Then let the witch offer her loyalty

The young man looked refined and easygoing, but deep down he was a wolf who would devour people without spitting out the bones. He said three days meant three days, and he would never give an extra hour.

Unable to pay back the money owed?

Then they'd chop off hands, legs, even gouge out eyes... Zhou Haiwei had seen it all.

He shakily leaned against a telephone pole, got up from the ground, and pondered whether he should go somewhere to find a new opening and go all in again.

"Old Liu, I'll drop you off here."

"Take care, Brother Liu."

"Well, you guys go back."

Just then, Zhou Haiwei heard the voices of several people behind him.

Moreover, one of the voices sounded very familiar.

He instinctively looked back and found himself abandoned at the entrance of a park.

As a seasoned hoodlum from the outskirts, he knew that this industrial park was managed by a drug kingpin named "Sun Kan".

But that's not the point. The point is that among the three people standing at the park entrance, there was actually an acquaintance.

Wearing an oversized hoodie, her face was thin, and her pink hair shone brightly in the sunlight—

"Zhou...Zhou Yan?!"

Zhou Haiwei was somewhat incredulous, blinking his panda eyes hard, his expression full of astonishment.

When Zhou Yan saw Zhou Haiwei, he froze and his expression became somewhat unnatural.

Liu Dashan glanced at Zhou Haiwei with suspicion and asked Zhou Yan, "Who is this? Someone you know?"

Before Zhou Yan could answer, Zhou Haiwei jogged over, cursing, "What the hell are you doing here instead of staying at the Bureau?"

In an instant, the air seemed to freeze, becoming incredibly oppressive and suffocating.

Liu Dashan's expression changed drastically. He instantly pulled out a gun from his pocket and pressed it against the back of Sun Kan's head: "You fucking tricked me?!"

Sun Kan was equally shocked, but he reacted quickly, pulling out his gun and pressing it against Zhou Yan's forehead: "You fucking tricked me?!"

Blood gushed from Zhou Yan's palm, instantly coalescing into an extremely sharp blood crystal blade, which he slashed at Liu Dashan's throat: "You fucking let go of my brother Sun!"

The three of them then formed a triangular closed loop, with each of them pressing against the other.

The situation was somewhat strange; all three were filled with apprehension, and none of them dared to make a rash move.

Zhou Haiwei was completely bewildered, having no idea what was going on.

"Hey, what's going on, you surnamed Sun?!"

"Hey Zhou, what's going on?!"

"How the hell would I know what happened? What's wrong with you, Liu?!"

"The one surnamed Sun, is she a witch?"

"You surnamed Zhou, are you a witch?"

"Yes, I am a witch. What's your problem with witches, Mr. Liu?"

Sun Kan's eyes widened in fury, and he pressed the gun even tighter: "I really killed your mother! You're a witch, why didn't you tell me sooner?!"

Zhou Yan pressed the blood crystal blade even tighter, barely cutting Liu Dashan's throat: "Brother Sun, you didn't ask me if I was a witch, or why I should say it?"

Liu Dashan placed his finger on the trigger, just a hair's breadth away from firing: "What the hell are you guys doing?! What the hell is going on?!"

Seeing that some people were peeking and watching the commotion in the distance, Sun Kan lowered his voice and said, "I'm saying, it's not very polite to point at each other like this in public. Why don't we find a quiet place to talk?"

Liu Dashan didn't speak, and neither did Zhou Yan, which was considered tacit agreement.

However, none of the three dared to break the balance, and they remained in the posture of pointing their weapons at each other, turning from a static triangle into a moving triangle, and cautiously and slowly moved into the park.

Seeing that things were going badly, Zhou Haiwei wanted to run away.

Sun Kan gave a signal to the thugs nearby, who then stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Hai.

"No, bro! I don't know what's going on with you guys, this has nothing to do with me!"

"Stop talking nonsense, or I'll kill you!"

The thugs, holding Zhou Haiwei hostage, followed in the footsteps of Sun Kan and his group.

The group moved step by step until they finally entered the factory building in the park, closed the gate, and cut off the view from the outside world.

Chapter 183 You Have to Pay

The air in the warehouse was heavy, as if it were filled with lead. The door was closed, but none of the three were willing to let go first. Gun barrels and bloody blades clashed and pointed at each other.

Sun Kan: "Now that there are no outsiders here, it's pretty stupid for you to point at me and I to point at you like this. Why don't we put down our weapons and talk things over?"

Liu Dashan: "If she lets me go, I'll let her go!"

Zhou Yan: "If he lets me go, I'll let him go!"

