Yu Jing's Plan

"If killing you would cause every life-form in the town to lock onto me, wouldn't it be enough not to kill you?"

"Arrogant!"

In Old Man's eyes, Yu Jing was barely over twenty. Even if he was a genius, he could never be that strong. More than a dozen legs alternated as he crawled across the ceiling, swinging his bladed arms and intending to hack Yu Jing into minced meat.

"Bind."

Yu Jing raised his right palm toward Old Man on the ceiling. Green vines writhed out through his pores one after another.

"You think these soft plants can bind me? You're—"

But before Old Man could finish his arrogant words, he froze. No matter how he tried, he could not cut through the plants around him. They eventually closed in and bound him completely.

A dozen slender vines burrowed through Old Man's pores and severed all his limbs from the inside, transforming him into a "Seal-man" covered in black sores.

"The merchant who planted these Black Brain Woods and the mastermind raising the entire town should be the same person, right? Where is he?"

"Haha, think you're clever, do you? Do you really think these tricks of yours can force any useful information out of me?" All of Old Man's limbs had been severed, but he still refused to tell the truth, his bones remaining stubbornly hard.

"Let's try it. There happens to be a master torturer here. Commissioner Tu, I'll leave this man to your interrogation."

"No problem, no problem!"

Tu Tianchong crawled in through the window, his head twisting nonstop. When he fixed his gaze on the completely bound Old Man, a half-meter-long tongue extended from his mouth and licked back and forth.

Since leaving the Potential Institute, Tu Tianchong had not set foot in the field