Chapter 659. Investigating (4)

Chapter 659. Investigating (4)

Clack...

The soft noise of a door closing entered Guo Liqin's hearing.

Stimulation? Yes, that was a stimulation. After being deprived of any and all stimulation for quite some time, Guo Liqin's eyes had become dried and bloodshot. Yet he desperately moved his creaky eyeballs and searched for the source of that sound.

'Who is it?'

That question didn't ultimately matter, though. He only cared about someone being there. Anyone!

'Please, please...!'

Please, someone, anyone! Please be there. I don't care even if you don't talk to me. I don't care even if you don't free me. That's why, that's why... Please! Just be there!

Guo Liqin desperately screamed within this darkness. No sound came out of his paralyzed throat, but the voice he imagined screaming out was perhaps the most desperate and pleading since his birth. If he wasn't paralyzed, Guo Liqin's face would've been a mess of tears and snot by now.

He had no idea. He didn't know something this terrifying existed in this world!

Guo Liqin believed he had experienced so many cruel, inhumane things this profession had to offer, but this torture was on another level of cruelty altogether. Maybe watching his fingers get sliced off one by one might be more calming than this experience!

This darkness... The inside of a bathroom with no lights on was the darkness itself. There weren't even any noises to latch onto here, either!

Guo Liqin couldn't lift a finger. He couldn't even squeak out a sound. Imagine what it'd feel like to be confined in a dark bathroom with a paralyzed body, and the only thing that could move somewhat was your eyes!

If Guo Liqin hadn't been a martial artist, he'd have lost his sanity within a few hours of his confinement. Actually, he... He preferred going insane at this point. He wouldn't vividly experience this horrible situation if his mind was fractured into pieces, now would he!

'Please, please!'

Why don't you just kill me! Please don't abandon me like this on the floor and leave! Please!

I don't care who it is! Anyone!

Guo Liqin thought he might endure this terror if only someone was next to him. Even if his paralysis remained, even if no one talked to him... As long as he wasn't alone! That would be enough for him.

His eyes, now containing his desperate will, began quaking powerfully. He couldn't see anything other than the same old darkness.

There was nothing here. No one. As if that sound of the door opening was his mind playing tricks on him... As if he heard a phantom noise of a...

'...A phantom noise?'

Could he really say that was wrong? Could Guo Liqin say with confidence that the door did open in reality? Or, maybe... He had finally gone crazy? And that was why he could hear phantom noises and saw things that weren't there?

He couldn't tell whether his inability to cry was a blessing or a curse in this situation. He couldn't even figure out whether he was still alive or not, either.

However, one thing seemed certain at this point. And that was... If he did die, then his soul must've fallen to the most wretched Hell in existence. After all, Guo Liqin couldn't imagine a Hell any worse than this!

Even if he fell to the lowest depths of the Eight Hells and the demons there started torturing him, at least Guo Liqin would still be able to scream in agony. That little freedom would still be permitted. However, he couldn't even do that right now.

He might be alive, yet also dead. He might as well be dead... but was still alive! This remarkable contradiction tortured him to no end.

That was when...!

“I'm now in a dilemma.”

There was a person's voice! A still voice dug sharply into Guo Liqin's hearing.

Could it be another phantom noise? No, it couldn't be! That voice sounded too vivid and real for something cooked up by his imagination. His cells, numb from not receiving any stimulation for hours, were seemingly getting tauter in tension from that voice.

Guo Liqin screamed again. He screamed he was here. He pleaded with the person hidden in darkness to talk to him.

Unfortunately for him, though... Not even a sliver of his desperate cries escaped from his mouth. Even though his emotional state was visceral enough for his body to jump up and down and roll around on the floor out of control... His body could only express it through a barely noticeable tremor.

Even then, Guo Liqin still felt this overwhelming ecstasy washing over him. Someone was here. Someone was in the bathroom with him!

That was when something suddenly appeared mid-air. This change to his vision, not just to his hearing this time, sent so much happiness through Guo Liqin's body that he felt his tension instantly ebb away.

Only a devil could produce such a voice.

Guo Liqin finally accepted it. This man, he... He was the devil! No, he was a creature that was fundamentally different from all the crooked, unsavory and cruel bastards Guo Liqin had encountered in his career!

