Blade of Time

Chapter 23 Coercion
Eliot lay powerlessly on the ground.

Solitude is a powerful paralyzing toxin, but it is not fatal. He can feel that the poison in his body is gradually fading as time goes by.

Most importantly it is the Eldar!
In the parasitic state of the spirit race, they are incorporeal, and are less affected by this toxin, so the recovery speed is much faster than normal.

It was definitely a wrong choice for Jiang Changye not to kill himself immediately.

Ilite waited quietly, gathering strength.

I don't know how long it took, and suddenly a human voice came from afar.

Yilite's heart froze, and he saw a man walking towards him not far away.

Coming to Yilite and standing still, Zhou Qiu looked at him suspiciously, called back, and found that it was indeed Yilite's cell phone that rang.

Zhou Qiudao: "You called me? It seems that your situation is a bit bad."

He squatted down and looked at Yilite's appearance: "Poisoned? But not fatal, did you encounter any poisonous weeds near here?"

He took off the gun, looked around, and confirmed that there was no one else nearby, and then looked at Yilite again: "Can you talk?"

Eliot: "Heh...heh..."

Zhou Qiu shook his head: "Well, count your luck."

As Zhou Qiu spoke, he took out a bottle of potion, and carefully dripped a few drops into Yilite's mouth: "It's very expensive, it's my money for buying information."

Zhou Qiu was cautious, he didn't intend to fully detoxify Yilite, he only dripped three drops, so that he could handle the other side easily.

But he didn't know that there were spirit races in the other party's body, these three drops were enough to solve most of the problems.

With the entrance of the antidote, Ilite finally regained his strength.

He let out a long breath, still lying on the ground, pretending to be powerless: "You are Vice Captain Zhou from the Department of Public Security?"

Zhou Qiu was taken aback: "You called, you don't know me?"

Yilite smiled slightly: "Now I know."

He made a sudden move and grabbed Zhou Qiu's throat.

Zhou Qiu was shocked, and instinctively shot Yilite.

But at the same time as the shot was fired, Yilite's other hand had already grabbed his wrist, and with a twist, the gun fell to the ground in Zhou Qiu's hand.

Zhou Qiu is also a serial fighter, so he kicked out.

Split wind legs!
An afterimage burst out of the sky.

But at the same time as he kicked out, a phantom appeared above Yilite's head and let out a wordless roar at Zhou Qiu.

hiss! ! !
A terrifying mental shock flooded into his mind, causing Zhou Qiu to have a splitting headache.

His heart trembled: "Spirit Race!"

He never dreamed that the person in front of him was not the one who called him, but the Spirit Race.

Under this mental shock, Zhou Qiu's headache was about to split, and the power of the split wind leg was greatly reduced.

Yilite stepped forward and bent his elbow, and hit Zhou Qiu's neck with one blow. One palm became as black as ink, and it was already pressing on Zhou Qiu's forehead.

Zhou Qiu wailed and wanted to escape, but found that his legs were as heavy as lead.

slow!

The slowness bonus of the pale sequence made his speed drop sharply, so it was impossible for him to run past Ilite.

Yilite grinned and said, "One trash!"

boom!
Another heavy punch hit Zhou Qiu's abdomen, knocking him down to the ground.

Yilite pressed Zhou Qiu's head: "Die!"

About to kill him in one hit.

"Don't kill me!" Zhou Qiu shouted, "I'm willing to listen to you!"

Ok?
Yilite stared at Zhou Qiu with dark eyes: "A person like you, what you say is not very credible."

As he said that, he pinched his throat, damn it, it seemed that something was blocking him, making him unable to speak smoothly, probably because the toxin hadn't completely receded.

Zhou Qiu was so frightened that he urinated, and a puddle of yellow fluid flowed out from his trousers.

He wailed loudly: "Don't kill me, I'll listen to you. I'm the son of Zhou Rui, chief of public security, and I can do many things for the Spirit Race. If you don't believe...don't believe...wait, I There is a way. I know a lot of my dad's criminal evidence. He once took advantage of the Jelly Group and gave them a green light for their engineering projects. Oh, I once took..."

In order to survive, Zhou Qiu exposed himself to shame and told a bunch of scandalous things that his father and son had done.

He wailed: "These are all evidence! Let me go, don't kill me, I will obey you!"

Eliot finally stopped.

