Chapter 1: Are you sick?

  The door of the room was pushed open again.

  Since Tang Chong was locked in this room, he had counted that the door had been opened seven times.

  This is the eighth time. He hopes this will be the last time. He likes this auspicious number.

  Jiang Kai was the first to enter, followed by Li Bo Tao, Jiang Tao, Wen Jing and others. The leaders of the police station also followed, but with Li Bo Tao present, they didn't have a chance to speak or show off.

  Li Botao looked at Tang Chong apologetically and said, "I saw some documents earlier and knew you were innocent. Now that your family is here to vouch for you, you can go back first. However, if there's anything that needs to be asked, please cooperate."

  He gave Jiang Kai a look, indicating that Jiang Kai should quickly unlock the handcuffs.

  Jiang Kai had no choice but to obey.

  Tang Chong moved his wrist that had been cut and was bleeding, looking at Jiang Kai said: "I want to have a talk with Captain Jiang. Can I?"

  Jiang Kai's heart sank, but he asked calmly: "What do you want to talk to me about?"

  "You've seen my student ID, you should know I'm studying psychology." Tang Chong said with a smile.

  "Yes. I know." Jiang Kai said. Seeing this kid's arrogant face, he couldn't help but want to rush up and bite him a few times, tearing off a piece of flesh.

  "Now I'll try to analyze your mind. If there's anything wrong, you must point it out." Tang Zhong said. "When you just brought me in, you tied me up and were ready to use force to extort a confession ---"

  Jiang Kai hastily explained, saying: "That was just intimidation. A necessary means to deal with the criminal elements. I didn't actually lay hands on him."

  "Calm down first." Tang Zhong signaled him to calm down and said, "I don't mean to blame you. I have a friend who is a police officer, and he has told me about this whole procedure. I'm very familiar with it. I know that the first time you came in, you had to take action, that was to give me a warning shot. Because you know what kind of person I am, too stubborn, if you don't subdue me, it's likely to be difficult for you to get anything out of me - it's not easy for police officers either. On this point, I can understand."

  Jiang Kai was speechless. It seemed that this kid hadn't lied; he was clear about all these things in the system.

  "When you came in for the second time, your expression was obviously more excited than before." Tang Zhong continued to analyze and said. "I don't know if it's because you won the lottery or got a promotion ----- if neither of these is true? Is it just because you want to beat me up that makes you so excited?"

  "I didn't," Jiang Kai defended. He carefully thought back to his expression at the time - had he shown excitement? When the director said to "handle it seriously", he had indeed thought that he could give the guy a good beating. But he thought he hadn't shown it.

  Besides, this kid is already a convicted murderer, does he still have the mood to observe other people's emotions?

  "You do. Of course, I don't want to argue with you about this," Tang Zhong said. "Lying is not conducive to psychological analysis. Because what I'm doing here is dissecting your inner world-----I think, you must have a grudge against me, or got some promise, wanting to beat me up badly?"

  "This time you didn't come alone, and you even brought two helpers. Obviously, this time you really want to take action ----- unfortunately, your two subordinates didn't help much."

  "I don't understand what you're talking about." Jiang Kai's heart was racing as he listened, but all he could do was strongly deny it.

  "You don't need to explain hastily. This will make people think you have a guilty conscience." Tang Zhong said. "When I kicked down those two police officers who attempted to use violence, you heard the sound of knocking at the door and then went out for a while. When you came back again, your face looked very strange-----"

  Tang Chong looked at Jiang Kai and said, "Until now, I still can't figure out whether the gaze you used to stare at me back then was sympathy or pity. This time, you chose to use a police baton."

  Tang Chong looked at Jiang Kai with a thoughtful expression and said, "Your expression is very determined, as if you have a task to complete. When you hit me with your police baton, it was very decisive, and you kept aiming for my chest and knee cap - hitting my chest I can understand, do you also want to break my leg?"

  "I don't. This is slander." Jiang Kai felt like he was about to collapse. What kind of student was this? He was clearly a thousand-year-old demon.

  "I knew you wouldn't admit it," Tang Zhong said.

  He pushed open the table and stood up, walked to the corner of the wall and picked up the police baton that Jiang Kai had just thrown down.

  He grasped the baton in his hand and swung it twice, saying to Jiang Kai: "You just used this baton to hit me."

  "That's just a prop. It's not usually used." Jiang Kai said. Even though everyone present knew that this was an unspoken rule in the bureau, but in front of Jiang Tao, he couldn't possibly admit that he had intended to use the police baton to break one of the kid's legs.

  "Is it?" Tang Chong glanced at the police baton in his hand and said, "That's really too wasteful."

