Chapter Ninety-Nine: Wolf District Prison

Night had already quietly fallen over the vast land of China. A bright moon hung in the sky, and the cool evening breeze drifted into one home after another, bringing a touch of refreshing coolness to those who slept.

Meanwhile, in Villa No. 3 of the Hongyang Villa District...

Cen An'an was sleeping soundly at this moment, though her sleeping posture left much to be desired. Her limbs were sprawled out across the bed, drool trickling from the corner of her mouth as she mumbled in her sleep: "Ah, brother-in-law, you're so handsome... Do you happen to need a little mistress?" She then scratched her belly, rolled over, let out a silly chuckle, and continued on with her sweet dream.

Qin Mengxue's quality of sleep was also quite good this time. Although she had encountered such an incident earlier in the evening, for some reason she was sleeping extremely soundly and peacefully at this moment.

The male master of Villa No. 3, however, Xue Tian'ai, did not feel the slightest bit sleepy. He was currently sitting on the sofa in the living room. The lights in the living room were not turned on; only the glow of his phone screen illuminated the space.

Xue Tian'ai propped his chin on both hands, his expression completely blank, silently watching the hands of the clock on his phone screen tick by. His handsome, refined face reflected the cold, faint light of the display.

Suddenly, the clock screen on his phone changed to an incoming call interface, and the phone itself began to vibrate gently. Xue Tian'ai smiled lightly, stood up, opened the front door, and walked outside.

Beyond the entrance of Villa No. 3, a pure black Lamborghini Gallardo was parked. Seeing Xue Tian'ai come out, Xia Shuxiao rolled down the car window: "Big brother, over here, over here~"

"Not bad, kid, you're doing pretty well for yourself, aren't you? That measly welfare pay from Tianlang—does it even cover this car of yours?" Xue Tian'ai opened the door and plopped himself down into the passenger seat, teasing.

"Car loan, car loan, hehe. Besides, the salary and benefits at Wolf Pack are way better now than they used to be! And I'm also earning a salary as a bureau chief!" Xia Shuxiao explained with a grin.

"Really? You guys got a raise after I left?" Xue Tian'ai looked at Xia Shuxiao with curiosity.

"Really! And it went up by a lot too. So, big brother, any interest in coming back to Wolf Pack for a while?" A trace of longing appeared on Xia Shuxiao's face. "Word has it that the Wolf Pack special training camp has taken in a bunch of pretty girls!"

"No interest. Don't want to go back. And besides, your boy here has plenty of money. Never mind a Lamborghini Gallardo—even a Lamborghini Aventador, I could buy a personally customized edition of my own..." Xue Tian'ai yawned, leaned his head back against the seat, and lazily bragged.

"And as for pretty girls and all that—I'm a married man now. How could I go around fooling around with flowers and grass!"

"Damn, big brother, you've got to be the only one in the world who can brag this hard without so much as a blush or a skipped heartbeat!" Xia Shuxiao floored the Gallardo down the empty streets.

"Your boy here is just telling the plain truth!" Xue Tian'ai rubbed his temples, closed his eyes, and began to rest a little. "And speed it up a bit more. This young master still wants to get home and get a good night's sleep after the interrogation is done!"

"Big brother, when you're riding in someone else's car, could you maybe not make such unreasonable demands?" Even though Xia Shuxiao said that, he still stepped on the gas harder.

About ten more minutes passed, and thanks to Xia Shuxiao's breakneck speed and the Gallardo's excellent performance, the two finally arrived at their destination for the night... the Beiyang City Wolf District Prison!

Wolf District Prison was a prison that China did not publicly acknowledge. Every major city across China had a Wolf District Prison, and the headquarters was located in the capital, Beijing.

Wolf District Prison was the prison directly under the jurisdiction of Wolf Pack, a special organization in China. Its primary purpose was to hold people who absolutely could not be exposed to the light of day—not only ruthless murderers and heinous criminals, but also those in power who had crossed the line... Its secondary purpose was to interrogate criminals captured by Wolf Pack.

And today, the main reason Xue Tian'ai and Xia Shuxiao had come here was to interrogate the robbers who had held up the KFC last night. Normally, if the robbers had merely committed a simple robbery, they wouldn't have qualified to enter Wolf District Prison at all. But! Their target had been Xue Tian'ai's wife, Qin Mengxue. Well then—congratulations to them, they had earned themselves a free experience pass to Wolf District Prison.

The interrogation room of Wolf District Prison was located in the basement level—a place of absolute darkness and bone-chilling cold. Compared to ordinary interrogation rooms, the one at Wolf District Prison undoubtedly delivered a far greater sense of pressure and dread.

Xue Tian'ai and Xia Shuxiao pushed open the door to the interrogation room and walked in. Both of them took their seats at the interrogation table. With a snap of Xia Shuxiao's fingers, the lights in the entire room came on.

Sitting across from Xue Tian'ai and Xia Shuxiao was a burly man. Judging by his face, he appeared to be a half-Chinese, half-foreign mix. He was one of the four robbers from today, though at the moment he was covering his eyes—probably the result of having been in darkness for so long and suddenly having the lights blazed on.

