Chapter 144: The Unhinged Bastard
by xennovelChapter 144: The Unhinged Bastard
Interrogation Room.
Xiao Yu, his expression cold and distant, stared at the young man seated in the interrogation chair.
“Jing Huachi, Male, 27, local, unemployed, and with a criminal record…”
Qian Long reported the suspect’s details from his tablet.
Xiao Yu waved him off—there was no point in further details.
Rising from his seat, Xiao Yu stepped to the chair and looked down at the bowed head of Jing Huachi. “This is your last chance. Are you sure you want to spend your life in prison? You’re only 27. Have you really thought it through?”
Sometimes, psychological pressure is far more terrifying than threats.
“You’re not married, are you?”
Calmly, Xiao Yu continued, “Have you ever considered how much pain you’re causing your parents? Even if you’re lucky enough to get out decades from now, the world might be completely unrecognizable. Do you even know how you’ll live?”
“…” Jing Huachi trembled uncontrollably.
“And have you thought about leaving no legacy at all?”
Coldly, Xiao Yu added, “By the way, we tracked down your girlfriend. What a coincidence—she was at the hospital today. Guess why? She was checking if she was pregnant. And… she is. If you’re stuck in jail for a while longer, do you really think she’ll keep the baby?”
Jing Huachi’s psychological defenses collapsed.
He confessed everything…
“Arrest Liu Xinggang!”
Xiao Yu exited the interrogation room and issued the order.
“Yes!”
The Special Task Force, along with local police, sprang into action…
……
In a mansion in an affluent district…
Inside the living room, seven men were feverishly playing ‘Fight the Landlord’.
Stacks of cash were piled around them.
Cigarettes clung to their lips as the room filled with a haze of smoke.
“Three with one.”
“Bombed.”
“Airplane.”
“Explosive…”
Boom!
A villa window was shattered by the blast.
Figures charged in.
“No movement!”
Dark, barrel-like rifles were trained on everyone in the hall.
The seven men at the card game were suddenly stunned.
One man reacted the fastest, diving behind a sofa in an instant.
Just as he emerged, he discovered a pistol in his hand.
A homemade pistol!
Before he could even raise it to fire…
A figure moved like a leopard, lightning-fast, materializing right before him.
Bang!
A powerful thigh, propelled by a wild gust, smashed into the man’s face.
He was sent flying as if struck by a truck.
But…
His leg was suddenly seized by a firm grip.
The hold tightened relentlessly.
His arm was twisted around violently.
Boom…
The man’s body crashed to the ground like a ragged sack.
He lost consciousness!
Slowly, Xiao Yu turned and forced a wicked smile at the remaining six terrified suspects. “So, you want to resist too?”
He glanced down at the fallen comrades on the floor.
Cold sweat beaded on the foreheads of the six trembling suspects.
None dared to make a move.
……
When he finally opened his eyes, Liu Xinggang felt as though his face had been shattered.
Unbearable pain shot through his facial nerves.
The agony coursing through his body made him shiver uncontrollably.
When he saw his limbs shackled to the interrogation chair,
Liu Xinggang knew his fate was sealed.
He was doomed!
He had always known that in his line of work, retribution was inevitable.
But he never imagined it would come so quickly…
“Liu Xinggang, Male, 34, involved in organized panhandling, enslaving the desperate, and committing atrocities against women and children… among other crimes.”
“He even trained disabled criminals for human trafficking…”
“Using various methods to disable women and children—breaking limbs or severing organs to grotesquely alter them—a technique called ‘Caisheng Zhege’?”
“At its cruelest, he would abduct a child and confine them in a large vat with only their head exposed. Then, by smashing a piece off the vat to use as a mold, the child would, over the years, grow nothing but a head, while their limbs wither into useless appendages—a so-called ‘Big-Headed Doll’!”
“I hear these macabre methods were taught to you by a master. Your master, now too old, has retired, hasn’t he?”
“This ‘Caisheng Zhege’ is about using brutal techniques to create monsters or crippled beings to gain sympathy and money.”
“You’ve ruined as many as six lives, leaving over fifty people permanently disabled…”
Placing several confession documents aside, Xiao Yu glared at a trembling Liu Xinggang in the chair. “I’m curious—after committing all these despicable acts, do you ever sleep without nightmares?”
Liu Xinggang’s teeth chattered uncontrollably as he struggled to speak.
“Sorry, I misspoke.”
Xiao Yu shook his head, scoffing, “A beast like you is no longer even human. How in the world could you have nightmares?”
Liu Xinggang trembled even more violently, so much so that he began to soil himself.
A foul stench of urine soon permeated the interrogation room.
Isn’t that strange?
A criminal worse than any animal, capable of unspeakable cruelty,
can he truly be afraid?
“I have one question now—and I won’t give you a second chance.”
Xiao Yu’s gaze turned icy as he stared at Liu Xinggang. “Where is your boss, Dong Qi?”
“I—I don’t know…”
Liu Xinggang finally spoke in a mournful tone, “For the past couple of years, we’ve only communicated via cell phone. I really have no idea where he is. I only run the begging ring, providing annual offerings to him. The rest, I truly don’t know…”
No further coercion was needed.
Liu Xinggang confessed everything on his own.
Why did it come out so easily?
Liu Xinggang knew he was finished.
He didn’t want to suffer any more before his death.
Being a cruel, unhinged man, he was all too familiar with the agony his methods inflicted.
He refused to let anyone else subject him to that same torment.
Facing the police, his psychological defenses were as fragile as tissue paper.
He admitted every single detail he knew…
All he ever wished for was to die without pain!
Ha… Xiao Yu laughed.
Dream of dying painlessly?
Is that even possible?
Would those you harmed ever agree?
Xiao Yu stood and left the interrogation room.
No, before you’re led to the gallows, someone will make you realize that the truest pain in this world…
is definitely not death!