Chapter 604 The Past of Ban Gou
The soldiers guarding both sides of the platform did not expect Wen Ni to do such a thing, but it was indeed satisfying!
They exchanged a glance but didn't rush to stop them.
"Hiss...ha...ah...ha, ha..."
Ban Gou screamed in pain, tears streaming down his face, but he still gave Wen Ni a vicious, maniacal grin!
“Wen Ni, I’m absolutely right to say that you Chinese are disgusting! Is this how you treat me? Have you forgotten that when you infiltrated southern Myanmar, you made your living under my protection in my guild? If it weren’t for me, would you have become the manager of the guild? Would you have met Blind Assassin and joined the Imperial Alliance? If it weren’t for me, you would be dead long ago!”
"Don't try to gain credit, talk about loyalty, or accuse me! You only spared me because you're stupid enough not to see my true identity, and besides, I'm still of use to you!" Wen Ni looked at him coldly. "Between you and me, there are countless debts of life! The innocent Chinese civilians who died in the underground fighting arena, and my old company commander who was forced to die in the arena by you! I haven't forgotten these grudges; I've kept them all in my memory, waiting to settle them with you!"
As soon as he finished speaking, another whip lashed out, dripping with blood, and struck Ban Gou's body hard!
He groaned in pain.
Wen Ni continued in a cold and resounding voice, "And in the battle of Fuping City and Pingcheng, you led your men to slaughter the entire Second Brigade. The Second Brigade Commander, Wen Xiong, and all his officers died at your hands, right before our eyes! And more than four thousand men from our First Brigade were all sacrificed in Fuping! Every soldier of the 85th Group Army will never forget this grudge!"
The third heavy lash caused Ban Gou to cough up a mouthful of blood!
More and more soldiers gathered around, their eyes flashing with hatred and sorrow. They stared at the girl standing on the high platform, her arms and neck wrapped in bandages, and whipped her again and again, punishing this war criminal brought back from the battlefield of Burma and listing all the crimes she had committed!
Not a single soldier went up to stop them.
Because the overwhelming hatred in their hearts was spoken through Wen Ni's mouth, and released through Wen Ni's hands!
Their brothers and compatriots who once fought alongside them died at the hands of the Burmese barbarians. How could they not hate them? How could they not resent them?
"Chinese people deserve to die, Chinese people are all worthless lives, they deserve to be trampled under our feet..." Ban Gou's eyes were unfocused from the slap, but he still sneered maniacally, his blood-stained mouth still muttering repeatedly, "Back then, that fool Blind Assassin was deceived by you, and that's why he ended up like this! He ruined himself! Speaking of which, do you know how Blind Assassin died? He was crawling at General Li's feet, like a dog, and his head was blown off with a single shot! Even in death, he was begging Li Shiyan to spare you! At that time, I thought, I won't be as stupid as him, I have to live, I have to survive..."
"Enough!"
Wen Ni's feelings toward blind assassins were very complex.
She hated him, hated him for harming the Chinese in the arena, just like Ban Gou, and hated him even more for killing Song Yanfeng on Li Shiyan's orders! But there was a soft spot hidden in her heart, which had been born from a blind assassination attempt! Perhaps it was because he was about the same age as Xiao Cheng, or perhaps it was because of the solemn or heartfelt "sister" she had heard during the days they spent together.
Hearing Ban Gou mention blind stabbing again now, Wen Ni felt a pang of sadness and overwhelming emotions.
"Blind Assassin only followed Li Shiyan because of his brother, but what about you? Why do you hate the Chinese so much?" Wen Ni pulled herself out of her emotions, regained her composure, and calmed her emotions.
"Why? You're asking me why?"
Ban Gou was stunned for a long time. He never thought that anyone would care about why he had chosen this path, and he never thought that the person who asked him this question would be Wen Ni!
The hidden pain buried in his heart suddenly found its outlet. He opened his mouth, immersed in his own world, and recounted the past that he had intended to take with him until death!
"I am an orphan."
“When I was very young, I was adopted by a Chinese couple who were working in Myanmar. At first, they treated me very well, giving me food and water. But what happened later? After they had their own child, they started to beat and abuse me!”
At this point, Ban Gou took a deep breath, then coughed heavily, spitting out blood.
“That little beast they gave birth to always tries to take everything from me! If it were just that, I could tolerate it. I don't ask for much, just enough to eat. But then… I can't remember how old I was, but that couple abandoned me in the freezing cold. I was only wearing a thin sweater, shivering from the cold. I begged them to take me home, but they taped my mouth shut and left me in a garbage dump. I knew they didn't want me anymore, they wanted me to freeze to death! Luckily, the owner of the Fuyuan Chamber of Commerce took me in, and he gave me a bite to eat!”
“He also took in other children and raised us together. There wasn’t enough food every day, so we had to fight and fight to get enough to eat. I would fight them until I was bloodied and bruised, just so I wouldn’t go hungry. Later, none of them dared to fight me for food anymore, and I grew up and became a right-hand man in the Fuyuan Chamber of Commerce! It was around that time that I met Yabi…”
When the name Yabi was mentioned, Ban Gou paused, his expression complex.
He avoided the topic of Ya Bi, lowered his eyes, and continued, "When I had power and influence, I could order people around and get whatever I wanted. That reminded me of that couple from my childhood. I captured that couple and their child! I made them watch their child being tortured and abused, and I sent the couple to an underground casino to become the dinner of wild beasts!"
"I watched them being chewed up, their bones torn apart, their flesh swallowed raw! I felt an immense sense of satisfaction! Everything seemed to become beautiful, even the air felt fresher. How wonderful it would be if there were no Chinese people in this world. They don't deserve to live, they all deserve to die!"
At this point, Ban Gou looked quite pleased with himself.
"In this world, people of all nationalities are a mix of good and bad. It's just that the ones who brought you pain were a Chinese couple, so it's understandable that you hate them. But if you resent all Chinese people because of this, that's a bit too extreme! Aren't there evil people like them in Burma? Besides, the boss of the Fuyuan Chamber of Commerce only took you back to train you into a ruthless thug..."
Wen Ni guessed that Ban Gou might have a painful past like Blind Thorn, but she never expected that his experience was so painful that perhaps no one had ever been truly kind to him since childhood.
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