Chapter 5: The Captain, Downtown, and the Black Fire Gang

Chapter 5: The Captain, Downtown, and the Black Fire Gang

Chapter 5: The Captain, Downtown, and the Black Fire Gang

Boom boom boom!
The rapid knock on the door woke Wang Jixuan from his meditation.

He jumped up nimbly, and the extremely tiny, newly formed energy in his body immediately returned to his dantian in his abdomen.

Wang Jixuan glanced at the clock on the wall. He had just practiced for less than two hours, or three and a half hours in local parlance. He thought he could recover a little bit of his strength, but now he found out helplessly...

The spiritual energy here is too thin;
Although he had a lot of insights, he hadn't even crossed the threshold of Qi training. He only slightly enhanced his five senses, increased his strength, and obtained a basic internal energy.

'I'll have to find some spirit stones to set up the spirit gathering formation later.'

dong dong!

The person outside knocked on the door a little harder.

Wang Jixuan could vaguely sense that there were a total of three people outside.

Gang revenge?

He flashed behind the door and asked in a sleepy tone, "Are you knocking on my door?"

"Thirteenth Floor Security Brigade! Open the door! Assist in the investigation!"

Wang Jixuan was skeptical, but he was also a skilled and courageous man. With the breath of energy he had just obtained and the four-foot-long metal tube behind the door that served as a collection, he was confident that he could repel the invaders.

So he raised his hand and pressed the electronic lock, holding his breath and standing quietly against the wall.

The sturdy calves in the half-boots kicked the door open.

Two men and one woman, three security team members wearing light blue uniforms, squeezed into this standard room for third-level citizens.

"It is indeed an official."

Wang Jixuan put the metal tube back into the corner without leaving any trace and took the initiative to speak:
"What do you want from me?"

The three of them were obviously startled, and the thin girl subconsciously took two steps back.

The leader of the three was a middle-aged man with a shiny side-parted hairdo. The light blue uniform he wore was clean and straight, which was out of place with the somewhat gloomy atmosphere around him.

The man had a regular appearance. Although not particularly outstanding, he had a high nose bridge and deep eye sockets, giving him a sense of "property".

Wang Jixuan noticed that the man had a small bauhinia flower badge on his chest.

This seems to be a proof of official title.

Behind the middle-aged man, the muscular security guard glared at him and yelled, "What are you doing hiding there? Come over here and cooperate with our investigation!"

"Don't be so fierce," the middle-aged man frowned, "You two should go out and wait for me first."

"Yes! Captain!"

The two team members simultaneously saluted with their hands shaking and chest beating. Before leaving, the strong young team member glared at Wang Jixuan again, as if warning him to be honest. The female team member holding the folder smartly closed the alloy door.

The light in the room was dim. The middle-aged man walked to the side, found the lighting knob, and turned it to the maximum.

There was suddenly more light in the room.

"My name is Zhou Zhengde," he introduced himself, sizing up Wang Jixuan with his hawk-like eyes, "Weina's ex-boyfriend. She asked me to come find you."

Wang Jixuan leaned against the wall without moving, with his hands in his trouser pockets.

Although he wanted to appear more nervous, which would be more in line with Mu Liang's character, but...

He really couldn't get nervous.

"Do you need me to prove that it was self-defense for her?"

"You'll help, won't you?"

Zhou Zhengde's eyes became gentler and he sighed:

"She's a good person, I mean, she's a good person, although not a good woman, but when we were in a relationship, she didn't betray me as a sexually liberal person, which gave me a very good relationship experience.

“You know, the environment is too stressful and sexual openness has become the lifestyle of half of the population, but we officially don’t promote it.

“Back to business.

“I will need you to sign a few documents later, and I will also record the entire process as trial material for the law enforcement officer.

"Now can you tell me...what happened? The truth is, this is a very difficult problem."

Very tricky?
Is the strength of that gang enough to intimidate the police?

Wang Jixuan nodded and said slowly:

"At that time, Dr. Wei Na examined my mental state and determined that I had no self-destructive tendencies, but that the cloth had just accidentally caught my neck, so she gave me that certificate.

"The three people who claimed to be from the Black Fire Gang were very vicious. The leader was called Brother Hua. He grabbed Wei Na's hair and pulled her to the ground. He kicked Doctor Wei Na's abdomen with his hard leather shoes. I was... petrified.

"They said I was Wei Na's boyfriend..."

"Um, ugh! Excuse me."

Zhou Zhengde groaned for a few seconds:
"Is that you, young man? Are you Wei Na's boyfriend?"

"I'm not," Wang Jixuan said, "We just met in the infirmary next door."

"So you had sex with her?"

Wang Jixuan smiled and said, "No, I am a sexual conservative."

Zhou Zhengde's eyes suddenly lit up: "That's great. You will definitely get a great female partner as your genetic match on your 25th birthday... Um, did she tell you that she had early menopause?"

"Hmm?" Several question marks popped up in Wang Jixuan's head.

"I've strayed off topic." Zhou Zhengde cleared his throat, speaking in a higher tone than before, and sitting in a more casual posture, "Continue."

Wang Jixuan pointed at his haphazardly bandaged arm and said, "I was actually very scared at the time. The guy pointed a gun at me and asked me to persuade Dr. Wei Na to accept their invitation and do the organ removal surgery. I don't know where I got the courage from, I turned around and took the gun away. He was obviously stunned by my sudden resistance, and then I punched him with all my strength... When people are angry, their potential will explode. My mind was blank at the time."

"That's right. I've had similar experiences." The Black Fire Gang occupies one-third of the organ trading market in the downtown area. They survive by doing this kind of business."

