True - Flip the Table!

"Get out here!"

A group of burly men brandishing guns and knives roared at a tightly shut door riddled with bullet holes.

"Shut up! One more word and I'll blow his brains out!"

Zhou Zhenguo's roar came from inside the room, his momentum even more imposing than those outside.

He had a hostage!

There were five people in the room.

One of them lay on the floor in a pool of blood, not yet dead, still twitching.

It was the man Tang Luo and his group had abducted to lead the way.

Another stranger was being held by the neck by Zhou Zhenguo, who had a revolver pressed against his head.

This person was Dr. Jack White, whom the man had led Tang Luo and the others to find.

This was Jack White's office.

A few minutes ago, just as Zhou Zhenguo and the man had entered the office, the man had suddenly lashed out, turning to snatch the gun.

Zhou Zhenguo had reacted quickly, preventing the man from successfully taking the weapon.

Instead, he had shot him.

However, this had caused quite a commotion.

It resulted in the current standoff, where they were trapped and using a hostage to make the others hesitate.

Taking a hostage—

They were supposed to be righteous detectives investigating Jack the Ripper, yet now they were acting like villains holding a hostage.

Something had definitely gone wrong somewhere.

The office was on the fourth floor, the lowest level, with only one door and a window directly opposite it.

Escaping through the window was quite difficult.

For one, it was too high, and for another, appearing behind the door made one an easy target for bullets.

The bullet holes in the door were a prime example.

The door wasn't thick; even the bullets from the low-powered revolvers here were enough to penetrate it.

Now, Tang Luo and his group were standing beside the door, pressed against the wall in a blind spot where bullets couldn't reach them.

Xiao Chu kept his mouth shut, his chest heaving violently.

Being mentally prepared and actually facing danger were two completely different things.

It was like the difference between watching a war movie and being on the battlefield yourself.

"Mr. Jack, relax, I have some things I'd like to ask you," Tang Luo said to Jack White, who was being choked nearly to the point of suffocation by Zhou Zhenguo.

The "relax" in the middle was directed at Zhou Zhenguo.

It was to let this Jack speak.

"Jack?"

The man's eyes widened. "You motherf***ers have the wrong guy! I'm not Jack!"

"Heh—"

A mocking sound rang out, and the man lying on the floor breathed his last with endless satisfaction.

"Damn it!"

Xiao Chu cursed loudly and punched the wall.

They had been played!

Zhou Zhenguo also let out a curse in his hometown dialect.

Tang Luo remained calm and nodded. "So you aren't him. That's fine. Do you recognize this?"

He took out the letter intended for Hodge and pointed to the signature mark at the end.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm just an ordinary doctor," the man said.

"Heh."

Tang Luo chuckled. "And those outside, are they just ordinary orderlies?"

Orderlies with guns.

"I don't know," the man shook his head desperately.

"Is that so? Then if I push you behind the door, do you think those 'ordinary' orderlies will open fire?" Tang Luo asked with a smile. "I hope you are as ordinary as you claim to be, so you can depart in peace."

"No—"

Before the man could finish his sentence, Tang Luo pushed him behind the door.

No gunshot rang out.

But before the man could reveal a triumphant smile and bolt for the door, a hand seemed to reach out from the void.

It seized the man by the neck, hoisting him up like a chick before slamming him against the wall.

The back of his head struck the wall, and the man saw stars from the pain.

"Whether you are Jack or not, you are still quite important to the people outside," Tang Luo said.

"Ignore that. Charge in directly and kill them!"

Just then, a cold voice rang out from outside.

Someone of higher status than the hostage Tang Luo and the others had seized had arrived, and the moment they appeared, they issued a kill order.

It sounded like a Russian.

The man's expression turned to one of terror.

Zhou Zhenguo looked grim, aiming his revolver at the doorway.

Unfortunately, the revolver only held six rounds; after firing one shot earlier, only five remained.

And outside, there were likely seven or eight men.

"Watch him."

Tang Luo pushed the man toward the heart-pounding Xiao Chu, then his body flickered as he moved behind the heavy office desk.

"Bang!"

At the same time, the room's door was kicked open with brute force.

The entire door panel slammed onto the floor with a loud crash.

A group of men scrambled to rush in, crowding the doorway with their gun barrels swinging wildly.

Without any intention of aiming, they pulled their triggers, careful only not to hit the comrades in front of them.

Their faces were frantic, like those of madmen.

The revolver in Zhou Zhenguo's hand also began to spit fire.

"Screech!"

The harsh sound of a heavy object grinding against the floor rose above the gunfire.

Tang Luo had rotated the heavy horizontal desk by 90 degrees.

It was just enough to fit through the door.

He crouched down, pressed his hands against the bottom of the desk, and heaved!

"Boom!"

A deafening roar erupted.

It was like a massive boulder hitting the ground.

The sound echoed in the cramped space, making everyone's eardrums buzz.

After the thunderous noise, the gunfire ceased.

"Done." Tang Luo clapped his hands twice and walked out of the office.

In the hallway outside the office, the ceiling and walls were stained red with blood.

The thick office desk was more than half shattered, with solid wood fragments scattered everywhere.

The remaining portion was embedded into the wall, with blood continuously oozing from the cracks.

It was a hellish scene, as if a millstone had ground through the area.

A man wearing a white doctor's uniform sat slumped on the floor, his mouth agape.

The look he gave Tang Luo was filled with pure horror.

