Chapter 367 I'll Bear All the Sins 2 "You're lying! You did this on purpose!" Wang Xiaoya trembled with anger. Although she was naive, she wasn't stupid. She could sense that Bai Wei was targeting her! But she couldn't understand what she had done to offend her, to be framed like this.
Chen Xiaocao mustered her courage and said to Bai Wei with red eyes, "Bai Wei, you can't wrong me like this! Sister Xiaoya really didn't go out! What you saw definitely wasn't her!"
"Not her? Then tell me, who is it?" Bai Wei immediately retorted, her gaze sweeping over Chen Xiaocao, then looking meaningfully at Liu Landi and Su Tang. "Or did you all take turns climbing out the window tonight, so I couldn't tell who it was?"
"you--!"
That hat is way too big!
"Group crime" and "taking turns going out" are not just violations of discipline, but a blatant challenge to military discipline and an extremely serious political incident!
Liu Landi and Chen Xiaocao's faces turned deathly pale instantly. They realized that the more they tried to explain, the more they fell into the trap Bai Wei had set, making the accusation of them being "accomplices" even more convincing.
Zhang Ruobing's face had turned ashen.
She didn't care about the infighting among the female soldiers; what she cared about was that someone had actually trespassed into a military restricted area in the middle of the night within her jurisdiction. Someone had to be held accountable for this!
Just then, Wang Xiaoya looked at Liu Landi and Chen Xiaocao, who were pale and had been implicated because of her, and then glanced at Bai Wei, who was standing triumphantly at the door. Her chaotic mind suddenly became clearer than ever before.
This can't go on any longer.
If they keep arguing, Lan Di and Cao'er will really be harmed by their own actions.
Even... even Sister Su An will be dragged down.
Sister Su An is so kind, sharing such precious food with me and taking such good care of me and Cao'er. I can't be so selfish and ruin them all for my own sake.
An unprecedented surge of courage welled up from her frail body.
She took a deep breath, straightened her back abruptly, and interrupted everyone's argument.
"Stop arguing!"
Her voice wasn't loud, but it carried a resolute quality that instantly silenced the entire dormitory.
All eyes were on her.
Wang Xiaoya raised her head, no longer looking at anyone else, but staring directly at Zhang Ruobing, and said clearly, word by word:
"Reporting to the instructor, they are all lying."
Liu Landi and Chen Xiaocao turned around abruptly, staring at her in shock: "Xiaoya, what nonsense are you talking about?!"
Wang Xiaoya ignored them; her eyes were already brimming with tears, but she forced them back down.
"Sister Lan Di and Cao'er lied to help me. I... I did go out tonight."
What? !
These words shocked everyone in the room!
"Little girl, are you crazy!" Liu Landi exclaimed.
"I did it all by myself! It has nothing to do with them!" Wang Xiaoya shouted at Zhang Ruobing as if she had used all her strength. "I stole the food by myself! I climbed through the window by myself! I went to the back mountain by myself! I'll take all the blame! If you want me to be locked up, if you want punishment, come at me alone!"
She closed her eyes, and two streams of hot tears finally slid down her cheeks.
Bai Wei stood at the door, watching this scene, a barely perceptible, victorious smirk curling at the corner of her lips.
Fool, you finally took the bait.
Zhang Ruobing's eyes were as cold as ice; she didn't want to waste any more time. Since the main culprit had already "confessed," there was nothing more to interrogate.
She suddenly waved her hand and gave the final order to the two patrolmen behind her.
"Take her away! Lock her in solitary confinement! Interrogate her properly when it's light! I want to see just how stubborn she really is!"
"yes!"
Two male police officers who had been waiting at the door entered in response to the call, and roughly grabbed Wang Xiaoya's arms, one on the left and one on the right, like eagles grabbing chicks.
"Let me go! I can walk by myself!" Wang Xiaoya struggled, but her strength was nothing compared to that of the two strong men.
She was being dragged outside, and as she passed Su Tang, she suddenly turned around and looked at Su Tang.
In those red and swollen eyes, there was not a trace of resentment, not a cry for help, only a deep, reassuring earnestness. It was as if they were saying: Sister Su An, don't worry about me, please don't act rashly.
Su Tang stood in the shadows of the dormitory, watching Wang Xiaoya being roughly dragged away and disappearing into the darkness outside the door.
She could hear the girl's suppressed sobs fading into the distance, hear Bai Wei's faint, triumphant hum, and feel the complex gazes from the other people in the dormitory, some sympathetic, some gloating.
Her face remained calm, without the slightest ripple.
But deep within those downcast eyes, it seemed as if millennia-old ice was freezing, and a bottomless pool of cold water was slowly swirling into a frigid vortex.
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