Master Jiu had just woken up and found himself lying in a hospital, but it terrified him instead.
Because directly in front of him, rows of cold storage cabinets were clearly arranged.
"This... this is the morgue?"
"Are the people from the Ten Thousand Dragons Society planning to give me the full package service, sending me off directly?"
"How utterly ruthless!"
After realizing the situation, Master Jiu shuddered, abruptly sat up, and scrambled towards the door, shouting, "Help!"
"Help! Let me out! I'm alive! I'm not dead!"
"........"
Just as he was on the verge of breaking down, the iron door suddenly creaked open from the outside.
Several men wearing the Ten Thousand Dragons Society's signature black suits stood at the doorway.
The leader was a fat man, and behind him followed an exceptionally tall giant. Master Jiu recognized both of them; his first setback, even having his head shaved bald, was thanks to them.
"Master Jiu, awake? I thought you were reluctant to wake up. If you really hadn't woken up, there'd be a spot here just for you."
Master Jiu: "You wouldn't dare! In broad daylight, if you really kill me, you will definitely........"
Ma Da: "Oh ho, threatening me?"
"Brother Ma hasn't exercised in a long time. Grab him, put the vest on him!"
As soon as the words fell, the nearby men in black swiftly moved into action.
Two men in black pinned Master Jiu down from left and right, while another took out a specially made chest protector from the Ten Thousand Dragons Society and put it on him.
"Ah... Ma Da... You dare! Your Ten Thousand Dragons Society is lawless, you'll get your retribution sooner or later...."
"Ah-da!"
"You really dare... Ma Da, do you believe I..."
"Ah-da!"
"Stop! All of you stop! I know Chief Wang..."
"Ah-da!"
"I have connections with Richest Man Huang. If you beat me, he won't let you off..."
"Ah-da!"
A few minutes later, Master Jiu suddenly felt something was off.
"Huh... why can I still withstand it?"
He clearly felt Ma Da was using a lot of force, and he did feel pain, but the pain was within bearable limits.
Ma Da threw several dozen punches in a row, sweat dripping down, and seeing that Master Jiu not only didn't beg for mercy but instead seemed to be getting more spirited, he instantly felt insulted.
"Which factory made this vest? The quality is terrible! Refund! Must get a refund!"
The Ten Thousand Dragons Society members looked at each other, their eyes involuntarily drifting towards Ma Da's round belly, thinking, "Could it be that Brother Ma's strength isn't enough?"
Of course, they didn't dare say this to his face, only promising to have a factory specially customize a vest that would let Brother Ma feel the joy too.
Master Jiu almost couldn't hold back, nearly laughing out loud.
He figured it out; it wasn't the vest's problem, it was that this fat guy was too weak.
Ma Da saw Master Jiu actually dared to laugh at him and was thoroughly enraged. He directly said to the giant behind him, "Ji Yu, you do it."
Ji Yu immediately walked up to Master Jiu and raised a fist.
Master Jiu looked at Ji Yu's fist, which was bigger than his own head, and the smile on his face froze instantly, cold sweat breaking out immediately.
"No, no, no, it'll kill a man!"
"Big brother! It really will kill a man!"
"I was wrong! I was wrong!"
"I'll tell everything, I really will tell everything......"
"Ah!"
"........."
To save his own skin, Master Jiu practically poured his heart out, confessing all his shady dealings.
Because just now, Ji Yu had used only ten percent of his strength and sent him flying several meters, slamming heavily into a cold storage cabinet. He happened to see an open cabinet next to him and almost vomited, his psychological defenses instantly collapsing.
Ma Da listened while signaling the nearby man in black responsible for recording to hurry up and take notes.
Half an hour later.
"Anything else?"
"Probably not, right?"
"Think carefully. If you can't think properly, you'll sleep here tonight. This place is never short of beds anyway."
"No! Please no!"
Master Jiu didn't want to stay there for one more second. The corpse he saw just now could only be described as mutilated; it was too terrifying.
