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“True, it’s getting faster and faster.” Zhushi Jiu’s expression remained calm as he faced the black-clothed men’s guns pointed at his forehead, exuding a strong sense of pressure.
The arrival of this armed small team did not come as a surprise to Zhushi Jiu.
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When he decided to confront this evil organization, he had already anticipated this outcome. Using his real phone number to contact them without any disguise, he was prepared to be found and killed. He needed to understand their military deployment to launch a counterattack, making this death necessary.
However, it was too fast. The efficiency of the other side was astonishing.
“Contact your organization behind you and talk to me, or else… die.”
Zhushi Jiu’s tone remained unchanged, treating the gun barrels in front of him as if they were nothing, when facing Xu Feng’s calm and collected words on the phone.
He glanced at the time on his phone. Ten minutes. From the start of the conversation to the current moment, the other side had only taken ten minutes to locate his position and send personnel to break in. Everything had taken only ten minutes.
Zhushi Jiu felt immense psychological pressure, but he still managed to say, “Although the true heart dialogue has ended, can I ask a question? It’s out of curiosity, an unimportant question, considering you’ve already caught me.”
“Now, immediately contact your organization behind you.”
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Xu Feng ignored his request and repeated his previous words, his attitude unyielding and stern, as if all the previous cooperation had been a ruse.
Zhushi Jiu also ignored the other side’s words and said, “Mr. Xu, how much of what you said is true? If you don’t answer, I won’t cooperate.”
Perhaps sensing Zhushi Jiu’s resolute tone, Xu Feng’s cold voice came through.
“I’m not Xu Feng.”
Damn it.
Zhushi Jiu’s face broke into a smile: “Then do you have the surname Xu?”
“I don’t have the surname Xu either.”
Bullshit.
This response was enough. Even the name they mentioned was fake; how much of what they said earlier was true?
Zhushi Jiu cursed inwardly, but he heard the phone’s voice turn even colder.
“Zhushi Jiu, we already know your name, past experiences, interpersonal relationships, family information… everything about you. Do you think your resistance has any meaning? You’re just a pawn being used by your organization, yet you still dare to resist. Your death won’t bring anything.”
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“Wrong,” Zhushi Jiu replied. “My death can bring new life!”
Usually, such words are understood abstractly, but nobody knew if he was telling the truth – that after death, he would be reborn.
However, his words were interpreted as a fearless attitude towards death.
“Zhushi Jiu, do you not care about your family being hurt?”
The other side threatened him with his family’s life.
Zhushi Jiu’s response made him seem like a madman: “Death is a liberation for them.”
Being killed by energy radiation, versus being caught and killed by these people – was there a difference? Oh, yes, there was – the former was more painful. So, despite the pain in his heart, he still maintained a nonchalant facade.
At this moment, all he could do was figure out how many hidden meanings were in their previous conversation.
“You underestimate my enlightenment! If you don’t give me the answers I want, you won’t get any information!”
Zhushi Jiu pretended to become emotionally agitated and exclaimed loudly.
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“I may be a small person in the organization, but don’t treat me like a pawn that can be used at will! I want everyone to know that I’m not a faceless entity that can be manipulated!”
“Good,” the man on the phone said. “You want to know what? We won’t tell you any organizational secrets. If you want to know that, we can end the conversation now.”
“I want to know why you gave up on trying to figure out each other and chose to make a direct attack?”
The man on the phone fell silent, seemingly analyzing Zhushi Jiu’s current mental state and weighing the pros and cons.
Zhushi Jiu was now like a cornered madman, easily provoked and likely to overreact, but at the same time, this emotional state was easily exploitable.
So he chose to reply, “Because my doubts have already been resolved.”
What? Zhushi Jiu’s agitated expression turned to astonishment.
“At the beginning of the true heart dialogue, I tried to take control of the conversation. You asked me what organization I was from. I turned the question around, asking about the source, purpose, creed, and development direction of the organization. I raised questions, seemingly reasonable, but would actually limit your subsequent questions.”
Zhushi Jiu never expected to have fallen into the trap from the very beginning.
