The car was now driving through an alley behind a bustling stretch of Qinggang City.
Looking out the window, Han Su saw the back alley of a bar, crowded with trash cans and crates upon crates of liquor bottles.
Amid the garbage, someone was pinning two figures down.
They were too far away to hear, but he could see the two kneeling figures begging incessantly. The people surrounding them showed no mercy.
One man grabbed their legs and hauled them up, then raised a metal baseball bat high over his head.
When the bat came down, one man's leg had already bent into an inverted V. He writhed and screamed in pain, but the people beside him just grinned and yanked up his other leg.
Their miserable screams echoed through the alley.
It was obvious even from a distance that both men's legs were ruined. Whoever had done it was highly skilled. The placement of the blows and the force behind them were both calculated to ensure the legs could never be healed.
Han Su understood why Assistant Xu had brought him here. He recognized the two men, too.
Back when he was at the Public Security Bureau, two men had been tempted by a bounty on the Black Table and tried to detain him. They had even tortured him.
After he joined the Disaster Management Bureau, he hadn't had a chance to see them again. He hadn't expected to run into them like this...
"Are the Xu Family really that capable?"
After watching both men's legs get methodically smashed, he smiled at Assistant Xu. "They were with the Public Security Bureau, after all."
"Mr. Han, you misunderstand."
Assistant Xu smiled. "The Xu Family would never break the law, let alone provoke people from the Public Security Bureau..."
"That's why