Pressure

Fang Xiaoxiao drew a deep breath. "But Li Mingyuan is a level forty-nine quasi-Grandmaster. If he personally comes to demand someone and we stubbornly refuse to release him, he'll definitely..."

"I know." Xu Wuyi cut her off. "But the case isn't closed. We can't release him. It's that simple."

Sun Jing leaned back in his chair, watching Xu Wuyi with a hint of amusement in his eyes. He suddenly smiled. "Captain Meng, I'm rather curious—just where did you come from?"

Xu Wuyi looked at him.

Sun Jing continued, "I know a little about Li Mingyuan. He's operated in Sky Swallow Province for so many years, and he's always been a man whose word is law."

"If he personally comes to ask for someone, forget our Fourth Squad—even the chief of the entire field operations division would have to give him some face. If you dare stand your ground and refuse to release him, then either you don't know the height of heaven or the depth of earth, or you have enough confidence to back it up."

He paused, staring at Xu Wuyi's mask as he said, word by word, "Captain Meng doesn't look like someone who doesn't know the height of heaven or the depth of earth. So it can only be the second possibility."

Zhou Bin and the others also looked at Xu Wuyi, carrying the same question in their eyes.

Just where had this masked captain come from? What gave him the nerve to stand up to Li Mingyuan?

Xu Wuyi fell silent for several seconds, then said, "Where I come from isn't important. What matters is what we do with the case."

He rose and walked to the window, looking at the simulated sky outside. His voice was soft, yet everyone heard him clearly.

"Investigate Wang Haidong's