Pei Yan couldn’t figure out if it was out of revenge or mischief that drove him. After putting the restraining cuffs on He Yue, he dragged his remaining good leg and pulled him next to Liu Yu.
"Good, serves you right, you real piece of shit!" Liu Yu cursed at his forr teammate, a traitor who had abandoned them, now miserably dragged beside him. He swore while using his remaining good leg to kick He Yue unceasingly.
"Alright, stop kicking, or you’ll kill him, and you’ll be held accountable for murder!" Pei Yan, sitting on the ground, after observing Hu Wenjun’s battle for a while, turned his head back and said to the two.
Perhaps genuinely worried about killing He Yue, or now having to listen to commands, Liu Yu stopped his kicking after hearing Pei Yan’s words and scooted over to He Yue, repeatedly spitting onto his face.
At this mont, the battle on Hu Wenjun’s side was nearing its end. What originally required multiple people to suppress was almost instantly reversed after Shangxing joined the fray.
Pushed to the brink, Zou Changxing looked at his companion, beaten to near death by Shangxing, then down at his severely burnt left side, sighed despondently, and raised his hands straightforwardly: "I surrender!"
"Why don’t you plan a fight to the death, break through the Jiezhi Space to escape?" Hu Wenjun declined Shangxing’s assistance, covering his trembling right arm with his bare upper body, and asked with a smile.
"If I forcefully break through, I can break the blockade, but seeing as Wenlin is probably waiting outside, in my current physical state, even if I break through, I wouldn’t be a match for him. Captain Hu, don’t provoke ; I understand, we all follow rules, as long as I give up resisting, you won’t kill ! That’s the rule!"
Zou Changxing said, directly holding up both hands and shaking them: "Co on, Captain Hu, cuff , don’t let the spoils go to outsiders, I’ll give you this credit!"
"Zou Changxing, you know that in this Jiezhi Space, even if I kill you, nobody would know!" A burst of flas flared up in Hu Wenjun’s left hand, intensifying with each step he took forward.
"Sure, no problem, kill , but will you? Think about it, Captain Hu, you have juniors watching you, set a good example for him! Kill !" Zou Changxing, indifferent and backfiring with a shout, turned his head towards Pei Yan and yelled: "I surrender! I officially give up resisting and surrender to the Otherworld Investigation Bureau! I surrender!"
Then he raised his head provocatively towards Hu Wenjun, whispering low enough for only the two of them to hear: "Co on, co on! Kill !"
Hu Wenjun shook his head helplessly at the audacious Zou Changxing. The flas on him gradually extinguished as two restraining cuffs appeared in his hands, which he slowly placed on Zou Changxing’s wrists. Self-deprecatingly, he said, "You’re sothing else, you really are!"
"Right, Captain Hu, so between us..."
Before Zou Changxing could finish his sentence as he leaned his head towards Hu Wenjun, Hu Wenjun’s fist fiercely punched his face, followed by a kick that knocked him down.
Shangxing then joined in, and the two of them kicked Zou Changxing brutally. Zou Changxing, though knocked down and being kicked, didn’t beg for rcy but laughed loudly instead, the more he laughed, the harder they kicked, until he lost consciousness and breathed heavily. Only then did Hu Wenjun pull Shangxing back and stop.
Shaking his arm, Hu Wenjun walked to Pei Yan, who was sitting on the ground looking bewildered: "Well done, how are you?"
"Ah, pretty good, pretty good! Just not sure if my arm can still be saved," Pei Yan responded quietly.
Hu Wenjun began searching up and down his clothes, only to find that the cigarettes had been burned in the fight earlier. He licked his lips in the end and said, "Don’t release the chanical state of your injured arm just yet. Wait until we return to the bureau when Elder Lin is present to handle it."
"Understood!"
"Did you see anything just now?" Hu Wenjun asked, hands on hips, tilting his head and staring at Pei Yan.
Pei Yan, mouth wide open, mumbled incomprehensibly: "Ah! What? See what? I didn’t see anything?"
"No, you saw it. You saw Zou Changxing resisting to the end, being subdued by Shangxing and ! Severely injured, right?"
Pei Yan nodded repeatedly and quickly said: "Ah, right! Right, right, exactly like that. Oh my, Zou Changxing, viciously fierce, resisted fiercely!"
"All right, those are the official words to report above. Now, the private words between us n: Not killing him is because of the bureau’s rules, and we have to follow them; beating him is because of brotherhood. Two colleagues in the bureau died at this guy’s hands, two with families still having a wife and children, and parents to take care of, only to die at the hands of such a brute. Even though they sacrificed for this country, they can’t even tell their families and instead get anonymously marked as accidental deaths. This is our future fate; this is the path we have to take. Do you understand what I’m saying?"
Listening to Hu Wenjun’s words, Pei Yan slowly stood up from the ground, took off his helt, and faced Hu Wenjun seriously, a complete departure from the earlier carefree attitude, standing at attention and saluting solemnly: "Understood!"
Hu Wenjun nodded, gratified, patting his shoulder: "Gather everyone together. There’ll be soone coming to take them away soon!"
"Yes!" After saluting, Pei Yan returned to his previous deanor, bending down to grab He Yue’s leg and walking alongside Hu Wenjun, half-jokingly saying: "Actually, Captain Hu, even if you did kill him, I wouldn’t have said anything."
"Not killing him is firstly because of the bureau’s regulations and my moral bottom line, secondly because..." Hu Wenjun bent down to pull up Liu Yu, who was twisting his body constantly, and pushed him forward, slowly speaking as he staggered alongside him.
"It’s because of the traitor, right?" Pei Yan lowered his head and sighed.
"You figured it out too?"
"Only an idiot wouldn’t. These bastards, they even know what my parents do, and where my sister works. The bureau’s confidentiality work is really lacking, right? Captain Hu, is my family’s safety truly guaranteed?" Pei Yan, despite his earlier bravado with He Yue, was still deep down anxious and filled with apprehension for his family’s safety.
"Rest assured, the bureau has a special protection sche for key family mbers within the bureau. Your family was provided with such treatnt at the first opportunity. If anything happens to them, I guarantee that our people will be on site at the soonest. Whether it’s fortunate or unfortunate, after tonight’s events, my family will also enjoy such treatnt," Hu Wenjun shook his head, wistfully self-mocking.
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