Ma Gu lifted his face, which was missing half its flesh.
He stared at the people in the interrogation room.
“Tell me, what good will I get?”
Bai Mao Zai didn't even think, “Mangfu! Get him!”
A Xin instinctively stepped forward and landed two more punches on Ma Gu.
After he finished punching, A Xin paused, couldn't help but turn his head to look at Bai Mao Zai, and felt a shiver of anger!
After several punches, Ma Gu’s internal organs were shattered by A Xin, and he spat out many bloody fragments.
Finally, unable to withstand Mangfu’s violent interrogation, he spoke weakly, “I’ll talk! I’ll talk!”
Ma Gu exhaled, and after a brief silence, said, “The method to communicate with them is very simple. You just need to kill a person, and then insert one of their specially made incense sticks into the center of the corpse’s forehead, chest, and lower abdomen. Special patterns must also be drawn where the incense is inserted. Whoever wants to communicate with this virus must use their own blood to draw that totem. Besides that, there are time requirements: it must be between eleven at night and one in the morning! The closer it is to midnight, the higher the success rate!”
Bai Mao Zai stared at Ma Gu, “And then? Are there any precautions? If I'm not mistaken, since this virus has been brought here, it must be very difficult to send it away, right?”
Ma Gu nodded, “Indeed, once this thing is communicated with, it will cling to you like a bone-deep ulcer. Moreover, this thing will also fulfill many of the host’s requests, especially helping the host improve their strength. But the consequence is that as the number of uses increases, the dependence will become stronger, and eventually, you will be completely unable to get rid of it, losing complete control of your body.”
The people in the interrogation room all had different expressions upon hearing this.
A Xin was also stunned, never expecting this thing to be quite magical.
“Where is the headquarters of the Worship Night Sect? What is the virus you are researching this time for?” Tai Shi Bo asked, changing the question.
Ma Gu slowly leaned back against the chair, “I don’t know the exact location of the Worship Night Sect’s headquarters. I only know that the Worship Night Sect’s headquarters is inside a treasure artifact similar to a mustard seed. That treasure artifact might only be the size of a speck of dust on normal days, so don’t even think about finding it.
As for this research accident, the virus was not intentionally released. Rather, those idiots wanted to replicate the potion that Fang Zhengping created back then through experimental subjects. It’s just that their people are truly too stupid; the potion they created could only achieve eighty percent of Fang Zhengping’s potion.
Not only that, but the research direction also deviated severely. However, they did develop that highly contagious virus, but there are still many limitations. Even if the hosts of this virus can fuse with each other, the highest combat power can only reach level eleven, which is far from Fang Zhengping’s potion.
I suspect that Fang Zhengping’s potion still has reserves. If he were given a little more time, the potion he developed could reach level fourteen combat power! What a pity! A genius like Fang Zhengping might hinder the smooth arrival of Eternal Night, so he was put on the kill list!”
The people in the interrogation room all looked at A Xin implicitly.
Bai Mao Zai continued, “How many experimental subjects like you did Director Fang create back then?”
Ma Gu thought for a moment, “Including me, there were four. One named Ji Yuan ran away; you’ve met her and even fought with her. Of the remaining two, one died, and one completely defected, working for the people of the Worship Night Sect!”
Tai Shi Bo thought for a moment and returned to the previous question, “You just said that to communicate with those viruses, you need special incense. How is this special incense made?”
Ma Gu raised his hand and scratched the large, hideous wound on the side of his face, “Human bones ground into powder, and a kind of wood that only exists in the Land of Eternal Night. These two combined can create that thing.”
The people in the interrogation room wrote down everything Ma Gu said.
Afterward, Bai Mao Zai and Tai Shi Bo asked Ma Gu many questions, some of which were repeated several times. A Xin initially thought these two were interrogating aimlessly, but after a while, he realized that their interrogation had its own unique rhetoric. It seemed disorganized, but in reality, it was a step-by-step force, not giving Ma Gu any extra time to think.
The interrogation lasted for nearly four hours.
Coming out of the interrogation room, Tai Shi Bo tapped his finger on the screen in the monitoring room, and data appeared on the screen.
“Ninety-four percent of it was true.”
For the six percent of false statements, the screen automatically isolated those scenes.
A Xin looked at this treasure artifact and found it peculiar; this thing was indeed good, a valuable item.
Bai Mao Zai looked at the data, “You can continue the interrogation later. I have to go back. Old Master Ye just sent me a message. Let me know when you finish the interrogation here. I’ll personally deliver this thing to Research Base No. 1 of Taixu and let those people study it to see if they can replicate the awesome potion A Xin’s father developed!”
Tai Shi Bo’s expression brightened at the news, “So, does that mean we’ll have a chance to replicate the potion in the near future?”
Bai Mao Zai shook his head, “Don’t get too excited. I’ve talked to some old fellows from Taixu before, and they all said that many people simply can’t keep up with A Xin’s father’s way of thinking, even those within Taixu. I asked them, and they said that without experimental subjects, they could replicate sixty percent of that potion. If they have this potion, they can replicate eighty to eighty-five percent of it! That’s enough to create a level eleven combatant!”
Upon hearing this, A Xin couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, once again marveling that finding Ma Fuxiao was like striking gold. Ma Fuxiao was considered half a direct disciple of A Xin’s father, and the fact that he could gain A Xin’s father’s recognition and praise was enough to explain many things. Currently, Ma Fuxiao’s progress was faster than anyone else’s.
Even if Taixu could replicate eighty-five percent of the potion, based on A Xin’s understanding of various forces, there would inevitably be disputes, arguments, and schemes for profit. So, it was better for Ma Fuxiao to remain a quiet, handsome man by his side.
Bai Mao Zai glanced at his zhilian device, “I have to go.”
After speaking, Bai Mao Zai snapped his fingers and disappeared from the spot.
After a short rest, Tai Shi Bo and A Xin took their people back into the interrogation room and began a new round of questioning with Ma Gu.
They interrogated him for two full days and two nights, like 'roasting an eagle.' During this time, A Xin displayed his Mangfu specialty several times. Ma Gu couldn’t hold out and eventually confessed everything he knew.
In the darkness.
A fire suddenly lit up.
The firelight illuminated an old face.
Fang Qingdi blocked the cellar door and slowly sat down with his back against the wall.
The firelight flickered from side to side.
Fang Qingdi’s face was pale. He lowered his head and touched his chest and lower abdomen, his hands covered in blood. He smiled nonchalantly and murmured,
“He is indeed here!”