Blame it on you being a clever person
When Tianyu Mozi looked at the scattered photos on the floor, she immediately felt uncomfortable. She recognized the identities of these people... they were all cybersecurity personnel from the Doom Organization.
"Since Miss Tianyu Mozi recognizes these people, the following conversation will be much easier," Jonas chuckled and started talking to himself.
"Including the maintenance and repair of the firewall, they have caused almost three million credits of damage to the Altar branch..."
"That's cruel, but that's a figure they could never reach in their entire lives."
"Miss Tianyu, how does she think she can make up for this loss?"
When Tianyu Mozi heard this, she became nervous. She took a deep breath and spoke:
"What do you want? We'll try to make up for the losses, but you..."
Jonas grinned, his gaze on Tianyu Mozi devoid of any warmth:
"Is Miss Tianyu trying to bargain with me?"
He stood up and looked at the chained girl, who looked rather disheveled.
"Do you think you're qualified enough to negotiate?"
Tianyu Mozi's words stuck in her throat. She looked at the man in front of her and was unable to say a word for a long time.
She was well aware that she had no leverage to negotiate with the other party at the moment... but that didn't mean there was no hope of a negotiation.
The girl took a deep breath and spoke:
"But since you came here specifically to tell me about it, that means you know something about me that interests you, right?"
At these words, Jonas couldn't help but pause and then laugh. He smiled and said:
"Yes, Miss Tianyu Mozi, you're very smart..."
With these words, he paused and then continued:
"But it seems that your intelligence have been misused."
When Tianyu Mozi heard this, her heart sank with a sense of foreboding. Then she heard Jonas continue:
"There is nothing about you that interests me. You only exist to please me."
He walked on slowly, stopped suddenly, turned his head and said:
"Do you remember what I said at the beginning?"
"The debt of the Altar District, someone has to pay it back."
"I'll pay it all back, a hundredfold."
His boots stepped on the photos, he leaned down and stared into Tianyu Mozi's eyes:
"And then I'll bring their corpses before you."
—Just so you know, these people all died because of you.
Tianyu Mozi's body trembled, her eyes mirroring Jonas's appearance. A few words squeezed out from between her teeth:
"You devil..."
When Jonas heard this, he smiled and said:
"Thanks for the compliment."
He straightened up as if he was thinking about something and said:
"Besides, Miss Tianyu doesn't need to worry about how to save these people. Before I got here, they had already been executed."
"But the next ones won't be so lucky."
He spoke very calmly, as if he was describing the most normal thing in the world:
"I'll break their bones one by one, tear out their tendons, pull back their nails and kill their loved ones before their eyes..."
"And please remember that all the tragic endings they meet are due to Miss Tianyu's foolish decisions."
"You...!"
At Jonas' words, the girl's body continued to tremble. She gritted her teeth, and her fingers dug deep into her palms, causing blood to trickle down from her fingertips.
Her eyes stared angrily at Jonas, completely unable to contain her hatred and rage:
"I'll definitely, definitely kill you, Jonas!"
As if she had completely ignored the girl's words, the door of the prisoner's room slowly closed.
Jonas' calm words reached the girl's ears at the last moment before the door closed.
It was a farewell, but also a funeral bell.
"Well then, see you next time, Miss Tianyu."
...
As Jonas walked through the corridors of the Weiting building, he was very satisfied.
Of course, Jonas' actions weren't just about "revenge" against Tianyu Mozi ... that was only one aspect of it. The other reason was to plunge her into hatred and make it impossible for her to think of his true intentions.
She was a smart person, and even if smart people came to a dead end, they'd find a way out once they realized it.
However, physical and mental torment couldn't guarantee that Tianyu Mozi wouldn't recognize Jonas' true intentions.
In this situation, Jonas had no choice but to fan the flames again after she calmed down.
Hatred was the best way to divert attention.
What he had to do was to make the calm Tianyu Mozi hate him thoroughly.
"The more you think, the easier it's to fall into a trap"
Jonas shook his head and mumbled something helplessly to himself:
"In a way, ignorance is the best gift."
If Miss Tianyu Mozi wasn't smart enough, she wouldn't have to suffer so much torment.
After all, when you're dealing with smart people, you should be more careful...
...
[confidential actions of the company]: Elise herself had a deep understanding of hacking knowledge, but due to her closed environment, she didn't have a clear idea of her own strength.
She had never shown her hacking skills to others, or rather, she had no opportunity to show them... Not even her foster father knew that she was quite skilled in this area. That was also the reason why the personnel system in Weiting contained no data about Elise.