The doors and windows on all sides of the small wooden house are sealed, only the small skylight in the center of the roof is open. Only at noon every day, a beam of sunlight with countless dust particles floating down from the skylight. Rong Yushan tried his best to open his swollen eyelids, and looked up from the only slit. From here, the sky of the capital is very far away. Relying on this beam of sunshine, Rong Yushan was able to silently count the days in his heart. It is already the fourth day. In four days he had only eaten two pieces: His own right thumb and index finger. "The most beautiful man in the underworld in Kyoto is finished just like that."

One palm pinched Rong Yushan's chin, twisting it back and forth.The man carefully observed the wounds on both sides of Rong Yushan's face, as if a craftsman was inspecting his own work. "I heard that you have played with many women? There will be no more in the future." There was no sarcasm in the man's tone, but he just stated a fact coldly.On the contrary, the other three men in the room all let out cold laughter at the same time. The man stretched out his finger again, and flicked Rong Yushan's broken nose lightly.Rong Yushan's face contorted reflexively, but he didn't groan.

"With this kind of virtue, you don't even know if you can enter a brothel?" The man let go of Rong Yushan's face, and raised his right arm instead.The fractures of the thumb and index finger were not bandaged, but tied tightly with straw rope to stop the bleeding.The wound had turned purple-black with half-dried turbid white pus. The festering smell made the man wrinkle his nose. "In a day or two, I probably won't be able to have this whole arm. Otherwise, the sepsis will flow back into my heart, and the gods will not be able to save it. Believe me, I used to study medicine."

The man let go of his palm, and Rong Yushan's arm immediately dropped weakly. Rong Yushan sat on the wooden chair without any movement.The rope had been untied yesterday, but it was impossible for him to stand up—the soles of his left and right feet were pierced by an iron nail as thick as a little finger, and they were firmly nailed to the wooden floor. The man walked to the middle of the room.The sunlight hit his bald head just right, reflecting his skeleton-thin face.A pair of big eyeballs are turning around in the eye sockets, making people worry that they are about to fall out. He calmly took out the tobacco rod and flint from his pocket, and his fingers for lighting the cigarette were nimble and steady.He put away the flint first, and then slowly and deeply swallowed a mouthful.

"How long do we have to stay here?" said one of the men in the room, wiping his forehead. "It's terribly hot in here. The windows are sealed up, and you can't even think about it." His companion echoed, "Our boss believed you to be an expert in this field, so he hired you here for a lot of money. As a result, after working for so many days, this guy didn't even hiccup!" The man with the skull face ignored them, still looking at Rong Yushan's face covered with scars and blood. "Did you hear what they said? Yes. I'm good. I wouldn't blush to admit it in front of anyone. I've done seventeen before, and none of them didn't say anything at the end."

He took a puff of cigarette full of confidence, and said: "But I have never killed anyone. I am very measured in this respect. I always leave these rough things to the employer's subordinates. Compared with letting people It's too easy to speak up and kill people." Skullface licked his lips, then put the pipe on the table in the middle of the room. "I have to admit, you were the toughest one. I'll remember you later." Various strange instruments of torture were neatly arranged on the table, and he picked a small gavel from among them.The mallet is dark in color and seems to have been used for many years, but the surface is still well maintained and smooth.

"Don't move around." His voice was soft like a doctor's. "Otherwise you'll hit the ribs." Rong Yushan felt a deep pain in his abdomen, as if it went straight to the spine.The stomach pouch, esophagus, and mouth opened automatically as if the mechanism had been triggered, and bitter water was vomited all over the place. Compared with the pain, what Rong Yushan felt more terrifying was the feeling that his body was completely out of control. "See? Your body is at my disposal." Skeleton Face said very proudly. "I know everything about how the viscera of the human body work and how they react."

Rong Yushan finally stopped vomiting.He looked down at the pile of vomit on the ground, among which were two severed fingers that had been mostly melted by gastric juice, revealing thick white bones. "For example..." Skull Face put down the mallet, picked up a serrated knife from the table, and flipped it flexibly between his fingers. "Which part of a man's body is the most unbearable pain?" Rong Yushan still had no expression on his face, but the center of his body was involuntarily chilled. "Is there even a need to ask?" A man standing guard said fiercely, and suddenly he kicked Rong Yushan downhill.

