Chapter 537: Interrogation, Evidence

Yu Xiao’s dorm wasn’t far from the south gate. Within minutes, the school’s entrance sign came into view.

Tens of thousands of yuan were about to be in his grasp, and Knife couldn’t suppress his excitement.

“My sister can be stubborn, but she’s a gentle person. She insisted that I come talk to you in person to clear the air. It’s the only way she’ll feel at ease,” Knife kept saying, trying to get Yu Xiao to lower his guard.

‘If the police hadn’t come to me today,’ Yu Xiao thought, ‘I probably would have fallen for it. Even if I’d refused at first, this guy’s persistence would have eventually worn me down.’

‘He might have even used force to drag me out of the school if I kept refusing!’

‘My cousin is really something else. These two undercover cops don’t look like regular patrolmen. Wu Yun must have pulled some strings and given them a heads-up, otherwise they wouldn’t have taken this so seriously.’

At the same time, anger began to swell within Yu Xiao. He preferred to keep a low profile, but Li Qing had come after him time and time again. He couldn’t just let this slide.

‘First, I’ll see what these guys have planned.’

Soon, they were outside the school gate.

Knife pointed to a van parked across the street. “My sister’s in the car. Let’s go.”

As he spoke, he glanced at Xiaoliu and Brother Jun.

Xiaoliu, quick on the uptake, said, “Yu Xiao, we’ll wait for you out here.”

Yu Xiao nodded. “Alright! Let’s cross the road.”

Knife’s stomach clenched with excitement. The plan was simple: once Yu Xiao was in the van, someone would put a knife to his throat. They’d drive him to the outskirts of town. If he cooperated, they’d just break one of his legs. If he didn’t… heh heh… they’d break all three.

The four of them crossed at the crosswalk.

Yu Xiao asked, feigning ignorance, “Who’s your sister? Have I met her before?”

Knife grinned. “You’ll see when you get in the car. You two have definitely met.”

Xiaoliu and Brother Jun stopped on the sidewalk a few meters away, watching as Yu Xiao followed Knife to the van. Just as Knife reached for the door handle…

The screech of tires tore through the air as two black sedans boxed the van in from the front and back.

At the same time, several plainclothes officers holding pistols emerged from the roadside.

The moment the cars moved in, Xiaoliu and Brother Jun charged forward.

“Freeze! Police!” Knife was completely stunned. He had never seen so many plainclothes officers brandishing pistols.

Anyone watching would have thought they were busting a major drug trafficker.

The van’s doors were yanked open. The driver, a man with a buzz cut, was scared stiff, his hands trembling uncontrollably as he gripped the steering wheel.

“Hands off the wheel! Get out with your hands behind your head!”

After the pistol-wielding officer roared at him several times, the man with the buzz cut finally snapped out of it and shakily placed his hands behind his head.

An officer pulled his door open, and he meekly got out and squatted on the roadside, hands still locked behind his head.

Only when he was out did he see the arrogant fat man from the van also squatting on the curb, drenched in a cold sweat. An officer was yanking his arms behind his back to slap on a pair of handcuffs.

No one dared to resist. Staring down the dark muzzles of the guns, all five of them, Knife included, meekly followed the officers’ commands.

A crowd of onlookers had already gathered.

Just then, an officer searching the van pulled out four large machetes, a steel pipe, a coil of white rope, and a roll of clear tape.

A search of Knife himself produced a folding knife and a switchblade.

At that moment, Captain Jiang walked up to the stunned Yu Xiao and said with a smile, “Yu Xiao, I’m sorry. That must have been a shock.”

Yu Xiao snapped back to reality. He looked at the machetes and other items laid out on the ground, his anger flaring. ‘All of that was meant for me!’

If Wu Yun hadn’t called in backup, he would have walked right into Li Qing’s trap.

Yu Xiao quickly calmed himself and said, “Thank you, officers. You saved my life.”

Captain Jiang nodded. “I’ll need you to come down to the station to give a statement. We’ll be interrogating each of these men. No one who breaks the law is getting away with it.”

“Oh, right! Yu Xiao, do you need to notify your family?”

Yu Xiao thought for a moment, sent Zhai Na a text, and then called Wu Yun.

After a few rings, Wu Yun answered.

“Cousin! Did they get them?” Wu Yun’s voice came through the phone, accompanied by the muffled audio of a conference.

Yu Xiao’s anger finally surfaced. “They got them! Right at the school gate! I can’t believe they were this brazen!”

“Are you alright?” Wu Yun asked.

Yu Xiao managed a laugh. “I’m fine, thanks to all the officers who showed up today. I’ll have to thank them properly.”

“Alright. I’ll have Zhang Guowei head over to meet you. I’m in a meeting right now that probably won’t be over until lunch,” Wu Yun said, his voice calm.

Yu Xiao glanced at the five men being loaded into the back of a police van. “Okay. You focus on your work. It’s nothing major over here. Just having Director Zhang come is fine.”

After hanging up, Yu Xiao wasn’t the least bit intimidated by the older captain. Instead, he smiled. “Officer, may I ask your name? Your gear doesn’t look like what regular patrolmen carry.”

Captain Jiang holstered his pistol and glanced at the police van, its doors now shut. “My surname is Jiang. I’m the captain of the District Public Security Bureau’s Public Order Division.”

Seeing that Yu Xiao wasn’t frightened by the incident and was instead speaking to him with composure, Captain Jiang recalled his superior’s instructions for the day. He continued, “We had specific orders from above to crack down on these criminal elements and to ensure your safety. Let’s get in the car. We can talk more back at the station.”