Chapter 291: Chapter 291: Was It Lucifer Who Wanted to Kill Su Wan Back Then?
After finishing his words, Gu Jue donned his military cap and arrived at the military base’s designated detention area for prisoners.
The young man, bound in special material, lazily smiled, "Commander Gu, are these all the interrogation tactics you have? How naive!"
Gu Jue turned around and said to the Interstellar Warrior beside him, "Bring me a faster knife."
"Yes, sir!"
Upon seeing this, Ian scoffed, "Commander Gu isn’t getting frustrated and planning to kill me directly, is he?"
Gu Jue shook his head, "No, I’m not killing you."
Ian’s lips curled up arrogantly.
The next moment, he heard Gu Jue seriously ask, "Are the octopus legs of you Octopus Beastmen regenerative? How long does it take for them to grow back?"
Ian’s smile tightened, and he cautiously said, "Commander Gu, why do you ask this? Or are you planning to resort to a different method of coerced interrogation?"
Without a word, Gu Jue took out a transparent box and tossed it in front of Ian.
Upon careful inspection, Ian saw that it was something longer than a finger but charred black, making it indiscernible.
He asked, "What is this?"
Gu Jue commanded, "Someone, open it and let him take a whiff."
The Interstellar Warrior immediately approached, put on gloves, took the item out, and placed it near Ian’s nose.
As soon as Ian smelled it, the casual expression on his face instantly solidified.
Then, it underwent various changes.
In the end, he feigned composure and scoffed coldly, "Commander Gu, you truly disappoint me. Using a piece of grilled octopus to scare me? I’ve watched someone make octopus teppanyaki right in front of me without even blinking—"
"This leg belongs to Lucifer."
Ian abruptly halted, looking at Gu Jue with astonishment and immediately shook his head decisively, "Impossible!"
"Believe it or not, it’s up to you."
Gu Jue then took out a kind of elixir and then force-fed it to Ian. Not long after, Ian couldn’t help but transform into his octopus form, with tentacles emerging.
Struggling, Ian’s tentacles struck the ground, clanging loudly!
Because he suddenly realized that the frigid War God standing before him was somewhat different from before!
Gu Jue had already picked up the knife and sliced off several octopus legs.
In pain, Ian clenched his teeth, "Even if you cut off all my tentacles, I will never reveal where my elder cousin is!"
"If I cut them all off, will they grow back completely?"
"You, why are you asking this!"
This was the second time Gu Jue asked, and Ian suddenly felt uneasy!
Looking at Gu Jue’s ruthless face, he always felt as if the other’s gaze was... as if looking at some sort of... food!
Octopus shouldn’t be on a wolf’s menu, right?
As if he possessed the ability to read minds, Gu Jue guessed his thoughts and patiently explained.
"I don’t like eating octopus, but my son does."
Gu Jue ordered the octopus legs to be placed in a bag and left without looking back.
Ian was dumbstruck.
Although the amputated tentacles would regrow in about ten to fifteen days.
However, why was he feeling such unease?!
What happened to the intimidating interrogation he had been promised?
Could it be that Gu Jue had devised a new method of instilling fear to elicit a voluntary confession?
In fact, Ian was overthinking.
Ian, as Lucifer’s close cousin, would never betray him, even if all the other Star Thieves did.
Gu Jue remembered what his dear wife had told him, promising something to a child means you can’t break your word.
Since he promised his child octopus legs, he must follow through with his word!
**
As night deepened, the stars above Commander Gu’s residence shifted, changing positions to form different constellations as programmed.
Su Wan had another dream.
That time, she dreamt of the year she was thirteen, when she went on a universe spaceship with her family.
Except for the Su Family patriarch who wasn’t there, their family of five, quite rarely, traveled together.
However, even as a family gathered together, each had their own thoughts.
Su Yun still had an implacable expression on his face, and it was unclear what was bothering him.
Su Ni wore a very primitive type of headphones, listening to a song he had written himself.
Lin Ranyue was talking to Su Zhen about something, and Su Zhen looked impatient.
In the dream, Su Wan felt this scene was very familiar. Now, looking back, their family had already begun to fall apart at that time.
There was no warmth between family members.
Their separation was only a matter of time.
Just then, the universe spaceship shook suddenly, and someone yelled that the Star Thieves were coming!
Su Wan startled awake and instinctively looked up, only to see someone holding a laser cannon, attacking in their direction.
A group of people were scattered in all directions.
Su Wan found she couldn’t dodge at all, her body felt as if it were nailed in place.
Her parents and family were all far away from her.
The laser cannon slowed down as it flew closer.
Su Wan noticed the young man holding the laser cannon, his mouth turned up high.
There was also an earring on his left ear, shimmering with a cold light.
Around the edges, there were pink, wriggling, octopus tentacles...
"Ah!"
The moment the laser cannon exploded, Su Wan suddenly awoke, just in time to see Gu Jue, who had just returned.
Gu Jue had just taken a shower, wearing a bathrobe, drying his dripping hair with a towel.
Gu Jue, "Wanwan, did I wake you?"
Su Wan climbed out of bed, then hurried over and hugged Gu Jue, burying her face in his chest.
Gu Jue hugged her back with one arm, "Wanwan, what’s wrong?"
He touched his little wife’s forehead and found it was wet with cold sweat.
Su Wan held onto Gu Jue, and her heart finally settled down a bit.
After a while, she calmed down and said slowly, "Ajue, I remember now, the one who attacked me when I was thirteen."
"Who was it?"
Su Wan looked up seriously, "It was Lucifer."
"So, I had met Lucifer back then."
"But it’s so strange, he seemed to recognize me at the time, and it seemed like he wanted to kill me!"
When people suffer great trauma, sometimes they subconsciously engage in selective amnesia.
Forgetting those things that cause one pain.
For the young Su Wan at the time, being attacked was indeed something that should be forgotten.
This also led to Su Wan forgetting for a long time that the person who attacked her was Lucifer!
So, the question arises.
Why did Lucifer want to kill a thirteen-year-old Su Wan at the time?
At that time, Su Wan was just Lin Ranyue and Su Zhen’s child, and the Lin Family and Su Family were just common merchants, with no relations to the government whatsoever.
If Lucifer wanted to kill Su Wan now, she would believe it a bit more.
Gu Jue asked White Tiger to bring a Calming Elixir for Su Wan.
After taking it, Su Wan completely calmed down.
She said, touching her forehead, "Maybe it’s the incident at the cinema today that triggered this, or perhaps that’s not my memory. After all, the idea of Lucifer wanting to kill me doesn’t make sense."
