Chapter 502: Chapter 502 Artwork
"Trying to run?" Xu Longzhen’s voice approached the man lying on the ground, still restlessly trying to crawl forward.
The man shook his head while muttering softly, "I want to live, I want to live," but that not-so-sturdy shadow still covered him completely, and a black leather boot appeared on the back of his hand.
The director in the leather boots lowered her noble head, looking at the man crawling and struggling like a maggot on the ground, and she gradually increased the pressure on the foot on his hand, causing the rough ground and the tender flesh in his hand to rub against each other, quickly bringing a stinging sensation.
But this wasn’t the most terrifying part; the most terrifying part was the man watching helplessly as the fingers he spent a fortune to maintain slowly revealed their white bones under Xu Longzhen’s actions, a terror in his heart that couldn’t be described, more devastating than the pain.
He was a piano teacher; he could lose everything except his hands, but now the most precious thing was being destroyed bit by bit in front of him, and he had no ability to resist.
The man’s eyes turned blood-red from the outcome, using his plaster-wrapped hand to claw at Xu Longzhen’s foot, using his head to butt against it, and even, in a moment of insanity, biting Xu Longzhen’s ankle, trying to force her to release her foot through pain, but was instead kicked over onto his back, further enraging Xu Longzhen due to this act of resistance.
"You even dare to bite me, it seems you really don’t want to live, tie him to the operating table for me." Xu Longzhen frowned; the bitten area didn’t hurt much thanks to the boot, but Xu Longzhen was very displeased with the man’s rebellious attitude, commanding the assistant with a sinister bloody aura at the corner of her mouth.
"I just don’t want to live anymore, you know how important my hands are to me, yet you destroy them. Without these hands, I might as well be dead, you might as well just kill me." The man completely gave up struggling, convulsing with his hands as he looked at Xu Longzhen with bloodshot eyes and shouted loudly.
"You think dying is that easy? In my place, as long as I don’t want you to die, you simply won’t die, but if I don’t want you to live, you absolutely won’t survive. You’ve successfully angered me, so now I’ll give you a fate worse than death. How does that sound? Isn’t it delightful?" Xu Longzhen said as she watched her assistant skillfully bind the man to the icy operation table, pinching his tear-streaked cheeks.
"I won’t succumb, just give up." The man’s pinched cheeks were somewhat disfigured, making his speech unclear, but the hatred in his eyes was evident, clearly sparking satisfaction in Xu Longzhen.
"Very good, I hope you can maintain this state for a while. I like it when you have this rebellious spirit; it’s more fun to play this way." Xu Longzhen said with a smile.
Although Xu Longzhen’s face wore a smile, her actions had nothing to do with joy or rather gave the man no sense of pleasure at all.
Have you ever experienced the feeling of someone slicing open the flesh of your leg bit by bit without anesthesia? Have you ever experienced the sensation of someone stirring around your wound relentlessly? Have you ever been complimented on how nicely your bones are growing, so white, and pondered over such words?
That day, the man experienced all of this, which was not just a physical torment but also a psychological torture. His mouth was gagged, so even at the brink of death from pain, he couldn’t kill himself, nor could he even curse aloud, and when he fainted from the pain, Xu Longzhen poured medical alcohol on his wound to torture him back to consciousness, truly making him unable to live or die.
In the confinement room, the man had completely lost his sense of time, and when he saw Xu Longzhen standing in front of him, he didn’t even respond, his eyes still soulless.
"Is this as far as you can go? How can you give up so soon?" Xu Longzhen sucked on a lollipop as she looked down at the man, with drool flowing and eyes vacant like a broken doll, her temper strangely subsiding a little, making her less angry.
When she saw the man look over at her after taking a breather, Xu Longzhen’s interest, which was about to dwindle, was reignited.
"Hey, looking over this way, seems like you’re recovering pretty well. You shouldn’t have seen what I did to you just now, but don’t worry, I’ll show you now." Xu Longzhen said happily and bit down with her sharp teeth to crush the unfinished lollipop, retrieving a tray from where the man couldn’t see, displaying a bone stripped of its flesh.
"How about it? Does it look familiar? This is the bone I took out of your body. I compared your left and right legs; this one looks the best, like white jade. Do you like it?" Xu Longzhen offered the tray closer to the man’s face, even turning it around to ensure he could inspect the bone taken from his body from all angles.
To the man, Xu Longzhen’s actions were indistinguishable from those of a demon.
At times, people rely on a surge of reckless courage to do something, but when that courage is exhausted and the mind once driven by impulse regains clarity, the ensuing fear crushes you even harder. That was the man’s experience now.
He could no longer recall the courage with which he initially stood up to Xu Longzhen. All he had now was an indescribable fear, and if not for the gag, he would have shed all his dignity and begged her without reservation for mercy, pleading for a swift end or for release, but now he could only convey his regret through his eyes, trying to attract her attention with his whimpers, hoping she would understand his intentions.
Xu Longzhen gazed at the man like she was admiring a piece of art, causing chills to creep over him before she burst out laughing.
"Regretting, and want me to spare you?" Xu Longzhen asked.
Almost at the instant Xu Longzhen spoke, the man nodded frantically, but it didn’t earn him any clemency from Xu Longzhen; instead, her laughter became even more unrestrained.
"It’s a pity you’re too late. I won’t spare you, just give up. To date, no one who entered my chamber has left alive, except me and my assistant. Enjoy; this is just the beginning. I’m curious if all your bones are as white as your leg bones." Xu Longzhen said with a smile, as under the man’s terrified gaze, she then set her sights on his beloved hands.
That night, her assistant sat in the living room sipping tea, while the man’s heart-wrenching low cries continued to emanate intermittently from that abyssal basement until they gradually ceased around dawn when Xu Longzhen, brimming with energy, hummed a cheerful tune as she emerged from below.