Chapter 456: Lest He Has No Strength to Speak
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Everyone was stunned when they heard Yu Luo suddenly say something inexplicable, turning their gazes toward her in confusion.
“Oh, right! No more serving beast meat. This city lord doesn’t want to eat it either!”
On the quiet city wall, Yu Haojie suddenly realized something and raised his voice to echo her statement. Yu Luo looked at her father and couldn’t help but smile.
However, this smile couldn’t suppress the nausea welling up inside her.
Thus, the great martial battle ended with Luo City emerging unscathed, and as a result of this war, the city’s reputation spread far and wide!
Jin Yaowei was taken to the dungeon. Once a proud and mighty leader of the martial alliance, he probably never imagined that his fate would turn out like this.
It took the brothers of Luo City two days to clean up the battlefield outside the city walls.
Naturally, those responsible for the cleanup were the surviving martial artists and the fallen beasts.
Some beasts had inevitably died—after all, they had faced numerous skilled martial artists, and some couldn’t avoid falling under their blades.
Like the bodies of the fallen warriors, most of the beasts were reduced to mere bones. Even gathering and clearing these bones took the Luo City brothers an entire day.
Five days passed, and life continued as usual. Inside the large greenhouses of Luo City, vegetables ripened in cycles, one batch after another.
Not only vegetables, but even fruits that normally couldn’t grow in winter were now maturing.
Zhang Hu entered the front courtyard and saw the relaxed family of three enjoying bright red fruits.
The fruit was enticing, and Ye Jiamei and Yu Luo were happily munching on them one by one. Meanwhile, Yu Haojie, ever the bold one, tossed whole berries into his mouth, savoring them with delight.
“Zhang Hu, since these strawberries are ripe, pick a few baskets and have them delivered to Ye Lu and Sixth Prince Linghu Zhi of the Western Mo Kingdom.”
“Understood. I’ll arrange it immediately. However, my real purpose today is to ask whether we should begin interrogating Jin Yaowei?”
At the mention of Jin Yaowei, the expressions of the family of three instantly turned mocking.
“Ah, who would’ve thought my daughter was so formidable, capturing even the martial alliance leader alive? It looks like in this wilderness, we have no more enemies. Even if armies from those nations come, we won’t need to fear them.”
“Mother, keep it low-key. Underestimating the enemy is dangerous. This time we were lucky. Who knows if we will have the same luck next time?”
Hearing Ye Jiamei’s words, Yu Luo quickly reminded her gently.
Ye Jiamei laughed heartily. “You’re right, you’re right. Let’s just say we got lucky. We mustn’t be careless. But I’m just a pregnant woman boasting for fun. It’s not like you’d send me onto the battlefield.”
“I believe five days should be enough for Jin Yaowei to have tasted all the instruments of torture. Now is the right time to check on him. Xiao Luo, do you want to come with me?”
As soon as Yu Haojie spoke, Ye Jiamei, who had just been in a good mood, glared at him, her expression shifting instantly.
“You can go yourself. Why should our daughter go to the dungeon? Besides, as a city lord, you should be handling this personally. Don’t drag our daughter into everything.”
“Mother, don’t scold Father. I also want to see Jin Yaowei’s current state. Some matters should be questioned now.”
Seeing her mother scold her father again, Yu Luo gently patted Ye Jiamei’s hand in reassurance.
Ye Jiamei snorted at Yu Haojie but softened slightly when she turned to Yu Luo.
“Let your father handle it. The dungeon must be filthy and damp. You shouldn’t go.”
“It’s fine, Mother. You know I’m not someone who minds such things.”
Seeing that Yu Luo insisted, Ye Jiamei reluctantly waved her hand in defeat.
“Go then, go! I never understood why you find such things entertaining.”
Father and daughter arrived at the dungeon, where Jin Yaowei lay motionless on a pile of straw, covered in wounds.
The fact that he even had straw to sleep on was the last shred of pity afforded to him.
At the sound of footsteps, Jin Yaowei’s curled-up body trembled uncontrollably.
“N-no more… I’ll talk… I’ll tell everything…”
Five days ago, he had been the mighty martial alliance leader. Now, in just a few short days, there was no trace of his former prestige.
Jin Yaowei, lying on the straw, was covered in blood. His tattered clothes revealed wounds from whips and branding irons.
To be honest, the modern-minded father and daughter found his miserable state unsettling.
But they knew well that mercy to an enemy meant cruelty to oneself.
Jin Yaowei had led tens of thousands of martial artists to attack Luo City—this was the consequence he had to bear.
If the tables had been turned, and he had won, it would have been Yu Luo and Yu Haojie who became prisoners, and even the pregnant Ye Jiamei would not have been spared.
For captured men, the worst fate was enduring pain and eventually dying.
But if she and her mother had fallen into these beasts’ hands, the consequences were unthinkable.
Even with her mother’s pregnancy, those brutes wouldn’t have shown mercy. On the contrary, they would have used it as an excuse to torment her even more.
Jin Yaowei, now stripped of his martial skills, was nothing more than a cripple. Neither Yu Luo nor Yu Haojie felt a shred of sympathy.
“Clean him up and give him some food. Lest he has no strength to speak.”
Yu Luo finished speaking and turned to sit down with Yu Haojie.
For the past five days, Jin Yaowei had only been given water three times a day. His stomach was completely empty. At the mention of food, his frail body struggled to move.
Zhang Hu brought in a prepared bowl of white porridge and a small dish of vegetables, placing them on the floor. Jin Yaowei scrambled toward the meal and devoured it like a starved beast.
“There’s meat and vegetables. Our city lord is quite generous to you. Eat well and think carefully about your choices.”
Zhang Hu signaled to the two guards beside him. They immediately stepped forward, grabbed Jin Yaowei, and dragged him before Yu Luo and Yu Haojie.
“The situation is clear. You should tell us everything you know. You understand the consequences if you don’t.”
Yu Haojie set down his teacup, his voice calm but commanding. The weight of his presence alone was enough to suffocate Jin Yaowei.
Even now, Jin Yaowei probably couldn’t believe that he—the former number-one martial artist—had been reduced to trembling in fear at mere words.
“It was Fengcheng! The people of Fengcheng gave me thirty thousand taels of gold… They ordered me to lead the martial world’s warriors… to wipe you out… using White Ting Sect… as the excuse…”
(End of Chapter 456)
