Reborn to Become A Queen: The Real Heiress's Comeback-Chapter 359: Let me hear, who is the backer behind you?

Chapter 359: Chapter 359: Let me hear, who is the backer behind you?

Zhan Lan and Mu Yan looked toward the direction of the wall simultaneously. Zhan Lan lit the candles in the room and felt the wall saying, "There should be a mechanism."

Mu Yan looked around and quickly found a secret door. He pushed it open, took a glance inside, and then withdrew his gaze.

Before Zhan Lan even entered, she smelt a foul odor, a mix of decay and blood.

Zhan Lan looked inside from the doorway and saw five disheveled women with not a single unharmed spot on their bodies.

Some had numerous whip marks, others had flesh cut from their bodies, some had fingers chopped off, and some trembled all over from the torture.

When the five women saw Zhan Lan, they stretched out their hands as if pleading for her to rescue them.

"Woo woo woo... Ah..." They whimpered, unable to utter a single word.

Zhan Lan quickly realized they had all been tongueless.

Wu Jiangliu suddenly laughed, "I advise you to release me, or the two of you will end up just like this!"

"Not only do I have a way with torturing women, but when dealing with men, I can also..."

Mu Yan’s gaze turned frosty as he walked towards Wu Jiangliu, who now saw Mu Yan’s appearance clearly for the first time.

In an instant, Wu Jiangliu was stunned; such a stunningly handsome man existed in the world!

Yet this man’s entire aura was cold and ruthless, igniting an impulse within him not to spew harsh words.

Mu Yan asked expressionlessly, "Let me hear, who’s backing you up?"

Thinking Mu Yan was scared, Wu Jiangliu sneered, "I fear mentioning it would scare you to death. High officials in Ding’an City are not people you can afford to offend!"

Made nauseous by the smell in the room, Zhan Lan stepped out and approached the middle-aged man, "Oh, I’m so scared. Tell me, I’m listening."

Under the candlelight, the middle-aged man stared at Zhan Lan’s face and swept his gaze across her, knowing she was a woman.

Such a stunning beauty was from the Ministry of War; what a waste.

He leered at Zhan Lan, "Beauty, why don’t you join me, and I assure you that noble patron will secure your promotion. How about it?"

"Ah!" The next moment, the middle-aged man screamed in agony.

His ear had been sliced off by Zhan Lan’s dagger, as easily as cutting through iron like mud.

The middle-aged man with blood-red eyes yelled, "You’ve offended our Wu Family, and you won’t make it back to Ding’an alive!"

A voice of an old woman came from above the dungeon, "Jiangliu! How are you?"

The middle-aged man’s hoarse voice shouted, "Mother, save me!"

Clanging sounds came from above, and the old woman’s raspy voice shouted, "You fool, hurry and open it!"

"If anything happens to my son, none of you will live!"

The old woman kept urging, "Hurry, hurry!"

Zhan Lan and Mu Yan, listening to the old woman’s voice, Zhan Lan frowned - this old woman was clearly not a good person.

She called out to her son as Jiangliu; this man was indeed Wu Jiangliu, the Wu Family’s second master.

The women in the dungeon whimpered upon hearing the old woman’s voice, apparently very afraid of her.

Suddenly, the chamber door was opened from another secret door, and a mean-looking old woman with mean, triangular eyes walked in from outside, followed by a group of people.

"My son!" The old woman saw her son hanging by chains, his face covered in blood, a small pile of bloody things on the ground. She looked and nearly passed out.

"My son’s ears!" The old woman’s face turned pale as she clenched her hands tightly.

Having seen his mother arrive, Wu Jiangliu burst into loud sobs, with tears and snot streaming down his face.

"Kill them for me!" Barely managing to stand with support, the old woman didn’t care who the other party was; anyone who dared to lay a hand on her son deserved death!

The Protectors behind the old woman all raised their knives and charged forward.

Though these men had some skills, they were people Mu Yan would normally not bother to engage with on any regular day.

Mu Yan took down several of them in an instant, without even giving Zhan Lan a chance to take action.

Seeing the Protectors beaten to the ground, the old woman said coldly, "You two troublemakers, do you know who I am? Offending our Wu Family, I will see to it that your entire family meets a wretched end!"

Before she could finish her sentence, she suddenly perceived darkness before her eyes.

Slap, slap, two slaps.

Zhan Lan raised her hand and slapped the old woman, shaking her hand off indifferently after and saying, "Being old is one thing, but why turn into a monster?"

The old woman’s hairpin was smacked away, scattering on the ground, and two red marks appeared on her wrinkled face.

Never having been struck like this before, the old woman stood there dumbfounded. Moments later, her triangular eyes looked as if they would burst from their sockets as she stared intently at Zhan Lan, as if she meant to flay her alive.

"Old Madam, please be careful!" The Protectors, having seen the strength of Mu Yan and Zhan Lan, pulled the old woman back.

Shielded by the Protectors, the old woman hissed through clenched teeth, "Kill... Kill those two for me!"

Mu Yan felt that Zhan Lan’s slap was truly satisfying; he himself had never liked to hit women.

But this old creature was simply revolting.

As people grow old, there are two possibilities.

One is being the treasure of a family, as the saying goes, "An old family member is like a family treasure."

The other is becoming a thief in the family, as Confucius once said, "To be old and not die is to be a thief!"

A scourge upon the family for not respecting the elderly!

If it were not for such a mother, how could there be sons like Wu Jiangliu and Wu Jianghai, and a grandson like Wu Lin? This whole family was cut from the same cloth!

The old woman rolled up her sleeves, placed her hands on her hips, and said, "Do you know what place Heiling County is? You dare to hit me, you won’t get out of here alive today."

With a few claps of her hands, rustling sounds followed as more people came in from outside.

They each looked fierce and sinister, clearly no good sorts.

The old woman’s face twisted grotesquely as she shouted hoarsely, "I advise you to kneel down now and kowtow a hundred times to my son; I might just barely spare your lives! Otherwise, you’re in for a world of suffering!"

Mu Yan glanced at Zhan Lan who was calmly playing with a dagger in her hand.

Mu Yan curved the corners of his lips; if his girl could handle it, then there was no need for him to step in.

The next moment, Zhan Lan stopped twirling the dagger in her hand, and the sharp blade pressed against Wu Jiangliu’s neck. Zhan Lan said coldly, "Old thief, your son is in my hands, yet you still act so arrogantly and threaten me, what gives you the right to talk to me like this!"

Zhan Lan rotated her wrist, and with a ’puchi’ sound, the dagger stabbed into Wu Jiangliu’s eye, blood instantly flowed out from his right eye.

"Ah!" A dreadful scream echoed through the dungeon from Wu Jiangliu.

Zhan Lan abruptly pulled the dagger out of Wu Jiangliu’s eye, blood splattered, his one eye blinded!

Zhan Lan, with a radiant smile, looked towards the old woman and asked, "Shall we continue talking?"