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"Wait for me a moment." Gu Ran turned around and went into a room, using the spirit talisman he carried with him to summon a backpack.
He returned to the living room and handed the iPad to Tang Shishi: "It contains the Secret Party's basic Dragon Clan entrance training materials. You can take a look and adjust your worldview."
Tang Shishi took the iPad and began to look at it. The part about the dragon race in the Secret Party was viewed from a Western perspective, but the history was generally the same, with the throne in the west and the battlefield in the east.
The biggest difference is in their stance.
The Secret Party stands on the side of humanity.
The Zhang family of Nanyang leaned towards the Dragon Clan, but not entirely. To be more precise, they hoped that the Secret Party could kill all the Dragon Kings and then they would become the new Dragon Clan.
Many ancient mixed-race families around the world share this idea.
Only the Chinese are a little different. The Chinese believe in Taoism, which states, "Heaven and earth are ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, treating the people like straw dogs." Therefore, dragon kings, hybrids, and humans are all equal.
No matter how the outside world changes, or how the Dragon King revives, as long as they themselves are safe and sound, there will be no strife in the world.
But if the Dragon King wreaks havoc in China, they will rise up in retaliation.
In short: Don't mess with me, or I'll take your dog's life!
Aside from the Zhang family in Southeast Asia, Tang Shishi had never been in contact with any other mixed-race forces. After reading the information Gu Ran gave her, she said softly, "It's only natural to stand on the side of humanity. Otherwise, if dragons that only know how to kill and violent mixed-races rule the world, where will humanity go?"
Gu Ran had already finished dinner and was eating some tomatoes as dessert.
He was surprised to hear Tang Shishi's words; he hadn't expected this girl to be so idealistic.
"I have two goals: first, to rescue my mother; second, to eradicate the Zhang family in Nanyang." Gu Ran then recounted Zhang Qiong's story to Tang Shishi.
When Tang Shishi heard that Gu Ran wanted to save his mother, she felt a sense of empathy.
"So, could you help me lure Zhang Ronghua out?" Gu Ran asked.
Tang Shishi was silent for a moment, then said with a somewhat somber expression, "My mother is being monitored by them. If I betray them, then my mother..."
Gu Ran took out paper and pen: "Write down your mother's information, and I will arrange for someone to rescue her immediately and take her to China. You can live in China from now on."
Tang Shishi took the paper and pen, but after thinking for a moment, she put down the pen.
Gu Ran asked, "What's wrong? Are you worried that I won't be able to rescue your mother? Then you can help me after I've rescued her and made sure she's safe."
“No…” Tang Shishi looked at Gu Ran and said, “Actually, I don’t know where Zhang Ronghua is either. He usually contacts me, so it’s a one-way communication.”
Gu Ran frowned slightly. The same thing happened when he hypnotized those seven people before; they had no idea about the core secrets, and they didn't even know Zhang Ronghua.
Tang Shishi was lucky to have met Zhang Ronghua.
"It seems that the only option is to go to northern Myanmar." Gu Ran fell into deep thought.
The inability to contact superiors also has an advantage: it makes it difficult for those above to know what's happening below.
In other words, it may take a long time before those on the island know about all that is happening.
"Write down your mother's information first, and I'll arrange the rescue," Gu Ran said to Tang Shishi.
"Thank you, thank you!" Tang Shishi picked up a pen and paper and immediately began writing down information about her mother.
Tang Shishi's mother lives in Singapore and is a florist. She is currently being monitored by several people, all of whom are from the Zhang family in Southeast Asia.
The Zhang family in Nanyang wanted to use Tang Shishi's mother to threaten her, but they couldn't go too far, so they only monitored her. If Tang Shishi were to rebel further, she would probably be placed under house arrest.
Gu Ran took out a satellite phone from his backpack and called Zhang Wanjun to tell her the situation.
Zhang Wanjun immediately said, "I'm currently in Shanghai, and I have several skilled people under my command. Moreover, some of them possess the ability to reduce their own presence, which is ideal for rescue operations. A direct flight to Singapore takes about five hours, and we should be able to pick them up in about eight hours."
