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basement.

The dim and dim lights swayed from time to time, occasionally casting clouds of light and shadow on the wall.

On the torture rack, the short man in black was tied tightly and placed on the torture rack.

Five steps away from the torture rack, a large charcoal stove was burning, with red coals inside and white ash floating upward from time to time.The triangular soldering iron was red-hot and looked intimidating.

At the feet of the man in black, there was a bucket of cold water with two whips soaked in it, with the whip handles hanging outside.

Two strong men wearing only one shirt, their sleeves rolled up at their elbows, their thick arms strong.

These two people are specialized executioners, and their duty is to carry out executions.

There was no one behind the interrogation table opposite. The interrogator hadn't arrived yet, and everything was still waiting.

The two strong men were bored and glanced at the short man. The taller man said: "How many whips do you think this kid can use?"

"With how dry he is, I guess he can only get twenty lashes at most." Another person said.

"Not necessarily! I think although this guy is shorter, he is solid and needs at least fifty lashes before he can do it." The tall man shook his head and said.

"Then let's make a bet." Another person said.

"Okay! Just bet, you decide how you want to bet."

"Do you dare to bet five yuan? If he does it within twenty lashes, I lose! If he does it within fifty lashes, you win! For other numbers, we won't lose if we don't lose!"

"Okay! Let's do it!" the tall man said loudly.

The man in black heard that the two people ignored him at all, but made a bet with him, and his legs trembled involuntarily.

"Boy, listen, I bet you can withstand fifty lashes. You look like a good man, so don't pretend to be a softie for me! If you make me lose money, I will whip you fifty lashes every day!"

"He dares! As long as this kid dares to pretend to be a hero and survive twenty lashes, I will dare to pick a hamstring out of him! Let him prove his worth!"

The man in black was shaking all over, and if it hadn't been for the support of the torture frame, he would have collapsed to the ground.

When the door rang, Cao Youguang walked in the front, followed by Yang Denghuan and several others, who filed in.

Cao Youguang sniffed hard, frowned and said, "What does it smell like? Why does it smell so bad!"

Liang Dabeard also sniffed and said, "Why is this like a latrine?"

When the man in black saw several people coming in, he seemed to have seen a savior and shouted loudly: "Sir, I am willing to recruit, I am willing..."

The tall executioner quickly reached out and covered the mouth of the man in black. The man in black spoke incomprehensibly, not knowing what Wuliwala was talking about.

"What did he say?" Liang Dabeard said with a frown.

"He even said he would be killed," the tall man said.

The man in black heard a struggle and kept whining.

"Okay! He's a tough guy! Then beat him to death!" Liang Bearded said fiercely.

After hearing this, the man in black struggled again. The tall man grabbed a ball of cloth, stuffed it into his mouth, and stabbed it inside, making the man in black roll his eyes.

"Still not ready? He's a man!" The tall man said loudly, then picked up the whip and said, "Fifty lashes! I'll give you fifty lashes first to appetize!"

The man in black struggled violently and thrust his body forward like a bow.

Liang Dabeard said with admiration: "You are still so arrogant when you get here! I have never seen such a hero! I really admire you! I think the whip may not be effective, so it is better to use the soldering iron directly to avoid wasting time."

The man in black's eyes suddenly widened, he was roaring without knowing what he was saying, and his body was shaking violently.

"What did he say?" Liang Dabeard asked in surprise.

"I'm not convinced! I'm scolding you!" the tall man said.

"You have the guts! Give him a whip! Let's have an appetizer first, fifty!" Liang Bearded said coldly.

The tall man bent down and grabbed the whip from the bucket, and whipped it without saying a word.

Uh...

Uh...

The man in black screamed loudly. Another executioner looked at the gap between the tall man's whip and stretched out his hand to pull out the rag from the man in black.

"Hit! Hire! I'll do it! I'll say anything! Don't fight, sir! I'll tell you whatever you ask." The man in black said a series of words.

"It turns out that this guy has been willing to talk for a long time." Yang Denghuan said with a smile.

"Impossible! He must have lied to us! I've seen this guy a lot! They call this 'torture'! As soon as we beat him, he would confess, but if you asked, he would start talking nonsense again. You beat me again He, he said he wanted to recruit again, but he is just playing tricks on us! We have to give him at least fifty lashes first to give him a head start." The tall man said with a smile.

"Then let's fight for a while longer?" Yang Deng said with a smile.

"At least fifty lashes, otherwise even if you confess, you can't guarantee that it's the truth!"

