flstandardbreds Chapter 238 Pressing Closer
Chapter 238 Pressing Closer
Chapter 238 Pressing Closer
Stepping into the deep, dark underground cell once again, Ye Shaohong couldn't help but take a long breath as he smelled the damp, slightly fishy odor.
This is where his story of being reborn in another world began.
Ye Shaohong originally thought that after getting out of his predicament, he would not want to come here again.
But fate is cruel.
Since he joined the secret service, in the few months since, he has been in and out of the underground prison more than a dozen times.
The frequency isn't too high, but it's not insignificant either.
The consolation is that he mostly gained something from these trips into the underground prison. The captain's rank on Ye Shaohong's shoulder is the clearest proof of that.
Even Ye Shaohong himself can no longer clearly understand how he feels about this underground prison.
Following behind Zheng Yaoxian, they walked forward and soon arrived at the door of the interrogation room.
As he pushed open the steel-cast door, the familiar, piercing wail immediately reached Ye Shaohong's ears.
He looked in the direction of the sound and Wu Pei's figure instantly came into view.
Wu Pei also saw Zheng Yaoxian and Ye Shaohong.
"It's you!"
"Zheng Yaoxian, I have no grudge against you, why did you try to harm me?"
It must be said that Wu Pei is quite capable to have risen to the rank of deputy section chief in the Special Service Department.
Putting everything else aside, his strong character alone far surpasses that of ordinary people.
“Deputy Captain Wu, you’re mistaken. I’m just doing my job impartially; I have no intention of harming you.”
Zheng Yaoxian smiled and walked directly behind the interrogation table. After sitting down, he looked at Wu Pei with great interest.
"Acting impartially?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? I, Wu Pei, have done nothing wrong and have no right to arrest me."
"Zheng Yaoxian, give me a reason."
Amidst the roars, Wu Pei struggled even more fiercely. Due to the excessive force, his bare upper body was marked with scarlet marks from the ropes.
Zheng Yaoxian ignored him and turned to look at Ye Shaohong.
"Zheng Ke, why are you looking at me like that?" Ye Shaohong asked, somewhat confused and puzzled.
"Cut the nonsense."
"Don't you have evidence of his crimes? Show it to me."
"You want me to deal with this guy personally?"
Well, it turns out that Zheng Yaoxian never intended to interrogate Wu Pei himself from the very beginning. What he said in Xu Baichuan's office was not a lie to Ye Shaohong at all.
He was definitely there to watch the spectacle.
"I thought I'd get to see Zheng Ke's interrogation skills again today."
"So it turns out I'm the one doing all the hard labor!"
Ye Shaohong pursed his lips, walked to the interrogation table, and rummaged through the items taken from Wu Pei. He quickly found his target: a wallet.
Picking up the genuine leather wallet, Ye Shaohong walked straight to Wu Pei.
"Vice Captain Wu, is this your wallet?"
Wu Pei's expression stiffened. Looking at the familiar face before him, his eyes twitched slightly, but he still gritted his teeth and responded.
"Yes, it's my wallet."
"What, you're not planning to use this to accuse me, are you?"
"I advise you not to be delusional. I do have some money in this wallet, but it's all money I earned honestly."
Wu Pei's stubbornness was exactly what Ye Shaohong had expected; to put it bluntly, he was putting up a desperate resistance.
In other words, he was certain that there was no evidence in his wallet. That's why he dared to deny everything to Ye Shaohong.
"Just admit it."
"Then let me ask you another silly question: since this wallet was found on you, has anyone else touched it?"
Although Ye Shaohong was asking Wu Pei these questions, his eyes were actually fixed on Zhuang Yifan, who was in charge of the interrogation.
After all, the secret service personnel had too many bad habits.
Ye Shaohong couldn't guarantee that his subordinates hadn't secretly stolen money from the wallet before he arrived.
"Team leader, I can assure you that we haven't touched any of these items."
Faced with Ye Shaohong's questioning gaze, Zhuang Yifan's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly opened his mouth to explain.
Meanwhile, Wu Pei, who was on the rack, immediately narrowed his eyes. This time, he was smarter and didn't directly answer Ye Shaohong's question. Instead, he frowned and looked at his wallet.
Doubt, confusion, and a host of other complex emotions surfaced on his face at the same time.
"not talking anymore?"
"If you don't deny it, then you're admitting it."
"It's good that no one has touched your wallet. Someone, bring me a bottle of iodine."
Ye Shaohong chuckled softly. In front of Wu Pei, he opened his wallet and called out.
Iodine solution isn't anything precious. In the underground prison where prisoners are interrogated year-round, some simple medical supplies are always kept in the interrogation room because some prisoners cannot be killed before they confess.
Upon hearing Ye Shaohong's words, Zhuang Yifan immediately dropped the whip in his hand, walked to the table beside him, and took a bottle of iodine, handing it to Ye Shaohong. The moment Ye Shaohong mentioned iodine, Zheng Yaoxian, sitting in the interrogation chair, immediately narrowed his eyes.
Then he laughed.
Where is Wu Pei?
His expression changed instantly. As a fellow intelligence agent, he knew very well the role of iodine in intelligence transmission.
He immediately opened his eyes wide, and his breathing became much more rapid.
Wu Pei's lips parted slightly, as if he were muttering to himself.
Although Ye Shaohong saw this, he ignored it and instead opened his wallet, taking out a dozen US dollars and a stack of Chinese currency.
He counted them briefly and immediately exclaimed in admiration.
"One hundred and twenty US dollars, or more than two thousand three hundred yuan."
“Deputy Captain Wu, you must be rich.” “The valuables you carry with you are worth more than the savings of dozens of families.”
Wu Pei's expression changed again. He opened his mouth, but in the end, he didn't offer any explanation.
Ye Shaohong didn't expect him to offer an explanation.
After saying a few words, he turned around and placed all the coins on the table. Then he took out a cotton swab, dipped it in iodine, and began to examine the coins one by one.
Soon, a line of faint print appeared on the dozen or so US dollar bills.
Besides these US dollars, there were also more than a dozen large-denomination Chinese banknotes with the same font.
"For use by the Party Affairs Investigation Department in intelligence trading!"
Looking at the words written on these banknotes, Ye Shaohong smiled, and then, in front of everyone, he read out the words written on the banknotes word by word.
Upon hearing Ye Shaohong's words, Wu Pei, who was bound to the rack, turned deathly pale.
"Pan Siyi, you bitch, you tricked me!!"