Inferior by Nature

When I opened my eyes again, I was no longer in the car.The medicine remains in the body is still very heavy, and the thinking is even more sluggish and rigid, as if in a state of being slightly drunk.

Handcuffs bound his hands in front of his body, and he was treated the same way when he moved his feet.

"Are you awake?"

He raised his head in a trance, focusing his eyes on the place where the sound came from.

In the dimly lit hut, there was only a small pale lamp shining overhead.The light hit the large wooden table in front of me, rendering all kinds of things placed on it more cold and terrifying.Kong Tan sat on the table with one leg curled up, playing with a sharp long awl.

After being dazed for a while, my thoughts gradually returned, and fear also arose spontaneously.

"You...Brother Snake, what are you doing?" Realizing that I was in a bad situation, I stared at the long awl in his hand and swallowed unconsciously.

Kong Tan raised his hands, jumped off the long table, and asked directly, "What's your relationship with the youngest?"

Facing his cold and terrifying eyes, I felt trembling from the bottom of my heart, and tremblingly said: "Old... old friend's relationship."

"You don't look like me." My answer didn't convince Kong Tan. He came to me, rubbed his thumbs against the tip of the awl as he spoke, and didn't show any emotion on his face that I could detect.

I had no idea what he was going to do, what he wanted to do.

I had no choice but to add as much real information as possible to gain his trust.

"We dated for a while when we were studying, but he later fell in love with someone else, so I... reported him, and he was expelled from school. We met again unexpectedly on Mrs. Jin's birthday party. I pestered him unilaterally. He completely He came to see me that night when he was bothered by me. Later... Later I went to work on the island. We were under the same roof, but he didn't really treat me very much. I was just there for him when he needed... Just buddies."

Except for the beginning and the end, everything else is almost true, and these two points, even if he thinks about it, he can't prove it.

Kong Tan didn't speak for a while after hearing the words, and seemed to be deliberating my speech word by word, looking for loopholes in it.

I was nervous and chilled all over, and I was sweating abnormally from the back of my neck to my back. In just a few minutes, I felt beads of sweat slowly sliding down my spine, or soaking into my trouser waist, or soaking my clothes.

"You reported him?" Kong Tan finished thinking, and after so long, he paid attention to this sentence.

What is he going to do?Why did you suddenly tie me up?Because of Ran Qingzhuang?

I nodded: "Yes. The one he likes is also a man."

Kong Tan was a little surprised, hissed like a toothache, and then said contemptuously: "I can't tell that Ran Qingzhuang really likes to play with men's butts."

He picked up his camouflage pants, squatted in front of me, looked up and smiled at me.

This action didn't make me feel much kindness, but gave me a kind of vigilance in the face of dangerous snakes.He stopped threatening now, but he was letting down my vigilance. If I really showed my flaws, he would definitely raise his upper body, show his fangs, and kill me with one bite.

"Have you seen Ran Qingzhuang's little finger?" He raised the sharp awl and tapped it lightly on my little finger, "I broke it off."

Because of his words, and because of the cold touch on my fingertips, I shrank my hands back as if I was being burned, and the trembling became even more severe.

Kong Tan was quite satisfied with the effect he had created, and an uncomfortable low laugh escaped from his throat. The long awl chased after me slowly, and landed on my wrist.

"You have such beautiful hands, what a pity to lose them?"

I curled up my fingers, held them tightly, and when I spoke, my upper and lower teeth touched together: "I'm telling the truth..."

Kong Tan shook his head, stood up, and said in a disappointed tone, "I don't think so."

He walked to the tool table, put down the long awl, began to pick carefully, and finally picked up a slender silver needle, turned and walked back to me.

The silver needle is about 1 mm thick and 10 cm long, not as powerful as the pointed cone, but it is just as frightening when pinched by Kong Tan.

"You... are you trying to beat me up?"

Kong Tan turned a deaf ear, held my wrist, kept tightening his strength, and ordered: "Stretch out your hand."

I bit my lip to endure the pain like a broken bone, and clenched my fist even tighter.