"I protest! This is abuse! You should know my nationality is Spanish, and I demand that you hand me over to my own country!" Though he couldn't clearly see the people sitting across from him, the robber still shouted loudly.

"Dare to commit crimes on Chinese soil, and you'd better be prepared to face justice under Chinese law!" Xia Shuxiao slammed his hand hard against the table, his voice stern and fierce.

"I—" The robber's vision had recovered by then, and he was about to curse, but then he suddenly caught sight of the man sitting across from him—Xue Tian'ai. His eyes widened in terror.

It was this man, with his utterly unreasonable, terrifying skills, who had destroyed their plan. The robber raised a trembling finger at Xue Tian'ai: "Y-you... you... you..."

"You what you?! Stop wasting fucking time. I'm trying to get back home and sleep! I ask, and you answer. Don't waste my time, and you'll save yourself a lot of pain." Xue Tian'ai waved his hand impatiently.

"Who sent you?"

"I—I came on my own... The few of us were short on money, so—"

"Whoosh!"

"Thunk!"

Before the robber could even finish speaking, a golden butterfly dagger flew past his ear and embedded itself deep into the wall of the interrogation room.

"I already told you not to waste my time. I have no interest in playing shadowboxing with you here." Xue Tian'ai idly toyed with a golden butterfly dagger in his hand, speaking flatly. "If you make me listen to one more word of nonsense, the next time I throw this dagger, it won't just be grazing your ear!"

"Devil... you're a devil! That's not how interrogations are supposed to work!" The robber's throat bobbed slightly, and the terror on his face was completely undisguised.

"I've been saying it all along—don't waste my time!" Xue Tian'ai hurled the dagger again, and this time it sank straight into the robber's calf!

"Ahhh!" A heart-rending scream rang out. He had never imagined that Xue Tian'ai would actually dare to use force during an interrogation.

"The next time, I'll aim straight for your head. After all, there are four of you, and as far as I'm concerned, you're not exactly some precious treasure." Xue Tian'ai's voice suddenly turned icy.

"Speak! Who exactly sent you, and why did you go after my wife? Do you understand?"

"Y-yes... I understand..."

"Then spit it out if you've got something to say! What, do you want me to make a move?" Xue Tian'ai stared at the robber with a dead, hollow gaze.

"I'll talk... I'll talk..." The robber said without a shred of backbone. At this moment, he understood that this was no time to be worrying about rules. Sticking to the rules would only get him killed! The four of them had come for the money, but they had never imagined that Qin Mengxue would have someone this powerful by her side!

"It was a man called Mr. Y who contacted the four of us. He said that if we could grab that woman and take her somewhere isolated to finish her off, we'd get ten million US dollars..." The robber was now cursing this Mr. Y with every fiber of his being. If it hadn't been for the wrong information Mr. Y had given them, how could the four of them have ended up in this mess?

Mr. Y? Xue Tian'ai's brow instantly knitted tightly. This bastard again! But last time he had sent the Chain Gang—why this time had he sent a bunch of nobodies? Shouldn't the logic be that he'd send someone even more formidable?

"Alright, I've got it. The interrogation ends here." Xue Tian'ai nodded, stood up, and prepared to leave. It was Mr. Y again—there was no need to waste any more time.

"Big brother, don't you need to ask anything else?" Xia Shuxiao hurriedly looked at Xue Tian'ai.

"No need. This so-called Mr. Y, it's not the first time I've dealt with him. No more questions needed. Besides, I'm tired. I want to go home and cuddle up with my wife for some sleep!" Xue Tian'ai waved his hand.

"Hey... can you spare me? I'll tell you anything you want to know! Just let me go!" The robber shouted urgently at this point.

"Spare you?" Xia Shuxiao and Xue Tian'ai asked in unison. Then the two exchanged a glance and burst into loud laughter.

"Do you think that's possible?"

Watching the smiles at the corners of their mouths, the robber felt they were like the smiles of demons—enough to make one's hair stand on end...

...

At this moment, in the Xue family compound in the capital, a night that should have been one of quiet rest was anything but. The entire compound was in a state of great haste.

Old Master Xue Renhai sat in his study, brows tightly knitted, fingers tapping lightly on the desk, his face filled with anxiety and worry.

Suddenly, a knock came at the study door. Xue Tian'ai's second uncle, Xue Xiwu, walked in from outside. "Father, all the information and data regarding Xiaoaï's takedown of the robbers at KFC tonight has been deleted! The Xue family technical team also used hacking techniques to wipe clean all the residual surveillance footage and the like. Nothing from tonight has spread!"

Hearing Xue Xiwu's report, the old master let out a faint sigh of relief, and the worry in his heart settled. "That's good, that's good. Xiwu, you've worked hard. Go get some sleep."

"Very well, Father. It's getting late—you should rest early too." Xue Xiwu nodded and withdrew from the room.

"Heh!" Old Master Xue Renhai stood up, clasped his hands behind his back, and walked over to the window. He let out a long breath. His gaze flickered briefly to a photograph on his desk, and no one knew what he was thinking...

The photograph was in black and white, blurry and faded, but one could still vaguely make out the radiant smiling faces of four men in the picture.