Chapter 607: Chapter 607: Capture the Ringleader to Capture the Followers
“What do you mean by that?” Ye Shikai interrogates the masked man while clutching at his throat.
“That person had ordered me, you were the man, I hadn’t recognized you before,” the masked man says tremblingly. Ye Shikai now understood why the clown took an explosive balloon to find him and even fired a gun directly; it was all someone else’s design. The masked man mistook that Ye Shikai had been bombed to death, but in reality, Ye Shikai had counter-killed the clown. Additionally, due to the dim lighting of the secret room, the masked man had only identified him now.
“It can’t be. I heard something about a large cleansing operation before, what is that?” Ye Shikai shook his head and continued his questioning, “Lie again, and I’ll kill you right now.”
“No, no, I absolutely did not lie,” the masked man got scared and knelt down quickly, begging for mercy.
“Then tell the whole truth.”
“We are indeed a terrorist organization, our plan this time was to cause panic by organizing bombing incidents locally,” the masked man immediately said. Upon hearing this, Ye Shikai wanted to slap him to death. It was because of people like him that many innocents had to sacrifice.
“Who is ordering you?” Ye Shikai held back his fury and asked, getting to the truth was his main objective now.
“Speak now!” Ye Shikai grabbed the dagger that was in the man’s abdomen, pressing it deeper.
“It’s, it’s Zeus, ah!”
“The twelve Main Gods, Zeus.”
“Yes, it’s him, I absolutely did not lie.”
“Bastard.” Fire burned in Ye Shikai’s eyes. Last time on Holy Mountain, when Zeus fled from Ye Shikai’s beating, Ye thought he would quiet down. But just after a few months, he started stirring trouble again, and Ye Shikai then resolved that he must eliminate Zeus.
“It was he who gave me a large sum of money, said when a man and a woman come, let us carry out the terrorist action and kill them,” the masked man quickly pointed behind to a bookshelf “All these explosives were provided by him.”
“After the bombs explode, were you planning to perish along with them?” Ye Shikai showed doubt.
“No, we have a secret passage that ensures we can escape in time,” the masked man said, his head looming lower. These people, glorifying it as a “large cleansing,” intended to sacrifice their lives, but in reality, they were just slaughtering unarmed civilians.
Ye Shikai sneered sharply, cursed loudly, and smashed his fist into the masked man’s face, shattering the skull mask into pieces.
Now, Ye Shikai roughly understood the whole scenario. This terrorist organization planned a terror bombing called “large cleansing” in the amusement park. Not expecting Zeus to get wind of Ye Shikai and Ji Qian’s visit there today, he bribed the terrorist leader massively to kill both using powerful gas bombs, effectuating a “hitchhike murder.”
A clever ruse. Through this, all the government’s and civilian’s attention was diverted towards the terrorist organization, and nobody would suspect Zeus had taken part in this plot.
“Did you tell your subordinates about Zeus bribing you?”
“No… no, I just ordered them, to kill on sight the moment they see you and that woman.”
Good strategy, so unless this leader was captured and interrogated, nobody would connect this incident to Zeus, a pity that he miscalculated one step, as Ye Shikai indeed forced this information out of him.
Zeus, I demand a blood debt paid in blood.
“Order your men right now to surrender unconditionally, drop their weapons, and walk out of the haunted house in line.” Ye Shikai paused, then suddenly thought of a good idea. Capture the king first since the enemy chief was captured and was cooperative, it was an excellent opportunity to force his men to surrender. Ye Shikai was glad he hadn’t killed him just before.
“Okay, okay, I’ll issue the order right away.” The man nodded continuously in agreement.
“By the way, since you know Main God Zeus, do you know who I am?” Ye Shikai asked with a cold laugh.
“May I ask who are you?”
“Netherworld… Lord of the Netherworld, it’s my fault, it’s my fault, it was all Zeus who made me do this.” After hearing this, the man panicked as if a cleaver was hanging over his neck, his eyes showing terror. Who doesn’t know, the power of Netherworld Palace in this region was vast, even Zeus in North America could not compare.
“You deserve to die, but it won’t be me who kills you,” Ye Shikai said coldly, glancing at the massive explosives behind him. It was alarming to think what would have happened if Zeus had succeeded. Also, these gas bombs had caught Ye Shikai’s attention; how did Zeus manage to develop such a new type of weapon? No, it must be taken back for thorough study. Ye Shikai took out his Storage Ring and stored ten gas bombs inside, leaving the rest for the police.
“Captain, we have surrounded the haunted house, and the bomb-disposal unit has dismantled the external explosives.”
“Captain, what should we do now?”
“Stay outside, do not act rashly,” Cheng Luoqi ordered her people.
“Captain, people are coming out of the haunted house.” At this moment, one squad member hurriedly reported.
“What, what’s going on?” Cheng Luoqi took out her binoculars, looking towards the entrance of the haunted house, seeing the terrorists walk out one by one with their hands over their heads, although expecting a fierce battle, surprisingly, each of them came out to surrender.
“Go check, but be wary, these people are madmen capable of any trick,” Cheng Luoqi said, her expression solemn, instructing her team to be cautious.
“Yes, Captain,” a few squad members beside her forwarded with guns ready, bullets loaded, ready to shoot at any suspicious move from the opposite side.
“We have come to surrender,” said a leader among them, it was the skull-masked man from earlier, but now, his mask had been smashed by Ye Shikai.
Then another group came out, comprised of women and children, led by a man and a woman, the woman being Ji Qian, the man obviously Ye Shikai.
“The hostages have come out, go forward to assist,” Cheng Luoqi quickly ordered, two squad members immediately went forward escorting the group of hostages to a safe place.
“Captain Cheng, I didn’t expect it to be you.”
“Captain Ye, even more so, how are you also inside?” Both were overwhelmingly surprised; Ye Shikai hadn’t expected that the Huaxia troops coming to the scene were from the Hong Kong’s SAD.