Torment

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

Li Wei displayed his left arm before the eyes of the immobilized and terrified Raymond; the shifting black-and-red flesh tentacles swayed back and forth, resembling something indescribable.

The countless tiny tentacles that his arm had transformed into were like lethal vipers, appearing as if they could strike him at any moment, causing Raymond's nerves to tighten.

He turned his head to look at the smiling Li Wei beside him and forced an ugly grin, "Uh, although I experimented on you, the experiment was a success, and you've gained abilities beyond what a normal person could imagine, haven't you! Why don't you just let me go? I promise I won't cause you any more trouble! I beg you..."

Hearing Raymond's plea, Li Wei's expression remained unchanged as he used the countless dark red flesh tentacles on his left hand to touch Chairman Raymond's neck.

Feeling dozens of tiny "worms" crawling and slithering across his sensitive neck, Raymond let out a blood-curdling scream: "No! Ah! Let me go! I'll do anything! Don't torture me like this! If you're going to kill me, just make it quick! Ah!"

This tactile sensation combined with the descent of psychological terror made his suffering unbearable.

He even begged Li Wei to give him a quick death rather than continue this torture.

"How could I do that~!" Li Wei performed an exaggerated backward motion and pulled a lever on the hospital bed, causing it to stand upright.

Raymond shifted from lying flat to standing upright, and upon seeing Li Wei's face, he wore an expression of utter despair.

"I beg you..."

"Chairman Raymond!" Raymond wanted to say more, but Li Wei interrupted him with a stern expression, "This won't do! The Chairman Raymond I know isn't like this. He is a wise, decisive, and great man. Is this pathetic, groveling version of you the Chairman Raymond I know? How can you act like this and still live up to the image I have of you! How can you live up to your status as the supreme Chairman of GENTEC!"

Raymond was so infuriated by Li Wei's preachy words that he thought, What the hell does my image have to do with you?

"I..."

"Enough!" Li Wei interrupted Raymond once again, then stepped forward, leaned into his ear, and whispered: "Chairman Raymond, I am very grateful for the abilities you have given me... but!"

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

Being constantly toyed with by him was driving Raymond to the brink of a breakdown; the constant jolts of fear were worse than just taking a bullet to the head and getting it over with.

"But! Pay attention, I've been carved up by you for so long, so I definitely have to carve you back!" Li Wei, drawing out his words, finally finished his sentence, "Don't worry, Chairman Raymond, since you didn't kill me, I certainly won't kill you either. I am a refined, easy-going person who respects life and human rights; I don't kill people easily."

"I don't believe you." Raymond, his heart turned to ash, had already given up struggling. Although he feared death, he wasn't truly unable to accept the outcome.

He just couldn't accept Li Wei using all these tactics and tricks to torture him over and over again.

Seeing that Raymond had given up, Li Wei, who had been toying with him for a long time, felt a bit bored. He spread his hands and rolled his eyes, "Fine, fine. It looks like our Chairman Raymond doesn't want to play anymore, so I'm going in."

After these words fell, his hands transformed into a pair of hideous, terrifying claws, making Raymond gulp frantically.

Li Wei moved his ten sharp claws up and down as he walked toward the terrified Raymond, who was bound to the hospital bed and unable to move.

The terrified Raymond closed his eyes, not daring to look at the impending torture. But this reaction displeased Li Wei.

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

Hearing these words, Raymond reopened his eyes, the blood vessels in them now clearly visible.

As death approached, every sense became hyper-acute; the leather straps on the bed, the smell of rust in the air, and the echoes of sounds reverberating in the vast octagonal space were all infinitely magnified.

The first drumbeat is spirited, the second flags, and the third is exhausted.

Having been tortured by Li Wei for over ten minutes, Raymond's spirit was nearing collapse. His voice no longer held pleas or fear, only overwhelming anger and resentment, to the point where he wanted to jump up and strangle Li Wei.

"Fuck! Just do it, you bastard!!!"

Swish!

Li Wei struck. His claws flashed several times, instantly leaving dozens of clean, shallow cuts on Raymond's body.

Before striking, he had already torn all of Raymond's clothes to shreds, not even sparing the last piece of modesty.

The sharp claws sliced through skin and also severed certain parts unique to men, causing Raymond to let out another blood-curdling scream.

