mtl008 Chapter 153 Hao Siwen is subjected to torture, Shi Sanlang breaks into the prison and rescues him.
Chapter 153 Hao Siwen is subjected to torture, Shi Sanlang breaks into the prison and rescues him.
At the same time, the dungeon torches crackled, and Hao Siwen, known as "Wellwood Falcon," was suspended in mid-air by iron chains, blood dripping from his toes and forming a dark red stream on the blue bricks.
"Yes!"
The sound of Hao Siwen's scream, "Jingmu Han".
The torches in the dungeon were dying down. Yan Xiaoqi's long spear tip slowly twisted against Hao Siwen's shoulder blade, the scraping sound of the iron hook against the bone mixed with the smell of blood filling the cell.
Yan Xiaoqi deliberately disassembled the gun barrel, but did not pull out the gun head, because the gun head was pressing on Hao Siwen's collarbone to prevent Hao Siwen from escaping.
The scapula, also known as the clavicle, is so strong that if a person's scapula is damaged, they will be unable to use their arms at all.
Let alone humans, even Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West" couldn't transform and escape after his collarbone was pierced.
Hao Siwen was chained to the rack, his hands, with bamboo skewers stuck in them, twitched slightly. Blood flowed down his tattered trousers into the cracks of the blue bricks, congealing into purplish-black blood clots. He had been tortured for two hours, but Yan Xiaoqi's torture methods were extremely skillful, able to make him feel excruciating pain without causing Hao Siwen to lose consciousness due to unbearable suffering.
If this were in later generations, he would definitely be a shoo-in for Boss Dai...
Yan Xiaoqi grabbed the salt jar and poured it directly onto the wound on Hao Siwen's chest, rubbing it as if she wanted to turn Hao Siwen into cured meat.
Watching the bloody flesh spasm under the stimulation of salt grains, Yan Xiaoqi actually felt a strange sense of pleasure.
What a pervert!
The more pain Hao Siwen felt, the more he tried to distract himself. Suddenly, he heard three clapper sounds outside the cell door—the signal for the second watch of the night, but he clearly remembered that the first watch had just been struck half an hour earlier.
Seeing that Hao Siwen was still resisting, Yan Xiaoqi grabbed the spearhead of Liu Kezhu and pulled it outwards. The hook on the spearhead directly hooked Hao Siwen's collarbone. The spearhead rubbed back and forth on the bone twice, which was like scraping the bone!
"what!"
"Tell me! Where is Guan Sheng hiding? He couldn't have gone far in such a short time. You must have discussed the escape route beforehand. Are you going to tell me or not?"
"Pooh!"
Hao Siwen, nicknamed "Jingmu Han," originally wanted to spit the bloody saliva at Yan Xiaoqi, but after being tormented for half the night, he was too weak to even do that. The bloody saliva "collapsed midway" and landed on the tip of Yan Xiaoqi's shoe.
"You son of a bitch, you dare spit on me!"
Enraged, Yan Xiaoqi grabbed the branding iron from the brazier and pressed it against his chest.
"Oh! Oh! Ugh! Ah!!! Ah!! You son of a bitch... Ah!! I have to work 8 AM—"
As the smell of burning filled the air, Hao Siwen, nicknamed "Jingmuhan," cried out almost incessantly, a hysterical scream that was heart-wrenching and brought tears to the eyes of anyone who heard it.
"Say or not?"
Yan Xiaoqi pulled the branding iron back and ripped the charred skin off Hao Siwen's body.
"I'm in the morning..."
Hao Siwen was about to lose his temper. The branding iron he had just received had pushed his physical strength and endurance to their limits, and he could no longer hold on.
"You're really stubborn! Fine, you've forced me to use my ultimate move!"
Yan Xiaoqi gave a few instructions to his men, and soon after, he had them bring a cloth bag. From the bag, he took out a very sharp, gleaming sickle-shaped knife.
Do you know what this is?
Yan Xiaoqi approached "Jingmu Han" with a mischievous grin, handing him the small knife.
"Before I became the head constable, I was a pig castrator, that is..."
As Yan Xiaoqi spoke, she made a "snap" gesture with the small knife.
Hao Siwen seemed to understand what he meant, and a hint of fear appeared in her eyes.
"Actually, pigs and humans are quite similar, except that pigs can only squeal, while humans can talk. If you're going to talk, you should talk early, lest you regret it when it's too late!"
Yan Xiaoqi's words were laced with bloodshed and full of threat.
Before Yan Xiaoqi could finish speaking, a deafening roar suddenly came from the east, shaking the entire dungeon and sending dust splattering onto Yan Xiaoqi's chainmail.
