Chapter 89: Taken to the Station

Kunlun City, Law Enforcement Hall.

Lin Yuchu sat inside the Law Enforcement Hall’s interrogation room, which was gloomy and imposing, its walls hung with torture instruments that looked creepy at a glance.

He felt a chilly wind blow in from outside, making his whole body feel cold.

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He raised his head and looked around, only to discover that this interrogation room, which was not very big at all, was now packed full with dozens of people.

Lin Yuchu counted carefully. “One, two, three… eight, nine… twelve!”

Ah, sure enough, not a single one was missing!

They were all here!

The person who had arrested them and dragged them here really had not spoken a single false word. When he said he would arrest all of you, he arrested all of you. When he said not one person less, then not one person was less!

But…

Wasn’t there one extra?

Lin Yuchu, who felt that he was innocent, was just… so mad!

Lin Yuchu, feeling extremely wronged inside, immediately raised his head and looked at the patrol squad captain in front of him. The man wore an expression that was cool, arrogant, and slack, sitting with one leg crossed over the other, utterly lacking the dignity and bearing of a law enforcer. His slanted dead-fish-like upturned eyes were fixed on the three of them.

Lin Yuchu’s little gaze became even more innocent.

“…” The patrol squad captain, who was being stared at by his sparkling, watery eyes—purely Lin Yuchu’s own imagination—paused in expression at once.

Looking at the young man in front of him, he could not help thinking of a bird he had once seen perched on a branch, so fat that one wondered whether it could still fly. It had a body of soft, fluffy, snow-white feathers, was only the size of a palm, and had a little tuft of yellow fluff on the top of its head.

A little… cute.

For one instant, the strict, unsmiling, dutiful, incorruptible captain of the Patrol Office, who would absolutely never waver no matter who came to plead for mercy, was… charmed by this young man who looked like a plump little yellow bird.

And so the iron-faced, impartial Patrol Office captain, who had originally been prepared to interrogate him sternly and would absolutely never waver no matter who came to plead for mercy, stared deeply at the black-eyed, damp-eyed, pitiful, helpless young man before him…

Then, with a stiff expression and a somewhat sluggish motion, he moved his gaze away. He glanced to Lin Yuchu’s left, then to his right.

The slight wavering that had appeared on his face instantly firmed again.

There was one thing that had to be mentioned…

The seating arrangement at the scene was currently like this.

Wu Xi, with a dark face, his entire body practically written with I’m not someone to mess with, I’m very angry right now.

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Lin Yuchu, with a lost gaze, an innocent expression, a face full of confusion, his entire body telling everyone, I’m very innocent, weak, scared, and helpless.

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Liu Fan, head held high, looking like, I’m awesome, I’m handsome, hurry up and let me go. I’m telling you, if you dare touch even one finger of mine, I’ll… have my father make trouble for your whole family.

Lin Yuchu, surrounded by these two idiots and sandwiched in the middle like the filling of a biscuit, was set off by them until he looked like a pure, innocent, adorable, delicate little cutie.

It truly answered that saying: one’s peers make all the difference.

Exactly!

The captain, whose steel-straight-man heart had hardened again and who had steeled himself, thought to himself, At times like this, one really ought to look at this bunch of brats asking for a beating!

The captain immediately gave a cold snort and stared with an unfriendly expression at Wu Xi and Liu Fan on either side. He shouted sternly, “Now that you’re here, don’t even think about playing any tricks with me. I’m telling you, it’s useless!”

“Tell me honestly, why did you commit the offense?” He slammed the table and stood, glaring at Wu Xi and Liu Fan on either side as he questioned them.

As for Lin Yuchu, who sat in the middle, the captain ignored him completely, as if he did not exist.

“…” Lin Yuchu.

For the first time in his life, he learned that his direct presence could actually be this low.

“Hmph!”

“Hmph!”

Wu Xi and Liu Fan answered him with cold snorts that came at the same time, as if they had been issued from the same nostril.

“…” The captain.

At that, blue veins immediately bulged on his forehead.

The expression on his face instantly twisted into something fierce.

He already had a dark face to begin with, one that could scare children to death if he walked outside. Now, every minute and second, the sight of him could make an uninformed passerby think they had run into a vicious robber and immediately drop to their knees begging for mercy.

“Don’t think I don’t dare touch you!” the captain said in a gloomy voice, his expression dark. “I don’t care who your fathers are. Once you’ve fallen into my hands, not even the Heavenly King himself coming to plead for you would be useful!”

After saying that, he clenched both hands into fists. His broad, heavy-looking hands, filled with obvious strength, clenched hard. Blue veins bulged on the backs of his hands. Then one fist slammed down viciously…

The Patrol Office people behind him saw this and hurriedly rushed up.