After the tall man finished speaking, without waiting for Yang Denghuan to speak, he picked up the whip in his hand, dropped it hard, and counted in his mouth: "Nine, ten, eleven..."

The man in black screamed and said incoherently: "Oh, oh, grandpa, please stop fighting... My name is Yang Song, the leader of the Taishan Gang... the right hall..."

The tall man kept pumping his hands faster and faster, saying: "Sixteen, seventeen..."

"stop!"

"Stop."

The thinner executioner and Yang Denghuan said almost in unison.

"Eighteen, nineteen..." The tall man whipped the whip twice more in his hand and said, "One more time and we'll be tied!"

The thin executioner quickly stretched out his hand and held the tall man's arm.

"Didn't you hear the commander telling you to stop?"

"I heard you, if you do it again, stop!" The tall man made a gesture to do it again.

"He's already willing to recruit!" said the thin man.

Liang Dabeard, who was standing by, suddenly said coldly: "You seem to sympathize with him!"

The thin man was stunned for a moment, startled, and quickly let go of his hand. The tall man whipped the man in black hard with his backhand, and the man in black screamed.

"Twenty!" the tall man shouted, and then said with a smile: "Okay, it's a tie! You didn't lose, and I didn't win! This kid is really a character, he really withstood twenty lashes!"

The thin man was very dissatisfied and said angrily: "What a tie! He was willing to do it a long time ago! If you hadn't blocked his mouth, he would have done it as soon as the whip was lifted!"

"Impossible! What did he say just now? He said he was the hall master! Hall master! Why can't he bear twenty lashes!"

Liang Bearded seemed to have noticed something, and frowned and asked, "What's going on with you two!" Yang Denghuan ignored the argument between them, walked over with his hands behind his back, and glanced at the man in black.

The man in black received nineteen lashes, and the tall man struck him harshly. The man in black was covered with whip marks.

"Just now you said your name is Yang Song and you are from the Taishan Gang?" Yang Denghuan asked.

"Grandpa, grandpa, don't hit me, I am willing to confess! I am willing to confess." Yang Song said almost crying.

"You look like a bear, you don't look like a figure in the world!" Yang Deng said with a smile.

"A good man doesn't suffer immediate losses. I'm a hero, so I can't suffer immediate losses." Yang Song secretly glanced at Yang Denghuan and said.

"First tell me what's going on with your Taishan Gang." Yang Denghuan asked.

"You don't need to ask him about this, I know a little bit about it." Liang Bearded smiled behind him.

"That's better, just to verify whether this kid is telling lies. If he is telling lies, just hand him over to the two of them." Yang Denghuan smiled again.

"The truth, it's all the truth! If I tell a lie, you can do whatever you want!" The man in black said quickly, with a very sincere tone.

"Tell me what's going on with your Taishan Gang?" Yang Denghuan asked.

"Originally, we were all working at the riverside wharf on Huangpu Road in the public concession, earning some cool money by carrying goods." said the man in black.

"Isn't this great? You rely on your strength to make a living." Yang Denghuan said.

"But the bowl of rice on the dock is not something anyone can eat. It depends on their ability. There are various forces on the dock, and they are basically divided by region. For example, the 'Jiangbei Gang', most of its members are The members of the "Henan Gang" who are from Jiangbei are basically from Henan. The same is true for our "Taishan Gang", most of whom are from Shandong Province.

At first, it was to compete for territory and supply of goods, but later it developed into controlling the streets and collecting protection fees from merchants and cargo owners.Our "Taishan Gang" has a large number of people, and we also dare to fight and charge, which has also gained some prestige on the dock. "

After Yang Song finished speaking, Liang Bearded nodded and said: "This guy is right. To put it bluntly, the 'Taishan Gang' is just a gangster in a porter's business!"

"Who asked you to come today? What is the purpose of coming?" Yang Denghuan asked again.

"Jiang Daya, the boss of Hongtong Gambling House!" Yang Song said quickly.

"Hongtong Gambling House? Where is it?" Yang Denghuan asked.

"It's right next to the pier. Sometimes the porters like to go there and gamble when they make money." Yang Song said.

"What do you want us to do?" Yang Denghuan asked again.

"Jiang Daya, the owner of Hongtong Gambling House, came to me tonight and said that there was a man who owed him money and asked us to catch him. At that time, each brother would pay two yuan for hard work. I think it's a good deal, no. Is it just a trip to arrest someone, let alone someone who is in debt? This is not easy!