"Fire! Help put out the fire!"
The sounds of constables shouting for help to put out the fire could be heard outside, but Yan Xiaoqi seemed to sense something different from them.
"wrong……"
He swung the chain around Hao Siwen's neck, but the bloodied man grinned, his lips torn: "Listen... I recognize that explosion... This is the sound that blew up the dam..."
Before he finished speaking, a hole suddenly exploded in the west wall of the Yuncheng County Prison, thanks to the bomb fired by "Thunderbolt" Ling Zhen.
Amidst the flying debris, "Big Sword" Guan Sheng strode into the prison, his 81-pound Green Dragon Crescent Blade easily cleaving through the iron bars with sparks.
"Ah! You're asking for it!"
Upon seeing Hao Siwen, nicknamed "Wellwood Frog," tortured beyond recognition, Guan Sheng, nicknamed "Big Knife," was enraged. He unleashed a move called "Slaying Cai Yang" with his Green Dragon Crescent Blade, the blade gleaming with cold energy as it aimed straight for Yan Xiaoqi's face.
Yan Xiaoqi quickly retreated three steps and threw out the iron chain he had just picked up to block. Little did he know that the iron chain, made of fine iron, would be easily cut in two by the Green Dragon Crescent Blade as if it were tofu.
"Guan Sheng! You!"
Yan Xiaoqi searched for a weapon while keeping his distance from Guan Sheng. He was unarmed and dared not go up to Guan Sheng and throw his Green Dragon Crescent Blade at him!
At this moment, Shi Xiu, the "Desperate Saburo," rolled in from the smoke of battle. With a quick snap of his twin blades and a powerful thrust of his arm, he severed the iron chain suspending Hao Siwen.
"Iron Whistle" Le He caught the limp body in a flash, and took out a porcelain bottle from his pocket. Inside was a medicine made by "Divine Physician" An Daoquan, called "Resurrection Pill," a life-saving medicine prepared for the dying. Every Liangshan leader who had come out with Li Han this time carried one. He quickly fed one to "Well Wood Hound" Hao Siwen.
At that moment, more than twenty yamen runners rushed in with rattan shields, only to encounter Guan Sheng, the "Big Knife," who was truly enraged!
"I'll clear the way!"
Guan Sheng roared, spun around and slashed horizontally, unleashing his divine power. His Green Dragon Blade scraped three feet of sparks off the brick wall, and the blade's energy overturned three rattan shields, spraying severed limbs and blood mist onto the ceiling.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Yan Xiaoqi threw the poisoned caltrops from his waist at Guan Sheng. "Iron Whistle" Le He saw this, grabbed the iron chain on the ground and swung it in the air, causing the hidden weapon to clang and clatter as it was nailed to the wooden pillar.
Yan Xiaoqi was quite surprised. He thought that this quiet-looking Lehe had no fighting ability, but it turned out that she also knew martial arts!
Of course, "Iron Whistle" Yue He knew martial arts. In the original novel, he was one of the four leaders of Liangshan Marsh who were in charge of military intelligence. How could he safely gather intelligence if he didn't know kung fu? Even when he tricked the highly skilled "Golden Spear Hand" Xu Ning into joining Liangshan, he talked to Xu Ning about spear and staff techniques, and Xu Ning couldn't find any fault with him. At least his theoretical level was very high.
"Desperate Saburo" Shi Xiu carried "Wellwood Hare" Hao Siwen on his back and slammed him against the prison window. He broke through the wooden bars with an elbow and a knee strike, and the night wind carrying countless insect chirps rushed in, instantly extinguishing half of the torches.
Yan Xiaoqi roared and threw a porcelain bottle. Just as Guan Sheng parried with his sword, the bottle suddenly exploded, releasing poisonous smoke.
No wonder Yan Xiaoqi is such a treacherous and vicious person; her methods are truly despicable and vile!
The poison he carried with him was something he had painstakingly acquired from the Western Regions, just in case he encountered someone he couldn't defeat and needed it for emergencies.
"Iron Whistle" Le He immediately tore off his cloak, soaked it in a bucket of salt water, and shook off the poisonous fog. "Desperate Saburo" Shi Xiu had already carried the man and jumped out of the prison.
A flash of cold light appeared in the air as Guan Sheng, wielding his Azure Dragon Blade, slashed through the air. The sharp blade suddenly twisted, hurtling towards Yan Xiaoqi like lightning. In an instant, the Azure Dragon Blade whistled past Yan Xiaoqi's scalp, creating a gust of wind, and cleanly sliced off half of his ear!