“I don’t need you to come and rescue me. I’ll handle the rescue operation myself.” Gu Ran suddenly thought of something and said to Zhang Wanjun, “You take your men to Singapore and wait for orders. I have an idea. By the way, when you come, ask Xiao Qiang to borrow one of her old cell phones, the old Sony Ericsson she used last year. Just ask her for it; she’ll know.”
“Okay.” Zhang Wanjun didn’t ask any more questions, knowing that her nephew must have his reasons.
Gu Ran hung up the phone and asked Tang Shishi, "Do you think Zhang Ronghua and the others will find out if you rescue your mother?"
Tang Shishi was stunned for a moment, then pondered for a while and immediately understood Gu Ran's intention and plan.
“Okay, I promise you, but you must guarantee my mother’s safety,” she said.
"Don't worry, I'm absolutely sure," Gu Ran said with a smile. "But if that's the case, you won't be able to return to Singapore in the future."
“It’s okay, as long as I can get away from the Zhang family in Nanyang and escape this kind of life, I’m willing to go anywhere.” Tang Shishi said happily, her eyes red. “My mother is the same. She actually resents me a bit. She shouldn’t have given me a kidney transplant. Oh, right, she doesn’t know that her kidney came from the black market. She only thinks that I agreed to the benefits from the Zhang family in Nanyang. She also doesn’t know that I’m mixed-race. She only thinks that I’m helping them launder money…”
When she was little, her father was always on the boat, so she was only close to her mother. As long as her mother was there, it didn't matter where she went.
As for her friends, she had long since drifted apart from them after joining the Zhang family in Nanyang in recent years.
She had always thought she was destined to live in darkness, but now, being able to escape that kind of life was something she could hardly have imagined.
With the next action plan in mind, Gu Ran breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that his trip had been in vain.
He stretched and then looked at the seven people.
All seven of them were surnamed Zhang, and there were too many given names for Gu Ran to remember. After they entered the room, he gave each of them a notebook and asked them to write down information such as family members, addresses, industries they were involved in, and criminal dens.
They've almost finished writing by now.
Looking at these people with vacant, lifeless eyes, Tang Shishi asked Gu Ran, "What do you plan to do with these people?"
“Well…” Gu Ran looked at the short-haired girl first and said, “You once cut open a person’s stomach with a knife and let the gastric juice corrode the body, so… you should try it too.”
In the Tsukuyomi illusion, the short-haired girl looked down and saw that her stomach had been cut open, and stomach acid was slowly seeping out, corroding her body's organs.
"Ah, no, please let me go!" The short-haired girl screamed in the illusion, clutching her stomach and feeling the burning pain.
In reality, she was also clutching her stomach, because the pain she experienced in the illusion caused her body to react in the same way.
Then Gu Ran looked at the wild boy in red: "You have tortured and killed many girls, and even abused them before you died... So you will experience what it means to be a strongman who locks up a man, and a man on top of a man."
In the Wild Boys' environment, two muscular men suddenly appeared. They were the kind of men who had sculpted their muscles into defined blocks. They had a mysterious smile, and both of them were holding soap.
Then, the bewildered wild boy received his own philosophical punishment!
"Ah, ouch!" In reality, the wild boy clutched his buttocks, letting out a painful wail and shedding sad tears.
Tang Shishi, who was standing to the side, was stunned by what she saw!
I never expected that Gu Ran's hallucinations could have an effect on reality!
"Hmm... Next..." Gu Ran thought for a moment, "Let's try some torture on the rest of them, like burning people alive, riding the wooden donkey, skinning people alive, cutting off fingers, pulling out fingernails... Let's try whatever we can think of first!"
As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes instantly transformed into the Mangekyou Sharingan.
He wanted these people to be punished first in the illusion.
With a sudden burst of pupil power, all seven people collapsed to the ground, clutching their fingers and screaming in pain until all ten fingers were broken.
The next second, they suddenly covered their feet, as if they had replaced their toes.
"Do you know of any other forms of torture?" Gu Ran asked Tang Shishi.
