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Chapter 289 - 255: [Caught in One’s Own Trap]

Chapter 289: Chapter 255: [Caught in One’s Own Trap]

The sun set in the west, twilight descended, and Pudong Airport was bustling with people. Four patrol teams shuffled through the airport, executing their patrol tasks.

"By the way, Captain, how is Xiao Wang doing? Why haven’t the results of his injury assessment come out yet?"

Inside Hall 2 of the airport, the patrol officer who had witnessed Guan Lin and Han Tie nearly put on a public display of passion suddenly remembered his injured colleague and couldn’t help but ask the leading captain.

"Just came out, extensive fractures of the jawbone, ruptured eardrums causing severe hearing loss, and diagnosed with a severe concussion," the leading captain said.

"Damn it, that bitch Guan Lin is really too cruel!" The speaking patrol officer cursed angrily upon hearing how serious Xiao Wang’s condition was.

"Yeah, although she looks noble and cool, she’s actually a complete whore!"

"Being a whore is one thing, but she has a heart more venomous than scorpions and snakes!"

"Hey, scum gets what they deserve. I heard her fiancé has already met with tragedy, so her end won’t be any better."

The other three patrol officers discussed indignantly or gleefully, attracting sidelong glances from quite a few travelers around them.

"Forget what was just said, and focus on the task at hand."

Seeing this, the leading captain quickly intervened, as if he was afraid those words might reach the ears of someone who could cause unnecessary trouble.

Hearing the captain’s words and seeing the strange looks from the surrounding travelers, the other patrol officers wisely shut their mouths.

Meanwhile, in an interrogation room of the Airport Branch.

Guan Lin was oblivious to everything happening outside.

Because of her public assault on a police officer, although she hadn’t been sent to a detention center following standard procedure, she had been detained in the interrogation room of the branch, completely cut off from the outside world.

In the interrogation room, Guan Lin was not anxious or unsettled like most suspects. Instead, clad in clothing provided by the police, she sat cross-legged by the window, meditating deeply as if she were a monk lost in deep meditation.

Whoosh!

After an unknown length of time, Guan Lin abruptly opened her eyes, which were filled with a deep, engrained hatred.

Over the past few days, she had been trying to form a new Power Seed in her shattered dantian through meditation, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t acheive it—the Power generated by meditation simply couldn’t be stored in her shattered dantian!

"It’s been six days already, by all accounts, that Ye Family’s bastard should have been sliced to pieces; why is there still no news?"

Desperate to see Ye Fan torn to shreds, Guan Lin thought about everything Bai Luo had said on the phone that day, fully aware that Bai Luo intended to take revenge on Ye Fan. Knowing Bai Luo well, she believed that Bai Luo would most likely arrange for someone from the Qinghong Sect to assassinate Ye Fan. In her view, Ye Fan would undoubtedly die if Bai Luo did this!

Once Ye Fan was dead, no matter if that patrol officer was injured or even killed, she believed she wouldn’t need to suffer imprisonment and certainly wouldn’t face the death penalty; instead, she would have many ways to escape the law!

What?

At the same time Guan Lin was puzzled, she keenly heard footsteps coming from the corridor—although Ye Fan had destroyed her Dantian, leaving her without any of her Kung Fu skills, her bodily functions were still far superior to those of an ordinary person.

"There must be a result now."

Hearing the footsteps approaching from afar, Guan Lin’s heart stirred and she stood up with a sneer, looking down at the door with a gaze that suggested she was not a suspect but rather a queen from some nation, possessing such a high stance!

Click—

Soon, with a crisp sound, the iron door was opened, and the Deputy Director in charge of criminal investigation entered the interrogation room with two police officers and a man in a black suit.

People from the Yanhuang Organization?

As soon as the four entered, Guan Lin cast her eyes on the man in the black suit, clearly feeling the Martial Artist aura emanating from him, and couldn’t help but secretly question herself.

