Chapter 122 Attack
"I need to verify the authenticity of the report, and I hope you will cooperate." After observing the expression of the sanitation worker, Grandpa Huang, Chen Zhenzhu asked him to go to a quiet place to make a statement.
Grandpa Huang wanted to push the tricycle out, but Chen Zhenzhu stopped him: "Don't move it yet, we'll give it to you after we've inspected it."
After pinpointing the victim's location, Shen Zhenzhu and he left the scene of the crime one after the other.
"Hey, what's going on here?" Grandpa Huang took off the towel from his neck to wipe his sweaty face and walked with Shen Zhenzhu to the door of the uninhabited house.
Outside the police cordon, nearby residents were watching the commotion. Hearing that someone had discovered a dead body, they became even more engrossed in their observation.
Grandpa Huang sat on the steps and couldn't help but take out a cigarette and smoke: "I'm not getting old and my eyesight is failing... there really is a corpse."
Chen Zhenzhu opened her notebook and asked, "Can you recall the exact time when the body was discovered?"
Mr. Huang said, "I start from Sanyanqiao at three o'clock, and I usually finish sweeping Wufu Road around five o'clock, at the latest before five-thirty."
Shen Zhenzhu asked, "What was the gender, approximate age, and clothing of the deceased you found?"
"She was a woman, around thirty years old, I couldn't see her clearly. I just remember seeing that one of her shoes had a bent heel before I went to the police station, and she almost tripped me."
"Was she lying on the ground in that position, and were there any other objects around her?"
"She was lying on her back, her hands clutching her stomach, her eyes wide open." Grandpa Huang shuddered as he recalled the scene: "There was blood all over her body, and garbage all around her. I couldn't tell which were her personal belongings and which were trash... I couldn't think too much at the time."
Shen Zhenzhu observed Grandpa Huang's expression again, then nodded and said, "Are you sure she's not breathing?"
"I'm sure. If she wasn't dead, she would have called for help if she heard any noise. She didn't make a sound and was all pale. She's probably bled out. Sigh, so much blood, how could it all be gone?"
Shen Zhenzhu listened to Grandpa Huang's clear and logical answers, which were consistent with his words: "Grandpa Huang, please wait a moment. My colleague will take you for a check-up later."
"A checkup?" Grandpa Huang asked. "What kind of checkup?"
Shen Zhenzhu said tactfully, "See if I've frightened you. Just answer my questions, like I'm asking you questions."
Grandpa Huang breathed a sigh of relief: "That's more like it... Remember to ask my workplace for leave. My family isn't well-off, so they can't deduct a single penny from my pay."
“Okay.” After agreeing, Shen Zhenzhu took out her mobile phone and called the Municipal Bureau: “We need a psychological expert to assess the mental state of a witness. Okay, OK.”
After hanging up the phone, Shen Zhenzhu called Grandpa Huang's workplace as promised, asked for personal leave, and said she would provide a police certificate.
Standing in front of Grandpa Huang, she suddenly felt a gaze behind her. She turned around abruptly and saw two elderly women standing outside the cordon, peering inside. "Hey, comrade, is someone dead here? Oh dear, we just bought some groceries this early in the morning and now it's all sealed off. How are we supposed to get home?"
"Please go around first, we'll untie this as soon as possible." Shen Zhenzhu didn't answer directly. The two old women whispered among themselves for a while, but found nothing new, and left cursing the criminals.
Shen Zhenzhu waved, and Chen Junsheng ran over and stood there.
Shen Zhenzhu instructed, "You stay here and protect the old man. An expert will be coming later, and you will accompany him to explain the situation."
"Yes, Section Chief Shen." Chen Junsheng had taken three days off and returned, and he seemed like a completely different person. He was meticulous in his work, and his hair was shaved into a short stubble like Lu Ye's.
If it weren't for his accent mixed with Cantonese-accented Mandarin, people who didn't know him might mistake him for a local police officer.
