Trembling At A High Altitude - Chapter 59

Chapter 59: Scumbag

Gao Fei wanted to laugh, but he didn’t dare to.

“Just confess. I’ll end your pain swiftly if you do,” said Feng Dahai as he walked back to where he was.

Li Teng replied weakly, “My good son, I’ll tell you if you get on your knees and call me daddy.”

“You f*cking…”

Feng Dahai swore as he rammed his fist into Li Teng’s gut. Then, he launched into a frenzy of punches and kicks.

He honestly didn’t understand. This guy was just a normal newbie and an extra that had only taken part in two scenes, yet he simply didn’t give in no matter how he tortured him! This seriously didn’t make any sense!

Upon seeing that things weren’t quite right, Du Qing quickly ran over and held Feng Dahai back.

“Big Brother Hai, calm down! He’s antagonizing you on purpose! He’s likely not the resistance fighter. If you kill him, you’ll walk right into his trap, and we’ll be in trouble!”

“In that case, we can only make a gamble that it’s her?” asked Feng Dahai as he turned to glare at Anna.

Du Qing nodded and replied, “I think it’s her, too. The likelihood that she’s the one is very high!”

Anna lifted her head weakly and looked at Feng Dahai. She said, “Just kill me. I am in so much pain and agony.”

His mad flurry of more than ten whip lashings just now was more than enough to kill a frail woman like her.

“Do you think that I won’t dare to do that?” threatened Feng Dahai as he picked up a branding iron from the burning charcoal again.

“Boss, don’t hit me, alright? Listen to my quick analysis. All of you may have been misled. But if you hit me again, I won’t be able to say it anymore,” said Huang Xun, whose speech was muffled and unclear. When Feng Dahai had stuffed the branding iron into his mouth just now, the branding iron had already cooled a little. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to speak now for sure.

I really take my hat off this hater! He simply won’t shut up! thought Gao Fei. He couldn’t help but sympathize with Huang Xun.

“Let’s listen to his analysis. He has a better understanding of those people than us,” said Du Qing to Feng Dahai, trying to persuade him. He had been greatly shocked too when he saw Feng Dahai abusing Huang Xun just now. Huang Xun was on the same camp as them; even if he had a foul mouth, surely there was no need to torture him too, right?

“Fine, spit it out,” ordered Feng Dahai as he put down the branding iron. Then, he walked over to Huang Xun and looked at him. He seemed a little calmer after Du Qing had held him back just now.

Huang Xun gave them his analysis while he tried to bear with the severe pain in his mouth and on his tongue. He said, “Your analysis that Anna is the resistance fighter is actually based on what Gao Fei had said. In my opinion, it is highly likely that Gao Fei is the liar. He and Tang Na, that insidious bastard, are complete fakers. They are working with each other to put on a show to mislead you into thinking that Anna is the resistance fighter.”

Feng Dahai raised his doubts and asked, “Didn’t you say that Tang Na and Anna are lovers? Isn’t he afraid that I’ll kill Anna if he makes us think that she’s the resistance fighter?”

When they had been on the bus earlier, Huang Xun had specially informed Feng Dahai of Tang Na and Anna’s romantic relationship and suggested that he take note of this point and make use of it during his interrogation. Yet Huang Xun himself was denying the exact same thing now.

“I know that insidious bastard Tang Na is a scumbag, but I didn’t expect him to be such a huge scumbag. He’s practically the biggest scumbag of all on Earth! For the sake of self-preservation, he would even go as far as to cause the death of Anna, a woman devoted to him! In my opinion, there is a higher than 90% chance that scumbag Tang Na is the resistance fighter. You should use Gao Fei as the next point of breakthrough in your interrogation. He’s the liar. Also, he’s not as hardy and resilient as that scumbag, so who knows, he may confess very soon. As long as he tells us the truth, it’ll become a lot easier to pry the resistance fighter’s identity out of their mouths,” suggested Huang Xun.

Gao Fei hastily denied the allegations and said, “I’m really not the liar!”

Huang Xun continued to fan the flames and said, “We’ll only know whether or not you’re the liar after torturing you!”

Feng Dahai turned to Gao Fei. He said, “Oh, so sorry, you’d better tell us the truth now! You’ll suffer less that way!”

A panicked Gao Fei tried to defend himself and replied, “Everything I said is the truth! The clue that I received is exactly ‘Tang Na knows who the resistance fighter is’. I’m really not the liar!”