Kong Tan raised his eyes and looked over, the strength in his hand increased, and he said: "You don't need to stretch your fingers, then I will cripple your whole hand."

Can no longer sit still.

I struggled violently, and in the confusion, the handcuffs hit the corner of Kong Tan's mouth, knocking his face aside.He subconsciously let go of the shackles on me. I took the opportunity to stand up and wanted to run to the door, but my feet were also handcuffed, and I lost my balance and fell to the ground after a few steps.

I wriggled on the ground like a bug, trying my best to escape, but I still couldn't escape Kong Tan's palm.

The hair was pulled violently from behind, and there was a tearing pain from the scalp.

I screamed in pain, and raised my arm to reach the hand on my head, but before I could touch it, I was dragged and slammed back into the chair.

The chair is made of metal and is fixed to the ground, which is very strong. I fell with a sharp pain in my back, but it didn't move at all.

There was a little blood on the corner of Kong Tan's mouth, and his eyes were terrifyingly dark.

"I wanted to be more polite to you, but I didn't expect you to toast and not eat fine wine." He raised his hand and slapped me, which made my ears buzzing and I couldn't hear anything for a long time.

I closed my eyes and lost all resistance for a moment.

Kong Tan took my hand, pinched my right index finger, and said, "Do you know that there is a torture called 'Ten Fingers Connecting Hearts'? I will stick needles into your nails one by one and stir them with the tip of your nails. Your flesh and blood completely separate your nails from the flesh. Then pry lightly, snap, and your nail caps fly off."

As he spoke, he laid the needle.The needle tip pierced into the flesh, and there was a sharp and prominent pain, which immediately overshadowed the burning on the face.

"...I'm telling the truth, what do you want to listen to?" I gasped, sweat seeping from the roots of my hair, falling into the skirt of my clothes one by one.

The island has always had a large temperature difference between morning and evening, and the airflow blows in from all directions that are not sealed, making me shiver uncontrollably as if I were wrapped in an ice coat.

Beads of blood emerged from the wound and slid down the fingers.Kong Tan didn't stab deeply, let alone blow off my fingernails as he said just now.The needle stopped after two or three millimeters, and he repeated meaningless questions and answers like a machine that couldn't understand human speech.

"What's your relationship with Ran Qingzhuang?"

"I said, I like him, and I pester him."

"Is he a rat from the island?"

"I do not know what you're talking about……"

"Does he have another identity?"

"No, I really don't know... Please, let me go..."

For the first time in my life, I felt hopeless, not even the day I was diagnosed with cancer.The fear of the unknown is far more tormenting than the certainty of death.

I don't know if someone will come to rescue me, and I don't know when this torture will end. I just know that I have to grit my teeth and endure, and I must not tell Kong Tan about the night of the birthday party.Otherwise, not only will Ran Qingzhuang be in danger, but I will not be able to live. The Jin family will not let anyone suspicious.

"This is just the beginning." Kong Tan pulled out the tip of the needle, changed another finger, and pressed it between the nail and the flesh like a threat, "I will ask you again, what is your relationship with Ran Qingzhuang?"

I squeezed my lips tightly, bit the inner lip flesh, closed my eyes and turned my face aside, not intending to answer any more questions from him.

"Still tough."

Feeling that the needle was about to penetrate slowly again, I couldn't help but let out a sob from my throat out of fear.

"Wait, you can't go in!"

"Fuck you, who are you talking to!"

"Go away!"

There was a sudden commotion outside the house, and there was a series of curses.Kong Tan stopped, and let out a displeased "tsk" sound as if he had been interrupted, and let go of my hand.

The next moment, the door was kicked open suddenly, the door panel fell to the ground, and the triangular lamp above the head was also affected, shaking back and forth.

In the flickering lights, Ran Qingzhuang stepped on the wooden door and walked in with the dead body.

"Kong Tan, what do you mean?" He no longer called Kong Tan "Brother Snake" in a polite manner, but called him by his first name.