"I...don't know." Tang Shishi looked at the people lying on the ground, groaning in pain, and had no idea what kind of illusion Gu Ran had cast on them.
"Sigh, I have too little research in this area, so... I'll just let them be executed by slow slicing." Casting illusions on them one by one would consume too much of his eye power, so Gu Ran chose to have them executed by slow slicing, 3,600 cuts, for three days and three nights.
Of course, three days and three nights passed in the illusion, but in reality, only a moment passed.
In the surrounding environment, people kept begging Gu Ran for mercy, but Gu Ran ignored them.
"When you kill people, you're prepared to be killed yourself, aren't you? You can't be the only one who can kill others while others can't kill you. That would be too selfish, wouldn't it?"
"Then kill me, kill me!" A girl in camouflage cried out in agony. She had endured seven days of torture in the Tsukuyomi environment and was on the verge of a mental breakdown.
"Don't rush me. Didn't you used to like slowly torturing people, slashing them one by one? I'll find someone to poke you like that with a screwdriver and see how long you can endure it."
After saying that, in the illusion, the girl in camouflage was stabbed repeatedly in the body by a screwdriver.
The wild boy probably endured the most torture because he was the most perverse killer, so Gu Ran made him experience more punishments.
For example, tortures like being torn apart by chariots, branded with hot irons, or crushed, Gu Ran could revive him every time he died, allowing him to die again.
Killing these people is too lenient. For the past three years, twice a year, these seven people have had their hands stained with blood.
It seems that because the bloodthirsty factor in their dragon blood genes was activated, after seeing blood once, they completely lost control of their killing intent. When they went crazy, they could not suppress their tyrannical dragon blood without killing people.
They should actually be locked up in a mental hospital like Lü Yongbin, and slowly tortured to atone for their sins.
Sometimes, death is actually a relief.
"Go to sleep, I'll handle the rest. We'll head back to Singapore first thing tomorrow morning," Gu Ran said to Tang Shishi.
Tang Shishi asked in confusion, "Tomorrow morning? What about the ship? It won't arrive for another three days!"
Chapter 314 The Trial of Power
“I’ve arranged for people to come and pick us up, as well as the people on the island. They’re all from prison and have been out of society for too long. Who knows what kind of inhumane things they might do? So I arranged for a boat a long time ago. Someone will come tomorrow.”
Gu Ran had already made arrangements for this.
“Then they…” Tang Shishi glanced at the seven people again, hesitating to speak.
“They had to die,” Gu Ran said to Tang Shishi. “Your reason for rebelling against the Zhang family in Nanyang was that you didn’t want to continue the killing game, so you killed seven of them. Then you saved your mother and left. This excuse is reasonable. Zhang Ronghua will probably talk to you about it as soon as possible.”
Gu Ran knew that this girl had never had blood on her hands, so he didn't intend to let her actually do it; he planned to execute these people himself.
"Can I do it?" Tang Shishi asked, mustering her courage. "My hands are already dirty, and I'm afraid I'll have to become even more ruthless to protect my mother."
Her eyes hardened, the confusion she had felt while pacing on the moonlit beach was gone.
In her view, killing these deserving people might be the least psychologically burdensome thing to do.
"Okay." Gu Ran snapped his fingers, and a security guard carrying an AK47 walked in.
"Use a gun, stand back a bit." Gu Ran tossed the AK to Tang Shishi.
The psychological impact of killing someone at a distance is different from that of killing someone at close range.
"Oh, by the way, before that, let me take the poison sac out of your gums first." Gu Ran said to Tang Shishi with a smile, "You know, the other seven people had already secretly taken out their suicide poison sacs a long time ago."
It seems that not everyone is fearless of death; it's just that honest Tang Shishi foolishly hid poison.
Tang Shishi smiled blankly when she heard this.
I am so silly.
At Gu Ran's command, she opened her mouth.
Gu Ran held her chin with one hand and put his fingers into her mouth with the other, using chakra to wrap the poison sac hidden at the back to prevent it from suddenly exploding.
Tang Shishi was still a little nervous, after all, this was a matter of life and death for her, so her body trembled slightly.