He looked around, but Jiang Changye was nowhere to be seen.

The doubts in his heart became more and more intense, and he couldn't figure out what the hell Jiang Changye was doing.

In his mouth, he said: "I need evidence."

"Villa No. 12 on Long Street, there is some evidence there!"

"Very good. I have something to ask you. There is someone..." Yilite was about to say Jiang Changye's name.

boom!
A wild explosion suddenly sounded, Yilite's neck was blown off, his head flew into the sky, blood poured all over Zhou Qiu's body, and bright flames rose from the headless corpse.

"hiss!!!"

As the flames rose, the spirit clan let out a shrill howl, but they were completely powerless to break free from the flames.

Without the ceremony, he couldn't get out of his body directly, and he was buried in the flames together with Yilite's body.

This scene frightened Zhou Qiu into a fool.

Seeing that the person who threatened him just now turned into a headless corpse, he finally came to his senses, turned around and ran away without hesitation.

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Hurrying back to the Department of Public Security, Zhou Qiu went to change his clothes first, and then let out a sigh of relief.

He didn't intend to tell anyone about this today, it was really too embarrassing.

It's just that the fear in my heart has not disappeared, and the whole person is still in a state of trance.

Until a security officer came over: "Captain Zhou, the director is calling for you."

Zhou Qiu didn't realize it all at once, and it wasn't until the other party called him again that he came back to his senses and walked towards the director's office.

When I came to the director's office, I saw my father Zhou Rui sitting there with a livid face.

Zhou Rui is 52 years old this year, a trial Sequence 8 Admonisher.

In terms of strength, he was a bit worse than Tian Siruo, but being an official didn't depend entirely on fists.

As a serial fighter, although Zhou Rui is over 50 years old, he looks not much different from the average 30-year-old young man. He is full of energy, and his back is even more sleek.His eyes are sharp, he looks forever energetic, and his figure is flying.

At this moment Zhou Qiu came in and stood still in front of his father: "Dad!"

Zhou Rui looked at his son with a blank expression: "Where did you go just now?"

Zhou Qiu lowered his head: "I didn't go anywhere, I just went to investigate the case."

boom!
The ashtray smashed hard on Zhou Qiu's forehead, causing Zhou Qiu's eyes to go black.

"Dad?" Zhou Qiu looked at Zhou Rui in astonishment.

Zhou Rui's face was ashen, and a few words popped out from between his teeth: "You useless thing, trash! Idiot!"

Zhou Rui trembled when he said this.

He slowly turned the computer on the table.

On the computer, a video is playing.

That was the video of him kneeling in front of Yilite begging for mercy!
Zhou Qiu's eyes darkened: "This..."

Zhou Rui looked at his son desperately and helplessly: "This is a trap, and you fell into someone else's trap so easily. You don't even think about it, how could someone be poisoned and lie on the ground for no reason? It's so conspicuous You can't even discover the flaws?"

Zhou Qiu opened his mouth wide: "I..."

It's not that he didn't realize that there was a problem here.

But knowing that there is a problem and discovering what the problem is are two different concepts!

When you see a poisoned person lying on the ground, who is selling information to you, your first reaction is whether there is an ambush nearby.

In the absence of an ambush, and I just came here to buy information, and I am not doing something invisible, so what is there to worry about?
The only thing Zhou Qiu didn't expect was that even though there was no ambush, the person he rescued would kill him, forcibly turning nothing into something!
Stupidity comes from ignorance.

This ignorance can be the ignorance of one's own mind, or the ignorance of the environment at that time.

As for Zhou Qiu, he had both, so it was only natural for him to be fooled.

As for Zhou Rui, what angered him the most was that his son, in order to survive, even got involved with him, the old man.

That's the Spirit Race!

Is an alien!
Begging and begging for mercy from alien races is no longer just a matter of corruption and breaking the law, it is also a matter of betraying the country!
The nature is serious!
If this matter gets out, Zhou Rui, Zhou Qiu and his son will be finished!

Zhou Rui might just lose his job and go to jail, while Zhou Qiu couldn't even save his life.

He hated his son's incompetence, useless, but after all, he was his son, the only son!
He can understand his son's choice, but he also forgives because of understanding.

So he had to fall further into the opponent's calculations.

