Yu Jin Chang An (With Jin's Chang'An)

Chapter 28

The next morning, just as dawn broke, a soldier came to report to Li Shuang that Chang Wanshan had awakened and wished to see her.

Li Shuang had spent the entire night without sleep, holding the paper stained with Chang Wanshan's black blood, studying it for a long time. Although the paper only contained a few numbers, Li Shuang seemed to see through this rare piece of information to the mysterious person who had been taken away, miles away. It was as if she could see his crimson eyes from the day they hurriedly parted...

Li Shuang was startled to realize that she was starting to miss him a little...

Upon hearing that Chang Wanshan wanted to see her, Li Shuang immediately got up and went to the guards' camp.

As Li Shuang arrived, everyone in the guards' camp greeted her respectfully. Chang Wanshan tried to get out of bed, but Li Shuang pressed down on his shoulder. "No need for formalities," she said.

Chang Wanshan didn't insist on any more formalities either. He spoke directly, "General, the mysterious person you're seeking is in the Five Spirits Sect in the Nanchang Mountains."

Li Shuang nodded. "I've already seen the note. Please tell me the details."

Chang Wanshan's eyes darkened as he held his chest, trying to appear calm despite his lingering fear. "Three months ago, I followed the trail of those people, heading south while sending messages back to Lu City. We continued until we reached the Nanchang Mountains. I intended to stop there and send someone back with a message. But to my surprise, our entire route was anticipated by the leader of the Five Spirits Sect. Not a single message was sent out. In the end, I was captured by a witcher of the Five Spirits Sect..."

Chang Wanshan's hand trembled slightly as he spoke. "I am ashamed. The skills and techniques of the witcher were beyond my reach. After my defeat, instead of killing me, the witcher imprisoned me in the dungeons of the Nanchang Mountains... along with that mysterious person in black armor."

Li Shuang was taken aback. "Why were you imprisoned together with him? And how is he?"

Actually, Li Shuang was eager to ask for more details about that person, but in the presence of Chang Wanshan, who was so weak, displaying too much emotion was inappropriate for a general. So Li Shuang had to suppress her emotions and patiently wait for Chang Wanshan's response.

"In the dark dungeon, the light was too dim for me to distinguish things clearly. During the day, the dungeon was quiet. I only remember that every night, someone would come with a torch. The mysterious person was tied to the wall with his limbs spread apart and his neck bound. Every day, they would make a cut on his chest. I didn't know what they were doing, but that mysterious person... in the first few days, he could occasionally ask me about the general..."

Ask about her?

Li Shuang's heart skipped a beat.

He still remembered her.

"...Later, he seemed to go mad, howling and whimpering like a wild beast in the dungeon, sometimes silent, sometimes roaring, quite terrifying."

Li Shuang frowned slightly, feeling a dull pain in her heart.

"Later, the leader of the Five Spirits Sect, Witcher Wu Yin, came to the dungeon and examined that person for several days. He used many methods that I couldn't understand, drained his blood, and tortured him back and forth. But it only made that person more violent. The thick iron chains on his arms were broken several times. I could feel that he desperately wanted to leave the dungeon, trying to escape with all his might."

For some reason, as Li Shuang listened to Chang Wanshan talking about that person, she could almost see him in her mind, struggling and screaming in the darkness, enduring unbearable pain.