Qin An was still frantically studying the six corpses in the forensic department, and Lu Xiaobao was the one who went to the scene today. After making the arrangements, Shen Zhenzhu went to the scene to find him.
"Brother Xiaobao, I suspect that the bloodstains here have been deliberately cleaned up. We need to perform a Lumilo reaction at the marked area to find the bloodstains."
Shen Zhenzhu took the ultraviolet lamp, put on shoe covers, and entered the marked area of the corpse.
"Archie, check if there are any other traces of gunpowder or chemicals."
"OK, Sister Pearl." Zhao Qiqi took it and started working.
Chen Zhenzhu squatted at the edge of the marked area to conduct a ground survey, looking for non-bloodstain traces, such as scratches and fabric fibers from dragging the body when it was moved, or tire tracks, wheel tracks and footprints from vehicles or handcarts.
Time passed by, and Chen Zhenzhu took a breath outside, then took the bottled water Chen Junsheng had bought and gulped it down: "How is Grandpa Huang doing?"
"The experts said there's nothing wrong with his mental state." After saying that, Chen Junsheng thought to himself, he was a little embarrassed and angry because he knew you were going to give him a mental evaluation, but he managed to persuade you to go back.
Shen Zhenzhu nodded and said, "Come in, I'll teach you how to conduct a site investigation."
Since he was an intern, she couldn't let him go back without learning anything. Chen Zhenzhu explained the work she had just done to him and asked, "Do you know what we need to do next?"
Chen Junsheng was suddenly asked a question by Section Chief Shen. He hesitated for a moment before replying, "Visits?"
Shen Zhenzhu said, "That's the back. This is a route that many residents must take. We need to cooperate with the forensic doctor to complete the examination as soon as possible."
Chen Junsheng said, "Then what else needs to be done?"
Chen Zhenzhu squatted down, took out an evidence bag and said, "We also need to collect soil samples from the site, make rubbings of the marked shoe prints to compare with the sanitation worker's, and also compare them with tire samples from nearby vehicles to see if we can find any evidence."
Chen Junsheng looked intently at Shen Zhenzhu, who was engrossed in her work, and said softly, "I understand." He took the evidence bag and walked to the trash can, where the smell was too strong, and Shen Zhenzhu planned to hold her breath and do it one last time.
Chen Junsheng did it, and Shen Zhenzhu got a relief.
After finishing their work at the scene and returning to the criminal investigation team, everyone looked grim.
"Could it be that the murderer came back to take the body away?" Lu Ye's case was closed today, but upon hearing about the murder in the city, he rushed back to attend the case analysis meeting.
Shen Zhenzhu said, "According to Mr. Huang's description, the scene was more like a crime of passion. If the murderer had come back to clean up, he certainly wouldn't have cleaned it up so thoroughly. If it weren't for the Lumilo reaction, we would have suspected that Mr. Huang was hallucinating."
Chen Junsheng raised his hand and said, "Could they be accomplices?"
Shen Zhenzhu praised her generously, saying, "That's a good question, but I personally don't think they're accomplices."
First praise, then deny – Chen Junsheng readily accepted it, displaying an attitude of humbly seeking advice.
Lu Ye said, “I also don’t think they were accomplices. Look at the photos, the crime scene was spotless, and there were no clues related to the murderer or the body. Apart from Grandpa Huang, who reported the crime, only one resident mentioned hearing someone shout once in the middle of the night, and then there was no sound. The murderer committed the crime in a fit of passion and his methods were crude, while the person who cleaned up the scene was far beyond the murderer’s ability and methods. If it were me, I wouldn’t want to team up with someone who has so many loopholes.”
Zhao Qiqi said, "What if it's family, a lover, or someone I have no choice but to help?"
Shen Zhenzhu hesitated and said, "That's also possible. Today wasn't a complete waste; at least we can confirm that the murderer and the body collector were two different people. The murderer's methods were crude, but the body collector was an expert."
"This is going to be difficult." Lu Ye got up and poured Chen Zhenzhu a cup of hot tea, then looked at Wu Zhongguo, who was deep in thought behind him, and said, "Uncle Wu, have you made any discoveries?"
