Chapter 25: Kindness
The pitch-black toilet passage came into view, the icy water poured into the nose, gurgling into the throat, the bubbles rose noisily, and the intense feeling of suffocation pierced the brain like the tip of a cone.
Richard's head was lifted out of the water by Leon, and the mafia leader gasped for breath, letting his messy hair stick to his forehead.
He directly skipped the pointless plea for mercy, and whispered in embarrassment: "I can give you money, a lot of money...."
"Ah..... For you, the 'mainstay' and 'the golden sorghum of the sea', less than 10 million meters is a small number, right? ”
Leon pinched Richard's fat neck and said casually: "But, as you can see, I don't have a bank card on me now, and I don't have a credit card reader, so..."
"Check!" Richard coughed hard as if he had grasped a life-saving straw and vomited a mouthful of sewage, "I have a checkbook in my pocket." ”
"Oh, that's good advice." Li Ang rubbed his eyebrows and said gently, "But I can't believe that you won't call the bank as soon as you turn your head and ask them to close the account." ”
Richard said calmly: "This bank is specially used by our gangsters to launder money, it is the Kufeng Bank two streets away, as long as you show the check, the staff will not ask anything, and will directly give you a suitcase full of cash." You can knock me out and lock me in a cubicle, and by the time someone else finds me, you'll be flying away with the money. ”
With that, he slowly took the check out of his coat pocket, pressed it against the door of the compartment, and signed his name with a stroke of the hand at a very slow pace, letting Leon know that he had not made any marks.
"The bank teller can bring you two suitcases from the vault in three minutes, one suitcase can hold 1.5 million, a total of 3 million, and it is full of old dollar bills with unserial numbers, and it is impossible to trace them."
Richard said at breakneck speed, "Our family has a lot of experience with kidnappings, and trust me, I'm not going to risk being killed now." ”
Leon took the check, looked at it briefly, and put it in his pocket with satisfaction.
"Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Richard. I've always hated those scoundrels who oppressed the people, but since you've paid for your life, it's immoral for me to kill you again. ”
Leon ruthlessly grabbed the mafia leader by the neck and pressed him into the toilet again under the desperate eyes of the other party.
"In the Guinness Book of World Records, the highest record for underwater breath-holding is about 20 minutes, but that is when you are fully oxygenated and your body is still at rest. Since you don't have any professional training, I'm going to give you a little discount, 4 minutes, okay? ”
Leon restrained Richard's arms waving wildly in mid-air, and said calmly, "Come on, Mr. Sapa, after these four minutes, you will be able to breathe the luscious, sweet air again." ”
As the minutes passed, Richard's pupils were bloodshot, his face was blue and purple due to lack of oxygen, and he could no longer feel anything other than bloating and suffocation.
The pain began in the skull and slowly surged down the spine to the soles of the feet, and Richard Sapa kept flashing images of messy and broken images before his eyes.
He remembered the golden retriever dog he had chased with him on the sun-drenched lawn when he was a child, and the crisp chimes could still be heard.
He remembered his youth and the slender girl he had in his attic tryst, who later married his cousin, the poor worm that Richard had killed soon after seizing power in the family.
Richard even remembered the nameless girl who was wrapped in a woolen blanket and brought to his bed the other day - I heard that she was flown in from Eastern Europe? Who knows, it's going to be played bad soon anyway....
Richard rolled his eyes and let the darkness engulf him.
The bathroom door opened, and a red-cheeked man with a cell phone walked in, a cigarette in the corner of his mouth.
"Hey little pumpkin, do you miss me? Dad is attending Mr. Bruce Wayne's dinner right now, yes, it's that Bruce..."
He muttered as he walked to the cubicle, and Richard struggled frantically, slamming the door with all his might.
The man took a few steps back in disbelief and shouted, "Uh, anyone?" ”
With a click, Leon opened the door to the cubicle and gently helped Richard to get up from the toilet, while slamming his fingers on his waist and abdomen in the dark, causing him to vomit involuntarily and unable to utter a word.
"This gentleman has drunk too much, and I can't reach his wife yet." Li Ang smiled bitterly at the man and said, "I guess I will have to let this gentleman go to a certain guest room to rest for a while." ”
"Okay." The man looked at the mess of brownish vomit on the ground and took two steps back in disgust, "You'll be back and clean up this puddle later, right, I mean it smells so good..."
"Yes, yes, I'll call someone over when this gentleman finishes throwing up." Leon said meekly.
The mobile phone came from the chirping childish voice again, and the man was busy wiping his hands with a little water from the faucet, and walked out of the bathroom, "I'm sorry, little princess, Dad didn't hear what you said just now." By the way, the damn one who kissed you at kindergarten today, ahem, that boy's name is Adams, right....."
The footsteps faded away, and Richard gasped in despair.
"Well, Mr. Sapa, why do you say you don't follow the rules of the game?" Leon shook his head and sighed, dragged Richard's collar to another cubicle, and pressed his head into the water for the third time, "In that case, then I have to add a long time, now you need to hold your breath for 5 minutes." ”
No!
The suffocation was so familiar, and Richard pounded the edge of the ceramic toilet bowl desperately, and his palms were completely blurred with flesh and blood.
Suddenly, the fire sprinklers on the dome in the restroom emitted a sharp beep, and the rain poured down.
"Huh?" Li Ang's brows furrowed slightly, and the water that opened and closed the sprinkler head merged into Morse code in his mind, "No, yes, kill, people." ”
"Familiar patterns of behavior, Batman? You're everywhere...."He muttered to himself, loosening Richard's collar and letting him faint against the toilet.
"He who loves others will always love him; Those who respect others will always respect them; Whoever kills, he will always kill him. Leon stripped Richard of his clothes and pants, leaving only a bloated and ugly white-skinned pig lying on the ground.
"Ba Jin once said, bloodshed, vendetta, hatred, harm! Why is it always like that? He tied Richard's baggy trousers around his waist and whispered open the narrow ventilation window in the restroom, climbing out of the hotel.
"Because that's how we ..... nature"
Hopping back and forth between the walls of the two tall buildings, Leon landed in the alley, then looked up at the brightly lit top floor of the hotel, sighed and said, "Infinite kindness will surely bear bitter fruit." ”