"Speak! Who sent you?" Gu Jinyao grabbed his neck and asked fiercely.

Niu Mang's rough face was covered in blood, and he winced in pain.

He stammered, "Really, really no one. If there was, I would have confessed long ago. Even if you beat me to death, I... I can't say anything."

Gu Jinyao saw that no matter how he interrogated, Niu Mang refused to admit anything.