Chapter Fifty-Three: Another Blood Debt

  Damn it, Lin Feng didn't expect Xiao Ye to be so ruthless, if he didn't guess correctly, he would have killed all the ordinary people.

  Can Lin Feng answer Ono?

  Let him go and frame innocent people as culprits. Although Lin Feng is usually a scoundrel, he can't do such a thing.

  "What's up, Lin Sang?" Xiao Ye exclaimed excitedly, rubbing his hands together as he gazed at the trembling villagers in the courtyard, a green glow flickering in his eyes. "Let's play this game again!"

  Lin Feng turned his head, his eyes gleaming with cold light as he stared at Xiaoye's cruel and ugly face, his heart seething with hatred that made him want to go forward and tear him to pieces.

  Ono felt Lin Feng's very unfriendly gaze and turned his head to stare back at him.

  Lin Feng finally couldn't bear it anymore, his hands clenched into fists, his fingernails digging deep into the flesh of his palms, gritting his teeth and saying word by word: "You... will... go... to... hell!"

  "No, no, no. I don't know if I'll go to hell or not, but if you don't agree to my demands, I'll send them... " Xiao Ye said, pointing at the common people with his hand, and continued in a slow and menacing tone, "to... hell!"

  After Xiao Ye finished speaking, his eyes were still locked on Lin Feng, and the hand pointing at the ordinary people did not come back, but instead waved randomly towards the crowd.

  At once two Japanese soldiers rushed into the crowd and dragged out a man in his thirties.

  That man knew it wasn't a good thing, he struggled desperately and shouted: "What are you doing? Let me go quickly, it's not me, I'm a good citizen, I'm a good citizen..."

  The Japanese soldier didn't care what the man was shouting and dragged him to the bottom of the elm tree, tying him up with a rope that had been prepared long ago.

  "It wasn't me, really wasn't me, I'm a good citizen, please have mercy on me, Your Honor!"

  The man had already sensed danger and his terrified cries were tinged with sobs.

  However, the Japanese soldiers pretended not to hear and instead wrapped some tattered cloth around the man's head.

  The other onlookers were so frightened that they didn't dare to breathe, fearing that they would attract the attention of the Japanese army and be dragged out too. They trembled with fear, their faces ashen.

  Xiao Ye turned his head, watching his subordinates dealing with the man while smugly saying to Lin Feng: "Lin San, I'll show you a new program that's guaranteed to be unlike anything you've ever seen before."

  The little ghost is going to light a sky lantern! Lin Feng had never seen one before, but he had read about it in books and knew that's what it was.

  According to the book, being burned alive is an extremely cruel form of punishment. The criminal's entire body is wrapped in cotton cloth soaked in oil and then hung upside down from a high pole. The process starts with the feet being set on fire, slowly burning the person to death, which takes a long time and is extremely painful.

  Because this punishment is extremely cruel, it has been abolished for a long time, and even in ancient times it was rarely used.

  Lin Feng never thought that the ruthless Xiao Ye would use such a cruel punishment on innocent civilians.

  Xiao Ye kept pressuring Lin Feng to play games with him, in fact, it was just an excuse to suspect Lin Feng. Even if he couldn't find any evidence, he didn't want to let him off easily.

  Lin Feng knew that if he couldn't grasp Xiao Ye's weak point this time, he would be in trouble later.

  Those who refuse to play along with Xiaoye's game will all die, and those who do play along must go and falsely accuse innocent civilians of being the culprits. No matter how they choose, these people will all die because of their own actions.

  The incident tonight was actually caused by himself, and Lin Feng, no matter how despicable he is, couldn't do something like using someone else's death to exchange for his own life, let alone a group of people.

  If it can't be done, then what's left is for Lin Feng to surrender himself, which is exactly the effect that Xiao Ye had hoped to achieve.

  How can he stop Xiao Ye's indiscriminate killing of innocent people while also keeping himself safe has become Lin Feng's biggest headache at the moment.

  "Hey, Ono! You're slaughtering innocent people, you'll stir up public outrage, and you'll plunge Nishihira County into chaos. Ito will never let you off the hook!" Lin Feng's face was filled with indignation as he glared at Ono in a rage.

  Lin Feng brought out Ito again at this time to suppress Ono, not because he thought Ito was a good person, but because Ito was equally ferocious, but at least he was cunning.

  If Ono is a mad dog that only knows how to bark wildly and bite randomly, then Ito is an old fox who wants to be both a prostitute and a paragon of virtue.

  Lam Fung is not afraid of Yee Tung's cunning. Cunning people usually think things through carefully, but he can be controlled from his weak points.

  To pretend to be prosperous and peaceful in Xiping County, to promote the Great East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere concept of Japanese militarism, to beautify the ugly invasion of the Japanese army, this is Ito's current weakness, Lin Feng tightly grasped this point, just right to use it to restrain Xiao Ye.

  Ono was a brutal guy with a relatively simple mind. When he heard Lin Feng's words, he really started to think about it.

  Lin Feng saw that after he finished shouting, Xiao Ye's excited expression on his face gradually faded away, and he couldn't say a word with his brows furrowed, knowing that this guy had been caught off guard by him, and secretly let out a sigh of relief in his heart.

