Rebirth
The two of them came out together, and Cheng Xiaoxiang showed the information, "This club has brought them all together."
Chen An reached into his pocket with his left hand to feel for a cigarette, but found nothing after searching for a long time. Jiang Li's expression before getting off the car flashed through his mind, and the corners of his mouth inadvertently rose a little.
"Boss, what are you laughing at?"
Chen An glared at him. "Why, you're not allowed to laugh? You live in the sea, how can you be so nosy?"
"Hey..." Cheng Xiaoxiang quickly followed.
At this point in time, the interrogation was carried out simultaneously by two parties. Lu Yuyao and Bai Shuo interrogated several other girls who were brought back. Three of them were new members of the club and did not know the situation of the club. Lu Yuyao focused on interrogating the girl named Xiao Wu.
"Xiao Wu, seventeen years old, graduated from the fourth grade of junior high school. He worked as a network administrator at an internet cafe some time ago. After being fired, he's unemployed and currently lives in the club." Lu Yuyao continued, holding his notebook. "According to reports, that alley isn't their base. They also rent a house near the county town, which they use primarily for parties and drug dealing."
"During the interrogation, Xiao Wu provided a very important clue. In mid-August, Anna, who hadn't been to the club in a while, had an argument with Zheng Tong, who had just joined. She described a shoving match in the restroom. The argument lasted a long time, and she only heard Anna's slanderous remarks about Zheng Tong and her boyfriend from outside the door."
"Xiao Wu believes that the root of the conflict between the two may be Peng Yue. Peng Yue likes to flirt with other women everywhere. Even if he has a girlfriend, he still cheats on her. He often flirts with new members of the club. Before Peng Yue brought Zheng Tong to the club, he liked to flirt with Anna, and occasionally Anna and Peng Yue could be seen getting very close."
"Xiao Wu also said that Peng Yue never brings his girlfriend to the club, and Zheng Tong is the first one."
"So it was Peng Yue who took the initiative to lead Zheng Tong to join 'Somnus'?" Cheng Xiaoxiang asked.
"Yes," Lu Yuyao guessed. "I think he brought Zheng Tong into the club because he wanted to control her through drug addiction. Based on my previous understanding, Zheng Tong is a person who changes her heart very easily. She changes boyfriends very quickly. I guess Peng Yue is afraid of losing Zheng Tong, this ATM."
"Then what does this have to do with Anna? Why are they arguing? Could it be that they are really fighting over a Phoenix man?" Cheng Xiaoxiang frowned. There was too much information, and his mind was in a mess.
"Don't forget, Yu Xiaowei learned the truth about her life from Peng Yue." Chen An reminded at the critical moment.
"That's right!" Cheng Xiaoxiang, who had been slumped on the table, sat up in shock. "How did he know about the Zheng family? From this perspective, his flirting with Anna might not be simply out of love or interest, but rather a backup plan."
Bai Shuo, who hadn't spoken in a while, snapped his fingers and turned the computer screen. "This is the surveillance footage I retrieved of Anna's class. I noticed that whenever Zheng Tong wasn't in class, Peng Yue would come and sit not far from Anna. This went on for about half a month. At first, the two of them only exchanged a few words, but later on, Peng Yue would sit next to Anna during class, and they would even walk together after class."
Lu Yuyao said, "So after Peng Yue realized that Zheng Tong was going to replace him, he took two measures. One was to bring Zheng Tong into the club to control her, and the other was to approach Anna, the real daughter of the Zheng family, and pursue her. That way, even if they broke up, he could persuade Anna to recognize her parents again and continue to enjoy the Zheng family's money."
Cheng Xiaoxiang was stunned and praised repeatedly, "What a brilliant trick."
Once this information is summarized, there will be many directions for exploration, but time does not allow them to explore them one by one.
After a day of wandering around, Lu Yuyao felt lost and asked, "So what should we do next?"
The conference room was silent for a moment. Chen An said, "Peng Yue is a suspect. I'll meet him tomorrow. Cheng Xiaoxiang and Lu Yuyao, go visit Zheng Tong's father, Cao Qianjin. Bai Shuo, go to the Technical Investigation Department and help track down the Somnus Club. Director Shen's intention is to crack down on drug abuse among teenagers as soon as possible."
"yes!"
The meeting ended at twelve o'clock, and Chen An took the car keys and drove home.
It was still that long traffic light, and these clues gathered in his mind again. There are currently two possibilities. First, as Yu Xiaowei said, it was Anna who killed Zheng Tong, so the motive was a murder of love, whether it was because of Peng Yue or because of Zheng's parents.
