They were the voices of Boss Shaw and Jin Sen. An Zhe squinted in the dim light as he tried to identify the two men locked up on the opposite side. “Are you here as well?”

“That’s right.” Jin Sen answered. “I was selling my phones when I was taken away by the people of the Trial Court.”

Boss Shaw sighed. “After I separated from you, I was arrested before I entered the station.”

Jin Sen asked, “What about you? How did you get caught?”

An Zhe didn’t answer.

“Master,” he called out.

Boss Shaw wondered, “What’s the matter?”

An Zhe asked, “Am I really easy to bully?”

“You know it?” Boss Shaw replied lazily. “Why are you asking this?”

An Zhe didn’t answer. Then he asked, “What crime did you commit?”

“Do I have to say it?” Boss Shaw gave an answer. “The crime of illegally stealing a judge’s information.”

“Is that so?”

“Why?” Boss Shaw wondered. “Aren’t you the same?”

“Yes.”

Boss Shaw chuckled. “Your tone has changed. Someone bullied you?”

“No.” An Zhe’s tone was apathetic.

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CHAPTER 16

In the quiet space, Jin Sen yawned. “The prison bed is quite soft.”

An Zhe looked at the space around him. In the small prison room that was two metres long, there was a one metre long plastic soft board with a blanket on it. This was probably the so-called bed. He went over there and sat down cross-legged. He wrapped himself in a thin blanket and leaned back against the wall.

Footsteps came from the end of the corridor and there was the glare of lights shining in the corridor. The soldiers of the city’s defense station were holding flashlights to inspect the rooms. As they passed by, a soldier on the left said, “There are three more.”

“The Trial Court. Colonel Lu is really great. The city’s defense office is now the logistics team of the Trial Court.”

“The Trial Court wants to completely take over the city’s defenses but the director is still holding on.”

They shone the flashlights over the prisoners’ faces and spoke no more. They continued moving forward as they checked one by one before going up the other entrance. Once they disappeared, there was silence in the entire underground space. There was only the breathing of the prisoners and An Zhe could feel that there were few people. Water drops fell on the plastic board in the distance and Boss Shaw muttered, “The city’s defense station is wasting water.”

However, the sound of the water droplets was heard without interruption. It was evenly uniform and then Jin Sen said, “It is a watch.”