Then he racked his brains to think of any bad deeds he had done, and actually remembered one.
"Yes... there's one more. About nine or ten years ago, someone from Pearl City came over. He seemed to have killed someone, paid a lot of money to use my old sea route back then, and was sent out overnight... to... to the Western Continent."
"What did you say?!"
Suddenly!
A woman with her arm bandaged rushed in through the door. It was Gao Min.
"What was that person's name? What did he look like?!"
Master Jiu was startled by Gao Min's reaction but honestly said, "That... that man seemed to have a scar on his face, looked quite fierce. He paid a lot of money, demanded to leave immediately, so I arranged for him to board a fishing boat to international waters and then transfer to another ship..."
"Specific time, location, who was the contact person back then? Speak quickly!" Gao Min asked agitatedly, "Speak quickly!!!"
Ma Da saw her losing control and quickly stepped forward to hold her back: "Officer Gao, calm down. Ask questions slowly, can't rush."
After saying that, he backhanded punched Master Jiu: "Ah-da!"
"Hurry up and speak! Dragging your feet, tell Officer Gao who it was! Speak quickly!"
"Still not talking?! Ji Yu, teach him a lesson!"
Master Jiu: "???"
What the... it's been so many years, at least let me think about it?
"Hey hey... I'm thinking, I'm thinking... Ah! You beasts!!!"
"........"
...........
In the VIP hospital room.
Liu Yutong walked in slowly, holding a cup of warm milk.
Gao Min was sitting on a chair by the window, gazing at the nightscape of Danan City, her eyes somewhat vacant.
"Sister, have some milk, warm yourself up."
Liu Yutong placed the milk on the table in front of Gao Min, then pulled over a chair for herself and sat beside Gao Min.
Gao Min turned to look at her: "Yutong, am I very useless?"
Liu Yutong held Gao Min's hand: "Sis, you mustn't say that. Sooner or later, you will personally arrest that murderer."
After settling Ya Ya, she had come straight to the hospital and learned an unexpected piece of news from Ma Da: Master Jiu might know clues about Gao Min's father.
It's just that the result wasn't too good; he had fled overseas. Finding someone overseas isn't easy.
She even felt somewhat speechless; why do all the enemies seem to have fled overseas? Is the foreign moon that much rounder? Including the two main culprits who nearly killed her sister, they also escaped abroad.
Little did she know, from those people's perspective, at least you can see the moon abroad; staying here you'd only see darkness...
It seems going abroad is inevitable sooner or later.
Gao Min: "But it's been almost ten years now. It's a vast world of people, not to mention it's overseas. If that person is in a country without an extradition treaty, I won't even be able to arrest him..."
Liu Yutong comforted her, "Don't worry, sis. As long as he's still alive, as long as he's somewhere on this planet, we will definitely track him down!"
Gao Min looked at this sister, a few years younger than herself yet already a formidable figure in her own right, with a surge of complex emotions.
She knew Liu Yutong rarely made empty promises; what her sister set her mind to, she seemed to accomplish without fail.
Though she felt a twinge of shame—needing help from her younger sister to catch a criminal—her heart was deeply moved nonetheless.
"Yutong, thank you."
"If it weren't for you, I might never have caught my father's killer."
"No need for such words between us."
Liu Yutong said, "You're my sister. Your business is my business. I'll expedite the process; it won't be long before the Wanlong Society sets sail!"
Outside the window, the rain had gradually ceased without them noticing.
A faint light began to seep through the eastern horizon, signaling that this long night was finally nearing its end.
Gao Min gave a soft murmur of agreement and rested her head on Liu Yutong's shoulder, feeling a long-lost sense of peace and warmth.
Perhaps apprehending the culprit would still take some time, but at least she was no longer facing it alone.
She also held firm to the belief that the truth would eventually come to light.
Because she had a sister with seemingly limitless reach...
