Chapter 306 Five Elements? Five Punishments!
Chapter 311 Five Elements? Five Punishments!

(Current record 41/11)

Sorry everyone, I went to a rehearsal today and came back late.

The scorching light caused severe burns and sunburn on my back. Layers of skin slowly fell off, revealing the blood-red flesh underneath. But what was more serious was my eyes. The stinging pain almost blinded me.

Bang!
The cell's secret room was opened, and Spirytus walked in and asked me coldly, "Speak the secret words. You will not have to suffer."

"Huh... you just came in here to talk nonsense?" I kept my head on the ground, not moving, even though my back felt like it was burning. "How long have I been here? A day? It seems like less than a day?"

"Thirteen hours, you've already started to become dehydrated. Are you sure you don't want to tell me? Your eyes will go blind if you can withstand this kind of light for a few more hours. Tell me and you won't have to suffer."

"Haha, you are the ones who will suffer if you blind me. Do you think I will be afraid?" I said disdainfully, "Maybe if you tell me your wife's name, I will consider telling you the secret code."

Bang!
I was answered by the slam of the door. Spirytus left, and my interrogation would continue.

In this way, during the test, my consciousness gradually weakened. When I woke up again, I smelled a strong smell of disinfectant. I returned to the infirmary. My whole body was burning with pain, and so were my eyes. When I opened my eyes, I saw darkness. My heart skipped a beat. Could I really be blind?

"Bing, are you awake?" Sensing that something was wrong with me, Jingliu, who had been sitting next to me, reached out and held my hand, letting me know that she was by my side.

"Sister Jingliu, my eyes..."

"I'm applying medicine on you, so you can't see now. Don't be afraid, I won't let you go blind." Jingliu held my hand a little tighter, signaling me not to panic.

"Phew...that's good. How long have I been here?" I said with a sigh of relief.

"About 30 hours in total," Jingliu replied. "When Spirytus entered the chamber for the second time, you had already passed out due to dehydration. So I brought you back for treatment."

"Ah, I guess this is only short-lived. There will definitely be more disgusting tortures waiting for me later." I pinched Jingliu's soft buttocks with my backhand. "How long can I rest?"

"Your eyes will recover tomorrow." Jingliu only said half of the words, and the rest could be guessed.

"I understand. I may have to trouble you for a while, Sister Jingliu."

"Yes. I will take good care of you." Jingliu stroked my forehead gently. "But you... is it really necessary to work so hard?"

"Oh, there's nothing I can do. This is what the organization requires. If I could resist, I would be 100% sure I could escape from here. But the problem is that I can't resist. Otherwise, why would I be in such a mess?"

"Can't Vermouth open a back door for you? Why do you have to suffer such inhuman torture?" Jingliu felt a little reluctant.

"Even if I can be given the green light, what about Ling and the others? They will definitely accept this training, so I must pass the assessment to prove myself, and then hold the right to this training in my hands." Although I can't see with my eyes, I can still judge Jingliu's position by the sound. I tilted my head to look at her. "Ling and the others have not received training in this area. They definitely can't hold on like I did. I have to control the intermittent treatment and even first aid in all aspects. Otherwise, if something unexpected happens, the people in the organization will not treat them as attentively as I do." I explained to Jingliu. "You know, if they are injected with Cui Qing potion and can't bear it, what do you think will happen to Ling? Let the people in the organization train her. There is no doubt that Ling will be treated terribly, which will affect her future growth. This is not what I want to see."

"So... are you planning to eat Ling yourself?" Although I couldn't see Jingliu's expression, I could feel the obvious cunning at the corners of her mouth.

"I've said before that if Ling wants to work with me, she will definitely go astray with me one day. This is inevitable. I can choose to inject the antidote into her, but what about her?" I asked. "The decision is not mine, but hers. If she chooses this, I can't refuse, otherwise it will affect our future cooperation. What I want is an absolutely loyal, trustworthy, and capable partner, not a wary, resentful puppet who only obeys orders."

