Stepbrother’s Crime, War Hero’s Tortured Hell Chapter 03

Stepbrother’s Crime, War Hero’s Tortured Hell Chapter 03 Cage of Black Monitor Lizards
Serena saw me drenched in blood and knelt down with sadness in her eyes. “Silas, just humble yourself and apologize to Father. I can’t stand watching you suffer any more punishment.” She had barely taken out a silk scarf to dress my wounds when Lucas suddenly crumpled to the floor. Several highly venomous centipedes had slithered over to his feet without anyone noticing. “Silas, why did you set these centipedes on me?” Serena instantly dropped the scarf, kicked the centipedes away, and hurried to examine his injuries. When she turned to face me again, all sympathy had vanished from her gaze, replaced entirely by resentment. “I never imagined after all these years you still haven’t changed your wicked ways. You’re riddled with ailments yourself, yet you’d unleash poisonous pests to harm him. I have to rush you to the hospital right away to check if you’ve been poisoned.” She spun on her heel and left before I could utter a single word in my defense. She did not even notice the centipedes wriggling their way into my anus. My father shot me a disgusted glare and ordered in a deep, grim voice. “Guards! Bring forth the discipline cage!” Several soldiers carried an iron cage and set it down heavily with a thunderous crash. Inside the cage, two adult giant lizards lay crouched, their bodies pitch black. They flicked their forked tongues, their claws coated in a foul, blood-scented slime. My father pointed straight at me, his voice booming like thunder. “The prisoner-of-war camp clearly failed to reform you. Now you shall be disciplined by the family code! This will teach you never to harm Lucas again! “Throw him in for the lizards! If he’s so capable, he can find his own way out!” Soldiers dragged me up and hurled me straight into the metal cage. The monitor lizards caught the scent of blood and slithered slowly up my festering legs. Through the bars of the cage, Father injected both monitor lizards with a tenfold dose of stimulant. The monitor lizards tore at me ferociously, their sharp claws slashing open my flesh, and the crack of splintering bones echoed sharply. I was forced flat onto the ground, blood gushing violently from my torn wounds. Yet my father and grandfather did not spare me a single glance. They turned around and accompanied Serena to drive Lucas to the hospital. Lucas’s followers swarmed over at once and urinated toward me through the bars of the cage. “You see? Young Mr. Maddox is the one cherished dearly by Mr. Maddox and the elder patriarch! “You matricidal brute dared frame an innocent man. A splash of urine ought to clear your befuddled head!” I was covered head to toe in blood, my bones laid bare beneath the monitor lizards’ bites, too drained to even flinch away. Urine mixed with blood streamed into my eyes. I squeezed them shut tight, not uttering a single sound. They burst into louder laughter. “Before Dr. Lynn left, he specifically told us to take good care of you. This isn’t nearly entertaining enough. Bring him out of the cage!” With that, they hauled over a bucket of toads, their backs covered in pus-filled venom glands. They pried my jaw open and forced the toads one by one down my throat. The toads wriggled and thrashed inside my esophagus, their venom trickling down my throat into my stomach, thick, slimy and reeking of rot. I retched violently, but they pinned my head down and forced me to swallow. My stomach churned violently, and I curled up on the ground, unable even to weep. Some of them looked uneasy and raised their phones to record a video, sending it straight to Serena. A voice message popped back instantly: “Show him no mercy. He hurt Lucas, and I’m going to make him pay for it so he finally learns his lesson. “As for Silas, he’s tough enough; a few beatings won’t kill him. Once he behaves himself this time, I’ll look after him properly for the rest of his life.” Right before the voice cut off, I caught Serena’s soft tone coaxing Lucas to sip his soup. The man sighed helplessly, turned his back, and pretended not to witness the brutal assault unfolding. The crowd roared with mocking laughter. “You all heard that! Miss Lynn gave the order. We’re supposed to take extra good care of you and hammer some sense into your head!” Someone brought over a bucket brimming with scorpions out of nowhere. At the sight of the dense swarm of them, I strained desperately to get away. Someone promptly fetched iron nails and hammered them one blow after another into my thighs, shoulders and ribs. With every twitch and struggle, another nail was driven into my flesh. The nails pierced straight through my bones and anchored deep into the ground, pinning me immobile without the slightest chance to break free. I was completely immobilized. All I could do was stare wide-eyed as they pushed scorpions one by one into my festering anus. The scorpions’ tails pierced my flesh, pumping venom into my body. Agony shot through my limbs like surging electric current. My body convulsed violently. The overwhelming torment tore shrill, agonized screams from my throat. My vision faded to black, and I slipped into unconsciousness. I had no idea how much time had passed. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself dumped amid a horde of rats, left here to die slowly. Centipedes and scorpions swarmed in and out of my wounds, gnawing away at my flesh and blood. My penis was already ravaged and mangled beyond repair. Agony washed over me, nearly dragging me into unconsciousness. Gritting my teeth hard, I fumbled for my phone and dialed the number I had hidden deep in my heart all along. That person had promised me once: if I agreed to his terms, he would restore my body to full health and aid me in my vengeance. The call connected at last. Draining every last ounce of my strength, I roared out all my resentment and hatred without restraint: “Even if it costs me my dying breath, I’ll make damn sure every last one of them is wiped from existence—left to rot in unmarked graves, their names erased forever in the dirt!”