The 18th year of the Da Yong reign: The beginning of the story involves rescuing revolutionaries.

Enraged, Wang Zhi's right hand bulged with veins, and the iron bars snapped in his palm.

"You're talking nonsense! You're making baseless accusations, Liu Fugui! You need evidence to back up your claims. When did we ask you to confess?"

"I'm clearly asking you to confess the methods you've used to oppress the people over the years. What rebel party, what collusion, I have no idea."

The speaker was the official who had been leading the way. He pointed at the skinny monkey in the cell and spoke with great excitement, spitting as he spoke.

He was now filled with deep regret. After discovering Director Zhou's attitude outside the torture chamber, he wished he could slap himself again for being so talkative.

The old officer in charge of the keys, whose eyesight was failing, couldn't find the key to the corresponding cell door for a while. Then he turned around and saw this fierce-looking guy suddenly snap the iron bars in half, which startled him so much that the key clattered to the ground.

Even Zhou An felt a jolt of fear and a pounding in his heart when he witnessed Wang Zhi's violent behavior.

He immediately turned to his subordinate and scolded, "Xiao Yong, what exactly happened? I only asked you to call a few brothers from the Da Xing Gang for questioning, and after I've been gone for a few days, you've become like this?"

The officer named Xiao Yong was inwardly groaning, rolling his eyes as he wondered what was going on. What's going on? Don't you know?

However, he dared not speak his true feelings, but bowed and protested: "Your Honor, it was just as I said. It was a routine inquiry to find out about the situation of the rebels in the city. Then we received a report from the people that their farmland had been seized, so we conducted an investigation."

"However, in the process, because the evidence was conclusive and the person still refused to confess, the methods were somewhat crude."

As for lies, Xiao Yong can make them up as soon as he opens his mouth. As for evidence, it's easy for him to fabricate a few police reports from ordinary people. He can even make the living seem dead. Besides, the Daxing Gang's reputation is not clean to begin with.

"Okay, I got it." Zhou An interrupted him, thankfully the kid was quick-witted.

He turned his gaze to the elderly officer and said, "Hurry up and open the cell door, you blind fool."

"Yes, yes."

The elderly officer hurriedly picked up the key and, trembling, went to open the door.

During this time, Wang Zhi silently observed the injuries on the skinny monkey's body, trying to calm himself down.

I'm thinking about some of the consequences.

Skinny Monkey simply shook his head: "Boss, everything I said is true, I would never lie to you."

Finally, the cell door opened, and Wang Zhi helped the skinny monkey out and helped him sit down on a bench outside.

Zhou An looked at Wang Zhi, who remained silent, and had no idea what the man was thinking.

He then looked at Xiao Yong and continued, "What about the rest of the Da Xing Gang? How are they doing?"

Xiao Yong muttered to himself upon hearing this. What else could it be? Everything was fine, wasn't it all because of your orders? You said to pick the weakest one, and when you saw Liu Fugui's skinny appearance, you said to use him as a breakthrough.

Who knew that although these bones were thin, they were actually really hard?

Xiao Yong replied, "Sir, they are all staying safely in their cells."

"Hurry up and release them all for Chief Wang," Zhou An said.

Xiao Yong nodded repeatedly, snatched the keys from the old officer, and ran away nimbly.

Standing in front of Liu Fugui and the gang leader, Xiao Yong felt a chill run down his spine.

Once Xiao Yong left, only Wang Zhi and Zhou An remained at the square table. As for the old constable, he was so frightened that he huddled against the corner of the wall.

The candlelight on the table flickered gently.

Zhou An cupped his hands in greeting and said with a smile, "Chief Wang, please wait a moment. He will be here shortly."

Wang Zhi was now able to look at Zhou An with a calm gaze.

He had been thinking that these people could have concealed their true intentions and communicated privately, but instead they did nothing and led him directly to the torture chamber.

This behavior reveals their long-standing arrogance, the arrogance of officials, their sense of entitlement, and their belief that the king would never dare to do anything.

The most ridiculous thing is that if it were the original him, he probably really wouldn't dare to do anything.

The five words "the people will not fight against the officials" are deeply ingrained in the bones of ordinary people.

One by one, the gang members came out from behind. In the dim light, they were surprised to see the gang leader and came forward to greet him: "Greetings, Gang Leader."

Besides, the other flag leaders also saw the skinny monkey's miserable state, though they didn't say anything, they felt sorry for him.

"Hmm." Wang Zhi nodded, his eyes sweeping over each of them. Just as he had said before, these people all seemed to be doing well and had not been subjected to any severe torture, obviously because they hadn't had time to be tortured yet.

Once they were standing behind him.

Wang Zhi then stood up: "Director Zhou, do you know that there is a Datong Money Exchange in Zhaoyang City?"

"I know that, it's part of the Shen family's business." Zhou An nodded, wondering why the man surnamed Wang had suddenly brought up the money exchange.

"I wonder if Director Zhou has ever deposited money at Datong Money Shop? Datong Money Shop has a type of deposit and withdrawal interest called 'reverse interest'."

"What exactly do you want to say?" Zhou An was getting impatient with the questioning, and even the alcohol had sobered him up a bit.

"No rush. This deduction means that when you deposit the money, Datong Money Shop will pay you interest in advance."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a flash of light, as fast as lightning, disappeared in an instant.

Before anyone present could react...

A heart-wrenching scream rang out from Zhou An.

A tiny finger, flying in mid-air.

Zhou An knelt on the ground, clutching his bleeding left hand, his forehead covered in cold sweat, his eyes filled with resentment as he glared at Wang Zhi: "Wang Luoyun, are you fucking crazy?!"

The shrill, hoarse screams seemed to come from the deepest hell.

He, Zhou An, had never suffered such a crime and humiliation.

"Zhou Chu, this finger is my way of charging you some interest."

"If you feel you've been cheated, you can bring more people to collect the debt."

"Let's go." After saying that, Wang Zhi didn't even look at Zhou An and the others, turned around and led his gang away.

Zhou An was left standing there, glaring resentfully at Wang Zhi's retreating figure.

The two officers were shocked to see that their master had lost a finger, and they were so frightened that they wanted to draw their swords but couldn't bring themselves to do so.

It wasn't until everyone had left that...

Xiao Yong stammered, "M-Sir, are we just... just letting them go like this?"

Zhou An's chest heaved with pain and anger. Several times he wanted to draw his gun, but he held back. He had a bad feeling that if he dared to draw his gun, he would die.

There are too many rebels these days. The Daxing Gang has grown too powerful, and we dare not provoke them, lest we really push them too far.

He only has one life.

"Damn it, hurry up and help me to the clinic!" Zhou An shouted angrily, venting his rage.

At the same time, he secretly vowed that when the provincial officials arrived, he would personally chop off Wang's fingers one by one, then cut off his nose and ears before stabbing him to death, only then would he be able to vent his hatred.

Outside the county government office.

Skinny Monkey, supported by his brothers, went ahead to the clinic.

Wang Zhi looked up at the slightly blinding sunlight. He thought to himself, "A common man's anger can cause bloodshed within five steps. I, Wang Zhi, will fight against the officials."