Sun Kan clicked his tongue: "You've got a lot of trouble! How about this, I'll count to three, and we'll all release them at once."

"one two Three!"

Sun Kan finished counting—

No one moved.

Not only did no one lay down their weapons, but they also pressed each other even closer together.

Sun Kan rolled his eyes so hard they almost reached the back of his head, getting a little annoyed: "Playing like this is really boring... I'll lead the way, okay?"

He was the first to throw the gun that was pointing at Zhou Yan aside, and the gun landed on the cement ground with a crisp "clang".

He then raised his hands, making a gesture that said, "Look how sincere I am."

"Brother Liu, you're an adult, please let the child have some space."

Liu Dashan snorted coldly and glanced at Zhou Yan.

The balance of the three-person spin was broken, and the two slowly put down their weapons, one putting away his gun and the other sheathing his blood-stained blade.

The instant the blood melted and seeped into Zhou Yan's palm, Sun Kan swiftly pulled out a second gun from his lower back and pressed it against Zhou Yan's forehead.

Liu Dashan also pulled out his gun again and pointed it at Zhou Yan's temple.

Zhou Yan was immediately horrified, his eyes widening so much they almost popped out: "You conspired to deceive a 14-year-old child like me?! Have you no shame?!"

Sun Kan said fiercely, "Don't yell at me! I'm asking you, during the year you disappeared, did you end up in the Bureau of Management?"

Zhou Yan's expression was quite calm, and he said confidently, "Yes, not long after I awakened my psychic powers at the beginning of last year, I was caught by the Bureau's witch hunters. My dad knows about this too."

Sun Kan and Liu Dashan both glanced at Zhou Haiwei.

Zhou Haiwei was terrified by the atmosphere before him and didn't react for a long time. It wasn't until the thug behind him kicked him that he snapped back to reality and hurriedly replied, "Oh, oh, oh, it's...it's like this, they arrested him right in front of me..."

Sun Kan spat on the ground: "Why didn't you say this when you first came to me?!"

Sun Kan was angry, and Zhou Yan was also very aggrieved: "Nonsense, I was scared! At that time, I had just escaped from the Administration Bureau and didn't dare to go back to my father. I didn't even have a place to stay."

"I originally planned to make a few bucks off you, save up enough money, and then leave Twin Cities and run away... Of course, I can't tell you that, otherwise who knows you definitely won't help me make money, and might even report me to the Bureau of Management."

Sun Kan was speechless for a moment. Although he was very angry, the logic was indeed correct.

If Zhou Yan had honestly confessed from the beginning that she was a runaway witch, he would never have accepted this time bomb.

Liu Dashan asked coldly, "You just said that you escaped from the Administration Bureau? You've been inside for over a year, why would you suddenly want to escape?"

Zhou Yan's face immediately filled with anger. She pointed at Liu Dashan's nose and cursed, "What's going on? I'm being bullied all day long in the strict control area. The supervisors bully me, and the other witches bully me because they're powerful. When I complain to the witch hunters, they side with their own people."

"I can't eat properly, I can't sleep properly, and I keep getting tripped up by people for no reason while walking. If I dare to fight back, I'll be locked up immediately, but in your mouth, it's all fine? Why don't you try being locked up yourself?!"

Liu Dashan looked Zhou Yan up and down, his voice still icy: "You said you were locked up in a strict control zone, a place with heavy security. How did you escape?"

Zhou Yan answered truthfully: "My psychic abilities can manipulate blood. I used my blood to replicate the shape of the monitoring key one-to-one, then sneaked into the control room in the middle of the night and cut off the power. Finally, I used my night vision to escape in the chaos."

Liu Dashan stared intently at Zhou Yan, took out a cell phone from his pocket, and dialed a number.

"Hello, this is me. Contact our informant in the Bureau and investigate a witch named 'Zhou Yan' to see if there's any information about her movements."

After hanging up the phone, a heavy silence fell over the warehouse as they waited, the atmosphere growing even more somber.

Sun Kan leaned against the wall, smoking, his eyes darting back and forth between the two men.

Liu Dashan and Zhou Yan stood motionless, staring at each other with indifferent expressions, seemingly on guard against a sudden attack from the other.

There was no response from the other end of the phone for a long time. Time ticked by, ten minutes, twenty minutes...

No one spoke, no one dared to move, only the ticking of the clock pierced the ears, and Sun Kan smoked one cigarette after another, with several cigarette butts already piled up on the ground.

After waiting for a full half hour, the phone finally came back.

