Chapter 60. Before Chapter 60, it was Anna Bai; now it's...

Wu Jiangxue was about to stand up when Bai Ma suddenly grabbed her hand.

She stumbled as she was pulled, and frowned as she looked over. Her mother was staring at her with wide eyes.

His eyes were bloodshot, with bloodshot veins around the pupils that were constantly expanding and contracting, giving off a hysterical frenzy.

"What do you mean? You want me to go to the hospital?"

She stared intently at Wu Jiangxue, pointing at Bai Anna's belly, which was visibly swelling rapidly.

"Do you think this is something the doctors at the hospital can cure?"

Wu Jiangxue watched as the shape of a small foot slowly emerged on Bai Anna's festering belly.

The belly, stretched to its limit, was squeezed by the little feet, which pressed against the already festering black spots, causing dark red pus to flow out.

Wu Jiangxue: "..."

Her face was ashen, and she pressed her lips tightly together.

The fat cat next to her cried out even more shrilly, as if it might pounce on her at any moment.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Bai Ma pulled her up and pointed to the tightly closed gate of Chu Ci's house.

"The doctors can't save my daughter, only she can! Only she can save my daughter!"

As she spoke, she tried to pull Wu Jiangxue over.

"Madam, my brother always says you're a good cop. I beg you, I beg you, please help me, please help me!"

Chu Tianjian glanced at Wu Jiangxue's unpleasant expression and quickly helped his sister up.

"What are you doing! This isn't something Inspector Wu can help with, what's the use of asking Inspector Wu for help?"

His tone was reproachful, "If you had just spoken nicely to Chu Ci, there wouldn't have been any room for negotiation!"

Bai Ma's tears streamed down her face like water, yet she remained stubborn:

"She already said she wouldn't save him, what's the use of me begging her!"

"you……"

Chu Tianjian really couldn't understand what she was thinking.

He always felt that his sister had a clear sense of superiority when facing Chu Hongdan and Chu Ci, as if making her beg these two people was more painful than killing her.

But her daughter is in this state, why can't they save her first!

Old Chu, who had been silent all along, never imagined that his granddaughter's condition had become so serious.

He swayed and almost fell to the ground.

Fortunately, he managed to grab the wall beside him and didn't fall, but his lips were trembling uncontrollably.

"Anna's belly wasn't like this yesterday, how come it's only been a day..."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered Chu Ci saying that Bai Anna was not a member of the Bai family, and his expression turned even more unpleasant.

Mrs. Bai sobbed uncontrollably. Old Chu pulled his son aside and whispered, "Anna's background, the Bai family's side..."

"father!"

Chu Tianjian glared at his father, then looked at his sister who was crying uncontrollably.

He lowered his voice and warned, "Is this the time to talk about this kind of thing?"

Old Chu nodded with a grim expression, then brought up Bai Anna.

"Your niece's belly..."

Chu Tianjian gritted his teeth, his eyes sweeping over Bai Anna, who was covered by a blanket, his gaze filled with disgust and fear.

"What else could it be? Karma..."

Back then, his sister had people spread rumors that Guo Miaotong was having an affair and getting pregnant, which drove Guo's mother to suicide. Now, however, this rumor has come true for Anna.

Cause and effect are cyclical, and retribution is inevitable.

He watched his sister's tearful back as she walked away, and couldn't help but close his eyes.

They say you should leave a way out for others, but she pushed people to this point.

"I'm sorry, Sir," Chu Tianjian forced a smile, "My sister is worried and confused, so she's not in a good mental state."

He gestured for Wu Jiangxue to go ahead and rest, saying, "It's getting late, so let's not keep you from going back to rest, Officer Wu."

"elder brother!"

Bai Ma raised her head with tears in her eyes.

“Anna, she…”

Chu Tianjian's face turned cold this time. "Stop talking and quickly take Inspector Wu back to rest."

Bai Ma stared at her brother's face for a while, and finally helped him into the elevator.

Wu Jiangxue tried to take away the fat cat that was constantly bristling and growling.

But as if there was something terrifying about her, the fat cat opened its mouth wide and let out a shrill, threatening cry whenever she approached.

