There Must Be a Way

There Must Be a Way

Leaving the Regional Security Department alone, he transferred through several portals until he reached a parking lot, where he boarded a vehicle that had been waiting for him and drove off.

Half an hour later.

The car entered an upscale residential complex.

Stopping at the base of a high-rise, the figure stepped out, went upstairs, and knocked on the door.

The door was opened by a girl whose skin seemed to radiate a faint glow.

Upon seeing the visitor, the girl excitedly ushered him inside.

In the living room, a middle-aged man sitting on the sofa had already brewed tea; he handed a cup to the visitor and asked, "Hard work, Xiao Liu. How is the situation?"

Xiao Liu respectfully took the teacup with both hands, his expression grim as he replied, "It's a bit tricky, President Cheng. Someone over there is applying pressure. With our influence, we can't get him out."

The middle-aged man addressed as President Cheng glanced at the girl, who was bringing over a plate of fruit, and asked with a puzzled tone, "Someone is applying pressure over such a trivial matter? Is this a movie? What kind of person would go to such lengths to target a student from the academy?"

"Dad!" the girl pouted in dissatisfaction. "Senior is so amazing, there must be plenty of bad people who want to deal with him!"

"No matter how amazing he is, he's still just a student." President Cheng took a sip of tea, unfazed.

The girl shoved an orange slice into his mouth to stop him from continuing to badmouth "Senior."

"Xiao Yi, you seem to be speaking up for him quite often lately," President Cheng chuckled while chewing the orange. "Even if he did you a favor, there's no need to offer yourself up in this day and age, right? Have you taken a fancy to him?"

"I have." The girl nodded decisively. "I really like him. I think he's very mysterious and special!"

President Cheng was slightly stunned.

Then he saw the girl's expression shift, becoming somewhat sorrowful. "But he doesn't seem to like me back. No, that's not it either. It's like... he doesn't feel that kind of romantic attraction toward me. He seems to treat me only as family, like a little sister he feels protective of?"

At this point, the girl's eyes suddenly lit up. She looked up and asked President Cheng, "Dad! Do you have an illegitimate child behind Mom's back? Could he be my brother??"

"???" President Cheng nearly spat out a mouthful of tea and orange juice. He hurriedly placed the cup on the coffee table, laughing and scolding, "What kind of nonsense are you spouting!"

Watching the father and daughter chat as if no one else were there.

Xiao Liu, holding his teacup, hesitated for a moment before he couldn't help but interject, "President Cheng, the party applying the pressure is... Tiansheng!"

President Cheng turned back to look at him. "Which Tiansheng?"

"Tiansheng Group!" Xiao Liu said. "The one in the top three."

"Are you sure?" President Cheng's expression grew serious without him realizing it.

Xiao Liu nodded. "The other party barely made an attempt to hide it."

President Cheng furrowed his brows, his thumb tapping his chin as he pondered. "Tiansheng is actually going after a student so openly and with such fanfare? Could it be that the person who died was the son of the Tiansheng boss? No, if that were the case, the ones coming to make the arrest would be Tower Climbers, not security guards."

The girl cheered from the sidelines, "See? I told you Senior was amazing!"

President Cheng looked at her with a wry smile. "You silly girl, you're still proud? Your Senior is likely in big trouble!"

The girl asked him curiously, "Then do we have a way to help?"

President Cheng thought for a moment and sighed. "Our family only runs a minor company. If it were an ordinary murder case, we could spend some effort and money to get him out. But if the other party is Tiansheng Group... if we insist on bailing him out, we'll be crushed."

"Alright then." The girl popped an orange slice into her mouth, her cheeks bulging as she said, "We did our best. We'll leave the rest for Senior to figure out himself!"

President Cheng looked at her, bewildered. "The way you say that, it sounds like you aren't worried at all?"

"I told you, Senior is amazing." The girl's eyes were filled with confidence. "I believe he will definitely find a way!"

"Clang."

The heavy iron door slammed shut.

The guards moved Wang Wen from the interrogation room to a detention cell.

The charges were "suspicion of murder and attempted assault on a security guard."

"Hey, hey, come back and let's discuss this again! That last part is truly a false accusation!" Wang Wen reached out helplessly through the iron bars, waving his hands. "I'm a light sleeper and I'm always grumpy in the morning; it was purely a misunderstanding! If all else fails, you can just say I was sleepwalking!"

No one looked back.

The others were tired and ready to go home to sleep.

The lead guard, however, was genuinely frightened; subconsciously, he didn't dare to get too close to Wang Wen.

His current situation was awkward.

Orders from above were pressing down, making it impossible to release the prisoner easily.

Yet, he didn't dare to actually interrogate him.

It left him with no choice but to lock the man up for now and see if keeping him up all night would break his resolve.

This was essentially a "dead horse as a living horse doctor" approach.

Simply locking someone up for a night posed almost no pressure to someone with high adaptability. If Wang Wen didn't break by the next day, then it would be the guard who broke instead.

He had arrested the man for a whole day and hadn't managed to get a single word out of him. If his superiors found out, he wouldn't be able to escape the label of incompetence.

In fact.

Wang Wen was stronger than most people with high adaptability.

The next day, the sun was high in the sky.

The lead guard, his eyes bloodshot, approached the detention cell with his heart in his throat.

Instead, he saw Wang Wen, lively and full of vigor, shouting about his innocence.

The lead guard's heart felt like it was shattering.

He took off his hat, rubbed his messy hair, and stared with heavy dark circles, his face full of misery.

Anyone who didn't know better would think he was the one who had been locked up all night.

Seeing his haggard appearance, Wang Wen said with some sympathy, "Actually, you don't have to go through all this trouble. What do your superiors want? Tell me, maybe I can agree to it?"

The lead guard looked at him with dark circles under his eyes, "They want to know how exactly you managed to take on fifteen people at once."

"See, you should have just said so!" Wang Wen wore an 'as I expected' expression and said, "The secret to taking on fifteen people is simple: it's the rare item [Earth-Shaking Talisman] from the 200th floor of the World Tower. Those weakling thugs? Forget fifteen, I could take down another fifteen just the same."

The lead guard's expression changed abruptly, "You're a climber of the 200th floor??"

"No," Wang Wen shook his head, "I've never entered the tower, but my parents were. Before they met their end in the World Tower, they left me some items for self-defense."

"A climber..."

The lead guard slumped like a deflated balloon.

His shoulders sagged, and he repeated with a bitter smile, "Ha, a climber."

Suddenly.

He jerked his head up, eyes bloodshot, and roared at Wang Wen inside the iron gate, "So what if you're a climber! Even the Son of Heaven is subject to the same laws as the commoners! A climber must pay with their life for murder!"

"No," Wang Wen still shook his head, "You aren't the one who gets to decide matters regarding climbers."

"What did you say?!" The lead guard slammed his hands against the iron gate with a bang, his anger surging.

"Alright, alright, how about this: I know there is another batch of [Earth-Shaking Talisman] on the 200th floor, about 50 of them." Wang Wen waved his hand, "Bring me paper and a pen. I'll write down the intelligence for you to hand in. Such big news should be enough for you to hold your head high, right?"

"What??" The lead guard rolled his eyes in a daze, "Fifty items from the 200th floor of the World Tower?? Your parents left you such valuable intelligence??"

Wang Wen waved his hand dismissively, reminiscing, "Yeah, I'm their only son. If they didn't leave it to me, who else would they leave it to?"