"You were the ones who saw us first and then chased after us!"
“When you got out of the car, you were still holding police batons. Who wouldn’t run when they saw you!”
"You came here to arrest us, didn't you? Otherwise, why would you chase us if we were just running away?"
"I know you were sent by the principal to arrest us, we're not going back with you!"
A boy pointed at a stone bollard on the road and shouted emotionally, "If you want to take me back, I'd rather kill myself right here!"
"Yes! We'd rather die than go back with them. If we fall into the principal's hands, we'll suffer a fate worse than death!"
A boy clutched his crotch in terror, his voice trembling: "I didn't hold back at all when I kicked the principal. If I get caught, will I be castrated?"
"If I have to be castrated, I'd rather die here; at least I can die with a whole body!"
"Yes, even if we die here, it's a complete death!"
"I can't accept becoming incomplete. I'm going to kill myself right here!" With that, the boy actually rushed towards the stone pillar, as if he were truly determined to die.
The police officers were startled and rushed forward to stop him, grabbing the boy and saying, "Young man, calm down, calm down!"
"I can't calm down! I can't calm down at all! If they're going to take me back and make me incomplete, I'd rather die right now!"
"I want to die too!" another boy roared, and slammed himself into a big tree.
The police officers were exhausted from stopping one person on one side and another on the other. In the end, they had no choice but to handcuff them one by one to prevent them from doing anything foolish again.
Just then, the elderly women who had finished their square dancing were heading home when they passed by. One of them said loudly, "I knew these guys must have gotten into trouble! Look at them, some have tattoos, others have bruises all over their faces. Luckily I called the police, otherwise we would definitely have been robbed by these thugs!"
"Did she call the police?" Tang Shan said angrily.
One of the henchmen muttered under his breath, "How did she know we were planning to rob them?"
"Shh! We're just thinking about it, Brother Shan forbids us from robbing people!"
"Don't let the police hear us, this is a crime!"
The police officers said expressionlessly, "We heard everything."
"Officer, we can explain!"
"Yes, yes, let us explain. We've been starving for ages, so we were thinking of robbing some money to buy a bowl of instant noodles."
"We really don't have any big requirements, we'll be fine with just a bowl of instant noodles."
Just then, a policeman received a notification and said nervously in a low voice to another policeman, "Something has happened. A school has caught fire and dozens of people have died."
"The captain told us to hurry back. This is a big case. So many people have died here in one day. It's going to be on the front page."
"Let's go, call it a day, back to the police station!"
What should we do with these people?
"They're all a bunch of crazy kids. Let's take them all back in case they do something rash."
"There are too many people to fit in the car. Let's go back first. Xiao Chen, Xiao Zhang, you take them back."
"good!"
"receive!"
After the veteran police officers got into the car and left, two junior police officers tied several handcuffs with a rope and left with a group of people.
The group from Tangshan were handcuffed, like a group of crabs strung together.
"Hurry up!" Officer Chen urged.
Tang Shan said with a pained expression, "I'm hungry, and I really don't have the strength to walk."
A boy boldly asked, "Officer, do you have any food?"
Officer Chen took a chocolate bar out of his pocket and threw it over.
The boy's eyes gleamed with excitement, like a hungry wolf, as he gripped the chocolate bar tightly and began to wolf it down.
"Hey bro, don't eat it all, leave me a bite!"
"Yeah, don't gobble it all up yourself, give us some too!"
"There's only a little bit, and it's gone in no time. I can't even tell the difference!" Before the boy finished speaking, he had already finished the entire chocolate bar, his cheeks bulging out.
"Can't you eat slower?"
"Watch out, you might choke!"
"If I eat slower, will I even get any? You'll have snatched it all up by now! Only what's in my mouth is truly safe—"
No sooner had he finished speaking than someone reached out and tried to rip his mouth open.
"What are you doing, mmm—"
"Damn it, this is disgusting! Can you please stop taking things out of his mouth to eat?" Tang Shan couldn't stand it anymore.
Officers Chen and Zhang were startled by what they saw. They had initially thought the children had simply skipped dinner and hadn't taken it too seriously.
But seeing them looking like they've been reincarnated from starvation, I realized things weren't so simple.
"How long has it been since you last ate?"
"We don't remember much. We could occasionally have some thin porridge. Anyway, we wouldn't die, so we just made do and lived like that."
"If you don't listen, you won't even get to drink porridge."
"Occasionally, we would give those who were starving to death some intravenous nutrition, but they didn't feel full at all, and their stomachs were still rumbling."
"Stop talking nonsense! Be serious!" Officer Chen roared. He felt that these kids were deliberately making themselves sound pitiful in order to gain sympathy.
"Officer, we didn't lie."
“We are telling the truth. We barely managed to escape from that horrible school.”
“We are lucky to be alive. Many people died and were buried in the back mountain.”
"Some parents will ask about it, while others won't even ask. A perfectly healthy person dies and nobody cares."
Xiao Chen and Xiao Zhang exchanged a glance, and a terrible suspicion arose in their minds at the same time: Could the children's escape from the school be related to the fire and the deaths that occurred there? Were they the arsonists and murderers?
"Which school did you run away from?" Officer Chen asked nervously, his heart pounding in his throat.
Tangshan replied: "Shanxi internet addiction school."
A thunderbolt struck Xiao Chen and Xiao Zhang.
Yes! That's the school!
The school just caught fire and killed dozens of people!
These people who escaped from the school are definitely connected to this case; they might even be the arsonists.
"Go! Hurry up!" Xiao Chen's tone turned icy, his eyes sharp as knives: "All of you better behave yourselves."
Xiao Zhang raised his baton: "Anyone who walks slowly, don't blame me for being ruthless with this baton!"
The group from Tangshan keenly sensed that the two policemen's attitudes had completely changed. They no longer dared to play the victim. Although what they said was true, there had indeed been some exaggeration involved. They had originally hoped that the police would sympathize with them and offer them a bowl of instant noodles.
Unfortunately, these two policemen were incorruptible, and now their instant noodles and chocolate bars are gone.
At this moment, Han Chengshan urged, "Hurry up, Uncle Tie, why are you driving so slowly!"
"I'm already driving very fast; any faster and I'll be speeding."
"I haven't gone home this late yet, my grandpa must be worried!"
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