Anti-theft chapter ~ Thank you for coming to Jinjiang Literature City genuine subscription ~ "Twenty-eight."

  In a small interrogation room, Yan Li flipped through the files in his hand and asked routine questions without any emotion. Xiao Liu from the new department next to him bowed his head and wrote hastily.

  Across the interrogation table was a woman with a dull and lifeless complexion, her face sallow and prematurely wrinkled at the corners of her eyes. She wore a tattered and patched cotton-padded jacket that seemed to have been worn for many years, although she was still in her prime, yet somehow appeared as if she had already reached the twilight of her years.

  The prisoners who came here were either scolding or crying for mercy, but this woman kept her head down from beginning to end and only occasionally nodded or shook her head in response, quietly cooperating with the interrogation.

  Yan Li didn't mind either.

  As the second-in-command of the Guilin Municipal Public Security Bureau's Criminal Investigation Brigade, he handles thousands or even tens of thousands of cases every year. His heart has long been tempered into a hard, stinky stone that is not easily shaken.

  What's more, this is a murderer who killed an entire family of six people.

  Yan Li thought of the Mid-Autumn Festival a year ago when he received the report and rushed to the scene. The six charred bodies that were pulled out from the ruins, with their faces completely unrecognizable, left him horrified.

  This is one of the rare major criminal cases in recent years.

  But thinking of the customs in Heyang County, I also feel that such a thing is bound to happen sooner or later. Especially in the southeastern corner of Sangjiadang, nestled in the mountains, they rarely interact with the outside world and are still as poor as they were before liberation, with every household relying on their daughters-in-law to make a living.

  After the incident, the men of Sangjiadang stood up with righteous indignation, saying that this bought-in daughter-in-law was a born white-eyed wolf, who had run away five or six times and still had the audacity to run off with a goods runner after being beaten by Quan Gen until her legs were broken. A few gossiping women also angrily said that this daughter-in-law was a fox spirit who loved to seduce men into bed, saying that it was only a matter of time before something happened, and everyone became wise after the event.

  A one-legged woman was wanted nationwide for a year, and somehow managed to conceal herself, hiding for a whole year until she surrendered today - making the entire Gui City police station almost a laughing stock in the industry.

  "After fleeing for almost a year, why did you suddenly think of surrendering?"

  Jiang Xi looked up at him with a glance.

  Yan Li suddenly realized that the woman had a pair of sparkling eyes, even with a large scar under her eye, and even if the sparkle was just a stagnant pool of water, it still gave off an aura of having once been captivating, making people unable to help but pause for a moment.

  "Officer," Jiang Xi's rough voice was like sandpaper scraping against wood, as if he hadn't spoken in a long time: "What are you asking all this for?"

  "The case requires."

  Yan tightly handed over the file, and passed the mineral water on his side to the front. Little Liu also stopped writing, curiously looking over.

  Jiang Xi didn't respond, as if she had lost interest in everything in this world. After a while, she managed to say with difficulty: "I... went back home for a bit."

  Yan Li suddenly understood.

  Last year, when the wanted notice was just released, he went to Shen City on purpose to catch people. During the investigation, it was found that within two months of Jiang Xi's kidnapping, her parents had died. It is said that his father was spiritually confused on the way to find someone outside, and was crushed to death by a large card, with a very tragic death. Jiang Xi's mother could not bear the blow, suffered from depression, and jumped directly from the building.

  Yan Li could almost imagine that when Jiang Xi finally returned home after overcoming countless difficulties, he found that his parents had long since passed away due to the accident back then, and his heart was filled with despair.

  He suddenly felt a little sympathy for this murderer.

  Jiang Xi fell silent for a moment: "Being alive doesn't have much meaning either."

  "Why kill?"

  "If you can't live, then just die."

  Jiang Xi slightly closed her eyes, and only then did Yan Li notice that she still had a row of curled and raised eyelashes.

  He suddenly remembered the personal data belonging to Jiang Xi that came from Shen City, which was said to be able to reveal the true form of all demons and monsters. The ID photo showed a bright-eyed and smiling girl, whose gaze seemed to fly about with spirit energy that could be felt just by looking at it.

  If fate hadn't taken a cruel turn, this woman should have had a bright and happy future ahead of her, not carrying the weight of an unjustified crime to the end of her life.

  Yan Li felt a slight sense of regret.

  He thought of his own daughter who was in high school, at the age when she was full of energy and life, about the same age as Jiang Xi when she went missing. The mere thought sent shivers down his spine.

  "Can't live on? Did they beat you?"

  "Why not beat her? Every day, three meals a day, take the whip and hit. At any time, if you're not in the mood, also hit. In that place, wives bought are their own belongings, beating to death is not a problem."

