Chapter 430

Chapter 430 A World for Two!

Bai Qinchuan had originally expected the Jiang family to seize this opportunity and go all out to kick Su Rui while he was down, refusing to stop until they had buried him alive.

But Jiang Qingyuan’s move had completely caught him off guard, leaving him utterly impressed.

Su Rui had killed five people in one go. Under Huaxia law, he should be executed by firing squad — there was absolutely no room for debate on that. So why would the Jiang family still get involved? Why would they want to brand themselves with the label of “interfering with the judiciary”?

“Hearing what you said, I suddenly feel like things have clicked for me.”

“So how are you going to thank me?” Jiang Qingyuan lay back in her recliner, letting the cool summer breeze wash over her as she gazed up at the star-filled night sky, every inch of her radiating ease and comfort.

“If I weren’t so sure about your character, I’d genuinely suspect you were the one who planned all this.”

Bai Qinchuan said, “Your mind is almost unnaturally sharp — what a shame you were born a woman.”

“I really hate it when people look down on women.”

With that, Jiang Qingyuan hung up the phone without a second thought.

She looked up at the stars in the night sky, her gaze deep and distant, and murmured softly to herself, “Su Rui, who’s right and who’s wrong in this matter no longer matters. From where I stand, I have no choice but to be your enemy.”

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“You’re with State Security?”

Standing before that black building, a faint gravity settled into Su Rui’s eyes.

No one dared to cuff his hands, and no one dared to shackle his feet. The moment Su Rui stepped out of the vehicle, more than a dozen guns were trained on his head.

If he so much as thought about escaping, those muzzles would fire without a moment’s hesitation.

Su Rui swept his gaze across the faces of these people and, finding that no one answered him, said with a sneer, “If you’re State Security, why forge an arrest warrant from the Ninghai Municipal Bureau? Hiding your heads and showing your tails — is that really the State Security style?”

“You’re overthinking it. We’re not State Security. We just needed to borrow their facilities.”

The man with the full beard stood facing Su Rui, jerked his head toward the entrance, and said coldly, “Afraid to go in?”

“Afraid? You people are really nothing to me.”

With that, Su Rui said no more and walked straight toward the State Security building.

The bearded man’s words had given him a great deal to think about. By now, he could tell that these people were definitely not State Security agents. Judging by the way they held their guns, every one of them had been trained, but Su Rui had observed many details along the way and concluded that these people were most likely police officers who had been seconded from various units.

When would police officers be seconded to handle a case?

Only when a special task force was formed.

In other words, this task force had already been assembled before Su Rui had even killed anyone, and had raced from the capital to Ninghai in just a few hours.

“Calculated right down to the bone.”

Su Rui’s tone was thick with contempt. Since these people were police officers seconded from various precincts, they were absolutely serving the will of a particular individual.

Looking at it now, the person pulling the strings behind the scenes was truly no ordinary figure.

Of course, at this moment, Su Rui didn’t yet know that his assessment was just a tiny bit off.

They led Su Rui into a fully sealed interrogation room. The bearded man locked the door behind him, and at that point, there were only four people in the room.

Interrogation rooms like this were generally soundproofed to an extreme degree — no matter how loud things got inside, nothing could be heard from outside.

“Cuff him,” the bearded man said, frowning and gesturing.

“Cuff me?” Su Rui said coldly. “The fact that I came here at all was already doing you a favor. I’d like to see who exactly can get those cuffs on my wrists.”

Once before, Su Rui had been handcuffed at the Ninghai Municipal Bureau, but that time, he had made those incompetent officers pay a bloody price for it.

Seeing the threatening look in Su Rui’s eyes, the bearded man felt a faint tremor in his chest. He finally decided not to press the issue of the handcuffs any further, and instead said, “Sit down. Give us a full account of everything you’ve done.”

“I don’t know what you want to know.” Su Rui sat down without a care in the world, crossed his legs, and watched the three people across from him who looked like they were about to die of rage.

“Did you kill Bai Jiaming?” The bearded man suppressed the fury rising inside him and switched on the voice recorder in his hand.

“No.” A smile played on Su Rui’s face — a smile that looked entirely sincere, completely at odds with the tense atmosphere in the room.

“No?”

Hearing that answer, the bearded man felt his head swell to several times its normal size.

Su Rui had walked in here fearless all the way, and the bearded man had assumed he could smoothly extract the confession he wanted. But to his complete surprise, Su Rui was now flatly denying everything.

“You’re lying!” The bearded man slammed the table, a vicious gleam flashing in his eyes. “You should know what kind of consequences lying will bring you in this place!”

“Bai Jiaming was not killed by me,” Su Rui said. “He jumped into the sea and was eaten by sharks.”

“That was still because you coerced him into falling into the sea! Otherwise, why would he kill himself for no reason? You must bear primary responsibility for this!” the bearded man roared.

“As a police officer, why do I get the feeling that everything you say is heavily biased? Do you think that’s appropriate?”

The smile on Su Rui’s face gradually faded. “I didn’t kill Bai Jiaming, so naturally I won’t admit to it. And I hope you won’t fabricate a false written record.”