“When you followed my bait and answered, I knew you lacked any negotiating skills.”
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“…”
“Thus, I had a question in my mind – why would your organization let someone like you, without any negotiating skills, come to talk to me?”
His voice was as cold as an icy machine.
“Our investigation results also show that you’re just an ordinary university student. If your organization chose you to dialogue with us, there are a few possibilities.
“Firstly, your organization might be using you as a pawn, and the outcome of our conversation is irrelevant. You’re like Wang Ruobai, a disposable pawn.”
“Secondly, your organization might have very few people, so few that they had no one else to use, leading them to use you to negotiate with us.”
“Thirdly, this might be your own decision, and you recklessly came to confront us with only a little understanding of us.”
Zhushi Jiu seemed to see the man on the phone explaining calmly, with an unchanging icy face, making him want to punch the man in anger.
In addition to anger, he felt a chill – the man’s responses were fluent, with occasional pauses, but it was as if he had analyzed each of Zhushi Jiu’s words.
So he was very angry, but Zhushi Jiu still managed to calm down and listen, wanting to know where he had gone wrong this round.
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The man continued, “To confirm which possibility, I investigated your purpose in spreading rumors online, which is essentially a declaration of war against us. If not fully prepared to resist us, it would be a reckless decision.”
“Either way, your answer isn’t important. What’s important is that you almost didn’t think before responding, proving you have the freedom to answer questions freely, even giving a childish answer to such an important question.”
So he confirmed that there was no other conspiracy behind this plan, and the person who had set the trap was just this university student.
The man continued, “When I asked about the scale of your organization, I wasn’t expecting an answer from you. I was just confirming the personnel scale of your action.”
Zhushi Jiu basically understood up to this point: “So, my casual answer made you confirm that I have high autonomy in this operation, which also means I’m the only one involved?”
Throughout the process, his biggest mistake was being too casual, whether it was answering too quickly or being careless in important matters, implying that he had high autonomy in this operation.
In other words, it was a solo action.
The other side had mostly guessed correctly, with logical reasoning, except for one mistake – they thought there was an organization behind him.
He was still alive under the opponent’s gun, probably because they worried that killing him would make them unable to obtain information about the organization behind him.
Zhushi Jiu really didn’t expect the other side to analyze so much from their short conversation.
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Alarms sounded in his heart, and Zhushi Jiu said begrudgingly, “After confirming it’s just me, you won’t use anesthetics?”
“…… Do you want to start a new round of questioning?”
The man on the phone said.
“Let’s play in the interrogation room later.”
At this moment, Zhushi Jiu got the answer he wanted.
He changed his previous regretful tone and instead let out a heartfelt laugh.
“It seems that the rapid anesthetic method isn’t a standard weapon, right? I didn’t expect you to tell the truth in our conversation.”
“…”
“You also revealed a flaw,” Zhushi Jiu said. “You distinguished that this action is just mine, yet you’re still so cautious, sending so many armed personnel. On the other hand, you didn’t use the rapid anesthetic method; is that convenient anesthetic about to run out?”
“I also know that your action isn’t limited to this small team; besides the capture team, there’s another team ready to provide support or respond to emergencies, like the team in front of me.”
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“The greatest gain is knowing you have exceptional analytical abilities, so I’ll have to avoid direct dialogue with you as much as possible.”
He was basically talking to himself.
Everything was clear now.
Zhushi Jiu laughed, facing the guns pointing at him, and calmly took out a fruit knife from his pocket.
The black-clothed men in front of him were on high alert, unsure why Zhushi Jiu, surrounded by so many guns, would dare to resist.
The order was to capture him alive, so they couldn’t open fire.
So, at this moment, they thought, “If Zhushi Jiu charges at us, we’ll take away the fruit knife and knock him out.”
However, Zhushi Jiu sincerely said to the phone, “Thank you for your answers; they were very helpful to me.”
After finishing, he stabbed the fruit knife into his heart, laughing in agony as he spoke his last words.
“I’ll make use of it next time.”
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