  Jiang Xi rolled up her sleeves, revealing a small section of her wrist, and Little Liu let out a cry of surprise.

  A short paragraph, crisscrossing with no good flesh, all are potholed and layered scars, obviously left by years of flogging, a glance is frightening.

  "Doesn't look good? Nothing's wrong."

  Jiang Xi casually pulled her sleeve back down, but Yan Li noticed that her right thumb was slightly bent outward, as if it had been twisted and not properly reset.

  "Getting beaten is a daily routine, often being punished by going hungry and sleepless all day and night – it's nothing."

  Under the bright red flag and in broad daylight, Little Liu grew up luxuriantly. He couldn't understand that if this was nothing, then what was something. Soon, Jiang Xi let him know - the evil that could be spawned from the land irrigated by ignorance and poverty.

  "Where did Sang Quanguan get the money to buy me, do you know? He's the eldest, and there are three younger brothers under him. The four brothers pooled their money together to buy me. On the surface, I'm Sang Quanguan's wife alone, but do you know how many people sleep in this bed?"

  "How many?"

  Xiao Liu's throat is tight.

  Yan Li looked at him and didn't scold him.

  "Four, ah, no, later there was even one more, that old invincible father of his."

  Jiang Xi let out a strange laugh from his throat, short and cold-blooded.

  It was as if he had stumbled into a bizarre reality that only existed in ghost stories told at night, leaving Little Liu stunned and his voice trembling: "Th-th-this..."

  He was at a loss for words.

  "Why didn't you call the police?"

  "Report an alarm?"

  Jiang Xi's gaze made Xiao Liu feel a wave of heat on his face, and for some reason, he suddenly didn't dare to listen anymore.

  Yan Li understood in Jiang Xi's silence.

  In that poor and remote Heyang County, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, for the sake of local peacekeeping, most police officers turned a blind eye to this.

  Jiang Xi didn't say anything, but in her almost mocking gaze, it was as if she had said everything.

  "Officer, is there anything else you'd like to ask?"

  Jiang Xi was the kind of prisoner Yan Li rarely encountered.

  She is elegant and courteous, with clear speech, obviously well-educated. When confessing to the crime, her logic was still very clear. She confessed in great detail, from pre-incident preparations to post-incident escape methods, without any deceit or concealment. Her attitude was calm and composed.

  Yan Li was very clear, this is a person who seeks death with all his heart.

  She lost her grip on life.

  Life for Jiang Xi was nothing but pain and desolation.

  Yan Li felt a slight tingling in his nose, he rubbed his nose, and his voice became a bit thicker: "It's gone."

  He picked up the file and stood up, as if he had thought of something again, turned his head and said: "If... there is anything or letter that needs to be delivered, you can call Little Liu."

  Jiang Xi fell silent for a long time, then suddenly laughed:

  "No."

  The case was approved very quickly from the time it was submitted to the time the approval document came down, which was not unexpected. In any case, there is a good reason for this, and what awaits Jiang Xi is just a bullet.

  In the midst of complex and complicated news events, even a piece of tofu can't get any attention.

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  "Hmm——"

  Jiang Xi suddenly opened his eyes.

  The back of her head throbbed with increasingly severe pain, and she dazedly thought: Didn't I die?

  The sound of sobbing, like a symphony, made her feel uneasy even in death. Jiang Xi couldn't help but "resurrect" and forced herself to look ahead, only to be stunned into stupidity by what she saw:

  "Little, Little Ling?"

  A round-eyed and round-faced little girl asked her with a half curious and half naive expression: "Sister, how do you know Xiaoling's name?"

  Jiang Xi had an unconscious feeling that something was wrong.

  Propped up his body, behind him was a cold and hard earth wall, under him was a thick layer of straw mat, not a big room, like driving pigs, dozens of children were circled in, the whole scene was bleak and desolate.

  In her tears, Jiang Xi squinted - wasn't this the room where she was temporarily placed for a period of time after being abducted all those years ago?

  "Sister, does your head still hurt?"

  Jiang Xi only felt a large lump on the back of her head, and suddenly remembered that when she was first thrown into this room, she had a fiery temper and was indeed smashed against the wall by that woman with a handful of hair.

  "Sister doesn't hurt."

  Jiang Xi looked at his own excessively pale and tender hands, these hands had never had the calluses of middle-aged labor, nor any frightening missing fingers.

  It suddenly occurred to her: coincidentally, she... had been reborn?

  Chen Jing bit her lip, her innocent almond-shaped eyes darting back and forth, seemingly unable to make up her mind.

