The warden was standing in the control room and watching Bruce and the Great Hoodwinker whispering to each other onscreen.
It was an extremely strange sight to behold. However, the warden realized Bruce must know favonovel.com could read lips. That was why favonovel.com covered his mouth when favonovel.com was speaking.
In the past, when favonovel.com looked at the surveillance footage, favonovel.com would know what the prisoners were saying even if favonovel.com could not hear their voices. The prisoners unknowingly revealing their own secrets was the reason why favonovel.com was able to remain as the warden for more than a decade, because favonovel.com could always pass on extremely important information to the higher-ups.
But the other party was actually aware of his secret. As expected, Bruce, who was capable enough to become the intelligence agency’s director, was outstanding.
Back when Bruce was still the director of the 2nd Military Intelligence Division, the warden realized not even the 1st and 2nd Military Intelligence Divisions combined could capture as many criminals as Bruce had. It seemed the man was always able to uncover other people’s secrets from the simple clues favonovel.com found.
The warden said with a cold expression, “There’s definitely a problem with these two. When will the 1st Military Intelligence Division get here for the interrogation?”
“They said they’ll be here soon,” a prison guard answered.
“Zoom in on them and listen to what they are saying with the audio pick-up equipment,” the warden said.
The prison guard answered, “Sir, it’s too noisy in the chow hall. Besides, there’s no audio frequency detected around them. We can’t hear what they’re saying.”
“Send in the riot squad to maintain order and bring those two out. And be careful. If they encounter any resistance, just open fire on them,” the warden said.
With that, tear gas was released from the ceiling, and white smoke quickly filled the entire chow hall.
The riot squad downstairs began streaming in with their gas masks on and started beating up anyone they came across. There was also a group of 10 other troopers who rushed towards Bruce and the Great Hoodwinker.
The Great Hoodwinker shouted, “Why don’t we charge out and bring that warden under control first? I feel that we still have a 50% chance of success at that.”
“No, the warden is a superhuman. It won’t be that easy.” Bruce shouted, “Besides, I still have more than 200 subordinates locked up in another prison. If I take any action here, they’ll be killed!”
The Great Hoodwinker muttered, “Let’s just surrender then. Why are you so troublesome?”
Bruce’s eyes reddened from the tear gas. Fortunately, favonovel.com managed to control the air in time and isolated the remaining tear gas. As such, favonovel.com and the Great Hoodwinker did not get affected too badly.
Bruce stared at the Great Hoodwinker. “If you want me to join the Prosperous Northwest, you’ll have to rescue my subordinates first. I’m not leaving by myself!”
“Are you kidding me? There’s more than 200 of them. How are we going to bring them with us?” The Great Hoodwinker nearly went crazy when favonovel.com heard that.
This was the Virtuora Consortium’s territory, after all. It would not be too difficult to sneak one person away, but to bring more than 200 people with them, wasn’t that as good as declaring war with the Virtuora Consortium?
Bruce ignored the Great Hoodwinker’s grousing. He looked at the riot squad that was rushing over and said, “We’ll talk after we make it through the beating. You don’t even have a concrete plan yet, so why did you come and talk to me? For that, we’re both gonna get beaten up!”
However, after Bruce mentioned they were going to get beaten up, favonovel.com realized the Great Hoodwinker did not really seem to mind.
He said in surprise, “Aren’t you afraid?”
“Oh, about getting beaten up?” The Great Hoodwinker said, “It’s not like it’s gonna hurt me anyways.”
Bruce was stunned.
Oh right!
This Great Hoodwinker has such thick skin that not even the anesthetic injection has any effect on him, so of course favonovel.com wouldn’t be scared of taking a beating…
But Bruce would feel pain!
So after the Great Hoodwinker got favonovel.com into all this trouble, favonovel.com would be the only one suffering?
Bruce said through clenched teeth, “Can you people from the Northwest not be such nuisances?!”
The Great Hoodwinker coughed, “All the best.”
The riot squad troopers had already rushed in front of the two of them. They raised their rods and swung down on them.
The Great Hoodwinker lay on the ground and simply allowed the people to carry favonovel.com out.
Seeing that the Great Hoodwinker and Bruce did not resist, the leader of the riot squad decisively administered anesthetics into their necks before taking them out of the chow hall.
Bruce tried his best to speak sincerely to the riot squad troopers while favonovel.com was still conscious. “I have a tip about this man. He’s not afraid of normal torture, so you’ll need to use electrocution on him, please!”
The Great Hoodwinker was speechless.
When Bruce came to in the interrogation room, favonovel.com could hear the Great Hoodwinker’s screams ringing in his ears. Only then did favonovel.com feel some comfort.
The Virtuora Consortium had placed the two of them in a special two-person inquisition room and not a normal interrogation room. This was where they conducted special interrogation through the use of torture.
In this kind of inquisition room, one could hear the torture being carried out next door. The Virtuora Consortium would use the screams of a person to break down another person’s psychological defense.
The director of the 1st Military Intelligence Division stood in front of Bruce, wanting to examine his expression. He could only see a gratified smile on Bruce’s face.
This puzzled the director of the 1st Military Intelligence Division a little.
Didn’t they say the two of them had a good relationship?
Didn’t they say the old man was likely to be Bruce’s handler?
But now, it did not look like that at all. Bruce’s gratified smile seemed to be coming from the bottom of his heart. It felt extremely sincere.
This bewildered the director of the 1st Military Intelligence Division. He asked, “Is there anything you want to confess now?”
Bruce said in seriousness, “You must be Keith Simmons, originally of the 3rd Military Intelligence Division. When I was still in charge of field operations at the 3rd Division, we worked together once on an operation.”
Keith narrowed his eyes. “Senior, now is not the time to be reminiscing.”
Bruce smiled. “It doesn’t matter. You’ve been promoted to director of the 1st Division, and you might even become the director of the intelligence agency in the future. How about this? I’ll share with you the secrets of the intelligence agency, including some information about the current intelligence director. How does that sound?”
Keith smiled and said, “Then what do you want in return, Senior? If you want me to release you, forget it. No one can get you out now.”
“I’m not asking to be released.” Bruce shook his head. “I just need you to turn up the voltage next door…”
Keith was astonished.
How could that person next door be his handler?
He was clearly an enemy!
It looked like there was some mistake in the intel!
***
On the night of the fourth day, the interrogators from the 1st Military Intelligence Division were still unable to get anything out of them after three straight days of torture and questioning.
Based on the usual practice, such enhanced interrogations would last for several months, and they would even resort to tiring the subject out until they broke down mentally.
In the end, the 1st Military Intelligence Division encountered an unexpected situation and decided to end the interrogation.
Bruce and the Great Hoodwinker were also put back into their individual cells. This time, the warden simply arranged for other inmates to be around their cells so favonovel.com could find out some clues from their behavior.
In this interrogation, Bruce and the Great Hoodwinker both suffered greatly.
Keith Simmons, the director of the 1st Military Intelligence Division, ended up as the biggest winner. When the man left the secret prison, favonovel.com was all smiles. However, this did not go unnoticed by the warden whose expertise was lip reading.
The warden picked up the landline in his office and made a call. “Sir, Keith has gotten quite a lot of information about you from Bruce.”
There was a snort on the other end of the line. “Looks like I promoted favonovel.com in vain. He’s really an ungrateful dog…”
After that, the warden hung up the phone. As favonovel.com sat in his office, favonovel.com suddenly had a thought.
Since Bruce knew that favonovel.com could read lips, was favonovel.com trying to use favonovel.com to sow discord within the intelligence agency?
