Chapter 331 Who Sent You
Sophia looked at Thaddeus with an exasperated expression, "I'm just an ordinary woman, while they're desperados who live on the edge."
Everyone: "......"
Do you have some kind of misunderstanding about the word "ordinary"?
Who was it that got the NSA to deploy personnel to protect the White family?
Who was it that cured Celestria's CEO when he was barely hanging on to his last breath?
If she's ordinary, then nobody else stands a chance.
Thaddeus cleared his throat and said, "You don't have to go if you don't want to, but we can only hold these prisoners for a limited time. If we don't find evidence within 48 hours, we'll have to let them go."
"If they come after the White family again after they're released, that's not our problem."
Sophia frowned, her expression growing serious.
After weighing her options, she reluctantly agreed, "Take me to see them. But I'm telling you now, I can't guarantee I'll get anything out of them."
"That's fine, just give it a try." Thaddeus's tone was casual, as if he wasn't worried at all about Sophia failing.
Whether this was because he trusted Sophia too much or because he simply had no other options was unclear.
Sophia let Thaddeus and Sidney lead her to the detention room.
Several big men sat in chairs with their hands cuffed, looking defeated.
When some of them saw Sophia appear, their pupils instinctively contracted and their bodies tensed up nervously.
"You..."
"What? Scared?"
Sophia sat down in front of them on her own, a half-smile playing at the corners of her lips.
The leader glared at her viciously, then subtly lowered his eyes.
"Talk. Who sent you?" Sophia tapped her fingers on the table, her expression indifferent.
The men exchanged glances, but none dared to speak.
Outside the door, Thaddeus and Sidney stood watching through the window.
Sidney asked worriedly, "Thaddeus, isn't it a bit reckless to have a woman do the interrogation?"
It wasn't that he looked down on Sophia, but she looked too harmless. Although she seemed somewhat aloof on the surface, she had almost no intimidating presence.
While he admired Sophia's intelligence and quick thinking, interrogation was no small matter—not just anyone could do it.
Thaddeus waved his hand dismissively, "Just wait and see. She'll surprise us more than you think, not less."
Since Thaddeus put it that way, Sidney couldn't say more and just quietly watched.
These people were tight-lipped, as if they'd undergone special training. Judging from their demeanor and behavior, whoever was behind them was no simple character.
Many of their people had taken turns before, but couldn't get any useful information out of them.
These people were indeed very tight-lipped. After all, they'd undergone special training and even taken specific courses designed to prevent them from revealing their organization when facing interrogation.
But they were dealing with Sophia.
Sophia only asked once. When they refused to talk, she didn't continue asking.
The men thought Sophia had given up and showed smug looks.
However, the next second, they saw Sophia pull out a needle from her pocket.
The interrogation room's lighting was dim, and the needle's metal surface gleamed with a cold light that made people shudder involuntarily.
The men who had been caught at the hospital remembered the terror of being stabbed with needles and shivered hard.
The others didn't understand, but straightened their backs with an attitude of "bring it on, I'm not afraid of anything."
Sophia chuckled softly and slowly walked toward a familiar face.
When that man saw Sophia approaching, he felt his forehead still throbbing with pain and instinctively wanted to back away.
He suddenly stood up from his chair, and while backing away, nearly tripped over it, his body stumbling and almost falling to the ground.
"You, don't come any closer!"
"That scared of me?" Sophia raised an eyebrow and muttered under her breath, "Looks like your training wasn't very good if you can't even handle a little pain."
The few who had experienced that pain couldn't help but twitch their lips.
A little pain?
It had felt like someone was slicing them to pieces, so painful their whole body spasmed, and they couldn't even muster the strength to remove the needle.
That feeling of helplessness made their scalps tingle just thinking about it.
"Don't be nervous. I'm just helping you experience what it means to be unable to live or die. Aren't you best at watching others suffer?"
Sophia's clear eyes seemed pure and flawless, her smile harmless and innocent.
But her words made people shudder.
However, those who had been stabbed with the needle didn't dare let their guard down, because they knew very well that Sophia, who looked like an angel on the outside, was more ruthless than anyone when she took action.
Even these well-trained men felt inferior to her.
So the people in the room split into two different scenes.
One group quickly stood up from their chairs and huddled in the corner, watching Sophia warily.
The other group looked at them like they were idiots.
Sophia waved to the people watching outside the door, signaling them to come in.
Thaddeus gave Sidney a look. Sidney hesitated for a moment but still pushed the door open and walked in.
Sophia ordered, "Grab anyone and bring them over. You... yeah, you."
She casually pointed to someone in the corner, playing with the needle in her hand with a smile.
Sidney didn't know what she wanted to do, but followed orders anyway. He pulled Knox, who was huddled in the corner, over to Sophia.
Knox's eyes stayed fixed on the needle in Sophia's hand, his face twitching, instinctively wanting to struggle.
However, Sidney was stronger than him and gripped his arm tightly, pressing him down on the table.
"I'll ask one more time. Who sent you? What's your purpose?"
Knox clenched his teeth tightly, refusing to say anything.
Sophia lost patience. Her delicate fingers lightly touched behind his ear, his neck, and finally, with lightning speed, inserted the needle into the back of his head.
Soon, Knox's previously expressionless face began to contort, and he groaned in pain.
This pain was different from what he'd experienced at the hospital. At the hospital, it was intense pain, like someone tearing at his flesh, trying to rip him apart completely.
This time it was a more prolonged pain, starting shallow and deepening, spreading from his skin to his internal organs, as if all his organs were being ground up in a meat grinder.
Sidney was so shocked by what he was seeing that he unconsciously loosened his grip.
Knox had been standing fine at first, but when Sidney let go, his large body fell straight down.