Ke Muning's subordinate spoke in Russian, so Li Jiang couldn't understand. In fact, he didn't have the strength to listen anymore...
He suspected his ribs were broken.
He further suspected the broken ribs had punctured his organs.
In his own eyes, his life had been spent in jealousy and hatred, and it had been very painful. But he had never really experienced physical suffering.
This kind of pain he had never experienced before was unbearable to him.
He trembled, struggling to muster all his strength to suppress the pain, his face turning pale from contortion.
So when Ke Muning's subordinate came back with half a brick, Li Jiang couldn't guess what he was going to do...
The next moment, the man flipped the brick in his hand and pressed its rough edge onto Li Jiang's fingers.
It scraped across the flesh, causing sharp and sustained pain.
The skin surface quickly became a bloody mess.
Li Jiang was drenched in sweat, but he still held back his cries of agony.
He raised his head and said to Ke Muning in broken sentences: "Are you going to let Xiaoya watch this? Watch you... inflict such... torture on me?"
"She doesn't understand Hua Country language," Li Xiaoya said.
Li Xiaoya was trembling slightly, but she firmly fixed her gaze on Li Jiang's current state.
She wanted to watch on behalf of her mother.
Li Jiang breathed painfully, wanting to turn his head to look at Li Xiaoya, but he simply couldn't.
Ke Muning still had one foot on his neck, ready to end his life completely with one press.
Alright, alright. Li Jiang thought, trying to communicate with the man in English, but he was in too much pain, too much pain, pain to the point where he could barely think...
At this moment, Ke Muning's subordinate spoke again: "I'll go catch some bugs and put them into his open wounds."
Ke Muning cursed: "It's a pity there are no carnivorous birds here, otherwise they would use their sharp beaks to peck his wounds deeper, only stopping when they hit bone. Then the birds would tear off his flesh bit by bit..."
Li Jiang could only understand Ke Muning's words, but not his subordinate's.
The latter half of the sentence was enough to terrify him.
And because he couldn't understand the first half, that unknown fear suddenly engulfed him...
What suggestion was the foreigner's subordinate making to him?
What were they saying?
What else did they want to do to him?
Li Jiang suddenly had a flash of wit: "Xiaoya! Xiaoya! This is Hua Country... they can't do this..."
Li Xiaoya hesitated for a moment, then said to Ke Muning: "Let him go, the police uncles will be here soon."
Ke Muning was an enemy.
But he wasn't her enemy.
She had to consider his interests.
"Yes, they'll be here soon, so we need to hurry," Ke Muning said.
The subordinate put the bugs into Li Jiang's wounds.
Li Jiang's face changed from white to green to purple.
Shen Yong and Li Qingqing could only glimpse his convulsing legs from behind.
It was too horrifying, truly too horrifying.
Li Qingqing could barely breathe.
Who on earth was this person?
At this moment, Ke Muning's phone rang.
He answered with one hand: "Hello."
"You have ten minutes to leave," Secretary Wang's voice came from the other end. "I'll be there in ten minutes."
"How is ten minutes enough?" Ke Muning revealed a cold, ferocious smile.
"I know your methods, ten minutes is enough for you to perform. Come on, don't complain, don't think the police here are pushovers."
"Also, hold back a bit. If someone dies, you'll never be able to get entry permission to our country again. Because the nature of the incident will be different." Secretary Wang said quickly.
The words "entry permission" had the greatest impact.
Ke Muning withdrew his leg and said: "OK."
Secretary Wang hung up the phone on his end and turned to look at Sheng Yuxiao sitting beside him: "See, I told you, one phone call could solve it, yet you insisted I come over."
"I was worried Ke Muning might lose control, so I added a double insurance."
"Don't you actually hope in your heart that he accidentally kills Li Jiang?" Secretary Wang asked with a tilted head and a smile.
"Die here? That would be too easy for him."
