The world has turned into Hell's Game, why should I stay human?
Chapter 317 - 307: Eat It, Or Your Intestines Will (2 in 1)_2

Chapter 317: Chapter 307: Eat It, Or Your Intestines Will (2 in 1)_2

"How did you know we were coming?"

"..."

Yusenya remained silent.

Liu Zheng didn’t bother with pleasantries and directly picked up the pliers and pulled off another one of her fingernails.

"Ah!"

Yusenya screamed out in pain.

"Next time, it will be an entire hand,"

he said indifferently.

"I’ll talk, I’ll talk, it was a spy in the Church who told me,"

Yusenya shouted.

"Lao Mei really should launch an ’Engender Sanity’ movement within your Church."

Liu Zheng looked at Andrina.

The latter awkwardly lowered her head.

There is no faction within the Church that isn’t quirky or bizarre.

The Blood Healing Church was originally a research-oriented organization, so it’s normal for there to be various ideas as it grew larger.

Of course, it’s also because Amelia simply doesn’t have the same prestige and decisiveness as the First Grand Patriarch Dickens.

Keeping the Church united on the surface was already her limit.

"If the Eye Cultivation Medium failed and you weren’t caught by me, what would be your next step?"

Liu Zheng asked.

"..."

Yusenya fell silent again.

"You really don’t learn, do you? I changed my mind—this time I want both your hands and feet."

He directly picked up a rusty iron saw.

The boning knife and Slaughter Knife were too sharp, not suitable for torture instruments.

"I’ll talk! I would secretly incite Yamiro to capture you,"

Yusenya said.

"Very well."

As a punishment for her silence, Liu Zheng still pulled off the remaining nails on her left hand.

"Eat them."

Liu Zheng commanded.

"No, sir, please, I beg you,"

Yusenya pleaded with a desperate look in her eyes, and Andrina also showed distress.

"Eat them, or I’ll shove this up from below into your intestines."

He opened and closed the pliers, making a snapping sound.

"No, I’ll eat them,"

Yusenya almost snatched her own fingernails and swallowed them whole.

She had conducted many experiments more brutal than this, so she couldn’t bear the thought of suffering such pain herself.

"Who is Yamiro?"

Liu Zheng waited until she had completely swallowed before asking.

"Yamiro is not human, but a higher being. However, They are one of the weaker entities among the higher beings, but still infinitely terrifying to mortals,"

Yusenya took the lesson to heart and did not hesitate.

"So you dare to provoke such an entity? Aren’t you afraid of playing with fire and getting burnt?"

"The path to knowledge is always filled with risks. Moreover, higher beings are not entirely incomprehensible or unmanageable, at least not Yamiro."

"There are ways to avoid incurring Yamiro’s wrath."

Yusenya continued.

"What ways?"

Liu Zheng inquired.

"You can’t use this method. The Peach Stone has already been implanted in my brain and bonded to me; even if you opened my skull and took it out, it would self-destruct,"

Yusenya explained.

"What exactly is the Peach Stone?"

"I don’t know, I got it from someone in the Taboo Forest. He told me that implanting this stone would prevent injury from Yamiro, but he didn’t explain the specifics of its origin,"

Yusenya shook her head.

"And you accepted it without knowing?"

Such zealous researchers, for the sake of an answer, would not hesitate to offer even their souls, not just submit to torture.

"That person is very mysterious. I had no confidence [against him]. Moreover, he seemed to know a lot about me; I didn’t dare act recklessly,"

Yusenya admitted.

"Once I’m done here, I’ll have to see how mysterious he is,"

Liu Zheng said with a cold laugh.

Andrina hesitated to speak.

"Since you have a secret research base here, you must be very familiar with Carcarens Academy, right?"

He asked again.

"I don’t know what you want me to be familiar with."

Yusenya cleverly replied.

"I want to know the location of the Twisted Saint’s corpse, the umbilical cord of the Divine Child, the Holy Grail of the Tommer civilization, and the whereabouts of the high-quality Blood Gems,"

Liu Zheng said.

"The things you need are all quite tricky,"

Yuserna said with a bitter smile.