Wu Zhongguo shook his head and said, "I didn't find anything else, but I just feel that strange cases have been coming one after another lately."
“Who says otherwise?” Chen Zhenzhu tapped the table and said, “Brother Ye took Chen Junsheng to search the nearby roads and found vans, small trucks with concealed features, ambulances, etc. that appeared around the time of the incident.”
"Uncle Wu continued to visit and investigate, asking if there were any people who exhibited unusual behavior during the time period of the incident, such as those wearing thick clothes that were out of season, carrying heavy suitcases or handcarts, or those who repeatedly appeared at the scene after the incident."
"Understood, Sister Pearl."
"Yes, Sister Pearl."
......
Shen Zhenzhu quickly tidied up the meeting minutes and handed them to Gu Yanzheng when he returned, trying her best to express a hint of dissatisfaction tactfully: "Brother Zheng has been really busy lately, has he got another big case from the provincial department on his plate?"
Gu Yanzheng didn't miss Shen Zhenzhu's emotions. He chuckled as he took the notebook, glanced at it, closed it, and said, "There is indeed a case, but it's not the provincial department. It's Park Heung-sung's corpse trafficking case, which needs manpower. I'll lend a hand."
Shen Zhenzhu thought for a moment that the "Yulia" case should involve contacting Southern Russia, and someone with good foreign language skills would be needed to handle the communication. Since the case needed to be kept confidential, there was no one in the criminal investigation team more suitable to be a temporary translator than Gu Yanzheng.
"Their skills are very advanced; Qin An has never even seen them before. We still have a long way to go."
Shen Zhenzhu understood Gu Yanzheng's implication perfectly: the domestic criminal investigation conditions were backward, and the problem that Qin An couldn't solve this time might be solved by the South Russians.
If that's really the case, it really feels like a letdown, and it's quite disheartening.
Gu Yanzheng quickly got into the swing of things and held a small meeting with Shen Zhenzhu to discuss the alleyway murder case.
"Neither alive nor dead..." Gu Yanzheng murmured, "This is unlike any other case we've seen before."
Shen Zhenzhu rested her elbow on Gu Yanzheng's desk and leaned forward to discuss with him, "I'd like to go over there again these next couple of nights."
Gu Yanzheng was incredibly clever. He immediately said, "According to criminal psychology, the murderer will return to the scene. If there are two groups of people, the murderer might be even more puzzled than we are. Even if he doesn't want to go, he can't help but want to go and see what's going on."
“That’s right!” Shen Zhenzhu said with a grin, “Please approve, leader.”
“No,” Gu Yanzheng said.
"!" Chen Zhenzhu gripped the small hammer tightly: "What!"
Gu Yanzheng said, "You are not allowed to act on your own. I will go with you."
"That's even better." Chen Zhenzhu loosened her fist and said, "I knew it would be beneficial to discuss with Brother Zheng. Let Sixth Sister make some nourishing soup for us tonight."
For a week straight, Shen Zhenzhu and Gu Yanzheng conducted normal visits and investigations during the day, and wandered around Wufu Road in plain clothes at night.
After drinking nutritious soups late into the night, Chen Zhenzhu stayed up until the end of the workday, sporting dark circles under her eyes and looking puffy like a little owl.
Gu Yanzheng could manage even with little sleep, while Chen Zhenzhu, who was waiting to catch up on sleep after finishing her shooting practice at the shooting range after get off work, got up.
Even the most energetic person can't last a week.
"If she doesn't show up today, we'll have to change our plans." Gu Yanzheng watched as Chen Zhenzhu gulped down a large cup of coffee, rubbed her face, and headed to change her clothes behind her desk.
Gu Yanzheng was both amused and exasperated. He shoved her behind the blackboard to change, saying, "Watch your manners. You're treating me like I'm not an outsider at all."
Gu Yanzheng turned his back and heard rustling sounds behind him. He then heard Shen Zhenzhu yawn and say listlessly, "Brother Zheng is no outsider."
