"What's going on? What happened? Officer, what did we do wrong?!"
Jia Zhengyi quickly stepped forward, smiling obsequiously, and as if by magic, pulled out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to him.
God knows when this guy bought the cigarettes; the whole process was so smooth and fluid, he must have done this kind of thing a lot before.
The lead officer pushed away the cigarette Jia Zhengyi offered, his gaze icy: "You're Su Lin?!"
Before he could even finish his question, several officers silently surrounded him from the side and stepped closer to Jia Zhengyi, as if he would be apprehended on the spot the moment he nodded.
"Um, I..."
Jia Zhengyi hesitated, but Su Lin stepped out from behind him: "I'm Su Lin, what's the matter?"
"Take it down!"
The lead officer glanced at him, gave a command, and several officers behind him rushed forward to capture Su Lin without saying a word.
Su Lin instinctively dodged, and just as he was about to retaliate, Jia Zhengyi screamed, "Boss! Boss! Don't be impulsive! We are law-abiding citizens, we've definitely been wronged!"
Su Lin could hear the panic in Jia Zhengyi's voice; it seemed even more alarming than when he himself had been arrested.
He squinted, and in a split second, he chose to trust Jia Zhengyi, giving up resistance and letting several police officers grab his arms and pin him against the wall.
"Why...why did you arrest my brother?"
Suddenly, the lead officer felt someone hitting him. Looking down, he saw a little girl with teary eyes, her eyes empty and stiff. She was blind.
She sobbed, her eyes red, and her hands pounded the ground in a haphazard way, as if she were desperately searching for support and enemies in the darkness.
"Little girl..."
The officer's expression softened, and his heart paled. He knelt down and asked, "Who is he to you? Is he your older brother?"
"It's my brother! It's my brother! Why are you arresting him!"
Xiao Linlin cried even more plaintively: "You've taken my brother away, how am I supposed to go home... I want my brother back, give him back to me!"
Su Lin remained calm, silently bowing his head to cooperate with Xiao Linlin's acting.
She reacted quickly, almost instantly immersing herself in the game, making full use of her childlike advantage to break dangerous stalemates.
The child's pitiful voice moved the onlookers to tears, and the police officers exchanged glances, all looking at their captain.
“Your brother... he's just a suspect; we're not sure yet if he actually committed a crime.”
The captain glanced at Su Lin and whispered to comfort Xiao Linlin, "Don't worry, little girl... as long as we make sure he's innocent, we'll definitely return your brother to you."
"No, no! Give my brother back to me!"
Xiao Linlin cried even louder. It wasn't convenient for her to find out more information at this moment, but Jia Zhengyi was quick-witted and seized the opportunity to speak up: "Comrade, what exactly happened? There must be some misunderstanding. We are all law-abiding citizens. We wouldn't even dare to kill a chicken, how could we be breaking the law?"
"You don't even dare to kill a chicken?"
A police officer sneered and pulled a dagger from Su Lin's body: "Carrying a knife on your person! What good citizen would do such a thing!"
In that instant, Su Lin almost exploded; how could he tolerate his weapon being taken away?
"A fruit knife! A fruit knife!"
Jia Zhengyi quickly took the sword from the police officer's hand, the movement so natural that he actually managed to take it: "Oh dear, I forgot to put it down when I went out. This little thing is nothing."
Jia Zhengyi inadvertently activated the passive effect of his superpower, "Hide and Seek," which made the police officers overlook his action of taking the Tang sword. Moreover, in a world where superpowers are everywhere, a small knife is indeed not a crime.
"So... what exactly happened? Our family needs to know, right?"
Jia Zhengyi lowered his voice and asked the captain, "If someone really breaks the law, I will definitely stand up for my family! I will absolutely not cover it up!"
"Who are you to Su Lin?"
“I am his younger brother.”
"So you just called him boss?"
The captain frowned as he looked at Jia Zhengyi, who smiled憨厚ly and said, "It's just a small family business, we're just trying to make a living. You can call me 'brother' or 'boss'."
"Little girl, is what he said true?"
A police officer leaned down to confirm with Xiao Linlin, who sobbed, "He is my cousin, and Su Lin is my brother."
"Um."
The officer nodded, glanced at Xiao Linlin who was crying her eyes out, felt sorry for her, and sighed, "Your brother has been reported by name. Some people say he is not a superhuman."
"Not a superhuman!"
Jia Zhengyi was shocked. The other two in the group had not yet realized the seriousness of the problem, but he understood it completely!
In a society with superpowers, the existence of non-superpowered individuals is almost equivalent to drug traffickers in 21st-century Earth. They are universally hated, severely wanted, and almost always sentenced to death if caught!
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Before the two could speak, Jia Zhengyi drew the attention of all the officers with his loudest voice. He spoke righteously and resolutely: "This is a false accusation! This is a frame-up! Who said this? I'm going to find a lawyer! I'm going to apply for arbitration!"
"How can you say such things? Isn't that wronging an innocent person?!"
Jia Zhengyi almost jumped up; his resolute and angry attitude seemed genuine.
"We will definitely conduct arbitration on supernatural abilities, but we cannot tell you the details because we have an obligation to protect whistleblowers."
The police officer frowned at Jia Zhengyi, while Xiao Linlin sobbed, "Big brother... you believe everything people say, even that my brother is a non-superpowered person. Well then, I'm going to file a formal complaint. The guy who framed my brother might also be a non-superpowered person!"
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