"Find one, and you can die with some dignity. Find two, and you can die a bit more comfortably. Find three, and you can die a bit more happily,"

he said as his tentacles reached out for the torture box once again.

"Can you spare my life? I have a high level of accomplishment in mysticism, biology, medicine, chemistry, and I’m very familiar with the power dynamics of Yate. I’m certain to be of use to you,"

Yuserna pleaded.

"Find them all, and I might temporarily spare your life,"

"That’s impossible. Carcarens Academy has run out of high-quality Blood Gem stockpiles. And even if they had any, they would be hidden very deeply,"

Yuserna shook her head.

"So, you’re saying that the rest are here, huh?"

Liu Zheng caught the implication in her words.

"Yes, Carcarens Academy does indeed have an umbilical cord of a Divine Child, and it’s stored together with the Twisted Saint’s corpse,"

Yuserna, looking at the torture instruments stained with her blood, chose to tell the truth.

"What about the Holy Grail?"

"I have found two Holy Grails; they’re at my secret research base. There’s also one Holy Grail stored together with the umbilical cord of the Divine Child,"

Yuserna said.

"Take me there to fetch them,"

Liu Zheng demanded.

"No, the place is personally guarded by Yamiro, and there are other terrifying presences there. Last time I merely glanced indirectly at it and almost got captured by Them. I advise you not to risk it, mortals have no chance in direct confrontations with higher beings,"

Yuserna advised.

"But Lao Bei told me that they had once killed a God,"

"Lao Bei?"

"That is Beethoven,"

"So it is Master Beethoven, whose strength truly has exceeded the realm of mortals,"

Yuserna said in sudden realization.

"However, the being they killed was not a higher being. The higher being they encountered had already died; they killed a Divine Child that had crawled out of the higher being’s abdomen,"

she shook her head.

"What?!"

Andrina showed a look of shock.

The Church had such secrets, yet she had never heard of them.

Andrina realized that she might know too much.

However, out of loyalty to the Church and the Grand Patriarch Amelia, she had to keep listening, even if it brought destruction upon herself.

"In addition, those who participated in the hunt of the Divine Child were the elite Hunters of Carcarens, two of whom were comparable to Beethoven, and there was even one who truly surpassed Beethoven in strength,"

Yuserna continued.

"Who?"

"The First Hunter, Gelman,"

Yuserna said solemnly.

"He was the earliest and the strongest Hunter; he single-handedly established the Hunter system and forged the most commonly used weapons among Hunters today. Even the technology of embedding Blood Gems was invented by him,"

"There was a rumor among Hunters that if Gelman and his disciple Maria joined forces, the two of them could kill all other Hunters,"

"That impressive,"

Liu Zheng mused.

Beethoven had mentioned that Gelman quickly disappeared after the operation to assassinate the god.

Now thinking about it, there seemed to be something amiss here.

Beethoven had survived unharmed; it didn’t make sense for Gelman, who was stronger than him, to be dead.

"Whether I will get captured or not is none of your concern; you just need to take me there. If I die, you’re certain to die, but if I live, you might have a chance to live,"

Liu Zheng said.

That’s when the Mud Shell he got from the shadowy mud would come in handy.

If all else fails, he’d use his trump card: three Holy Grails plus one Divine Child’s umbilical cord, topped off with a Twisted Saint’s corpse, would be worth it.

"Alright, if you insist,"

Yuserna agreed reluctantly.

"Are there any other enemies ahead?"

Liu Zheng inquired.

"There are, but with your strength, they pose no threat,"

Yuserna swept a glance at the mountain of corpses, her words half-admiring, half-fearful.

So many ’Holy Blood’ Hunter squads would be annihilated if they were attacked by all those Eye Cultivation Bases at once.

And yet this man had unilaterally slaughtered them; was he truly human?

"Is that so? I hope your information is accurate. Otherwise, heh."

Liu Zheng gave her a meaningful glance, which made her go weak with fear.

"Go call them back; we set off again,"

he commanded with high spirits.

It looked like his trip to Carcarens Academy was going to yield a grand harvest.