  "You——"

  For Sun Ting, who had always regarded Jiang Xi as a goddess, the goddess was humiliated, and she must have rushed forward to tear her apart, but was pulled back by Jiang Xi's sleeve. She shook her head: "Wait."

  "Are you sure it's gone? It could be on the ground or in the classroom, couldn't it?" Jiang Xi said slowly and calmly, "When something is lost, the normal reaction should be, ah, maybe I put it somewhere else? Maybe it fell to the ground?"

  "Liu Yun, you came up and shouted that it was stolen, but you're quite certain."

  Jiang Xi rarely spoke so much at once, and only felt a slight dryness in his throat. Liu Yun's expression changed slightly, and without waiting for Jiang Xi to continue speaking, he said directly: "It's no use trying to talk your way out of this, I saw Jing Jing put the necklace away myself, and it was fine when we left."

  "Have you two made up?"

  Jiang Xi felt that these young girls' emotions were really hard to fathom.

  Chen Jing's eyes moved slightly: "Yunyun apologized to me, we——"

  "What's the point of saying all this?" Liu Yun interrupted her: "Whether we've stolen or not, let's just search our bags."

  If Jiang Xi were an ordinary high school student, she might have given up, but she wasn't. After years of training in observing people's words and expressions, her skills had been honed to perfection. As soon as Liu Yun's eyes moved, she knew that the necklace was probably still in her bag. If they searched now, she would be speechless.

  At such a young age, yet so venomous!

  Jiang Xi decided to give her a profound lesson.

  Who would have thought that the heroic woman Lu Zhu'er would speak up, she thinks Jiang Xi's current temperament is very much to her liking, just like someone of our generation: "You say search and then search? Even if it's the police arresting someone and searching, they still need to apply for an arrest warrant and a search warrant first, Liu Yun, your methods are excessive."

  "Yes, yes, people are not criminals now, if you want to search, just search, isn't that treating people as bad guys?"

  Jiang Xi decided not to take the lead for now.

  Lu Hao stood at the door watching this farce, his heart inexplicably clenched.

  He didn't care about the boundaries of the first and second shifts anymore, directly entering the door and standing on one side of Jiang Xi: "I believe Jiang Xi won't steal."

  Jiang Xi glanced at him, and Lu Hao felt even more that he was the prince who had split reeds and cut evil dragons, and it was time to support the princess, his youthful heroic blood boiling up.

  The young man's vigorous demeanor warmed Jiang Xi's heart, memories...

  Liu Yun's face turned pale for a moment, seemingly struck by the fact that Lu Hao had stood up, but quickly returned to normal: "Then let's search together."

  "From me first." She returned to her seat, rummaged through her school bag and took out books and textbooks until it was empty, then opened each of the hidden pockets of her backpack one by one, shaking them: "Alright? You all saw that. According to your suspicious words, everyone in the class is a suspect. Whoever doesn't want to be searched must have a guilty conscience!"

  The little girl is quite clever.

  Jiang Xi is now very certain that the necklace must be in her own school bag or pencil case, and it must be at a shallow layer, just shake it out.

  Think about it, today I was lying on the desk all the way, only leaving in the first half of physical education class, and the other party only had this opportunity to frame me.

  Just then, Liu Yun rushed over, no one expected her to be so rough, like a bullfight, Jiang Xi was rushed into a daze, almost fell to the ground, Lu Hao reached out to help, but she dodged away.

  "Whoosh!" The backpack and textbooks all fell to the ground.

  "You——" Sun Ting was about to scold, but found that all her classmates' eyes were cast downward.

  Among the messy pile of schoolbags and textbooks, something shiny caught everyone's eyes - it was Chen Jing's necklace that she had lost earlier.

  "Wow, big news."

  Some classmates have secretly taken out their mobile phones to record it.

  Jiang Xi's first glance was at Lu Hao.

  She also didn't know why, at this moment, what she most wanted to know was the reaction of this young man - roughly like first love, it's always a bit different.

  But she was disappointed.

  Lu Hao looked at the ground, his narrow single eyelid twitching tightly, his pupils shrinking, and a mixture of shock, astonishment, incredulity, and confusion made him stare blankly at the ground.

  Lu Hao refused to believe that the girl he liked was a thief, but the necklace was right there, leaving no room for misidentification.

  A high school student with shallow and simple life experiences is extremely unlikely to suspect that his peers would frame him, compared to the fact that he was stolen from, being framed seems even more absurd.

  "Jiang, Jiang Xi, is not, will not steal."

  Lu Hao forced himself to say another sentence, but his slightly trembling voice had already revealed the boy's wavering state of mind.