Kong Tan raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, stepped back, and said with a smile, "Don't be angry, you know, this is a common practice, and you have experienced it too. Everything is for the company, for Mr. Jin. It is impossible for us to leave a suspicious person in the room." next to the young master."

Ran Qingzhuang's expression didn't change at all when he heard the words, he looked at Kong Tan deeply for a moment, then stretched out his hand and said, "The key."

With a smile on his face, Kong Tan fumbled for a while, took out the key from his trouser pocket and threw it over.

Ran Qingzhuang caught it and walked towards me.

From bottom to top, he first uncuffed my ankles, and then the handcuffs.When the key was inserted into the keyhole of the handcuffs, he saw the blood on my fingertips, his face froze immediately, and after taking off the handcuffs, he took my hand and looked at it carefully.

Maybe it was cold, or I was so scared that the blood on my hands was gone. My hands trembled slightly, and they looked extraordinarily pale under the incandescent light. The bloodstains from fingertips to palms were particularly glaring.

Ran Qingzhuang grabbed my hand and didn't move for a long time. He could only tell from his scorching breath on my wrist and his chest heaving violently that he was not in a good mood.

"I'm ok."

I retracted my hand, and he held it even harder, just overlapping the place Kong Tan pinched before.Although there is nothing visible on the surface of this piece of flesh, it is still injured inside. The pain from the tendon to the flesh, if it is not for the hand can still move, I suspect that the bone was cracked by Kong Tan.Now being gripped by Ran Qingzhuang without knowing how hard it was, I wrinkled my face in pain and couldn't hold back a muffled groan.

Ran Qingzhuang let go of his hand, staring at my wrist lost in thought.

His appearance made me somewhat uneasy: "Ran..."

After uttering a single word, Ran Qingzhuang suddenly got up without warning, and fiercely rushed towards Kong Tan who was at the side.

The two fought in a small space, overturned the table, and soon attracted people from outside.

"Brother Yao, we are all brothers, and we are also following orders, so stop beating!"

"Brother Yao, you have something to say!"

I was so anxious that I couldn't squeeze in, so I could only watch helplessly as the crowd held them tightly and separated them far away.

In a short time, Ran Qingzhuang picked up a dagger from the ground and held it in his palm, like an enraged beast, his black and cold eyes were full of terror, ready to move to drink the blood of Kong Tan.

Kong Tan was not as good as Ran Qingzhuang in physical skills, except for the first few blows he still had the strength to parry, and he received several punches in the back, now he was grinning when he was held up, it was obvious that he was seriously injured.

"Let go!" Ran Qingzhuang loosened his five fingers, and the dagger fell freely to the ground.He struggled a bit, but the people behind did not dare to fight him again.

He patted his arm, brushed off the dust on it, and said to Kong Tan in a cold voice: "If you dare to touch my people again, no matter who gave the order, I will definitely make you return ten times and a hundred times. I am loyal to Mr. My son, but my patience with you is limited, you'd better stop challenging my patience."

After finishing speaking, he looked towards me, stretched out his hand and said, "Come here."

Everyone's eyes immediately focused on me, among them, Kong Tan was the most frightening, vicious and sinister, making people hard to guard against.

With my heart beating wildly, I quickly walked over and grabbed Ran Qingzhuang's hand, and he pulled me out of the simple room.

When I got outside, I found that the surrounding area was surrounded by trees. It seemed that in the depths of the dense forest, there was only a dirt road going down in front of the door. I don't know where it leads.Apart from my tin hut, five or six cars were parked here and there in a large open space artificially opened up.

I was almost clinging to Ran Qingzhuang's body, holding his hand tightly, refusing to let go for a moment.It seemed as if he let go, and he was going to leave me in this horrible place again.

Ran Qingzhuang led me to a burning jeep, let me get in the car first, and then got into the driver's seat from the other side.From the rearview mirror, the people brought by Ran Qingzhuang boarded the two cars behind one after another.

As soon as the jeep moved, the car behind quickly started to move as well, heading down the mountain in a quiet and orderly manner.