Lin Xiaotian had already walked to the door and stepped directly on Manager Liu's shoulder.
The knife had not yet been pulled out, and the intense pain made Manager Liu let out a heart-wrenching scream. However, as soon as his scream began, Lin Xiaotian stepped on his face again.
He felt as if his face was being pressed by a mountain, and his jaw was almost crushed.
"I'm giving you only one chance. Honestly tell me who is behind this."
Lin Xiaotian's voice was as calm as water, as if he were talking about something that had nothing to do with him.
He knew that what happened tonight was definitely supported by someone behind the scenes, otherwise this Manager Liu would not have been so frenzied, and the words he spoke had already vaguely pointed to a problem.
Manager Liu felt the pain on his face slowly disappear, and the foot was removed from his face. The frenzy in his eyes became even more apparent.
"Lin Xiaotian, you'd better give up that idea. I will absolutely not tell you."
"If you have the guts, just kill me. Anyway, I didn't plan to live. Rather than die under the torment of those people, it's better to take a few people down with me. I'm going to die sooner or later anyway."
A smile appeared on Lin Xiaotian's face, but the look in his eyes remained as cold as a knife: "Perhaps you don't know, 'living is worse than death' is not just a saying."
"Sometimes death is the most satisfying release."
"You will soon feel this feeling. This might be your honor, and it's also a lesson for you to be more careful when you are a person in your next life. Some people are not to be provoked, even if they are dead."
"If you were only targeting me, perhaps I wouldn't do anything to you. After all, you were forced. But you shouldn't have targeted my wife, and you shouldn't have involved others."
As his voice fell, he kicked Manager Liu's shoulder.
The knife was kicked through his shoulder.
Manager Liu let out a scream and fell backward.
Then, Lin Xiaotian produced more than a dozen silver needles. With a sharp whistling sound, they instantly pierced more than a dozen acupoints on Manager Liu's body.
The tearing pain made Manager Liu open his mouth but unable to make any sound. His muscles were rapidly spasming, and despair appeared in his eyes at that moment.
At this moment, he finally understood why Lin Xiaotian had said those words earlier.
Now, he was truly living a life worse than death. Every second felt like an eternity.
The intense pain only lasted for more than ten seconds, and he already regretted it. His intestines were almost green with regret. If he had known there would be such a situation, he would rather have died under the torment of those people than die at Lin Xiaotian's hands. This was simply a true life worse than death.
The methods of those people were worlds apart from Lin Xiaotian's.
Lin Xiaotian could see what Manager Liu was thinking, but he didn't stop at this moment. Instead, he picked up the knife, then grabbed Manager Liu by the collar, and his figure was like lightning as he instantly disappeared from the villa entrance.
In the greenbelt outside the villa, the knife in Lin Xiaotian's hand suddenly stabbed out, piercing Manager Liu's shoulder again and lodging in his bone, nailing him to the tree.
"I gave you a chance earlier, but you didn't cherish it."
"Now your chance is gone. I know you really want to speak, but I don't want to hear it anymore. I just want to quietly watch you suffer."
"This is also the price you should pay. If I hadn't detected the poison you used tonight in advance, more than ten lives would have perished directly at your hands tonight."
"They are your colleagues with whom you spend time daily. Even if there is no friendship, you still see each other every day. How could you have the heart to poison them to death?"
Manager Liu opened his mouth but could not make any sound. His eyes were now filled with extreme pleading.
If there were a regret pill, he would have confessed without hesitation, not wanting to endure another second of pain.
Lin Xiaotian asked and did not wait for an answer. He lit a cigarette and slowly smoked it. When the cigarette was almost burnt out, he pulled out a silver needle from Manager Liu.
Manager Liu was now sweating profusely. The intense pain made his muscles writhe like earthworms.
As soon as he regained the ability to speak, the intense pain made him cry out involuntarily.
His eyes were filled with fear, and his voice trembled violently: "I'm sorry, I really know I was wrong. Please just give me a quick death. I don't even know who those people behind me are."
"They tortured me constantly, and they said that if I didn't do as they said, they would kill my parents and children tonight. My wife has already been tortured to death by them."
"I don't want my whole family to die. I can only obey them. Even if they kill me, I will never resist, but I can't disobey them..."
By the end, he couldn't help but cry.
Now he didn't feel that this matter was his fault.
"Lin Xiaotian, those people are clearly targeting you. They have a deep hatred for you. I don't know what kind of feud you have with them. After they found me, they wanted me to deal with you."
"And tonight's dinner party was actually arranged long ago. They seized this opportunity and wanted to use this dinner party to poison you."
"All the poisons were also given to me by them."
Lin Xiaotian's eyes narrowed slightly, and a murderous intent filled his gaze: "Tell me where those people are now? Are they at your house?"
"They must be at my house. They said that as soon as I succeeded, they would contact them immediately, and they would show me my family on video to let them go."
Lin Xiaotian shook his head: "You are truly naive!"
"Now tell me where your house is, and I'll take you there. Otherwise, your family will all die. The last bit of mercy I can give you is to save your family."
Hearing this, disbelief appeared in Manager Liu's eyes.
He even wondered if he was hallucinating.
"What did you say?"
"You're going to save my family? You're not trying to trick me, are you?"
Lin Xiaotian's voice was calm: "You've actually guessed it yourself long ago. They will absolutely not let you go, and your family will not be let go. Then why are you still doing this?"