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Chen Yingsheng was so anxious that he picked up the broom next to the garbage truck and rushed out.
"Don't fight here! It's hindering the road disinfection."
Those who were beating and those who were being beaten looked up at her.
Huang Mao asked: "Who are you?"
"I'm an employee at the garbage transfer station. Nearby residents reported that there were too many cockroaches in the sewers. We arranged a large-scale disinfection and have already sprayed pesticides into the manhole covers. All the cockroaches will come out soon."
"Brother Shucai..."
"That's it for today." Shucai picked up the pearl bracelet and said something harsh, "San'er, you stay here to feed the cockroaches, and figure out how to pay me back."
Shucai was throwing the bracelet as he walked. Between throwing and catching, there was a whoosh sound and the pearl bracelet disappeared.
It was Zuo Xufei. He was holding a frog toy in his hand. The toy seemed to be given life. The frog opened its mouth and stuck out its tongue, and rolled the bracelet away.
Zuo Xufei was wearing a polo shirt with a dark blue collar, and it was dark enough that the young boys, who were inexperienced, could not tell that he was a policeman.
He said: "Thank you, little brother, this is the bracelet I lost."
Huang Mao yelled: "What? Your bracelet was given to us as collateral for a debt -"
Shucai grabbed Huangmao's neck and interrupted him: "It's yours, put it on."
Zuo Xufei really put on the bracelet and admired it in the light: "It looks good."
Shucai gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence: "Let's go, he has super powers."
The youngsters used their remaining brains to figure out that they could not defeat the super-powered person, and fled in shame.
Lolina was confused by the sudden change. She looked at Zuo Xufei who was getting closer and closer with caution, thinking that he was here to rob her.
Then Zuo Xufei raised his hands awkwardly: "I can't untie it."
Chen Yingsheng went forward to check. Luo Chunxi's bracelet was very old style, and the lobster clasp was slightly rusted, so it could not be opened.
It is now nearly ten o'clock in the evening and there is no jewelry store still open, so Zuo Xufei can only wear the bracelet on his hand for now.
"It's okay." Lolina offered, "Don't worry, give it back to me."
She asked Chen Yingsheng: "Who is this?"
"He is Zuo Xufei." Chen Yingsheng thought for a moment, "My friend."
Lolina nodded and thanked them. Zuo Xufei drove Xiaoxiao and her boyfriend home first.
When there were only three people left in the car, Chen Yingsheng asked: "Xiaoxiao is your good friend?"
"Yes, we were in the same class in elementary school."
"You two look different." Chen Yingsheng said tactfully.
Not only are they different, they are simply from two different worlds.
Lolina is dark, thin and smart, and looks like a top student who is good at sports in her junior high school class. She is petite, pretty and fashionable, and dresses in a mature way, like a college freshman.
When the two people stand together, they seem to be three or four years apart in age. It is hard to imagine that they are the same age.
Lolina was silent for a moment, then said, "Same."
"I was very rustic when I was little." She explained slowly, "I couldn't even speak Mandarin well. Only Xiaoxiao was willing to play with me."
Chen Yingsheng asked quietly: "Your mother is in trouble, does she care about you?"
"I didn't tell her - No, how did you know something happened to my mom?"
"Lina, people change." Chen Yingsheng was very patient. "The Xiaoxiao who played with you in elementary school was her. The Xiaoxiao who is now obsessed with asking you for money to pay off her boyfriend's debts is also her."
"You can't change Xiaoxiao, you can only change yourself."
Lolina looked out the car window and was unwilling to speak.
"Your mother will change too. She is reluctant to ask for help when she encounters problems, but when she encounters a situation that she really cannot solve, she still needs help from others."
Lolina turned her head and looked at Chen Yingsheng.
"We don't have to call the police. Maybe the situation isn't that serious. Look, those people were so scary just now. They were holding knives and tying people up. We didn't call the police and escaped on our own."
In fact, the policeman was sitting in the front driver's seat, but she couldn't tell Lolina.
After a long silence, Lolina made up her mind.
"My mother is in trouble, but I only want to tell you."
Lina was finally willing to speak her mind, and Zuo Xufei was happier than Chen Yingsheng: "I'll send you back to the office, and you can talk to me if you have anything to say."
Chen Yingsheng's scalp was tingling. She couldn't imagine what would happen if she really talked to the victim's family alone without Zuo Xufei's knowledge and this matter got to Li Ying's ears.
Having two people present is called work, and having one person talk is called procedural violation. Zuo Xufei just changed his career, so he may not understand.
"No need to avoid him, he's not a bad guy, he just helped you get the bracelet back."
Although the bracelet could not be taken off his hand, Chen Yingsheng added silently.
Lolina looked at the back of Zuo Xufei's head in front of her, then looked at Chen Yingsheng next to her, and suddenly realized:
"He's your boyfriend"
Chen Yingsheng answered quickly: "Yes."
Zuo Xufei's ears turned red when he was sitting in the driver's seat.
Yes, he is my boyfriend, so we both have to listen to your statement of the case at the same time. Chen Yingsheng stared at Lolina intently, waiting for her reaction.
Lolina thought for a while and reluctantly agreed: "It doesn't matter. If he wants to hear it, let him hear it. You may not believe me when I tell you, so just treat it as a story."
Lina and Xiaoxiao are good friends who grew up together. Lina had good grades and went to a key high school, but Xiaoxiao was unwilling to study and started working early.