Even when she tried to communicate with the fat cat, all it responded with were low growls.

She had no choice but to go into the elevator first.

As the elevator doors slowly closed, the tense fat cat gradually relaxed.

It licked its lips, glanced at the humans in front of it, and held its breath when it looked at Bai Anna, its big eyes showing a hint of disgust.

When Bai Ma saw the ridiculously fat cat, she reached out to kick it.

"Disgusting thing, stay away from it!"

Her foot didn't touch the fat cat; instead, the fat cat scratched her with its claws, leaving a long and deep wound.

She screamed in pain at her foot, took off her shoe, and threw it at the fat cat.

"You wretched cat, I'm going to skin you alive!"

Her answer was the fat cat waddling away, its round, plump furry bottom swaying in the distance.

In her anger, Bai Ma wanted to chase after him, but Chu Tianjian grabbed her.

"Enough! When will you stop?"

Looking at the bloodshot in her eyes, Chu Tianjian suddenly had a bad feeling, for some reason.

But he didn't dare think too much about it, shook off Bai Ma's hand, and continued cursing:

"You have to consider the owner before you beat a dog! Are you trying to make things chaotic enough today?!"

After saying that, he called over his father, who was standing to the side.

"Father, come and lend a hand, let's go see some other masters."

Bai's mother turned her head and glared fiercely at Chu Ci's family's front door, feeling resentful.

"If even renowned masters from Southeast Asia can't do it, how could anyone else possibly succeed!"

Chu Tianjian couldn't help but roll his eyes at her and retorted:

"If even renowned masters from Southeast Asia can't do it, what makes you think Chu Ci can definitely do it?"

"I……"

Bai Ma wished she could stare a hole through Chu Ci's door.

Anyway, I just think she's good.

"Oh, Ying."

Old Chu, who was usually quiet, couldn't help but try to persuade her.

"What happened back then was because we went too far. It's not your mother's fault, so don't make things difficult for her."

"Dad, what did you say?" Bai's mother stared wide-eyed at her, her mouth agape in astonishment.

Do you think I'm just looking for trouble?

“Anna is my daughter, how could I possibly joke about her life!”

"And if it weren't for her back then, my own mother wouldn't have..."

"Alright!"

Chu Tianjian interrupted her, looking at her with a gloomy face, "Don't mention your mother again. If you say it again, I won't care about you anymore."

Bai Ma: "..."

Her mouth was slightly open, her lips trembling, but she couldn't utter a word.

Looking at her brother's serious face, she knew he wasn't joking.

For some reason, Chu Hongdan's words suddenly echoed in her mind:

"You think she came back back then wanting to acknowledge you because she missed you?"

"Pah! She can't afford to support her twins anymore, so she wants to squeeze more money out of you!"

She clenched her fists at her sides and shook her head violently to drive away the sounds.

No, it must be Chu Hongdan framing her mother!

She had never seen any twins around her mother; Chu Hongdan must be talking nonsense.

Chu Tianjian and his son carried the stretcher into the elevator, with Bai Ma following absentmindedly behind.

Downstairs, the younger brother of the Bai family was waiting for them.

The group got into the car and headed straight to the home of another renowned master.

Wu Jiangxue stood by the window on the third floor, watching their convoy drive away, her hand holding the late-night snack trembling slightly.

She lowered her eyes and couldn't help but stretch her neck.

My neck and shoulders felt cold to the touch, like I'd been in an air-conditioned room for too long.

But she spent the whole day on fieldwork and didn't have time to use the air conditioning at all...

A faint meow came from nearby, and she turned to look.

A muscular cat figure was hiding in the corner, peeking out with half its face at her.

"younger sister?"

She crouched down and reached out her hand to the big fat cat.

The big fat cat shuddered, tucked its tail between its legs, and shrank back in fright.

Wu Jiangxue: "..."

"Little sister, what's wrong?"

She tentatively took a few steps forward, but the big fat cat seemed to be startled and let out a shriek.

Its plump body leaped into the air, its four legs leaving afterimages as it kicked through the air, and in the blink of an eye, it dragged its fat body and disappeared from her sight.

