Reborn in 1993, Dark Sea

In the warehouse

Hanging in the middle of the warehouse, Igawa Jiro tried to move his legs. He could still move his legs, but the area below his ankles felt tingly and numb, and the sensation was very weak.

Fear and panic instantly filled Igawa Jiro's heart. He had gone through countless hardships to finally become a first-class assassin. This was his first time going out on a mission alone, but who knew he would end up in such a predicament!

When Igawa Jiro woke up, he was already locked in this warehouse. The tendons in his hands and feet had all been severed. Although the wounds had been treated in a simple way, they were far from ideal.

Such an injury would be almost fatal for an assassin. If he could receive immediate treatment, have the tendon carefully stitched back up by an experienced doctor, and then undergo a long period of recovery and training, he might be able to fully recover.

However, if even the slightest mistake is made during this process, everything will be over. While it won't leave one completely crippled, it will certainly render them unable to perform the work of an assassin.

After carefully observing the surroundings, Igawa Jiro concluded that this was likely a warehouse, and there were probably a large number of people guarding it.

Every time it was mealtime, a masked man would bring some food and water. Igawa Jiro didn't dare to eat these things casually; his previous experience was just too terrifying.

The feeling of not being able to control your body is truly terrifying!

But he was really hungry if he didn't eat, and if he couldn't maintain his strength, he wouldn't be able to catch them if they had a chance to escape. Helpless, Igawa Jiro could only carefully eat small amounts of food and drink water several times.

Fortunately, there was no such terrible drug in the food and water.

Over the next few days, people were continuously sent to the warehouse for detention.

Jiro Igawa discovered that all the people sent there were assassins from Japan. He even knew one of them; they had trained together for a while not long ago, but the two had never spoken.

Igawa Jiro counted them, and besides him, there were actually eight Japanese assassins sent over in the past two days!

That day, the nine of them were suddenly dragged out of a small room by masked men and hung in the center of the warehouse. Igawa Jiro guessed that their final judgment was likely to come soon.

Sure enough, Igawa Jiro didn't have to wait long. With a clang, the iron door of the warehouse was opened, and a man in a black suit led a group of people into the warehouse with a menacing aura. None of these people were wearing masks.

Jiro Igawa's heart sank to the bottom. The fact that the other party did not conceal their faces meant that they were not afraid of being seen by them, or rather, they did not care if they were seen. Jiro Igawa knew very well what this meant.

However, when Igawa Jiro saw clearly the man in the black suit leading Chu, he was immediately dumbfounded.

"Isn't this the great ruler of China, Nemesis of the Abyss Divine Court?!...

An Xiaohai also noticed that something was wrong with Igawa Jiro, but he ignored it and pretended not to notice. His mind was racing as he thought of what to do next.

The warehouse iron gate was closed again. An Xiaohai led the group to stand in front of the nine Japanese assassins who were hanging. Zhou Xun quickly ran to a corner and brought An Xiaohai a chair, but An Xiaohai did not sit down.

An Xiaohai approached the nine assassins, slowly walking past them and observing their appearance.

The nine assassins hanging there reacted in different ways. Some remained motionless, as if nothing had happened; some stared intently at An Xiaohai, their eyes filled with hatred; but most chose to look away and avoid his gaze.

When An Xiaohai walked up to Igawa Jiro, he suddenly paused and frowned slightly, but he didn't stay long and walked away immediately.

An Xiaohai could clearly sense a strange fervor in the way Igawa Jiro looked at him.

"If you can understand me, raise your heads!" An Xiaohai said, mimicking An Zhehao's deep voice.

An Xiaohai waited in place for a short while, and four assassins slowly raised their heads, including Igawa Jiro, who was the first to raise his head.

An Xiaohai waved his hand, and Zhou Xun and the others immediately stepped forward, untied the four assassins who had raised their heads, and threw them aside.

"Five people, just the right number!"

An Xiaohai smiled slightly, walked up to an assassin who hadn't looked up, lifted his chin with his left hand, and pointed a scalpel at the man's neck with his right hand: "Watch carefully, I'll only say it once."

This is the location of the carotid artery.

A severed carotid artery can cause a person to go into shock and die within 3 to 4 minutes; such injuries are almost impossible to treat.

However, this method of killing has some drawbacks. The carotid artery has high pressure, and once it is cut, a large amount of blood will spurt out instantly, soiling your clothes and shoes, which will cause you to leave a lot of traces at the scene.

Even if you use the target's body as a shield, it's difficult to avoid being splattered with blood, especially on your hands.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, it is best to avoid using this method;

This is the location of the jugular vein.

The jugular vein is deeper than the carotid artery, so you need to use more force when cutting it. When the jugular vein is cut, blood won't spurt out like when the carotid artery is cut; instead, it will flow out along the wound.

When blood flows out of the veins, it causes blood pressure to drop. At this time, the heart will work hard to maintain normal blood pressure.

In this way, air may flow into the heart through the veins, then be squeezed into the arteries by the heart, eventually filling the whole body, causing blood vessel blockage, and leading to death from lack of oxygen and suffocation.

This process will last 10 to 20 minutes. If the wound is tightly covered, it can slow down the process, but in any case, if effective treatment is not received within half an hour, death will also occur.

This is the esophagus and trachea. Cutting the esophagus is not fatal in most cases; cutting the trachea is not immediately fatal either, but blood will flow into the lungs through the trachea, causing a blockage in the lungs.

At this point, a person will cough violently in an attempt to expel blood from their lungs.

While this may have some effect, it can also tear the wound, causing more blood to flow into the lungs and triggering a more severe cough.

The person suffocates and dies as more and more blood fills the lungs; this process can last from 15 minutes to half an hour.

Someone once asked me, if a person has a very strong will and can control himself from coughing, can he last a longer time?

I was stumped by the question and didn't know how to answer it, because I had never encountered this situation before and didn't know if human willpower could overcome this physiological reaction.

The people hanging here now are all top-tier assassins. I believe their willpower far surpasses that of ordinary people, making them excellent experimental subjects. Let's witness it together.

As soon as An Xiaohai finished speaking, his right hand swiftly made a cut, and with perfect precision, he severed the man's trachea. Then, with a slight smile, he calmly put away the scalpel and sat down in the chair that Zhou Xun had brought over.

The assassin, whose trachea had been slashed, remained stiff for a while. Two minutes later, he finally couldn't hold it in and began to cough violently.