Hearing this, Liron was anxious and angry, "How dare you!"
Richard raised his eyebrows, "You can have a try."
Liron became excited and struggled to fight with Richard when he heard this, but the rope tied him down and he couldn't break free. He shouted and cursed. His breath became heavy and his eyes were bloodshot. At this time, he was like a madman, but there was nothing he could do.
Richard just looked at him blandly with a faint smile. He didn't look unhappy at all. Instead, he looked at Liron, who was yelling as if he was looking at a clown.
"To be honest." Richard said slowly when Liron stopped yelling, "I have seen many people like you, and there are many people who are more vicious than you. Was I afraid of them? In the end, they had to listen to me. If you are sensible, you should be smart and tell us everything. In that way, you won't delay our time, and you will not suffer too much. Which one do you choose?"
"I don't know!" The more excited Liron was,
the more desperately he struggled. More and more blood came out of the wound, which was scratched by Richard just now.
"Really?" Richard smiled and played with the dagger in his hand, "In fact, you are a tough cookie, and you still refuse to admit it. But so what? The dagger in my hand is ruthless."
"You..." Liron roared madly, "Don't push me! I really don't know!"
"Jimmy." Richard looked at James and shrugged his shoulders, "Look, if we don't do something to him, I'll feel a little sorry for him. What do you think?"
James took another draw on his cigarette and looked down at the remaining one-third of the cigarette butt between his fingers. One or two seconds later, he blew out a stream of smoke. Immediately afterwards, he curved the corner of his mouth and then put the cigarette butt on Liron's arm.
It was almost November, and it wasn't very cold. Liron only wore a thin shirt. The cigarette butt quickly burned the shirt, and then stuck to his skin.
"Ah... F*ck you..."
Seeing Liron's painful face, James used all his strength to press the cigarette against his arm and even twisted it evilly a few times before Liron could finish his words.
Liron groaned and kept struggling, "James! You b*stard!"
A stingy smell hung in the air. It was like the smell of burnt glue or oil, but James didn't even frown.
In the end, he flicked the cigarette butt that had been put out, "After you did that, you should have known that this is what you deserve. Of course, this is not a severe punishment. If you don't tell me, you'll suffer more."
Liron gasped for air and felt painful all over his body. He was scared.
Richard glanced at James, "Jimmy, this tough cookie is actually loyal to his friend." After that, he smiled sarcastically and said to James casually, "He is loyal to his friend, but his friend is living a happy life. Maybe his friend doesn't treat him as a friend at all."
James didn't say a word. He just stood there straight with keen eyes.
"Don't say like this. He's not..." Realizing that he was careless, Liron immediately fell silent and looked at Richard with hatred.
Richard raised his eyebrows and said nothing. But James said blandly, "Richard, we gave him a chance, but he didn't want it. I don't have time to wait anymore, so I will do as you said." After that, James sneered evilly, "When we catch the person he went to see, he'll be obedient."
"Okay." Richard nodded, "I'll send someone to do it now. I'll find it out tomorrow morning at the latest."
"Okay."
With his eyes wide open, Liron saw that Richard really turned around and was about to go out. In shock and anger, he blurted out, "Wait a minute!"
"Richard, I'm sorry. I troubled you again."
"Hey! What are you talking about? You deserve it. You are my friend."
"I won't stand on ceremony and tell you that I'll help you as long as you need me in the future. I said that I would never break my promise. But..." James hesitated for a moment and said, "Richard..."
"Well, say it."
"Just now... you probably heard everything, didn't you? I hope that you can act as if you don't know those things, especially... when you face Xavier, okay?"
If it weren't for the fact that he needed Richard to interrogate Liron together with him, he naturally didn't want Richard to know it. Although he didn't say the whole story when he talked to Liron, Richard was not a fool. He probably had guessed what had happened to Xavier.
He didn't care about how Richard thought of him, but he didn't want Richard to treat Xavier with prejudice.
"Don't worry. I'm not a gossiper. I know what I should say and what I shouldn't."
"Okay." James smiled, "Richard, do you think... I'm very strange?"
Richard was stunned at first, and then realized what James was talking about. He said without thinking, "Jimmy, although I don't know why you did that back then, didn't say that you changed your mind? If you were really determined to do that, how could you punish them and try to find them today? Don't worry. In my opinion, you are the same as before, and our relationship won't change because of anything."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome." "Stay here for a while. I... have to go out."
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