Chapter Volume 6, Heaven or Hell, Fourth Level: Police Station, and the Justices and Evils that Come To and Fro (1/2)

Volume 6, Heaven or Hell, Fourth Level: Police Station, and the Justices and Evils that Come To and Fro

Translator Ever (proofread by Trespasserby and elisa; C/E edited by lucathia)

“You don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to.”

You hypocrite! Didn’t you generously tell me your story just so that I would tell you mine in return?

“Ah, so you noticed?”

….

“Er, it’s fine if you don’t want to talk about it. I’m serious!”

We encountered a chase between cops and robbers on our wedding day, and all the cars had gotten caught up in an accident.

I was unconscious for a while. When I woke up, I found my legs stuck under a car that had toppled over. I was unable to move at all.

The first thing I saw was my groom, desperately trying to save me. He kept pushing on the car. His hands and body were covered in blood, and he looked as if he was on the verge of tears.

Seeing that I’d regained consciousness, he continued to tell me not to worry, that he would get me out of there and that we’d hold the wedding again on another day… Until he heard his younger sister’s scream.

The robbers had taken his sister hostage. When he rushed over to save her, he was shot in the head. He never woke again.

“… My condolences.”

After that incident, I continued to look for his sister.

“Did you find her?”

I did. She had ended up in a brothel and had already gone insane when I found her. I settled her down in a psych ward.

“…”

Oh yeah, since you told me where you got your money for your modification, I’ll also tell you where I got mine. I did the surgery with his insurance payment.

As soon as I walked into the station, the two policemen escorting me shouted, “Attention! A non-human was caught! Attention! A non-human was caught!”

Judging from how familiar they are with those words, I assume that they shout them every time they catch a non-human?

But the people in the station remained calm and did not even bat an eyelash when they heard the shout. It was as if they were already used to this kind of situation. One policeman even smiled at the two when he was on his way out, saying, “Good work! You’ve caught another rebellious non-human… Uh, Charles?”

This policeman was one of Yue Gang’s pals. Well, that was a bit of a needless remark, since everyone in the police station was his pal.

Because of the handcuffs on my wrists, I replied in embarrassment, “Hello.”

After the shout from that policeman, the others nearby also noticed me and looked toward us with widened eyes. As their gaze moved down and focused on my hands, their eyes widened even more.

“What did you do?” The policeman in front of me asked in confusion.

“I…”

“Don’t talk to a non-human!” Xie Wei yelled, “Put him in the non-human jail!”

That policeman gasped and said, “You’re putting Charles in there? But there are so many non-humans in there. It’s dangerous!”

Xie Wei rebuked him angrily, “Have you forgotten that he’s also a non-human? Moreover, he’s a vampire, a non-human at danger-level red. He’s the one who’s going to be a danger to others!”

Danger-level? Since when was there such a thing?

“But Charles, he…” The policeman halted in the middle of his sentence and glanced at me, and then said to Xie Wei in a low tone, “Yue Gang says that he’s really weak! If you lock him up with the other non-humans, won’t he get beaten to death?”

Pity that even though the policeman had lowered his voice, I was still able to hear what he had said.

“Beaten to what?” Xie Wei glared at him before glancing at me and said, “With so many policemen watching over him, do you think we’ll just stand around and watch him die?”

The policeman hurriedly said, “But that won’t be a fight between humans. Some non-humans can kill people with one punch. Even if we were looking out for him, we won’t be able to stop them in time!”

I am not that weak… Yue Gang, just how did you usually describe me?

“He’s a vampire. He won’t die that easily!” Xie Wei roared and then yelled at the two policemen who were escorting me, “What are you waiting for? Lock him up!”

Hearing that, the two policemen pulled me away in a hurry, and we walked all the way into the center of the station… This can’t be possible, can it?

