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What?

Xu Cheng retracted his outstretched hand and looked at the couple in front of him in shock.

"You and him..."

The middle-aged man immediately raised his hands to protest, looking as if he had suffered a great injustice: "We are his parents! It is clearly written on the birth certificate and the custody certificate!"

"Has your relationship with him deteriorated? Has it been severed?"

The woman cried out, "How is this possible? We only have this one son, so of course he must have been raised as a jewel and a jade."

But judging from their expressions, they still felt somewhat guilty.

Xu Cheng felt that this was difficult to do. If he could prove that the family relationship was severed, then the couple would not receive a single cent of the death compensation. However...

He checked the registration information of the deceased police officer again, and the miracle did not happen. The column of the relative registration still listed the couple in front of him.

There is no evidence for this?

At this moment, everyone present heard at the same time——

[So that's what happened! When he was four or five years old, his parents abandoned him. The first time they dumped him at the doorstep of a neighbor's house. After he stumbled home with the help of the police, the second time they dumped him on a highway bridge. If he hadn't been found in time, this unscrupulous couple could have applied for a social assistance fund using their son's "accidental death".]

Everyone could not help but feel indignant. Even a tiger would not eat its own cubs. How could there be such parents in the world!

Moreover, it is heart-warming to hear that such a young child, after being abandoned by his parents, obediently found the police to send him home.

The middle-aged parents' faces turned pale and they cried, "We also wanted to find a good family for him, but with our financial situation at the time, we simply couldn't afford to raise such a young child."

This time, without the sound of the voice, people began to discuss:

"What a joke! How can you still do this for the child's good when you've already abandoned him on the street?"

"It's obvious that she can't control her lower body, and only cares about her own pleasure. She just casually gave away a child, and she doesn't cherish him at all!"

"..."

Amid the controversy, the parents calmed down. The husband laughed a few times and said word by word, "But do you have any evidence?"

Evidence, evidence is the most important!

Seeing everyone's silent faces, he smiled triumphantly, but his tone was still humble: "We are a young couple from the most remote planet, and life has never been easy. The big bosses of the capital planets are domineering, but they don't have to make things difficult for us little people. Why should we worry about these meaningless things?"

The people who were originally talking were suddenly silent.

At this time——

No one noticed that Luo Tan was lost in thought, watching the animated picture in the system:

[However, the deceased's sister was at the gate of the cemetery. She was blocked by the guards at the gate and could not enter. She was holding the evidence in her hand. If it weren't for his sister who rescued him and raised him, he would have met with an accident long ago.]

What?

The parents, who were originally in the upper hand and looking very proud, suddenly frowned.

Soon after, a slender woman came from the gate of the cemetery. She seemed to be walking in a hurry and panting. Behind her were the cemetery guards. It was obvious that they had just been let in.

In silence, she walked to her brother's tombstone and bowed deeply. The moment she raised her head, no one could ignore the tears streaming down her face.

She turned to her parents behind her, raised a thin piece of paper in her hand, and glared at them: "Look at what this is?"

This time, the faces of the middle-aged couple finally turned deathly gray.

She turned to the crowd again, and although she was clearly sobbing, she still tried her best to speak clearly, "They abandoned me when I was six years old. Fortunately, I was adopted by a family. Later, that family suffered a misfortune, and I wandered and begged on my own. But a few years later, I found out that I actually had a younger brother, and he also could not escape the fate of being abandoned..." At this point, she finally couldn't help sobbing, but no one present spoke. They were patiently waiting for this ill-fated girl to finish speaking.

"Later, my brother and I grew up together, supporting each other. My brother fought in the underground boxing ring for many years, and fortunately he was spotted by a nobleman and was admitted to the police station as an exception. My brother and I also moved to the capital planet."

"But at this time, what did our good parents, the couple in front of you, do? They actually knew the news, and then, on the pretext that children need to fulfill their obligation to support their parents, they demanded that my brother buy a house for them so that they could also live in a big house in the capital planet."

"My brother had just started working, and due to public pressure and fear of his parents causing trouble at work, he was forced to agree. But when he agreed, the couple made another ridiculous request. They were actually worried that my brother would take back the house in the future on the grounds that they had not fulfilled their obligation to support him, so they wanted to cut off all ties with my brother!"

"Look, what I have in my hand is the agreement to sever the relationship! It's really ridiculous!"

Although everyone had guessed the couple's shamelessness, who could have imagined that they could be so shameless? For a moment, everyone was stunned.

The elder sister continued to speak loudly: "My brother died in the line of duty. I can't blame anyone, and I won't blame anyone. I just don't want my greedy parents to take away the money that bought my brother's life!"

The parents finally reacted, but could only say: "You, you are talking nonsense!"

But the paper in my sister's hand had already been taken away by Xu Cheng. He used tools to identify and recognize the signatures and fingerprints on it, and quickly came to the conclusion: "They signed it personally."

The couple saw that the situation was not good, and saw that everyone present looked at them with condemnation. They felt like a thorn in their side and wanted to leave immediately, but they heard -

Xu Cheng said coldly: "You can't leave. You are suspected of abandonment and intentional homicide. According to the law, you need to go to the police station for investigation!"

...

The evil parents had been taken to the police station, and the crowd who came to pay their respects gradually dispersed. Only Xu Cheng, Luo Tan and the deceased's sister were left in the cemetery.

Xu Cheng sighed: "We didn't investigate this matter clearly before. I will send someone to discuss compensation with you later."

According to his thinking, since the deceased was raised by his biological sister, the death compensation should naturally be given to the person who truly cares about him.

The young woman said, "No need."

She lowered her head, looked at the mottled shadows of the trees below her feet, and said softly, "Since the person is already gone, what is the point of having so much money?"

"But..."

"Can you give me that?" My sister raised her head.

Xu Cheng was surprised and asked, "What?"

"I heard that there is a method in the capital planet that can store the memories of the deceased and put them in a small bottle. When I put it under my pillow and fall asleep, I can sense his thoughts and feelings."

"I don't want a cyber pet. I just want him to be a little closer to me. Even if it's just a little bit, I want to leave something behind to carry my thoughts for decades to come."

Xu Cheng took a deep breath and said, "I will apply to my superiors to fulfill your wish."

After his sister left, Luo Tan asked curiously, "What is that?"

Xu Cheng smiled bitterly and said, "It's a new technology product that can copy the memories of dead people and store them on the carrier of your choice. Some criminals will put people's memories on pets, use their pain for fun, and even sell them on the black market. This is what she called a cyber pet."

Luo Chen nodded: "But this sister will definitely treat her brother well."

Xu Cheng: "I will definitely do that."

In the gloomy sky, the thick clouds gradually dispersed, revealing a corner of the warm sunshine.

.

The next day was National Day. All day long, Luo Chen could hear people cheering, children making noises, and the sound of fireworks exploding in the sky outside the window.

Finally, in the evening, when Luo Tan was about to go out, he received a message from Xu Cheng:

"There's a dinner party at the palace tonight. Are you going?"

She widened her eyes and read the last five words carefully from front to back and from back to front three times, especially pausing on the word "no" for several seconds.

For some reason, she felt a little guilty.

She was about to reply: Go ahead, what’s wrong?

After thinking it over, she finally deleted the first two words, leaving only an unclear sentence:

What's wrong?