Chapter 1786 - 1633: Stylist 9
Chapter 1786: Chapter 1633: Stylist 9
Tao Shuangshuang felt her arms being held as she was led into the room, with Jiang Jiali’s boyfriend still buttering up the boss.
"Boss, you’ve picked a really great place. No residents around, far from the crowd, everything we do here is easily managed. You’re so insightful."
The boss hadn’t even had time to reply when an eerie female voice chimed in, "I also think this place is just wonderful!"
The sudden female voice startled everyone in the room. The boss and Jiang Jiali’s boyfriend followed the voice to see that Tao Shuangshuang, who was supposed to be unconscious, was now standing upright with her head raised.
At her feet lay two men who were supposed to be holding her arms, and Tao Shuangshuang gave the boss a slight smile, one filled with malice.
She rotated her wrist, smiling brightly, "It’s been a while since I’ve exercised. Now that I’m in such a secluded place, I won’t stand on ceremony!"
Looking at the two men at Tao Shuangshuang’s feet, limp like noodles, and then at Tao Shuangshuang’s smiling yet somehow eerie expression.
Jiang Jiali’s boyfriend was the first to feel something was wrong. He remembered being grabbed by the hair and dragged on the ground, beaten until he rolled like a ball.
He instinctively became jittery, like a small animal facing a threat; he had been the one clamoring the most, and now he was the one silently retreating.
"Ouch!"
"Ah!"
"I... help me!"
"Murder!"
"Help, somebody, help!"
"Ah—"...
"Don’t kill me!"
In the still of the night, cries for help echoed from the isolated courtyard on the wilderness, spreading far into the darkness, but unfortunately, no one could hear them.
A group of burly men, faces bruised and swollen, knelt in rows in the room, tied up tightly. Tao Shuangshuang casually pulled up a chair and sat in front of them, and the group shivered as they looked at her.
The boss’s subordinates started wailing and begging for mercy to Tao Shuangshuang, pleading pathetically, mentioning their eighty-year-old mothers and three-year-old children, asking Tao Shuangshuang to let them go.
The boss was particularly regretful inside, regretting to his core. If he’d known they had captured a fiend, he should have beaten Zhang Weixiao—that bastard—half to death and thrown him in the garbage.
Zhang Weixiao, Jiang Jiali’s scumbag boyfriend, was now deeply regretful as well.
If he’d known Tao Shuangshuang was so troublesome, he wouldn’t have foolishly sought someone to teach her a lesson, only to end up getting involved himself. He had no idea how this female demon intended to deal with them.
Zhang Weixiao couldn’t naively believe that Tao Shuangshuang simply planned to beat them up a bit to vent her anger. Given her combat ability, she could very well have done that earlier in the alley.
She purposely got in the car with them, pretended to be unconscious, and only acted once they reached this secluded hideout. This meant today wasn’t going to end well.
Evidently, the boss had the same thought, so while his men begged for mercy, he stayed silent, thinking about how to escape from Tao Shuangshuang’s grasp.
Seeing Tao Shuangshuang sitting on the chair observing them, the boss endured the pain that felt like every bone in his body had been dismantled, and said, "Today, I was ignorant and offended you.
If you’re willing to let us go, I’ll pay five hundred thousand, and in the future, if you need anything, just give us a word. We’ll make sure everything is handled properly, any other request, as long as you say, I will agree."
Zhang Weixiao shivered slightly, curling up like a ball, wishing a hole would open in the ground for him to hide in, hoping desperately not to draw Tao Shuangshuang’s attention.
Tao Shuangshuang looked at the boss with a half-smile, reaching out to pat his face, still smiling.
"You brought me to this remote place with your own intentions in mind, no need for me to say them out loud.
If I hadn’t been capable, what would my fate be now? Would you have let me go? Do you think paying five hundred thousand can quell my anger?"
The boss’s expression changed; his original intentions were indeed quite harsh, and it seemed very likely that Tao Shuangshuang would not let him go because of this.
The boss opened his mouth to continue bargaining with Tao Shuangshuang, but she wasn’t willing to listen to his nonsense any further. She casually grabbed a random piece of cloth and stuffed it into the boss’s mouth, sealing it completely.
Then Tao Shuangshuang stood up and wandered around the room. She found a basin, filled it halfway with water, rummaged further, and finally found some storybooks, judging by the covers, they seemed to be adult books.
The tied-up men bewilderedly watched Tao Shuangshuang’s actions until she placed the basin and the adult books in front of them, not understanding what she intended to do.
Tao Shuangshuang didn’t say a word. She lifted Zhang Weixiao and the boss, stuffing Zhang Weixiao’s mouth as well, and then tied the two back-to-back, placing them in the corner.
Next, Tao Shuangshuang tied up the remaining henchmen firmly, then tore pages from the adult books and soaked them in the water basin.
Carefully picking up a wet page, Tao Shuangshuang, smiling, explained to the few henchmen tied in a circle, "Have you ever heard of an ancient punishment called ’Paste Gaoguan’?
This was ancient wisdom. They used mulberry bark paper to paste on a prisoner’s face, and once sprayed with water, it would cover the entire face, causing the prisoner to have difficulty breathing and eventually suffocate.
It’s said that pasting just five or six layers would kill someone. You don’t have mulberry bark paper here, so we have to make do with regular paper, and I don’t know how many layers this paper needs to suffocate someone.
But no worries, we can try it slowly, starting with the first layer. I’m a very democratic person, so I’ll let you discuss among yourselves to decide who should go first?"
Tao Shuangshuang’s voice was soft, her tone gentle, and her face still wore a smile, seemingly very kind and approachable. But in the eyes of these men, it was as terrifying as a psychopathic murderer.
The men cried and wailed one after another, begging for mercy, with some shouting for help. Tao Shuangshuang, smiling, looked at the two who were shouting for help.
"You two better save your energy. This is your hideout, you know better than anyone whether calling for help here is of any use or not."
Tao Shuangshuang’s voice was calm and soft, not loud, yet it instantly silenced the two men who had been shouting for help. They had brought many women here before and naturally knew this place was a hidden spot chosen by the boss, and screaming would bring no one.
In an instant, despair filled everyone’s hearts, while the demon they had brought back themselves was still smiling, urging them to "Hurry, pick someone for my experiment. I can’t wait any longer."