Zhao Desheng had just arrived at Beiying and was captured when he passed the checkpoint. The woman who was traveling with him was his confidante, a famous southern opera actress in Jinkang named Meng Xuemei.
Lu Ming was a little surprised, but it was obvious that the world had been peaceful for too long, and there was a lack of experience in underground organization struggles, hiding, and evading pursuit, and there were few content related to these aspects in film and television works and novels.
Zhao Desheng had only stuck on a fake beard, and seeing that there was no reward notice, he and his female companion Meng Xuemei hurried to the ferry. When they encountered a checkpoint, they did not pay much attention and were arrested on the spot.
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Dark dungeon.
It was a private prison built by a wealthy landlord in Beiying on a small island in the middle of the river. It had been vacant for a long time, and the landlord and his family had long since died out.
It has been reopened today and looks even more eerie.
Zhao Desheng was tied tightly with ropes to a wooden stake that looked like a cross, but he was not seriously injured. He was tall and strong, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. At this moment, his face was full of anger as he stared at Lu Ming.
Lu Ming ignored it.
Standing in front of Zhao Desheng were several ferocious men in white shirts and green military pants, preparing torture instruments, charcoal basins, branding irons, pepper water, etc.
Due to the film and television dramas he had seen in his previous life, Lu Ming had a natural aversion to this kind of outfit of white shirt and military pants, but there was nothing he could do because that was the uniform.
These strong men are members of the military police team directly under the Inspectorate. The real duties of the military police are naturally to supervise and maintain military discipline, ensure the execution of military orders, set up military courts, etc. However, during the suppression of the rebellion and the current martial law period, they are also responsible for the arrest, inspection and interrogation of civilian rioters.
The tall and thin middle-aged man standing respectfully beside Lu Ming is the captain of the gendarmerie, Lu Gaoyi. He is wearing the uniform of an army lieutenant colonel. Facing Lu Ming, his face is full of fawning smiles, but in fact he is cruel and ruthless, a complete smiling tiger.
In order to strengthen the company structure, the Inspectorate's Military Police Team has about 200 military policemen, but their ranks are high. Lu Gaoyi is given the rank of lieutenant colonel, which is similar to the rank of a regular colonel or ordinary deputy colonel-level officer who is promoted faster.
Lu Gaoyi also serves as deputy chief of staff of the brigade staff.
Lu Ming drank his tea and ignored Zhao Desheng's hateful gaze. At this time, he nodded to Lu Gao.
Lu Gaoyi, who had been lowering his head and slightly bowing his body, turned to Zhao Desheng and walked towards him. His face full of humility turned into viciousness. He walked up to Zhao Desheng, grabbed his chin, and slapped him left and right, giving him several loud slaps. Zhao Desheng's face immediately turned red and hot, and blood oozed from the corners of his mouth.
"Zhao Desheng, if you tell the truth, you won't have to suffer. You will have to tell the truth sooner or later. No one in this world has the nerves to endure the torture of punishment! Don't read too many novels and movies and pretend to be a hero. In the end, you will suffer in vain."
Zhao Desheng said nothing and closed his eyes.
Lu Gaoyi smiled coldly, "Do you know where this is? This place is neither part of the kingdom nor the territory of Jiangbei. It is a lawless place. Therefore, the imperial law does not apply here. Even if you are tortured and die unexpectedly, there will be no legal problems!"
Zhao Desheng remained silent, as if accepting it calmly.
Outside, there was a sudden scream from a woman.
Zhao Desheng suddenly opened his eyes.
Outside the iron fence, several strong men were dragging a beautiful cheongsam woman with an attractive figure towards another interrogation room.
"What are you going to do?!" Zhao Desheng shouted suddenly.
When the woman heard Zhao Desheng's voice, she turned around and her pretty face turned pale: "Brother Sheng, Brother Sheng..." She wanted to struggle, but how could she struggle to get away? She was dragged forward and could only look at Zhao Desheng helplessly, with tears of despair in her eyes.
"If you're a man, let her go!" Veins bulged on Zhao Desheng's forehead. He tried hard to break free from the ropes, but his body was so tightly bound that he couldn't move at all.
