When all the people of the police station had left, Officer Ding brought Lu Yao, who was in handcuffs, to a police car with no license plate and drove around in the city and suburbs.
Lu Yao had long felt that there was something wrong with Officer Ding. At that time, when Little Xu, the young policewoman, interrogated him and Lin Jiayi, Officer Ding seemed to be playing with his mobile phone all the time, but in fact, he kept looking at Lu Yao. Moreover, Lu Yao felt that Officer Ding should be recording him.
Later, when Officer Ding brought Lu Yao to another interrogation room without asking him anything, Lu Yao knew that he was guessing correctly. These people were indeed coming for him.
Lu Yao thought about all the things he had experienced in the past few days. He felt that this matter was not as simple as he had imagined.
From the conversation between the secretary and Captain Niu, Lu Yao was certain that Chu Tianyang and Chu Minhui were behind this matter. However, judging from Officer Ding's actions, it seemed that there was an even more powerful mastermind who was manipulating the whole thing.
This made Lu Yao gradually start to recall the things that happened between Qian Hu and him.
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More than ten minutes later, as the police car made turns, Lu Yao was taken to the entrance of a huge detention house: the Tanan Detention House.
Although Lu Yao was still a student and usually wouldn't be in a detention center, he knew a lot about the Tanan Detention House, which was famous in Shuangta City.
In the past, when he was waiting for his boss to assign work for him in the labor market, Lu Yao could hear a group of people who would always gather there brag about their past and the things they knew.
They talked about Ancient Loulan, apes on Tianshan Mountain and other strange things. In short, all kinds of strange things would always be used as materials to show off their knowledge.
Lu Yao remembered that there was a job that required a lot of workers to do and the boss almost gathered everyone who did odd jobs in the labor market.
At that time, Lu Yao was resting under the shade due to the discomfort in his heart and then he met a middle-aged Uygur supervisor called Ali. The two of them chatted for almost an entire day.
Ali, short for Aliya Hafu, was Uygur. He said that he used to be a correctional officer in the Tanan Detention House, but later on, because he made a terrible mistake, he was expelled and was sentenced to six years in prison.
After coming out of prison, because he had been in prison before, he could not find a proper job for a while. He could only work part-time to support the family.
Later on, he was lucky enough to meet this boss and work as a supervisor. He could earn enough money to support his family.
Ali told Lu Yao that in the past when he was a correctional officer, he would be invited to many big cities in the mainland to help guard some felons who were Uygurs because he could speak two languages. So over the years, he had been to dozens of big and small detention centers in the northwest of Shina, but he had never seen anything like the Tanan Detention House.
He was sure that this detention center was definitely the only one of its kind in the north.
In Ali's words, there were usually some criminal suspects who had violated the law and had not been sentenced by the court in the detention center, or there would be some criminals who were about to be released or had less than a year of sentence and had behaved well in prison.
This was the principle that was enforced by almost all of Shina's detention centers.
However, the Tanan Detention House was totally different. It followed different principles.
There were only two types of people imprisoned here.
The first type consisted of members of the mafia group who would definitely receive a heavy sentence.
These people were ruthless and notorious gangsters. In Ali's words, these people were extremely destructive. If they were locked up with ordinary criminals, something terrible might happen, so they were locked up here.
The second type of people were different. Few people knew why they were locked up here, including Ali.
Ever since Ali came to work in the Tanan Detention House, these people had been locked up here. When Ali had made a mistake and left, those people were still locked up there.
Ai Li said that there were fights happening almost every day in the Tanan Detention House. The leaders had long been used to it. Even when they were training before they officially started working, the instructor told them that as long as there were no large-scale riots or extremely dangerous disturbances, they could pretend that they did not know about anything. It was fine as long as they did not pay attention.
In the beginning, Ali was not used to it, because in his impression, the detention center was something similar to a prison. There should not be so much violence.
But later on, as Ali saw it with his own eyes, he gradually became accustomed to it.
However, even though it seemed that the place was not under tight control, in Ali's eyes, the place was guarded well. This was because all the correctional officers and guards here had real guns and ammunition. Moreover, everyone knew that if there was a riot or a very dangerous turmoil, all the officers, regardless of their positions, could fire their guns and warn the prisoners. If it were useless, they could directly kill the troublemakers on the spot.
Ali had also secretly told Lu Yao that when he worked for the Tanan Detention House for the fourth year, he was unlucky. When he was on duty, he happened to encounter the so-called highly dangerous disturbance stated in the management regulations. At that time, he even shot a criminal, who caused the riot, to death.
