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Supremely Talented Tyrant-Chapter 650 - 651: Torturing to Death
"You? Who the hell are you?" Liu Laocai glared at Hao Jian.
"Boss Liu, this is Hao Jian." Li Cuihua whispered a few words to Liu Laocai, looking somewhat indignant.
Liu Laocai's face immediately turned cold, and he huffed, "So you're Hao Jian, eh? I haven't even come looking for you, yet you dare to come knocking at my door?"
But Hao Jian didn't waste words and instead pointed directly at the two of them, saying, "Hand them over."
"You tell me to hand them over, and I just do it? Who the hell do you think you are?" Liu Laocai was infuriated to laughter by Hao Jian. Was it not enough that Hao Jian had injured him, now he dared to directly order him around? Was this looking down on him?
"So you're saying you don't plan on handing them over?" Hao Jian asked with a sharp look in his eyes.
"Hand over your mom! Finish this punk off for me!" Liu Laocai cursed angrily. Did he think because he had beaten him up, he could still be so cocky in front of him? Did he take Liu Laocai for someone easy to bully?
"Click, click, click…"
As soon as he finished speaking, over twenty gun barrels were pointed at Liu Laocai and his group. Liu Laocai's bodyguards were also dumbstruck on the spot, not daring to move an inch.
"You…" Liu Laocai was also shocked, then turned back and roared at the bewildered Li Cuihua, "Didn't you say this kid was a penniless nobody? What's going on here?"
"This… we didn't know either." Li Cuihua was on the verge of tears — how could they have known what was happening? Hao Jian had suddenly become so powerful, showing up with so many armed men in black.
Liu Laocai's teeth ground together in rage. These two fools, Li Cuihua, were good for nothing but ruining things, setting up such a powerful enemy for him.
But soon, Liu Laocai regained his composure and said in a deep voice, "Brother, which faction are you with? Speak up, we might know each other. Let's not wash away the dragon temple in a flood and cause a misunderstanding."
"Know each other? What a joke. I'm a legitimate businessman. How could I possibly know a villain like you?" Hao Jian scoffed.
Upon hearing this, Liu Laocai was at a loss for words. A legitimate businessman? Would a legitimate businessman be accompanied by over twenty armed thugs?
Hao Jian didn't even blush saying that.
"Brother, leave room for maneuver so we can meet again in the future. Ask around about who I, Liu Laocai, am. If you kill me, you won't be able to leave Huaiyun City," Liu Laocai warned. He was not like Brother Long, just a gangster; he was a local power broker, very influential in the area, so he spoke with confidence.
"Finish him off!" Hao Jian gestured faintly at Liu Laocai.
"Hold on!" Liu Laocai panicked. Was this guy really so reckless?
"I'm well-acquainted with the director; if you kill me, you really won't make it out of Huaiyun City." Liu Laocai reminded him thrice, "Take those two idiots if you want them!"
Liu Laocai knew he couldn't protect Li Cuihua and the others; Ruo Lan was even less of a thought. Now his own life was in Hao Jian's hands; how dare he have other desires!
"I'm definitely taking them with me, but I won't let you off either! You dared to covet my woman—if I don't teach you a lesson, it wouldn't be in my nature."
"You need to think this through. I'm calling the police station director right now. Are you sure you still want to kill me?" Liu Laocai played his last card, hoping that by involving Director Liang, a government official, Hao Jian might show some deference.
Just then, Spice Ginger chuckled and turned to say, "Old Liang, someone wants to see you!"
Upon hearing this, Liu Laocai's heart tightened. Director Liang was here too?
Shortly after, a plump middle-aged man in a police uniform emerged with a smile plastered on his face, obsequiously approaching Hao Jian, "Mr. Hao Jian, I have long admired your name! To see you today is a truly fortunate occasion."
Normally, as the head of the police station, Director Liang wouldn't associate with Spice Ginger, a mafia boss. However, since Spice Ginger started following Hao Jian, he'd gone completely legit, no longer touching any illegal activities, and had become a full-fledged businessman.
Liu Laocai was petrified on the spot. Even when seeing Director Liang, he had to be polite. Yet, Director Liang was now bowing and scraping before this young man. And when Liu Laocai was about to be killed, Director Liang just stood by and watched. Who was this young man to deserve such treatment from Director Liang?
Liu Laocai found it all incredible and realized he'd probably hit a snag.
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Right now, he wished he could tear Li Cuihua and Zhao Tiezhu apart. These two fools had said this guy was a nobody without any power or influence, and yet even the station director tried to curry favor with him. How could that be powerless or influence-less? Who were they kidding?
In truth, the most miserable ones had to be Li Cuihua and Zhao Tiezhu. Liu Laocai might have been fine since he hadn't done anything too bad to Hao Jian, but they had forced Ruo Yuanbin to his death. If Ruo Yuanbin was Ruo Lan's uncle, then he was also her uncle. Could they be spared?
So now this treacherous couple was also terrified, trembling non-stop, fearing that Hao Jian might act against them next.
