tonight.”

”Isn't Shen Liang my husband's uncle? What's he doing with my killer?” Luo Ningcha slowly sat down as her complexion changed. She had too many secrets in Slave Huan's hands, and some of them would be enough to draw death upon her again.

”I don't know at the moment. I haven't seen Blademaster Shen. He seems to be in hiding.”

Luo Ningcha regretted letting Slave Huan leave. It was the best to have him stay by her side. After thinking for a while, she removed a ring from her fingers. ”Take this to find Shen Liang and demand that he come to see me... No, tell him... the Lord is with me and summons him, he must come at once.”

When Maid Lotus took the ring, she uttered a ”yes”. As she turned to leave, Luo Ningcha halted her and gestured for the other maids to withdraw. When there were only the two of them left, she whispered, ”Maid Lotus, you are loyal to me, right?”

”Yes, miss, I'm willing to go through hell and back for you.” If they could speak, everyone serving under Luo Ningcha had to recite a few vows. Maid Lotus was no exception.

”Then you tell me the truth. What is going on between you and Slave Huan? I heard that he has spent the night in your room.”

”We are both Miss's people. We must rely on each other in the Fort and help each other. There is nothing else to it. He was in my room because he was undergoing a qigong deviation and asked me for help.”

”OK.” Luo Ningcha could not confirm the answer, and she lowered her voice again. ”Well then, find Slave Huan and bring me his head.”

Maid Lotus looked up. She knew the secrets of Miss and Slave Huan, but she could not expect that Luo Ningcha would be so vicious.

”What, you can't do it?”

Luo Ningcha slightly widened her eyes, even when she was being cruel and ruthless, her expression was still impeccable. Maid Lotus was not the first to think of it, nor was she the only person who thought so: God must have made mistakes before she put the heart of a demon into the skin of a god.

”Yes, Miss.” Maid Lotus' reply was as calm as usual.

Luo Ningcha was satisfied but was feeling a little shame for Slave Huan, but servants had to protect themselves. When a servant had been arrested and caught by others, he would imperil his master and she could only give up. ”This is what you taught me.” Luo Ningcha whispered and felt a sudden chill on her body. From the moment when she had entered the fortress and lived high above at the top of others, she has never felt warm again.