Chapter 82 Chapter 82 Bai Qingqing, the Madman
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Zhang Zancheng was almost crying, staring blankly at the turbulent river in front of him.
The evening breeze mixed with water vapor blew across his face, making his hands and feet cold.
After being stunned for a few seconds, he ran towards the convoy behind him, shouting at them to get off and help him find someone.
Whether it was rescuing people or retrieving bodies, it had to be done by a professional rescue team. The dozens of bodyguards Zhang Zan brought stood by the reservoir, looking at each other in bewilderment, and called a professional rescue team.
Inevitably, the police arrived at the scene.
They conducted an on-site inspection of the car that Zhang Minda left by the river, and at the same time asked Zhang Zan about the child's condition and asked him if he had any thoughts of suicide.
The headlights made the riverside as bright as day.
Bai Qingqing and Ao Teng stayed with Mr. Zhang for a while, and after the rescue mission was officially launched, they returned to the car and waited.
It was nearly three in the morning.
Ao Teng saw that Bai Qingqing looked a little tired and yawned as she leaned back in her chair. He asked her, "It will take a while to find someone. Why don't we go back first and wait for news..."
Ao Teng was halfway through his words when he remembered that their mission was to find Zhang Zancheng's son. Once they found him, their mission would be accomplished and they wouldn't have to come again.
So he changed his words and said, "If they can't find anyone, we can come again. We can go back now and get some sleep."
Bai Qingqing looked out through the dark-colored car window.
Zhang Zancheng was walking back and forth towards the river alone. He couldn't help at all on the shore, but he ran around in the direction of the speedboat that was launched, not wanting to miss any movement underwater.
A team of police has already gone to the surrounding area to investigate whether Zhang Minda has gone anywhere else.
But they heard the police officers at the scene talking and saying that it was more likely that the child was in the water and that they should speed up the search before the water got higher.
It started to rain lightly.
Bai Qingqing withdrew her gaze from Zhang Zan's back and shook her head, saying, "No, thank you for your hard work, uncle. We still need to continue looking for a while."
"What else are you looking for?"
Find... the part of Zhang Minda's body that is motionless.
Bai Qingqing lowered her eyes and said nothing. She once again silently chanted the incantation and formed a seal with her hands, asking the driver to drive the car onto the road, change direction and continue forward.
A rain started in the middle of the night and continued until dawn, moistening the ground and soaking the soil, officially announcing that the plum rain season had arrived in Dongshi.
Outside the police cordoned off area.
Bai Qingqing and Ao Teng held umbrellas and watched the policemen in raincoats dig up the mud pit, pick up cameras, and take pictures of the bodies in the pit.
Zi Wenbin held an umbrella and led Officer Xiao Duan around the blockade and approached Bai Qingqing: "Nice to meet you again, Ms. Bai. Are you really not considering joining our Special Investigation Bureau? I think we will need to help each other a lot in the future."
Bai Qingqing shook her head: "Not for now."
"The door of the Special Investigation Bureau is always open to you." Zi Wenbin smiled and did not try to persuade her. He turned the topic back to the case and looked at her and Ao Teng:
"The body has been cleaned up. Do you want to take a look? Confirm if it's the person you're looking for."
"You have to watch it." Bai Qingqing nodded.
Zi Wenbin was not surprised by her answer, but she looked at Ao Teng with a little hesitation: "The body is a little special... Mr. Ao, why don't you wait for the news first?"
Officer Duan nodded in agreement, his face pale.
Ao Teng did not hesitate and went to join them. "I'm a suspense screenwriter. When I was writing, I searched for a lot of information and photos related to corpses. It's okay. It's Qingqing..."
His niece, a little girl two days shy of turning eighteen, should have avoided the corpse.
Bai Qingqing didn't say anything.
Zi Wenbin smiled and shook his head: "Then let's go together."
Several people held umbrellas, crossed the blockade and returned to the mud pit, looking down into the pit. Huge raindrops fell on the dark green umbrellas, making a violent banging sound.
A young man with pale blue-gray skin was lying naked at their feet with his eyes closed, as if he was sleeping peacefully in the mud, with an extremely serene and calm expression.
His hands and feet were long and beautiful, and there was not a single scar on his body. However, there were traces of fine and dense stitches at the joints of his neck and limbs, which made the body look delicately and neatly sewn, like a carefully crafted work of art.
This is a human body made up of several human body parts...
The raindrops hit my ears and expanded to the maximum.
The moment he realized this, Ao Teng's face turned pale and he turned his gaze back to the boy's pale and handsome face, staring at his facial features, and was in a trance for a moment.
Through the boy's gray face, he seemed to see the white-background ID photo of the boy in his memory, and then another face of the boy that was still rosy and full of life.
Zuo Xingchi.
Qingqing said that last night was a turning point for Zuo Xingchi’s disaster. Is this what she meant?
If that’s the case…
The extremely similar faces of the two young men overlapped in his mind. Ao Teng closed his eyes, and the soil under his feet became soft for a moment, and he was steady by Officer Duan.
"Yes, this face... belongs to Zhang Zanchang's son, Zhang Minda."
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"How can this be... Officer, are you mistaken? Even if my son died in the river, it shouldn't be like this. He just disappeared last night."
"This is definitely not my son, officer. Please ask the rescue team to continue looking! This, this..."
The body was fished out from downstream and put into a makeshift shed by the police. Zhang Zancheng rushed to the scene as soon as possible, but was stopped outside. The police did not allow him to identify the person, but only said that they wanted to take his DNA for testing to confirm the identity of the deceased.
