Chapter 637 — Give Them a Warning
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"Brother Wen, you mean — you still intend to do as you said before, and have a taste of her?" The tattooed man's heart stirred. He thought to himself that Brother Wen had nerve and to spare: even a police beauty he dared to touch?
"Of course not!" said An Jianwen. "She knows me. I am not about to go looking for my own death. Besides, she is the woman Chen Yutian has set his eye on — how could I possibly touch her?"
"Then, Brother Wen, what do you...?" The tattooed man was rather at a loss.
"Haven't the police been hounding us these past weeks? Well, then — since they will not let us alone, we shall give them a lesson of iron, and let them know that some things are better looked at with one eye shut!" An Jianwen gave a cold laugh. "What do you think the police would do, if their criminal investigation captain had a kidney cut out of him?"
"Ha — that would be a humiliation past all bearing!" The tattooed man burst out laughing.
"Exactly. I mean to teach the police a lesson, and count it as a warning besides — let them know that not everything falls within their remit, that it is better to live and let live; otherwise the consequences will be very grave!" An Jianwen said. "Pump sleeping gas into the dungeon and put her under!"
"Oh?" The tattooed man started. "Put her under?"
"From what I know, this Qiu Lingshan is a Yellow-rank expert. Not one of us is her match!" An Jianwen said. "The girl must be counting on taking the risk herself, slipping into headquarters on her own. That is why she has been concealing her true strength all along. So let us grant her wish — let her go on concealing it, right up to the moment she loses a kidney!"
"Yes, I understand!" The tattooed man nodded at once, thinking to himself that An Jianwen was ruthless indeed — willing to cut a kidney out of a woman this beautiful! And her position was no simple matter either!
"Wait a moment. Have every man at our suburban relay station pulled out. Starting tomorrow we use Stronghold Number Three; that station is to be abandoned outright." An Jianwen stopped the tattooed man as he turned to go. "Qiu Lingshan should be carrying a signal transmitter. That station has almost certainly been compromised."
"Yes, sir!" The tattooed man answered, and only then turned and left.
Watching the tattooed man's departing back, An Jianwen shook his head slightly. "Brother Yutian, oh, Brother Yutian — I truly am sorry. Who told you to set your heart on such a troublesome woman? Had she gone back to the Chen family with you as good as gold, why would she be losing a kidney?"
But Qiu Lingshan was only an interlude; he had not taken her to heart at all. Cutting out her kidney would yield only two outcomes: one, the police would lower their banners and silence their drums; the other, they would be stung into a shame-fed fury.
Yet even if they were stung into fury, what of it? They still could not find where his headquarters lay. And Qiu Lingshan had only now, driven past the limits of forbearance, taken the risk of passing herself off as a captive to slip into headquarters.
An Jianwen did not take it to heart in the least; he was a man of savage methods and cared nothing for such things. What galled him now was the business of Wei Zhao! An Jianwen was furious: that boy Wei Zhao had robbed what he was charged to guard, and had got himself tangled up with both Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu?
An Jianwen did not believe that anything between Wei Zhao and Gu Mengyao could still be clean. They had gone as far as kissing — what, then, was left that they could not do? Gu Mengyao was the wife he had marked out for himself; he would never permit Gu Mengyao and Wei Zhao to be together!