Inside an interrogation room in Hamza’s department!
Frederick was brought here by Stephen’s men.
The “young genius” who had been full of confidence and arrogance just a few hours ago now had a face that was bruised and disheveled.
All surveillance and monitoring devices in the interrogation room had been turned off.
There were only two people present: Lachlan and Frederick.
Frederick was not handcuffed because there was simply no need for it.
“Frederick, how have you been?” Lachlan asked with an evil smile on his face as he approached Frederick.
Frederick looked at Lachlan with resentment and unwillingness in his eyes, a gaze filled with hatred as if Lachlan were his archenemy who had killed his parents.
“Tsk tsk, so you hold such grudges against me? Just because I became Miranda’s husband? And it’s not like I stole your woman, right? Why are you so jealous of me?” Lachlan asked with a smug and mocking expression on his face.
“Spit!” Frederick spat out, his face becoming even uglier upon hearing Lachlan mention Miranda. He was consumed by envy and jealousy.
Yes! His hatred towards Lachlan stemmed from Miranda.
However, the spit he aimed at Lachlan didn’t touch him at all.
An invisible force surged out of the tiny meridians on Lachlan’s face.
As a Grandmaster expert in the later stage of Energy Refinement, his internal energy could be emitted from any part of his body, let alone the current Lachlan.
Snap!
The glob of spit that Frederick had just spat out flew back and landed on his own face, making his already swollen and bruised face look even more disheveled and ridiculous.
“Ah!”
“Lachlan, you despicable scoundrel! Who do you think you are to know Stephen? Why should you be able to have Miranda? Ahhh!”
Driven by jealousy and anger, Frederick began to scream hysterically.
Pong!
Before he could finish his words, a shoe sole landed on Frederick’s face, pressing his head directly onto the ground.
“I don’t need Stephen’s help to deal with scum like you. I have countless ways to crush you,” Lachlan said with disdainful laughter. “Why should I have Miranda? Because I’m an existence you can never reach.”
As he spoke, Lachlan stepped on Frederick’s face again, wearing an expression of contempt. “Oh, it’s not just me. My wife, Miranda, is even more beyond your reach. In the past, present, or future, you are nothing compared to her. Look at yourself now, only worthy of being trampled under my feet. As for my wife, you don’t even have the qualification to be stepped on by her. Hehe… Right now, you’re nothing, you know that?”
With Frederick being trampled underfoot, Lachlan’s words were merciless, making him seem like a true villain.
Feeling Lachlan’s arrogance and disdain, hearing his heartless words, Frederick’s spirit felt as if it had been struck by ten thousand blows.
His face was distorted from being pressed against the ground, and he whimpered and struggled desperately, seemingly in a state of frenzy.
Because every word of Lachlan’s felt like a knife slicing through his heart.
What hurts the most?
In reality, the most painful thing is the truth.
In this moment, Frederick truly felt that he was no longer on the same level as Miranda, like a lowly toad.
He felt that he was no longer deserving!
Without the identity of Mrs. Brooks’ adopted son, he might… truly be nothing.
This feeling made him wish for death.
“Alright, let’s get back to business!” Lachlan humiliated Frederick for a while, allowing himself some relief. He finally lifted his foot and sneered.
This bastard had repeatedly tried to bully his wife, so how could Lachlan not vent his anger?
“What do you want?” Frederick asked through gritted teeth.
“Tell me, who orchestrated the accident and the attack? Don’t tell me you don’t know, you definitely know,” Lachlan asked coldly.
As the words fell, a mocking expression appeared on Frederick’s face, and his eyes were full of mockery and taunting.
“Hahaha, you’re right, I do know! But will I tell you?”
“Lachlan, do you want to know who did it? Come on, beg me!”
“Otherwise, why would I tell you?” Frederick jeered.
After being humiliated and beaten by Lachlan just now, he was deeply affected.
Now, hearing Lachlan’s question, he felt as if he had found a way to control Lachlan.
He thought he could regain some ground.
However, the next second, he realized he was wrong.
Lachlan’s face revealed a devilish smile.
“It’s good that you know! I have a way to make you tell me, hehe…”
The next second, he reached out and pressed a certain acupoint on Frederick.
Half a minute later…
“Ah! Ah!”
“Lachlan, spare me, please.”
“I’ll talk! I’ll talk…”
“It was Gilberto… who did it…”
“Please, I beg you… I’ll tell you… I’ll tell you everything…”
Frederick rolled on the ground in agony, his features distorted and his whole body drenched in sweat.
He felt a strange current flowing through him, like ants gnawing at his heart.
In extreme pain, Lachlan could still keep him conscious.
He couldn’t seek survival, nor could he seek death. It was just like this.
“Hehe, it’s only been half a minute, and you can’t bear it?”
“I haven’t had enough fun yet.”
“Ah… how boring…”
Lachlan seemed disappointed, looking down at Frederick writhing on the ground. This idiot actually thought he could control Lachlan?
He almost laughed himself to death…
After saying that, Lachlan didn’t immediately relieve Frederick’s pain. He waited for about another half a minute.
When Frederick had already lost control of his bladder and bowels, and his eyes showed no resentment, only pleading and fear, Lachlan crouched down and tapped him a few times.
“I’ll talk…”
“I’ll say everything…”
At this moment, Frederick gasped for air and cried out while lying on the ground.
“Tell me, who is Gilberto?” Lachlan sneered.
“He is the representative of the Medical Business Alliance of Corlinet Delta! Because I couldn’t have Miranda, I wanted to sabotage her cooperation with Hazel and hinder her company’s development. I told Gilberto about Miranda’s negotiations with Slocmore and Hazel…”
At this moment, Frederick had completely turned into a coward, telling Lachlan everything in great detail.
He revealed the whole story!
After explaining the process of his meeting with Gilberto, Frederick said, “Then, right after that, Miranda and Hazel had an incident. If it wasn’t Gilberto who did it, who else could it be? And after the incident, I called him and asked him, but he didn’t say anything. It was that kind of… neither admitting nor denying attitude. If he didn’t do it, he would have denied it…” Frederick said.
Lachlan stood there, nodding expressionlessly, his eyes gleaming with a cold light.
The next second, he left the interrogation room.
He couldn’t be bothered to do anything more to Frederick.
This person was just a clown, incapable of causing any more trouble. Killing him would only dirty his own hands.
A moment later, Lachlan arrived at the morgue.
He used the Energy Tracking technique from the Dragon Gaze Heavenward Technique on the four corpses…
Late at night!
Inside the dark and mysterious house, Gilberto was still with the Yin Master.
At this moment, the Yin Master’s face flickered with uncertainty.
For some reason, he had a feeling of unease, a faint sense of being watched.
He was very sensitive to such intuition.
“I have a feeling…” The Yin Master muttered to himself.
“What’s wrong?” Gilberto asked.
“I feel like I’m being targeted!” The Yin Master said coldly. Then, his tone became resolute, “No, I have to leave Slocmore and return to the hidden world of the Willis family. Something is not right about this incident during the day. It could bring trouble to me.”
“What? Yin Master, isn’t that going too far? You didn’t even show yourself, you just manipulated the zombies to cause accidents,” Gilberto said, his face changing as he asked.
“No! I feel that there might be a formidable expert around Miranda or Hazel. No, I have to leave immediately,” the Yin Master shook his head. The feeling of unease suddenly became extremely strong.