Jones beat his hands on both sides of his body and clenched them hard.

He took a deep breath and spoke with a sombre face. "Why should I do this boring appraisal?"

"Why, don't you dare?" Nora Smith raised her lips. She assumed that Jones would not dare to do the appraisal.

"Hehe." Jones laughed a few times. "This recording, which I don't know, doesn't mean anything at all!"

"It doesn't mean anything? If the voice in the recording is not you, why don't you dare to do ...