Lu Gaoyi sneered: "Where do you think this place is? Are these little hooligans who are brave and aggressive? Are they kidding you? Men? They are all men!" As he said that, he looked at the burly men who were dragging the woman and gradually disappeared, and laughed.
Lu Ming stood up and walked out. Even though it was just an act, he couldn't bear to watch it any longer and felt very uncomfortable.
It might be difficult for me to become a hero or something like that.
I can't even become the kind of decisive and murderous hero like in movies and TV shows.
Probably, it will disappoint Biju, Liuli and others.
But, so what
I am who I am, that's who I am.
While thinking, Lu Ming stopped and looked at another interrogation room with a half-open iron door on the side. He suddenly frowned, strode over, kicked the door open and entered.
In the inner room, several strong men were pressing the beautiful young woman in cheongsam onto the straw and kissing and touching her. The beautiful young woman had her mouth blocked by a cloth and was struggling and whimpering.
Lu Ming felt a surge of anger rushing to his head, so he quickly walked over and kicked him hard.
When several strong men turned around and saw Lu Ming rushing towards them, their faces turned pale with fear. They were pulled away by Lu Ming and kicked and beaten even harder. How could they dare to resist? Even after being kicked down by Lu Ming, they struggled to get up and continued to stand in front of Lu Ming and get beaten.
Heitou and Yuluan, who were following behind Lu Ming, did not do anything but closed the thick iron door of the interrogation room.
The two girls could sense that their master was in a bad mood and knew that he was venting his emotions, so they did not step forward to help.
Finally, Lu Ming stopped. The four strong men were half squatting and half kneeling on the ground, and some of them had bruises on their faces.
"What did Lu Gaoyi tell you?!" Lu Ming lowered his voice, revealing a chill.
One of them was a team leader. He covered his burning eyes and said, "The commander said that we should act, but we are not allowed to take advantage of her... Yes, we were acting just now, but she was scared by us. In that situation, we, we couldn't help it, but, but we didn't want to really violate her..."
"Sir! We deserve to die, deserve to die!" The team leader slapped himself in the face.
Lu Ming glanced at the rest of the people, and they immediately began to slap themselves hard.
Lu Ming snorted coldly, "You guys continue, you can only stop when Miss Meng is satisfied."
In the interrogation room, the sound of slapping could be heard one after another.
Over there, Meng Xuemei curled up in the corner of the wall, her face full of fear.
After a long while, she finally came to her senses, and hurriedly straightened her clothes and looked at Lu Ming, "Please, please let Desheng go, please!" She then said, "Stop, stop hitting me..."
Several gendarmes stopped as if they had been pardoned. There were bloodstains at the corners of their mouths and their faces were severely red and swollen.
There was a gentle knock on the door of the interrogation room. It was Lu Gaoyi knocking on the door.
Lu Ming came out. Lu Gao, who was originally smiling flatteringly, lost his smile as soon as he saw Lu Ming's expression. He then looked at the military police kneeling upright in the crack of the door and vaguely understood what had happened. He immediately gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to kill these bastards later!"
He was certainly not a man who hated evil, but when several of his men embarrassed themselves in front of the commissioner, he really wanted to kill them.
Lu Ming waved his hand, "Have you explained?"
"Yes, I've explained everything!" Lu Gaoyi hurriedly opened the folder in his hand and handed it over with both hands. He should have flattered him by saying, "The Chairman is in control of the situation. The little rebellion is under his control." However, seeing that Lu Ming looked unhappy, he did not dare to say much.
He glanced at Yuluan and Heitou, his face full of fear. He was very afraid of these two little girls.
He was recommended for the position of military police captain by Hu Dingshan. He was originally a distant relative of Hu Dingshan. When Hu Dingshan was still a gangster, he was a company commander in the army and had helped Hu Dingshan before. Because many friends mean many paths, he felt that a gangster like Hu Dingshan might be useful sooner or later.
Sure enough, later on, Hu Dingshan became rich and powerful, but he could no longer see him. It was not until the new army was reorganized that Hu Dingshan remembered this relative.
When Lu Gaoyi first took office, he was very disrespectful to the chief of the gendarmerie, who was also this young commissioner.