Two people, one on the left and one on the right, grabbed hold of him at the same time. Their faces turned pale with shock as they hurriedly cried out, “Martial Uncle Zhou, beating people isn’t allowed!”

“Stop, Martial Uncle!”

“What if it ends up like last time, and you beat someone half to death, leaving them with only one breath left? That would be bad! The higher-ups would punish you by making you copy texts!”

“…” Wu Xi.

“…” Liu Fan.

Holy crap! This guy actually beat people!

A cop actually assaulted suspects???

Was there any law left in the world?

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Lin Yuchu, sitting between the two of them, immediately gave a disdainful cold laugh. Law? The two of you talking about law must be some kind of joke, right?

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“Why are you holding me back?”

The Patrol Office captain, who had been forcefully held back by the two Patrol Office people behind him, had a baffled expression on his face. “My hands were just itching, that’s all.”

“!!!!!” The two Patrol Office people.

Their faces instantly went white with fright.

Their voices trembled as they said, “Martial Uncle, e-even if your hands are itching, you still can’t beat people. These two boys don’t look like they have much meat on them. They can’t take a beating. I’m afraid they wouldn’t withstand one punch from you.”

“…” The captain.

Wu Xi and Liu Fan, standing nearby, immediately looked a little unhappy when they heard that.

The two of them looked at the tall, burly captain with his wide, strong palms, then imagined one of his punches…

They could not help shuddering all over.

Their faces even went a little pale.

Their arrogance also immediately dropped by several notches. Where was that wild, overbearing, invincible arrogance from before?

Meanwhile, Lin Yuchu, who had been thoroughly ignored the entire time as though he did not exist, wore a somewhat strange expression.

Kunlun City’s Patrol Office Law Enforcement Hall was different from what he had imagined. How should he put it…

It was practically here to be funny.

Dissatisfied at being ignored, secretly plotting mischief inside, and still thinking about his ten million, Lin Yuchu, unwilling to be lonely, stealthily prepared to stir up trouble.

“The matter is like this…” Lin Yuchu cleared his throat and spoke.

He reminded everyone present of his existence.

At the sound of his voice—

The patrol squad captain: “…”

The captain, whose visible agitation had made him look as if he might leap up and beat someone at any moment, instantly quieted down after Lin Yuchu said that.

His expression went still for several seconds. Then he shook off the two Patrol Office people behind him who had been holding him.

He leaned forward toward Lin Yuchu, most of his body pressing toward the front of Lin Yuchu, and stared at him. Raising his brows, he said, “You want to confess?”

“Then confess honestly! Not half a word of lies allowed.” He said in a deep voice, “Whether it’s true or false, I’ll investigate it clearly!”

“All right,” Lin Yuchu answered in an obedient, well-behaved tone. “I wouldn’t dare, I wouldn’t dare.”

At that, the patrol squad captain’s expression immediately turned a little strange. He looked at Lin Yuchu, his brows lifting, as if he found it odd and surprising. This was probably his first time seeing someone with such an off-style painting as Lin Yuchu, a positive young man who, at first glance, had clearly been well brought up, had complete etiquette, was bright and motivated, upright, and promising.

He was completely different from idle, troublemaking young masters like Wu Xi and Liu Fan, who did not study, caused trouble everywhere, and started fights. They were simply like two ends of a balance scale.

Even the captain’s gaze toward Lin Yuchu carried a few traces of surprise and strangeness. He was probably wondering inwardly how Lin Yuchu had ended up mixed together with these two.

But he only glanced once before immediately moving his gaze away.

He did not dare look at Lin Yuchu again, not even once, for fear that the enemy might shake his side’s morale!

↑ That’s right, you didn’t read wrong. The patrol squad captain, who looked harsh, cold, iron-faced, impartial, and inhuman, actually had a soft heart that liked fluffy little animals under that cold, hard, steel-rough-man, straight-faced exterior!

He liked all cute little animals.

Of course, Lin Yuchu, who was meeting him for the first time and in this situation, in this place, did not know that.

In his heart, he still kept a certain respectful distance. He was worst at dealing with people with the captain’s kind of personality.

After all, Lin Yuchu himself was not actually a particularly serious or rigid person. He was very casual, or one could say he had a few degrees of willfulness and acted as he pleased.

People like him, who were loose and indifferent most of the time, were worst at dealing with strict, earnest, rule-following people.

Or…

To put it another way, Lin Yuchu had always been testing the edge of the law.

So naturally, he was instinctively allergic to cops.

Even so, Lin Yuchu, who had always acted with flawless methods, had absolutely never expected that one day he would truly be arrested by a cop.

Although he felt that he was innocent and had purely been dragged into it!