This man was different from those silly bastards who wrapped themselves up in cruelty and maliciousness as tools to threaten their opponents. This man, he... Evil had dyed him right down to his soul!

Listen to that low cackle! That hint of evil cackle barely noticeable in parts of his voice proved that. No sane person would behave like that while watching the torture and torment of his fellow human being!

What drove Guo Liqin even crazier about this situation was, though...!

To his ears, that devil's voice sounded like the angels' harmonious choir coming straight from heaven itself! After all, someone had finally answered his prayer and started talking to him. At least he could now hear someone’s voice in this darkness. Whether that someone was a devil or not didn't matter to him. He thought it himself, didn't he!

What a remarkable turn of events this was. An unfortunate one, too.

That was when the devil's hushed whisper registered in Guo Liqin's hearing once more.

“Get up.”

Guo Liqin's paralyzed body suddenly began spasming.

It... was moving? It was actually moving?! Guo Liqin's body, which had been paralyzed like a boulder for over a day... began moving again?

Like an entranced man, Guo Liqin silently stood up. Without any visible expression of happiness or terror, his body stood upright.

Every muscle in Guo Liqin's body screamed back at him. It felt like every muscle fiber had come undone, even though his paralysis hadn't been for that long. Trying to move his stiff, weakened muscles caused such agonizing pain that screams wanted to rush out of Guo Liqin's mouth all on their own.

However, Guo Liqin heartily welcomed this pain. After all, he finally stood up again!

Even after he finally stood up, though, Guo Liqin's mouth remained shut. He only focused every ounce of energy into the motions of standing up as if the devil's order was absolute. That was because he knew.

Guo Liqin knew that the devil hidden in the darkness had not permitted him to speak just yet. If the devil ordered Guo Liqin to stop breathing, he'd have to obey the command. If the next order had been for Guo Liqin to stop living, he would have no choice but to die!

Not even a tiny bit of his soul was under Guo Liqin's control. Right at this moment, Guo Liqin's everything was literally under Kang Jin-Ho's manipulation.

The corners of Kang Jin-Ho's lips curled up as he observed how Guo Liqin, despite his pitiful shivering, tried desperately not to fall down. “Well, then. Don't you have something to say to me?”

Kang Jin-Ho's voice dug into Guo Liqin's hearing like dancing sparks coming off the flames of Hell. Guo Liqin flinched grandly.

His jaw slackened, followed by his body spasming sporadically. And then... He desperately gestured.

Guo Liqin racked his brain. Then, racked it some more. As if he didn't care about using every bit of computing power in his brain reserved for the rest of his life, Guo Liqin desperately focused his entire being on thinking about his response.

Eventually, he raised his head. It seemed his reply was already set in stone.

“What... ever... it is...”

Guo Liqin's voice sounded turbid. Cracked. Withered beyond what was logically possible until it sounded like cracking metal bits were scratching against each other! Such inhuman sounds leaked out of Guo Liqin's lips.

“Any... thing... you want... I... I will... Tell you... Any... anything... If it's something I... I know... Even if I don't know... Whatever... it is...!”

Guo Liqin desperately squeezed his words out as if saying them put incredible strain on his body. Anyone watching this scene without context would've turned their head away in horror by this point, unable to endure this torture anymore.

Against this overwhelming terror and insurmountable powerlessness, Guo Liqin continued to murmur and groan his words out like a little kid with no room to escape from the incoming tsunami!

“I will tell you everything... Yes, everything... Whatever you... want to know... That's why... That's... why... I beg you... Please...”

Guo Liqin's body began quivering and quaking. All the emotions that couldn't be released until now were finally starting to leak out.

“That is why I beg... of you...” Guo Liqin repeated, 'I beg of you, please' several times before raising his bloodshot eyes to stare at Kang Jin-Ho. “That's why... Please, please kill me. I beg of you. Please, just kill me. Don't throw me back into that Hell again and just end my life, please. I'll do anything!”

Hot tears streamed down Guo Liqin's eyes next. The emotions rapidly escaped his control and flooded out of every pore of his being like a deluge breaking through a dam.

“Sob... Sniff... Sob...”

As Guo Liqin sobbed like a little kid, Kangy Jin-Ho bared his pearly whites and smirked.