  Jiang Xi let out a sigh, she hadn't sighed in many years.

  When killing, she didn't sigh; when escaping, she didn't sigh. But at this moment, she felt that there was something solid and certain in her heart that was slowly slipping away. This feeling was too subtle, making her unable to help but let out a sigh.

  It's really asking too much for someone to give 100% trust in this situation.

  Jiang Xi suddenly ignored the slight loss in his heart, looking at Liu Yun's proud expression and Chen Jing's stunned face, stretched out his hand from his pants pocket and pulled out... an apple.

  "Then report it to the police."

  She dialed the number briskly and turned on the speaker: "This kind of small case, it's better to report to the police for handling. Our school corridor is full of surveillance cameras everywhere, whoever sneaks back should be clear. Besides, who has handled this necklace and touched it, there must be fingerprints, just check them."

  "Oh, right, and there's also a lie detector, the police uncle is really formidable, one check and they'll know who's behind it."

  Jiang Xi's rough behavior of calling the police at the slightest disagreement scared Liu Yun, and her panicked expression couldn't be hidden.

  "Report, report to the police? That's not good, right? The school leaders don't allow it either."

  Jiang Xi shrugged his shoulders, "What's wrong with that? Catching thieves is originally a police officer's responsibility."

  Jiang Xi's calm and collected demeanor made people suspect the authenticity of the theft, while Liu Yun, on the other hand, was getting more and more flustered, unable to hide it. Anyone with discerning eyes could see that there was something fishy going on.

  The music connected inside the earpiece started playing, and Liu Yun suddenly pounced on it, trying to snatch Jiang Xi's mobile phone.

  Jiang Xi had been prepared and dodged to the side, but unexpectedly Liu Yun's hand swung too wide, missing Jiang Xi's phone and instead knocking off her glasses which were perched on the bridge of her nose.

  "Bang——"

  The black-framed glasses that had accompanied Jiang Xi for half a month suddenly fell to the ground and shattered.

  Jiang Xi's delicate and beautiful features were suddenly exposed to everyone, her skin as white as the purest snow on the top of a sacred mountain, without a single pore visible. Her nose was straight and her lips were slightly pursed, but all of this paled in comparison to the pair of eyes hidden beneath her thick bangs, as if they had been painted by God himself with a brush dipped in the darkest ink, shining brightly with an otherworldly light that seemed almost transparent, yet profound, mysterious, and cold.

  Jiang Xi... I didn't know it was so beautiful?

  A group of students, for nearly half a month, had not seen Jiang Xi's true face. After being kidnapped for over ten days, when he returned, Jiang Xi continued to wear a pair of black-framed glasses and didn't interact deeply with anyone, so it wasn't long before they all tacitly accepted this fact.

  After all, the five senses... haven't changed, just a bit paler skin.

  One white covers three uglinesses; in this era where everyone surfs the internet, both men and women generally know a thing or two.

  Jiang Xitou pinched her nose bridge and thought, how could she have forgotten that it's impossible to be polite with barbarians.

  Black framed glasses can't be worn, seeing the classmates around "lightly and cloudily" accepting the fact, Jiang Xi also decided not to make things difficult for herself anymore. The black framed glasses had been worn for a long time, and the bridge of her nose was even pressed out with red marks, which wasn't very comfortable.

  She didn't know that if it wasn't for Tarō covering up most of the spiritual energy, probably most of her classmates would have made the same guess due to the front and back drop.

  Could it be that Jiang Xi's disappearance for over a dozen days wasn't actually a kidnapping, but rather a secret trip to Poland?

  But even with some common sense, it's known that recovery from plastic surgery is always very slow, especially swelling, which can't be gone in just over 20 days.

  So even if someone secretly complains, they immediately deny it at first.

  It was Liu Yun instead ——

  Her later clumsy and intense performance was obvious to everyone, and since the students in the class were able to get into the key class, they were not only simple-minded but also very clever, having watched a few palace dramas, she suddenly had some guesses.

  Lao Ban rushed over and stopped Jiang Xi's report, as a school leader, no one wants their own students to be involved in such sensational news. He repeatedly comforted them and even offered a concession of waiving all tuition fees for the next semester.

  Jiang Xi was an adult, so he wouldn't really argue with the school authorities, and just made three conditions: First, let all classmates watch the surveillance video to clear his name. Second, Liu Yun would be expelled from class one and receive a major demerit. Third, apologize to him in front of the whole school faculty and students.

  Jiang Xi's move seems to have let Liu Yun off the hook, sparing her from spending a few days in police custody. However, the long-term psychological torment that follows is the real silent killer, leaving no visible wounds.

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