Time: 10:30 PM. Twenty-six hours remaining.

*Xin Lei*

General Song looked like somebody sucked the soul of his body. He was only stuttering and whimpering in pain by Bai Li\'s shot.

I glanced at my side, and there was another person who looked just the same as him.

It was Sergeant Zi Mimi.

I grabbed her arm, and she bared her fangs at me like a beast. She resisted with all her force, but I struck one hard and fast jab on the back of her knee and tumbled like a fallen domino.

"Ugh…You…"

"Attention, Sergeant!"

Zi Mimi suddenly straightened up.

Yu Zichen smiled. "Good to know that you still recognize me. I thought you forgot all about your commander after your betrayal."

She said nothing.

Major General Shi walked up to General Song and said, "Hello General Song. I didn\'t expect to see you here of all places with a Captain tied up on a chair, and instead of rescuing him, you were talking to him as if a normal get-together was going on."

"Major General! What is going on!"

I could sense it - his panic, alarm, confusion, and anger all mixed up by being attacked and caught all of a sudden.

"That is something you should answer. What is going on here? What happened in the container terminal that night? And what is your relationship with Sergeant Zi Mimi?"

I felt Zi Mimi stiffen. Her expression didn\'t change, but her body language did.

General Song scowled. "What relationship? What nonsense are you spouting?"

Bai Li took one big step ahead. He placed his hand on General Song\'s shoulder. Su Weiyuan, already free from the ropes and had secured him by his wrists on his back.

Bai Li smiled, and with a movement that I could hardly see with my eye, he landed a strong fist on his face.

"Ugh…" He stumbled at his back, but Su Weiyuan held on to him.

That was quite satisfying to see him groaning in pain with blood gushing out all over from nose and mouth.

Medically speaking, it was now impossible to fix his crooked and broken nose. His teeth were intact, but one more punch and they were on their way to roll out of his mouth as well.

Major General sighed. "Bai Li. Could you not do anything to his mouth yet? We need him to talk."

He stuck out his tongue. "Oops. I couldn\'t control my strength. Sorry, General. My mistake. Now, you already know that I am running out of patience. Will you still act indifferent to your affair with Sergeant Zi Mimi?"

He seemed as if he was in a daze.

Bai Li turned his head in our direction and said, "Isn\'t it right, Sergeant? You are sexually involved with this oldie, right?"

"I don\'t know what you are talking about. These are all baseless allegations."

"If they are baseless, then why do I see a hickey on your neck?"

Zi Mimi suddenly touched her neck and softly slapped on some spots, but then she stiffened.

I raised my brow and chuckled.

Bai Li said, "I heard that faint sound. You touched your neck, didn\'t you? And you forgot that I cannot see. Caught you."

"Fuck you!"

I narrowed my eyes and jabbed at her sore knee again. Her eyes rolled back, and she almost fainted.

I felt disgusted to know about their affair. General Song was as older as her father\'s age, for God\'s sake! And she had sex with him! Ugh!

General Song coughed and spat out some more blood. "How can you say it\'s me?"

Bai Li said, "Because Zi Mimi didn\'t send any message outside the army base, notifying Yu Zichen or anybody that Su Weiyuan left. If there was any burner phone, then she couldn\'t have kept it hidden. But she was still able to send across the message. How? That meant that she didn\'t have any need to use any phone. Because the person she notified about Su Weiyuan was already present IN the base."

Both were silent.

"Now the question was who? Then thanks to another buddy of Cocoa I met tonight, I remembered why he always growled and barked at you. It was you at the container terminal and who shot Tan Ye. Cocoa recognized your scent whenever we met again. It was the same in Andingzhen when you came to take Xin Lei and me in the army\'s custody or when we met in your office. He was trying to tell us that it was you."

General Song kept resisting and glaring at us, but it was of no use.

"Then there was another thing that led me to think that it was you. I didn\'t shoot Tan Ye. But the autopsy report didn\'t seem to agree. It wasn\'t my bullet, yet it showed that it was. So, it led me to conclude that only a person with power, position, and influence can pressurize the doctors to generate fake reports. Only a person in a position to threaten can force all the ones below him to dance at his command. General Song. Don\'t you seem to fit in that category?"

Silence.

"A prestigious position with considerable influence and resources to make your job done - whatever you want and however you want. Isn\'t it you?"

His jaw seemed to tighten.

"Now that it is clear who is the traitor, start talking already. Where are Cocoa and Chu Jie? Who are you working for?"

General Song chuckled and then laughed out loud. "So what if you know about me? What will you do? I will never tell you where your stupid dog and that teenager is. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. You cannot kill me either otherwise, how would you know anything about us?"

Bai Li said nothing. His expression seemed grim.

"Hahaha! You always think you are so smart, right? You were nothing but like an annoying piece of bone stuck in meat. That\'s why I had to throw you out of the army, or you wouldn\'t have given up on your chase. First I threw Yu Zichen and then you! Hahaha!"

I frowned.

Yu Zichen said, "I retired on my own account."

"But I ordered those men to make you invalid during your mission. Just harm you anyhow, I didn\'t care. Arms, legs, face, or your whole body. I investigated and found that your wife wasn\'t in much favor of your soldier\'s life. So, the moment you got hurt, I knew your wife would snap and force you to retire."

I widened my eyes in disbelief. He played a psychological trap and used Yu Zichen\'s wife to force him to retire.

I felt a gust of wind past me. Yu Zichen suddenly grabbed General Song with his right hand, dragged him up, and punched a fist on his stomach.

"Ahhh…"

He bent in pain, and Yu Zichen landed a sharp elbow strike on his spine exactly at the center of his back.

"General!" Zi Mimi shifted uneasily and tried to rush at him, but I tightly held on to her.

This was getting annoying, so I forced to sit on a chair and tied her wrist on it with the same rope that were used to tie Su Weiyuan.

Yu Zichen\'s aura felt too dark and dangerous. His gaze was so chilly that it suddenly felt too cold.

"Fucking bastard! How dare you use my wife!"

He kept on punching and kicking him, with each blow more lethal and deadlier than before.

"She is my wife! She had got nothing to do with my mission. You had no right to investigate and use her for your filthy purpose. You bastard!"

Major General finally had to intervene. "Yu Zichen. He will be punished. Calm down."

"How can I fucking calm down!? He had the nerve to use my wife! My wife! I don\'t care if I retire, but I won\'t tolerate it if anybody used my wife\'s feelings to achieve that! Does he even know how pathetic her condition was when I was in the hospital? She didn\'t sleep. She didn\'t eat. She was crying almost the whole day. She had become so thin. She kept on nursing me till I was discharged. No matter how much I asked her to eat, she didn\'t!"

His outburst quieted the place down. Even I felt his fury seeping into me when I heard how much his Jiao suffered. I was dying to kill that General already!

General Song laughed. "Ha! So sad, isn\'t it? I feel terrible for Yu Jiao."

Without warning, Yu Zichen grabbed his hand and mercilessly twisted it.

"Aaaahh! Fuck!"

Major General helplessly sighed.

"Don\'t you dare utter her name from your filthy mouth or will kill end that disgusting life of yours right this instant!"

General Song eerily laughed again while he was trembling and shaking after his punches. "That is your bad luck. You cannot kill me because I am your only ticket to know anything about the gang or that teenager\'s location. You don\'t know anything, and you need me! Hahaha!"

"CrimsonInstinct."

One word from Bai Li suddenly shut General Song\'s mouth.

"That is your boss\'s code name, right?"