Wu Jiangxue: "..."

She stared in the direction the fat cat had fled, her lips pressed tightly together, a hint of worry flashing in her eyes.

After standing there for a moment in thought, she decisively turned around, got on the elevator, and pressed the button for the "15th" floor.

As soon as she stepped out of the elevator, an unusually cold aura approached, pressing close behind her.

Wu Jiangxue paused, but still walked resolutely toward the gate of Chu Ci's house.

The closer she got to the door, the lower the temperature she felt.

When she stood in front of that door, she even felt that her breath had turned into white condensation.

"Knock knock..."

She knocked on Chu Ci's door, but no one answered.

Chu Tianjian and the others had just left, and she didn't believe that Chu Ci was already asleep.

"Miss Chu, are you there?"

She spoke while knocking twice on the door.

"I am Wu Jiangxue. May I ask you a few questions?"

This time, the door was opened.

Whether it was her imagination or not, as Chu Ci opened the door, she felt a warm, cozy sensation.

Even the chill behind me, and the icy discomfort in my neck and shoulders, were relieved.

Chu Ci opened the door, but almost closed it after just one glance.

With her tongue hanging down to her chest, Granny Guo pressed tightly against Wu Jiangxue's back, her pale face resting on her shoulder, staring intently at Wu Jiangxue's profile.

Chu Ci: "..."

She took a deep breath, resisting the urge to close the door, and looked away from Wu Jiangxue's shoulder.

Wu Jiangxue followed her gaze and looked at her aching shoulder.

But it was empty, there was nothing there.

"..."

She pursed her lips, forcibly suppressing the chills that ran down her spine.

"I'm sorry, Miss Chu, for bothering you so late."

"Could you tell me what's going on with Chu Tianjian's niece, Bai Anna?"

Over the years, she has encountered many cases, but none have been as bizarre as this one.

Chu Ci subconsciously glanced at Granny Guo on her shoulder, who was staring at her with a pair of pupil-less eyes.

"..."

She looked away and exhaled.

"The specifics are a long story."

"I can only suggest that you pay more attention to the newspapers these next few days, Madam. As far as I know, there will be a newspaper article about this soon."

After saying that, she thought of Wu Jiangxue's quick thinking and couldn't help but remind her.

“Madam, you’d better not get involved in Anna’s affairs. She’s the way she is now because of her own actions.”

"Even though you're a police officer, there are some things you'd better not get involved in."

After saying that, she slowly closed the door. "It's getting late, Madam, you should go home."

Wu Jiangxue: "..."

She stood in front of the closed door, carrying a late-night snack, completely bewildered by what she heard.

But she also understood what Chu Ci meant: Bai Anna deserved to be like this.

She lowered her head and remained silent for a moment, then responded to the closed door with a "I understand, thank you for reminding me."

Carrying her cold late-night snack, she slowly walked into the elevator.

The elevator stopped on the 8th floor, and in front of her rented apartment, a chubby cat was lying at the door.

Hearing the noise, the fat cat turned its head to look at her, then started to run away again.

"younger sister!"

Wu Jiangxue wanted to chase after it, but seeing the fat cat's desperate attempt to escape, she finally stopped.

She opened the door and went inside, heated up her midnight snack, and ate it absentmindedly while thinking about the fat cat.

This was the first time she had encountered such a situation in all the time she had raised her younger sister.

When her younger sister saw her, it was as if she had seen something terrifying, and they couldn't communicate at all...

The feeling of worry lingered until I went to sleep.

She has a habit of getting up at night to go to the bathroom. Around 3 a.m., she opened her eyes as usual.

The moment she opened her eyes, she suddenly saw a pair of feet at eye level with her.

Her movements froze, and her breathing stopped.

The toes of her feet naturally drooped down, just above her eyes.

A blood-red ribbon, tangled around her toes, swayed in her sight.

Wu Jiangxue: "..."

Her mind went blank.

An old woman was suspended by a rope around her neck, her pale face drooping down, her tongue hanging down to her chest, staring intently at her.

She woke up with a scream and looked quickly at the spot beside the bed.

The bedside nightlight was on, its warm glow illuminating most of the room.

