Chapter 68: "Great Mercy and Great Compassion," you may all return now.

"Hiss~!"

Huaxia, Tazhai in Dongshan City.

Inside the basement of Lin Wentong's house.

The first assassin who had been knocked out gradually regained consciousness. He opened his eyes weakly, gazing at the dim surroundings.

"What just happened?!"

Even now, he still had no idea what had just occurred or what had happened to him.

Utilizing his "Shadow-Like" skill, Lin Wentong had slipped in silently right behind him without a sound, delivering two punches that rendered the man unconscious before he even realized it.

"No, wait!"

Feeling the lingering pain at the back of his head, the memories of what happened right before he lost consciousness came rushing back!

*It felt like... someone punched me once or twice?*

He tried to struggle to his feet, only to discover that his entire body was tightly bound.

"Oh no!"

Panic surged through his heart!

"Awake?"

Suddenly, a calm voice rang out. Following that, a figure stepped into the dim basement.

It was Lin Wentong.

Glancing at the bound captive, Lin Wentong asked indifferently, "Tell me, who are you people? Who sent you here? What is your purpose?"

He threw out all three questions right at the start!

The assassin did not answer; instead, he lowered his head in silence.

Seeing this, Lin Wentong raised an eyebrow and threatened, "Are you going to talk now, or after you've experienced some pain?"

At this point, he still did not know that these three men were professionally trained assassins groomed from childhood.

Such scare tactics were completely useless against them!

Seeing that the man remained stubbornly silent, Lin Wentong stopped wasting words and produced a needle.

"Let's see just how tough your mouth really is!"

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After a series of ruthless and brutal interrogations.

The assassin was trembling all over, his face ashen and completely devoid of blood color.

From his appearance, one could easily tell just how much torment he had endured!

Assassins cultivated by the Xia family truly lived up to their reputation for quality!

Even under such inhuman torture, he kept his mouth tightly shut, refusing to leak even a single word of information!

"Good!"

Lin Wentong furrowed his brow, finally realizing that something was amiss.

*Ordinary people or standard hired thugs could never withstand this kind of torture! Their origins are definitely far from simple.*

Seeing that it was impossible to pry open the man's lips, Lin Wentong turned around and left, walking over to another room in the basement.

Facing the second assassin who had just regained consciousness, he subjected him to the exact same treatment.

The result this time was identical to the first. No matter the interrogation methods or the cruel tortures applied, these men still refused to utter a single word!

As for the third one—the man he had knocked out with an anesthetic dart—the outcome was precisely as expected.

What Lin Wentong did not know was that his interrogation methods could be considered "gentle" compared to what the three of them had experienced back in the Xia family.

If they couldn't even endure this much, they never would have survived to this day!

As why the three of them hadn't committed suicide after being captured?

It was simply because the conditions to do so did not exist!

Bite their tongues off to die? Refuse to breathe until they suffocated themselves? Such actions, going directly against biological instincts, simply did not work!

As for concealing poison inside their teeth, that was even more absurd!

"Strange!"

Lin Wentong frowned deeply, rubbing his chin with his hand.

The more these three acted this way, the more it proved their professionalism!

Lin Wentong had tried numerous methods, yet he still couldn't crack their jaws open.

"We can't go on like this!"

He checked the time; dawn was fast approaching, and the sun would be rising soon.

He couldn't possibly keep the three of them tied up here forever, could he?

As for silencing them permanently by killing them? That was even less viable!

After all, this was still within the borders of Huaxia. Even if these three men possessed no official identities, if Lin Wentong were to quietly execute them on domestic soil...

Then... he would still find it difficult to escape the sanction of the law!

Hand them over to the police?

On the surface, that undoubtedly seemed like the best solution, but Lin Wentong had no desire to do that.

Because once these three were handed over to the police, even if their identities were thoroughly investigated, the authorities certainly wouldn't share that intelligence with Lin Wentong!

Therefore, he had to rely on himself!

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【Micro Military Camera】

【Price: 50,000 Wealth Points】

【Micro Condensed Remote-Detonation Bomb】

【Price: 10,000 Wealth Points】

Lin Wentong rubbed his chin as he looked at these two items in the system mall.

A bold idea formed in his mind!

Didn't these three refuse to say a single word?

Fine!

Then you don't have to say anything! I'll just send you back directly!

Without hesitation, he exchanged for three 【Micro Military Cameras】 and three 【Micro Condensed Remote-Detonation Bombs】.

The 【Micro Military Camera】, priced at 50,000 Wealth Points, was no larger than a pinky fingernail. Not only did it transmit real-time video feeds, but it also included audio capabilities and even GPS tracking!

"Fifty thousand Wealth Points is actually well worth it!" Lin Wentong affirmed with a hint of surprise.

As for the 【Micro Condensed Remote-Detonation Bomb】, there was nothing much to say about it. Its size was identical to the camera, and because it was condensed, its explosive power was not to be underestimated!

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Stealthily and without a sound, Lin Wentong attached one camera and one bomb to each of the three assassins.

Afterward, he herded the three of them together.

He said coldly, "I don't care who sent you! I don't care what they are planning! Right now, I want you to go back and deliver a message for me!"

"If there are any grudges between us, let's settle them out in the open. Stop playing sneaky tricks behind my back!"

With that, Lin Wentong impatiently drove the three of them out of Tazhai.

The three assassins: "???"

For a moment, they hadn't even processed what was happening!

Just a moment ago they were being brutally tortured and interrogated, and the next moment they were simply set free?

And on top of that, they weren't questioned any further—they were just told to go back and deliver a message?!

The three men looked at each other, sensing that something was terribly wrong, yet unable to figure out what the problem was!

"Let's get back first. This village is far from simple!"

Finally, one of them spoke up.

It was the very man who had been taken down by Lin Wentong's tranquilizer gun.

Even now, the image of Lin Wentong reaching into his trouser pocket and casually pulling out an arm-length tranquilizer gun replayed continuously in his mind!

How could a pocket that shallow possibly hold an arm-length tranquilizer gun?

This lingering question troubled him and simultaneously made him realize that this village was utterly bizarre—far more complicated than the intelligence reports had described!

The other two nodded in agreement.

They, too, felt that there was something deeply abnormal about this village.

Leaving aside everything else, aside from the one brought down by the tranquilizer, the other two didn't even know how they had been knocked unconscious in the first place.

*Go back and tell Third Master that the intelligence is flawed!*

The three of them did not linger. Taking advantage of the pre-dawn darkness, perhaps they could still manage to smuggle themselves across the border.