Zhang Zancheng didn't understand why a DNA test was needed, so he led his men to break in. What he saw was a headless male corpse on the autopsy table. He was so scared that he screamed "Ah", backed away repeatedly, and collapsed to the ground.
His heart was beating fast. The brief glance he just took made him see clearly, and the image lingered in his mind.
The male corpse had a slender figure, long hands and feet, and the cross section of his neck was neat and smooth, as if it had been carefully cut by someone.
Regardless of whether this is his son's body or not, it is clearly a murder case!
What kind of hatred or grudge would warrant having your head cut off?
Zhang Zancheng opened his mouth and looked at the police blankly. He was pulled up from the ground by two police officers, one on the left and one on the right, and asked to cooperate with the police investigation.
Soon another piece of news reached his ears.
Zhang Minda’s head was found.
The on-site investigation by the police from both sides completely shattered the little hope Zhang Zan had in his heart, and he burst into tears on the spot.
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Before the police solved the case, the news that Zhang Zancheng, the general manager of Changhong Detergent in Dongshi, had his son spread throughout Dongshi.
The headlines that morning reported that some citizens saw the rescue team pull out a headless male body from the river.
It just happened to correspond to the gossip about Changhong Xihua, so everyone speculated that the headless male corpse was the prince of Changhong Xihua, and Zhang Zancheng must have offended someone, so the heir was killed.
Bai Qingqing stayed up all night outside.
It was eight o'clock in the morning when we left the scene and returned to Bai's house.
Before entering the door, he told Ao Teng to change his clothes and take a bath to get rid of the corpse smell on his body.
She had just come out of the bathroom when she saw several missed calls on her phone, all from numbers she hadn't saved. But considering the time it took for several calls to be made to her, she thought it could only be Zhang Dang.
Bai Qingqing called back and, as expected, received Mr. Zhang's next assignment - to find the murderer and hand him over to him before the police found him. He wanted to avenge his son.
Zhang Zanxiang heard a woman crying in the background of the phone call.
Bai Qingqing was silent for a moment.
The matter between Zuo Xingchi and Zhang Minda is very strange. She must find the murderer, and it would be best to find him before the police.
The Special Investigation Bureau has already been involved in this matter, and she doesn't have much time left.
After finding the murderer, she would definitely study him herself first, so she would not have time to hand him over to Zhang Zancheng.
Thinking of her, he said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Zhang, I can't give you the murderer. I believe the police will make a reasonable judgment on the murderer."
Zhang Zan disagreed and immediately started yelling on the phone, begging her to agree to his request. Bai Qingqing didn't listen and hung up the phone directly.
Before the next call came in, I quickly added him to the blacklist, climbed onto the bed, put my phone on charge, and turned it off.
Only those who have stayed up late know what it’s like.
She hadn't slept all night, and now even the king couldn't stop her from sleeping!
Bai Qingqing closed her eyes peacefully.
Take a steady breath in the early morning amidst the sounds of birdsong and rain.
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Bai Mu Ning's room.
Bai Muning, who usually got up early, opened his eyes at this moment.
She lay still in bed, listening to the cheerful voice in her head:
〖Congratulations Ningbao! All resources have been downloaded and installed successfully. Do you want to connect to the main control to restart the world and try to repair it?〗
“At what point in time will I be after the reboot?”
〖I'm sorry, restarting the world cannot jump time, but we will calibrate the current plot according to the time node and bring the deviated content back to the main line.〗
"What plot should I reach at this time?" Bai Mu Ning asked.
Although she knew that she was the protagonist of the novel, she could not read the original text. She could only use the favorability points obtained from the strategy to exchange for part of the plot and direction at certain points.
She had long forgotten what happened ten years ago, and without asking the system, it would be difficult for her to figure out what plot she was heading to.
Bai Muning had been with the "Perfect Life" system for nearly ten years. Before it spoke, he added, "This is the life I have lived through myself. Is it not against the rules to provide this information?"
E01 paused for a moment, and then quickly agreed:
〖Not a violation!〗
〖The original plot is that Professor Jiang took your DNA, tested it without telling your mother, and confirmed your identity in private. Your and Bai Qingqing's 18th birthday party is coming soon, and your fourth brother Bai Heyun asked Andre, who specializes in making clothes for the royal family and has retired, to tailor a suit for you to celebrate your birthday...〗
Bai Muning remembered.
After Bai Qingqing returned to the Bai family, their relationship had always been rather subtle. At first, she wanted to win Bai Qingqing's favor as well.
Even though Bai Qingqing couldn't help herself and said in front of the camera that she was the daughter of the Bai family, sparking a discussion about their identities online, the 18-year-old still felt that she and Bai Qingqing were not at the point of no return.
It was not until the eve of her birthday party that her true identity was exposed and she was recognized by the Jiang family in a high-profile manner. Her fourth brother Bai Heyun brought the skirt back to the country to celebrate their birthday.
The Jiang family has decided to bring her home to celebrate. Her eighteenth birthday is also of great significance to her parents.
She planned to sleep at the Bai family's house for the last night and return to her own home early on her birthday. She had no intention of wearing the dress at all.
As a result, that crazy Bai Qingqing sneaked into her room in the middle of the night and cut her skirt. When she found out, she stabbed herself with the scissors.
Blood immediately gushed out of her abdomen.
From that moment on, she realized that between her and Bai Qingqing, only one of them could survive.
Bai Mu Ning: "Confirm, restart now."
E01: [The world is restarting, executing... Restart completed; the world is being repaired, executing...]
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