Second, the new suspect, Peng Yue. Unable to keep Zheng Tong, he murdered her under the guise of a secret room. He hoped Anna would return to the Zheng family and reclaim everything that belonged to her... No, if he wanted to force Anna to return, he wouldn't even have to do the killing himself. He could simply exploit the psychological comparison between Anna and Zheng Tong to get her to use her position to kill her.
From this point of view, Anna is the more likely suspect.
The green light for turning left came on, and Chen An's thoughts returned. He turned the steering wheel with one hand, and the car disappeared at the intersection.
In the dark rental house, Anna was lying on the folding bed, the fan beside the bed was creaking. It was late at night, and the girl's nightmare was reaching its climax.
"Run! Run forward!"
"Don't look back! Don't make a sound!"
Her mouth was covered, and the great fear caused physiological tears to hang in her eyes, about to fall.
The woman wiped her tears away and said firmly, "Don't cry!"
"Take these banknotes and hide somewhere. I'll distract them. Don't worry about me. Find the right moment to escape! Run to the main road! Don't trust anyone on the road. Find someone in a Chinese police uniform and hat and ask them to rescue us!"
The girl has a heavy responsibility and a huge sense of duty that drives her to succeed.
His dirty hands tightly grasped the banknotes, tears fell from his eyes, but he didn't notice any sound.
"Why didn't you come back to save us?"
"Why didn't you come back to save us?"
Fine beads of sweat on her forehead flowed down her cheeks onto the worn mat. She murmured through her cracked lips, "I don't have... I, I can't find it."
"I didn't mean to... I really can't find it."
The girl who was almost dehydrated was rescued by a man. The man who rescued her was a middle-aged man with a kind face, and little Anna easily believed him.
While eating, she kept asking the uncle to take her to see the police. The uncle agreed verbally, but the next morning she was handed over to a Japanese man.
Her value was squeezed out, and after two months of near-abuse, she developed a high fever and forgot everything before she went missing.
In her dreams at midnight, she would ask herself, who am I? Where am I? What am I going to do?
She couldn't answer any of these questions, and her dreams became increasingly bizarre.
She would dream of many iron cages, and dream that she turned into a weak cat, locked in an iron cage. Outside the cage were ugly and greasy men's faces, staring at her breathlessly from all directions.
In her dreams, there was often a woman calling her and asking her to wake up.
Then she woke up drenched in sweat.
After living a wandering life, her nightmares got much better. She would pick up trash all day long, and would envy the students going to and from school when she passed by the school. What stimulated her memories was one evening when she was picking up trash and met a parent who came to pick up her child from school. Unlike the students who were wearing clean school uniforms, she was dressed in rags, and her hair was a mess no matter how she styled it.
She watched the girl throw herself into her mother's arms, and her mother caressed her head lovingly, then kissed her forehead. She felt that this scene was very familiar, as if someone had done the same to her a long time ago, with gentle caresses and affectionate calls.
But when was that?
Before she was abducted.
Anna pieced together her experiences with the help of fragments of memory. She should have gone through three stages: abduction, sale, and wandering. She should be looking for her parents.
Yes! That's right! She wants to find her parents!
Anna, who had been wandering all day, found her goal and even became motivated to pick up rubbish. She picked up rubbish during the day and hid in her shelter at night and dared not go out. Later, the city security improved a lot, and scavengers were tacitly regarded as an uncivilized corner of the city, and her living space was squeezed.
Fortunately, she got a household registration not long after. Although she had no education, she could find a decent job to make a living.
Anna, who hadn't had a nightmare for a long time, had a smile on her face when she moved into a 150-dollar rental house, and her heart was full of hope for the future, but the arrival of night brought the nightmare back to her again.
The woman called her even harder.
He didn't call her name, but just kept asking her, "Why didn't you come back to save us?"
This dream has been following her ever since. This woman has been with her all the time, from a small county town to a big city. She even had the illusion that she and this woman were dependent on each other.
She has been so lonely these years, it would be nice to have someone to accompany her.
Perhaps because she was disappointed and tired of the world with her open eyes, she preferred to explore the world in her dreams. She began to try to communicate with the people in her dreams, asking her who "I" was and why she followed "me", but she was very stubborn and never answered questions about "me". She just smiled and shook her head.
But one day, Anna asked a question about herself.
"May I have your name?"
"Su Jinxian."
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