Zhou Zhengde's eyes were filled with anger that was difficult to conceal:
"What a bunch of scum! Bastards! If it weren't for... Never mind, there's no point in complaining to you about this!
"I know Wei Na's character very well. Although her views on gender are easily criticized, she has been determined to become a doctor since she was a child. I grew up with her and we were once best friends. It was just that she couldn't help but cross the line once, and the nature of our relationship changed.

"You know, she's a very feminine woman, and I had a little drink.

"It's just a pity that she is not willing to be my wife and stay faithful in our marriage... She can only accept an open marriage."

Wang Jixuan rubbed his forehead with his fingers: "Captain Zhou, why don't we get the evidence now."

"Ha, of course! You don't have to mention the part about you punching them later, though."

Zhou Zhengde narrowed his eyes slightly:
"You only need to say... the situation was very chaotic at the time. These three people wanted to kill you. Doctor Wei Na jumped up to fight for his gun. During the fierce struggle, you heard seven or eight gunshots, and then you saw Wei Na holding the gun, kneeling down and trembling all over.

“This way you won’t have any legal trouble, and Wei Na will have more initiative.

"May I?"

Wang Jixuan nodded: "Okay."

"Great! What a clever young man!"

Zhou Zhengde stood up and called his men.

"I want to ask," Wang Jixuan took the initiative to speak, "I have no legal troubles. Does this mean that I have other troubles?"

"The one who died was the thirteenth-ranked leader of the Black Fire Gang. He was a villain, a scum, and a piece of trash, but he was the younger brother of the Black Fire Gang boss."

Zhou Zhengde sighed softly:

“The two guys who escaped have told the Black Fire Gang’s boss what they saw. Their boss sent someone to deliver a letter to me, asking me not to interfere in this matter.

“The Black Fire Gang needs to establish their status and deterrence, and will inevitably retaliate against Wei Na and you.

“I will try my best to protect Wei Na, she is one of my best friends. Although the Black Fire Gang has some background, they dare not attack the police station directly.

“So, they are likely to first release their anger on an ordinary third-class citizen who has no power and no background.

"As a reward for recording this evidence, I will immediately help you arrange another place to live, but this can only hide it from the Black Flame Gang temporarily... Or I can frame you with a crime and put you in the police station's jail, but that will demote you to a first-class citizen and make you lose your current relatively easy job."

Wang Jixuan immediately said: "The former is enough, thank you."

"It's just that everyone takes what they need. The characteristics of us in Central City are order and principles."

Zhou Zhengde patted Wang Jixuan on the shoulder and said with a smile:
“The mental quality is pretty good.

“No wonder Wei Na’s eyes lit up when she mentioned you, I rarely see her with this expression.

"You really didn't sleep? Really, I'm just asking out of curiosity. She's a sexy goddess and I'm done with her."

Wang Jixuan looked worried.

This captain has a calm demeanor and bright eyes. He doesn't look like a villain, but... he is a bit talkative and pays too much attention to the private life of female doctor Wei Na.

"Tsk, the strange emotions of mortals."

……

[Room 13, Passage 17, Area D, 72th Floor].

Wang Jixuan, who had just packed his simple luggage, was playing with the blue card left by Captain Zhou, wondering how likely it was that this was a trap.

He did not dare to trust a stranger easily, even though his personal impression of the captain was generally comfortable.

Through Mu Liang's memory, Wang Jixuan had a moderate understanding of the fortress.

The fortress is divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower. The upper city is the first to sixth floors, which is the permanent area for the fortress combatants and various military factories.

The middle city refers to the seventh to the forty-fifth floors.

There are about 430,000 people living here. There are several factories and a large number of indoor farms on each floor. Every citizen has to do various jobs in factories and farms before losing the ability to work.

If the upper city and the middle city are the foundation and pillars of Fort No. 76, then the lower city is synonymous with chaos.

There are about 200,000 to 300,000 people living in the lower city. There were originally only six floors of space there, but due to various "historical" issues, it gradually evolved into another world.

The decrees formulated by the fortress governors can only be effectively implemented in the upper and middle cities and are isolated from the lower city.

The downtown is filled with violence and depravity, and likes to use freedom as a slogan to cover up the blood and chaos.

The underground fortresses in the Medieval Basin have been numbered to '136', but there are only eighteen existing fortresses in this area, and the collapse of most of the fortresses was not due to external attacks by blade beasts, but was buried in the so-called freedom uprising.

The worst thing is that after seventy or eighty years of downward expansion of the lower city, the bottom defense layer of Fort No. 76 has been destroyed.

——All of the above information was once written on the bulletin board in the central city streets.

Under these conditions, members of the Black Fire Gang, which was rampant in certain areas of the lower city, appeared openly on the thirteenth floor of the upper part of the fortress with guns...

Wang Jixuan didn't believe that Hua Ge would have been beaten to death a few more times without the connivance of the Central City Security Team.

From this perspective, Wang Jixuan did not dare to fully trust Zhou Zhengde unless he could determine who the specific "officials and traitors" were who were colluding with the Black Fire Gang.

Taoist Wang thought to himself:

"I need to find a place to hide for a few months. Once I can get this Taoist body into the Qi Refining Stage, I should be able to fight these mortal gangs head-on."

"That kind of hidden weapon, which is extremely powerful to ordinary people, is now a big problem for me."

"The mechanical arts of this world should not be underestimated. According to the original owner's memory, there are actually armors that can crush rocks and blow up mountains."

Boom, boom, boom!
There was a sudden knock on the door, and Wang Jixuan jumped behind the door like a civet cat and picked up a metal pipe with a circle of screws tied at the end.

"Who?"

(End of this chapter)