Zhou Jiande looked at the two guys sitting on the couch, his vision went blank for a second. He knew damn well what these two were here for.

They came with bad intentions. Zhou Jiande didn’t say a word, took two steps back, yanked the door open and tried to bolt.

But as soon as he opened the door, a foot came flying at him.

Caught off guard, Zhou Jiande had no way to dodge, and that kick sent him flying back into the room.

The two men in sunglasses standing outside walked in and casually shut the door.

"You... who the hell are you?" Zhou Jiande looked at the two men in shades and asked.

"Cut the crap. Get over there."

The man in sunglasses said, yanking Zhou Jiande up from the floor and dragging him over to the two people on the couch.

"What do you want?" Zhou Jiande looked at the two sitting on the couch and asked.

"Heh. What do we want? What do you think?" The man let out a cold laugh and stared at Zhou Jiande.

"I’m a cop. I’m warning you, you’d better not do anything stupid." Zhou Jiande threatened, with zero confidence in his voice.

"A cop? Wow, we’re so scared." The man chuckled. "Zhou Jiande, how about you tell us how you managed to escape last night?"

"I... I slipped out when I got the chance, what about it?" Zhou Jiande asked, looking at him.

"Nothing. We’re here today to send you to join them, that’s all." The man smiled.

"You... you’re going to kill me?" Zhou Jiande frowned.

"That’s right. You know too much, and you’re no use to us anymore. So you have to die." The man toyed with the dagger in his hand and smiled.

"What you’re doing is against the law." Zhou Jiande struggled free a bit and got up from the floor.

But before he could fully stand, one of the two men in sunglasses behind him kicked him back down.

The man on the couch smiled, produced a small bottle of pills in his hand, and set it on the coffee table. "Relax, we won’t let you die too painfully. Compared to Lu Quansheng and the others, you’re the lucky one. Swallow this and everything’s over. You wanna take it yourself or do we feed it to you?"

Looking at the pill bottle on the table, Zhou Jiande seemed to deflate, his whole body coming apart at the seams.

"I busted my ass working for you people. You really can’t leave me a way out?" Zhou Jiande begged.

"Heh, I’d love to give you a way out, but it’s not up to me. Orders from upstairs. I’m just following orders. So if you’ve got grievances, take them to Yama Hall and complain to King Yan. You have to die. You know too damn much." The man said with a grin.

Zhou Jiande closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then slowly reached for the pill bottle on the coffee table.

"Heh, sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Never thought reality would be this ruthless, that I’d end up playing myself to death." Zhou Jiande stared at the bottle and gave a self-mocking smile.

As a captain in the criminal police, he was a big shot in other people’s eyes, a real badass. But he just had to be greedy. Only now, at death’s door, did he regret it—way too late.

"Hurry up. We’ve got a lot of other shit to deal with." The small-time boss on the couch said.

Zhou Jiande held the bottle, slowly unscrewed it, then glanced at the two men in sunglasses standing beside him.

He looked at the pills in the bottle, slowly brought it to his mouth. Just as he was about to swallow, he suddenly rammed hard into the two men in sunglasses, then quickly darted back and yanked the gun from his waistband.

Because Zhou Jiande was a criminal police captain, he always carried his service pistol. In this situation, all he could do was fight. He didn’t want to just roll over and die. If he fought, maybe there was still a chance.

"Nobody move, or I’ll shoot." Gun in hand, Zhou Jiande aimed at the boss on the couch.

The boss on the couch looked at Zhou Jiande and chuckled, not the least bit flustered. "You’ve only got one gun. There are four of us. Even if you shoot, you’re still dead."

"Fine. Even if I die, as long as someone goes in the ground with me, it’s worth it. Nobody move." Zhou Jiande waved the gun, warning them.

The man smiled and shook his head, then said to the two men in sunglasses beside him, "Looks like he still needs a little help from us."

The two men in sunglasses heard the little boss and exchanged a knowing nod. Then they suddenly moved, barely giving Zhou Jiande any time to react, and in an instant flashed to his side.

Still in shock, Zhou Jiande felt a stab of pain in his wrist, and before he knew it, the gun had fallen from his hand onto the floor.

One of the men in sunglasses clamped a vicious hand around Zhou Jiande’s neck, while the other grabbed the bottle and forced the pills into his mouth.

After Zhou Jiande swallowed the pills, the man in sunglasses finally let go. Zhou Jiande immediately went limp and collapsed to the floor, his whole body starting to convulse.

The little boss on the couch stood up, looked down at Zhou Jiande on the floor, and said to the two, "Clean up the scene. Make it tidy."

"Got it." The two men in sunglasses nodded.

Cut back to the Zhengzhou swimming pool. Lin Mu and Man Luo were still splashing around like a lovey-dovey couple.

"Pervert, what the hell do you think you’re doing?" In the shallow end, Man Luo glared fiercely at Lin Mu. This animal was doing little sneaky moves under the water, and that kind of "little move" was enough to make anyone blush.

Lin Mu grinned and slapped Man Luo’s springy butt. "Teaching you how to swim."

"Drop dead, I don’t need you to teach me. I know how to swim." Man Luo punched Lin Mu. Obviously this bastard just wanted to take advantage of her.

"Even if you can swim, your bro here still has to teach you." Lin Mu grinned, then lunged at Man Luo.

"Ah—bastard, I’m gonna fight you!"

Lin Mu and Man Luo screamed and shouted as they fooled around in the shallow end like a pair of lovebirds in the water, basically farming hatred from the pack of male animals around them. Every guy on the scene was secretly glaring daggers at Lin Mu, green with envy. If only they could switch places with him for a bit.

"Ah, look, Feifei’s here."

"Whoa, it really is Feifei. Hurry up and get out of the way!"

"Move, move, or that tigress will bite your manhood off!"

In the blink of an eye, the group of male animals who’d been admiring Man Luo saw a few fat women heading toward the pool, and immediately retreated to the other side of the pool. Whether they were in the deep end or the shallow end, everyone tactfully backed off to one corner of the pool.

Lin Mu was confused. Where the hell were all these animals running off to? Of course, he didn’t think too much about it. With everyone gone, he could spend more time teaching Man Luo how to swim.

"Hey, you two." A rough voice suddenly came from the edge of the shallow end. But that rough voice wasn’t a man’s—it belonged to a woman. It was pure tomboy energy. Just from the sound alone, without even looking, you could tell the speaker was a total meathead.