When facing strangers, Jiuyuan showed almost the highest proportion of harmlessness.

Being led out of here, the young man just looked around cautiously with a trembling look. There were several times when he seemed to want to speak but was not mentally prepared.

"Close your eyes." One of them ordered rudely. The young man shuddered at the sound and then closed his eyes obediently.

They covered Jiuyuan's eyes with a special blindfold and held him down like a prisoner.

"How rude." Jiuyuan was talking leisurely with the system, "Do they have any new tricks to play?"

[Are you going to be taken hostage? ]

"That would be great. That would suit me just fine. Unfortunately, it is known that these people with bad intentions are all cowards. They will not take me hostage."

【Why? 】

"Because dangers always happen unexpectedly, they don't dare to take the risk. If they cause me any harm during the execution, it will alarm the master behind the scenes and make him show up, and their plan will fail."

The master is the limiter set by Jiuyuan. In his eyes, the forces that are wary of this false master are not to be feared. Instead, the guys who do not take this master seriously are more worthy of Jiuyuan's attention, because such people are either powerful and self-righteous, or they think that their wisdom is enough to solve this problem.

Jiuyuan began to feel bored. If he didn't have to act, he would have wanted to yawn.

He was led by this group of people for a long time, but he realized that he was just taking a detour. They had taken a very short distance in a very long circle.

The system also noticed this and asked in confusion: [Why do they have to take such a long detour? ]

"It's very simple." The young man laughed in his heart. "In the dark, people's judgment will decline, and their spirit will become weak. Being suppressed by such a group of 'evil spirits' and walking such a long distance is just to make my psychological defenses collapse, trying to put pressure on me... This is just the beginning, the degree of pressure will definitely not be limited to this. Wait, they will have more tricks."

This group of people trapped Jiuyuan in the crowd and secretly transferred him to another room.

The door of the room was slammed shut, and this sound was the signal for the beginning of a new round of pressure.

"Bring him here." Shuzo Noguchi knocked on the table.

"sit down!"

The next second, Jiuyuan was roughly pressed on the chair, and the boy let out a muffled groan.

The boy's blindfold was suddenly removed, and the hair on his head trembled due to the rough movement. Finally, his flawless face was revealed. His eyelids were like those of some aquatic animals, and purple blood vessels could be seen under the light.

After seeing his face clearly, Noguchi Shuzo gritted his teeth.

(This is the kind of child that hangs out with monsters...)

When he thought of his fallen subordinates, his face turned unhappy.

When Jiuyuan opened his eyes, he saw the dark face of Noguchi Shuzo.

He looked around quietly - this room was obviously even more depressing than before, with dark, opaque walls and a cramped, long design. The only visual reference in the room was a lamp on the table.

Jiuyuan: "The intention of this room is very obvious. The next step is to interrogate..."

[System: You should be more nervous...]

"Let's see what this 'big shot' has to say."

[System: Big shot? Is this the person who attacked you behind the scenes? ]

"How is that possible?" Jiuyuan explained, "However, he should be that man's capable subordinate, or the first or second executor of his subordinates."

On the surface, the boy looked at Noguchi Shuzo with confusion and some fear.

His shocked expression somewhat pleased the other party, and Noguchi asked, "Mr. Yomiukawa, do you know why we brought you here?" He deliberately lowered his voice.

He shook his head: "I don't know."

"Your companions are invading our department's organs and wreaking havoc on such an important occasion." He paused, looked at Jiuyuan, then took out a tablet from the drawer and showed Jiuyuan the brutal behavior of Hachisha.

"We lost ten guards and more than twenty were seriously injured. Not only that, a valuable esper died as a result of his brutality, and another was seriously injured and is currently unknown."

"Do you know how important people with special abilities are as strategic resources?" He said sharply, "And the guards who died because of you, and the injured whose lives and deaths are unknown... How do you want me to face their families?"

"What's more, breaking into a government agency and using violence is a serious crime."

[System: Wow... But, we can't be sure whether it's a serious crime or not just based on his words...]

Jiuyuan: "He is just playing a language game by taking advantage of the information gap between us. I don't deny that this behavior may be a crime, but he may have said that the level 7 is level 10 to scare me... By the way, why do I feel that you have become a little smarter?"

【System: Really? 】

He was so happy that his heart was about to burst into tears when he heard this.

Jiuyuan: “Really.”

He felt that as his reputation grew, the system became smarter.

Here, facing Noguchi's accusation, Jiuyuan lowered his head without saying a word, and his shoulders shook unconsciously. From Noguchi's point of view, his intimidation had worked on him, so now he had to take advantage of the victory and pursue it.

