Li Ke: "That's not necessarily true. It depends on whether you're valuable enough."
The man's arrogance had dissipated, and he continued calmly, "We are quite strong, and we can be of use to you, as long as you don't kill us. Since you know from the previous person that we are the Venom Fang Mercenary Group, you should also know that once a member betrays us, there is only death on our side."
So, if I've told you everything, it means I genuinely want to cooperate with you, I won't betray you, and I'll persuade other teammates to join us; we'll all work for you.
Li Ke had no idea that the man had fainted after saying only a few words. She was in a hurry to seal the cave and leave, so she didn't ask any further questions.
Li Ke sat back down in her chair and looked at the man coldly, saying, "Torture is something that each of you will have to go through. Persuasion? You won't have a single chance to communicate until all of you confess."
I think you are very familiar with these methods. They are used to verify that the information you provide is correct.
Of course, I've also heard of organizations that provide pre-trial training on confessions obtained through torture. No problem, I have the time, the ability, and the people to verify it.
The man was silent for a moment, then looked at Li Ke and said, "You are not from the military. The military does not operate like this. At least during interrogation, there is not just one presiding officer."
Turbulent times produce heroes. If the world were not in chaos, even if you ripped our eyes out and stuffed them into our mouths, we wouldn't utter a single word.
But in this world, it's a bit difficult for ordinary people to survive, but it's an opportunity for people like us, so I'm willing to take a gamble with you.
"But before I tell you everything, I want to ask you one more question: how exactly did you capture us alive? And what about the soil used to bury me? I've thought about it for a long time; my room has a roof, so it wasn't a landslide at all."
Li Ke mocked, "It's all because you're too arrogant. You didn't really think I entered your territory all by myself, did you? As for the details, you'll never be qualified to know until you're completely on our side. Alright, enough nonsense. From now on, every word I hear must be useful information, or I'll have to use my knife again."
The man wanted to retort, but the other party entered the cave. Their thermal imaging and the team's reconnaissance showed that it was the same person. Otherwise, why would they have been careless?
Unable to understand the other party's methods, the man realized that he had no way to resist at the moment, so he got straight to the point when he spoke again: "We are indeed hired by someone, but that person is not Boss Cheng. Boss Cheng is just someone we met by chance. Our real mission is to collect supplies."
Upon hearing his words, Li Ke immediately asked, "Who are you employed by? How do you collect supplies? What supplies do you collect?"
The man replied, "I don't know who hired us either. Rather than who, it's more like a mysterious group. You already know we're the Venom Fang mercenary group. Our entire group has over a thousand people, and our twenty-odd people are just a small squad."
Our mission is to collect all supplies in our assigned area—everything: food, fuel, gasoline, weapons, firearms, and more. The method is simple: if we encounter weak people, we just rob them; if we encounter strong people, we try to rob them; if we can't, we give up, but we mustn't expose ourselves.
"You have over a thousand people? Yet your squad only has twenty-odd people? Where are the others? And what about the immortality base you mentioned earlier? How much supplies have you looted so far? Where are they all stored?" Li Ke followed up with questions.
The man continued, "We do have over a thousand people, but only a little over three hundred of them infiltrated into China. The rest didn't come in. These three hundred-plus of us also came in scattered. After entering, we gradually gathered together, received our weapons, accepted our missions, and then carried them out."
We, a group of twenty-seven, had only been together for a few months, raided a few small villages, and the supplies we obtained were barely enough for our own consumption. Later, we met a man surnamed Cheng, and realized he was a big fish, so we decided to cooperate with him temporarily and then take his supplies.
After listening to his testimony, Li Ke thought for a moment, then raised her hand and shot out the small knife in her hand, which pierced the man's previously injured wrist.
The other person groaned softly before asking painfully, "Why?"
Li Ke stood up and said coldly, "Why? Even if you're lying, please use your brain. I'm giving you one last chance, otherwise, you'll never be able to speak again."
The man gritted his teeth before speaking again: "I misspoke earlier. Our team has fifty-five people in total, and twenty-eight others are with Boss Cheng's men. I didn't lie to you about the rest. As for the immortality base, it's a project under construction, which our boss revealed. The disasters won't stop, and there will be fewer and fewer humans in the future. The immortality base will be everyone's last refuge. I don't know much about it either. I only mentioned it to you to tempt you."
Li Ke sat down again: "Aren't you Chinese? Where are Boss Cheng and the others? Why are they staring at us like that?"
The man answered quickly this time: "I only have some Chinese ancestry, I'm not Chinese. Boss Cheng and his group are temporarily staying in the underground air-raid shelter of a building in the next city."
Because Boss Cheng's supplies are hidden on the mountain, and you have occupied that mountain and arranged for guards to patrol it, so their people can't get close at all.
We are cooperating with Boss Cheng because of this batch of supplies. According to Boss Cheng, it includes grain, fuel, daily necessities, and some weapons, totaling seventy to eighty thousand tons.
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