It was empty, there was nothing there.

She stared intently at the spot by the bed, panting heavily, her hands clutching her head, only to find them covered in cold sweat.

Everything I just saw was a dream.

But are they all just dreams?

As Wu Jiangxue washed her hands after coming out of the restroom, she inadvertently looked up at the mirror.

In the mirror, a familiar face rested on her shoulder, its tongue lolling down to her chest.

"..."

For the rest of the time, she turned on all the lights in the room, sat on the sofa with her gun in her hand, and stared intently at the scenery outside the window.

The sky outside the window changed from deep black to inky blue, and then from inky blue to pale white.

As the light in the room gradually brightened, T's ever-present chill slowly faded away.

She didn't dare go to the bathroom to wash up, and went straight downstairs after getting dressed.

Although it was just dawn, the stalls downstairs were already bustling with activity.

Being among a crowd, a long-lost sense of security arises spontaneously.

She bought her usual breakfast and strolled around slowly, subconsciously not wanting to go back to the haunted room.

I even saw a fat cat yawning downstairs.

When the fat cat saw her again, it didn't hide; it ran over as usual.

Meow~

The fat cat stopped at her feet, tilting its round head back to sniff curiously what breakfast she had bought.

Smelling the familiar scent, the fat cat meowed obsequiously and rubbed its head against her trouser leg.

Wu Jiangxue smiled and picked it up, letting it perch on her shoulder as usual.

It was so scared yesterday, probably because it saw something behind her.

The reason her sister is willing to get close to her again is probably because something behind her is gone.

This thought made her feel relieved, and she picked up her breakfast and headed home.

As she passed the newsstand, she suddenly remembered what Chu Ci had said the night before.

"Boss, a newspaper, please!"

Liang Zheng, who was busy collecting money, smiled and pointed to the stall in front of him when he heard her words.

"Which one would you like, Miss?"

"One of each is required."

"Okay."

The newspaper was filled with joy.

I took one of each newspaper. "It's 36 yuan in total, but I'll charge you 35."

Wu Jiangxue handed over the money and left amidst the newspaper's delighted "Come again next time" headline.

Back home, she ate breakfast while flipping through the newspaper, and soon came across something about the Bai family.

It was less of the Bai family's property and more of an apology letter.

Looking at the newspaper, she slowed down her eating.

The person who issued the apology letter claimed to be the homeroom teacher of a class in the first year of high school at St. Mary's School, and said that the purpose of issuing the apology letter was to apologize to a female student.

She called that female classmate "Tongtong".

After recounting how the Bai family's daughter, along with her classmates, bullied Tongtong and drove her to jump off a building, the Bai family then spread rumors that Tongtong had gotten pregnant from promiscuity, which led to the death of her grandmother, who was her only family.

Wu Jiangxue shouted that she had breakfast in her mouth, but didn't chew for a long time.

Her gaze fell on the word "pregnant," and she suddenly thought of Bai Anna's protruding belly from the previous night.

The image of Bai Anna's belly covered in dark spots, and the shapes of tiny hands and feet emerging from beneath it, flashed before her eyes. Her expression changed, and her stomach suddenly churned.

She ran to the bathroom and vomited up everything she had eaten, but she still couldn't stop gagging.

Meow~

The fat cat was scratching at the bathroom door and asked her what was wrong.

Wu Jiangxue rinsed her mouth, tidied herself up, and said, "I'm fine, I'll be out in a minute."

She opened the door, and the fat cat was squatting there.

He looked up at her and meowed with concern.

"I'm fine."

Wu Jiangxue patted its head, bent down and wrapped it up, and they returned to the newspaper together.

She continued reading the following content.

The following content begins to take on a supernatural element.

After Tongtong's grandmother died, the scoundrel who had spread rumors about Tongtong and his mother died covered in black spots.

Those classmates who bullied Tongtong couldn't have peace day and night, insisting that they had seen ghosts and threatening suicide at home every day.

It seems that the Bai family is also beginning to face retaliation.

The head of the Bai family is being haunted by a ghost, and things are in complete chaos. It's said that the sons are all trying to fight over the family fortune.