After greeting Hao Jian, Director Liang turned back to look at Liu Laocai, his face set firm, "Give up resisting. If Mr. Hao Jian wants you dead, not even a Daluo Immortal can save you."
"Director Liang, please plead for me," Liu Laocai begged. Hearing Director Liang speak like that, he was frightened.
"No one can save you now; the only one who can is yourself," said Director Liang with an expressionless face.
Then, Liu Laocai collapsed to his knees with a thud, his voice trembling, "Mr. Hao Jian, please give me a chance. I promise to turn over a new leaf!"
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"Cut it off yourself, and we'll call it even. Since you've taken an interest in my woman, you might as well snip off your manhood!" Hao Jian was very straightforward and direct.
On the spot, Liu Laocai's eyes bulged, his mouth agape—was Hao Jian seriously going to castrate him?
"Mr. Hao Jian, you can't do this. Your wife is so beautiful, there must be many men who harbor inappropriate thoughts about her. Do you plan to castrate all of them just because of their thoughts?" Liu Laocai wailed, clearly not wanting to become a eunuch and miss out on so much of life's pleasure.
"Whether they have thoughts or not is their business; as long as they keep it to themselves, I can pretend I don't know. But you're different, you not only revealed your thoughts, but you also acted on them, and I can even smell the 'date-rape drug' in your pocket," said Hao Jian as he covered his nose.
Liu Laocai stood there, stupefied. Was this guy a dog? How could he smell that?
"It's okay not to cut it off. Then you can just go die!" Hao Jian frowned.
A henchman of Spice Ginger immediately took the safety off a pistol, ready to shoot Liu Laocai.
"No, I'll cut it! I'll do it!" Liu Laocai blurted out between sobs, instantly regretting his actions. In his heart, he vowed to have Li Cuihua and Zhao Tiezhu dismembered; if not for these two idiots, how could he have ended up like this?
"Take him away, I don't want anyone to get an eye sore watching this," Hao Jian told Spice Ginger.
After that, Liu Laocai was shamefully led away to undergo the castration ritual.
With the nuisance taken care of, Hao Jian then addressed Li Cuihua and the other with a smile that was not quite a smile, "Originally, I didn't want to bother with you two fools, but the mistake you made was doing something you shouldn't have done and pushed my uncle to his death."
Li Cuihua and Zhao Tiezhu both knelt down, but before they could speak, Hao Jian sneered, "Don't bother kneeling; it's useless. I'm not going to spare you."
The death of Ruo Yuanbin demanded an explanation from Li Cuihua and Zhao Tiezhu. If they wouldn't provide one, then Hao Jian was going to take it himself!
"Don't kill us!" Li Cuihua's face turned pale. She wanted to beg for mercy but was too ashamed to come up with any excuses.
"Why would I kill you?" Hao Jian laughed, but the sound was eerily sinister.
"Thank you... thank you..." Li Cuihua sighed in relief upon hearing that Hao Jian did not plan to kill them, nodding her head excitedly.
Then Hao Jian turned to Spice Ginger and instructed, "Lock them up and torture them to death!"
Naturally, Hao Jian wouldn't dispose of Li Cuihua and the other so easily—if he did, wouldn't that be letting them off too lightly?
Consequently, Li Cuihua's smile stiffened.
"No, it's not my fault, it was her who seduced me! And she was the one who drove Ruo Yuanbin to his death. It's not my fault!" Zhao Tiezhu, hearing that Hao Jian planned to torture them to death, became so scared that his face turned green, and he shrieked cowardly, shifting all the blame onto Liu Laocai.
He didn't want to die, much less be tortured until death.
"You're talking nonsense, it was clearly you who hit on me first at the market!" Li Cuihua fumed, her venomous demeanor as if she wanted to tear a piece of flesh from Zhao Tiezhu's body.
"Take them away!" Hao Jian had no interest in listening to their sob stories.
Spice Ginger's men went up to grab Li Cuihua and the other, preparing to take them away.
Seeing this, the enraged villagers could not hold back any longer. They picked up stones from the ground and hurled them at Li Cuihua and Zhao Tiezhu.
"Stone those adulterers to death!"
"Yes, stone them!"
The stones rained down on the duo like a storm, instantly leaving them bloodied and screaming in agony, wailing pitifully and looking utterly pathetic.
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In the days that followed, a funeral was held at Ruo Lan's family home, with Hao Jian footing the bill for what turned out to be quite an extravagant send-off.
At that time, Hao Jian's cellphone began to ring. Upon seeing the caller ID, he felt a chill down his spine, his entire face turning pale with fear.
"Who's calling?" Ruo Lan noticed Hao Jian's odd reaction and couldn't help but ask.
"Shu Ya!" Hao Jian replied with a wry smile.
Hearing the name, Ruo Lan also froze before a bitter smile spread across her face.
It was only then that she fully realized that she and Hao Jian were merely friends, not actual husband and wife.
During the time they'd spent together these past few days, there had been moments when Ruo Lan truly thought of Hao Jian as her man.
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