"Ah..." Jingliu sighed. How could she not understand how difficult it was to protect everyone around her in the organization. To protect herself, it was the moment when this boy became a formal member at the age of seven. To protect Ling, she needed to spend a lot of energy to train her to be a partner who could be on par with herself, so that she could protect her under her wings and control all her tasks. Taichi and Mary were destined to be peripheral members. As long as they were under the name of this boy, they would not be in danger. And what about Shiho? Only when this desperate boy became the gold medalist. How many people knew how rugged this road was? How many difficulties would he encounter? In order to become a gold medalist, he sacrificed himself and his time to complete many things that should not have happened to him but now had to be done. "I understand. I will find a way to do a good job of counseling everyone."

"I hope Ling and Shiho can understand like you." I closed my eyes and said solemnly.

"They will." Jingliu reached out and stroked my cheek. "They will definitely understand."

"Well, I hope so."

————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

After a day of rest, the burns on my body had just scabbed over and my eyes had just recovered, and I was thrown back into the cell, but this time there was no light, but a tub of cold water with floating ice. Spirytus's task was to push me into the bucket of ice water until I said the secret words.

“Gurgle…Gurgle…Cough cough cough! Huh…Huh…”

"Boy, what's wrong? Still not willing to tell the secret words? How much of this jar of ice water have you drunk?" Facing my lips that were frozen blue, Spirytus showed no mercy.

"Ahem..." I coughed a few times with great effort, and then gasped for air. "What's your woman's name? Last time I asked, did it start with H? It seems like none of them start with H. Could it be I? J? K?... Ugh!!!! Gurgle..." "Damn boy, drown me!" Spirytus pushed me into the cold water again. It took about two minutes before he lifted me up.

"Ahem... K? It's K, right? Haha, what's her name then? Karen? Karin? Katherine? Cathy? Ka... Ugh..."

“Go to hell! Go to hell, you little bastard!” Spirytus couldn’t stop his anger. Fortunately, Hine stopped him, otherwise he would really drown me. Of course, this doesn’t matter to me. I have the protection of the necklace. Even if Spirytus really wants to drown me, as long as I feel I can’t hold on any longer, I can just put away the water tank. I can naturally escape danger, but as a price, Spirytus, who has murderous intentions towards me, will also die here. Maybe Hine will be buried with him. As for Vermouth... I won’t tell her, and it’s useless even if she asks. At worst, we can just turn against each other.

"Spirytus, calm down." Vermouth drove Spirytus away unhappily. "You lost your composure after a child read out your secret."

“Cough, cough, cough…” Freed from the water tank, I sat on the ground and coughed violently. “It’s not his fault. Anyone would do the same if their own people were threatened.”

"You stinky boy." Vermouth slapped me hard on the back, and the water in my lungs spurted out. "What do you want to do? Jingliu wasn't hurt, do you really want to take revenge on him?"

"No, I just want to make the test easier. By the way, I want to try cold reading. I remember that I haven't passed the cold reading test yet. How is it, Sister Bei? Ahem... Did you pass?"

"You kid." Vermouth frowned helplessly, but she couldn't hide the smile on her lips. "I'll go talk to Spirytus. Don't irritate him anymore."

"Oh, damn, he touched my own woman and I'm not allowed to take revenge?" I said disdainfully. "Hmph, wait and see. If he doesn't live in fear for a while, I'll write my name upside down."

"Ah... the brat always gives me problems." Vermouth had no choice but to walk out of the cell, muttering to herself. "Have you entered puberty? Why has your temper become so violent?"

"Bing... please don't joke with your life, okay?" Vermouth left, and Jingliu immediately handed me the oxygen respirator. "I'm worried about you like this."