"Our inside contact has found Zhou Yan, containment code SWAB-097, codename 'Scarlet Witch,' a heterogenous psychic with the ability to control blood. She escaped from the strict containment area a month ago, and the Ninth Bureau of Demon Hunting has issued an internal warrant for her arrest."

After Liu Dashan hung up the phone, the wariness in his eyes did not diminish at all; instead, it turned into even more unfriendly hostility.

He scoffed and said, "Is this some kind of inside-outside scheme, a ruse to get close to us on a mission? Hmm? Little witch? Has she been recruited by the hunters?"

After hearing this, Zhou Yan sat down on the ground, looking like she was giving up: "If that's how you want to talk, then I have nothing to say. Whatever you say goes."

Liu Dashan was not intimidated by this posture. He walked over to Sun Kan and whispered something in his ear.

Sun Kan left the warehouse and returned shortly afterward, carrying a portable scanner, which he handed to Liu Dashan.

"Since you don't admit to cooperating with the hunters, let me see if you have any 'official marks' on you."

With a click, the scanner was activated.

Liu Dashan grabbed Zhou Yan by the collar, pulled her up from the ground like a cat, and slammed her against the cold, rough cement wall. "What are you doing?!"

Just as Zhou Yan was about to struggle, she heard the sound of a gun being cocked behind her, and Sun Kan pressed the gun against the back of her head.

"Little Zhou Yan, listen to your brother's advice. This is for your own good. If you don't want to die, don't move."

Zhou Yan snorted and said, "Let me make this clear from the start: I'm not afraid of you. With my abilities, killing you would only take me a few seconds."

The moment he finished speaking, Zhou Yan suddenly felt an unprecedented pressure coming from his back, as if he was being pressed into the wall, causing cracks to appear on the wall.

Liu Dashan's arm muscles bulged dramatically, and the twisted veins on his body surface throbbed, clearly indicating that he had activated some kind of spiritual energy.

"Don't think you're the only one with psychic powers."

Zhou Yan gritted his teeth and was pressed against the wall, his eyes filled with a desire to punch a hole in Liu Dashan's head, but in the end he remained silent.

Seeing that the other party had stopped causing trouble, Liu Dashan took out a scanner and carefully scanned Zhou Yan's body.

When the scanner reached the side of the waist, it suddenly emitted a rapid beeping alarm, indicating the presence of a metal object.

Liu Dashan's eyes sharpened instantly, and his tone turned icy: "What are you hiding on your waist?"

Zhou Yan rolled her eyes: "Coins! They're leftovers from when I bought fried dough sticks this morning. Do you want them? You can have them if you want!"

Liu Dashan took the contents out of her pocket, and sure enough, it was just a few coins.

However, he was cautious and deliberately poked the coin with his dagger to make sure it wasn't a tracker or eavesdropping device disguised as a coin before throwing it aside.

Liu Dashan continued to use the scanner to examine Zhou Yan's body, scanning it carefully three times to make sure there were no other foreign objects before releasing him.

Liu Dashan pondered for a moment, then glanced at Sun Kan and said, "I want to take this witch with me. Help me plan a hidden escape route."

Sun Kan put two cigarettes in his mouth, lit them both, and then gave one to Liu Dashan: "Today's events have been so unpleasant, it's partly my fault. You can take the person away, I'll arrange the route, no money required, consider it an apology."

Zhou Yan interrupted impatiently, "Hey, you think you can just take me away like that? I never said I wanted to go with you!"

Liu Dashan sneered: "Witches in the Rose Empire have only two paths: either go to the Management Bureau or come to our Demon Alliance. If they don't go to either, they'll get beaten up from both sides."

"You've already fled, and you're on the wanted list. Did you have any other choice?"

Zhou Yan was silent for a moment, then glanced at him and muttered, "Do you provide room and board? Do you get paid for the work?"

Liu Dashan said coldly, "If you do a good job, you'll have everything. But that's not something you need to worry about right now. Come back with me and we'll talk about it later."

Just as the atmosphere was beginning to ease, Zhou Haiwei, who had been trembling with fear, suddenly jumped out, his eyes wide, and said, "Wait a minute, none of you asked for my opinion, so why are you taking people away?!"

Zhou Haiwei suddenly jumped out, and all three people present were stunned.

Needless to say, Liu Dashan didn't know Zhou Haiwei at all, and he had no idea what this guy was doing here.

Sun Kan knew that Zhou Haiwei was Zhou Yan's father. He was always quite cautious in his hiring practices. When Zhou Yan came to work here as a child, he had investigated Zhou Haiwei.

This was a scoundrel who spent his days indulging in drinking, gambling, and whoring. He was idle and had no skills, so the two of them had little interaction.