So I agreed without saying a word and took the others to the New Asia Hotel. Who knew I would meet you? If I had known it was so hard to earn money, I wouldn't have come even if I killed us. "

When Yang Song said this, he felt a little aggrieved and sighed helplessly.

"Did he tell you the appearance of the debtor?" Yang Denghuan asked again.

"No. He just told us, room 510, that we can just arrest the person we see when we enter the room." Yang Song shook his head and said.

"Didn't say? Isn't he afraid of arresting the wrong person?" Yang Denghuan asked again.

"I didn't say anything. Jiang Daya said, just enter and arrest the person according to the room number."

"How much do you know about Jiang Daya?" Yang Denghuan asked.

"Jiang Daya..." Yang Song hesitated for a moment, and then said: "This person also ran a boat before. He seemed to be in a shipping company. Later, he got rich somehow, and then he stopped running a boat. Opened a gambling house by the dock. It specializes in making money from sailors and porters."

"Which shipping company?" Yang Denghuan asked.

"What's the name...what...it seems to be a shipping company run by the Japanese." Yang Song seemed unable to remember, looking like he was racking his brains.

"Qinghe?" Yang Denghuan reminded tentatively.

"Yes! It's Qinghe!" Yang Song finally remembered and said.

Yang Denghuan stopped asking questions. It would be useless to continue asking questions even if he knew it.

Obviously, Yang Song and his "Taishan Gang" are nothing more than abandoned sons.If I ask again, I probably won’t be able to tell anything.

However, the Hongtong Gambling House is a bit interesting. Following the vine, I wonder if I can dig out the melon hidden behind it.

Yang Denghuan and Cao Youguang walked out of the torture room side by side, walked through the corridor in a blink of an eye, pushed open a heavy iron door, and saw a long staircase in front of them.

After reaching the ground, the two people entered Cao Youguang's office.

"The clues about the man in black are gone! Now there is only one clue about Hongtong Gambling House." Cao Youguang sighed and said.

Just as Yang Denghuan was about to speak, the office door opened. Du Jianxi poured water for the two of them, and then respectfully withdrew.

"Where is Zhou Yanwu? Why haven't you seen him?" Yang Denghuan then remembered that he seemed to have not seen Zhou Yanwu since he came out of Xinya Hotel.

"I asked him to do something." Cao Youguang said, but he did not say what Zhou Yanwu did specifically. After hearing this, Yang Denghuan stopped asking.

"Now we can only send people to keep an eye on Hongtong Gambling House!" Cao Youguang said with a sigh.

Cao Youguang was unwilling to give in. He put so much effort into contacting the arresting bureau and dispatching troops, and he actually captured a group of Xibei people!

It seems that there is a traitor within myself!If we don't dig out this traitor, I'm afraid there's a chance that secrets will be leaked in future actions.

However, the time given by Director Dai is one month. In such a short period of time, both solving the case and catching the traitor may be a bit rushed.

Cao Youguang planned to divide the work between himself and Yu Duxing. He would be responsible for solving the case, and Yu Duxing would be responsible for catching the traitor, a two-pronged approach.

"Even if you stare at Jiang Daya at Hongtong Gambling House, I'm afraid it won't have any effect." Yang Denghuan shook his head.

Cao Youguang smiled bitterly after hearing this and nodded in sympathy.

How could Cao Youguang not be clear about it? Since Jiang Daya dared to jump into the open, he would naturally not be afraid of you coming to investigate. He would naturally have a way to deal with it!

However, Jiang Daya can at least explain one problem. This case is related to the Japanese!
It’s Japanese again!It’s really everywhere and pervasive!Cao Youguang thought bitterly.

"Tell me, who are those Japanese people?" Cao Youguang asked with a frown.

Yang Denghuan frowned and ignored Cao Youguang, but suddenly asked: "Old Cao, do you still remember that one of the waiters at the Sanxin Hotel mentioned that one of them cursed 'you bastard'?"

Cao Youguang nodded, as if he didn't mind at all when Yang Denghuan called him Lao Cao.

"I feel something is wrong." Yang Denghuan thought for a while and said.

"That's wrong? What's wrong? Isn't that how everyone curses people? They, the underworld figures, are all rude!" Cao Youguang said indifferently, as if he didn't pay attention to it.

Yang Denghuan slowly shook his head and said, "I still feel something is wrong!"

Cao Youguang was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Yang Denghuan with doubtful eyes. (End of chapter)