The Tempting Road to Becoming an Official

The two burly men immediately stopped.

They held Chen Fang up, dragging him from the ground.

At this moment, blood was already trickling from Chen Fang's nostrils and mouth.

Lin Jie stood up triumphantly.

He slowly walked up to Chen Fang.

With a victor's smile on his face, he said, "Chen Fang, weren't you quite the tough guy? Let's see you act tough now? What's wrong? Can't do it anymore?"

"Pah!"

Chen Fang could barely move.

But he still spat a mouthful of bloody saliva.

It landed squarely on Lin Jie's face.

"Boss! Should we keep hitting him?"

A muscular man behind asked Lin Jie, having witnessed the scene.

Though Lin Jie was furious, he waved his hand dismissively.

He lifted the corner of Chen Fang's shirt to wipe his face.

He said, "Alright, alright, our group leader Chen is truly a tough guy, no worries. Just a small test earlier, we'll have more fun next. I'm not leaving until tomorrow, so in the next 14 hours, you'll truly understand the meaning of 'worse than death.'

After finishing his sentence.

He turned his head to look at the tattooed man with the crew cut.

He said, "Dan Tuo, it's your turn."

The tattooed man stood up.

He stretched, joints cracking audibly.

He walked up to Chen Fang, seized his shoulder without a word, and dragged him down the bamboo tower.

Behind the bamboo tower.

A rack was already set up.

Below the rack was a wooden barrel.

The barrel was filled with water.

With a wave of Dan Tuo's hand.

Chen Fang's feet were tied up by two underlings.

A pulley hung on the rack.

The two burly men yanked simultaneously with force.

Chen Fang was turned upside down, as the rope was pulled higher, his head lined up with the water-filled barrel below.

Dan Tuo snapped his fingers.

The rope was released.

Chen Fang's body naturally descended.

His head plunged into the barrel, water flooding his nostrils, mouth, and ears.

Under such conditions, where breathing was already difficult due to being upside down, combined with massive blood rush to the head, he was in a collapsed state.

Needless to say, this method was extremely brutal.

Seeing Chen Fang about to suffocate.

He was hoisted back up.

The feeling was truly unbearable.

Watching Lin Jie.

He sat leisurely on top of the bamboo tower, observing the scene as if watching a spectacular show.

This went on for about half an hour.

By the time Chen Fang was let down, he didn't even have the strength to stand.

Lying on the ground, coughing incessantly.

Lin Jie wasn't satisfied at all.

He shouted below, "Dan Tuo, is that all? It doesn't seem thrilling enough."

Dan Tuo still didn't speak.

Just smiled faintly.

He extended his hand.

A lackey by the fireside handed him a pair of red-hot tongs.

Dan Tuo took the tongs.

He walked up to Chen Fang.

Glancing down at him, he sneered, then pressed the scorching tongs against his back.

The clothes quickly burned a hole.

Soon after.

A wisp of smoke rose up.

Chen Fang, too weak to struggle, screamed in excruciating pain.

"That's good, that's good, again, again..."

Seeing this, Lin Jie jumped around excitedly, a perverse gleam in his eyes.

Dan Tuo reheated the tongs.

He targeted Chen Fang's thigh this time.

After this bout.

Chen Fang fainted from the pain.

Whether it was a relapse of addiction.

Or Lin Jie got tired of playing.

He, losing interest, said, "It's getting dark, lock him up first, we'll resume playing tomorrow morning."

Standing nearby, Lv Feng immediately said upon hearing this, "Jie, since we've caught him, why not finish him off earlier, then we can still make it across the border before nightfall!"

Lin Jie rolled his eyes at him.

He said, "Should I listen to you or myself? I'm not done having fun yet, let him off so easy?"

Lv Feng was speechless.

In his view.

Lin Jie's brain was completely ruined by drugs.

But he didn't know, the reason Lin Jie acted like this, is because he had a twisted play planned, he needed it to finish before he could leave in peace.

Not far from the bamboo tower, there was a wooden hut on the hillside.

With a clang.

The door of the hut was opened.

Then.

The unconscious Chen Fang was carried in by two men and tossed inside.

After a dull thud.

The door of the hut was shut.

In a corner, a figure sprang forward.

Turning over Chen Fang on the ground, they froze at once.

Tears streamed down uncontrollably.

They pulled Chen Fang into a tight embrace, shaking his body and calling out in a lamenting voice, "Chen Fang, Chen Fang, wake up, please wake up..."

Who knows how long they shook him.

Chen Fang slowly opened his eyes,

After a flurry of double vision, he realized it was Fang Kui holding him.

"Are you alright?"

Chen Fang mustered all his strength to ask.

Fang Kui shook her head, choking, saying, "It's my fault, I got you into this, you shouldn't have come, you really shouldn't have come..."

Chen Fang gritted his teeth.

He reached out to wipe her tears, saying, "Alright, seeing you're okay is enough."

With Fang Kui's help.

Chen Fang sat up.

He observed his surroundings.

Only then did he realize that this wooden hut was pieced together with cut logs.

Although there were gaps in the walls, escaping was not going to be easy.

Moreover, through the gaps between the logs, he could see there were quite a few guards around, with them being unarmed and Chen Fang severely injured, escaping with Fang Kui was nearly impossible.

"How did you get caught?"

Chen Fang asked.

Fang Kui sobbed, pausing then said, "I'm sorry, I acted on my own without listening to you..."

Her experience of being tricked was both sad and ridiculous.

When she was working on Li Yu Huan's interrogation.

Fang Kui received a call from an unknown number.

The call was from a woman who told Fang Kui that she knew Lin Jie had fled, but she had information on his whereabouts, she trusted no one, only Fang Kui, asking her to come out to meet her alone, promising to tell her Lin Jie's whereabouts.

The last time, when she came to Zhongqing City with Chen Fang, it had caused quite a bit of trouble.

This time, she decided to make amends.

Since the caller didn't want others to know, she didn't report it and rushed to the address given over the phone.

Waiting for her, of course, was not the so-called "knowledgeable person," but Lin Jie.

And so.

Fang Kui was captured.

For the following seven to eight hours, she was kept in a car.

That is to say.

When Chen Fang was coerced by Lin Jie to leave the station.

Actually, Lin Jie was fleeing towards Mengmao City as well...