After one in the afternoon, CSD Headquarters.
In a small interrogation room on the second floor, Chen Cheng sat on the ground, legs curled up, burying his head deeply between his knees. His body trembled slightly, his heart filled with regret, but more than that, with fear, since he didn't know what he was about to face.
In the room next to his, his woman, Ah Ling, had awakened from unconsciousness, lethargically huddled in a corner of the wall, her eyes blankly staring into the distance, unblinking for a long time. If it weren't for the rise and fall of her chest due to breathing, she was almost indistinguishable from a corpse.
In the next room over, the spy that Qin Xuyang had brought back from Capital City sat on a wooden bed, shaking one leg while curiously guessing if the two people who had just been locked up might be the "comrades" he had never met.