  "Hey Ono, you four-limbed beast with a simple brain, think you can outsmart me? I'll play you to death!"

  Xiao Ye was indeed stunned by Lin Feng's roar, but in his heart, a ball of anger surged up, rushing left and right inside him, unable to vent out. After a moment, he was suffocated to the point where his eyes turned red, and his demonic temper suddenly burst forth.

  Only Xiao Ye suddenly took big strides towards the man who had just been wrapped in a rotten cloth by Japanese soldiers and hadn't been hanged yet.

  He walked up close, and with a "whoosh" sound, Ohno drew his baton and slashed at the man's clothes, ripping them open amidst the crowd's screams. He then sheathed his baton and used both hands to tear off the man's clothes, piece by piece, until he was almost naked. Suddenly, he lifted him up with a loud roar, swung his arms and threw him into the large cauldron of boiling water.

  The half pot of water in that large cauldron was almost boiling at this time, the temperature was very high. The man was thrown into it naked by Xiao Ye, and he was immediately scalded, struggling desperately, but his hands and feet were tied up, unable to struggle free, only letting out wave after wave of painful screams.

  The common people had never seen anything like this before, and one by one they were even more horrified. Some timid ones had already closed their eyes, and some had even been scared to the point of wetting their pants. Those whose legs had gone soft and were trembling, unable to stand steadily, were not in the minority either. However, no one dared to make a single sound again.

  Not only were these unsophisticated common people frightened out of their wits, but Yang Huai, the big shot son of the former head of the Xiping County Police Bureau, who had seen his share of brutal interrogation methods during his time in the police bureau, was also shocked by such cruelty, and was similarly trembling with fear, his forehead covered in cold sweat, almost falling to the ground.

  Lin Feng was not afraid, but he was stunned, and his mind suddenly went blank for a moment.

  After throwing that man into the hot water pot, Ono seemed to be still unsatisfied, and stepped forward with big strides, staring at Lin Feng with a fierce gaze, and roared savagely: "Every soldier of the Great Japanese Empire is an excellent warrior, precious, and the Great Japanese Empire absolutely cannot tolerate their meaningless slaughter. For every one of them who is killed, I will take ten of your lives to sacrifice to their heroic spirits!"

  After Ono finished speaking, he raised his hand and gave a loud command to all the Japanese soldiers, "Wuriwara!"

  The Japanese army rushed forward, using bayonets to force those civilians to move out.

  Lin Feng realized for the first time that the Japanese army was ruthless and unscrupulous in their actions, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, his face turning pale as paper.

  Xiao Ye looked at Lin Feng's current expression, with a sinister and ferocious smile, saying: "I won't kill these people now, but I will take them back to the constabulary, and I will make them speak out who the murderer is!"

  Xiao Ye led the Japanese army to retreat, taking away more than a dozen old villagers. Lin Feng knew without thinking that these villagers would receive what kind of treatment after being captured by the Japanese military police. The image of Chen Dong's appearance reappeared in front of him, with his two legs twisted and deformed on the ground, broken during the torture and interrogation by the Japanese army, a pitiful sight.

  Lin Feng knew that these ordinary people would be treated no better than Chen Dong after being captured by the Japanese army.

  And all of this is due to Lin Feng. How can Lin Feng pretend to be unaware, but what can he do? He can't do anything.

  The water in the big pot had already boiled, and the man who was thrown into the pot by Xiaoye had lost his voice before Xiaoye left, probably he was dead long ago.

  Lin Feng looked at the big pot below, where the flames were still burning fiercely, and the hot air rising from inside the pot. In his ears was the sound of boiling water "gurgling" away, while the man's twisted and deformed corpse slowly rolled over in the pot with the rolling boil.

  "Brother, I, Lin Feng, owe you an apology. You can rest assured and leave now. I, Lin Feng, swear here that I will definitely kill Xiao Ye to avenge you, I definitely will!" Lin Feng closed his eyes, tilted his head back towards the sky, and silently muttered to himself.

  Lin Feng did not handle the man who was boiled to death by the hot water, it would be more appropriate to leave him for his relatives to collect.

  Lin Feng did not dare to return to the warehouse at night, fearing that he would encounter the Japanese patrol team on the street again, so he returned to Feng Jie's home once more.

  Spent a night at Feng Jie's place, Lin Feng didn't close his eyes for a single moment, not that he wasn't sleepy, but the moment he closed his eyes, the image of that man being boiled in hot water appeared in his mind, and it was just too miserable.

  Lin Feng spent a sleepless night at Feng Jie's home and finally waited until dawn broke.

  Walking out of the alley, Lin Feng stood still on Guo Zhong Road, turned around and looked at the alley again, which seemed extremely desolate, his heart beating rapidly.

  Lin Feng returned to the warehouse at noon and was intercepted by a strong force before he could even enter his own room.

  "Master, you've finally returned! Someone from the old house has arrived with a message. I don't know what's happened, but Master is anxiously pacing back and forth in the living room!" Da Li hastily exclaimed.