I stared at the office hall in front of me. This was indeed the office hall of Sunset City’s Main Police Station. The size of the hall was that of a small plaza, but the difference was that there were tables and chairs placed in the hall with policemen working on various things. Glancing at them from afar, I could tell that there were about seventy to eighty people. Some of them were busy interrogating criminals, some of them had documents piled up like mountains, and some of them were cleaning their equipment.

But all of that could not compare to what was displayed in the center of the hall. A large cage was placed at the center, big enough to be called a room, and five non-humans were inside, crouching alone in separate corners.

I asked in shock, “Why, why is there a jail here?”

One of the policemen escorting me explained, “Because if we locked non-humans in the regular jails, it would be dangerous to have only one or two people standing on guard. But sending a lot of people over would be a waste of human resources, so Xie Wei decided to put the special jail over here. This way the whole station can guard them and work at the same time, saving us a lot of work. Oh yeah, the cage is double layered, so after going inside, don’t touch the outside layer because the bars have electricity running through them.”

Saying so, the policeman patted my shoulder and comforted me, saying, “Don’t worry, this isn’t some kind of dark and gloomy jail, and we’re all watching! We won’t let the other non-humans beat you!”

… No, if possible, I would still like to be locked up in a dark room. That would at least be much better than being in an exhibition, especially when everyone in the police station knows who I am.

As we walked over to the cage, we were seen by a few policemen that I knew, and I continued to hear murmurs such as:

“Is that Charles?”

“Are you here for Yue Gang… Hand cuffs?”

“How is this possible! What did he do?”

“Should we tell Yue Gang?”

The two policemen opened the large cage to let me in. The iron cage wasn’t exactly shaped like a rectangle: there was a sectioned off area at the entrance and to enter the actual cage, one would have to go through another iron door. But after I had entered the separated area, the policemen left me there and didn’t open the other iron door for me, so I stood alone in the place, unsure of what to do.

After I looked around, I realized that this separated place was quite small and a single chair was placed in it. This seems like a visiting room? But this cage isn’t completely sealed off from the outside, so why make a visiting room?

“Sit down!”

I turned around and saw Xie Wei sitting outside, about two arm-lengths away from the cage.

After I sat down, he shouted angrily, “Speak up! Why did you break the TV wall?”

Oh, so this small space is for interrogations?

I, of course, could not tell him the truth, but I was unable to come up with a good reason at the moment. Why would one break a television wall? The television shows were too boring would not count as a good reason, would it?

“Speak up!” Xie Wei suddenly took out a rod and whacked it against the iron cage. That action sparked up a surprisingly great wave of blue flames with crackling sounds.

…An electric shocking rod?

Left with no choice, I replied, “Because, because… Ah! Because I saw the news on the TV wall. It reported that the representative of Daystar City had more votes than my brother Ah Ye did, and that the representative was even a priest of the Church, so I broke the TV wall out of agitation.”

The Cities Representative Election was the only thing that I could think of right now. I realized that it was a very poor excuse. However, I could not come up with anything better.

“Yeah! Compared to the Angel, who does that priest think he is?”

The crowd of eavesdropping policemen behind Xie Wei suddenly burst into anger.

“The Angel is the best! I voted for him on the very first day! I even used my three-year-old son’s vote for him!”

The policemen shouted in unison, “Stand aside, Daystar City! A mere priest dares to go against the Angel? Serves that TV right!”

“Support the Angel! The Angel will win, Angel! Angel, An…”

Xie Wei turned his head around and roared so loud that his voice shook the ceiling, “Shut up!”

The crowd behind him went silent instantly.

“You broke the TV wall just because of that?” Xie Wei scolded me as he turned his head back around, “Did you even realize that people could have been hurt or even killed?”

“I was too hasty. I am very sorry. I will take responsibility and pay for the damages,” I immediately lowered my head and apologized. I did not think that they would believe my story, but I am glad that they did.

Xie Wei frowned again and asked, “You’re really a vampire?”

