"Get in!"
Bang. Clatter.
Electronic shackles locked around his joints, and the hood was ripped off. Song Zhong could finally see again.
The moment he opened his eyes, he saw the Agent before him, clad in full-body infantry exoskeleton armor with a cloak draped over it.
Then he saw the people around him, restrained just as tightly as he was.
Rake and the other members of Escape to Freedom were imprisoned with him. There were more people besides them, seemingly all participants in the riot.
Smack!
Song Zhong took a vicious slap across the face.
"The Marshal went to such lengths to bring you here from the United Nations of Earth and gave you such good conditions, yet you betrayed His Excellency!"
The black-robed man spoke in a muffled, electronically synthesized voice.
Song Zhong stared at him in disbelief.
What did he mean by "went to such lengths" and "such good conditions"?
"Still not convinced? You really have a death wish!"
Song Zhong took another vicious slap. This time, he lowered his eyes submissively and did nothing.
"What's with that fake act? One look at you tells me you're up to no good!"
And so he got slapped yet again.
Motherfucker...
"What's with the heavy breathing? You're disturbing me!"
Smack!
Yet another slap.
All the fight went out of Song Zhong. He looked utterly miserable, wanting to cry but unable to shed a tear, with none of the composure he had possessed as a gang boss.
Isn't this just plain bullying... boo-hoo-hoo...
After three hard slaps, Song Zhong finally calmed down and began recalling what had happened earlier.
Once the spaceship had locked down completely, everyone knew the operation had failed.
Rake had snapped the hacker's neck on the spot. Objectively speaking, it hadn't been the hacker's fault, but that