Chapter 266
While the natives could find friends and relatives to vouch for them, the players had a harder time. After all, most of the people who could come had already come to deal with the scammers. However, with the forum, they didn't have to worry about not having anyone to help them, it was just a little more troublesome.
Bei Qiao wasn't familiar with these people, so he didn't come forward to guarantee them. He only helped the player run errands to contact some local friends and asked them to come forward to guarantee them. After all, after spending a few years in the other world, as long as the player was not too bad, they would always make a few local friends here.
It's true that gossip is so appealing. Upon hearing about the ready-made gossip, these people's native friends didn't worry about the risk of responsibility and agreed without hesitation. Bei Qiao, who had originally thought he would need to spend some time convincing them, watched them hurriedly leave. Thinking that the government office wasn't far away, he simply followed them.
By this time, the sky was fading. The group of people copying wanted posters at the yamen gate had mostly left, leaving only a few people selling wanted poster albums. When Bei Qiao and the natives arrived, the natives who had found someone to guarantee them were already leaving the yamen one after another, whispering about what had happened. "You don't know, that body was flung out of the wall with a whoosh, scaring everyone else to scream. There was so much blood..."
Bei Qiao: I remember they said the blood on the body had dried?
Only a small number of people left the yamen. Some people refused to leave even after being bailed out because there was something lively going on in the yamen.
"Don't you think this is excessive?" The little girl, still under suspicion of murder, suddenly turned into a warrior of justice. She was protecting a frail young man and scolding several elegantly dressed people, "He's already very tired!"
The boy being protected: "I... no, who are you, big sister? What are you doing suddenly popping out?"
"Oh, she doesn't think that just saying a few words is kindness, does she?" Bei Qiao stood behind the other onlookers and peered into the yamen. There were so many people watching the excitement that the detectives couldn't handle it all, nor did they really want to, because the excitement itself was very annoying to deal with.
"Pfft... who says it's not true? They're always saying how pitiful so-and-so is and why don't you help? If they really wanted to help, they wouldn't even pay a penny and just talk."
"Shh, keep your voice down, I can't hear you."
"You're abusing our servants!" The little girl didn't bother to pay attention to the others and continued to yell at the person in front of her: "Servants have the right to rest too!"
"I'm a temporary worker, just for one day!" The young man pushed the girl away and said, "I'm getting paid! What are you doing?"
"Don't be afraid, I'm helping you..."
"What help? You're harming me! You're making me lose my job, and you still want me to be grateful to you? Are you sick?" The boy was young, but he had seen a lot of people, especially little girls. He had seen this kind of behavior many times: "She sounds very nice when she speaks, and when she speaks for justice, she only wants to make herself feel good. After she finishes speaking, she demands an apology and compensation from the perpetrator, and then... then she just walks away! What? You feel so good about being a hero, but you don't care about the aftermath? You trust the perpetrator's character? What he says is what counts, right? Ah..."
Seeing the young man going all out and making the little girl's face turn blue, the two men who were originally very angry at the little girl suddenly laughed and watched the fun with their arms folded.
"Alright, that's enough! You're still under suspicion, so stay out of other people's business." The constable, having finished his work, stepped forward to separate the two men, held them down, and began to search them.
"What are you doing?!"
"Shut up! Okay, I found it!" The constable searched the boy's body and tossed it to Zhang Xiu: "You took advantage of the quarrel to smuggle in your goods. Do you think we're vegetarians?"
"I didn't put this there!"
"Keep making it up! Tsk!"
"no……"
The boy got entangled with the constable. Coincidentally, at this moment, the player Peng Li, who had been released on bail, walked out from behind and stood facing the direction of his indigenous friends. Then he turned his head and stared at the direction of the little girl and the others as he walked forward. He didn't stop until he bumped into someone. Without looking back, he raised his arms and hugged them: "Thank you, Xiaojiu, you've worked hard."
Bei Qiao: He was so focused on watching the fun that he didn’t even want to turn his head away.
"It's okay, just a side note." Shi Jiu, the native who was called by Bei Qiao, was also staring in that direction. Upon hearing this, he stretched out his arms and hugged the other person without turning back, patting him hard: "Although I was a little angry before, I forgive you for asking me to read gossip!"
The innocent passerby who was hugged by the two men: "..." Innocent and speechless.
Bei Qiao who was standing next to them said: "Do you want to turn around and see who you are hugging?" The passerby who was sandwiched looked a little introverted and didn't say a word until now.
"Oh... Oops!" The two people who didn't want to waste time turned around quickly at the same time, took half a second to look at the person in their arms, and after confirming that it was a stranger, they quickly let go and jumped away. Their movements and expressions were completely synchronized, just like twins with different fathers and mothers.