  Then he raised his baton and smashed it towards Jiang Kai's head.

  Jiang Kai was shocked and raised his hand to block it.

  Jiang Kai's hand bones were smashed by Tang Chong with a police baton, making a cracking sound.

  Tang Chong didn't stop and once again swung his stick at Jiang Ke's head.

  Jiang Kai blocked again.

  His other arm was also severed by Tang Chao.

  Jiang Kai didn't expect this kid to be so vengeful, and before he even left the interrogation room, he started retaliating. He also didn't expect this kid to be so ruthless, daring to beat someone with a stick in the police station.

  Never thought he was so bold, dare to beat people in front of Jiang Tao and Li Bo Tao.

  What he least expected was that when the kid hit someone, no one stopped him. Li Bo Tao was reporting to Jiang Tao about the work plan for Yu Nuofeng next year, and Jiang Tao listened seriously, asking questions from time to time, looking like they were having a great conversation.

  It has to be said that Jiang Kai's reaction speed is also extremely fast.

  He couldn't resist, nor could he resist. He simply knelt on the ground with his hands covering his head, allowing Tang's police baton to strike his back again and again.

  Tang Chong stopped after hitting him more than a dozen times.

  He crouched down and looked at Jiang Kai, saying: "I told you I have a strong backing, you didn't believe me. Now do you know I wasn't cheating you?"

  "If he could still speak, Jiang Kai would definitely curse: go to your grandfather."

  Drop the handcuffs in your hand, Tang Chong stood up and walked to Jiang Tao Li Bo Tao's face, saying: "Sorry. Let the uncles see the joke. In fact, I also want to maintain a proper demeanor, but I am worried that it will take a long time to see him again and forget him-----"

  Jiang Tao nodded slightly and didn't say much more. He couldn't figure out the guy's background, nor did he know his personality, so it was better to observe for now.

  He said to Li Bo Tao: "The case must be investigated fairly and clearly. I will keep an eye on the progress of the case."

  "Yes, Director." Li Botao replied loudly.

  Jiang Tao didn't even glance at Jiang Kai, who was wailing on the ground, and said: "For the troublemakers in our team, we must resolutely eliminate them. Maintain the purity and combat effectiveness of our team."

  "Yes, Director." Li Botao responded again. He knew that Jiang Kai was going to be sacrificed as a scapegoat.

  Under the "send-off" of many people, Jiang Tao sat in the first Audi car and left first.

  The night is pitch black.

  The platform at the train station was still lit, so that people who came out at night would not lose their way. In the vast wilderness, those dim yellow lights were like the only light in the world.

  Alongside the railway tracks, Tang Zhong and Wen Jing walked forward absent-mindedly.

  Tang Zhong didn't speak, and Wen Jing also didn't speak. All that could be heard was the whooshing of the wind and the crunching sound of shoes stepping on gravel.

  "Is it all right?" Tang Zhong asked.

  "Are you referring to the previous case or the later one?" asked Wen Jing.

  The first case refers to the Tianyi Temple murder case, and the second case is naturally Tang Chong's police station beating police case.

  "We'll have both," said Tang Chong. "Actually, this question is very childish. It's just because I know you can handle it that I didn't mind venting a bit - I always don't want to let people take advantage of me."

  Wen Jing really wanted to say 'then why didn't you come back'. But as the words reached her lips, she ultimately couldn't bring herself to ask.

  Even she said she would cater to his will, why bother forcing him?

  "Do you know?" Tang Chong said with a smile. "I used to hate power very much. Because I think absolute power can lead to absolute corruption. All the injustices in this world are caused by the unfair distribution of power."

  "What now?" Wen Jing asked. She didn't understand why Tang Chong suddenly said this to her.

  "Now I hate it even more." Tang Chong said with a smile. "Before, it was just a theoretical feeling, now it's a physical experience that proves how right that sentence is."

  "Did I come in vain?"

  "No, you're right." Tong Chong said. "I always thought I was a very proud person. But today's events still made me make a choice that lacked backbone and asked for help. I don't want to die. And I also want to live well. So, I need power to save myself."

  "It's self-contradictory," said Wen Jing.

  "Not at all contradictory," Tang Zhong said. "If the whole world were to follow rules and regulations, with good deeds being rewarded and evil deeds punished, then power would be of no importance to me. However, when I believe that good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will be punished, and when I believe that the law is fair and just, yet there are still people who use all sorts of dirty tricks to attack me and deal with me - this makes me extremely sad, but even more so, it fills me with anger."

  "I need power," T'ang Chao said. "Because only power can counteract power."