And the culprit, Bai Anna, is the most tragic of all.

She has been targeted for revenge ever since Tongtong's grandmother died, yet she continues to live.

He was living a life worse than death every day, his body covered in black spots, and haunted by a ghost child.

They lived in despair and fear every day.

Wu Jiangxue closed her eyes and pursed her lips.

She thought of Anna Bai from last night once again.

She lay on the ground, unrecognizable, her voice barely audible as she said she wanted to die...

If this had happened before last night, she would have just thought someone was playing tricks.

But ironically, she herself had seen ghosts.

In a daze, she saw the red ribbon and her toes swinging back and forth with it again.

Wu Jiangxue: "..."

She suddenly widened her eyes, stood up and looked around, but saw nothing.

A cold wind suddenly swept over my shoulder, and the familiar chill pressed closer and closer to my back.

That thing is here again!

"Tongtong's grandma?"

She tried calling out, but the only sound in the silent air was the cat's meow; no one answered her.

"..."

She looked down at the newspaper on the table, paused for a moment, then folded it up and put it into her bag.

"I know what you're trying to do. Don't worry, I won't interfere."

The Bai family, a "wealthy family" that rose to power by stepping on countless corpses, deserved to be punished long ago.

As she finished speaking, the chill on her back paused and then vanished abruptly.

The fat cat squatted at her feet, looking up at her, nervously licking its lips.

Meow~

"Yes, I know, you were just startled."

After resting with the cat for a while, she picked up her bag and drove to the police station.

However, during lunch, she took a break and went to Kowloon City to look for "Inspector Sum" mentioned in the newspaper.

"Are you looking for Inspector Chen?"

Fortunately, there was no other officer with the surname Chen at the Kowloon City Police Station, so she just asked around and found out the information.

The policewoman, carrying documents and moving back and forth in the police station, didn't even look up. "Sir Shen is out on a field mission and isn't at the police station. Please wait here."

"Okay, thank you."

She waited until around 3 p.m. before seeing Mr. Shen return.

Unlike many police officers she had met, this Officer Shen had a very special aura that made her take a second look.

When the other person heard that she had come because of Bai Anna and Guo Miaotong, he stared at her with tired eyes for a long time.

Wu Jiangxue introduced herself: "Hello, my name is Wu Jiangxue, and I am a newly transferred police inspector from Wong Tai Sin District."

Shen Zaikun glanced at the orange cat with its ears perked up in her arms and nodded gently, "I've heard so much about you."

Wu Jiangxue curled her lips and sat down with him. "Can you tell me about Bai Anna?"

Shen Zaikun opened the now-cold bento box and asked in a calm voice, "What does Madam want to hear?"

"I saw the news about Bai Anna's bullying in the newspaper. There's a lot of evidence. What are your plans for dealing with Bai Anna?"

Shen Zaikun paused in his eating of the bento box and looked up at her.

"At 10:30 this morning, Anna Bai committed suicide."

"What?" Wu Jiangxue's eyes widened in disbelief. "Bai Anna committed suicide? Are you sure it was suicide?"

Shen Zaikun sat to one side, quickly shoveling food into his box and nodding.

"It's confirmed. The Bai family has surveillance cameras; they recorded everything."

"Moreover, she committed suicide in her own home, and many of the servants in her home witnessed it."

Wu Jiangxue hugged the cat tightly in her arms. "I remember she had tried to commit suicide before, but it seems she never succeeded."

Sensing her unspoken meaning, Shen Zaikun lifted his eyelids and glanced at her.

“Before, it was because Anna had her mother to look after her, but this time her mother can’t look after her.”

Wu Jiangxue's expression changed slightly. "What do you mean? Something happened to her mother?"

In just a few words, Shen Zaikun finished his bento box, looked up at her:

"You know about Anna Bai's body covered in dark spots and how she inexplicably became pregnant, right?"

Thinking of Bai Anna, whom she had seen last night, Wu Jiangxue couldn't help but cough to suppress the churning in her stomach.

"I know."

Shen Zaikun put the lunchbox into a plastic bag.

“It was her first time, now it’s her mother’s turn.”