CHAPTER 688: CHAPTER 279: LIANG YUAN’S RUTHLESSNESS_3

Liang Yuan said, "Let me do it. You take Uncle Lin to that room to rest for a while and check on his injuries."

Yang Mei gave Li Kuirong a vicious glare, turned around, and obediently supported the terrified Old Yang, leading him to a nearby room.

Liang Yuan watched them leave, then turned his gaze towards Li Kuirong.

He didn’t directly make a move on Li Kuirong.

Instead, he turned and walked towards his several brothers with broken legs.

"Actually, I can’t really understand it. You are all from the same village. Before the great flood, you were neighbors who saw each other all the time. Why is it that a disaster caused you to lose your humanity and moral bottom line, turning you all into a bunch of beasts?"

He walked to Li Kuifu’s side. Li Kuifu’s arm had been torn off, his scalp ripped open, blood constantly flowing while he cried out in pain on the ground.

Liang Yuan took out another iron nail and said, "To be honest, when I usually kill people, I’m not this cruel. But today, I really can’t stand it, and I don’t want to."

"Just killing you all quickly would be too easy on you."

"I’ll try to make you live a bit longer, but my methods might be a bit extreme. If you can endure it, then endure it."

He casually grabbed Li Kuigui’s fingernail, slowly driving the iron nail into it.

Instantly, Li Kuigui let out a shrill scream, his whole body writhing like a dead fish thrown on shore, struggling and crying.

After nailing one, Liang Yuan took out another nail and said, "Scream. The more miserable your screams, the more pleased I’ll be."

Li Kuirong watched helplessly as his brothers were tortured. His face twisted with pain as he roared, "You little bastard, if you have the guts, just kill me! Kill me already."

"Fuck you, let go of my brothers!"

"Damn your ancestors..."

"No, no, please."

"I beg you, let them go. Just end it quickly."

"It was me. I did it all. It has nothing to do with them."

Li Kuirong’s curses gradually turned into pleas and begging.

He watched helplessly as Liang Yuan tortured his brothers bit by bit.

Every time his brothers were about to break, the other side would slow down or even save them, stopping their bleeding.

This demon, this beast!

Li Kuirong broke down. He knew the other side wouldn’t spare them no matter what.

He only begged for a quick death, for less pain for his brothers.

Not far away, Li Guoxiang, Yang Yi, and Yang Guodong watched this scene, their faces pale, bodies trembling with fear.

Li Guoxiang fell to his knees, curling up into a ball, so frightened by the screams that he wet himself.

As Li Kuirong’s pleas echoed, Liang Yuan laughed, pausing slightly with the nail in his hand.

He turned his head and asked, "Tell me, where is Yang Mei’s mother’s corpse? And what exactly happened to her father?"

"If you lie, you won’t be able to deceive me."

Li Kuirong closed his eyes in pain and said, "We buried Lin Fang’s corpse in the mass grave behind Yunquan Temple. There are too many bodies there, I can’t describe it. I can go find it."

"Yang Youwei really escaped to Jieshi Academy. There are still many people living there who are against me."

"Back then, Kui’an took a liking to Yang Duoduo and tried to take her to bed. Yang Youwei saw this, foolishly came out to stop it, and brought people to surround Kui’an. In anger, Kui’an killed a few people and broke Yang Youwei’s arm."

"Yang Youwei also awakened a superpower. He is a Speed Ability User."

"He took Yang Duoduo and escaped from Yunquan Temple. We pursued them, eventually killing Yang Duoduo, while Yang Youwei was rescued by the superpower users of Jieshi Academy."

"We fought with the people of Jieshi Academy but they managed to escape."

"I’m telling the truth. If you can truly detect whether I’m lying, you should know I’m telling the truth."

Li Kuirong opened his eyes and looked at Liang Yuan.

Liang Yuan didn’t sense any fluctuations in his qi and blood, and nodded slightly, "Indeed, you didn’t lie."

"I want to know, why did you do this?"

"On this Meishan, you shouldn’t worry about food and drink, right? Why did you have to do such beastly acts to your former village neighbors?"

Li Kuirong immediately let out a mournful laugh, "Do you think just because we’re from the same village, we’re necessarily on good terms? Back then, my father was bullied a lot in the village because he was an only child. When he was building a house, Yang Duoduo’s grandfather claimed the house was blocking their path and gathered a bunch of Yang family members to tear down our foundation."

"My father often told us about this grudge. Why do you think our family is so poor, but he still tried so hard to have sons?"

"Because of the suffering and hardship he endured, he knew that with fewer men in the family, we’d be bullied by so-called village neighbors!"

"After the five of us brothers grew up, who in this village dared to boss us around anymore?"

"Except for the village party secretary and officials, no one dared!"

"I swore back then that I’d become a village official!"

"I worked hard, entertained, and drank with people – for what? For a bit of power!"

"But when I became the village chief, I realized how dark the officialdom is. As a village chief, I was nothing."

"You say I’m cruel, haha, you haven’t seen worse."

"In the post-apocalyptic great flood, we took everyone up the mountain. Even the government was gone, who could control us?"

"We are the emperors here, doing whatever we want!"

"We finally awakened superpowers, so what if we enjoy ourselves a bit now?"

"What’s wrong with that?"

"I don’t believe you don’t have a dark side, haven’t thought about doing whatever you want, or having many women!"

"You are also a superpower user, and such a powerful one at that. Don’t tell me you never thought of these things?"

"I just practiced my thoughts. I did what every man wants to do. What’s wrong with that?"

"Blame the world, blame those unfortunate people who didn’t awaken powerful superpowers, who couldn’t protect themselves."

"This world is inherently about the survival of the fittest, where the strong dominate!"

Li Kuirong seemed to have given up, shouting hysterically.

Finding suitable reasons for everything he had done, spewing nonsense.

Liang Yuan looked at his demeanor and couldn’t help but shake his head slightly, "Your agitation shows that you are feeling guilty."

"You know your words don’t hold water."