Yu Yi found a small metal cutter, spending forty-nine points to purchase it. A delicate gray device about half the size of a palm appeared before her. Yu Yi picked it up, and following the client’s instructions, pressed the bright yellow button. A thin blue light emerged from the cutter’s front end, and by rotating a dial on the cutter, she could adjust the blue light’s length.
She shortened the blue light just enough to cut through the iron bars, then gently held Qiang Zi’s head and softly said: “Don’t move, I’ll saw this thing open for you.” As she carefully cut through the iron bars, the blue light sliced through the metal with ease. Soon, Yu Yi had split the iron cage in half.
She put away the cutter, and suddenly a thought struck her: this device cut through iron frames so easily, it could probably also be used as a weapon.
Although split in half, the iron cage was difficult to remove, as some sections were stuck to Qiang Zi’s jaw and neck skin. Yu Yi was afraid of hurting him and could only carefully peel it off bit by bit.
Unexpectedly, Qiang Zi suddenly grabbed the iron cage and yanked it down. Yu Yi gasped, seeing blood flow from the tear on his jaw.
She quickly took out a handkerchief to press on his wound, saying, “We need to remove it slowly. Let’s go inside and treat it first.”
“No, hurt. Must remove,” Qiang Zi said. Having been imprisoned for a long time, he spoke slowly and with unclear pronunciation. He did not cooperate with Yu Yi’s suggestion to stand up, but instead grabbed the other half of the iron cage behind his head and forcefully pulled it off, throwing it far away.
Yu Yi looked at Qiang Zi’s bloody, mangled wound, feeling a sourness in her nose: “Okay, it’s all off now. Let’s go find a doctor to treat your injury.”
It was already noon when they left the hospital. Yu Yi had rented a small room on the top floor of a three-story building and opened her client to examine the scanned documents. After reading, Yu Yi finally understood what Gong Shi meant by “he’s finished,” and her disgust for Tu Fei Bai increased further.
