Rebirth
Yu Feiyue scratched his scalp irritably and slumped back in his chair.
Cheng Xiaoxiang returned to his seat and said, "The evidence is conclusive and you have no chance of escaping. I advise you to cooperate with the investigation and perhaps you can get leniency."
Finally, Yu Feiyue gave up resistance and asked, "What do you want to ask?"
Cheng Xiaoxiang was about to speak when the door of the interrogation room opened. It was Chen An who came in. He turned around and closed the door, pulled a chair over and sat down, then motioned for him to continue asking questions.
Cheng Xiaoxiang said, "Do you know these two people?"
Two photos with white backgrounds were pushed in front of him. Yu Feiyue carefully identified them and said, "I know them. One is called Anna, and the other is... a rich woman."
"Explain clearly."
"Oh, I forgot the woman's name. I just remember that she was quite rich. Aren't all rich women called rich women?"
Cheng Xiaoxiang said, "From your tone, it seems that you know Anna better."
Yu Feiyue nodded. "Yes, Anna joined earlier, so of course she's more familiar with the place. The woman behind was brought in by Peng Yue, she's just arrived." At this point, he seemed to remember something and asked, "Hiss, is that the woman who died in the secret room a while ago?"
Cheng Xiaoxiang said sternly, "Just answer whatever you're asked! I didn't ask you to ask!"
Yu Feiyue frivolously lowered his head and rolled his eyes at him, then said in a long tone, like a gangster, "Alright."
"When did Anna join the club?"
"Hmm..." Yu Feiyue thought for a while, "May or June, I don't know the exact time. I have so many people under me, and they are looking for suitable people to recruit into the club every day. Anna was not recruited by me, so I don't know her very well."
Chen An said, "Then tell me everything you know, and start from the beginning."
Yu Feiyue looked at him for a while and recognized that this was the policeman who rushed into the room to arrest them. The tone of his voice was much better than the one in front of him, but there was a hint of threat under his kind words. In the eyes of people in the circle, this kind of person was a typical ruthless person.
His attitude unconsciously straightened up a bit, and he spoke more honestly. "Anna, she's pretty, but not very sensible."
Yu Feiyue suddenly put his hands on the table, leaned forward, and acted as if he was about to whisper something. "Officer, do you know Anna's past?"
Chen An raised his eyes and raised his eyebrows, "Do you know her past?"
"I know. Little girls will tell you anything if you coax them into talking." He looked proud, as if he took great pleasure in sharing someone else's suffering. "She used to be an illegal immigrant."
Cheng Xiaoxiang was annoyed by his show-off attitude and slammed the table, "Hurry up and tell me! Don't drag your feet!"
Yu Feiyue pretended to pick his ears and sighed, "She was kidnapped by human traffickers when she was a child."
The car was shaking and carrying several iron cages of various sizes. The cages were not filled with cats and dogs, but curled up people.
The weather was hot and the car was driving on the highway. A sprinkler truck passed by and sprayed water. The smell of asphalt road penetrated little Anna's nose. Her nose was too sensitive and the pungent smell woke her up.
After being hungry for several days, with no food or water, she was locked in an iron cage alone. She looked around and saw that everyone was asleep, only the woman in the cage next to her was awake.
She was very beautiful, with long black hair and a soft face. Although it was stained with mud and blood, it still made people want to get close to her. She woke up and stretched out her hand to little Anna, "Are you hungry?"
Little Anna had been hungry for several days. They were all transported from different places and finally gathered in this carriage.
She nodded.
The woman took out a half-opened chocolate from her coat and said, "Eat it."
Little Anna hesitated whether to take it, but she hadn't touched food for so long that her senses would magnify any smell infinitely. In the end, she couldn't resist the temptation and ate the chocolate.
Yu Feiyue continued, "Later, she escaped in the rest area. Over a dozen iron cages were opened, and she ran all the way to hide in the woods. She didn't know how many people had escaped, she just kept heading up the main road."
"But she got lost and was taken in by an uncle in the village. He gave her a bowl of rice, just plain rice." Yu Feiyue felt a little melancholy when talking about this. "She was so grateful that she stayed at his house for one night. The uncle promised to take her to the police station the next day. It was only the next day that she realized it was a lie."
"Instead of sending her to the police station, he sold her to a Japanese man for the second time."
"The man was a pedophile. She went through the most painful two years in his hands. When he got tired of her, he planned to break her hands and feet and throw her on the street to beg, but he failed in the end because another rich man bought her."
Yu Feiyue couldn't help but recall the scene when Anna said these words in tears after taking the medicine for the first time. She knelt on the ground and sobbed in pain, which made Yu Feiyue, who had ill intentions towards her, unable to bear to do anything to her again.
"After a wealthy businessman bought her, she was about to be shipped out of the country to Southeast Asia. She knew there was no way she would ever return, so she jumped out of the car mid-transportation and escaped. She used her old tricks again to buy herself a chance to survive."
