"This stab is for me." Lin Zhiluo said calmly.
The knife plunged straight down.
"Next, the path this knife takes will represent the ten years I spent hiding and running, with my life hanging by a thread. Unfortunately, the pain you've suffered is less than one percent of mine." Lin Zhiluo smiled.
In Li Haobo's eyes, that smile was the smile of a demon.
Ten years? What was he talking about?
I only started thinking about torturing you after I found out about that three years ago!
Li Haobo had no idea what Lin Zhiluo meant.
He wanted to explain himself.
But the next second, it was already too late for questions or explanations.
Because the dagger had started moving!
After a long while, Lin Zhiluo finally pulled the dagger out.
"This stab is for me, too."
With that, the dagger plunged in again.
By now, Li Haobo couldn't even scream. His entire throat was ruined.
"This stab is because I'm happy."
A faint smile appeared at the corner of Lin Zhiluo's mouth.
There wasn't a trace of warmth in it. It only made Li Haobo feel cold all over.
"This stab is for the Lin Family... Though I never even met them, it's only right for a son to avenge his father, isn't it?"
At last, Lin Zhiluo's superb knife skills had a chance to shine.
"This stab is for whoever the hell I feel like!"
After pulling out the dagger, Lin Zhiluo took out a card and chose to activate it.
[A Useful Pair of Tweezers]
He looked at Li Haobo and smiled meaningfully.
"Wh...at... are... you... going... to do..." Li Haobo was afraid. Though he could barely speak, he forced the vague words out through his mangled throat.
After being tortured so many times, he had grown numb to the physical pain.
But Lin Zhiluo's smile brought his mind to the brink of collapse.
"I should thank you, too. This is a method of torture you invented. You used it to torture who knows how many people to death."
"I have to give you credit: you really do have a talent for torturing people."
With that, Lin Zhiluo forced Li Haobo's mouth open.
Li Haobo seemed to realize what was coming.
He thought of an idea he'd once had himself.
Could it be...
He began to struggle desperately, even more violently than he had when he was in pain.
But it was completely useless.
"No! No..."
Too late!
Li Haobo's mind collapsed completely.
His dignity and pride shattered in that moment.
He stopped struggling at once and lay motionless, like a dead pig.
His eyes had lost all their light, turning dull and gray.
If not for the faint rise and fall of his chest,
he would have been indistinguishable from a corpse.
"That's all it takes? I haven't even done one percent of what you did to others, and you've already had enough?"
"You came up with all those torture methods. I'm sure there are plenty more good ones."
Lin Zhiluo felt deeply frustrated.
He was only halfway through torturing Li Haobo, and the man had already completely broken down.
In this deranged state, he was oblivious to pain and torture. Continuing would have no effect at all.
"Don't tell me you're faking it?"
Lin Zhiluo gave Li Haobo another series of stabs with the dagger.
But Li Haobo didn't react at all.
Well, he'd overestimated him. With acting skills like his, there was no way he could fake this state.
Whatever. Breaking Li Haobo's mind proved that the whole process had pushed him to his limit.
After all, Lin Zhiluo had spent ten years honing these skills.
Looking at Li Haobo on the ground, Lin Zhiluo stood up.
He took the Tetanus Dull Blade in hand and activated the Explosive Dual Slash skill.
The dagger struck Li Haobo's head in two quick slashes.
The blows weren't strong enough to reach anything vital.
But the next moment, the Mark exploded.
The Mark blew Li Haobo's head apart.
If Lin Zhiluo hadn't quickly raised an umbrella to shield himself, he would have been splattered.
At the same time as the explosion,
"Dong, dong, dong."
The antique clock at the Li Family Manor rang three times, right on schedule.
It marked the arrival of three in the morning.
It also meant that everyone in the Li Family Manor had perished that night.
"Phew."
Lin Zhiluo let out a breath.
At that moment, he felt completely at ease.
Ever since before the apocalypse, he had been pushing himself to grow stronger as quickly as possible, all for the sake of achieving this revenge.
Now, the weight that had been pressing on his heart had finally lifted.
[Detected a change in player "Yazi's" state of mind. Successfully activated talent "Heart of Revenge."]
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