Upon seeing how Feng Dahai still wasn’t taking action, Huang Xun couldn’t help but become somewhat anxious. He urged, “Hit him! Viciously! He’ll definitely confess that way!”

“You’re lying! Hurry and come clean with me!” bellowed Feng Dahai. Then, he picked up the branding iron and began to torture Gao Fei with it.

With this, no one managed to escape the fate of being tortured. Everyone got a taste of it.

Huang Xun finally felt a lot more satisfied after he heard Gao Fei’s screams.

“Will you confess?!”

“I swear! I’m really not lying!”

Feng Dahai continued his abuse.

“Will you confess?!”

“Please, I beg you, everything that I said is true! If I confess to false charges under torture, it’ll give you more trouble instead!”

Feng Dahai changed to another branding iron.

“Will you confess?!”

“It’s not that I don’t want to confess, but Tang Na is really the only one who knows who the resistance fighter is!” cried out Gao Fei, whose face was covered in tears and snot.

The fuming Feng Dahai was tremendously frustrated.

“Boss, this kid isn’t that much of a hero. Since he’s still not confessing to anything even after being beaten into this shape, he really may not be lying after all,” said Huang Xun. After he had vented his frustrations, he suddenly felt somewhat guilty when he saw how terrible Gao Fei looked. While it was true that they frequently bickered with each other, it hadn’t reached a point where they would tear out each other’s throats.

Feng Dahai charged over to Huang Xun menacingly with the branding iron in his hand. He snapped. “Then why don’t you tell me who the f*cking resistance fighter really is, huh?!”

“Boss! Don’t, don’t! I may not be able to guarantee anything else, but you definitely won’t go wrong by killing that scumbag! The chances that it’s him are higher than 90% for sure! Moreover, you won’t lose out in any way if you kill him. Since you can’t get them to talk, killing him presents the smallest amount of loss to you! You have to kill him!” yelled Huang Xun. He was in such a panic that he had forgotten even about the pain in his mouth.

Feng Dahai had a sinister look on his face as he kept quiet. He seemed to be considering what Huang Xun had said.

Huang Xun added, “Not only is that scumbag a lot craftier than most, but he’s also cruel and merciless. He will not take anyone else, even family, into consideration! I’m not saying this to flatter him, but if you let him off, he’ll become a huge risk to both you and the entire Silver Wolf Guild in the future!”

Du Qing thought for a moment and concurred with Huang Xun. He said, “What he says makes sense. Since the guild has a bounty on his head and there’s no longer any way we can verify who the resistance fighter is, undoubtedly, killing him poses the least amount of loss to you.”

Du Qing was aware that Li Teng had killed Guo Zhipeng and Mrs. Guo one after the other. It seemed that this guy must be someone who was either really clever or favored by lady luck. He knew that he had already offended Li Teng through and through. There was a chance that Li Teng had already blacklisted him. If they couldn’t make an accurate guess as to the resistance fighter’s identity this time, taking the opportunity to get rid of Li Teng would, at least, count as eliminating a huge potential risk factor in advance.

Feng Dahai asked Huang Xun and Du Qing for confirmation, “Do both of you think that I should kill him?”

Huang Xun repeatedly affirmed, “Yes! Boss, he’s really no different from an eternal source of trouble! He absolutely mustn’t be allowed to live!”

Du Qing nodded as well. He replied, “Yes. In any case, we won’t go wrong by killing him.”

“Alright, I’ll torture him to death, and we’ll be done with this.”

Feng Dahai approached the toolbox again and got out a few other instruments of torture. Then, he went back to where Li Teng was.

Out of the two hours of filming time they had, only half of it had gone by.

Since he had decided that he would kill Li Teng, Feng Dahai still had an hour’s time to torture Li Teng and force him into confession.

All of a sudden, Anna, who had been hanging her head all this time, spoke up weakly.

“Don’t hit him anymore. He really isn’t the resistance fighter.”

Feng Dahai turned to Anna. He asked, “Who’s the resistance fighter then if it’s not him?”

“I confess…” replied Anna. It seemed that she was now extremely weak after she had been tortured. She sounded as if she was out of breath. After she said that she would confess, her voice broke off time and again, making it hard for people to catch what exactly she was saying.

Feng Dahai walked over to her briskly, wanting to hear what she was saying more clearly.

At this point, Huang Xun suddenly thought of something, and he hastily shouted at Feng Dahai, “Boss, look out!”

However, it was too late.