"Looks like you're not going to fucking confess without special means!" Guo Jin said viciously.

In Taiyuan, the torture chamber was behind a louse-infested prisoner's shed. All but a small number of those arrested who surrendered to the military commanders on the spot were tortured. The torture was carried out by a team of special guards under the supervision of the head of a department, without the presence of a legitimate "interrogator". In other words, no one prevents torture from becoming a form of mutilation of the victim. As the prisoners said, "Only those who walk in well, and those who come out well." ”

Punishment is an inevitable procedure, and punishment is a threat that will always exist during the interrogation process, just like the spy leader Xu Pengfei in the novel "Red Rock" when he interrogates Xu Yunfeng, a communist* member. During the interrogation, when the communist * person was obviously arrogant, Xu Pengfei suddenly let an iron door on the wall open, and a dazzling light and a burst of bloody gas shot out from the torture room inside, it was Xu Yunfeng's assistant who was beaten to death, and he was also caught by the agents.

On the cold concrete floor, a bloody body lay horizontally, with a heavy pair of iron shackles nailed to its feet. Bright red blood was dripping from the motionless ** to the concrete floor......

Several black-haired figures with black hair on their chests, carrying bloody leather whips, threw a yellow leather jacket at the unconscious body, and suddenly let out a heart-palpitating smirk.

The brutal details of the torture are repeated in the novel. It finally brought a perverted sense of power to Dai Li, the master of the secret world, and his cadres.

The whip whistled in the air and landed on the ** with a low and dull sound...... Rising from his swivel chair, he lit a cigarette and slowly exhaled a puff of smoke rings, listening to the screams as if listening to a beautiful piece of music. A cold sneer appeared on his face that was almost invisible. Over the years, he had become accustomed to such a life. If at any time he could not hear the howl of torture, he would feel empty and horrified. Only constant torture can make him feel his own existence and strength.

The person sitting in the swivel chair was the slightly changed Major General Xu Yuanju, one of the "blood-devouring devils" of the military command, who served as the director of the Second Division of the Southwest Bureau of the Military Command and the director of the Security Division of the Military Command in 1948.

It is not pleasant to talk repeatedly about the horror of the military firing squads, but without a brief examination of the torture and torturers that were part of the routine procedures of the secret Kuomintang agents led by Dai Li, we can never understand how horrific the victims' experiences were and how horrific their disappearance was.

Of course, torturers cannot be analysed solely in terms of psychopathology, although the typical torturer is often sadistic. Some of the torturers may be psychopathic, but the findings suggest that "most are not psychologically sadistic, that is, they do not derive sexual arousal from the brutal torture." Rather, it is the environment that turns some people into torturers, and it includes "a fanatical ideological bigotry that blames other groups for extreme evil, and the adherents of this ideology as guardians of social justice; an attitude of unquestioning obedience to authority; and the overt and unspoken support that the torturer received from his accomplices. ”