Mu Tianjiao's trembling hand reached into the box and stroked Mu Bing's cheek. When her fingers brushed across the blood-stained hollow of his right eye socket, her voice shook. "This was a sword wound. When that man gouged out Father's right eye with his sword, he must have been saying... 'looking down on everyone'..." Her fingers slid to the blood-stained hollow of his left eye socket, and she murmured, "He must have been saying... 'seeing people with dog eyes'..."
A vague outline of her father's murderer had already formed in her heart. Based on what she knew of that person, the words she guessed had actually been spoken were roughly the same as what the murderer himself had said while carrying out the torture.
She slowly lifted Mu Bing's head, intending to hold it against her chest, when she suddenly noticed wounds on his lips. If she had not discovered them by chance, they truly would have been hard to spot beneath the blood staining his lips. With trembling hands, she pried open Mu Bing's mouth and immediately smelled a thick, bloody stench tinged with decay. Inside that hollow mouth, his tongue had been churned to pulp, and not a single intact tooth could be found, all of them mashed into a lump within his mouth. It was obvious that someone had thrust a sword into his mouth and tortured him this way.
Mu Bing beside them was slightly alarmed as well. He had not expected there to be such hidden horrors inside the mouth. Who knew what Mu Bing had said to provoke Yue Qianchou into such ruthless brutality—beheading him, gouging out both eyes, and even shredding his tongue.
"Ah..." Mu Tianjiao suddenly cried out in grief and fainted backward on the spot. Wu Xiong was startled and swiftly