Now that Zhou Rui is unable to teach his son a lesson, he has to deal with more serious troubles in the future, saying: "From now on, don't ask me about this matter, I will handle it. Be careful in what you do later, and don't let anyone catch you again." It's over."

Said Zhou Rui waved helplessly: "Get out!"

Watching his son go out, Zhou Rui heaved a sigh of relief.

He picked up the phone on the table and dialed the number: "I'm Zhou Rui."

On the phone, Jiang Changye's voice changed: "Thirty thousand meritorious service."

Zhou Rui was not surprised either, and sighed, "I don't have that much money."

"Guess where I am?" Jiang Changye laughed.

Then there was a crisp cracking sound from the phone.

Jiang Changye said: "Oh, I'm sorry, I broke your antique vase. Oh, the one on the stage, it should be quite valuable, right? Of course, you can also say that it is not yours. After all, this house is not registered in the In your name."

Looking at the debris all over the floor, Jiang Changye finally felt the joy of revenge.

Let your mother's black father's money! ! !

Zhou Rui said: "If you want, the house can be registered in your name."

Jiang Changye smiled: "Do you think I am such a stupid person? But unfortunately, although there is some evidence here, there is not much money. But it is understandable, after all, money is exchanged for meritorious deeds, and the exchange is strengthened. But you You don’t take the risky route, you take the road of power, why do you want so many merits? For your son? He doesn’t seem like a person who is willing to risk his life for the future.”

Zhou Rui was helpless: "You have already said everything, what can I say? In fact, human beings are the only creatures with excess demand in this world. It doesn't matter whether we use so much or not. The important thing is that we have the ability to store, which means We can ask for it infinitely, possess it infinitely..."

"Wow, I didn't know you were a philosopher."

Zhou Rui said: "I can give you [-] meritorious service, but you have to guarantee that this is the last time."

"I promise you and you believe it?" Jiang Changye sneered: "Well, let me give you a suggestion. From now on, I will ask you for money every three months, not much each time, only five thousand merits. But the first Pen, you have to give me [-]. Let's follow this rhythm, and you should be at ease. After all, no one will destroy their long-term meal tickets, right?"

Zhou Rui was bitter: "I can't afford so much at once."

"You can go for it. If you can't, sell the house to buy meritorious service. You have done so many crimes, and the benefits of being greedy are big enough. What I want is just a small piece of you, and the plan is just a small stream of water. You Think of it as spending money to buy peace.”

Zhou Rui said helplessly: "How can I give it to you? I asked you to give me the Stargate account, and you probably wouldn't accept it, would you?"

The Stargate account adopts a real-name system, one person per household, Jiang Changye definitely cannot give it to him directly.Merit is a typical virtual currency. There is no real thing, and it can only be transferred, because its essence is the electronic currency issued by the Paradise of All Living Beings through the Daqian system, not the national credit currency.

Fortunately, there is no physical currency, but there can be goods!
Jiang Changye said: "I will give you a list of goods. After you prepare the goods, send them to the designated address. Of course, you can also send someone to follow up, but be careful, even if I am caught, I can still stay behind Yes. The video may not be for your boss, it is more likely to be sent to a news organization..."

Zhou Rui didn't expect the other party to think so thoroughly, so he nodded helplessly: "I won't do that."

"I'm not afraid of you doing this either." Jiang Changye said coldly.

I work in the Department of Public Security, so I don't know what you are doing?

After finishing the call, Zhou Rui stared blankly at the video, a thought flashed through his mind.

This video was obviously shot with professional monitoring equipment. There are not many such equipment, so you should be able to find it by checking its origin.In addition, the list of goods can also be a clue, but with this person's prudence, I'm afraid it doesn't mean much.

The most important thing is the other party's warning to alert him, even if you find the other party, and the other party has evidence in hand, I'm afraid it will be a dead end.

Zhou Rui pondered for a long time, and finally gave up the idea of ​​tracing.

There is one thing that Jiang Changye was right about. His current asking price is really not a big problem for Zhou Rui - 900 meritorious deeds are worth [-] million pure land coins. There are no tens of millions or hundreds of millions of assets these days. Are you ashamed to call yourself a corrupt official?
If Jiang Changye was greedy and pushed Zhou Rui to a dead end, then he would definitely continue to investigate desperately, but now that the asking price is still affordable, Zhou Rui is not willing to take big risks.

(End of this chapter)