"After that, she began a ten-year-long wandering life."
Anna walked all the way north, no longer trusting anyone. She decided to survive on her own. It didn't matter if her feet were rubbed raw, or if she was covered in mud and skinny. She had to survive. She remembered that she had a mother and a father, and the older sister who left a way for her to live. She had to continue living and find the life that originally belonged to her.
She had no identity, no household registration, and no usable name. She was a little homeless person who rummaged through the trash cans every day for other people's leftover food. Even the rotten buns were delicious. This was better than living at the hands of a Japanese man. She could hold on and find her way home.
After a long period of wandering, she learned some basic survival skills. She was scared to death during the census, but in the end, the authorities did not investigate her and just asked her to register her name and get a household registration at the police station. She breathed a sigh of relief.
"What's your name?"
"Ah?" She would subconsciously clutch the edge of her clothes when she was nervous, but when she remembered that she had just bought it yesterday, she quickly let go and smoothed out the wrinkles with her hands. "My name is..."
There was an advertisement posted on the newspaper at the door. The woman in the advertisement was dressed brightly and had a bright smile, with her name written next to it.
She mustered up the courage to say, "My name is Anna."
Cheng Xiaoxiang said, "Then how did she join the club?"
"I don't know about that. She probably saw it online herself. She already had a tattoo on her hand when she came."
Cheng Xiaoxiang frowned.
Yu Feiyue added: "Well... actually this 'Somnus' is just a symbol."
Cheng Xiaoxiang said: "What do you mean?"
"Just like the franchise hotline for milk tea shops, it also relies on franchising. Not only do we have OD clubs here, but there are also clubs in other places. However, the most popular organization at the moment is 'Somnus'. This thing is just like opening a chain of milk tea shops, just buying a name."
Cheng Xiaoxiang scoffed, "Opening a milk tea shop is not illegal."
Chen An pulled out his inner words, "Are you saying that before joining your club, Anna also joined a club with the same name somewhere else?"
"That's right!" Yu Feiyue said with a smile, flattering in a self-conscious way, "This police officer is really smart."
"Why would she tell you this?"
Yu Feiyue scratched his head awkwardly, "That's just... she said it herself when she was unconscious after taking drugs."
Chen An narrowed his eyes, crossed his legs, leaned back in his chair, and said calmly, "You said she's been to other clubs before, which means this isn't her first time taking drugs. As a long-time user, she should know more about controlling her dosage than someone like you who doesn't take drugs, right?"
Cheng Xiaoxiang was a little surprised and silently shifted his gaze to his boss, who just looked at Yu Feiyue without blinking.
Then Cheng Xiaoxiang stood up and walked in front of Yu Feiyue. He roughly rolled up his sleeves and rubbed his tattoo. "Fake?"
Yu Feiyue couldn't speak clearly, "Ah..."
Cheng Xiaoxiang thought it was a bit ridiculous, "You don't kowtow yourself, but you bother to get others to kowtow."
Yu Feiyue chuckled dryly. "She's pretty. I just added something to her medicine. Who knew she wouldn't be able to control it properly? She lost control and started going crazy, blurting out everything about her past. It was a terrifying scene. She was like a madman."
He got goosebumps when he recalled that scene, the long-haired woman kneeling on the ground and accusing at the top of her lungs.
Cheng Xiaoxiang slammed the interrogation book on the table, furious and ready to hit someone. He raised his hand, scaring Yu Feiyue half to death, "No, no, no! I really didn't mean it. Well... later I saw her crying so miserably, but I didn't touch her."
Chen An asked, "Did you keep in touch with her later?"
"Not really. I've been avoiding her since that day, but I heard from people below that Anna rarely comes to the club. The only time she came was when I met that guy..." Yu Feiyue slapped his head twice, but couldn't remember it at all.
It was Cheng Xiaoxiang who reminded him.
"Yes, Zheng Tong. They met once at the club, and it was said that something unpleasant happened."
Cheng Xiaoxiang said: "What's unpleasant?"
"I don't know. I don't spend much time at the club."
Seeing the sincerity in his eyes, he probably had nothing to hide. Cheng Xiaoxiang then took out another photo from the folder and asked, "Is this guy also from your club?"
Yu Feiyue carefully examined it and nodded, "Yes." Then he couldn't help but comment, "He doesn't have much money to make. He doesn't buy or sell drugs in the club. He's just looking for girls who haven't had any psychological trauma. He waits for them to get high and then takes them away."
"You agree?"
"How is that possible? Of course you have to pay!"
Cheng Xiaoxiang held his forehead.
"However, this guy is quite rich and pays the club a lot of money every month. Otherwise, I wouldn't like him."
After asking almost all the questions, Cheng Xiaoxiang was putting his things away when Yu Feiyue suddenly slapped his head and said, "Oh, he is Zheng Tong's boyfriend! I remember now."
The boy was startled and thought he had found some important clues. Cheng Xiaoxiang was so scared that he was speechless.
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