The hallway air felt rotten, with mould sticking almost everywhere, adding more to the smell. The lights worked, but poorly, flickering almost every minute. Totally opposite from the other hallways.
The rooms there were blocked by a locked metal gate to not let the person inside escape. However, despite being in a putrid condition, no insects were found, like it was heavily guarded.
The only normally maintained gate was the open entrance, guarded by two masked figures.
Lord Yin's heavy steps echoed throughout the hallway, with him the crow superior and two two-star high-ranking masked figures with a suitcase tightly clenched in their fists, accompanied by a five-star low-rank figure.
They stopped at the gate far away from the entrance, and one of the masked figures unlocked the door.
The metal door creaked slowly. Lord Yin stepped inside and accidentally pressed on a slowly decaying cheese pizza, whose toppings were arranged in a form to look like a human smiley face.
In fact, the whole room, which retained no difference from the hallway, had different food items scattered around, arranged to look like human faces.
In the corner, a man sat, his knees drawn up towards his chest and arms wrapped around his legs, holding his knees. He was terrified, red eyes locked towards Lord Yin like a puppy waiting to be released.
"Looks like you are feeling lonely," there was a hint of amusement in Lord Yin's tone.
The man in the corner possessed no facial hair, and man baldness coated in dust. The filthy red shirt and blue jeans clung to him.
"I have given you all the information," tears filled the man's petrified eyes, making them even more red. "Please let me go…"
Lord Yin chuckled. He got close to the man. Meanwhile, the man tried to retreat backwards, yet the walls didn't let him.
One masked figure firmly put the suitcase down and opened it, revealing a bunch of building tools stacked together.
Lord Yin grabbed one of the pliers from there.
"Two-star agents will leave," he ordered
calmly.
As soon as he spoke, the two-star figures got away and closed the door, leaving the five-star figure, crow superior, Lord Yin, and the feeble bald man.
The bald man's eyes widened in realization. Barely standing, he tried to reach the other corner.
"Please tell me what I have—" he tried to beg, but it was too late.
Lord Yin swung the pliers straight up towards the jaw of the bald man! He plummeted in, and some of his teeth fell. The poor man could only hold his jaw and wail in misery.
"Tell me who put the bomb in your house? You think you can outsmart me? I am the one who built this organization from nothing. I am the one who carried out an international terrorist attack and is still unharmed. They don't even know who I am."
Lord Yin raised his voice.
"And you think you could have fooled me!!"
"I… I don't know," the man cried.
Suddenly, he felt the pliers attach to one of his fingers. Before he could speak—
"Ahh!!!" The man screamed his throat out.
His left ring finger was cut down, blood splattering on the floor.
The crow superior watched in disbelief, and the five-star figure couldn't even watch the torture.
"Ahh!!"
One more scream came, one more finger down.
"Wait!! Wait!! I will tell you," said the man, sobbing.
Lord Yin put the blood-soaked pliers away. The bald man continued.
"When I was drunk one day, a man offered me a beer, and out of gratitude, I told him about the organization. I was scared to tell you," the man wept.
Lord Yin stayed silent. The crow superior and masked figure gulped, frightened to say something.
Lord Yin took the hammer from the suitcase, tightening his grip, and violently continued to smack down the man's both legs!!
Again.
And again.
The man screamed and begged.
"No!! Please!! Please stop!!"
The masked figure and crow superior couldn't do anything.
They watched in silence, their bodies shivering like they could feel the pain of the bones crushing one by one.
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Noah puked in the toilet bowl foully, his stomach burning from the constant vomiting, face submerged in sweat.
Crow superior stands outside waiting for him, he hears the flushed and sighs.
The gate opened, Noah's shakingly came out, the old incident still made his mind still haunting him.
"That man.. That man is a monster!!" Noah argued.
"Just be calm. Everything is alright. " Crow figures tried to calm the situation.
It fails miserably.
" How can I be calm!! "
Noah blasted.
He.. He brutally broke his leg, cut his fingers down and still didn't let that man die. Making him suffer every second and you are told to be calm?!! "
Crow superior softly presses the shoulder, he exhales.
"That bald man was our seventh superior. Elephant superior "
Those words hit Noah like an arrow.
"Wha.. "
" He tried to betray us and warn Lord Yin that to increase his money or he will leak our information "
"So you are torturing a guy for that" Naoh raised his eyebrows, still not convinced.
" i dont know "
Crow superior shrugged weakly.
"We aren't informed of the specific reason. I told you all what I know "
An awkward silence swallowed the room for a second.
" Well" Crow superior broke it.
"Do you wanna grab lunch or anything"
"Yeah sure" Noah coughs.
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In the Vyuk department, he and the mysterious figure explore the files.
"So these files are the plan of those criminal organization"
Vyuk goes through the file, he grabs his forehead in confusion, trying to understand what was in the file.
One of the file page had a chair diagram which looked like an electric one. A circular hat-like structure attached to the chair top with it handles having one level to both.
The file was unreadable because the language was unreadable, weird symbols were used to describe the chair structure and to write the file.
"What you thought?" Vyuk asked the mysterious figure in front of him, still hiding his face in the hoodie.
"Nothing.." He said flatly
As they tried to find something, the mysterious figure spoke.
"Look it at"
Vyuk took it and saw the White House diagram with something written down in the same, confusing language but there was a date.
12/12/25.