But since he had already been arrested and brought in…

Then, as the saying went, since he was here, he might as well settle in.

So Lin Yuchu came to make trouble with great peace of mind.

With the appearance of a well-behaved, obedient, gentle, polite, promising young man completely unlike the arrogant, wildly overbearing young masters Wu Xi and Liu Fan sitting to his left and right, he spoke to the Patrol Office captain before him in an earnest and sincere tone, saying—hoodwinking him—“Actually, this matter isn’t entirely their fault. I also bear responsibility.”

“…” The captain.

Why did those words sound a bit… wrong? He had a bad premonition.

The captain looked strangely at the young man before him, whose face was full of sincerity as he apologized, and a bad premonition rose in his heart that this matter was probably about to veer off course from here.

Then he heard this plump little yellow bird of a young man say with a face full of heartfelt sincerity and an apologetic tone, “It’s all my fault. The pills I refined were too good, but there was only one bottle. It made these two, even though they were buying them at ten times the price, not hesitate to resort to force and threaten to get rid of their competitor.”

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Wu Xi and Liu Fan, seated to the left and right, thought, Why does this sound so wrong!

What do you mean, even though we were buying them at ten times the price, we didn’t hesitate to resort to force and threaten to get rid of our competitor!

Why didn’t I know that I actually had that kind of thought!

In that instant, both Wu Xi and Liu Fan’s faces simultaneously…

Their mouths opened, but then they closed them again without saying anything.

Thinking about it carefully, what he said did not seem wrong…

What they had just done had seemed… to be exactly that kind of situation, yes.

As Lin Yuchu spoke, he continued with shame, “Actually, there was no need for that. Although there was only one bottle of pills, if the two of you truly had to have them, I could sell them to both of you.”

Ten million spiritual stones. Asking one of you to pay it alone is probably a little difficult, but with two people, each person paying half is five million. That should still be something you can manage, right, rich coal-boss young masters? Lin Yuchu thought to himself very considerately and understandingly.

When the Patrol Office captain heard this, he immediately fell silent.

Wu Xi and Liu Fan, sitting beside him, also fell silent…

Their gazes fixed on Lin Yuchu in the middle, whose face was filled with apology and deep guilt. In their hearts, they thought, If I say now that we won’t buy it—no, that we’ll only buy one pill—is that okay?

And so—

Inside the interrogation room, after Lin Yuchu’s earlier speech, the room sank into a strange silence.

A while later.

The Patrol Office captain slammed a fist hard onto the table. Then he turned his head toward Wu Xi and Liu Fan, sitting to the side, and said viciously, “Is what he said true?”

“…” Wu Xi.

“…” Liu Fan.

The two of them hesitated for a moment, then nodded and admitted, “It’s true.”

At that, the captain’s expression became even fiercer. He said to the two in a deep voice, “A real man’s word, once spoken, cannot be taken back. Since this is trouble you caused, then shoulder it bravely!”

“You two, half each. Go buy his pills!” The Patrol Office captain pointed at Wu Xi and Liu Fan as he spoke.

“…” Wu Xi, who had wanted to dodge the bill and so had pretended to start a fight, only to end up arrested and taken to the station, yet still had to pay the bill in the end.

“…” Liu Fan, who had wanted to dodge the bill and so had pretended to start a fight, only to end up arrested and taken to the station, yet still had to pay the bill in the end.

The grief in their hearts flowed backward into a river, as if about to drown them into two dead dogs.

So…

Why exactly did I start that fight?!

What was the point?

The true mastermind behind the scenes, Lin Yuchu, sat quietly in the middle, obediently acting as the sandwich filling, and revealed an expression of smiling without speaking. Want to dodge the bill?

Ten million!

Impossible. Nonexistent!

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So in the end.

Wu Xi and Liu Fan still obediently each took out five million and, at ten times the price, bought the bottle of Red Beauty Pills on Lin Yuchu, a year-round unsellable product that had been despised by others—specifically a certain steel-straight-man sword cultivator who did good deeds without leaving his name—and rejected even when offered for free.

The two of them said they did not have that many spiritual stones on them, so they obediently wrote IOUs at the Patrol Office and pressed their fingerprints onto them. The Patrol Office then sent people to the Wu family and Liu family to collect the spiritual stones.

Only after all of this was done did the patrol squad captain turn his gaze back to Lin Yuchu, whose face was full of a well-behaved, adorable smile. His expression immediately paused. Then his eyes flicked upward, looking left, then right, just not daring to look at him. He asked, as though it were casual, “You still haven’t confessed who you are.”

“Brat, hurry up and confess honestly! Just who exactly are you?” The captain’s expression changed drastically at once, his face and tone twisting fiercely as he roared at him, “What’s your surname, what’s your name? Where are you from, where do you live?”

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