Torture

"Chairman Raymond, look, this is a brand-new Redlight Virus~!"

Li Wei held his left arm before the terrified, immobilized Raymond. The shifting black-red fleshy tendrils swayed back and forth, resembling some indescribable monstrosity.

The countless tiny tentacles his arm had transformed into were like deadly venomous snakes that seemed ready to fall upon him at any moment. Raymond tensed every nerve.

He turned to look at the smiling Li Wei beside him and forced out an ugly smile. "Uh, although I experimented on you, the experiment was a success, wasn't it? You also gained abilities beyond anything ordinary people could imagine! How about you let me go? I promise I won't cause you any more trouble! Please..."

Hearing Raymond yield, Li Wei's expression remained unchanged as he reached toward Chairman Raymond's neck with the countless dark-red tendrils on his left hand.

Feeling dozens of tiny "bugs" wriggling and crawling over his sensitive neck, Raymond let out a pig-slaughtering scream. "No! Ah! Spare me! I'll do anything you want! Don't torture me like this! If you're going to kill me, then make it quick! Ah!"

The sensation and the terror in his mind were unbearable torment.

He even begged Li Wei to give him a quick death instead of torturing him like this.

"How could that do~!" Li Wei made an exaggerated backward motion, casually pulling a mechanism on the hospital bed and raising it upright.

Raymond went from lying flat to standing upright. Seeing Li Wei's face, he looked on the verge of tears.

"Please..."

"Chairman Raymond!" Raymond still wanted to beg, but Li Wei cut him off with a stern expression. "This won't do! The Chairman Raymond I know isn't like this! He's a wise, decisive, great man. Is this groveling appearance really the Chairman Raymond I know?! Does this live up to the image I have of you?! Does it live up to your status as GENTEC's highest chairman?!"

Raymond was so angered by Li Wei's thunderous speech that he nearly choked. What the fuck does my image have to do with you?

"I..."

"Enough!" Li Wei interrupted Raymond once again. Then he stepped forward, leaned close to his ear, and whispered, "Chairman Raymond, I'm very grateful for the abilities you gave me... But!"

Li Wei moved away from Raymond's ear and stood roughly two meters in front of him.

Raymond had been tortured so relentlessly by him, constantly startled and terrified, that getting shot in the head would have been more merciful.

"But! Emphasis on the but: you carved flesh off me for so long, so naturally I have to carve some back, right?" Li Wei finally drew out his words. "Don't worry. Since Chairman Raymond didn't kill me, I definitely won't kill Chairman Raymond either. I'm a refined and easygoing person who respects life and human rights. I don't kill people lightly."

"I won't believe you." Raymond, utterly despairing, had already given up struggling. He feared death, but he was not truly unable to accept dying.

What he could not accept was Li Wei torturing him again and again with all manner of rhetoric and tricks.

Seeing Raymond give up resisting, Li Wei, who had toyed with him for so long, found it somewhat boring. He spread his hands and rolled his eyes. "Fine, fine. It looks like our Chairman Raymond doesn't want to play anymore. Then I'm coming."

As the words fell, his hands had already transformed into a pair of ferocious, terrifying claws, making Raymond swallow hard.

Li Wei's ten claws swayed up and down as he walked toward Raymond, who was bound to the hospital bed and unable to move.

Terrified, Raymond closed his eyes, not daring to watch the torture to come. But that only made Li Wei unhappy.

"Chairman Raymond, if you don't open your eyes, I'll cut a tiny slit in your wrist and let you bleed to death bit by bit. If you watch with your own eyes, I'll make it quick. How about that?"

Hearing those words beside his ear, Raymond opened his eyes again. The bloodshot veins in them were now visible to the naked eye.

As death drew closer bit by bit, every sense of a living being became sharply amplified. The straps on the bed, the rusty scent in the air, the echoes of sound reverberating through the empty octagonal space—everything was magnified without limit.

The first burst of effort was strongest, the second weaker, and the third exhausted.

After more than ten minutes of torment from Li Wei, Raymond's mind was already close to collapse. There was no pleading or fear left in his voice, only fury and unwillingness. He even wanted to leap up and fight Li Wei with his bare hands.

"Fuck! Just fucking do it already!!!"

Swish!

Li Wei struck. His claws flashed several times, instantly leaving dozens of smooth slashing wounds across Raymond's body.

Before making his move, he had already shredded every piece of clothing on Raymond's body, not even sparing the last scrap covering his shame.

The sharp claws cut through his skin and also cut through certain things only men possessed, making Raymond instantly let out a pig-slaughtering scream.