Violent white light flashed from the head, and the severe pain in the lower body came one after another, as if a huge invisible claw protruded into the abdominal cavity from below, constantly digging and pulling violently. Rong Yushan's body fell forward from the chair, curled up like a shrimp, squatting on his own vomit.The nails still held the soles of the feet firmly to the ground.The three men rushed forward and kicked him for a long time. "That's enough, people are going to die." Skeleton Face's voice was not loud, but it was enough to teach the three of them to stop beating.Skeleton Face made a gesture, and two of them supported Rong Yushan's armpits from left to right, making him stand up straight.Rong Yushan's body still couldn't stop shaking.

The skull face slowly extended the serrated knife towards Rong Yushan's crotch.Rong Yushan couldn't see the blade, but he was even more frightened. The skull face is smiling.He observed that the will of the "Feng Yilong" young cadre in front of him had begun to waver. Rong Yushan felt the ice-like blade sticking to the skin of his lower abdomen. The sound of splitting. The drawstring was cut.The pants that had been stained with feces and urine fell to the ground, exposing the scrotum that had swollen to the size of a pear.The men couldn't help laughing. "Oh! It's like this, can it still be used?"

"Seeing this, don't talk about women, even the sows are scared away!" Skull Face didn't make a sound.He silently took out a piece of string from his pocket, and carefully tightened the root of Rong Yushan's scrotum. The blade wavered in front of Rong Yushan's eyes. "See the sawtooth on it? Using this to cut is much more painful than using an ordinary knife. It's completely different from the feeling when cutting your finger the day before yesterday." The man's tone didn't sound threatening. "Let's talk now. Once I do it, I won't speak until I can't stand the pain halfway. I don't know if it can be cured." There was a silence. At this moment of silence, there were more than a dozen sounds of knocking on metal faintly outside.The men ignored it, probably some nearby family was mending the iron pot. ——Everyone can't see: Rong Yushan raised his thick eyebrows when he heard the beat of the metal beating. Rong Yushan's mouth was buzzing, as if he wanted to say something, but his skeleton face immediately motioned for the man to bring water. Rong Yushan couldn't swallow the cold water, coughed for a while, and then moaned in a weak voice: "You...what's...your name..." Skullface grinned. "Why do you want to know? It's not interesting. I just get paid to do things. They are your enemies." "I..." Rong Yushan said, the wounds on his face were all open and bleeding. "...the people I... want to kill...I want to know...their...names..." Skull Face sighed and shook his head. "Stop dreaming. Maybe one day I will be killed by someone, but that person will definitely not be you. Well, start to say what you should say." "No." Rong Yushan's voice was weak but firm. "I was the one who killed you...just today..." The front and rear doors of the house were knocked open at the same time. The reflection of the sword flashed outside the door. The three men exclaimed, let go of Rong Yushan, and rushed towards the weapon placed in the corner of the room. The man with the skull face was still holding the knife, and his whole body froze. Rong Yushan, who lost his support, still stood. The swollen eyelids opened wide, exposing the still clear pupils. The roar echoed through the house. The soles of the feet rose off the ground.The nails were still on the planks, their heads covered with torn flesh. Rong Yushan pounced on the man with the skull face like a beast. Skeleton Face instinctively raised the knife and slashed at Rong Yushan's head and neck. Rong Yushan stretched out his left hand, and grasped the blade tightly with incomparable precision.The sawtooth was sunken deep in his palm, and he didn't even notice it. The skull face engulfed by fear, pinned all hope of survival on this small knife, and pulled it out with all its strength. The tail of Rong Yushan's left palm and the second finger of his ring were separated from his body forever. He doesn't care. All he could see was the throat of the skull-faced man. He opened his mouth, two rows of teeth still intact, and he was about to taste the flesh of his enemy.