Chapter 158
Chapter 158
"Tell me! What did you do to Lao Jiu?"
The long whip was wrapped in chili water and it fiercely scraped off a layer of Xiao Mo's flesh. The intense pain went from the outside to the inside, madly torturing his tense nerves.
The whistling sound of the long whip breaking through the air echoed throughout the dark dungeon.
Sweating profusely and in unbearable pain, Xiao Mo spat a mouthful of blood onto the ground.
"Why do you have to know... where he went... Don't you think he is too weak to be... a servant of Tianshui Tower?"
"You bastard, are you qualified to slander our brothers?" Bai Yi soaked the whip in the basin of pepper water again, "I just want the whereabouts of the real Lao Jiu! Tell me now!"
if only……
The real Lao Jiu?
Xiao Mo raised his eyelids. The torture in recent days made him more and more depressed. Amid the endless pain in his body, he recalled the time when he was a poor child, living with his brothers and parents in a mud house that had no shelter from the rain in summer and the cold in winter.
His mother held her brother in her arms and sighed repeatedly, carefully dividing the steamed bread that was so dry and hard that it was falling apart.
The family members were starving and looked pale and thin. After three days of hunger, the cowardly and incompetent father finally made a decision and left the house without telling anyone.
When he came back, my father brought a bag of rice and ten taels of silver.
The mother knew what the father had done as soon as she saw it, and she sat on the ground, crying uncontrollably.
Xiao Mo didn't even have a sip of rice soup before his father sent him and his brother to a gorgeous, spacious, warm and clean house. There were many children of his age there, rich and poor.
The owner of the house looked them both up and down, pinched his arms and face, then took out a green stone and held it in front of them.
"Look, you two, what color is this?"
The younger brother was about to speak without hesitation, but was interrupted.
"Look carefully, this is not green."
The younger brother didn't understand, but he had been competitive since he was a child, and didn't want to fall behind others, so he spoke before everyone else.
"Black. I saw it was black inside."
Xiao Mo looked at the stone and said cautiously: "It's red."
The master nodded and turned to whisper to his father who was waiting beside him.
Xiao Mo saw that his father's expression changed in a very complicated way. He was excited, sad, regretful but also happy. He was like a child who got a dream gift, not a father who stood tall and proud.
At dinner, the mother, who had been hesitating for a long time, took out two skewers.
"Dad and Mom originally wanted to send both of you to Tianshui Tower to enjoy a good life, but the other party only wants one of you, so which one to choose depends on your luck..."
For a long time after that night, Xiao Mo did not discover what his parents were doing.
It was just because he believed that there would be no such biased parents in the world who could be so cruel to their eldest son.
Until he met his brother in a restaurant, whom he had not seen for many years. The brother was dressed in fancy clothes, spent money lavishly with women but never returned home. It was also that day that he almost died at the hands of the other brother.
"Why should we give him all the good things?" Xiao Mo stammered.
Bai Yi didn't hear clearly and took a few steps forward, "What did you say? Speak more clearly!"
Want him to speak louder? Sure!
Then speak louder and say how terrible the real Ah Jiu is!
"Why can he have no worries about food and clothing? Why can he replace me and be selected to enter Tianshui Building! He even took my name!"
"What did you say? Ajiu will replace you?" Bai Yi suddenly stopped swinging the whip.
Xiao Mo was so angry that he trembled when he recalled the past. The pain in his body was no match for the pain in his heart.
He hated his father so much. It was obvious that he was the one chosen because he saw red, but his father was determined to hide it.
He hated his mother so much. Although they were twin brothers from the same mother, she always considered her younger brother in everything. She colluded with her father and gave her younger brother the opportunity by cheating in the lottery. She also lied to him and said that it was because he was unlucky and he could not blame others.
What he hated the most was his younger brother.
The younger brother who is inferior to me in every way and who shamelessly tries to kill his own brother to conceal the truth!
He trusted his younger brother so much that he thought he would really help him find a job in Tianshui Tower that would pay for his living out of brotherhood. But he turned out to be so vicious that he wanted to make him disappear forever!
"I'm the one chosen by Tianshui Tower in the beginning. I'm the one who should be Ajiu, and I'm the one who should be your brother!" Xiao Mo's eyes were red, and he laughed loudly towards the sky, causing the iron chain on his shoulder blades to tremble and make a continuous banging sound.
"Since you want to know where Jiu went so much, fine! I'll tell you!"
Bai Yi looked at the person in front of him in shock, his heart filled with turmoil. Before he could recover from the shocking words before, he heard the truth again that was enough to terrify him.
"Ajiu, he died a long time ago. I, his elder brother, did it myself."
After all, the younger brother never thought that when he hated his elder brother, his elder brother also hated him so much that he was only one step away from being killed by him. The elder brother who disappeared from the world was rescued by the Shattering Organization.
