"I know."
"The torture you have suffered is horrific."
"But what you instructed to do was even uglier."
"I will make you who you are, now... light the torch."
"We can begin."
...
...
Li Lin stood in the small control room. Various hallucinogenic pills and guns were scattered on the table, and his clothes were carelessly thrown on the floor. He had just returned from a meeting and had only slept for less than two hours. As usual, the place had a suffocating atmosphere.
But now all the illusion of peace has vanished.
The two newly appointed ministers and deputy ministers stood under the dim light, their expressions incredibly serious. Li Lin hoped they would say something, but no one spoke. All words were frozen in a state of collapse, leaving no room for reaction, as if the air itself had solidified.
After a long pause, they reorganized their thoughts and decided to continue speaking.
“Listen, this is a decision from higher-ups… You have to do this; you’ll be at the ‘execution ground’ in three hours,” one of them said. “They think Yu Jianchu needs a memorable lesson to confirm that she’s still subservient to Eoubs—of course, no one else will see that, only those at the very top…”
He stopped mid-sentence, unable to finish his sentence; Li Lin's gaze was too frightening.
"Damn... don't look at us like that. You don't want her to be thrown into the shredder. Nobody wants that. We're all working together, it doesn't have to get that ugly. Besides, she killed several B-ranks, it's already pretty good that she wasn't wiped out on the spot."
The control room was deathly silent.
He opened his hand as if to grasp something, but then let go. They weren't sure if the man's mental pollution level had been affected, but the action resembled an act of submission to life's hardships, leaving them unsure how to respond.
"Which execution ground was she at?" he asked calmly.
"Well... we don't know either."
Li Lin sighed and stopped talking.
He has always been someone who knows what to do, many people say so. Sometimes I think to myself, it's as if his battered body has a built-in protective mechanism, so that even when struggling in this hell, he will not easily give up or get lost.
But after a few years at Eoubs, he understood what it meant to have one's personality shattered and to struggle in the death throes. All you could do there was surrender your life, hope, and dignity to the higher-ups to play with as they pleased.
If they encounter a tough nut to crack, they will even force the other person to cooperate with the torture, and the process will never end. You can't even commit suicide; the decision to die has been temporarily erased.
After a long while, they heard Li Lin say, "I agreed, so what exactly do we need to do?"
He had no choice, nor could he delegate those tasks to others. Who knew which malicious idiots would come along to cause trouble?
The man's voice sounded a little hoarse and very deep. They had all followed Yu Jianchu all the way up from E-level, and felt like they were about to cry, but they still chose to stand here, like Li Lin, unable to get over this mess.
"Later, those people at the execution ground will... inject her with some drugs. Before that, her vital signs were already very poor; she wouldn't wake up at all without those things. The higher-ups said... she must be conscious and have a very obvious reaction. They've also prepared real-time monitoring, so that the details..."
The man spoke stiffly, as if it took immense courage to continue: "They were planning to have a few men play with her... but that was rejected, so now... you have to torture her, with explicit gore and dismemberment... I... God..."
He lowered his head, stared at the floor, and continued speaking with difficulty.
"They said... you have to maintain your meticulous attitude, and Yu Jianchu will experience all sorts of interrogation techniques from the interrogators throughout the entire process..."
"Li Lin, we have no other choice."
The other person was stunned for a while, and it took a long time to digest these words. Then, he suddenly picked up the gun on the table and fired at the ceiling.
A tremendous explosion rang out, scattering alloy fragments and surveillance camera debris everywhere. The two men did not flinch, letting the debris fall on them.
"Who else is on my candidate list?" Li Lin asked.
"If you back out now, they might find someone to sleep with Yu Jianchu, and not just once," someone said.
"Then I... can't either."
“I know you can’t accept it, but…”
A long silence followed.
"I'm sorry, I acted impulsively. I'll do it."
Outside the control room, in the terminal courtroom.
Gore, the B02 who had appeared at the banquet with him, sat upright on the sofa, looking at the shattered surveillance screen, thinking, "How can you refuse? There's no way. After all, the Eoubs executives are best at pushing people to the brink."
These people... including themselves, of course, are completely unable to distinguish between survival, death, love, hope, hatred, or despair... They also cannot distinguish between pain and peace. The power of confusion makes all values and morality disappear, leaving only greed itself, which ultimately turns into an emptiness filled with endless malice.
These people willingly succumb to the abyss, day after day, year after year.
Now, they've become so deformed they're indistinguishable from monsters.
He ordered another case of wine, certain that with his current level of consumption, he wouldn't be able to properly enjoy the torture. His beloved subordinate dismembering and pulverizing his superior—what a brilliant plot twist! It was originally intended for that bitch Yu Yu, what a pity.
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