Xiaoxiao is a minor and it is not easy for her to find a job. Fortunately, she has a distant cousin who opened a script-killing store and hired her as a receptionist.
On the surface, she was just a younger sister visiting the store and was not considered a staff member, but in fact she was paid 1,000 yuan per month.
Xiaoxiao has been working in the store for a long time and is not satisfied with just being the receptionist. She wants to be a host and also an NPC responsible for the performance.
But my cousin said that if she didn't work as the receptionist, he would have to find another one for the store.
However, it was difficult to find a receptionist who offered 1,000, so Xiaoxiao came to ask Lina for help.
After finishing her cram school on Saturday morning, Lina went straight to the store to sit at the front desk to do her homework, and Xiaoxiao got to be her host as she wished.
Of course Luo Chunxi didn't know these things. She didn't even know what script-killing was, and Lina was too lazy to tell her.
The front desk job wasn't a busy one, and Lina was used to studying in a noisy environment, so there was nothing wrong with that.
December 18, 2009 was a Wednesday. That evening, a game called Pseudo-Human Test suddenly became popular on the Internet.
After evening study, Lina took the bus home. When she turned on her cell phone, she found more than ten missed calls, all from her little cousin.
"Manager, it's me. I was in evening study and couldn't answer the phone." Lina called back.
"What's wrong with you!" My cousin yelled at me, "Did you leak the fake human test?"
"What kind of fake human test?"
"This is the new book written by Teacher Xu Zhu! It was just tested in the store last Saturday. Apart from the five people who tested the book, you were the only one present."
Xu Zhu is a partner of a script-killing store and a script-killing writer, but he has never published any of his works.
Lina was confused: "I don't know what they are playing, the script has been leaked"
"It's not a script, it's a game! The test game that must be played before opening the book has been leaked!"
"I didn't leak anything." Lina was not affected by her cousin's roar, "Why don't you suspect the other five people?"
"They signed a confidentiality agreement." My cousin laughed out loud. "I have a video of you using the computer. Take a look."
Lina clicked on the surveillance video. In the video, she was cleaning the room and preparing to close the store. The computer on the table suddenly lit up, and Lina walked up and clicked something with the mouse.
"I didn't do anything else, I just turned off the screen. The little girl that popped up on the screen looked so scary."
My cousin asked: "You don't admit it, right?"
"I didn't do it, why should I admit it?"
"I invested 100,000 yuan in the issuance! Sister, destroying someone's financial resources is like killing their parents. Do you think it's over if you don't admit it?"
My cousin's condition was almost hysterical.
"Xiaoxiao, tell me where your home is and what your mother does. Just wait!"
......
Chen Yingsheng touched his chin and said, "So the masked man who came tonight to scam people is not a professional counterfeiter, but someone hired by Xiaoxiao's cousin."
"That should be it." Lolina looked depressed. "I took the surveillance video to ask the lawyer, and the lawyer said that it is impossible to prove that I leaked the trade secrets just by a surveillance video with an unclear screen."
"I'm afraid he might do something extreme to hurt my mother, so I'll take care of her for a while and wait until this is over."
"You know Xu Zhu?" Chen Yingsheng observed Lolina's expression.
Xu Zhu was the debtor writer whom Lao Huang had previously commissioned Chen Yingsheng to investigate. Of course, it might be a coincidence, but Chen Yingsheng didn't think it was a coincidence.
"Not familiar with him." Lolina shook her head. "He doesn't like to talk. He rarely comes to the store and only acts as the host occasionally."
Chen Yingsheng asked: "Your mother found me and said that you always play the same game. Is it a fake human test?"
"Yes, although it's weird, I always feel that... I have seen the fake girl in it."
"Where have I seen you before?"
"I don't remember." Lorena ran her fingers through her hair.
Lolina smiled bitterly: "I don't know why my mother plays games."
"I just want to have something in common with you."
Lolina shook her head: "She seemed to be frightened after playing the game. She didn't even want to talk to me, let alone talk about common topics."
"She got mad at me last week. I didn't want to go back to school, so she threw her stall at me and didn't say a word to me for several days."
Zuo Xufei parked the car on a quiet road, and Lolina opened the door slightly to let the cold wind in.
"But this time it's different. It's not like she doesn't want to pay attention to me, but——"
Chen Yingsheng continued: "Instead, he was controlled by the fake person in the game. He didn't speak or go out, and wasted seven days waiting for death to come."
Lolina looked pale: "She sneaked out of her bedroom. I came home the night before last and found the silver-blue pearl bracelet thrown at the door."
Zuo Xufei asked: "Do you know where the bracelet came from?"
"I don't know. I just know that she had this bracelet a long time ago. The pearl bracelet is her only jewelry, and she only wears it during the Chinese New Year."
Chen Yingsheng and Zuo Xufei looked at each other.
"Lina." Chen Yingsheng said solemnly, "Have you ever thought that the rumors on the Internet are not false, and some people have died because of the fake human game?"
"I thought about it, I don't think it's a game, it's like a cursed object parasitized by a pseudo-human."
"There is no cursed object, nor a fake person. It was a person with super powers who committed the crime."
Lorena sighed: "But is there really a superpower that can kill people through the screen? If so, why would a superpower kill my mother? She is just an ordinary person."
Zuo Xufei said: "Ordinary people will not resist the police."
Lorena looked up at him.
“Why didn’t you call the police?”
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