"Guan Lin, six days ago, you assaulted Comrade Wang Hao, a patrol officer of my division, in the Airport’s Hall 2, causing large fractures to Wang Hao’s jaw, eardrum rupture leading to severe hearing loss and a severe concussion, thus constituting the crimes of assaulting an officer and grievous bodily harm, with conclusive evidence."

As if answering Guan Lin, the Deputy Director in charge of criminal investigations looked at Guan Lin, who still maintained a superior demeanor, and icily said, "Under regular procedures, my division would transfer you to the Procuratorate, but since you are a Martial Artist, according to relevant regulations, you will be handled by the Yanhuang Organization. Now, my division formally transfers you to the Yanhuang Organization East Sea Branch!"

As his words fell, the Deputy Director of criminal investigations reached out to the member of the Yanhuang Organization, saying, "She is all yours now."

"Thank you for your efforts." The Yanhuang Organization member shook hands with him, nodding in response.

"According to the Huaxia Criminal Procedure Law, I have the right to hire a lawyer to provide legal assistance!" Guan Lin said, her face turning cold, assertively stated, "I want to contact my lawyer!"

"I think you want to contact your father and your fiancée Bai Luo, don’t you?"

The Yanhuang Clan member sneered scornfully, "Don’t mention that your father has already been transferred from the East Sea to Yanjing. Even if he hadn’t been transferred, he has neither the authority nor the courage to interfere with the affairs of the Yanhuang Organization! As for your fiancé Bai Luo, he is detained at the Yanhuang Organization East Sea Branch, and you will see him soon."

"What... what did you say?"

Guan Lin’s face suddenly changed, a bad premonition surging within her, "Bai... how could Bai Luo be detained at the Yanhuang Organization East Sea Branch?"

"He colluded with the largest underground force of the American Alliance, the Qinghong Gang, and hired Martial Artists to assassinate Mr. Ye Fan, the chairman of Ao Xiang Group, unsuccessfully, with conclusive evidence, and has been formally arrested!" Perceiving Guan Lin’s disbelief, the Yanhuang Organization member outright revealed the mystery.

"Uh..."

Although Guan Lin had earlier thought that the matter of Bai Luo hiring assassins might have been exposed, the confirmation of it instantly left her mind blank, and her previously superior expression completely vanished. She stood frozen like a statue, utterly dumbfounded.

"Impossible! This is impossible!!"

After ten seconds had passed, Guan Lin finally recovered from the shock. She shook her head frantically, absolutely refusing to believe any of it was true!

On one hand, Bai Luo’s contact with the Qinghong Gang to assassinate Ye Fan would surely have left no trace, and on the other, she could not believe that Ye Fan could escape an assassination attempt by the Qinghong Gang—being the successor of the Lan Hua Sect, she had seen the Black Dragon Guards of the Qinghong Gang and knew well how fearsome and powerful they were!

"True or false, you’ll know once you see your fiancé." The Yanhuang Organization member solemnly looked at Guan Lin and said sternly, "Will you go by yourself, or shall I help you?"

"Hiss~"

Guan Lin was so angry that she gasped for air, then stared intensely at the member of the Yanhuang Organization as if she was trying to discern the truth from any changes in his expression. Noticing that his expression was utterly flawless, she revealed a determined look, scoffing, "I really want to see how Bai Luo is detained by you all!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she didn’t wait for the Yanhuang Organization member to respond and took the initiative to walk towards the door.

An hour later.

The Yanhuang Organization member drove Guan Lin to the Yanhuang Organization East Sea Branch.

"Where is Bai Luo? Where is Bai Luo?" As soon as the car stopped, Guan Lin scoffed and asked.

"You will see him very soon."

After saying this, the Yanhuang Organization member raised his wrist and reported through the communicator to Zhao Meng, "Director, the criminal Guan Lin has been brought to the office. Please give your instructions!"

"Take her directly to the second underground level and lock her up."

