What's wrong, Officer

"What's wrong, Officer?"

"It's an order from the Chief. Tiansheng Group is treating us to hotpot."

A simple sentence that laid bare the collusion between the two.

No matter how powerful the Deputy Chief was, his title still carried the word "Deputy."

Hearing that this was a transaction between the Chief and one of the top three large financial groups, the Deputy Chief fell silent.

He cast a strange look at Wang Wen, curious about the background of this student who could actually provoke Tiansheng Group into taking action.

Regardless, this was no longer a matter he could interfere with.

Taking one last look at Wang Wen, the Deputy Chief turned and left with his men.

Wang Wen watched their retreating backs, lost in thought, before being locked into the interrogation room by the lead guard.

From start to finish, the lead guard only asked one question: "Did you kill them?"

Wang Wen replied: "I was merely acting in self-defense."

The lead guard nodded, left behind a "Think it over and tell me when you're ready," and exited the room. He locked the door from the outside with a key and went off to enjoy hotpot with his colleagues.

Wang Wen stared at the locked door.

He blinked, thinking for a moment.

He left his seat and began to stretch his joints.

Lying in the hospital for three days had been a complete waste of time!

The lifelong pursuit of physical training required consistency; one could not afford to skip a single day.

Since it looked like he would have some uninterrupted time, it was the perfect opportunity for recovery training.

He performed high-knee lifts on the spot, testing the hardness of the floor and his shoes while warming up. Once everything was ready, he began his strength training.

Because he hadn't exercised for so long, his body's endurance and explosive power were abysmal; he needed to build them up from scratch.

An hour passed quickly.

When the Deputy Chief opened the interrogation room door with a strange expression and saw Wang Wen drenched in sweat with steam rising from his head, he chuckled: "You really are thick-skinned, aren't you!"

Wang Wen took off his soaked shirt and draped it over the back of the chair, revealing his thin, gaunt upper body as he continued doing push-ups.

"Alright, alright, don't treat this place like your own home." The Deputy Chief placed a box of food on the table and beckoned to Wang Wen: "Come eat. The cafeteria is closed today, so I just threw some leftovers into the hotpot for you to make do."

Wang Wen stood up, wiped his sweat with his shirt, walked to the table, and asked: "Do you have water?"

"Fine, I'll go pour you some." The Deputy Chief muttered as he walked out: "Not only do you get a meal, but you want water too? These academy kids really are all pampered young masters!"

When the Deputy Chief returned and handed the cup to Wang Wen, he watched him drink slowly, sip by sip, and couldn't help but ask out of curiosity: "How exactly did you offend Tiansheng Group?"

Regarding this point.

Wang Wen himself was also quite puzzled.

In his previous life, the second-largest financial group had gone to great lengths to curry favor with him, and in this life, he hadn't even had the chance to make contact yet!

How had they ended up coming after him first?

And why greet him in such an unfriendly manner?

Were those fifteen thugs actually Tiansheng's people?

It didn't add up.

The logic of the whole situation was flawed.

Yu Zhi's importance wasn't nearly enough to warrant Tiansheng's attention.

Even in his memories of the previous life, there was no connection between the two.

Could it be a coincidence?

Was it a coincidence that the person who liked Yu Zhi was related to Tiansheng?

But even so, if Tiansheng wanted to deal with him, they wouldn't need to go through all this trouble!

Wang Wen racked his brain, but he couldn't straighten out the logic of the event.

He felt like something was wrong.

But he couldn't put his finger on exactly what.

Hearing the Deputy Chief's question, he could only shake his head helplessly: "To be honest, I've never had any contact with Tiansheng Group, let alone offended them. Before today, I didn't even know who sent those thugs to cause trouble."

"That is strange, then." The Deputy Chief pointed at the food on the table, puzzled: "Tiansheng is already being this blatant, yet you still don't know where the problem lies?"