If I keep blaming the child, it will be troublesome if he gets scared and is unable to move on to the next step.

So Noguchi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "...But we also know that this is not entirely your fault. The behavior of monsters may not be something you can control. It is a bit unfair to put all the sins on you."

The young man then raised his chin slightly and looked away with a rather pitiful and helpless look.

"only--"

"Huang Quanchuan, it is obviously impossible to let you go just like that."

He took out a piece of paper and pen, and said seriously: "Let's do the math. Do you know how much money we need to invest to train a security guard? Or the price of recruiting through an outsourcing company? In addition, we also provide them with military supplies through various channels..."

He wrote quickly on the paper, but Jiuyuan didn't even look at it. He acted timid and unwilling to face reality.

"Besides that, there are even more expensive people with special abilities. Our government departments regularly inspect people with special abilities, invest in training materials, and offer high salaries and other good benefits, as well as the potential benefits that a person with special abilities can bring..."

He wrote rapidly on the paper.

"These are the people who have been confirmed dead. In addition, there are those who are now lying in the hospital with varying degrees of injuries. Their medical expenses, hospitalization expenses, and subsequent recovery expenses, as well as their subsidies during this period... include an injured psychic, whose body will still be observed and adjusted after he recovers... If he is unable to recover, then the investment in him will be wasted..."

Soon, he wrote down terrifying astronomical figures on the paper.

If he were really a naive high school student, he might have jumped directly into Yokohama Port with this sky-high bill.

After Jiuyuan took the thin piece of paper, he felt as if someone had stuffed a thousand-pound rock into his chest and his body was shaking.

Noguchi gave himself a thumbs up with satisfaction.

"...I...Sir, I'm sorry...do you want me to pay for this?"

Noguchi frowned and asked as a matter of course, "Are we going to ask Hachishaku-sama for money? I heard that he is an employee of your store... Isn't it your responsibility as the boss?"

"I'm not a boss at all." Jiuyuan shook his head, "...I'm just an agent."

Noguchi knew he would say this, so he became serious.

"Fellow Huangquanchuan," he said, "if you think you can be worry-free by using the person behind you as a shield, you are totally wrong."

"We have investigated your past life. Before this, you have always lived a normal human life. I think you should know how powerful the official organization is. With just a little manipulation, it won't be difficult to make your life no longer peaceful. We can even make it impossible for you to return to human society forever."

"You don't want to see this kind of situation, do you?"

Noguchi had speculated on this matter with confidence.

Huangquanchuan must be more inclined towards humans, which means that he certainly cannot give up human life.

He saw the boy's face immediately turn grim.

"…Are you threatening me?"

"I don't want you to think that way." Noguchi said, "We could have solved it peacefully. We just need a reasonable compensation. Otherwise, even if I personally want to let you go, the families of those guards and those who have invested in people with special abilities will not let you go. We also want to let Huangquanchuan pay the compensation in order to keep things quiet..."

Jiuyuan heard the hidden meaning in his words, "Look, as long as you pay the money, we won't pursue the crime!"

It is simply a disguised form of "private settlement".

Jiuyuan bit his lower lip tightly and struggled in his heart for a long time.

"I'm... sorry, I can't make a decision on my own."

Noguchi's face immediately darkened.

"So you don't agree with this peaceful solution?"

"Yes." Jiuyuan said, "...or rather, I can't give it at all."

"I understand. Our friendly conversation ends here. You will be sent to another area as an important surveillance target, awaiting the judgment of the higher-ups."

After saying that, he pressed the button, and the person waiting outside the door came in and restrained Jiu Yuan just like before, and...

He was also handcuffed.

Jiuyuan looked a little unhappy, and Noguchi and the personnel in charge of the transfer took him to another place.

"Student Huang Quanchuan, before the order from above is issued, you still have a chance to regret..."

"No need." Jiuyuan's tone was a little cold this time.

Even though it was just acting, he hated being handcuffed and restricted from freedom.

He looked at Noguchi and said, "Have you said enough? If you have, let's go."

The next second, he felt a shock in his head.

Noguchi pushed him against the wall. Realizing what Noguchi was going to do, the people next to him whispered, "Calm down..."

"I'm calm." Noguchi grabbed Jiuyuan's collar and pulled him forward, "Get your position clear. You are now——"

The next second, the boy in front of him felt lighter and stopped being dragged by Noguchi.

Between the two of them, a stream of blood flew up.

The hand that Noguchi had just been holding onto Kuen's was cut off in the middle.

Along with the dull thud of severed limbs hitting the ground, everyone heard Hachishaku's frantic scream:

"How could you…"

"How could you touch him! How could you touch him!!!"