Chapter 114: Total Annihilation

Two hours passed before the tactical team dispatched by the Dragon Scale Base arrived at Chu Feng’s location.

Once they arrived, they immediately jammed all signals in the area. Chu Feng then roused the captured assassins from their unconscious state.

"Speak. How do you control these slaves?" Chu Feng ordered Ma Han to take the other assassins away, leaving only one behind for him to interrogate.

The assassin glanced at Chu Feng and then turned his head away, refusing to answer.

Chu Feng flicked his wrist, producing a scalpel, and drove it directly into the assassin's thigh. The assassin let out a muffled grunt but did not cry out. He remained unmoved, refusing to look at Chu Feng or answer his questions.

Chu Feng grabbed the hilt of the scalpel and began to twist it violently. The assassin was instantly struck by a agony that felt as if it were tearing at his very soul. A simple stab wound might stop hurting after a while, but having the blade churned inside, shredding the flesh over and over, was a torture no one could endure.

"I’ll ask you one more time: how do you control these slaves, and how many of you came?"

When the assassin passed out from the pain, Chu Feng revived him and repeated the question. The assassin gritted his teeth, remaining silent, his cold gaze fixed on Chu Feng.

Chu Feng hardened his heart and produced three more scalpels, pinning them into the assassin’s two hands and his other leg.

"Today, I’m going to slice your flesh off, piece by piece. I’ll let you taste what the Chinese call 'lingchi'—the death of a thousand cuts."

Chu Feng wasted no time. With a flourish of the scalpel, he skillfully carved a piece of flesh from the assassin. The man didn't even scream; he simply gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and waited for death.

Chu Feng took his scalpel and stripped the skin and flesh from all five fingers of the assassin’s left hand, exposing the stark white bone beneath. Twice during the process, the assassin fainted from the pain, and each time, Chu Feng would drive a scalpel into his leg, the sharp agony snapping him back to consciousness to face the torment again.

Yet, the assassin never let out a sound. It was clear he had undergone specialized resistance training; otherwise, he could never have endured such torture.

"You’re a tough one. But I happen to love cracking hard nuts. Even your Vice-Captain, Demon Dragon, ended up in my hands. He didn't last an hour, so I’m curious to see how long you can hold out."

Chu Feng’s temper was flaring. He had interrogated Demon Dragon, Vicious Dog, and the others without much trouble, but this man was wasting his time without yielding any information.

Chu Feng pulled six silver needles from his pocket and heated them over a lighter until they glowed red. He inserted them into six of the assassin's acupuncture points. At first, the assassin felt a searing burn, but then the sensation vanished. Two minutes later, however, he began to feel alternating waves of intense pain and itching, accompanied by a maddening, feverish heat in his chest.

Within a minute, the assassin was thrashing on the ground, desperate to pull the needles out. Unfortunately, Chu Feng kept his foot planted firmly on him, leaving him no room to move. Five minutes later, the assassin began to convulse, white foam bubbling at his lips.

Ten minutes passed, and the assassin lost consciousness, his body still twitching uncontrollably. Chu Feng revived him with a stab to the leg, forcing him to endure the ongoing torment.

After half an hour, the assassin had no strength left to twitch. He lay on the ground, his body occasionally spasming. Seeing this, Chu Feng removed the silver needles and pulled the scalpels from his flesh.

"Do you want to answer my questions now? If not, I won't be so quick to remove the needles next time." Chu Feng squatted in front of him, waving the silver needles before his eyes.

Seeing the needles, the assassin’s body trembled involuntarily. He had never heard of such a brutal torture. He never imagined that a few tiny needles could inflict such unimaginable agony.

"We use computer commands to remotely control the slaves. The method of control is held by our Captain," the assassin finally gasped, terrified that Chu Feng would subject him to the needles again.

"Did your Captain come himself this time? To be honest, I truly admire him," Chu Feng said. He admired Jack for his relentless persistence.

"No. There were four of us. The two slaves were given to us by the Captain; once we call him, he controls them remotely via computer."

The assassin told him everything he knew. At this point, he would rather die than endure any more of Chu Feng’s torture.

Having obtained the information he needed, Chu Feng ended the assassin's life and harvested his remaining lifespan. He went to the adjacent room to find Ma Han, who was interrogating another assassin. Ma Han knew Chu Feng’s habit of cross-referencing testimonies.

"How did it go?" Chu Feng asked, sharing the information he had gathered. Ma Han did the same, and when they compared notes, the stories matched.

"Kill these men; they are nothing but a scourge. As for the slaves, we need to take them back and study them to see if they can be restored to normal."

It pained Chu Feng to look at the slaves. No one should have a chip implanted in their brain, robbed of their own thoughts and will, with their pain receptors severed. After executing the remaining assassins and harvesting their lifespans, Chu Feng returned to the base with Ma Han and the team.

He gave a brief report to Long Feihu, and by the time he finished, it was two in the morning. He didn't want to return to the hospital, but he feared Han Xuefang might sneak out, so he drove back.

"What do you mean, they were wiped out? What happened to the two slaves?"

The gentleman, who had been sleeping in his villa, was wide awake the moment he received the news. He bounded out of bed, stunned. He had never expected that the assassins just sent by Scorching Sun would be captured immediately after meeting him, and that the two slaves provided by Jack had been taken away as well.