People from Donghai are just wealthy and have money, so their personalities are probably softer. They think they are civilized and think fighting is barbaric. But in fact, they are just timid and cowardly, and have no courage.
Relying on the backing of a 20-year-old man, he got this position. Can he keep it? In the army, whether your words are effective or not, whether you have prestige or not, still depends on whether you have the ability to control your subordinates. Otherwise, you will just be a laughing stock in the eyes of the soldiers.
Then, when Lu Gaoyi took out a gun to play with it in the commissioner's office, he encountered the most terrifying day of his life.
He originally thought that the pretty girl was the young master's maid accompanying the army. Such behavior made him look down on the girl. In an instant, the gun in his hand was in her hand. Then, the throat, temple, heart, lower abdomen and almost all vital parts were pierced by a cold and sharp blade. No one knew what the blade was, but it was extremely sharp and terrifying, thinner than a bayonet and thicker than a long needle. In the blink of an eye, the blade was at the throat, and in another blink, the blade was already at the chest.
After returning, he found that his military uniform had become like a sieve, with holes everywhere.
That scene really felt like a matter of life and death. If the other party had intended it, I would have died hundreds of times in that instant.
The little girl smiled and said, "It is a great blessing for you to serve my master, you ignorant slave! Where do you think this is? How dare you play with fancy guns?"
The pistol that floated in front of him in the void was immediately twisted and deformed into a pretzel, truly becoming a "flower gun".
"Next time, you will bloom like it!"
At that time, I was filled with fear when I heard these words. It was like a divine voice begging for mercy, and I almost knelt down and kowtowed.
When I think of that scene now, my heart still beats wildly.
Lu Gao didn't dare to look at the two lovely little maids, but just secretly glanced at Lu Ming's face.
Lu Ming looked at the densely written words on the transcript in the folder and nodded.
Suddenly he realized something and looked at Lu Gaoyi, "I heard that you drank outside and told others that you and I are from the same clan. Are you actually my nephew? According to seniority, you should call me Dad?"
Lu Gao's face turned pale immediately, and he stammered: "Chairman, I... I..."
Lu Ming waved his hand, "If my relatives violate military discipline, the crime will be even more serious!"
"Yes, yes..." Lu Gaoyi took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat off his forehead. Suddenly, an idea came to his mind, "I will definitely not embarrass Dad!"
Lu Ming was stunned. He didn't expect that he could take advantage of the situation. A man in his forties, calling himself "son" was really shameless.
I couldn't help laughing for a moment, but I held it back and snorted coldly.
Yu Luan whispered behind him, "You are still far from being my master's Taibao and King Kong. Aren't you afraid of shortening your life if you say it out loud?"
"Yes, yes!" Lu Gao responded repeatedly.
Seeing Lu Ming was about to leave, Lu Gaoyi hesitated for a moment, but still caught up with him and asked in a low voice: "Big Dad is as strategic as a god, but as Big Dad said, this place is not subject to the jurisdiction of the imperial law. Can my gendarmerie really set up a base here to interrogate some special prisoners? I know that Big Dad prefers the law to lynching. Here, only the most vicious criminals are extradited. What do you think, Big Dad?"
Lu Ming looked at him and nodded in his heart. From a certain perspective, Lu Gaoyi was indeed a talent, especially as the captain of the gendarmerie. It was a good way to make the best use of his talents. Hu Dingshan did have some vision.
For example, he remembered the Guantanamo prison in his previous life, so he used a similar enclave as a prison to scare Zhao Desheng.
Lu Gaoyi immediately realized that setting up a special prison here would be of great help to the gendarmerie in investigating some cases.
And even though he was extremely scared of himself and knew that he was in a bad mood, he would still catch up with me and express his opinions.
After a brief pause, Lu Ming nodded: "I agree in principle, but the detailed information of every extradited criminal must be reported to the office, and my signature must be obtained before the extradition can be carried out."
"Yes!" Lu Gaoyi stood at attention, "I will definitely not disappoint the Chairman!"
Even under the military salute, he still used the formal title, which made him appear to be able to clearly distinguish between public and private matters and to act with reason, so that no one could find fault with him.
After looking at him deeply, Lu Ming walked out, and Yu Luan and Heitou followed.