"I think it's very strange, too." Wang Wen followed suit and pointed at the food on the table: "If a single hotpot meal is enough to bribe the Security Department and turn my self-defense into murder, can I treat you to ten hotpot meals to have the guards arrest the people from Tiansheng Group?"

"Shh!!!" The Deputy Chief's expression shifted repeatedly before settling into helplessness. He frowned and said: "It's not the hotpot, it's the person who treats the hotpot. If it were you, even if you treated them to a hundred hotpot meals, it would be impossible to get the guards to arrest people for you."

"Knock, knock, knock."

As the knocking sounded, the lead guard who had locked Wang Wen in earlier walked over quickly. With an unhappy expression, he said to the Deputy Chief: "Deputy Jiang, this is the Chief's order. Please don't make things difficult for those of us just running errands."

"Fine, fine, fine. You two talk." The Deputy Chief walked toward the door, looking impatient.

Reaching the door, he turned to the lead guard and said, "Xiao Chen, I also want you to remember one thing: this is the Chief's order, not yours. And I am, at the very least, a Deputy Chief. Do you understand?"

The lead guard's expression shifted; he turned to salute the Deputy Chief and said, "Understood, sir."

Watching the Deputy Chief leave, the lead guard turned back around, looked at Wang Wen with an expressionless face, and asked, "Did you kill him?"

Wang Wen took a sip of water and shook his head. "I was only acting in self-defense. I didn't kill anyone."

The lead guard nodded and waved his hand. The man and woman who had been following him rushed over, snatched the water cup from Wang Wen's hand, and took the food from the table.

"If you can't think clearly, then stay hungry," the lead guard said, leaning down to whisper in Wang Wen's ear. "Stay hungry until you do."

The lead guard loved this feeling of having everything under his control.

Especially being able to torture someone in broad daylight.

He enjoyed it immensely.

Seeing Wang Wen remain silent, the lead guard felt smug. Just as he was about to straighten up, a barely audible voice suddenly pierced his ears: "Watch your safety. It would be very easy for me to kill you like this."

"Say that again!" The lead guard whipped out his baton, pointed it at Wang Wen, and roared.

Wang Wen looked up at him, bewildered. "What's wrong, sir? No matter how many times I say it, it's the same: I was only acting in self-defense. I really didn't kill anyone."

"Boss, calm down." The female guard who had taken the food held the lead guard's arm, gesturing toward the room's surveillance camera.

The lead guard looked at Wang Wen with suspicion.

Wang Wen looked back at him with even more suspicion.

After staring for a while, he shook his head and snorted coldly at Wang Wen, "Think it over carefully!"

The lead guard left with his subordinates.

Watching the door being locked again, Wang Wen smiled slightly, put on his still-dry jacket, dragged his chair to the corner, and closed his eyes to rest.

Hungry?

It wasn't as if he hadn't been hungry in his past life.

If this was all they had, it was far too lacking in challenge.

He sat in the chair, his head leaning against the corner of the wall, and drifted off to sleep before long.

Unless the high-level tower climbers launched a massive offensive, sleeping here had to be safer than anywhere else outside, right?

Wang Wen slept exceptionally soundly.

In the blink of an eye, it was late at night.

The guards on duty outside had already rotated once.

The lead guard had initially thought he was just putting on a tough front and watched him sleep with the intention of enjoying a good show.

But when he realized this guy had been sleeping for hours and was even snoring blissfully by the end, he couldn't take it anymore. He opened the interrogation room door and charged in.

Just as he raised his foot to kick the chair over, he saw Wang Wen, who had been fast asleep a second ago, staring right at him with his eyes wide open.

What kind of eyes were those?

The lead guard felt his entire body stiffen inexplicably, as if he were being watched by the world's most lethal viper, ready to pounce the moment he made the slightest move.

The man and woman who followed him in saw this and shouted at Wang Wen, "What are you doing? Still trying to attack an officer!"

Wang Wen was slightly stunned, then opened his mouth to yawn, stretched, and looked at the people in front of him with a confused expression. "What's wrong, officers? Is it morning already?"