CH 4

After the awkward silence behind the one-way mirror, everyone in the special affairs department couldn't help but touch their holsters, wanting to eliminate the embarrassing situation before the news spread.

Only Ai Qing remained calm, taking a sip of her coffee and then pulling a pair of thick sunglasses out of the pouch on her wheelchair and putting them on her face.

"Continue," she said.

The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, sighed, and ordered through the microphone on the table, "Continue."

After a long time, one of the guys finally reacted from the awkward encounter and lifted the hair hanging in front of his eyes, smiling warmly and extending his hand, "Let me introduce myself, my name is Liu Dongli..."

"Bullshit! Who wants to know you!" Huai Shi was furious. Now he finally realized what was going on, pointing his finger at Liu Dongli and shouting out the door, "Leader, I want to report that this person is engaged in illegal activities, he's the head of prostitution... Don't be fooled by him!"

"..."

Liu Dongli sighed helplessly, suddenly raised a finger and put it in front of Huai Shi's face, "Look at my finger."

"I won't!" Even if Huai Shi was stupid, he knew something was wrong and didn't want to fall into his trap. He just raised his head, but accidentally... saw his face.

That fair skin and slender neck, a pair of deep ocean-like eyes hidden among the long hair, a few strands of golden hair like stars shimmering in the universe, falling on his eyebrows, covering up those eyes like cold stars in a winter night. The high and straight nose bridge shows the masculine beauty...

"Oh!" Huai Shi was mesmerized for a moment, but for some reason, he suddenly felt nauseous.

He secretly scolded himself, how could he look so ugly compared to someone who was better looking than himself? A forced smile appeared on his pale face, but saliva leaked from the corner of his mouth...

The whole person was stunned in an instant.

Not only Huai Shi, but everyone who saw Liu Dongli behind the one-way mirror couldn't help but let out an "Oh!" Even the most serious middle-aged man blushed and coughed lightly, looking away.

Only Ai Qing, wearing oversized sunglasses, remained calm as she sipped her coffee and pressed the call button, "I didn't call you here to flirt, so focus on the task and control your soul radiation."

"Okay, okay."Liu Dongli raised his finger to adjust his black-framed glasses on the bridge of his nose, sitting across from Huai Shi with a gentle smile like autumn water, and asked, "Little brother, we've met, can you answer a few questions for me?"

"Sure, sure."

Huai Shi grabbed his hand and didn't let go, drooling with a foolish expression on his face, "Big brother, I'll tell you anything you want to know. My bank card password is 18191..."

"Cough, that's not necessary."

Liu Dongli quickly waved his hand and opened the file in his hand, clearing his throat, "Where were you last night?"

"I was at home, sleeping. I had several nightmares that scared me to death. Let me tell you..."

"Just sleeping?" Liu Dongli wasn't interested in his nightmares and interrupted him.

"Yes."

Huai Shi nodded. "Who would go out in the middle of the night for no reason, especially in such heavy rain? I'm telling you, although our family is poor, our ancestors were..."

"Cough, next question." Liu Dongli interrupted him again. "What did you put in the box you delivered to the police station?"

"I don't know." Huai Shi shook his head decisively. "Who would open an unidentified box like that? I was scared to death. That person suddenly rushed towards me and started coughing up blood..."

For the next hour, Liu Dongli repeatedly asked complex questions from the file, disrupted the order, and even asked irrelevant questions.

Until Ai Qing's voice came from the other side of the one-way mirror, "That's enough."

He finally breathed a sigh of relief and encouraged himself to pull his wrist out of Huai Shi's grasp. It was covered in red marks from being squeezed, but fortunately he pulled it out in time, or this guy would have broken it.

Just as he let out a breath, Huai Shi suddenly woke up from his daze and looked at him blankly, not knowing what had happened.

It was like he had a nightmare, a nightmare so real that he began to despise himself...

"Ugh!"

He suddenly stood up from the chair, handcuffed and unable to get up, bending over to vomit violently. The thought of how he had acted like he was in heat just now made him feel indescribably nauseous, and he vomited until snot and tears were streaming down his face.

"You pervert, what did you do to me?! Ugh!"

Before he could finish speaking, he vomited again, and couldn't help but cry.

"Oh my god, I don't even have a girlfriend, how did this pervert bend me like this? My reputation is ruined, my reputation is ruined. I'll fight you to the death, you bastard!"

"I'm sorry, no one wanted this to happen." Liu Dongli seemed to be used to this kind of scene and sympathetically handed him a glass of water. "The most important thing in life is to be happy. Are you hungry? I..."

"Ugh!""Not really."

As Huai Shi was about to speak, he suddenly vomited again.

Behind the one-way mirror, there was also the sound of vomiting and nausea.

The middle-aged man's face turned pale as he held his painful stomach. The person next to him handed him a stomach medicine and a cup of warm water that was just right.

It was the female driver who had been silently following Ai Qing.

