"How did your questioning go?" Shen Quan asked.
But Qi He, having choked on water, was lost in coughing after being hauled up, barely escaping suffocation. He gasped heavily and was utterly incapable of answering Shen Quan.
"It seems you have yet to get a clear answer. We'll need to question further."
With that, Shen Quan once again shoved Qi He into the bamboo cage and, once again, threw it into the lake.
A moment later, as Qi He was hauled up again, Shen Quan interrogated him anew: "How did the questioning go? Did the Water Ghost say anything?"
This time, Qi He choked even more severely on the water. His face was pale, his body shaking uncontrollably, still unable to answer Shen Quan's questions.
"It seems we need to further question more."
And so, Qi He was once again stuffed into the bamboo cage, once again thrown into the lake, and once again filled with water.
After several similar rounds...
