The private soldiers surged into the house. Wood cursed loudly, but the wolfish, tigerish men pinned his five brothers to the ground, leaving them unable to move. Two others grabbed Wood and swiftly used a rope to hang him beneath the window.
Abulin strode up to Wood with his head held high, then drove a vicious punch into Wood's lower abdomen.
Wood gave a strange smile and shook his head lightly at Abulin. "Below my chest, I can't feel much. Hitting my stomach is useless."
Abulin froze for a moment, then muttered before delivering a heavy slap across Wood's face. Wood's body tilted from the blow, blood spraying from the corner of his mouth. Abulin asked with a savage, smug grin, "How about now? Can you feel that?"
Wood spat out a mouthful of blood and said calmly, "Eight years ago, if you'd dared do that, your head would already be off."
Abulin frowned, then slapped him again and again as if possessed, brutally striking Wood's face until it was covered in wounds. The mad beating went on for a long while before Abulin finally sneered at the dazed Wood, "Fine. I'm not interested in wasting my strength on you for nothing!"
Pulling the girl beside him into his arms, Abulin grinned viciously. "With so many beauties around me, of course I have to serve them well!"
Drawing a deep breath, Abulin asked word by word, "Before Lin Qi was thrown into Black Abyss Divine Prison, it seemed he entrusted you with a large sum of money? They say it amounted to several million gold coins? Where is that money?"
Lin Qi was stunned. He had never asked Wood to keep even a single copper coin for him. Had something gone wrong with Abulin's brain? He had come all this