The air was filled with a gloomy and cold atmosphere. Jiuyue slowly opened his eyes, feeling a throbbing pain in every vein of his body. In addition to that, the taste of iron rust mixed with blood filled his breath, causing his originally peaceful face to contort.

Trying to move his hands, he found that they were each bound in two huge iron blocks, rendering his fingers immobile. A rusty shackle was fastened around his neck, its corroded surface rubbing against his skin, directly causing his tender neck to be scraped. His ankles were tightly bound by iron chains, with six iron balls larger than his head attached to the ends of the chains.

"Awake?"

A deep male voice came from the shadows. Jiuyue looked up and saw a pair of leather shoes connected to a slender leg standing in the corner of the locked prison cell.

"I'm hungry, I want to eat something..." Jiuyue smiled, but it tugged at the chain on his neck, causing a piercing pain that made him involuntarily furrow his brows.

"You're a prisoner now, and yet you dare make demands?" Yuan Yuzhe slowly emerged from the shadows, his finger lifting the right leg of his gold-rimmed glasses. He walked towards Jiuyue with steady steps and said, "Shadow Fox, this is our first meeting. My name is Yuan Yuzhe, specialized in research on new humans."

"Who the hell do I care who you are... I just want to eat!!!" Jiu Yue lifted his head and revealed a fierce snarl, his two fangs still emanating a strong sense of threat. Blood gushed out from his neck. Irritated by the pain and the foul smell in this place, he suddenly moved his body, but the entire room remained unchanged except for the echoing sound of chains rubbing against each other.

As expected, he is indeed a peculiar person, Yuan Yuzhe thought to himself. A smile crept onto his face as he crossed his arms and raised his chin towards the person in front of him. "Shadow Fox, I have a few questions for you. Afterward, I'll give you whatever you want. Is that okay?"

"Really?!" Jiuyue's eyes widened, almost popping out of their sockets. "Can I wish for you to die?!"

"Don't push it too far..." Yuan Yuzhe reached out and forcefully pinched Jiuyue's cheeks. The strength in his grip was exceptionally strong, causing his originally serious face to contort slightly. "I'm asking you, how did you remove your tail?"

This input paragraph translates to: 'This touch hit his still unhealed wound on the face. Jiuyue's pain caused him to quickly hang his head down, and a pointed tongue protruded from his mouth that was pinched shut. He licked Yuan Yuzhe's hand's tiger's mouth. But the next second, his face immediately filled with disgust, "Peh! You're so smelly... I don't want to answer your question!"'

"Stinky?" Yuan Yuzhe almost exploded upon hearing this remark. He, Yuan Yuzhe, was a man who placed great importance on personal hygiene. If he hadn't been stuck with these prisoners and experimental subjects every day, he would probably have been a social elite by now. How dare this fox say that he's stinky?

"Stinks so bad... I want to switch. " Jiuyue grimaced and leaned his head against the wall. Excessive blood loss was causing his head to spin. Looking at the small windows along the top of the wall, he realized that he couldn't see the moon or the night sky at all.

"You want to switch with who? Who isn't rotten?" Yuan Yuzhe gritted his teeth and said, enunciating each word. He glanced at his wristwatch, swaying his arm. The personnel from the military tribunal would be arriving in just over ten minutes. Before that happened, he needed to find out the truth.

After careful contemplation, Jiuyue's face gradually lit up with an expectant smile. "I want that soldier fellow! The one leading the way!"

The leading soldier, Xiao Ge? Is it Lu Sheng? Yuan Yuzhe was somewhat surprised by his answer. Looking at the sinister yet dangerous smile in front of him, he silently swallowed his saliva and said, "He will come over in a moment, but I only want to know the answers to these questions myself."