After doing this, Li Wei retracted his claws and raised a hand to his ear, listening intently.

"Oh, oh, oh~ listen! What is that sound? That is the sound of salvation!"

Raymond said nothing, only screaming to himself. He was neither a warrior nor a tough guy; when it hurt, he would scream at the top of his lungs.

After listening for a moment, Li Wei slapped Raymond across the face, silencing him. Then, with a look of concern, he held Raymond's pale face steady with both hands and said sincerely: "Chairman Raymond, don't worry. These are just flesh wounds. How about I give you a chance to live! Yes, a chance to live. No one wants to die, right? Right?! You agree, don't you!"

"Ugh... devil!" Raymond twitched in pain, blood still flowing from his body. With his head held fixed, he was forced to meet Li Wei's gaze.

He looked into Li Wei's black eyes and saw deep malice, as if he were being toyed with by a demon from the depths of hell, the kind best at tormenting souls.

Perhaps his fear was what brought the other person pleasure!

God, why won't you come and punish this demon walking on earth!

Li Wei looked at Raymond sincerely, wearing a pained expression as he said: "I truly don't want to see such a great biologist as Chairman Raymond die in a place like this, but I cannot violate my principles. So, Raymond, if you answer one question for me, I will undo the straps and leave you a cell phone. Whether you survive or not will depend on you, Chairman Raymond. Look~!"

He released Raymond, whose face had turned deathly pale from blood loss, and pulled an old-fashioned brick phone from behind him, placing it on the floor three meters away from the bed.

Raymond watched Li Wei's actions, enduring the pain without holding much hope; he was going to die soon anyway.

Although the wounds on his body were neither deep nor fatal, there were so many of them that he would die from blood loss in less than ten minutes.

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

"..."

Raymond did not answer because he truly didn't know. He had never asked, and no one had ever bothered to learn Li Wei's name.

As an experimental subject, he was treated like a lab rat; aside from those who were bored to death, no one would ever give a lab rat a name.

So he didn't know!

After not hearing a reply for a long time, Li Wei showed a disappointed expression, took two steps back, and sighed, "Sigh~ Chairman Raymond really doesn't remember my name. Fine, then I'll tell you my name. My name is..."

Beep beep beep! Beep beep beep!

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

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

Once the call connected, the voice of Alex came from the other end, "Something happened. I need your help. Come to our agreed-upon location, as soon as possible!"

Li Wei looked at the tied-up Raymond. This time he was truly helpless. He paused for a second and finally said, "Three minutes!"

After hanging up the phone, he tossed it onto the floor and walked back in front of Raymond.

"Alright, Chairman Raymond, it looks like I don't have much time left. Even though you couldn't say my name, I'll let you go anyway..."

Li Wei untied the belt on Raymond, causing a look of shock to appear on his pale face.

Having regained his freedom, the trembling heart of Raymond also felt a glimmer of hope. If the other party really intended to let him go, he only needed to inject himself with the healing serum extracted from the new virus to treat his injuries and save his life!

If one could survive, no one would choose death!

After untying Raymond, Li Wei walked to the back of the hospital bed, looked at the observation window that had been fitted with a new pane of glass, and jumped up after a short run-up.

Raymond, who was staying below, saw that Li Wei was truly preparing to leave, and the fire of hope in his heart instantly turned from a small flame into a raging inferno.

Bang!

The tempered glass shattered, but Li Wei's figure suddenly jerked. His left foot accidentally caught on the window frame, making his body unstable, and one hand slapped onto the control console attached to the tempered glass.

He immediately turned his head and gave Raymond an awkward smile, "Aha, sorry for the embarrassment, Chairman Raymond. We'll meet again sometime!"

Raymond's face turned even paler. He looked around...

The scarlet indicator lights on the walls of the octagonal cage laboratory began to flash. The iron doors in all four directions slowly rose, and the infected creatures kept inside twisted their bodies, stepping out of the cages that had held them for so long with jerky, unnatural gaits.

Raymond, who had just felt a glimmer of hope, watched the infected creatures running out from all sides. Finally, he knelt powerlessly on the cold floor, the gray pallor and terror on his face even more desolate than that of a death row inmate.

He was quickly torn to shreds on the spot by the infected creatures. That shrill, desperate scream reached Li Wei's ears clearly, causing the corners of his mouth to curl into an unsettling arc.