No outsider could accompany someone to stroll around the alleyways for seven days straight. No one could.
"You're kind of sensible," Gu Yanzheng said with relief. "But you should still be mindful of gender differences when it comes to men and women. I'm really afraid you'll end up in the men's restroom one day."
"Hey, what nonsense are you talking about?" Shen Zhenzhu was amused by him.
The case has been stalled for the past few days, and she's been feeling quite frustrated.
Although the body could not be found and the crime could not be seen through "Sky Eye Retrospective", her down-to-earth approach to solving the case revealed her stubborn and tenacious spirit; she was determined to solve the case no matter how hard she tried.
The two went to Sister Liu's restaurant for a meal. Shen Liuhe reserved a private table for them upstairs and did not allow them to occupy the large table downstairs.
The food provided excellent nourishment for the two, and their good looks attracted the attention of many diners.
After finishing their meal, the two chatted in the shop, then sat at the entrance watching Yuan Jiangxue and Yuan Juan busy styling hair and selling cheongsams. When the moon rose above the treetops and the number of pedestrians on the road gradually decreased, they set off.
"This barbecue smells pretty good." Chen Zhenzhu sat in the passenger seat of the Cherokee, holding a skewer of lamb with the most chili peppers on it and hesitating for a moment. Gu Yanzheng naturally leaned over from the driver's seat and ate it.
"When we get back, tell my mom we're not drinking soup anymore," Shen Zhenzhu said to Gu Yanzheng. "I really can't drink it anymore, my face is all puffed up."
Gu Yanzheng feigned surprise and said, "You've gained weight? I think you need to gain a few more pounds to look your best."
While Section Chief Shen said "I don't believe it" to himself, he was secretly enjoying the night breeze and grinning from ear to ear.
Gu Yanzheng looked at the easily coaxed little girl and forgot the worthless smile on his face.
"Captain Park has been really triumphant these past few days, intercepting six bodies in one go."
"The South Russian side has already sent people to investigate, and they expressed their sincere gratitude to Park Heung-sung and his team. It's good that they feel proud; this joint investigation was quite effective, and perhaps they can entrust him with another international case next time."
“We are a port city here. I thought it was just about smuggling and illegal immigration. I never expected that someone would be so audacious as to transport corpses back from overseas.”
"Customs work is also very complicated. They also face various prohibited items, including drugs, infectious pathogens, medicines, invasive species, etc., making it a dangerous profession."
"Then they must be very knowledgeable."
"yes."
The two seemed to have endless things to talk about in the speeding car, from customs to the newly opened KFC, and then to Xiaochuan playing football.
With the deadline for his transfer fast approaching, Gu Yanzheng didn't know how to bring it up with Shen Zhenzhu. He chatted with her while constantly pondering when would be the right time.
After much deliberation, they decided to wait until the case was solved so that they would both have time to sit down and have a proper chat.
If you accept, let's talk about the future. How should we choose between the two transfer orders?
If you can't accept it, then there's no future for us. So, I sincerely wish you well for the future.
He advised her that for the sake of her future development, it would be best to date, marry, and have children later in life.
This gives future rivals more time to develop their feelings and allows them to have another chance to confess their love.
While Shen Zhenzhu was still observing whether Gu Yanzheng's mouth would feel uncomfortable from the chili peppers, she had no idea that while she was driving seriously, her brother Zheng's mind was racing with calculations.
It only takes seven or eight minutes to drive from Sanyanqiao to Wufu Road, and Chen Zhenzhu always gets off two intersections early.
She was feeling lazy today and, feeling utterly bored, asked Gu Yanzheng to take her to the alley entrance, pretending to be a successful businesswoman who was going home late at night after a social engagement.
She was too lazy to wear high heels, so she paired jeans with white sneakers and a suit jacket, a haphazard mix of clothes. Standing by the car, she waved to Gu Yanzheng and said, "Thank you for giving me a ride, Mr. Gu. I'll head back now. See you at the company tomorrow."
