"Damn, will this ever end?" Pig Monk felt desperate when he heard footsteps behind him.
His companions had already fled far ahead, leaving him behind due to his injured leg that slowed him down.
However, when he turned around, he only saw Xu Mo alone, and his anxious heart immediately calmed down.
I thought there were many pursuers, but it's just one person? And they dare to chase after me alone? More importantly, this pursuer isn't even the skilled fighter from before!
He couldn't beat the one in the floral dress earlier, but surely he could handle this pretty boy?
He refused to believe that all these police officers were equally skilled fighters!
Could they all be martial arts experts? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
With these thoughts, he stopped running, waiting for Xu Mo to get closer so he could deliver a fatal strike.
"I'll teach you a lesson for chasing me!" When Xu Mo was close enough, at such a short distance, it would be easy to succeed. Pig Monk grabbed a brick from the ground and swung it at Xu Mo's head.
If this hit connected, it would result in at least a concussion.
But he clearly underestimated Xu Mo, whose fighting skills surpassed even Chen Ke's. With a quick duck, he easily dodged the brick.
Seeing this, Pig Monk was slightly stunned. Pretty agile, huh? Let's see how many times you can dodge! He bent down to pick up another brick.
However, when he looked up again, he froze.
Xu Mo had drawn his gun while he was bending down to pick up the brick...
"Drop it, hands on your head and squat facing the wall."
Looking at the brick in his hand, then at the gun in Xu Mo's hand.
Pig Monk quickly dropped the brick and obediently squatted facing the wall with his hands on his head.
With the dark barrel of the gun pointing at him, there was no question about which was faster - a brick or a bullet.
At this moment, submission was the best choice.
Seeing this, Xu Mo quickly moved forward and handcuffed Pig Monk's hands behind his back.
Xu Mo didn't continue pursuing the remaining three men, not because he didn't want to, but because he had no idea which direction they went.
The layout of the shantytown was incredibly complex. He had only caught up with Pig Monk because the latter was injured and moving slowly, making his escape route visible.
As for the other three, Xu Mo was helpless.
Although his night vision was considerably better than average people's, it was of little use in this maze-like shantytown - after all, he couldn't see through walls.
However, catching this one was enough.
With one member of the four-person gang in custody, how hard could it be to catch the remaining three?
Xu Mo looked at Pig Monk: "Who are your accomplices? And where's the girl you kidnapped?"
Hearing this, Pig Monk turned his head away, showing no intention of answering Xu Mo's questions.
"Quite loyal, aren't you..." Xu Mo continued staring at him: "Active cooperation could count as merit and lead to a reduced sentence. You could spend fewer years in prison. Are you sure you want to pass up this opportunity?"
Pig Monk remained unmoved.
He had made up his mind to say nothing.
The promise of a reduced sentence wasn't necessarily reliable. Even if he revealed his accomplices' identities, there was no guarantee of a reduction, let alone how much time would be cut off.
Moreover, if it weren't for his accomplices, he would have been caught earlier and wouldn't have made it this far.
If Sand Monk was willing to risk capture to save him, he wouldn't be such a disloyal person in return.
No matter what Xu Mo asked next, he wouldn't talk!
However, the scenario he imagined of Xu Mo continuing to question him didn't materialize.
Instead, Xu Mo pressed his hand to his earpiece and spoke:
"You caught one too? This Pig Monk is being tight-lipped, won't say anything. Has the Tang Monk you caught confessed?"
Seeing Xu Mo deliberately speaking like this in front of him, Pig Monk gave a cold smile.
Trying to drive a wedge between us? Such a basic trick won't fool me! No way!
Xu Mo ignored Pig Monk's cold smile and continued speaking into his earpiece.
"Their hideout is near the intersection of Dayu Road and Xifeng Road? What else did he say? Did he reveal the true identities of the other two?"
Pig Monk's eyes widened: ??
Near the intersection of Dayu Road and Xifeng Road?
That was exactly where their hideout was!
All their "goods" were being held there, not yet disposed of.
That place was secluded and well-hidden; the police couldn't possibly know about it.
But Xu Mo had mentioned this specific location, which could only mean one thing - he was telling the truth, and their leader Tang Monk had really been caught!
And he had revealed their hideout's location...
He betrayed them just to get his sentence reduced?
Thinking about it carefully, he realized their boss was exactly the type to do such a treacherous thing - after all, he was the first to run away earlier, showing no concern for the other three!
Before he could think it through, Pig Monk couldn't hold back anymore.
He had been so loyal, refusing to talk even at the cost of a reduced sentence, but their boss showed no loyalty at all, immediately giving up their hideout's location...
Given the situation, the boss would surely reveal the identities of the other two brothers to reduce his sentence.
Of the four brothers, none would escape... Since they were all going to be caught anyway, why shouldn't he take the opportunity for a reduced sentence? Why should the boss be the only one to benefit?
With this thought, Pig Monk spoke up.
"I know the real identities of the other two, I'll tell you! One is called Xiong Yan, the other is Zhang Li! They're both from Ram City. I even know their exact addresses - one lives in Lijiang Garden, Building 3, Unit 504, and the other..."
After spilling everything, Xu Mo lowered his hand from his earpiece and looked at him with an ambiguous smile.
"See? You can be quite cooperative. Continue - besides these two, what's the other one's name? Where exactly is your hideout near the intersection of Dayu Road and Xifeng Road? Where are the girls you kidnapped?"
Xu Mo's previous words had all been deliberate.
The other officers hadn't caught anyone else, and Xu Mo didn't actually know where the human traffickers' hideout was.
The intersection of Dayu Road and Xifeng Road was just a location they had spotted during their surveillance camera investigation as a suspected hideout location, but Xu Mo wasn't even sure if it was correct.
He was just trying to get information, and surprisingly, it worked.
The divide-and-conquer strategy... really was effective!
No wonder the police station always interrogated suspects separately.
Pig Monk stared at Xu Mo in bewilderment.
He had fallen right into Xu Mo's trap!
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