The little girl's story ended with the young man being forcibly taken away by the police. After reading the entire gossip, the two stretched their bodies in satisfaction, then turned around and hugged each other face to face. Before even releasing his arms, Shi Jiu couldn't wait to ask Peng Li what had happened to him that he had to find someone to guarantee his release.
"There's no conclusion to this matter yet." Peng Li looked around and whispered to Shi Jiu, "The captain won't tell anyone else. Let's wait until we get out... hm?"
"OK!"
The constables forbade outsiders from remaining in the yamen for long, and although Peng Li wanted to stay a little longer, she was eventually driven out along with her friend. Bei Qiao had already left when the two of them had let go of each other. When she returned to the inn, she heard the locals whispering that the inspections for entering the city seemed stricter, and the guards' glares were more aggressive than before.
"It seems something happened again."
"How many days will it last?"
"Who knows? If you need help, make plans ahead of time. There's no other way." Due to its strategic location, Xiaoyue City has been under martial law quite a few times, and the locals haven't been able to discern a pattern. After all, they can't predict when the traitors will act. The good news is that after martial law ends, they can draw lots, and if they win, they can beat up the culprits.
A traitor who was beaten: You are abusing the prisoners!
Prefect: Is anyone speaking?
The people who were busy fighting: My lord, we only heard a burst of dogs barking, it was very noisy.
The martial law was not a special thing for the people of Xiaoyue City. They just talked about it casually and it passed. Only those who had urgent matters and might need to frequently enter and exit the city would feel nervous.
Although Bei Qiao had already made up his mind to return to the Novice Village, he was not in a hurry to leave, so he didn't care about the martial law: he had never seen martial law before, so it was okay to see it now.
This murder case was much more complicated than the players had imagined. After being bailed out by their friends and leaving the yamen, many players called out to the local constables in the group, hoping to get some inside information.
The staff told them that the case was becoming increasingly complicated. It was no longer just a matter of finding a body. There were even traces of spies from other countries involved. "If you can tell us what happened in the Bai Mansion, it won't be a big problem. But don't ask any more questions, or you might get into trouble."
All players: Okay!
After reading the messages posted on the forum, Bei Qiao didn't take them seriously. Other residents new to Xiaoyue City might be a bit nervous, but players, as outsiders, weren't used to worrying about their lives. At most, dealing with their property after their account was destroyed would be a bit of a hassle.
As night fell, despite many complaints about the inconvenience caused by martial law, the natives quickly shifted their attention elsewhere. Martial law was a fact and could not be changed, so it was better to focus on the things at hand, such as...
"I don't know any miracle doctor." Bei Qiao leaned against the door frame and looked expressionlessly at the three people who had been knocking on the door outside her room: Miracle Doctor Zhuang ran away just in time. Less than a day later, someone came to see her, and was brought here by her former patient.
"How is that possible? This person said he saw you talking to Doctor Zhuang in the hall this morning!" The native man in a flowery robe pulled the patient who had been treated by Zhuang Maidong and whom Bei Qiao had seen in the morning to the door.
"Oh, then this person must have made a mistake." Bei Qiao remained calm.
"Did you see it wrong? Ha... Tell me! Is it this person?" The native man grabbed the former patient's shoulder and yelled at him.
"Why are you yelling so loudly? I just said that I saw the miracle doctor talking to someone this morning. If it was her... I'm not sure." After all, the former patient didn't know Bei Qiao before. Now that Bei Qiao had changed his clothes, she was not so sure: "The height... seems to be about the same?"
Bei Qiao felt uneasy under the scrutiny of the three men and immediately tried to close the door. Seeing this, the indigenous man stretched out his hand to hold the door open, craning his neck to rush inside. "What? Did you come true? Did you hide the miracle healer in the house and don't want us to find him... ah? Let him go... ah!"
Bei Qiao picked him up with two fingers and threw him a few meters away. The native man struggled hard, trying to regain his balance in mid-air, but eventually fell to the ground in a mess. "Ouch, it hurts so much! Hit me! Hit me!"
The indigenous man who had attempted to mobilize the crowd to morally blackmail Bei Qiao quickly kicked and threw a tantrum upon landing, ripping his clothes into a tangle, hoping to elicit sympathy through his utterly awful appearance. However, the entire corridor was silent; no one came out to demand justice. Only the faint sound of eavesdropping footsteps could be heard, making the indigenous man's behavior seem clownish. A local downstairs heard the commotion and wanted to see what was happening, but before he could get close, he was hushed away by a shop assistant cleaning the stairwell.
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