readsfreenovel Chapter 489 Experiment
Chapter 489 Experiment
Chu Yuntian slowly stood up, the Inquisition badge on his silver-white uniform glowing coldly in the moonlight.
He reached out and touched the pinch marks on Chu Ziyu's neck that had not yet faded, and suddenly pressed his fingertips into the bruises: "It seems that our Holy Son is more violent than the rumors say?"
The severe pain made Chu Ziyu's muscles tense instantly, but his eyelashes didn't even tremble: "Brother, you came to visit me late at night just to talk about this?"
"What?" Chu Yuntian leaned close to his ear, his voice as intimate as a venomous snake, "After five years of living together day and night, do you really think of yourself as the Holy Son's dog?" He suddenly pulled open Chu Ziyu's collar, exposing the scars that had just been treated by the healing spell, "Don't forget how these injuries came about-"
Late at night three days ago, in the underground interrogation room of the courtroom.
Chu Ziyu was suspended in the air by an iron chain, the steel buckle digging deep into his wrist bone. Twelve holy fire lamps surrounded him, the scorching light burned his bare chest, and the old and new overlapping scars looked like twisted earthworms under the strong light.
"The thirty-seventh experiment, start recording." Chu Yuntian sat on a high-back chair in the shadows, tapping a gold-stamped experimental log with his fingertips. "Today we will test the critical ratio of holy light resistance and dark corrosion."
Following his signal, two black-robed deacons stepped forward, one holding a staff inlaid with a holy crystal, and the other holding a skull bowl emitting black mist.
When the holy light and darkness invaded the wound at the same time, Chu Ziyu's back suddenly arched, and the chain groaned under the heavy burden. Blood dripped from his bitten lip, forming a small puddle on the ground.
"It's really touching." Chu Yuntian walked up to him and pulled up his sweaty face. "Is it worth it for the eternally high-ranking Holy Son?"
(Flashback within flashback)
On a rainy night five years ago, sixteen-year-old Chu Ziyu knelt in the Chu family ancestral hall. When the family's French stick broke the third one, Chu Yuntian appeared at the door holding a black umbrella.
"Want to save your mother?" He threw down a roll of parchment. "Sign it and become the Son's watchdog."
The parchment was densely covered with the terms of the forbidden contract, and the last line was written in blood: Voluntarily becoming a subject of the fusion of light and darkness.
(Back to the torture chamber scene)
"Ah... I almost forgot." Chu Yuntian suddenly clapped his hands, and the deacon immediately pushed up a crystal mirror. The mirror showed a scene of a dark monastery - a thin woman chained to the wall, her left eye a bloody hole.
"Mother was very naughty today. She even wanted to pass on a message to the Holy Son." Chu Yuntian shook his head regretfully. "What do you think...which eye should I take out next time?"
"Don't hurt her..."
(Back to reality)
The moonlight passed through the stone pillars of the corridor, casting a fence-like shadow between the two brothers. Chu Ziyu suddenly laughed softly, and his bloody fingertips touched the Inquisition badge on Chu Yuntian's chest: "Brother is so concerned about the relationship between me and the Son...Are you jealous?"
He suddenly pulled the person closer, and the two equally tall figures looked like beasts confronting each other in the moonlight: "After all, you have been scheming for so many years... and you can't even touch the corner of the Son's clothes."
Chu Yuntian's pupils suddenly shrank, and the ring suddenly glowed red. Chu Ziyu groaned, and the sun mark on his left chest lit up with a strange light at the same time - that was the pain of the contract backlash.
"I will personally prepare the 'baptism' for you in the court tomorrow." Chu Yuntian straightened his torn collar, his voice as gentle as if he was discussing the weather, "I wonder what expression your Holy Son will show when he hears your screams?"