A word once spoken cannot be taken back, even by three swift horses.

  In a closed iron room, two specially made chairs were placed in the middle, on which a man and a woman sat with their hands and feet buckled to the chair.

  Di Yu and Shen Yao were originally still waiting for the waiter to serve food, but after drinking the drink brought by the waiter, they suddenly fell asleep, unconscious, and finally were taken to this unknown place.

  The two people's mobile phones and relevant documents were all taken away and placed on a nearby table.

  With a loud creak, the iron door swung open, and three people entered from outside. Two men in black clothes, and a woman wearing a mask.

  Seeing the two bound people, a hint of color flashed in the woman's eyes, and she asked faintly: "Why are there two people?" He was speaking in English.

  One of them, a man in black, struggled to answer in English: "This woman was with the target, so we brought her."

  "The woman asked without hesitation: 'Have you investigated her background?'"

  Her name is Shen Yao, she's a student at Yanjing University and also the daughter of the Director of the Yanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau.

  The masked woman hesitated for a moment before ordering: "Wake this girl up, I have something to ask her."

  "Yes." The man in black sprayed something on Shen Yao's face, and she woke up after shaking her head a few times. When she saw her own appearance and the three strangers in front of her, she was first terrified, then saw Di Yu who had fainted, and loudly shouted: "Who are you people? What have you done to him?"

  The woman laughed softly and switched to extremely standard Mandarin, smiling: "Miss Shen, you don't have to worry, we won't hurt you or your friend, but you seem to be worried about your friend."

  Although Shen Yao was afraid, after all, she had a father who was the director of the bureau and an elder sister who was the captain of the criminal police brigade, so she still looked calm. She carefully sized up the masked woman for a few moments before asking, "What do you want to do? Do you know my surname is Shen?"

  "Heh heh, it's clearly written on your student ID." The masked woman chuckled and pointed at the student IDs of Shen Yao and Di Yu on the table: "I don't want to do anything to you two, I just want to ask you a few questions alone. As long as you can satisfy me, I'll let you go very soon."

  "What do you want from us?" Shen Yao asked. She still didn't understand what was happening, the only thing she could be sure of was that these people had kidnapped her and Di Yu! In fact, she was very worried and scared in her heart, it wasn't easy to remain calm like this.

  The masked woman smiled and said: "I just want to know what kind of relationship Miss Shen has with him?"

  "Me and Di Yu..." Could it be that their target was Di Yu, and I just happened to get in the way?

  "What's wrong, is it hard to answer?" The masked woman saw Shen Yao hesitate, not only was she not unhappy, but instead looked at Shen Yao with great interest and smiled: "Based on a woman's intuition, you should like him, or at least have a good impression of him. Of course, maybe my guess isn't accurate, and you don't want to admit it, but we've investigated a lot about him, he's actually entangled with several women, including your sister, I wonder if what I'm saying is accurate?"

  Shen Yao didn't know how to answer her question, whether she liked Di Yu or not, even she herself wasn't sure, but having a good impression was certain, from the first time Di Yu helped her catch a thief, she had a good impression, but having a good impression doesn't necessarily mean liking... What's wrong with herself now, still being caught by people with Di Yu, following this woman's train of thought?

  Shen Yao looked at the masked woman again, she had heard her sister mention something about criminal investigation before, this kind of induction method was a way to get a confession from a criminal, she couldn't fall for it. She said calmly: "Regardless of whether I have good feelings towards Di Yu or not, does it have anything to do with the purpose of your kidnapping us?"

  The masked woman didn't get a response from Shen Yao, but instead was questioned by her. She was slightly surprised that Shen Yao had reacted so quickly to her probing, either because she had no good feelings towards the target or because she had seen through her trickery. Knowing that further questioning would not yield a definite answer, she gave a signal to the black-clad man, who used a cloth soaked in anesthetic to cover Shen Yao's mouth and nose, knocking her out again. Then, without waiting for the woman's orders, he sprayed something on Di Yu's face twice.

  Di Yu slowly came to and saw that the three people in front of him didn't show much surprise, but they also didn't say anything.

  The woman smiled again and looked at Di Yu, saying: "Special Operations Unit of Country Z Special Executor Di Yu, Lieutenant Di? Or should we call you Master Di?"

  Di Yu gave her an indifferent expression and said, "Looks like you've investigated me quite thoroughly."

  That notebook issued by the army was placed on the table, Di Yu couldn't deny it and didn't need to deny it. Perhaps for Hong Fang and others, their identities were national military secrets, but Di Yu didn't care at all.

  "Then you should also know the purpose of our visit?" The masked woman was not surprised at Di Yu's calm demeanor, as if this were a matter of course.

  Di Yu smiled and said: "I know! But... I won't tell you!"

  "Do you know why we're looking for you?" This time, the masked woman's eyes were filled with curiosity, she just casually asked a question, completely not thinking that Di Yu would answer like this, she even didn't believe that Di Yu knew her purpose of finding him.

  "Of course I know!" Di Yu nodded in agreement, then asked back: "The person who went to kill Zheng Tianpao was sent by you guys, right?"