Gu Yanzheng had a vague feeling that she really was a relaxed career elite.
As agreed, the mobile phone would remain clipped to his waist and keep him on the phone. He drove to another intersection, changed his clothes, and pretended to be a passerby searching the vicinity.
He had been doing the same thing for the past week. Today, after quickly searching the surrounding area and finding no suspicious people, he thought he would return empty-handed. But then, a startled cry came from Chen Zhenzhu on his mobile phone: "Who are you?! Don't kill me!"
"Damn it, I told you not to move! I've killed people before, I'm going to take your bag—ahhh!!"
Gu Yanzheng leaped over the railing, ran lightly across the empty road, and reached the alley entrance as quickly as possible.
"Ah—help!! Let me go! Damn it!" The robber who wanted to attack Shen Zhenzhu had a foul stench coming from his mouth. Shen Zhenzhu had one shoulder pulled back, while a sharp knife that had been snatched from him was pressed against his Adam's apple, threatening to puncture his trachea at any moment.
"Impressive, I'm still a step too late." Gu Yanzheng handcuffed the robber, glanced at the unharmed Chen Zhenzhu, and felt relieved.
Chen Zhenzhu squatted down opposite the robber, pointed towards the trash can, and said, "Did you kill someone there last time? Yes or no?"
Seeing that they were in plainclothes, the robber, with a sliver of hope, said, "Yes, I killed them. Did you two heroes help me dispose of the body? Thank you. If you need me, I can cooperate with you. Please don't kill me."
"Didn't you hide the body?" Gu Yanzheng searched his entire body and found a red wallet in his dirty pocket.
"No, where would a homeless person like me hide a corpse?"
Gu Yanzheng opened his wallet, inside were several brand new business cards, all bearing the same name—Liu Guangxia, deputy director of the warehouse of the Municipal Seedling and Vegetation Factory.
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"How is it? Has he confessed?" Lu Ye had heard about the murderer's arrest that morning, and before even finishing his sixth sister's steamed bun, he went to the interrogation room to ask about the situation.
Wu Zhongguo stood outside holding a teacup and said helplessly, "The two experts took turns trying, but the suspect just wouldn't say where the body was, let alone who helped him dispose of it. I'm afraid the body was taken away by someone else he didn't know."
"No...what would you need a corpse for?" Lu Ye asked, puzzled, then pointed towards the Third Team's office: "Really?"
Wu Zhongguo also found it hard to accept, saying, "It might be similar to the previous case of piecing together corpses. Cases like the one involving the Third Team are not something that can just happen out of nowhere."
Lu Ye suddenly remembered: "The Fu Panxia corpse piecing case, right? I saw his sister on TV a few days ago. Although she has difficulty walking, she has a strong presence and is a tough woman."
Shen Zhenzhu opened the door to the interrogation room and, seeing that they had all arrived, handed out Liu Guangxia's business card: "Who among you would like to go to her workplace and home?"
Lu Ye said, "I'll go."
Chen Junsheng ran over in the corridor and said, "I'm going too."
Lu Ye glanced at him but didn't say anything. Shen Zhenzhu found it amusing and said, "Then let Chen Junsheng go inside and observe the interrogation."
Lu Ye's ears were starting to react to Hong Kong-accented Mandarin, so he pulled Zhao Qiqi, who had arrived late, and left.
Wu Zhongguo said to Shen Zhenzhu, "Sister Zhenzhu, all the checkpoints at the entrances and exits said they didn't find any suspicious vehicles. Maybe the body is still in the city. If it wasn't taken to a hot pot restaurant by some pervert."
Chen Zhenzhu sighed: "...I hope so."
She beckoned to Chen Junsheng, and after he went inside, she poked her head out again and said, "I saw some tabloids exaggerating the murder and disappearance of Liu Guangxia as a supernatural story. Over there—"
"I'll contact them over there," Wu Zhongguo said, glancing into the interrogation room. "I'll come back to relieve you in an hour."
"OK."
Inside the interrogation room, the robber Zhang Han was in immense agony.