This attack did not cause Guan Sheng to pause in the slightest. He swung his arm in the same manner, and the Azure Dragon Blade slashed out again with the force of thunder. With a crisp "crack," the thick load-bearing pillar was cleaved in two by this backhand slash!
As the supporting pillar snapped, the dungeon ceiling instantly lost its support and collapsed with a deafening roar. Half of the ceiling fell like a landslide, countless bricks and tiles raining down, raising a cloud of dust that blotted out the sky. In the midst of this chaos, Yan Xiaoqi's screams were completely drowned out and vanished without a trace.
This notorious and wicked constable, who was infamous throughout Yuncheng County, was mercilessly buried under the heavy bricks and timber. Presumably, when he was finally dug out of the rubble, all that would be presented to the public was a mangled pile of flesh.
At that breathtaking moment, three men burst out of the county government office like arrows released from a bow. "Iron Whistle" Yue He swiftly pulled a tinderbox from his robes and, without hesitation, tossed it towards the hay in the backyard stables. Instantly, flames, fanned by the wind, roared into action, the tongues of fire leaping over three zhang (approximately 10 meters) high like a ferocious dragon. The intense heat of the flames bathed the surroundings in a crimson glow, even turning the once bright eyes of Red Hare into a blood-red hue.
Meanwhile, Hao Siwen, nicknamed "Wellwood Falcon," who was perched on Shi Xiu's broad back, swayed violently with the horse's jolting. He suddenly coughed violently, spitting out half a mouthful of thick, black blood, as if this mouthful of blood had exhausted all his strength. His fingers, which had been tightly gripping Shi Xiu's shoulder armor, now dug even deeper into the armor. Due to the severity of his injuries, he finally couldn't hold on any longer, and his vision went black as he fainted.
Meanwhile, Guan Sheng, responsible for covering the rear, brandished his gleaming broadsword, fiercely severing the lassos thrown by wave after wave of pursuers. Suddenly, his Red Hare reared up, its two front hooves, as large as bowls, slamming down with tremendous force on a yamen runner attempting to approach. A scream rang out, and the unfortunate runner's head was instantly crushed into his chest by the immense impact—a scene of utter carnage.
Shi Xiu, who was leading the way, gripped two incredibly sharp steel blades tightly in both hands. With each swift movement, he managed to cleave a gap in the dense rain of arrows. Despite carrying someone on his back, it did not diminish his fighting prowess in the slightest.
Seeing this, Yuehe quickly reached into his robes and pulled out another bamboo whistle. He put it to his lips and blew hard, producing a clear and melodious partridge call. Before the sound faded, two black steeds suddenly rushed out of the darkness, each carrying a box full of various herbs and healing medicines on its back.
"Brother, you have to hold on!" Shi Xiu shouted as he carefully placed the unconscious Hao Siwen onto one of the horses. Then, he nimbly mounted his own horse and, together with the other two, spurred their horses and galloped away. The sound of hooves echoed through the night as they desperately fled into the darkness.
Just then, the soldiers, seeing the fleeing man getting further and further away, grew extremely anxious, wishing they could immediately catch up and bring him to justice. However, just as they were about to act, they suddenly realized the situation had become extremely dire! It turned out that Le He, known as "Iron Whistle," had just used a tinderbox to directly ignite the fodder and other flammable materials. In an instant, a raging fire quickly spread, engulfing the entire stable in flames.
The fire raged on, and the intense heat and thick smoke terrified the horses that had been quietly waiting in the stable. They neighed in terror, struggling desperately to escape the inferno. They even bit through their reins with their teeth, and scattered like wild horses.
It's important to understand that all living beings, whether human or other animal, whose basic body structure is made of carbon—so-called carbon-based organisms—are inherently afraid of fire and high temperatures. This instinctive reaction is an unchangeable and undeniable fact. After all, high temperatures can easily burn skin, damage tissues and organs, and even cause fatal dangers. Therefore, even these normally well-trained horses struggled to remain calm in the face of such a fierce fire.
"Brother, brother! It was Guan Sheng who ruined you!"
When Guan Sheng saw the shocking wounds on Hao Siwen's body, his heart was bleeding!
“Brother Guan Sheng, there’s no need to mourn here. Take your family and I will escort you to Liangshan Marsh. We have the legendary physician An Daoquan on Liangshan Marsh. As long as someone has a breath left, he can bring them back to life. Even if the King of Hell wants Brother Hao Siwen to die at midnight, An Daoquan can make him live until dawn!”
Shi Xiu comforted her from the side.
“Good, Brother Shi Xiu. After we meet up with Brother Guan Sheng’s family, I will go back and inform the chieftain of the situation. You will escort them back to Liangshan!”
"it is good!"