Rip nodded his head in understanding. "I see. I take it he was alive until now, and the second he saw you, he killed himself?" mused the man, the smile on his face never leaving.
"No," grunted Bai Long Qiang, shaking his head as best as he could, given the fact that the monster still had him pressed against the wall.
"No? So he didn't just die. Is that what you are telling me?"
"He might as well have," screamed the man, tears coursing down his cheeks. "I didn't know until now that he was dead. It was a shock, okay? Especially after knowing…"
"And now we have come full circle on the issue of your intelligence," chuckled Rip, his arm never showing the slightest bit of fatigue. "Are you really dumb enough to assume that he wasn't dead all this time? That his death was such a shock to you that you sent my woman off on her own?"