There is a god in the sky

Chapter 333 Revenge 2

Shen Lan caught the insects, but instead of putting them away, she covered them with a bowl.

She warned, "Lord Liu, remember this: it not only eats human brains, but also human flesh and drinks human blood. If you tell a lie, I'll have to cut off my own flesh to feed the worms."

Liu Engui shrank his body as much as possible.

Shen Lan cut to the chase and asked, "Do you still remember Shen Zhenrong?"

"No, I don't know him." Liu Engui shook his head desperately.

"Do you still remember Kori Town? Kori Town in Aoki Prefecture?"

Liu Engui's pupils contracted, his body trembled, and he pointed at her, stammering "you" for a long time without being able to utter a complete sentence.

Shen Lan gently broke his finger, and he screamed in pain.

Shen Lan asked, "Do you remember? There was a Shen family clinic in Guli Town back then. The owner of the clinic was named Shen Zhenrong, the family you snatched the prescription from."

"I...I remember now..."

Shen Lan released his hand, ignoring his pained expression. "Then you should know why we came to find you. Will you tell me yourself, or should I break your bones bit by bit to get the answers?"

Seeing her reach out to him, Liu Engui was so frightened that he hid his hands in his clothes and nodded vigorously: "Are you survivors of Guli Town? Impossible, there were no survivors in the town at that time."

"How do you know there were no survivors? Did you count the number of people after you killed them?" Shen Lan mocked.

“At that time, Guli Town was plagued by an epidemic and had been sealed off, so it was impossible for anyone to enter or leave.”

If you weren't in town at the time, people outside would have no idea what was happening inside.

Later, relatives from the town came to his door demanding an explanation, and he showed them official documents from the state government.

A small town rife with disease, filled with patients suffering from infectious diseases. If even one person were to emerge, it could bring disaster to Aoki Prefecture and even Jianzhou Prefecture. Who can guarantee that they won't infect others?

They're just relatives, how could they be more important than my own life?

So the matter was left at that, and the only one to blame was the bad luck of Guli Town, which had contracted the epidemic.

"You've got a really good plan. I'm curious, after killing so many innocent people, doesn't your conscience hurt? Don't you ever dream of evil spirits coming after you in the dead of night?"

"I am doing this to rid the people of a scourge!"

"Huh? So that's how you comfort yourself. No wonder, your heart was black from the start."

Liu Engui threatened them: "You had better release me, and we'll pretend today's events never happened. Otherwise, what can you few commoners do?"

Liu Engui was fearless and had nothing to fear.

After all, the higher-ups knew about that incident back then, and he was not only not blamed, but was also promoted because of it.

He laughed maliciously, "You want to take revenge on me? Let me tell you the truth, you've come to the wrong person. If you're so capable, go find the Emperor!"

He thought the other party would be shocked and devastated upon hearing this, but they were not; their reaction was too calm.

"You don't believe it?"

Shen Lan stated bluntly, "You gave the Shen family's prescription to the emperor. The Crown Prince asked you to find that prescription."

"You...you know?"

Very few people knew about this back then, so how could they have known?

“We not only know that you are Tong Yiwen’s protégé, that you are in cahoots with them, and that the Tong family paved the way for your promotion, but a single prescription is certainly not enough. You must have bribed the Tong family with a lot of gold and silver over the years.”

The ledgers we have are enough to kill you, but that's not enough. Thousands of lives have been lost in this town; your life alone cannot atone for them.

As soon as Shen Lan finished speaking, a sharp knife sliced ​​through the skin of Liu Engui's chest.

He screamed in agony, thinking his heart had been ripped out, but when he looked down, he saw a bloody gash on his chest.

"This cut only scratched the surface; you won't die. But with the next cut, I'll let you see for yourself what color your heart is."

Liu Engui was so frightened that he gasped for breath, his eyes wide as he begged for mercy: "Great hero, spare my life! I'll talk!...I'll tell you everything!"

"Then tell us everything you know about the Tong family and the Crown Prince, and say things we want to hear."

Shen Lan tempted her, "You're just a knife. Maybe if you tell the truth, we'll let you go."

Shen Lan applied medicine to his wound to prevent him from bleeding to death. "It's fine if you don't say anything. It's just a hundred or so lives of the Liu family. I will collect them one by one."

"you dare!"

"A life for a life is a matter of course."

Shen Zhiyuan had been in the Liu family for many years and had some understanding of Liu Engui's temperament.

He pulled Shen Lan away and placed the insects that had been in the bowl onto Liu Engui's chest wound, which immediately reopened the bleeding.

The insect, which loves to eat fresh blood, crawled around excitedly.

The feeling of worms wriggling in my chest is terrifying, even more terrifying than a direct cut.

"Ahhh... Take it away! Take it away now! I'll tell you everything!"

He gave some details in fits and starts.

For example, the Crown Prince always seemed to be short of money and would secretly embezzle gold and silver from the Ministry of Revenue, all of which were arranged by Tong Xiuqing.

For example, the Tong family has accumulated far more wealth than most people imagine; they just keep a low profile and don't flaunt their wealth.

"Where did the Tong family acquire their wealth?"

“Such a large clan has numerous businesses, not to mention countless mentors and disciples. The annual tributes alone amount to a huge sum.”

"Does the Tong family sell official positions?"

"This..." Liu Engui hesitated, his eyes darting around, and he did not answer immediately.

Shen Zhiyuan threatened, "Liu Engui, you'd better confess honestly, or your son's fate will be the beginning of your whole family's downfall!"

"Did you kill my son?"

"He deserves to die, and you deserve to die too!"

Seeing that he was losing control of his emotions, Shen Lan gently patted his shoulder.

Seeing that Liu Engui was about to go berserk, Shen Lan held a knife to his neck and asked in a deep voice, "Did you order the massacre of the town?"

"Back then, Tong Xiuqing ordered me to find a way to obtain the Shen family's medicine prescription, and then killed someone to cover it up!"

At the time, I only knew that the prescription was requested by the Crown Prince, but I did not know that he intended to give it to the Emperor.

Moreover, I originally only intended to kill the Shen family, but when the government troops sealed off the town, the Shen family, together with the townspeople, tried to break through the blockade, and even threatened me with a prescription, so... so..."

Shen Lan couldn't remember those things. She was still young then, and the adults would deliberately keep their actions from her.

What she couldn't understand was why the town had to be massacred.

Because of a prescription from the Shen family, thousands of lives in the town were lost, and this is her biggest regret.

"So you decided to go all the way and kill them all."

How convenient!

Shen Lan sneered, took off her mask, and looked at Liu Engui.

Liu Engui had always assumed the other person was a man, but he never expected that under the mask was a pretty face that looked somewhat familiar.

"You are……"

"The Shen family has been practicing medicine for generations, doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, but in the end they ended up with their family ruined and their lives destroyed. You, a corrupt official, are living a decent life. It's really ironic."

"You're Shen Lan, the female coroner from the Criminal Investigation Department!"