Just a second ago.

He had seen a massive black blur literally smash through everyone who had been crowding the doorway, intending to rush into the room.

Then, it had embedded itself into the wall.

It was as if a large siege catapult had launched that office desk from inside the room!

What had happened, and how was it done?

Who did it?

Did the three intruders do it together?

When Tang Luo's gaze fell upon him, Jack White, who had been in a state of shock, suddenly snapped back to reality and tried to flee.

Just as he turned and stood up, a piercing pain shot through his left leg, causing him to collapse to the ground as his strength failed him.

Only then did he notice that his left calf had been struck by a piece of splintered wood at some point.

Blood was flowing freely.

"Let go of me!"

The three people in the room heard a sound like a pig being slaughtered.

Then, they saw Master Xuanzang dragging a man in by one leg with a single hand.

A trail of blood was left on the floor, though it was unclear if it belonged to the bespectacled man or the group outside.

Perhaps it was a bit of both?

"Ma... Ma... Master." Xiao Chu stammered, unable to even form a complete sentence.

Zhou Zhenguo remained very calm and asked, "Who is he?"

The person he was asking about was the original owner of this office.

"He is Jack White, he is the one!" the man roared.

His face was filled with the pleasure of revenge.

Less than half a minute ago, he had been abandoned by Jack White.

Now, the tables had turned, and it was his turn to retaliate.

"Mr. White, hello."

Tang Luo stepped on Jack White's injured leg to prevent him from escaping, while simultaneously picking up a revolver from the floor and opening the cylinder.

With the muzzle pointed upward, Tang Luo poured the bullets into his palm.

He loaded one back into the cylinder and tossed the remaining two aside.

He spun the cylinder.

Tang Luo pulled back the hammer, aimed at Jack White's head, and pulled the trigger.

Death Roulette!

"Click!"

"Click!"

"Click!"

Three disjointed sounds rang out.

Three "clicks," and the hammer failed to fire each time.

"Your luck is quite good, Mr. White," Tang Luo said to Jack White. "Now, let's talk."

He had skipped the pointless process of "asking questions first, only for the other party to be uncooperative."

"Ch-ch-ch..."

His teeth chattered, and Jack White's body suddenly went limp on the floor.

A pale yellow liquid spread beneath him.

"What did you say!"

"Say that again!"

A few minutes later, Xiao Chu's questioning voice rang out in the room.

Having experienced the Death Roulette, "Lucky White" was very cooperative, telling them everything he knew without reservation.

This made the exchange between the two sides very harmonious.

However, the results were not satisfactory.

To be precise, the results left Zhou Zhenguo dissatisfied and drove Xiao Chu to the brink of madness.

Jack White was a high-ranking member of the "Organization" and its most important researcher.

The Organization had no special name; it was simply called "the Organization."

It was founded by a group of high-ranking officials and influential figures with far-reaching connections.

Its purpose was to research immortality.

That's right, immortality; regardless of the era, this word held a fatal temptation for those in power.

The Organization used psychiatric patients for human experimentation.

Most of the patients admitted to the hospital over the years had become their test subjects.

Not only that, but they would also secretly abduct people to conduct experiments.

After all, compared to the number of test subjects required, the number of patients was still too small.

Of the missing persons cases over these years, nine out of ten were related to the Organization.

However—

The Organization was not the Jack the Ripper organization that Xiao Chu had speculated about.

They did indeed cut people open, but not out in the open or in dark alleys.

Instead, they performed these disembowelments in a secret laboratory beneath the hospital, conducting experiments on living or dead bodies.

When Jack the Ripper was mentioned, this doctor, who also went by the name Jack, looked utterly disdainful.

He killed for the sake of a magnificent immortality.

He had transcended such base, vulgar interests.

He was worlds apart from a pure lunatic like Jack the Ripper.

"Are you sure you weren't just using those people outside to practice your anatomy skills?" Xiao Chu asked, refusing to give up.

"Ha!"

When it came to his field of expertise, Doctor Jack appeared radiant. "That brute's clumsy methods, and he dares to compare himself to me? His incisions look like nothing more than the bite marks left by a wild beast! A baboon wielding a scalpel could do a better job than him."

"What I dissect, those are works of art!"

His tone and expression were fanatical.

The level of madness in this Doctor Jack was no less than that of Jack the Ripper.

However, he was not the Jack the Ripper that Tang Luo and his group were searching for in their mission.

Xiao Chu stood to the side with a grim expression.

He had analyzed with absolute certainty and argued with total confidence, only to be brutally beaten by reality.

He once had a dream of orchestrating grand strategies and maneuvering pieces across the board.

Now, that dream was shattered.

All that fierce analysis had led to a pathetic, disastrous outcome.

It was indeed a den of tigers and a lair of dragons, and it was certainly dangerous, but it had nothing to do with their mission.

If Master Xuanzang hadn't literally flipped the table, even if they had been lucky enough to survive, their final fate would have been truly tragic.

Zhou Zhenguo also shook his head and sighed.

"Xiao Chu, there is no need to blame yourself."

Tang Luo said, "Although we did not capture Jack the Ripper, we have discovered an evil organization. It is Heaven's will that we completely eradicate such anti-human, anti-social groups. Let your master—let me—bring an end to all of this and restore a bright and clear world to the heavens and earth."

"We shall comfort the spirits of the many victims in heaven!"

Punish evil, promote good, and let merit be bestowed upon the body.