Zombie Bodyguard
Chapter 494 - 491: Does the Gu Cultivator Appear?

Chapter 494: Chapter 491: Does the Gu Cultivator Appear?

"Ah..." A desolate howl immediately followed, piercing through the night sky over the ruins.

If someone heard this scream, tomorrow’s headlines might say that the abandoned urban village was haunted.

"Damn it! Torturing a prisoner, I will sue you!" the sniper cursed.

His leg had just been broken, and now the other leg had been stabbed with a knife, rendering him completely unable to walk.

"Hehe, you really are Japanese." Lin Tian laughed, this being a common curse used by the Japanese.

"Second Miss, it might get a bit bloody in a while, you’d better not watch," Lin Tian warned Xiao Manxuan.

Xiao Manxuan wanted to say she wasn’t afraid, but she really couldn’t guess what Lin Tian might do, so she turned her head away.

Lin Tian gripped the dagger, twisted it slightly clockwise, and the sniper screamed in pain.

"Now I don’t want to know about your affairs anymore, don’t tell me anything," Lin Tian said indifferently, exerting more force and twisting the dagger again.

How it feels to have a dagger twisting in one’s flesh was evident from the sniper’s expression—distorted with convulsions and trembling, his body was sweating as if he had just been pulled out of water.

But the sniper was quite tough, and he didn’t utter a word; Lin Tian guessed that these people had undergone special training, and enduring pain was surely one of the most fundamental drills. Despite his cries like a slaughtered pig, he was still far from his limit of tolerance.

Even Thunder Wolf and Ning Luoxi, upon seeing Lin Tian’s method of interrogation, remained nonchalant, which indicated that such child’s play questioning techniques were beneath the concern of special forces like Thunder Wolf.

"Brother Lin, this is useless, they are all Death Soldiers, trained to resist interrogation. We’ve done something similar in our special forces, and stabbings and beatings are considered trivial. We use a kind of drug, called thiosulfate pentosan, which causes severe pain when injected into the veins, more painful than a few cuts," Thunder Wolf said, shaking his head.

Thiosulfate pentosan? What the hell is that? Lin Tian found the name extremely awkward, the kind of thing that sounded foreign.

"Mr. Lin, I happen to have a method," Li Qingyun suddenly said.

"What’s the method?" Lin Tian asked, knowing that Li Qingyun, a Gu Cultivator, was second to none in devising ways to torment people.

After a moment of thought, she replied calmly, "The Soul-devouring Gu we captured just now is not yet mature. We can drop it into his body. If he talks, good for him; if not, I can take the opportunity to use him as a tripod furnace to nurture the Soul-devouring Gu to maturity, which would increase the success rate of developing the immunity Gu medicine."

Upon hearing this, Lin Tian’s eyes lit up, inwardly admiring the resourcefulness of a Gu Cultivator to come up with such a method.

She had once said, a saying among Gu Cultivators goes: hate someone, give them a Gu. Indeed, it was true.

The sniper, who had been cursing, turned deathly pale as soon as he heard this. Already pale from blood loss, his face was now comparable to Mr. Qi’s ghostly pale visage.

His superior was a Gu Cultivator; of course, he knew the horror of Gu techniques.

"No, I actually don’t know anything. What I did earlier was on purpose, just to gain leverage for bargaining with you," the sniper stammered.

"Now I’m not concerned with what you know; the immunity Gu medicine is my first priority," Lin Tian said coldly, then grabbed the sniper’s hand, signaling Li Yue to take out the black pottery jar.

Li Yue understood, took the jar from the wrap, and opened the lid.

The sniper started to struggle violently, ignoring the pain in his legs and desperately trying to retreat, wanting to stay as far away from the jar as possible.

But Lin Tian completely disregarded his terror, pressing his hand into the jar.

Lin Tian saw that the Soul-devouring Gu, the size of a green bean inside, seemed to have smelled the blood on the sniper’s hand and crawled onto it.

Then, as expected, it secreted a milky liquid, and the sniper’s skin melted away a large patch as if corroded by strong acid, while the Soul-devouring Gu vanished without a trace, as if it had dived into water.

The sniper’s eyes rolled back, and he actually fainted.

"Damn, so useless!" Lin Tian scorned, thinking that the man would at least scream in agony, but he fainted so easily.

"You only have to look at Mr. Qi’s tragic state to understand," Li Yue said.

Indeed, more wretched than this was being controlled by a Gu Cultivator, unable to die even if one wished to—a fate more miserable than this was none.

Lin Tian sighed and pressed a few times on the sniper’s philtrum, and the sniper groggily came to.

"I’ll say it, I’ll say everything I know," the sniper immediately relented upon regaining consciousness.

In fact, Lin Tian didn’t care if he spoke or not; after all, he was just a sniper and likely knew no more than Youzi. Lin Tian was now more interested in using him as a crucible to cultivate the Soul-devouring Gu.

"Speak," Lin Tian said.

"I..." Just as the sniper was about to speak, a streak of golden light suddenly shot out from the darkness, aiming straight for the sniper.

On seeing the golden light, the sniper’s pupils dilated instantly, displaying a look of horror.

"Everyone, get back, it’s the Golden Silkworm Gu!" Li Qingyun shouted loudly, urgency evident in her voice.

The Gu poison of the Golden Silkworm Gu was the most peculiar poison in the world. The afflicted feels as if millions of insects are gnawing at their body, eventually leading to bleeding from all orifices until death.

As always, death is sometimes not the scariest part—it’s the torture before death that’s truly terrifying, and even more so if one has to endure an agonizing existence beforehand. That is the terror of the Golden Silkworm Gu’s poison; it can make even the most steadfast Ancient Martial Artist wish for the end of their suffering.

Many deadly poisons exist in the world, such as curare, strychnine, and crane top red, which kill the drinker instantly, but they make death too swift. The poison of the Golden Silkworm Gu, on the other hand, tortures the victim before death.

Moreover, it seemed that the Golden Silkworm Gu attacking was shimmering under the moonlight, clearly of a higher level than the one Li Qingyun had.

Lin Tian frowned and hummed coldly, stepping forward to shield the sniper. As the Golden Silkworm Gu neared, he flicked it with force, flinging it away like a ping pong ball.

"You..." Li Qingyun and Li Yue were so shocked they couldn’t speak.

They were both Gu Cultivators, acutely aware of the horror of the Golden Silkworm Gu poison, and Lin Tian had just intercepted it with his bare hand. They were more shocked than when Lin Tian exploded the Two-headed Snake with a punch, and Ning Luoxi and Xiao Manxuan were also pale with shock.

That was tantamount to courting death, as the poison of the Golden Silkworm Gu was incurable, and anyone afflicted was sure to die.

"Hmph, my prisoner—I decide his fate. If I want him alive, he shall live; if I want him dead, he shall die. It’s not your place to intervene, you coward!" Lin Tian said cold-heartedly, clearly referring to the Gu Cultivator.

Although he didn’t know where the Gu Cultivator was hiding, he knew the opponent could hear him, so he deliberately provoked to attract hostility, hoping to coax the Gu Cultivator out into the open.

Unfortunately, the Gu Cultivator had a strong patience and made no response to Lin Tian.

"Mr. Lin, are you alright?" Li Qingyun asked in disbelief, feeling that all the surprises of her life combined were not as many as this night’s.

The young man before her was impervious to knives and immune to deadly poisons. He had incredible skill and strength, and was cold-hearted not like an eighteen-year-old youth. The surprising aspects of him were just too many.

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