Chapter 659
Chapter 659
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 659
>Chapter Title: New
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Two pale finger segments, drained of blood, were simply placed on the table in the mediation room.
Everyone present, except for Li Huowang, had faces that turned extremely unpleasant at that moment.
Naturally, silver handcuffs were snapped onto Li Huowang's wrists.
"It was me who got kidnapped! Are you people out of your minds? Why are you cuffing me!"
Li Huowang suppressed the rage in his heart as he shouted at the others. However, this time, no one listened to him. Aside from the two officers watching over him, everyone else had gone outside.
Sun Jianye stood outside the door, listening to Li Huowang's voice while peering through the iron bars at this youth of extraordinary origins.
What gave him the biggest headache were mental patients like this. Not only could their words very well be fabrications, but their logic was so erratic and whimsical that none of his usual interrogation tactics worked at all.
If there were no leads on the suspect, then he had no choice but to approach from another angle.
He unlocked Li Huowang's phone with a tap and quickly searched through it before opening the contacts list.
When he spotted the call record from earlier that day, he dialed the number right away.
"Hello? Li Huowang, why'd you hang up on me just now? Oh, sorry. What happened to Li Huowang? Yes, I'm his attending physician."
"Any unusual behavior? He did call me today to ask if he was suffering from persecutory delusions."
Hearing this, Sun Jianye nodded in understanding, forming a preliminary judgment in his mind.
After carefully questioning Yi Donglai for more details, Sun Jianye walked into the mediation room and sat down in front of Li Huowang.
"Student Li, can you tell me where these two fingers came from?"
"I've told you how many times already—they're from that kidnapper in the car!"
Upon hearing this, Sun Jianye pulled out his phone and held it up in front of him.
"Is that so? But the community surveillance footage shows no sign of the car you mentioned. Nor is there any kidnapper like you described."
"No way that's possible!"
Li Huowang leaned forward, staring intently at the contents of the video.
The top right corner of the video displayed the date—today.
In the video, Li Huowang saw himself acting somewhat strangely. He was walking through the neighborhood, heading toward that woman with the umbrella.
Yet in this surveillance footage, there was no umbrella-wielding woman at all—only him, by himself.
As he walked, the Li Huowang in the video suddenly stopped. He seemed to be tussling with thin air, his body staggering as he veered into a nearby blind spot in the cameras.
"That's impossible! Absolutely impossible! I clearly saw them and felt them with absolute certainty! There's no way it was fake."
Hearing this, Sun Jianye leaned back in his chair with a headache.
"Then... is it possible that they were all just your hallucinations?"
"Have you even looked at my medical records?! First off, I've been discharged! I'm cured! Second, there are many kinds of mental illnesses! What happened before is completely different from this!"
Li Huowang abruptly stood up from his stool.
The two officers, one on each side, gently pressed down on Li Huowang's shoulders to avoid agitating him further. They carefully coaxed him to sit back down.
"Student Li, of course you're not crazy. I know that. But we're police—we handle cases based on evidence. There's no kidnapper like you described in this footage. That's a fact, right?"
"Then is it possible that this surveillance video was tampered with?!"
At this point, Li Huowang's body suddenly went rigid, as if he'd remembered something. Shock filled his eyes.
"From the time you called the police until we pulled the footage, that's way too short a window for anyone to tamper with it. How about this—to keep those kidnappers from coming after you again, why don't you stay at the station for the next few days? We'll protect you."
"Wait! You wanted evidence? What about those two fingers? They're the evidence! And besides..."
With that, Li Huowang stripped off his blood-soaked shirt.
"There's their blood on this. You can test the DNA! Find them!"
Li Huowang was absolutely certain that those kidnappers were real—they weren't hallucinations. Someone really was out to get him!
No matter which faction they came from, he was now caught in some kind of crisis! His life could be in danger at any moment.
Since they'd struck once already, they'd definitely try again. There'd been a first time, so there would be a second.
They'd gone to such lengths to monitor him before, so these people wouldn't give up easily until they achieved their goal.
At this moment, Li Huowang's heart pounded with panic—not because of these mysterious assailants, but because the ravings of that madman Qian Fu from before seemed to be coming true.
"Who are they?"
"Leo constellation aliens! Their technology is incredibly advanced! They can monitor us effortlessly! I didn't put needles in your food—it was them! They're trying to sow discord!"
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The wheels of the cart rolled slowly over the dry, yellowed grass. Yang Kid held his horsewhip in hand, gazing out at the endless expanse of grassland all around.
He uncertainly pulled out the map of Qingqiu he'd bought, a hint of hesitation on his youthful face.
"It should be this way, right? I didn't get turned around, did I?"
Even with the map, the fact that Qingqiu was nothing but grassland in every direction with no landmarks whatsoever left Yang Kid unsure if he was on the right path.
Just then, he spotted a towering hill rising abruptly in the distance.
From afar, the hill—blanketed in dry yellow grass—resembled a yellowish steamed bun.
These things popped up from the grasslands from time to time, and Yang Kid had seen plenty over the past few days.
This one just had a particularly distinctive shape, which was why he remembered it so clearly.
"When Senior Brother Li and I passed through here before, I think I saw this thing. Sun Baolu's home should be close now, right?"
As he said this, the open tent in the distance thrilled Yang Kid.
"Giddyup! Giddyup! Faster!"
Yang Kid whipped the horse rapidly, sending the cart horse galloping ahead.
The tents on the grassland bustled with dark-skinned, wiry Qingqiu folk coming and going. Among them were a few fair-skinned ones, and Sun Baolu was one such.
When he saw that it was actually Yang Kid who'd arrived, Sun Baolu—whom he hadn't seen in so long—grew instantly excited.
He truly hadn't expected they'd ever meet again after parting ways that day.
"Brother Baolu! Gao Zhijian became emperor! Gouwa got married and had kids! Senior Brother Li's illness is cured too!"
Yang Kid excitedly reported all the recent happy news to him.
As Sun Baolu asked for details, Yang Kid recounted everything that had happened after leaving Qingqiu, down to the smallest particulars.
"Really? Everyone's doing so well? That's just wonderful."
Sun Baolu was sincerely happy for his old companions. After all, they were brothers who'd once faced life and death together.
"Right, Kid, so what brings you to Qingqiu?"
"Gao Zhijian helped me find my parents. They're Danfolk from Hou Shu. I want to go see them."
"Hou Shu?!"
At those words, Sun Baolu's face filled with tension. He quickly grabbed Yang Kid's arm.
"No, you absolutely cannot go! Hou Shu is right in the middle of a war with that new Yu'er Kingdom that's risen up. I've heard the fighting is fierce—you'd be walking to your death if you went there now!"
(End of chapter)