"We are conducting a medical examination on him. Based on our examination of his entry and exit records, we found no information about him going through customs."
"He's an illegally entered spy. We're not sure if Romano brought any diseases with him, so when providing basic medical aid, we have to perform a high-intensity medical examination and gene sequencing on him."
"It's necessary and mandatory," Wang Qiqi said to Master Fox.
Master Fox paused for a moment, then remarked cynically, "With such thick bulletproof glass between us, speak plainly."
"Interrogation follows the principle of questioning after pressure, putting some mental stress on him. Also, it's not like the past when resources were scarce; with equipment costs worth tens of thousands, we can keep him here for half a month. Even if he goes through the judicial process, there's absolutely no way for him to file a complaint against us."
Wang Qiqi began explaining to Ansheng what exactly was happening with Romano right now.
Criminals committing espionage are not processed straight through to execution as a matter of course.
There are other factors involved. The party that dispatched the spy may try to ensure their safety after exposure.
Of course, those matters have nothing to do with the Security Bureau.
Even if Romano was not ultimately sentenced to death, his imprisonment would likely be around fifteen years, having to wait for the intelligence's relevance to expire before possibly returning to his homeland.
Given the risks of Romano surviving, conventional methods certainly wouldn't suffice, but the Security Bureau has its ways to make him despair without leaving any complaints.
No physical torture involved.
We caught him red-handed, and subsequently provided him with humanitarian medical aid worth millions of dollars.
He's an archaeology major; does he understand medicine? Does he know what medical procedures are? Can he feel that pain is abnormal post-injury? If there's no pain, he might just die!
"Bena... does she go through the same process?" Ansheng hesitated for a moment before asking.
"Bena hasn't undergone gene editing and falls into the category of natural human. She doesn't follow that process," Wang Qiqi replied while knocking on the bulletproof glass.
"Engineer Wang? Any task instructions?"
The interrogator saw Wang Qiqi calling and gestured for people to secure Romano and leave him hanging for an hour.
"I'm just observing. If it's about instructions, better to ask Master Fox."
Wang Qiqi, taking Master Fox, clad in a pilot jacket and with a saddlebag strapped on, from Lin Ying's arms, placed him in front of the window and spoke to the interrogator.
[Within the span of a song, a wish has been fulfilled. Master Fox interrupted the interrogation process, earning Romano some respite. Yet, he could not imagine that the real torment was about to begin...]
[Wish Power +1]
Seeing the wish settlement page appear, Ansheng instinctively glanced towards Romano.
Romano, who thought he could take a break, suddenly felt intense, contorted pain in his abdomen.
Before a colonoscopy, one needs to cleanse the intestines to maintain a clean environment.
They injected laxatives through the nasogastric tube to reach Romano's stomach and gave him an enema.
"O... OMG, stomach... you despicable people," Romano grimaced, his face flushed red, desperately wanting to relieve himself but tightly constrained by the stopper and the restraints.
Clad in restraints, Romano wriggled madly like a worm, trying to escape the limits of the restraining suit.
"Mr. Romano, please calm down. This is a necessary step before a colonoscopy. If we don't cleanse the waste, how can we proceed with the examination later?"
"This is the time..."
The interrogator ordered him locked up for an hour and after seeing the effects manifest, the logistics team placed a half-hour hourglass by Romano's side. Witnessing the hourglass appear earned smirks from those in the special care unit, eagerly anticipating the scene of flipping it before his eyes after half an hour.
Romano watched as the sand slowly trickled, enduring the abdominal pain as if the intestines writhed, wide-eyed, struggling to speak:
"Are you kidding! It's so slow; what exactly do you want to know? I've told you everything, my ancestors were all Naples farmers, honest citizens, with no feud with yours... don't treat me like Hans."
"Don't torture me, I'll speak... everything..."
The logistics team members looked surprised: "Mr. Romano, what are you talking about? What would we ask? You're just receiving medical aid."
"I already said I'm a Forest Wolf member. I received orders from my country to retrieve the data. I've even provided all related cloud drives, yet you don't believe my words!" Romano endured increasing discomfort in his abdomen and anal phantom pain, ranting furiously.
"Let me go!"
"It feels like my butt, the swelling rivals that of Kim Kardashian!"
"What? You say you have hemorrhoids or anal fistula and want us to remove them for free?"
"Pain!"
"Leak?"
The dialogue in the special care unit was absurdly like a chicken talking to a duck, focusing on you saying yours and I saying mine, a state of carefree non-interference between us.
"...You all seem to be having fun," Ansheng retracted his gaze, sarcastically remarking towards the interrogator in a doctor's coat, beyond the bulletproof glass.
"We don't like this either, but it's the task."
The interrogator looked at Master Fox, saluted seriously, and said, "As long as it's a task, it must be completed."
Employees entering the Security Bureau need to not only excel in grades and basic military training but also pass psychological evaluations and tests; they're all normal people.
No normal person enjoys interrogation work.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be outsourcing partners like Hedgehog Granny.
But a task is a task.
"True enough," Ansheng nodded, instinctively looking at Lin Ying. Lin Ying's expression remained unchanged, impossible to discern her mood, just indifferently observing the occurrences in the special care unit.
As he thought, Ansheng glanced at Romano in the special care unit and asked, "Hey! Can you speak? Do you have anything you want to say now?"
"Master Fox, what these field teams know about intelligence is very limited. The main goal of treating him is to trace his superiors..." the interrogator said to Master Fox:
"By finding the upstream, we can identify the smuggling route and eradicate them along the way."
"I've told you everything I know! Just investigate!" Romano turned pale with a purple hue, beads of cold sweat on his face, his tone full of despair and helplessness, his voice almost a sob.
[God above, Father Bianchi... you'd better complete the task; otherwise, even in death, I'd turn into a devil to haunt you! — Romano endured the intense twisting pain, cursing Father Bianchi crazily in his heart, reminding himself it was supposed to be a simple transport task, and arrangements were allegedly set in four provinces and thirteen cities to divert the Security Bureau, yet, damn it, I was caught within half a month of arriving.]
[Wish Completed: Damn you, Father! (Feeling deceived, Romano cursed Father Bianchi madly in his heart, but he now resolved to resist to the end, death be it, as long as the raid on the Xinxing Agricultural Science College succeeds, seizing internal documents would justify all sacrifices.)]
"???
Noting Romano's wish, Ansheng's fox-like face showed a hint of surprise.
"Doctor, may I ask, did the one on the bed, the one craving pinewood pizza, reveal anything about Father Bianchi?"
The name Bianchi barely left his lips.
Instantly, Romano's rear was clenched tightly, cold sweat poured from his forehead like a fountain, and his heart almost exploded.
And the heart rate on the life monitor showed significant fluctuations, emitting "beep beep" sounds.
All eyes turned to the special care bed.
Romano: "......"