I paused in confusion before saying, “Yes, I am a vampire. Is something wrong?”

“You don’t act like a non-human,” Xie Wei said awkwardly, “You’re the first one who has said that he’ll pay up.”

I smiled and asked, “Well, may I leave now?” Being locked up in a cage and having all the staff in the police station sneaking looks at you and listening in on you is very uncomfortable.

“Leave? In your dreams! Wait for the bail! Your bail is…” Stopping in his sentence, he turned his head to ask a policeman who had a mountain of paperwork piled on his desk, “How much is the minimum bail for a vampire?”

That policeman scratched his head and started to look through a document. “The minimum bail is one million, but Charles didn’t hurt anyone and only broke the TV wall, so this would be hard to determine…”

Xie Wei said crossly, “Who says that he didn’t hurt anyone? Don’t the people who were hurt by the broken glass count as his fault? Even if you want to take his side, don’t speak so blindly!”

The policeman smiled in embarrassment.

“But no one was hurt!” A policeman beside them cut in, “The TV wall was made out of safety glass, so no one had to go to the hospital.”

Xie Wei turned to me and said, “Then the bail will be fifty thousand yuan, and there must be someone here to bail you out. You can’t pay your own bail!” Saying so, he turned to growl at the policeman beside him, “Lock him up.”

“You’re really locking him up?” The policeman started to get nervous.

“Does it sound like I’m joking?” Xie Wei glared at him. “Lock him up!”

So, with no recourse, the two policemen walked in and closed the outer door. As one person stood guard with an energy gun, the other opened the inner door to let me in.

As soon as I entered, the door behind me closed. There were five non-humans in total and they all looked identical to humans. I was unable to immediately identify what races they were… Wait!

“Vampire?” I looked at the woman in the right corner.

The woman glared at me and said sharply, “What are you looking at…”

Xie Wei said coldly from outside the cage, “Since you’re both vampires, get along!”

When the woman heard his words, she said in shock, “You’re a vampire?”

“Yes.”

She looked confused, but then scoffed and said, “I suppose our generations are too far apart, so I couldn’t tell.”

“True.” I nodded my head and sat down near the entrance after looking around the cage.

Xie Wei walked to the cage and surveyed the non-humans in the cage. The non-humans were all crouching, afraid to meet his eyes. Non-humans afraid of humans? I could not help but feel that that was funny.

Xie Wei turned around to ask the others, “Where’s Yue Gang? Didn’t you say that he just caught a group of robbers?”

“He went after another group of robbers.”

“Just how many more groups are there?” Xie Wei said in frustration, “NC is in charge of capturing non-humans. Those robbers are all humans. NC isn’t in charge of them! What is Yue Gang running around for?!”

The policeman shrugged and said, “Yue Gang’s the type who never takes a break, and since no one has reported a case on non-humans, of course he’ll go after the robbers. I think there are only two groups of robbers left. One is…”

Hearing this, I picked up my cell phone to make a call. As soon as the call connected, I said, “Melody, do you have time? Can you please come and bail me out?”

“Bail you out?” The recipient at the other end of the call simply said these three words and then fell into silence. After a considerably long time, the voice sounded again, “You mean like what’s in the news, like how suspects get locked in jail and need someone to bail them out with money?”

“Yes, just like that.”

“… How much is your bail?”

“Fifty thousand yuan.” I am glad that it is not a hundred thousand, or else Melody might not be willing to bail me out with so much money.

“… Five hundred million?”

Fifty thousand and five hundred million sound quite different. How could she mishear me? I repeated myself in confusion, “It is fifty thousand yuan.”

“Hahahahaha!” Melody suddenly burst into a long, piercing laugh that left her breathless. “A, a great fifth generation vampire ended up in jail and needs to wait for someone to bail him out, and the bail is only fifty thousand yuan. A fifth generation vampire is only worth fifty thousand! Hahahahaha—”

“… Are you willing to bail me out?”