He felt as if his brain had been pried open and twisted bit by bit by the two police officers in front of him.
Even so, despite his complete ignorance, they continued to interrogate him relentlessly, driving him to the brink of collapse.
Gu Yanzheng took over as the lead interrogator, while Chen Zhenzhu taught Chen Junsheng how to take interrogation notes, including how to record the key points and what needed to be highlighted as interrogation summaries.
Faced with the serious and demanding work of the mainland police, Chen Junsheng gradually stopped complaining and settled down to learn.
“Write your traditional Chinese characters in this notebook, and check them against my records when you’re done,” Shen Zhenzhu whispered to Chen Junsheng.
Zhang Han thought that once Shen Zhenzhu was replaced, he could finally get some rest, but who knew that this cold-faced devil in front of him would sit down again, not giving him even a second to catch his breath.
He didn't know how long he had been detained. At first, people would come in to take off his cloth shoes and collect his fingerprints and other evidence. As time went by, the police officers who interrogated him changed, and he was so hungry that his stomach was sticking to his back, but he still couldn't get out.
In the fourth team's office, the sound of footsteps gradually filling the corridor as people leave work.
Shen Zhenzhu glanced at the time; she had arranged to pick up Shen Yuyuan today. There was still time, so she sat in her office, holding the materials Qin An had given her.
“Bloodstains were found on Zhang Han’s knife, and the blood type test results matched those of Liu Guangxia’s medical examination at the hospital. He did not know the person who stole the body, and because he was a homeless person, he did not have enough social connections for us to investigate.”
"It wasn't a complete loss." Gu Yanzheng brought the fingerprint verification report from the information department and said, "Three years ago, Zhang Han participated in a home invasion robbery, seriously injuring an elderly man who died two weeks later. His fingerprints match those found on the door lock at the scene."
"This clears up some backlog cases. I have to say, the fingerprint system is really effective. By the way, there were no leads on a body at the checkpoint. Did the body just vanish into thin air?" Zhao Qiqi asked. "Can a suspect be convicted without a body?"
Gu Yanzheng said, "We have obtained the crime tools and confessions, and the victim's family also said that the victim has been missing for eight days. We are shifting from 'focusing on the body' to 'focusing on indirect evidence chains.' We must have a complete and reasonable chain of evidence, which includes: confirming the death of the deceased, a large amount of biological evidence sufficient to prove the death, eyewitnesses, and their reasonable motive for killing."
"So that means it's still possible to be convicted, but it's very difficult? From the current perspective, it's almost impossible to convict someone of robbery and murder." Shen Zhenzhu thought for a moment and said, "If the body isn't found, the focus of the case and the trial process will change fundamentally. It's best to find the body to be on the safe side."
Wu Zhongguo said, "Finding a complete and flawless chain of evidence is already extremely difficult, and then we also need to find the body. Sigh."
Chen Junsheng, unfamiliar with mainland law, asked, "Even if he confessed to the murder in his statement, it's still not allowed?"
Shen Zhenzhu replied, "Yes, we can't verify the authenticity of the testimony, nor can we be certain that the victim really died at his hands. If the victim didn't die, then his actions wouldn't be 'murder' but 'intentional injury.' What if the person who stole the corpse was the one who caused the death?"
The office fell silent immediately.
Gu Yanzheng glanced at his watch and said, "Let's go home first today and think about how to break through the case. We'll have a case meeting tomorrow morning to share our thoughts."
Lu Ye and Zhao Qiqi made plans to have dinner and play ball. Chen Zhenzhu, holding the steamed bun key, said, "Then I'll go first. Yuyuan needs to bring back the bamboo mat and mosquito net. I'll go pick her up from school."
After saying goodbye to her colleagues, Chen Zhenzhu ran downstairs, hopped on her motorcycle, checked the fuel level to make sure she had enough to get to the outskirts of the city, put on her helmet, and slowly merged into the traffic.
Wu Zhongguo looked at Gu Yanzheng by the window and said, "Captain Gu, weren't you going over there on business today?"
