"Hands on your heads! Squat down! Stay put, all of you!"
A group of security officers rushed over, armed with new-tech weapons. The faint but formidable aura around them left everyone present without the slightest thought of resisting.
"What are you looking at? I'm talking to you!"
Seeing Hao Jian's defiant expression, one security officer widened his eyes. Afraid that Hao Jian's stubborn temper would flare up and cause an argument, Xu Kun hurriedly stepped in front of him.
"Hello, Officer. I'm a student!"
"Who cares if you're—hmm..." The security officer was about to scold him when he noticed the graduation honor badge pinned to Xu Kun's chest.
He looked at Hao Jian and Zhan Rourou again and saw that they had the same badge.
His tone immediately softened. "Are you high school students who just graduated this year?"
Xu Kun nodded.
Noticing the situation, the security officer leading the team walked over. "Since you're all students, why were you fighting in the street right after graduating? Don't you know how serious this is?"
Xu Kun immediately put on a helpless expression. "Officer, we really weren't looking for trouble. Someone wanted to hurt us and hired some street thugs to block our way. They said they were going to cripple us and even film it to post online so we wouldn't dare leave our homes again..."
The captain frowned at that. By then, his subordinates had already restrained all nine people, including Qiu Hu and Wang Teng. Taking a closer look, he realized one of them was an old acquaintance.
"Captain, it's that hooligan Qiu Hu causing trouble again!"
"Qiu Hu? The one who fought with you was Qiu Hu from around here?" the captain asked Xu Kun.
Xu Kun immediately straightened up. "It wasn't a fight. We were acting