Shi An rotated his wrist without refuting his friend's words.
"Previously, I also carried some hidden weapons on me. I haven't tested them yet. How about you be my guinea pig?"
As he said that, he took out a bunch of hidden weapons from his body. When seeing the barbs of various shapes on the hidden weapons, the man shrank his neck and seemed to be already scared.
Seeing his reaction, the others knew that the interrogation was likely to yield results.
"It seems you don't want to suffer any torture here. In that case, tell the truth. Who are you exactly and who sent you here?"
The man was struggling inwardly and still put up a last - ditch resistance. "Even if you torture me severely, I will never say a single extra word."
Hearing this, Shi An was already a bit impatient. He directly stepped forward with one of the hidden weapons in his hand.
He waved the hidden weapon in his hand. The barbs glinted with a strange cold light under the sunlight.
"Don't worry. I will surely make you suffer more. You won't die easily."
The man twitched the corners of his mouth and swallowed hard. Finding that Shi An really intended to attack him, he hurriedly ran backward. But before he reached the door, he was directly blocked by Qin Feng.
"Why are you running so fast? Our stuff hasn't shown its might yet. If you leave too quickly, won't it be a bit less fun?"
After saying that, Shi An didn't hesitate at all and stabbed the hidden weapon into the man's arm. Blood spurted out and for a moment, it was hard to stop.
The man didn't expect Shi An to be so direct. Sensing the continuous pain from his arm, his face turned panicked. He wanted to pull out the hidden weapon from his arm, but the two of them didn't intend to give him this chance at all.
"You'd better not waste your effort. I poisoned the hidden weapon. Now the poison has entered your veins. You'll die in about two hours. By then, you'll bleed from your seven orifices. Even the emperor can't save you."
The man didn't want to accept his fate like this. He endured the pain and pulled out the hidden weapon from his arm. However, what happened next was probably something he would never forget for the rest of his life.
The poison not only invaded his veins, but even the flesh around the wound had turned black.
His face turned pale. He looked at Shi An and changed his attitude completely.
"I know I was wrong. Please give me the antidote. I can tell you everything."
Hearing this, the others glanced at each other. This was exactly the result they wanted.
Shi An took out a bottle from his body and played with it in front of the man. "If you want the antidote, it depends on your performance."
The man's eyes followed the bottle as it swayed up and down.
He swallowed hard. "Actually, I'm a wanted killer in the Western Regions. I was very surprised when the king of the Western Regions found me. He said that as long as I could handle this matter well, he would promote me and revoke all the wanted notices."
For a fugitive who had been on the run for many years, promotion and peerage were undoubtedly the greatest temptations. So after weighing the pros and cons, he agreed.
At this moment, Lan Xi also remembered.
"Many years ago, I chased a fugitive named Li Niu. Could it be you? But why couldn't I trace your final whereabouts back then?"
The man had no choice but to tell the truth.
"Because I hid in the palace at that time. The king of the Western Regions took me in on his own initiative, so you couldn't find me."
Lan Xi frowned. "So you had already reached an agreement with the king since then?"
Li Niu nodded. By now, he no longer cared about the life - saving grace of that year. All he wanted was to get the antidote and survive first.
As for such a person, it was no surprise to them that he could abandon his savior.
After all, a person who could treat himself so harshly and get himself into such a mess would surely not be a kind person to others.
Shi An threw the antidote in his hand over as promised, but didn't forget to mock.
"A person like you might sell out everyone around you at any time."
Li Niu didn't care about anything else now. He swallowed the antidote in one gulp.
He saw the flesh on his hand gradually return to its normal color and then heaved a sigh of relief.
"Humph, I'm just a person in the jianghu. I'm just trying to survive. I'm not that noble. Only people like you who are in high positions would laugh at people like us."
Shi Muwǎn knew that it was useless to reason with such a person, so she reached out to stop her elder brother.
"We've already got the information we wanted, so don't waste your breath on such a person."
After saying that, she said with disgust on her face, "Lin Sun, aren't you going to keep such a person in the Hundred - Flower Valley all the time?"
The person being called then came to her senses. She pursed her lips. "At first, I thought it was just instigated by my grandma. I didn't expect the king to be involved behind the scenes. It seems I was too careless, which led to such a big loophole around me."
"Be more careful in the future. Now we can still give you a chance to prove your innocence. But after we return to Changjing City, if there are any more problems, no one will be able to prove your innocence."
Knowing that they were doing this for her own good, Lin Sun felt that they were starting to trust her gradually. This was a good start.
Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Lin Sun's face. She took out a glazed bottle from her body, and then a bug flew onto Li Niu's body.
Li Niu knew that people from the Western Regions were good at using gu worms. He wanted to run away, but there were their people all around. He couldn't escape even if he had wings.
Helplessly, he could only kneel on the ground.
"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have done such a thing. I shouldn't have been blinded by greed and helped the king of the Western Regions to provoke you. Now please spare me. Haven't I already told you the information you wanted?"
"That little bit of information is useless. We'll find out sooner or later. You've just saved us the trouble of investigation."
"You... don't kill me. I can do a lot of things for you. It will surely be useful to keep me."
Seeing him crying and begging for mercy on the ground, Lin Sun thought it was a bit funny.
"I never said I would take your life. Why are you so excited?"
Li Niu was stunned, and so was Qin Feng, who had thought it was quite fun before.
"Why don't you just kill this person? Keeping this person will only be a hidden danger to us. Do you really believe that this person can help us?"
Lin Sun looked at the roaring man. She believed that if he wasn't held back by Shi An, he would rush up and kill her first, and then Li Niu.