If Heaven hadn't given birth to me, I would be arrogant.

At this moment, in the eyes of the bandits, Zong Ze's seemingly harmless smile was nothing short of a devil's call. When Zong Ze's eyes swept over each bandit, each bandit felt a tension in their lower body, as if they could feel ants and rats wriggling in their crotch. Several of the more timid bandits had already lost control of their bladder and bowels!

"Well?" After recounting the story of skinning the animals, Zong Ze finally addressed the remaining bandits: "I wonder if any of you gentlemen here would like to cooperate with me and help me complete this experiment?"

Seeing that none of the bandits uttered a sound, Zong Ze was not in a hurry. He slowly walked up to one of the bandits, reached out and gently stroked his skin, his face full of longing. He seemed to be talking to the bandit, or perhaps he was muttering to himself: "What great skin, so dark and shiny. You're the one. Cooperate, okay?"

"No, I don't want to be skinned alive!" At this moment, the bandit could no longer hold back and roared hysterically, while a stench emanated from his crotch: "I'll tell you anything you want to know, as long as you give me a quick death and don't skin me alive, please!" In the end, this strong man actually broke down in tears!

"Oh?" Zong Ze remained unmoved and sighed slightly. "Since you don't want to cooperate, I won't force you. Anyway, there are many of you, so I can find others. Sigh, sometimes I really hate being a nobleman. I have to keep my word. If only I could go back on my word. There are so many test subjects here!"

Having said that, Zong Ze ignored the bandit who had already lost control of his bladder and walked to the next bandit. But before Zong Ze could speak, this bandit spoke up, "I'll say it too, I'll tell you whatever you want, I won't hide anything, I just want a quick death!"

At this moment, the remaining bandits shouted, "We'll all confess! We'll all confess! We just want a quick death!"

There was no other way. The guy in front of me, who called himself a nobleman, wasn't human at all. He was a demon who ate people without spitting out the bones, and even chewed the bones in his mouth with a crunchy sound.

Hearing that everyone had given in, Zong Ze felt a sense of relief. Recounting such a story was no easy task for him; he had even nearly vomited during the process. He was certain he wouldn't be able to have a proper midnight snack tonight.

With a wave of his hand, Zong Ze said to the soldiers, "Scatter them all out and question them. If their answers don't match, peel them skinned as I just told you, and then apply syrup."

"Yes!" the soldier shouted, then led all the bandits away, leaving only one bandit covered in syrup lying there unconscious.

"General" Shi Mo, suppressing his nausea, pointed at the bandit and said to Zong Ze, "What should we do with this guy? Just leave him here?"

"Throw my ass! Anyone who sees him like that would be disgusted. Do you even want the brothers to have dinner?" Zong Ze hurriedly said, "Get him out of here and deal with him. Damn it, he's disgusting me to death. I say, Camor, you two are really thick-skinned. I'm disgusted with what I'm saying, and you two are still listening with great interest?"

"So even you, General, couldn't bear it?" Upon hearing Zong Ze's words, Camor finally breathed a sigh of relief: "I thought you had actually witnessed it, since you spoke so eloquently about it! To be honest, the punishments you described are truly terrifying. However, I am quite interested in the method of skinning people. I'd like to find a tongue to test it on and see if a person can really crawl out of their skin!"

"See what? Try what?" Zong Ze replied irritably. "Actually, I also saw this in a book. At the time, I thought that regardless of whether this method was feasible or not, it was definitely a good way to scare people, so I tried it. Now it seems to work, but this method is really disgusting!"

"Hahahaha," everyone couldn't help but laugh after hearing Zong Ze's words. Shi Mo laughed with lingering fear, "General, to be honest, you scared me. I thought I was in the hands of a demon for the rest of my life, but it turns out that this demon was just a fake, a scare tactic!"

After suppressing their nausea, the group returned to their tents and waited patiently for the soldiers' interrogation results. Soon, the soldier in charge of the interrogation handed in several sheets of paper: "General, they've all confessed. After our review, there are basically no major problems. This is the result we've summarized!"

Zong Ze took the paper from the soldier and read it carefully for a moment. After reading it, he frowned and handed the paper to the others: "Everyone, take a look. It seems that the bandits in the border mountains are really a tough nut to crack. It won't be easy to take them down!"

Several battalion commanders took the papers and examined them closely. They all frowned. After a moment, Ai Sihua said, "General, it seems we were truly negligent this time. We didn't expect a group of bandits to number fifty thousand, and they have bunkers and sentries everywhere in these mountains... This..."

"It won't be easy!" said Shi Mo, who was considered the smartest among the group. "With the combat capabilities of our soldiers, taking over the border mountains shouldn't be a big problem, but I estimate that the casualties will be very heavy!"

"Damn it!" Camor slapped his thigh. "If all else fails, call in hot air balloons and we'll parachute in directly, carrying out the decapitation strike the general taught us to do, and killing all nine of their bosses!"

“No!” Shi Mo shook his head and said, “If they were ordinary bandits, a decapitation operation would be no problem, but these nine bandit leaders, apart from the ninth one, are all Martial Saints. Even if our pulley bows can kill them, the casualties of the airborne troops will be very heavy!”

"Damn it!" Camor roared, "This won't work? That won't work either? Are we supposed to give up this bandit suppression? Not to mention how the general will explain this to His Majesty, not to mention that a prince from the Northern Kingdom is involved this time. If we back down, they will definitely have a backup plan. The impact on morale alone will be unpredictable!"

Zong Ze waved his hand to stop everyone's argument, and sighed softly, "Actually, it's not difficult to wipe out this group of bandits. I have at least two other ways to do it, but both methods have some drawbacks, which is why I'm struggling to decide which method to use!"