I was led into the interrogation room inside the police station, and Moon Man-bow and Zhao Zichen were stopped in their tracks.
No matter how you look at it, I was the most likely suspect and it wasn’t too unfair to have me arrested.
Not only did Yang think so, but so did all the other police officers in the Fengqi detachment. They all interrogated me very harshly and were already firmly convinced that I was the one who had committed the poison.
The only consolation I found was that the moon was full of bows and said the police were all right.
In the afternoon the police asked me what kind of poison I had used, but I couldn’t answer, but I was tired of wondering what kind of poison it could be. It was a horrible poison, but it wouldn’t kill anyone.
He didn’t want to poison the policeman, the effect he wanted was to scare him, but why?
After I was arrested, two waves of police came in the morning for questioning and two more in the afternoon. The funny thing was that because I was too innocent to give a statement, they thought I was too cunning and used silence to resist the law, so at night they put a man on shift to watch and forbade me to sleep.
Just a few hours ago, this was the same method I had taught them to use against Zheng Peng, but I never thought that retribution would come so quickly to me.
It’s just a pity that this I have also received special training, even if it boils me to death, I won’t lose control of my mind due to fatigue. Five years as a soldier had turned me into the strongest shield in the Republic, one that could only die, not lose.
The interrogator sitting opposite me pressed his headset, I guess it was Bureau Yang directing him from outside, after a moment he nodded and said to me, “Zhang Chao, do you think we can’t do anything to you if you don’t say anything?”
I was expressionless and didn’t make any reply.
He said, “I know, you were born in the special forces, such a little fight won’t hurt you.”
I said, “If you can make me hurt, you’re considered a torture victim.”
Just as I finished speaking, he turned off the video recorder and smiled wistfully.
I said, “Oh? It looks like you’re really planning to use fists and feet. Do you know that force is most definitely not to be used indiscriminately. Once you can’t even ask anything by using force, then the person you’re interrogating will be even less likely to let up, because he’s already touched your bottom line.”
“Pfft, you’re teaching me how to interrogate a prisoner?”
“Technically, I can indeed be your teacher, and when I get out, I’ll have the chance to come and give you a refresher course later.”
“You’re sick, really sick in the head.”
He said, swinging his fist towards my stomach and hammering it down with a sharp blow, soon he was covering his wrist and turning blue with pain.
“You, you ……”
I took advantage of his moment of exertion, my abdominal muscles acting as a force, and when he wasn’t paying attention, he hit my abdominal muscles and was lucky he didn’t twist his wrist.
The policeman interrogating me covered his wrist and was furious, like a lion ready to rage.
“You’re looking for death!”
He was so furious that he took me by the collar, yanked me up from the chair and pressed me violently against the wall, the mouth of my account stuck in my windpipe, leaving me breathless.
One’s fear of lack of oxygen is insurmountable, and no matter how much training one has undergone, one’s reaction when faced with waterboarding is pretty much the same.
Now that I was stuck with my windpipe, I felt the same, my arms and legs flailing about and my face flushed red.
“Old Fang, you’ll make a scene like that, don’t mess around.”
Officer Fang was clearly enraged and whispered, “Didn’t he say that this move wouldn’t work on him? I would like to see if this move is so to you, Zhang Chao, or not. Zhang Chao, my colleague was put in hospital by you, the captain was suspended by you, what the hell are you doing?!”
I said with difficulty, “Because I didn’t cause the people ……”
“Damn it, at this point you’re still soph*moric! Our captain is really blind, how could he teach a friend like you.”
I was oxygen deprived to the point of double vision, at this time I heard someone knocking on the door outside, then I was able to catch my breath, the hand that was stuck around my neck let go and after a few more moments I collapsed to the floor and heard the sound of two men talking.
“How can you torture someone?”
“sh*t, I just had to take it out for the captain, you said the captain was such a nice guy, how did he let this grandson get him killed!”
“You’re almost there, the captain just came to see me, he wants to see Zhang Chao.”
“What? For, why? I get it, the captain must want to take revenge himself.”
“I don’t think so, the captain even asked us if we had hit Zhang Chao, and instructed us to never hit him if we treat him as a brother, tell me, how do you explain this to the captain?”
I had regained a bit of my spirit and got up on my own, shook my head and said, “I won’t say anything.”
“Heh, I believe you?”
“Old Fang, it’s useless whether you believe me now or not, the captain is already waiting outside.”
Old Fang was chagrined and muttered a few words, then pointed at my nose and said, “You said you wouldn’t say anything, if you dare to say half a word nonsense ……”
I sneered, returned to my own chair and sat down, saying, “If I really want to sell you, you can’t defend me, and if I don’t intend to sell you, you don’t have to defend me. Let your captain in, he’s come to see me on important business.”
“You, do you think this is your parlour, you can see whoever you want to see?!”
“Well old Fang, the captain came here secretly, it would be a disaster if someone found out, you can talk later if you have anything to say.”
Officer Fang had no choice, they all had a good relationship with Liu Hao, even though this was not with the rules, but wanted to try to help Liu Hao with this favour.
He pointed at me and gave me three more orders before he and the other police officers all went out. To ensure safety, all the surveillance and listening in the room was stopped, and after a while, Liu Hao pushed the door in.
Liu Hao checked the equipment first and after making sure it was all turned off, the gloom on his face cleared and he became very happy instead.
I stared at him for a while before I was sure he was indeed in a good mood, and I asked, “Is it done?”
“It’s done, Moon Full Bow has approached Yiyi Wu and has got it done.”
I was relieved too and smiled, “That’s good, now all that’s left is to wait.”
Liu Hao said, “I just came to tell you today that everyone has woken up, but none of the poison tests have detected what the poison is, and now Wu Lei and the others are still lying in the hospital recuperating. We’re about to succeed in what we’re doing too.”
I said, “There’s no hurry, it’s only a matter of time before the snake comes out of the hole and the fish takes the bait.”
Liu Hao said, “That’s right, we all reckon it’s tomorrow.”
“That’s right, tomorrow is the day the phone chip will be repaired. Whoever that person behind Zheng Peng is, he’ll have to seize this opportunity.”
My brain was earning very slowly, not enough to collapse, but not sleeping was horribly devastating.
Liu Hao saw that my reaction was slow and my eyes were red-blooded, and all of a sudden he understood.