  "Zheng Tianpao? The new underground emperor of Yanjing?" The masked woman's eyes flashed with a hint of confusion, and then she frowned and said: "Mr. Di hasn't realized the danger he's in yet, now you should answer my questions, I can guarantee your safety, not the other way around!"

  "Oh? What do you want to know?" Di Yu still had an indifferent tone and attitude.

  "You, don't you know what we want to know?" The masked woman slowed down her speech for a moment, then shouted: "Mr. Di, if you don't cooperate with my questioning, I can only take some extreme measures to make you speak!"

  "Cooperate, cooperate! You ask and I'll tell you everything. However..." Di Yu cooperated very well this time.

  "What's wrong?" the masked woman said impatiently.

  Di Yu smiled and said, "Look at your two subordinates, they knocked me out before I could eat, now my stomach is growling with hunger, I don't have any strength. Don't you think it's better to get me some food first? And for my companion here, just bring two bowls of noodles, oh, and add some chili peppers, I like strong flavors."

  The masked woman hesitated for a moment and said: "Are you sure that after eating something, you will cooperate with me?"

  "Of course! Once a Chinese person has given their word, it's harder to take back than to get a horse to turn around!" Di Yu nodded repeatedly in guarantee, as if he knew the other party wasn't like the Chinese.

  "Hmph, wait!" The masked woman didn't know what she wanted to hear from Di Yu, but it was certain that it must be very important to them, otherwise she wouldn't have agreed to Di Yu's "unreasonable" request.

  Half an hour later, the two men somehow produced a bowl of steaming hot noodles and placed it on a steel plate between Di Yu and Shen Yao's right hands, which were tied to the chair.

  They woke Shen Yao up again, Di Yu moved his right hand and looked at the two men in black, saying: "You watch me eat, go out and wait, I'll finish eating, you ask what I say - what are you looking at, Chinese people, a promise is a promise!"

  The two men exchanged a glance and went out silently, waiting outside the door.

  Shen Yao woke up with no appetite, and as soon as the man in black walked out, she anxiously asked Di Yu: "What's going on? Who are they?"

  "Hey friends, didn't you see they're treating us to ramen? Hurry up and eat, next time we'll treat them to local roast duck!"

  "What's wrong with you? You still have the mood to joke around at a time like this!" Shen Yao was anxious beyond measure, yet she could still hear Di Yu saying such things here, and the taste in her heart was indescribably complicated.

  "Don't worry, we'll leave safely, trust me."

  Looking at Di Yu's confident eyes, Shen Yao felt her heart change from turbulent to calm, just like the first time she met him. Even though they were in a dangerous situation, she didn't feel worried or scared. She actually started eating ramen with Di Yu.

  After more than ten minutes, Di Yu finished the noodles in his bowl, still feeling unsatisfied. Shen Yao only ate a little, after all, she didn't have much of an appetite. Di Yu called out to the door, "Come on in, we're done eating."

  The masked woman and two men in black walked in, she looked at Di Yu and said: "Can we start our conversation now?"

  "Alright." Di Yu's demeanor was calm and composed, as if they were indeed just two friends chatting.

  The masked woman looked at Shen Yao and asked, "Mr. Di, do you need me to take Miss Shen out?"

  "It's all right, there's nothing in our conversation today that needs to be hidden from her, just go ahead and ask." Di Yu casually shook his head, rejecting the masked woman's proposal.

  The masked woman thought for a moment, pointing to the ID card issued by the military and asked: "Is the special operations unit on this ID card the mysterious organization 'Dead Wolf' of Z country's army?"

  Di Yu replied without hesitation: "This certificate is just a temporary one, for my convenience in doing some things. As for whether I am the 'Dead Wolf' you mentioned, I'm not clear about that."

  "What's wrong?" the woman asked.

  "Training a batch of detectives, nothing special," replied Di Yu.

  "In the eighteen years before you found your biological parents, something special must have happened to Mr. Di, why don't you tell us about it?" The woman said with a smile.

  This is the point! Di Yu finally got to the main topic, all the previous questions were just nonsense, this is probably what they really wanted to know.

  Just as the woman thought Di Yu was going to answer her question, he suddenly said: "No comment!"

  The smile on the woman's face froze, and she said angrily: "Mr. Di, you're not cooperating now? You once said 'a promise is a promise, and it can't be taken back even if one wants to'!"

  "Yes, I did say that! But you only have three horses, one is missing!" Di Yu looked at the three people in front of him, pretending to be troubled, this way he shouldn't be considered as breaking his promise.

  "Hmm!" Shen Yao really wanted to laugh at Di Yu's answer, but felt it was too inappropriate. The idiom "a horse cannot overtake" was actually explained by him in such a way, and wasn't there exactly three people present?

  PS: Today's update is complete! Tomorrow, six updates will be released in a row. Why the explosion? The two bosses are already here, and if we don't make a big explosion, it would be unfair to our supporting brothers. Updates will start at 12 o'clock, with a basic plan of coding one chapter every three hours.