Mercenary's War

Chapter 2413 - 2389: Still a True Tough Guy After All

Gao Yang felt a sudden wave of nausea, so he immediately turned his head away, refusing to look at Lavagani.Peter didn’t look at Lavagani either; he shouted at the prisoner with the broken leg: "Speak! How many people are on this floor?"

The prisoner just cried out miserably, and Peter stomped on the prisoner’s broken leg, snarling: "If you don’t want the other leg broken too, answer my question while you still can. You’ve got three seconds. One!"

"Six people! Six people! Six people! Move your foot, ah!"

Peter twisted his foot, and as the prisoner screamed even louder, he growled: "Who are you people? I’m not patient. Talk."

"Intelligence Bureau, Yemen Military Intelligence Agency! All of us, we all are!"

The prisoner was panting heavily, and Peter looked at Gao Yang. Gao Yang nodded, just about to question the prisoner himself, but then he heard Lavagani speak weakly: "Peter Ram..."

Gao Yang turned his head, Andy He was examining Lavagani’s wound, and Albert was untying the rope binding Lavagani.

With tears still streaming, Lavagani, now free to move his right hand, wiped his tear-blurred eyes and then stared at Gao Yang: "I didn’t say anything, really, Peter Ram, you have to believe me, I didn’t say anything!"

Gao Yang forced a small smile and said: "We’ll talk upstairs; you’re safe now. We’re here to rescue you, don’t worry, buddy. You’re safe now; it’s all over, and you’ll get better soon."

Just then, Eileen picked up a folder from the table nearby and shouted: "Sir, interrogation records."

Lavagani weakly shook his head: "I didn’t say anything!"

Eileen gave Gao Yang a look, and Gao Yang waved his hand, saying to Eileen: "No need to look, let Mr. Lavagani handle it."

Eileen shouted: "Don’t you want me to read it to you?"

Gao Yang waved his hand: "No need to read, I said let Mr. Lavagani handle it."

Gao Yang couldn’t read Arabic, although he could speak it now, the script was still tough for him, but Eileen had no problem at all. So when Eileen gave him a look, Gao Yang knew the interrogation records were meaningless.

Lavagani struggled and said: "Please take it, take the interrogation records with you, this is for me, I... please, Peter Ram, I’m begging you."

While Lavagani’s actions were stupid, he indeed was a tough guy because he really hadn’t said anything. So Gao Yang didn’t mind taking the interrogation records as a favor.

If Gao Yang destroyed the interrogation records, Lavagani would be finished, utterly finished.

Captured and immediately tortured, if Gao Yang wanted to screw Lavagani over, Lavagani would be doomed regardless, as no one would know if he said something he shouldn’t have under torture. But with the interrogation records, a lot could be explained.

Though despising Lavagani’s idiotic behavior, Gao Yang didn’t mind giving Lavagani a helping hand, pulling him up, because a tough guy who endured without speaking even after being skinned deserves respect.

Eileen put away the interrogation records and then shouted to Lavagani: "I’ll keep it for you and give it to you upstairs."

Lavagani nodded slightly and whispered: "Thank you, thank you..."

Then Lavagani fainted.

Andy He clicked his tongue and said: "Boss, this wound isn’t easy to treat; all the skin is gone. Just look at this cut; the person who did it is an expert, started peeling from the thumb, or maybe the pinky, anyway started from the toes, peeled his skin bit by bit. You see here, the cutter did a circumcision procedure, just..."

"Stop! Stop! Don’t say anymore! Don’t say anymore!"

Reaching out to stop Andy He’s explanation, Gao Yang shouted: "How much longer? We can’t stay here forever."

Albert quickly replied: "It’s tough to remove! Steel clasps, almost done."

Gao Yang said to Peter: "Take the prisoner upstairs, question him there."

Eileen gently nudged Gao Yang and shook her head where the prisoner couldn’t see, whispering: "Is this right?"

Gao Yang thought for a moment and asked the prisoner: "What did you find out?"

"Nothing, didn’t find out anything of value. We knew he was Iranian, but it took us more than an hour just to make him admit it."

"Did he admit it?"

"No, we eventually gave up on that question, asked about the battle plans instead."

Gao Yang took the interrogation record from Eileen’s hand, tapped it, and shouted: "Is your interrogation strictly recorded? Is it just paper records? Are there video records?"

"There are recordings, video records internally archived, paper records given, given, given to others for review."

Scenes of flaying can’t just be shown to anyone; Gao Yang nodded: "Then where’s the camera? I didn’t see it."

Actually, Gao Yang saw the camera set up in the room, directly facing Lavagani, fixed on a tripod, but he asked anyway.

"Over there, that one."

"Only one camera?"

"Yes."

Eileen gestured to indicate she had already turned off the camera, and Gao Yang nodded, stood up, watching Albert and Andy He lift Lavagani off the iron frame.

They could evacuate now; Gao Yang whispered to Andy He: "Don’t need a stretcher?"

Andy He shook his head: "Let’s get him up first; waiting for a stretcher takes too long."

Gao Yang looked at the prisoner, rubbed his chin, thought for a moment, and shouted: "Isn’t there a tunnel leading to the other side? You know what I’m talking about. Answer me."

The prisoner weakly gasped: "There is a tunnel to the other side, no tunnel directly leading out; our officer said, said the tunnel was sealed off, we couldn’t pass, damn it, we were abandoned, we can’t get to the other side, someone closed the tunnel from the other end."

Gao Yang frowned, spoke in a deep voice: "You say, in the basement on the other side there’s a tunnel leading out? Leading where?"

The prisoner took a breath, shook his head: "Don’t know, our officer said he knows the exit isn’t far, but doesn’t know where it’s hidden, there’s a far exit but it’s either not connected or abandoned, he got angry and revealed what he knew, but it’s limited, and I know even less."

Gao Yang urgently asked: "How were you sealed off, collapsed the tunnel, or locked the door?"

"There’s a very thick iron door that can be locked from the other side, because the tunnel’s there, the iron door was closed, that’s it."

The prisoner revealed what he knew, and at this time Albert had already lifted Lavagani onto his back, shouting: "We can evacuate now!"