During the days and nights he survived, Xiao Mo repeatedly imagined in his mind the scene of killing the other party. The day before Lin Ruojin, the second lady of the Lin family, entered Tianshui Tower, he succeeded, and it was easier than he thought.
Xiao Mo gave a strange smile and looked at Bai Yi meaningfully.
"You have seen him, not long ago! Have you forgotten? Didn't you all eat the fruit of the man-faced tree with great joy?"
After saying that, Xiao Mo laughed out loud, using the face that Bai Yi was most familiar with to wantonly mock their deep brotherhood.
"Is it delicious? Is the fruit that was fed with your brother Ajiu's flesh sweet?"
Bai Yi was trembling all over, and the scene of that day suddenly flashed through his mind.
The sweet and juicy fruit was chopped into pieces by the knife and divided into pieces between the brothers.
Bai Yi covered his abdomen, his face instantly pale, recalling the scene of that day, and the strange-shaped fruit tree, the fruit that made a sound similar to a human scream...
The mouth becomes extremely salty and fishy.
Almost at the moment when he figured out the whole cause and effect, Bai Yi vomited suddenly and could not even stand steadily.
What have they done? What have they done!!!
"How dare you do this, you beast! How dare you let us eat that kind of thing!!!"
Xiao Mo calmed down and looked at Bai Yi expressionlessly.
"Don't be angry, and don't blame yourself. In fact, I don't hate you. I deliberately didn't let you find out that it was the fruit fed by Ah Jiu's flesh."
These words sounded like they were meant to comfort Bai Yi.
"After all, I ate it, too." Xiao Mo looked past Bai Yi, who was bending over and vomiting, and looked behind him. "The piece I ate happened to have a mark exactly like the birthmark on his body. It's incredible. Was the thing that was eaten a fruit fed by flesh and blood, or was it..."
"Is that the real Ah Jiu?"
Bai Yi's eyes were bloodshot and his teeth were almost broken. He raised the sword at his waist, ready to execute Xiao Mo immediately to avenge his Ah Jiu.
Regardless of whether Ajiu is worthy of the title, he is a brother who has been with me for more than ten years, living together day and night, and sharing weal and woe!
"You beast! He's your own brother, how dare you be so cruel? I'll kill you!"
however,
After taking only two steps, he suddenly realized that his body had become limp and his legs and feet were weak.
"Did you find out? You've been poisoned." Xiao Mo looked at him coldly, his tone indifferent, "I have been planning to poison you for a long time. At first I planned to kill Fourteen first to confuse your minds and then defeat them one by one...but later I thought of another way."
Bai Yi had just stabilized his body, but the next second his pupils dilated slightly and he subconsciously covered his mouth and nose, but still uncontrollably spurted out a lot of blood.
Staggering and half-kneeling on the ground, Bai Yi could no longer hear the subtle sounds around him.
"When Fourteen brought me back from Luoyue, I put a poison on him that can spread silently. It is only effective on practitioners~"
"Remember, the one who harmed you was your beloved Little Fourteen."
As soon as he finished speaking, the iron fence behind him was suddenly opened from the outside.
Bai Yi's hearing was damaged by the poison, and he didn't react in time, so he was kicked to the wall by the intruder. He lowered his head and bit the soft flesh on his arm, barely able to see the intruder clearly.
She had a slender figure and was not very tall. Although she was wearing a nightgown that only revealed her eyes, when the two of them had come into close contact just now, he could smell the strong scent of Tianshui Tower's incense on the other person.
The other party was a woman, and had been hiding in Tianshui Tower for a long time.
"How long have you been hiding in Tianshui Tower? Why didn't anyone notice you, an intruder?"
The woman snorted and laughed, and said in a muffled voice: "You and your brothers have been poisoned, and you are busy taking care of yourselves, so how can you pay attention to me?"
Xiao Mo was untied by the woman. After he was free, Xiao Mo immediately knocked out Bai Yi who intended to fight to the death with the two of them.
"Thank you for helping me before you retreat."
Qian'er took off the black cloth on her face, revealing a pretty face. "Who said I was kind-hearted? So, is this your plan? Is this considered as pretending to obey but secretly disobeying? Aren't you afraid of being punished by the leader?"
Xiao Mo said nothing, and stepped out of the dungeon where he had been trapped for many days. He felt that all the pain and tiredness, love and hatred in his heart had been swept away, leaving only an empty shell.
But it’s a lot easier.
"Hey, Xiao Mo!"
"...Now, my name is not Xiao Mo."
"Then what's your name?"
Xiao Mo thought about it, then whispered a name.
"Xiao Yu."
In the past, Xiao Yu had replaced Xiao Mo with peace of mind under the guidance of his parents. Now that his brother Xiao Mo is dead, the only one left alive is his parents' favorite brother Xiao Yu.
His revenge is not over yet...
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