Chapter 153: Extorting a Confession by Torture
The next day, morning.
When the first ray of sunlight illuminated Li Qing's shiny head, the car he was driving was driving slowly on the mountain road in the countryside of Florence.
On the left side of the road are the majestic and rolling mountains of the Apennine Mountains, with lush forests and misty morning fog.
On the right side of the road is the wide and gentle mountain stream of the Arno River, with the water sparkling and the morning light shining.
The scenery here is deep, quiet and deserted, like a paradise that has never been visited by humans.
And this is exactly why Li Qing and others appear here.
After being attacked by Adam and Jamie from the technology team on the highway last night, they learned their lesson and changed their route from the highway full of electronic surveillance to a remote and desolate country road.
Although the speed is much slower, it can at least ensure safety to a certain extent.
In this way, they spent the night safely.
The tireless Li Qing was responsible for driving, while Giorno and his mortal companions seized this rare peace and slept comfortably all night.
They had fought too many battles and suffered too many injuries yesterday.
Fortunately, this most difficult day has passed, the darkness is dispelled by the dawn, and the bright sunshine falls on everyone's face.
“Ahhhhhh!”
A terrible wail was heard in the carriage.
On the center console of the car, a human head was placed close to the front windshield and let out such a scream.
Yes, although the scene was very strange, there was indeed a human head there, and it was alive.
That's Jamie Campbell.
After receiving a heavy punch from Li Qing last night that was far beyond the limits of human beings, he soon fell into a deep coma due to the shock of shattered faith and unbearable pain.
Unable to wake him up for a while, Li Qing and others simply took him into the car and prepared to interrogate him after he woke up.
In order to prevent Jamie from struggling and causing trouble after regaining consciousness, they also took some precautions:
Bucciarati used his steel-chain fingers to open a zipper around Jamie's neck, where his body was locked in the trunk and his head was placed on the center console.
In this way, Jamie slept soundly all night in this strange posture with his head and body separated.
Finally, the morning light of the next day woke him up.
To be precise, this should be the timer alarm set by Narancia and Fuge for everyone.
They used toothpicks to pry open Jamie's eyelids, leaving his pupils exposed to the air without protection, staring straight at the car's windshield.
When the sun shone from the sky the next day, the dazzling and scorching beams of light shot straight through the glass into Jamie's eyes, which could not be closed, waking him up in this inhumane way.
The sound of this "living alarm clock" woke everyone up.
They first rubbed their sleepy eyes, and then immediately realized from the wailing head in front of them that it was already the next morning.
"Well... this guy finally woke up."
Fugo displayed the ruthless temperament he had developed during his time in the underworld, and shouted at Jamie, who had just regained consciousness:
"Hey, Jamie..."
"Now that you're awake, you should know what we want to do, right?"
"call…"
Jamie was breathing heavily.
The scorching sun burned his eyes directly, causing tears to flow and a layer of cold sweat on his forehead.
He tried hard to close his eyes, but doing so only made the two toothpicks pressing against his eyelids more painful, becoming unbearable.
This is undoubtedly a form of torture.
However, after regaining consciousness, Jamie chose to endure and ignore it:
“Don’t…don’t joke around!”
"We are all gangsters. Do you think I will surrender with just this little trick?"
Jamie pursed his lips tightly, his expression twitching.
But even such pain could not change his stubborn attitude:
"I will never tell you any information, just kill me now!"
"Anyway, I've already failed. I just want to die now. No matter what you do, you can't scare a person who wants to die."
"Yeah?"
Bucciarati retorted coldly.
Unlike the gentleness he showed to his companions, he now showed the ruthlessness of a gangster boss:
"Mr. Campbell, you should know that there are many things in the world that are more terrifying than death."
"Unfortunately, I have mastered many of these tactics over the years I have worked with the passion organization."
"hehe."
Jamie sneered disdainfully:
"It's scarier than death? That's why I can't betray you."
"Compared to the boss, the methods you have are just child's play to scare children."
"If I give you information now, I will only suffer even more horribly in the end."
"Do you know the assassination team?"
He suddenly brought up something completely unrelated:
"You may not know... just a few days ago, two ignorant members of the assassination team were secretly trying to find out the identity of the boss."
"As a result, the boss sliced them into pieces one by one, and made one of them witness the entire process of his companion being cut into slices and soaked in formalin."
"That kind of scene... it really makes my scalp tingle just thinking about it."
"Our technology team has the intelligence of the entire organization, and we know a lot of secrets like this."
"The more we know, the more afraid we become, because the consequences of betraying the boss are definitely ten thousand times more horrible than death. No matter how you torture me, I will never do such a stupid thing."
Jamie was so immersed in talking about such horrible things that he even forgot the sunlight shining directly into his eyes.
In his eyes, Li Qing and others were just fools who tried to challenge the boss.
They will not succeed and will only bring endless pain to themselves and those who help them.
"The boss is not as scary as you say."
"At least we managed to hit him hard in Naples."
Li Qing said with confidence.
But Jamie just snorted with disdain, thinking that the other party was just making up a lie to trick him.
"you?!"
Fugo roared angrily:
"Speak or not! If you don't cooperate, I will..."
"So what?"
Jamie endured the pain of the sun burning his eyes and growled with tears in his eyes: "Can you be more cruel than the boss?"
"I…"
Fugo was speechless for a moment.
Torture is also an art.
As a gangster who had been in the business for a year, he had mastered many cruel and brutal methods.
For example, this move of sunlight scorching eyes...
A normal person would start crying after half a minute, but Jamie managed to hold on for a full minute and could still speak normally.
Obviously, this is a tough guy who is not easy to deal with.
Fugo suddenly felt that he was at his wit's end. Bucciarati and others, who had only a little knowledge of this, could not think of any clever way to pry open Jamie's mouth.
However, Li Qing, Giorno and Mista, three outsiders who had never been involved in the underworld before yesterday, started discussing with great interest:
"I think we can use waterboarding." Mista offered an enthusiastic suggestion: "Isn't it often seen in movies? Just cover his face with a wet towel and pour water into his mouth and nose."
“…”
The corner of Jamie's mouth twitched slightly, but in the end he still snorted stubbornly: "Tsk."
"This is too much trouble."
Giorno disagreed with Mista's idea:
"I heard that waterboarding is a professional technique. People who have not been trained may not be able to grasp the timing well, which may result in death or almost no effect."
"How about this? Let me try... I can create some poisonous insects and ants and let them play around in Mr. Campbell's ears for a while."
He spoke very scary words in a very calm tone.
Jamie couldn't help but shudder.
If his head had not been removed separately, he would have wanted to run away right now.
"I have an idea too..."
Li Qing interjected tentatively.
He expressed a terrifying idea that made the gangsters shudder and Diablo bow down to him:
"Might as well get a steel chain finger and sew his head to his own ass."
“…”
Jamie's head twitched suddenly.
It's hard to believe that a guy with only a moving head could make such a big move.
"that…"
"Just ask whatever you want to ask, I will definitely cooperate."
Jamie Campbell expressed this sincerely.