Zhao Meng spoke in an unquestionable tone. He had sided with Ye Fan from the start, and now that Bai Luo had clanked into prison, almost implicating the Bai Family, the situation was one-sided, making him even more resolute in his choice.

"Yes!" The Yanhuang Organization member responded immediately, then cut off the communication and said to Guan Lin, "Let’s go, I’ll take you to see your fiancé."

Perhaps because she had just heard Zhao Meng’s orders through the receiver, or maybe because the expression of the Yanhuang Organization member was just too composed, Guan Lin started to feel a bit shaken.

In the sunset, she frowned and followed the Yanhuang Organization member toward the office building, feeling more and more panicked as they walked, as if the Eighteen Layers of Hell were ahead!

Although not as extreme as the Eighteen Layers of Hell, the two levels of prison beneath the Yanhuang Organization East Sea Branch office building were hardly different from hell for the convicted Martial Artists.

Entering the second underground level of the prison, and seeing the cells built in imitation of the American Alliance’s maximum-security prisons, Guan Lin inexplicably felt her scalp tingle.

"Your fiancé is right beneath your feet."

As Guan Lin felt increasingly nervous, the Yanhuang Organization member spoke.

"Uh..."

Upon hearing this, Guan Lin first froze, then hurriedly looked down, and through holes the size of thumbs in the floor, she shockingly saw the scene inside the cell.

Following her gaze, one could see Bai Luo, the once arrogant Young Master Bai and President of the Hong Ding Club, dressed in prison clothes, curled up in a corner of the cell, looking dull and vacant as if he was a living dead.

"Buzz~"

As this image appeared before her eyes, Guan Lin felt a darkness before her eyes and a buzzing in her ears, her mind went blank, and her body stiffened in place!

Although Bai Luo’s current image couldn’t be connected with the once proud and arrogant Young Master Bai, she, as Bai Luo’s fiancée, immediately recognized that the dejected prisoner beneath her feet was Bai Luo!

Although she couldn’t believe or accept that Bai Luo’s hiring of murderers would be exposed, the reality in front of her told her that Bai Luo wouldn’t have been imprisoned here without solid evidence!

"Bai... Bai Luo!"

A few seconds later, Guan Lin couldn’t help but call out Bai Luo’s name.

In the cell, Bai Luo heard Guan Lin’s familiar voice, his originally curled body slightly trembled, and he subconsciously looked up.

Huh?

Seeing Guan Lin’s familiar figure, Bai Luo’s pupils suddenly dilated, and a glimmer of light appeared in his previously vacant eyes.

Yet—

That glimmer of light was fleeting. In a blink, his eyes returned to their previous vacancy, withdrawing his gaze as if Guan Lin were a stranger to him.

"Why? Why is this happening??"

Seeing Bai Luo withdraw his gaze, Guan Lin felt as though she had been greatly shocked, and screamed frantically.

Why??

There was no answer. The brash words she and Bai Luo had spoken at the Hong Ding Club East Sea Branch echoed in her ears like a curse.

"Isn’t he just boasting strength comparable to the Great Success Realm of Innate? I’ve also reached the Great Success Realm of Innate, he can’t even touch a single hair on me!"

"Does he dare to violate the rules of the Yanhuang Organization and move against me?"

"Are we supposed to let this bastard walk all over us? Maybe I should secretly contact someone and hire two peak stage Innate masters to sneak into Huaxia and send him directly to Yama Palace!"

"You’re afraid the Yanhuang Organization will find out? Don’t worry, I’ll have someone else reach out. Even if the Yanhuang Organization finds out, they can’t trace it back to us. As long as they can’t trace it back to us, not to mention the Yanhuang Organization, even Ye Wenhao can’t do anything to us!"

"Then let him strut around a bit longer. Tonight, I’ll stay and help you cleanse your marrow."

Thinking, thinking, Guan Lin collapsed on the ground, following Bai Luo’s footsteps, her face filled with despair.

Entangled in their own web!

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PS: That’s it for tonight.

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