"Dying at Ke Muning's hands is still too easy?" Secretary Wang laughed.
"He should go to the Gui Family."
Secretary Wang paused, then nodded in agreement: "That's right, the guilty should pay, today was just venting Xiaoya's anger. The pain of the Gui Family losing their daughter and sister hasn't been appeased yet."
"Most importantly..." Sheng Yuxiao turned his head to look at the scenery lines quickly passing outside the car window, and said: "Xiaoya and Ke Muning have been too close recently, which isn't hard to investigate. If he dies at Ke Muning's hands, it will affect Xiaoya. Xiaoya should only be the innocent victim, without anyone being able to criticize her from any other perspective or angle for procedural illegality. Even a speck of blood splashed from someone else's hands should preferably not get on her."
Secretary Wang let out a soft sound of admiration.
At this moment, Sheng Yuxiao called Qin Sui: "Don't come over now."
"I'm already on the way."
"Going now would run into a bloody scene. Does Qin Corporation really want to take on this responsibility?" Sheng Yuxiao didn't care what would happen to Qin Corporation, after all, they were deadly rivals, but he didn't want Qin Corporation to make the news because of this and then blame Li Xiaoya afterwards.
Qin Sui understood immediately: "Li Jiang has already been beaten up? And quite brutally?"
It was more than brutal—
After finishing the phone call, Ke Muning dragged Li Jiang up from the ground. Li Jiang felt as if ants were crawling all over his body, and the intense pain made him want to vomit.
"Get out," Ke Muning said.
Li Jiang gained a moment of clarity amidst the pain. Was the torture finally over?
But Ke Muning pointed at the taxi Shen Yong had driven and said: "This one's not bad, let's finish quickly."
The subordinate nodded, found the car keys from Shen Yong. He got in the car and started it.
"Wait," Li Xiaoya chased after them.
"What is it?" Ke Muning asked.
Li Xiaoya pointed under the tire: "I want to pick up something."
Ke Muning nodded for his subordinate to back up the car.
Li Xiaoya walked over, squatted down, and picked up the broken pieces of the phone, putting them in her pocket.
Li Qingqing watched her actions, completely dumbfounded. At a time like this, she was still picking up a broken phone?
She used to often pick up things in the village before. Why was she still picking things up now???
Ke Muning's face looked very unpleasant. He walked over and grabbed Li Xiaoya: "Why do this? I can buy you a hundred phones."
Li Xiaoya shook her head, but didn't explain in detail, only saying: "It's not the same."
Li Qingqing suddenly felt she might understand.
Was this to gain the foreigner's sympathy and pity?
At this moment, Li Jiang was pressed to the ground by the subordinate. Li Qingqing hadn't reacted yet, and even Li Jiang himself was somewhat numb.
He still thought they were going to drive away to escape.
But...
The car started again.
"Ah!!!" Li Qingqing's scream suddenly rang out.
The car ran over Li Jiang's hand.
He convulsed painfully a couple of times, no longer able to suppress the screams in his throat.
In the midst of the chaos of blood and screams, Ke Muning squatted down and said to Li Xiaoya: "I have to leave immediately, leave Hua Country."
Li Xiaoya's gaze trembled slightly. She didn't say anything, just opened her arms and lightly hugged him.
Li Jiang's howls and curses finally could no longer be contained.
He glared at Ke Muning venomously, his mouth full of jumbled profanities.
Ignoring him completely, Ke Muning asked: "Will you be afraid when I'm gone?"
"No."
"As expected of my little lunatic. I'll still call you, I'll be waiting for you in my country..."
Ke Muning turned around: "Oh, right..."
He looked towards Li Qingqing and Shen Yong: "Do they need to roll under the car wheels too?"
Li Qingqing didn't know what he was saying, but she knew he was looking at her.
She was instantly scared out of her wits.
Her throat kept emitting screams, her voice literally cracking... Don't come over! Don't come over! This foreigner is a demon...