Hmph! No matter what your background is, once you’re in, don’t expect to walk out! Cao Nan suddenly let out a silent, cold laugh. He took out his phone, dialed a number, and said, “You’ve done well so far. I can double the price you asked for, but if you mess up the next part, slit your own throat…” 53 Confrontation at the police station, interrogation room. The imposing figure of Officer Cao Lei scrutinized Lin Feng seated across the desk. This scrawny kid had somehow managed to embarrass his unruly younger brother, leaving him in a sorry state? Looking at Lin Feng, it was hard to believe he was the type to bully others. Cao Lei’s face darkened, feeling slightly frustrated! However, he really didn’t take this kid seriously. Last night, his brother had come home in a state of panic, claiming he’d been bullied and needed his big brother’s support to deal with the situation. Cao Lei was quite disappointed with his trouble-making brother, but his parents overly doted on him, and he himself was somewhat protective, so he usually turned a blind eye to his brother’s misdeeds for the sake of peace. However, the current situation was different. Cao Lei was a distinguished officer and one of the top ten outstanding youths of Yushan City, with a bright future ahead. How could he possibly stir up trouble over a petty squabble among kids? He had no intention of getting involved with his idle, good-for-nothing brother, but last night, something his brother said almost made him faint. His police gun had been taken by his brother and was now lost. Could this timid kid really have the guts to steal a police gun and even use it? If not for the severe beating he gave his brother to extract the gun’s whereabouts, and his brother insisting it was this kid who took it, he would never have believed it. Now, he understood why two colleagues had made a strange call last night, asking if they should arrest some street thugs. It turned out his good-for-nothing brother had bribed other colleagues to set up a trap for this kid. The scheme was indeed sinister, but despite all the fuss, it failed, suggesting this kid had some tricks up his sleeve. “Lin Feng, do you know why you’re here?” “No!” “Be honest! Don’t think your dirty deeds have gone unnoticed!” “What have I done? If you already know, why are you asking me?” “What have you done? You dare to ask what you’ve done? Extortion, burglary, molestation, attempted rape — any one of these could land you in jail for ten or eight years. Be smart; if you confess, you might get a lighter sentence for turning yourself in!” “Uh… I’m that bad? Officer, do you have any evidence?” “Kid, don’t get cocky. If you don’t confess, you won’t get a chance to regret it…” Slap! Lin Feng, caught off guard, received a slap from Cao Lei, who had approached from behind the desk. His head spun, and his ears rang. What the hell was going on? Were they treating him like a criminal now? Weren’t they supposed to just ask for his assistance at the police station, as mentioned in the principal’s office? And these two officers had repeatedly assured it was just an investigation, the details of which they could only discuss at the station. Damn, you can’t trust the police any more than you can trust a pig to climb a tree. He’d been tricked! Could it be… stealing women’s underwear… Damn… could he really have been caught in the act? Last night, he was in bed with Wang Xiaoni, and he didn’t steal hers… The night before at home… he didn’t find any women’s underwear in the closet… Damn… what was going on? Where had he slipped up? Lin Feng’s mind raced, trying to piece together the sequence of events. Had his peculiar interest in underwear theft really become his second job? As he wrestled with his thoughts, the two officers didn’t stay idle. After the slap and no immediate response, Cao Lei turned to the other officer still seated behind the desk. “Xiao Zhang, why waste time talking to this petty thug? Go get me a cup of tea.” After sending his partner away, Cao Lei locked the interrogation room door, grabbed Lin Feng like a hawk catching a chicken, and effortlessly dragged him to the corner. He pulled out handcuffs, clicked them around Lin Feng’s wrists, securing his hands above his head to a radiator under the window. After securing him, Cao Lei didn’t speak much, just kicked Lin Feng in the stomach. Lin Feng let out a painful scream, curling up like a shrimp, unable to even clutch his belly due to his bound hands. Cao Lei pulled Lin Feng up by his hair. “Where’s the gun?” Lin Feng felt his insides shift, utterly unprepared for the assault by this supposed upholder of the law. He had been too focused on proving his innocence to these officers to notice the ambush. But when Cao Lei ignored the accusations of perversion and underwear theft, focusing instead on the gun’s whereabouts, Lin Feng understood. Wang Xiaoni had asked about the gun last night, suggesting it might have been stolen by Cao Nan, Cao Lei’s scumbag brother, from his police brother. Lin Feng had casually mentioned he might have tossed it into the bushes in his panic, but in reality, both the gun and the four thousand yuan he unexpectedly gained were stashed in Da Meiniu’s storage cabinet. When the police suddenly appeared, his first thought was to destroy the evidence, but both items vanished from his hands in an instant. It was only this morning, when he re-entered Da Meiniu’s system, that he realized those items had reappeared in the storage cabinet, but he couldn’t retrieve them. Lin Feng was puzzled about how to access this storage space, but given his nature, he didn’t dwell on such ‘unimportant’ matters when he couldn’t figure them out immediately, especially with a series of troubling events unfolding. Now, with Cao Lei questioning him about the gun, it was clear this was Cao Nan’s scheme to get the gun back, not about the underwear theft. Damn, he almost fell for their scam. Lin Feng realized there was no way he could have left any clues about the underwear thief overnight; it was all Cao Nan’s dirty work behind the scenes! Before this, upon seeing the two items in the storage space, Lin Feng was greatly shocked and initially intended to quickly retrieve the gun and figure out how to return it to Cao Nan. After all, losing a police gun was no small matter for Chinese police officers, and he didn’t want things to get out of hand. Unfortunately, it seemed now that he wouldn’t get the chance to do a good deed. After understanding the situation, Lin Feng calmed down, and his voice gained confidence: “Hehehe… aren’t you guys suspecting that I stole women’s underwear? How did it turn into a gun issue?”
Cao Lei lowered his voice and threatened, “Kid, don’t get too cocky. If you don’t reveal where the gun is, be prepared to spend a lifetime in jail!”
“Pah!” Lin Feng spat fiercely at Cao Lei’s face. Without the burden of being labeled a ‘pervert’, his mind was now clear, and he was no longer afraid of Cao Lei attacking him again. Screw you guys, you two are trying to kill me, huh? Humph, since you’re not being fair, don’t blame me for not being righteous! The old man just taught me the Hundred Flowers Bone Crushing Hand, and I haven’t found a real opponent to test it on yet. Lin Feng decided to give this evil cop a taste of his own medicine.
Cao Lei, irritated, wiped the spit off his face and threw a punch, but Lin Feng easily dodged it. “Stop!” Lin Feng shouted, “You just want the gun back, right? Let me go, and let’s have a fair fight. If you win, I’ll give it back right away!”
