Li Du stared at Good. What is this crazy old man trying to do?
Good smiled and moved closer to the young man. Holding the diamond between his fingers, he said, "Child, did you steal this? Why did you steal my property? "
The young man looked at him in fear, his body trembling.
Facing Good, he had lost the courage to struggle. He just shook his head and mumbled something in an unknown language.
Li Du felt that the most inconvenient thing in Africa was language communication. There were too many local languages, and he could not understand any of them.
Good ignored the young man's words, not knowing if he understood. In any case, he put away the diamond, stood up, and said with a smile, "Alright, according to the law, I sentence him to death by fire. Since he likes diamonds, then give him this diamond."
A guard waved and a Toyota pickup truck drove over. A soldier carried out a set of laboratory equipment, such as a pot, a gas tank, a blowtorch, and so on.
Seeing these things, the miners working in the river retreated and looked at the pot in fear.
Some people trembled and knelt down in the river. The young man shrank back in despair. The guard who was holding him stepped on his skinny leg and pinned him to the ground.
Li Du could not help but ask, "Hey, good commander, what are you doing?"
"Judging the sinner, punishing the sinner, maintaining order, maintaining justice," Good said with a smile.
His smile was gentle, but in Li Du's eyes, he was like a demon.
Two soldiers assembled the pot, the gas tank, and the blowtorch. After lighting the fire, a red and white flame made a sizzling sound and sprayed toward the pot, heating it up.
The small pot quickly heated up, and Good threw the diamond in. The young man screamed in despair and then fell silent. He just knelt on the ground and trembled, like a lamb facing the butcher's knife.
Li Du said, "What are you doing? Why are you heating up the diamond? "
Good said, "To melt it, and then I will stick it on the boy's body so that the diamond will belong to him forever."
Li Du took a deep breath. He was right to call him this crazy old man!
Diamonds could be melted, but their melting points were very high. If they were to be burned, they would have to be heated to nearly 4,000 degrees.
The melting point of ordinary metals and alloys was much lower than diamond, so it was very difficult to melt it.
Good had said that he wanted to melt the diamond, but it was a pipe dream. Even if he used medium-carbon ferrochrome as a pot, it would not work. Common alloys had a much lower melting point than diamonds.
Therefore, this stone was definitely not a diamond. Good might have found some beautiful synthetic gemstone to torture the young man.
Unlike the pygmies on Remonin's side, the one who was persecuted this time was really a teenager. He was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and his face was still childish.
Li Du stopped Good and said sincerely, "Good Commander, please spare this child. Someone once said that when a teenager makes a mistake, God will forgive him. You are the God here, forgive the child this once. "
In fact, Li Du himself did not agree with this saying. When naughty children made mistakes, they should not be punished just because of their age.
But the young man was not in the wrong. It was Good, the crazy old man, who was torturing him on purpose. This stone was not a diamond at all. It was very likely that it did not belong to the young man. Good had ordered his men to do this on purpose.
Good looked at him and smiled. "You are right. I am the God here."
He nodded, looked at the young man, and continued, "As God, I cannot forgive him. Mr. Li, I know that you are a kind person, but I am the ruler. I have no other choice. I have to uphold the authority of the laws and regulations.
"If the law is not pursued, then what is the use of laws and regulations? How can such laws and regulations deter and persuade others? "
These words were spoken with even more awe-inspiring righteousness than when Li Du was facing the muzzle of a gun.
Li Du could agree with these words, but the problem was that the young man had not broken the law!
He still wanted to argue, but Good's expression suddenly changed. "Mr. Li, why are you going against our laws and regulations? Are you challenging my authority? "
Li Du said, "No, I don't dare to do that. But I think there must be a way to solve the problem this child is facing, right? For example, if I tell you what I know about Remonin's diamond mine … "
Hearing this, Good's expression changed again. He quickly smiled, but did not speak.
Under the heat of the high-pressure blowtorch, the small stones melted in the pot.
Li Du thought that there was still room for negotiation. In the end, Good smiled and put on a pair of gloves. He grabbed the handle of the small pot and nodded to the guards. "Pry his mouth open."
The young man struggled desperately. One of the guards turned his rifle and hit the young man's mouth with the butt of the rifle.
With a scream, the young man spat out a mouthful of blood, mixed with white teeth.
Li Du could not bear to watch this kind of persecution. He said angrily, "F * ck!"
Hearing his curses, Good suddenly raised his head and looked at him sternly. One of the guards raised his rifle and aimed it at Li Du.
"Don't provoke me. Don't mistake my tolerance for good temper," Good said sinisterly.
The young man's mouth was pried open, and Good poured the hot liquid in the small pot into it.
After a short scream, the young man could no longer make a sound. His vocal cords had been burned!
In extreme pain, he clutched his neck and rolled on the ground. The two strong black soldiers were stunned and could not hold him down.
Good and the soldiers watched from the side as if they were watching a show. When the young man was tortured to the point where he could not move, Good waved his hand and said, "Execute him."
One of the soldiers raised his rifle. After the shot, the young man's head was smashed.
Li Du stood at the side with a blank expression. He now agreed with Remonin's words. Remonin was not a warlord. He was just a tribal leader without much quality.
Remonin was not violent. He was still a normal person, a normal, ignorant, and irascible African.
Therefore, when he found out that the pygmies had stolen the diamonds, he also wanted to execute the punishment and torture the pygmies to warn the others.
However, when Li Du proposed some preferential treatment, he chose to let the pygmies go. That was because he did not really want to torture the pygmies. He only did it for his own benefit and to maintain order.
When Li Du gave him a share of the profits, he let the pygmies go.
Good was different. He was a lunatic, a lunatic. He enjoyed torturing people and killing for fun!
In less than 24 hours since they met, Good had already killed two people in front of him. Good had taken the initiative to kill and even found reasons to kill.
The miners in the river had obviously seen this kind of thing many times. After the young man died, they returned to their posts with blank expressions and continued to work silently.
Good took off his gloves and looked at Li Du. He smiled and said, "What did you say just now? Do you know something about Remonin's diamond mine?"
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