After that, Li Wei retracted his claws, raised a hand beside his ear, and struck a listening pose.

"Oh, oh, oh~ Listen! What's that sound? That's the sound of redemption!"

Raymond said nothing, merely screaming on his own. He was neither a warrior nor a tough guy. When it hurt, he screamed at the top of his lungs.

After listening for a while, Li Wei slapped Raymond across the face so hard that he could not speak. Then, with a concerned expression, he held Raymond's deathly pale face in both hands and said sincerely, "Chairman Raymond, don't worry. These are only flesh wounds. How about I give you a chance to live! Yes, a chance to live. Nobody wants to die, right? Right?! You agree, right?!"

"Ugh... Demon!" Raymond's entire body convulsed in pain, blood still flowing continuously from his wounds. His head was held in place, forcing him to meet Li Wei's gaze.

Looking into Li Wei's black eyes, he saw deep malice within them. Li Wei toyed with him like a demon from hell most skilled at tormenting souls.

Perhaps his fear brought the other man pleasure!

God, why wouldn't You punish this demon walking among mankind?!

Li Wei looked at Raymond sincerely and said with a heartbroken expression, "I truly don't want to see a great biologist like Chairman Raymond die in a place like this. But I can't go against my principles, so if Chairman Raymond answers one question, I'll undo the straps and leave you a phone. Whether you can survive will depend on you, Chairman Raymond. Look~!"

He released Raymond, whose face had quickly turned pale from blood loss, then pulled an old brick phone from behind his backside and placed it on the floor three meters away from the hospital bed.

Raymond watched Li Wei's actions and endured the pain without holding much hope. He was about to die anyway.

Although none of the wounds on his body were deep or fatal, there were too many of them. Within ten minutes, he would die from excessive blood loss.

After placing the phone down, Li Wei returned to Raymond and asked seriously, "The question is simple. Do you know my name?"

"..."

Raymond did not answer because he truly did not know. He had never asked, and nobody had ever bothered to learn what Li Wei's name was.

As an experimental subject, Li Wei was no different from a lab rat. Aside from people with nothing better to do, nobody gave lab rats names.

So he did not know!

After receiving no reply for a long while, Li Wei showed a disappointed expression. He stepped back twice and sighed. "Sigh~ Chairman Raymond really doesn't remember my name. Fine, then I'll tell you. My name is..."

Beep beep beep! Beep beep beep!

Before he could say his name, the phone that had been placed on the floor suddenly rang.

Li Wei gave Raymond an apologetic look, turned around, picked up the phone, and answered it without even checking who was calling.

Once the call connected, Alex's voice came from the other end. "Something happened. I need your help. Come to the place we agreed on, as soon as possible!"

Li Wei looked at the bound Raymond. This time, he was genuinely helpless. After pausing for a second, he finally said, "Three minutes!"

With that, he hung up, casually tossed the phone to the ground, and walked back to Raymond.

"Fine, Chairman Raymond, it seems I don't have much time. Although you couldn't say my name, I'll still let you go..."

Li Wei undid the straps around Raymond, bringing a measure of shock to his pale face.

Having regained his freedom, Raymond's trembling heart gained a few traces of hope. If the other man really intended to let him go, then all he needed was an injection of the treatment extracted and manufactured from the new virus, and he could save his life!

If one could cling to life, nobody would choose death!

After untying Raymond, Li Wei walked behind the hospital bed and looked at the observation window above it, which had been fitted with a new pane of glass. After a short run-up, he jumped.

Seeing that Li Wei was truly preparing to leave, Raymond, still below, felt the flame of hope in his heart instantly turn from a tiny spark into a blazing fire.

Bang!

The tempered glass shattered, but Li Wei suddenly froze. His left foot had accidentally caught on the window ledge, throwing him off balance, and one hand slapped against the control panel beside the tempered glass.

He then turned around and smiled awkwardly at Raymond. "Aha, pardon the embarrassment, Chairman Raymond. Well then, until we meet again!"

Raymond's face turned several shades paler as he looked around...

Scarlet warning lights began flashing along the walls of the octagonal cage laboratory. The iron doors in all four directions slowly rose, and the infected creatures imprisoned inside twisted their bodies before stepping out of the cages that had confined them for so long with bizarre movements.

Raymond, whose hope had only just returned, watched the infected creatures rush out in front of him, behind him, to his left, and to his right. At last, he collapsed helplessly to his knees on the cold floor, his ashen, terrified face more miserable than that of a condemned prisoner.

He was soon torn apart on the spot by the infected creatures. His heartrending screams rang clearly in Li Wei's ears, drawing an unsettling curve across his lips.