Chapter 880: Jiang Ran, You Monster!!!

His right hand grabbed the little boy by the collar.

The captured boy let out muffled cries from his mouth, tears streaming down his face in torrents, his features twisted in terror, his entire body trembling violently.

Although a rag was stuffed in his mouth, one could still vaguely make out from those muffled sounds.

What he seemed to be saying through the muffled cries was: "Mommy, please save me!"

"Daddy, you save me too!!"

"Someone save me!!!"

"Daddy! Mommy!"

Even as Jiang Ran grabbed the boy by the collar, Hou Mengji remained expressionless, cold, almost indifferent, a mocking, sardonic smile curling at the corners of his lips.

But the boy's mother, his ex-wife, bound tightly beside him, was so agitated her face had flushed bright red.

As if she were saying: "Please spare my son! As long as you spare my son! I'll do anything!"

"Go to hell."

Jiang Ran grabbed the boy by the collar and shoved him forward.

More than half of the boy's body now hung suspended over empty air.

If Jiang Ran merely loosened his grip, just let go of the collar in his hand, the boy would plummet straight down from here.

This was the tenth floor, and below them was a cement surface.

No lawn, no flower beds.

Even if there were, at this height, whether anyone could survive the fall was anyone's guess.

At this critical, hair-trigger moment.

Hou Mengji on the other side suddenly spoke up: "Wait!"

At that single word, Jiang Ran indeed stopped his actions.

He turned his head, staring down at the caterpillar-like Hou Mengji sprawled on the ground, and smiled: "What's the matter? Can't bear to see your son die?"

Hou Mengji's face turned frightfully cold at that moment.

Jiang Ran seemed to see right through him: "Heh, as I thought. You were completely indifferent toward your ex-wife and your two children earlier, acting like you wished you could kill them yourself. That was all an act, wasn't it?"

Hou Mengji said: "What I mean is, instead of doing that, pushing him off the building and letting him die easily, why not take a knife and chop him into pieces? Wouldn't that torture them more?"

Jiang Ran let out a cold chuckle: "Keep pretending. Go on, keep pretending."

"You're just deliberately acting like this so I'll lose interest in hurting them, aren't you?"

"After all, you understand people's minds very well. You're afraid that the more you show you care, the more I'll use them to threaten you."

"But here's the thing... you're overthinking it."

"Even if you genuinely didn't care, they still wouldn't survive."

With that, Jiang Ran let go.

The moment he released his grip, Hou Mengji's son plummeted straight down from the rooftop.

Before long, the people on the rooftop heard a dull thud.

That should be the sound of Hou Mengji's son hitting the ground.

"Monster! You absolute monster!!!!"

At this moment, Hou Mengji finally couldn't keep up the act any longer.

Spittle flying everywhere, eyes bloodshot red, he cursed Jiang Ran at the top of his lungs.

"What grudge did they hold against you? What resentment?"

"Why drag them into this?! If you've got the guts, come at me alone!!!"

"I did everything!!!"

Hou Mengji's furious, deranged state left even the Monkey King Mask Man beside him stunned.

He had never seen Hou Mengji lose his composure like this before.

Jiang Ran let out another round of "hm hm hm" demonic laughter.

"Didn't I tell you? Your wife and your children are doomed. I'm a man of my word."

"And also, I remember, back then, when the main personality was in control of the body, didn't he tell you?"

"Don't push him, or else, when his alternate personality comes out, he'll kill you all."

"Weren't you acting all arrogant back then? Completely unconcerned, even taunting for the alternate personality to come out. Now that one of the alternate personalities has come out, isn't that what you wanted?"

"Your wish has been granted?!"

"So really, you only have yourself to blame."

"If you don't have the skills, why take on the job?"

"Did you think that if you ever screwed up, only you would pay the price?"

"Oh, if it had been another alternate personality that came out, then yes, probably only you would have paid the price."

"But I'm different. After all, the things I enjoy aren't quite the same as theirs."

"Your luck really is pretty terrible!"

Jiang Ran continued emitting that low, "hm hm hm" laugh.

After saying all that, Jiang Ran's hand reached out toward the little girl who was even younger than the boy.

"Jiang Ran, you monster! Let her go!"

Jiang Ran turned his head and yawned: "Good heavens, don't you even know how to beg someone?"

"You can't even grovel properly, and on top of that, you dare curse at me?"

Hearing this, Hou Mengji actually changed his attitude rapidly:

"Please, Jiang Ran, I was wrong. You can torture me however you want, kill me, I don't care. But please, spare my daughter! I'm begging you! Really! I'm begging you!"

Hou Mengji's eyes were moist, red all around.

Sincere and earnest, every word dripping with genuine supplication.

Jiang Ran said: "I can tell, you genuinely have real fatherly feelings for your daughter! That kind of love really moves me!"

"But let me think... those little girls you harmed and tortured to death."

"Didn't they beg you the same way?"

"Saying: Uncle, please, don't hurt me, let me go, I want to go find my daddy and mommy?"

Hou Mengji's eyes went blank, clearly not expecting Jiang Ran to say something like that.

He was momentarily at a loss for words.

Because those little girls he had tortured to death had indeed all cried and begged him like that, to let them go.

"So, is this revenge for the little girls I raped and tortured to death? Is that why you're doing this?"

"Or... are you the family member of one of those little girls I tortured to death?!"

Hou Mengji figured it was probably the latter possibility. After all, if that weren't the case, how would Jiang Ran know such detailed information about him? And how could his ex-wife and two children, who he didn't even know the whereabouts of, have been kidnapped alive and brought here?

This must have taken an enormous amount of time and effort in advance.

He had definitely been targeted for a long time.

"No, you guessed wrong. Those little girls have nothing to do with me whatsoever."

Jiang Ran smiled.

Hou Mengji: "Then... is it out of a sense of justice? Hatred of evil?!"

Jiang Ran thought for a moment, then said with great confusion: "A sense of justice? What the hell is a sense of justice?"

His left hand pulled the rag out of the little girl's mouth.

"Little girl, say a proper goodbye to your daddy!"

This little girl, with the rag gone from her mouth, once her mouth was free, immediately burst into loud wailing.

Because she was so young, having been subjected to such terrifying treatment, she had long since had a mental breakdown.

Between heart-wrenching, gut-wrenching sobs, she kept screaming:

"Mommy! I want mommy! Mommy!"

Jiang Ran furrowed his brow. "So noisy."

Then he let go, and this little girl, wailing and thrashing, got to play bungee jump just like her brother.

Of course, she was far more harrowing than her brother, because with nothing binding her mouth, the entire way down, one could hear the sound of her screaming "aaaaah" as she fell.