Lu Yao was very curious about this matter, but Ali was unwilling to tell what had happened, saying that he must obey the management regulations of the detention house and stick to his professional ethics.
However, he was unable to withstand Lu Yao's goading and finally told him the whole story.
The riot happened when Ali was on duty. After taking over the shift in the morning, he received a notice from his superior that a g**g member who was highly suspected of murder was going to be sent to the Tanan Detention House that day. Ali and a few other officers went to take over.
At first, things went relatively smoothly. After they got that criminal under control from the police officers' hands, Ali and the others brought the prisoner into the detention center.
After this prisoner came here, he behaved well.
However, for some reason, at lunch time, this new prisoner went crazy and fought with a prisoner who had been in the prison for a long time.
At the beginning, it was just a fight between the two people, but somehow it became a g**g fight. More and more g**g members joined the fight.
All of a sudden, the dining hall was in chaos. The correctional officers used high-pressure water guns, tear gas and other measures, but their effort was useless. The two groups of people were fighting like crazy. They used all the tools that could be used as weapons in the fight.
There were people falling down one by one in the dining hall, and there were also people who stood up and continued to fight. For a time, the scene was unprecedentedly chaotic.
These people had lost their minds.
Even when the Captain, who was on duty that day, fired a shot to warn them, the prisoners wouldn't stop.
One of them was a criminal suspect who had been rather arrogant during the detention. He was nicknamed Brother Bald. He even picked up a big iron spoon from the chef of the canteen and swung it directly at Ali's colleague, apparently wanting to kill him.
Ali was quick to react and immediately shot Brother Bald.
Someone was killed. Then, the riot squad entered the center and suppressed the riot.
Although Ali had performed well and was rewarded by his superior, he never thought that he would shoot and kill people in his lifetime. For a moment, he had some psychological problems, and then he received half a year of counseling from the psychiatrist before he slowly recovered.
In short, Lu Yao could sense that the Tanan Detention House was different from every word that Ali had said at that time. The place was full of violence and blood.
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Although it was already midnight, the Tanan Detention House was illuminated by a high-power searchlight, making it seem as if it were in the daytime.
Lu Yao was pushed and shoved by Officer Ding to the door of a duty room and then was handcuffed to a steel pipe almost as high as Lu Yao's chest.
Because the steel pipe was relatively high, Lu Yao could only stand on tiptoe at this time.
"He was indeed vicious. If someone else was handcuffed to the pipe for more than ten minutes, soon his wrists would be broken. Fortunately, I can deal with the situation." Lu Yao sighed.
Sure enough, after about twenty minutes since Officer Ding cuffed Lu Yao here, he walked over slowly with a person who looked about the same age as him, talking and laughing.
The person who was with Officer Ding was wearing a similar police uniform, and they were at a similar age. The only difference was that this person was not bald, and he had a lot of hair.
Through the conversation between the two, Lu Yao knew that this person was called Chen Hua, the leader on night duty at the Tanan Detention House tonight.
"Officer Ding, he is just a student. Why was he sent here?" Chen Hua saw that Lu Yao was young and was about the same age as his son, so he asked in disbelief, "I think he is only seventeen or eighteen years old. Isn't it inappropriate to send him here?"
"Didn't you already receive a call from Captain Niu of the municipal bureau? Don't underestimate this kid. He's a swindler, and he's good at fighting. Moreover, he's also very vicious. The person he injured tonight is still in the hospital, and we don't know if he can be saved or not!" Officer Ding said exaggeratedly.
If Lu Yao hadn't already known that these people were plotting against him and it was useless for him to seek justice, he would really retort.
This evening, there was no fight at all. Even if there was, it had been stopped by Lu Yao. How could there be anyone with serious injuries?
"Alright, alright, I won't say anything more. You have to send me the relevant paperwork early tomorrow morning. Otherwise, you and I will have to bear the consequences!" Chen Hua did not want to continue talking to Officer Ding, because this matter did not conform to the rules of the detention center.
"Don't worry, it will be done tomorrow morning. I'll leave him to you tonight. I'll treat you to dinner some other day!" Officer Ding opened Lu Yao's handcuffs and pushed him in front of Chen Hua.
"Alright, alright, you don't have to treat me to dinner. You should hurry back. My fellows are still waiting for me!" Chen Hua urged.
"Okay, then I'll leave now. Win more money tonight, haha!" After saying goodbye to Chen Hua, Officer Ding walked towards the entrance of the detention center.
Before he left, he looked at Lu Yao's back and a strange smile appeared on his face.