Gu Yanzheng looked at him with a teasing expression and said, "I'll drive myself. It's not good for me to keep following you." With that, he picked up his coat and said, "I'm leaving too."
The weather is cool, and riding a scooter is quite comfortable.
Looking at the colorful clouds on the horizon, feeling the cool breeze of late summer.
Shen Zhenzhu temporarily put the doubts about the case aside and went to the school gate to meet Shen Yuyuan, who was already waiting: "I'm sorry, a case took up a little time, and it happened to be rush hour."
"It's nothing, I was just chatting with my classmates for a while." Shen Yuyuan was already used to her older sister's busy schedule. She sat in the back of the truck, holding a straw mat and a mosquito net.
"Put on your helmet." Shen Zhenzhu noticed that she had just washed her hair and understood what the girls were thinking, but she still reminded her.
Shen Yuyuan listened to Shen Zhenzhu's words and understood that she would not ride away if she did not wear a helmet, so she obediently put on the helmet and leaned back steadily in the seat.
There was no rush hour in the suburbs. The two sisters were talking at the top of their lungs as they drove along the cement national highway where a bus would only come once every few minutes.
“This area is full of rapeseed flowers. How about we invite Uncle Lu over next spring to take pictures for us?” While waiting at a red light, Shen Yuyuan pointed to a large expanse of land on the right and said, “It’s so beautiful, a whole field of tender yellow.”
"Okay, let's take some photos, and bring Sixth Sister along too." Chen Zhenzhu looked over and, although it was a barren field, she could almost see a beautiful flower field in the future.
Shen Yuyuan then looked to her left, where there was a field of Gesang flowers planned by the city, interspersed with dandelions.
"Big sister, look how beautifully the Gesang flowers are blooming over there—ah, watch out!!"
"Oh no!" Shen Zhenzhu looked over and saw a red taxi with its "vacant" sign flashing as it ran a red light. She swerved and twisted the accelerator.
Everything happened without warning.
The man in the taxi held a photo of Chen Zhenzhu in his hand, stared intently at her, and stepped on the gas, crashing directly into the small motorcycle behind the zebra crossing!
A sharp, ear-piercing screech of brakes suddenly erupted, steel clashing violently against steel, and the taxi's hood bulged violently, twisting into a bizarre shape.
boom--!
The motorcycle tumbled twice on the concrete ground after the massive impact. Shen Zhenzhu and Shen Yuyuan were thrown from their seats by the force and landed on the roadside soil. Shen Zhenzhu arched her body and clung to Shen Yuyuan in a protective stance: "Taro Ball..."
"Ah!... Sister... I'm fine. How are you?" Shen Yuyuan said with difficulty, clutching her arm.
"It's nothing... I'm fine too."
Shen Zhenzhu's helmet was dented. She took off the helmet and then lay down on the ground unconscious.
Shen Yuyuan, clutching her throbbing arm, tried to protect her sister Shen Zhenzhu. However, the intense pain forced her to bandage the bleeding point and provide emergency treatment. Upon further examination of Shen Zhenzhu's injury, no obvious external wounds were found.
Shen Yuyuan heard someone struggling to get out of the taxi, but she was too weak to get up and was almost unconscious.
The air was filled with the smells of gasoline, burnt rubber, and shattered parts scattered throughout the chaotic accident scene.
The taxi driver felt a tightness in his chest, his body gripped tightly by the seatbelt. His hands trembled violently as he stared at Chen Zhenzhu lying motionless on the ground ahead, a strange, excited glint in his eyes.
He burst through the door, swaying as he walked over with the photo in his hand, laughing maniacally, "Cough cough... It's you, Shen Zhenzhu, isn't it? You know you're not dead, haha, it's made me rich!"
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Author's Note: ***
Thank you for the end-of-month nutrient solution, I'll be adding an extra 1500 chapters. Please don't let it get too long! [Please!]
I'll try to add another thousand tomorrow. See you tomorrow, there's a red envelope coming! [Let me see]
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