Thrive in Catastrophe - Chap 51
“I decided to send out an inquiry instead of the torture unit. I am aware of how much you detest others invading your brain, but I have my responsibilities. No matter if a devil is living inside, I must talk to it.”
“Even if it kills you?” Heine’s voice is dull and emotionless.
“Yes, even then.”
“Then you try to come.” Heine tapped his temple.
Xi shook his head and smiled helplessly. “No one can enter the troposphere of your brain. Even if we put you under deep hypnosis, your brain is to highly vigilant.”
“Since you can’t get into my mind, then you can’t get your information. Why have me come here, it doesn’t make any sense.”
“Then we will have to communicate in a more primitive way, Colonel Burton. I ask a question and you answer. If there is a question that you don’t wish to answer, you may remain silent.”
“I may not necessarily tell you the truth.”
“You will, because you disdain lying.” Xi’s fingers gently massaged his forehead. His gaze was deep and probing. “The first, are you questioning the mission that General Gordon had you and Wallace perform? Did you have an issue with the task?”
“No.”
He looked intensely into Heine’s eyes as he answered and tracked his expression. “If it comes between your comrades or the mission, do you choose their safety or do you complete the mission at all costs?”
“There is no task so difficult that it costs me everything.”
The answer might sound arrogant from any other special forces commando, but there is no one that will refute anything that comes from Heine’s Burton.
“Are you still unafraid?” He sighed in relief as they reached the end of the questioning, he assumed Heine’s answer would be the same as always.
This time though, Heine was silent.
There was no expression on this cold man’s face, but Xi had a strong sense of foreboding.
“Colonel, tell me the answer.”
” You said I could keep silent.”
“No one can get into your brain, so what you don’t want to say can remain a secret. But are you sure you know what fear is in your heart?”
Hein looked at Major General Xi, he remained silent for a long time. Just when Xi was tired of waiting, he finally spoke.
“When I saw him lying a pool of blood, barely breathing and his heartbeat fading, I thought I would die.”
He blinked, “He?”
“From that day on, if he was not where I could see him, I was afraid.”
Xi frowned, he knew that what he had heard was not from just any ordinary person, but from the infamous Heine Burton. This revelation completely upturned his entire understanding of the man. He spoke in such a calm tone about even the most important and sacred things to him.
“Colonel, do you know exactly what you are afraid of?”
“I fear losing him.”
Any other person might be embarrassed or refuse to answer such a question, but Heine merely answered in his typical straightforward manner.
