Three hours had passed since I was locked up in the cell. I was in utter despair when the police brought in an unscrupulous looking man. He glanced at me and asked, “What are you here for, brother?”

I ignored him, but he moved very close to me and with an oleaginous smile on his face he said, “Officer Wang ordered me to take good care of you!”

I shrank away from him immediately. It sounded like the police had decided to completely desert me and wash their hands of me forever. To think that I was their comrade in arms just hours earlier! Now I was reduced to an object of their ridicule.

At that moment, I vowed to myself that once I got out of here, I would find them and exact my revenge on them!

My thoughts were suddenly interrupted when the shady guy tapped my shoulder. He slipped out a leg of ham, a bottle of mineral water and a tea bag out of his coat.

“You must be hungry,” he said. “Here, have some...