The confinement cells at the Flying Tigers base were not as strict as those in the regular military, much less as dark and sunless as a prison.
Yet wherever they were, rooms like these were all built for personnel who had violated discipline.
Naturally, their interiors and facilities offered nothing that could be called comfort.
Ling Jing had been detained in a confinement cell for several days, and his condition was easy to imagine.
Even so, none of this affected his upright bearing or his regulation salute before his boss.
"Come sit down!"
Zhou Quan looked Ling Jing up and down, then slowly walked over to the sofa, sat down, and patted the spot beside him.
"Tell me about your situation!"
Following his boss's instructions, Ling Jing perched on the sofa, his upper body still perfectly straight.
"Boss, five days ago, I was ordered to lead the sniper team to South New Territories to support the Major Crimes Unit's operation."
Without any hesitation or delay, Ling Jing immediately began reporting what had happened to his boss.
"The targets were a group of bank robbers. Their leader was called Ye Tao, one of the new generation of Big Circle Boys."
"There were three of them in total, and they carried out an armed robbery at BNC Bank."
"Because our brothers in South New Territories responded quickly, the robbers were trapped inside the bank, holding twenty hostages in a standoff with the Police Force."
"Among those twenty hostages, one had a very special identity. He was the only son of BNC Bank's largest shareholder."
"Ye Tao knew this too."
"So he acted with extreme arrogance, not only threatening the Police Force without restraint, but even extorting the bank's major shareholder after robbing the bank."
"Because of this hostage's special identity, the frontline