"Thank you." He forced a smile, took the medicine, and breathed heavily for a while before finally calming down a bit.

"How did it go?" Ai Qing asked. "I told you, you wouldn't be able to get anything out of him."

"Maybe he's just pretending..."

The middle-aged man coughed. "I know about Liao Dongli's soul ability. It's a charm effect, right? Although it's effective against ordinary people, it may not work on sublimators."

"Did Liao Dongli fall for it or not? He couldn't be clearer. Besides, if there's any man, any man who is in the most self-esteem and adolescent stage of his life, who can pretend to this extent... I don't think you could find any way to get anything out of him."

Ai Qing gave him a deep look. "Just give up."

"I've seen the file. If we're talking about that brat's criminal suspicion, I'm actually his alibi."

Liao Dongli walked into the interrogation room and threw the file he was holding back onto the table. He sighed helplessly. "That brat was interviewing at our clubhouse three minutes before the explosion at the port..."

"Interviewing? What could he be interviewing for?"

"To be a prostitution... He was probably tricked over by an intermediary, right? He realized halfway through the interview and was scared off by the manager."

Liao Dongli shook his head and looked at Huai Shi's front-facing photo on the file, pinching his chin and sighing, "I have to say, he has potential. He's got a good attitude, but his dress sense is off. If he wore a fitted suit and got rid of that deadpan smile on his face, he'd be a real embodiment of the taboo, the kind of hedgehog that old aunties love but can't get their hands on..."

"Okay, we didn't bring you here to plan his career."

Ai Qing interrupted him, "He's just an ordinary person who got caught up in an incident. Let him go after signing the confidentiality agreement. It's a waste of time to keep him here."

And that's how it was decided.

Fifteen minutes later, Huai Shi, whose soul had been ravaged, was stuffed into a car and sent away after signing a bunch of documents.

And in front of the gate, Liao Dongli's hands were in his pockets, watching the struggling teenager who thought he was going to be executed, and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"By the way, what's his name?" He looked at Ai Qing behind him.

"Huai Shi."

"Do you know him?" Liao Dongli smiled mysteriously, "That's why you helped him get off the hook, right? Don't underestimate the intuition of a gold medal prostitution, Miss Ai."

To their surprise, Ai Qing's expression remained calm.

"Ah, I guess you could say I know him."

"Are you close?""I can't say for sure. He's three years older than me, but we used to play together when we were young," Ai Qing said.

"Huh?" Liu Dongli turned around in surprise. He never thought there was such a connection between the two of them. "What happened later?"

"What happened later?" Ai Qing glanced at him. "Later, after my grandfather broke his promise and caused his family to go bankrupt, we never saw each other again."

"..."

Liu Dongli was stunned, not knowing what to say.

...

Someone pushed open the door to the sealed basement.

The restless man jumped up from his chair anxiously. "Why are you coming so late?"

"Do you think last night's commotion was small enough that no one noticed?" The blood-stained ferocious ape crouched on the chair, grinning strangely. "Thanks to you, I had a great time... "

"And the goods?" The man anxiously reached out his hand. "Did you get the goods back?"

A plastic bag soaked in blood was thrown into his arms. "The goods are back where they belong, but..."

At first, he was overjoyed, but as soon as he took the bag, his face changed. He frantically tore open the bag and carefully opened the black iron box inside.

But it was empty.

"Where are the goods?!" He screamed. "Where did the source material I've been accumulating for so many years go?!"

Looking at the ferocious ape in front of him, his eyes became fierce.

"Was it you?"

"Close to a thousand people's worth of source material. Do you really think I could absorb it all?" The ferocious ape scratched the mottled white hair behind its mask and asked rhetorically. "If I had that ability, I would have already become one of the top beings. Why would I let you boss me around? It was empty when I got it."

Instead of threatening me, you should think about how to explain it to the top beings. Because you used a sacred object for personal gain, you caused the loss of the source material accumulated over twelve years... "

"You got a share of the money too!"

The man roared in anger and stared at it fiercely. "If things go wrong, you won't get away with it!"

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The ferocious ape said nothing, just silently rubbed its fingers together, the sound of sharp metal nails colliding with each other echoing in the room until the man's gaze shifted away from it.

"It was your own traitor who caused the sacred object to fall into someone else's hands. I retrieved it for the top beings. Even if there was a mistake, it wouldn't be enough to warrant 'eternal punishment.'" The ferocious ape said coldly. "If I were you, I would be thinking of ways to remedy the situation. It's just a loss, right? As long as you find it before the top beings notice, everything will be fine."

"You make it sound so easy!" The man glared at it angrily. "It's not that simple!""Those old men and women are almost dead anyway. It's better to make use of their remains... At least we can salvage some losses." Xiong Yuan said casually. "As for the thousands of sources, they definitely won't disappear without a trace. Whether it's used for advancement, prolonging life, or selling, it takes time."

A few minutes later, a gloomy voice came from the secret room.

"Find out for me! Who else has touched this box!"