The officer sitting beside the bearded man who was taking notes felt his pen tip tremble at Su Rui’s words.

“Of course, I also have very good reason to suspect that you’re all fake police officers — impostors from start to finish.”

Su Rui adopted an attitude of complete imperviousness, leaving the bearded man and the others utterly helpless.

When it came to interrogation tactics, Su Rui had seen far too many. He could rightly be called the grandmaster of everyone in this room.

“Put the handcuffs and shackles on him! I refuse to believe we can’t pry his mouth open today!” the bearded man bellowed.

If Su Rui’s hands and feet remained free, the bearded man would have no way to use certain interrogation methods on him.

“Feel free to try,” Su Rui said, not a trace of fear on his face.

“Put them on him!”

The bearded man roared and pulled out his gun, pointing it directly at Su Rui’s head.

He refused to believe that with a gun to his head, Su Rui would still refuse to be cuffed.

With a gun keeping him in check, the subordinate nearby found his courage considerably bolstered. He took out the handcuffs, walked up in front of Su Rui, and barked, “Hold out your hands! In this place, even a dragon has to coil up for me, and even a tiger has to lie down! Now that you’ve fallen into our hands, if you don’t cooperate, I’ll make your life a living hell!”

“You’re really not a police officer. A real officer wouldn’t talk like that.”

Su Rui heard his words and narrowed his eyes slightly, a dangerous light flickering within them.

The bearded man shot his subordinate a fierce glare, cursing him for speaking without thinking.

“So what if I am, so what if I’m not? Either way, you’re dying today!” The subordinate who had let it slip didn’t seem to care in the least, and roughly moved to snap the handcuffs onto Su Rui’s wrists.

But at that very moment, Su Rui calmly extended both hands.

Those hands, which looked utterly unremarkable, erupted with an energy that sent a chill of terror through everyone present.

The man holding the handcuffs felt himself struck by an overwhelming, unstoppable force. He completely lost his footing and went hurtling straight into the bearded man’s gun muzzle.

Under these circumstances, there was absolutely no way the bearded man could fire. Before he even had time to shift his grip to catch his colleague, the latter’s body had already made intimate contact with his wrist.

Crack!

The enormous force of the impact shattered the bearded man’s right hand in an instant. His pistol clattered to the floor.

The two of them slammed into the wall of the interrogation room together, then both collapsed to the ground, faces flushed crimson, on the verge of coughing up blood at any moment.

As for the other man who had been taking notes, he was completely scared out of his wits. He sat there frozen, having no idea whether he should go help his colleagues up or try to deal with Su Rui.

Su Rui stood up, walked over to him, looked into his terror-filled eyes, and smiled. “Multiple choice question — do you pass out on your own, or do I knock you out?”

The man was still in a daze and hadn’t even grasped what Su Rui meant, his eyes still wide with helpless panic.

“Looks like I’ll have to do it for you.”

With that, Su Rui grabbed the man by the hair with one hand and yanked him forward, while his other hand formed a knife-edge palm and delivered a sharp, heavy chop to the back of his neck.

The man who had been scared senseless rolled his eyes and face-planted onto the table.

At that same moment, the bearded man and his subordinate let out a simultaneous cry and spat up a mouthful of blood.

The impact from moments ago had left both of them with serious internal injuries. The bearded man had a cracked vertebra, and the man in front had it even worse — Su Rui’s strike had shattered a large section of his ribs.

If Su Rui hadn’t been holding back and hadn’t used his full strength, both of them would already be dead.

Su Rui lifted his foot and drove a kick into the lower back of the man who had been holding the handcuffs.

The man let out a wretched scream, convulsed violently, and collapsed unconscious to the ground.

It had been nothing more than the simplest of counterattacks, yet it had completely turned the entire situation on its head.

“Now it’s just the two of us,” Su Rui said, looking at the bearded man with a faintly mocking smile.

But that smile, as it fell upon the bearded man’s eyes, filled him with an inexplicable dread.

Before coming here, he had been thinking about how to torment Su Rui so he could put on a good show for his master. But now he realized that the gap between himself and this man was an absolute, unbridgeable chasm.

“Do whatever it takes to extract the evidence you need from Su Rui’s mouth. No matter what methods you use.” That was what the bearded man’s master had told him just a few hours ago.

Looking at things now, there was simply no way he could accomplish that. Even with a gun pointed at his head, Su Rui had been able to strike back with such swift and devastating force. The roles of tormentor and tormented had already been reversed.

The more the bearded man thought about it, the more furious he became. He felt the blood surging up from his abdomen, opened his mouth, and spat out another mouthful of blood.

Su Rui paid him no mind. He walked to the door of the interrogation room, studied the complex lock mechanism, and said, “State Security’s interrogation rooms really are something else — even the door locks are this elaborate. Now I see it clearly. Once you turn it one more notch, not even a machine gun could blast this door open from outside. A world of two — let’s get started.”

As he spoke, Su Rui’s hand was already on that intricate, finely crafted lock, and he gave it a gentle turn.

Click.

With the sound of the lock bolt engaging, the entire interrogation room fell into a silence that was utterly terrifying.