"Oh? I don't think so." I took the mask and put it on my face. "Look, I can rest now, right? Hiss... It hurts. Be gentle, Sister Jingliu." I hurriedly grabbed Jingliu's hand that was twisted 180 degrees on the soft flesh of my waist. "I was wrong, I was wrong, I will pay attention next time."

"Hmph, if you do that again, I'll strangle you to death." Jing Liu waved her white wrist.

"Spirytus will be back soon, Sister Jingliu, you go back first. Don't worry, I know my own situation well. I will do what I can." I said to Jingliu after taking two breaths of oxygen.

"Okay, be careful." After saying that, Jingliu took the equipment and left. Not long after, Spirytus came back with a cold face.

"Katerina? Kirsten? Or... Gulp!" Before I could finish my sentence, Spirytus had already thrown me into the cold water, lifted me up, punched me hard in the abdomen, and then drowned me again.

In the following days, I was tortured repeatedly every day. The flashlight was cancelled, but it was replaced by the cold drowning torture, and new items were added on this basis. For example, after the cold drowning torture, they covered my face with a towel and poured water on it, squeezing out the only air in my lungs. Every time I wanted to breathe, the towel was lifted, and another handful of water was poured on me. During this period, Vermouth and Jingliu were by my side, ready to rescue me at any time. After the water torture, there was the earth torture. It was to bury my whole body with only my head exposed outside, so as to squeeze my body and make me lose my breath. Or I was locked in a cage and thrown from the top of the mountain. I was electrocuted unconscious, and there was even a time when my heart stopped. Fortunately, Jingliu was by my side and pulled me back from the brink of death.

But all the punishments were aimed at prying my mouth open, and in fact, not only did they not get anything out of me, but I got a lot of things out of me. For example, Spirytus' woman was called Kitty. Although Spirytus did not admit it, the anger that flashed in his eyes when I mentioned this name was completely reflected in my eyes. So Spirytus tortured me like crazy for a few days. But this also made me confirm the fact I thought.

After each period of torture, I would get a short break and then continue to be tortured. The longest time was a punishment that lasted for two weeks. Later, I had to rest for a week because of cardiac arrest. This kind of life lasted for three months before Spirytus announced that he would let me go.

"Baihe, do you want to give Bing two months to recover mentally?" Standing outside the ward, Vermouth and Jingliu looked at the child sitting on the bed with a pale face and a slightly empty look in his eyes and said worriedly.

"I think we should just get through the last one." Jing Liu said distressedly. "Bing specifically told me before that I must wait until he gets through the last test before letting him receive psychological recovery."

"Why?" Vermouth said. "Does this kid know what the last test is?"

In response to Vermouth's question, Jingliu shook his head and said what I had said. "I don't know either. Bing just said that he had guessed what the last test was, so he told me that no matter what he became, I must recover his mental state after all the tests were completed."

"This kid is really hard to guess." Vermouth chuckled, "Well, let's do it as soon as possible. His condition is about to collapse." Vermouth looked at the child on the bed again and said reluctantly, "I'll go find Spirytus."

"Yeah." After watching Vermouth leave, Jingliu walked into the ward and sat next to me. "Bing, are you okay?"

"Yeah." He nodded gently, and then there was no response. It's not that I don't want to pay attention to Jingliu, but the three months of torture have indeed changed my mentality. Even though I know it's all fake. But the double-sided destruction of body and mind, and facing the edge of death many times, these things will scare anyone. Yes, I am not afraid of death, but I definitely don't want to die here in this way. And the only thing I can do now is to continue to persevere. Until the last assessment is completed.

"Kid, this is the last test." Spirytus and Hine came in with a set of testing equipment. "Polygraph, plus truth serum. How long you can persist in this test will be the benchmark for the assessment."

"Oh, it's not about total persistence, but duration?"

"Humph! There is no one who can stay completely awake and not utter secret words after being injected with truth serum." Spirytus said disdainfully. "Begin! Let me know how long you can last!"

(End of this chapter)