Inside the room.
Lu Yang was drenched in fresh blood, as if every part of his body had sustained severe injuries; the pain, rather than numbing after reaching its peak, became even more intense.
Even with training to endure pain, such agony was too much for him to bear.
"Lu Yang, just tell us the name of the real culprit, and we absolutely won't go back on our word, we'll take you to the hospital alive," one of the interrogators, a burly man holding a dagger he had pulled from Lu Yang's shoulder, asked with a stern face.
To ensure Lu Yang heard him clearly, he enunciated every single word crisply.
And, as he spoke these words, blood slowly gathered at the tip of the dagger and slid down in rivulets, drop by drop, falling onto the dusty ground.
Soon, it soaked through a patch.
Lu Yang's face turned pale from the pain, and his eyebrows furrowed involuntarily. He looked at the three men within his field of vision, his mind somewhat unclear.