Chapter 60 Wait a little longer, I will take you away
His heartbeat was uncontrollably dropping, and Lu Xuan subconsciously looked at Si You.
In the complete silence, Si You happened to be looking at him, his eyes were so dark that one could not see the bottom of them.
Si You looked away and asked Special Assistant Lin, "What's going on?"
Special Assistant Lin lowered his voice and said, "The cleaning staff found Xu Zhiling stabbed seventeen times in the toilet cubicle... The surveillance showed that Master Lu had entered and exited the toilet ten minutes ago."
When he was gentle, he was addictive; when he was cold, he was full of murderous intent. Just like at this moment, his bottomless gaze was like a huge net, trapping people tightly.
Lu Xuan subconsciously took two steps back and shook her head at him with red eyes.
He didn't even know where the toilet was? How could he have run into a toilet stall and stabbed Xu Zhiling seventeen times?
The police took out handcuffs and came forward: "Mr. Lu, you are involved in a criminal case. Please come with us."
Si You stepped aside to block him: "He had been staying by my side before, so he didn't have time to commit the crime."
"Mr. Si, he was the only one who entered and exited the fourth-floor restroom half an hour ago. He is currently the biggest suspect. Please do not hinder our police investigation."
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The face under surveillance, the fingerprints on the wound, and the witness at the corner.
All the evidence pointed to him, and he was definitely the murderer.
Lu Xuan sat in the interrogation room, twitching his lips in self-mockery, and wrote: [I refuse to admit it.]
The pale and powerless excuse seemed like a dying struggle.
"It was you who did it, right? System!" Lu Xuan pursed his lips and asked in his mind.
[Yes, I did it.] The system admitted without hesitation.
Same looks, same fingerprints.
Lu Xuan couldn't think of anyone else who could do such a sci-fi thing except the system.
"You killed me and left me no chance of escape!"
Branded a murderer, he will have to spend the rest of his life in a dark prison.
"I've warned you many times, but not only have you been negligent in your mission, you've also been involved with Si You."
Last night, the two of them even secretly decided to spend their lives together and were fantasizing about the future!
How could the system tolerate this? It would never allow its work to happen, such a low-level mistake as cannon fodder getting involved with the main character!
[There's no need to keep disobedient cannon fodder.]
"So you killed Xu Zhiling and forged evidence to frame me? With all the evidence, plus the previous grudges I had with him, it's a sufficient motive for murder. There's no way I'll ever be able to turn things around, right?"
【right. 】
It always admits it so confidently and as a matter of course.
Lu Xuan lowered his head and smiled softly: "Just because Xu Zhiling and I are cannon fodder, you can do whatever you want with us. Killing him is as easy as crushing an ant. It's also easy for you to frame me."
The system's cold, mechanical voice taunted with sarcasm: "Aren't cannon fodders used to pave the way for the protagonist? Do you think readers will care if two cannon fodder die?"
"Mr. Lu!" The police officer knocked on the table and warned in a deep voice, "Are you listening to us?"
Lu Xuan came back to his senses, wrote another note saying "Refuse to admit", and pushed it away with a cold face.
Since he refused to admit it, the case entered a second review. Before being taken away, the police officer took him to meet Si You.
In the chilly late autumn, he was only wearing a thin black windbreaker, and he looked as gloomy as a ghost crawling out of hell.
The two looked at each other through the bulletproof glass, and Lu Xuan picked up the phone carefully.
Si You's voice was terribly hoarse when he spoke, and if you looked closely, you could see a sense of fatigue in his brow.
"You stay here for two days. Things are a bit tricky, and I can't be released on bail for the time being."
The business banquet was organized by the federal local government, and something went wrong under the government's jurisdiction, which directly escalated the case to a higher level.
No matter how powerful the Si family is, they cannot extend their influence to the federal and local governments.
This is a port city, not the capital.
Lu Xuan can't speak, and he can't say anything when she calls him. She can only hold the phone and stare at him eagerly, engraving every detail of his face in her mind.
Si You took a deep breath and stroked his eyebrows through the glass: "Don't cry, I know it wasn't you, give me some more time..."
Lu Xuan was the type of person who would get scared and hide under the table when he saw a stranger, so how could he dare to kill someone in front of so many people at a banquet?
What's even more ridiculous is that the toilet cubicle is airtight. How could a claustrophobic person be in there and stab an adult male with healthy limbs seventeen times and then come out calmly?
The strange thing is that he was the one who did all the surveillance and fingerprint detection!
A waiter even saw him coming out of the bathroom!
Si You frowned irritably and said, "I've already told your father about this. Ask him to think about whether it was your family's enemies who attacked you."
After Si You left, he was the only one left in the isolation room.
Loneliness will magnify the fear buried deep in your heart bit by bit, and the passage of time will be especially slow.
It would be a lie to say I'm not afraid...
It's said to be two days, but he has been locked up here for a week...
Si You would come to see him every day and bring him food. Today, he even brought his game console.
"Without internet access, you can only play single-player games."
Lu Xuan hid the tears in her eyes and took the game console and lunch box handed to her by the police with trembling hands.
Even if he had no common sense, he knew that family members were not allowed to bring food or game consoles when they came to visit.
Si You used all the connections he could...
"I won't come to see you tomorrow night, you should go to bed early..."
It was obvious that the language had been organized countless times, but when it was spoken, it was still sour and difficult to speak.
Si You's Adam's apple rolled as he explained in a hoarse voice, "I want to go home, not to the capital, but to my mother's house to have a meal with them..."
He was halfway through his words when his face suddenly dropped.
Lu Xuan also knew something about his family connections. His mother was from Hong Kong.
Ever since Si You argued with his mother for him in the Si family's back garden, he knew that the relationship between them was not good.
Si You went there to eat this time, probably to ask his mother for help.
Lu Xuan felt a severe pain in her heart. She looked forward to Si You coming every day, but was also afraid of him coming.
He didn't want to see Si You's eyes becoming more and more haggard day by day, and he didn't want Si You to ask others for help for him.
Si You sensed his sudden downturn, thought for a moment, and continued to comfort him: "Please wait a little longer. Feng Heng is the Vice Speaker of Gangcheng. I will persuade him to put pressure on the Procuratorate to review the case again."
At that time, he will push a scapegoat out.
Lu Xuan couldn't remember how he fell asleep. He kept crying after Si You said he was going to find Feng Heng last night.
Si You didn't know what he said to the police officer, but he pushed open the isolation door and came over to hug him.
Si You kissed away the tears on his face again and again and said that he would take him away.
He can't leave it alone, the system won't let him go...
"Mr. Lu, your father and brother are here to see you." The police officer knocked on the door and reminded him.
After not seeing each other for many days, Lu Xuan felt that Lu Zhanhong looked more haggard and the wrinkles on his face were deeper for some reason.
He asked, "How have you been these days?"
Lu Xuan shook his head and nodded, his eyes falling on his brother.
When he saw Lu An, he vaguely remembered his own ending as cannon fodder.
The system had told him a long time ago that he would be jealous of Lu An and would oppose Lu An everywhere, and would eventually be sent to prison for life by the protagonist Gong Siyou.
He accidentally ruined the plot and hindered the emotional development of the two protagonists, but still met his destined ending as cannon fodder...
Everything is determined by fate and has no control over us.
The system saw the right moment and spoke seductively: [Host, you and I have lived together for three years. I don't intend to kill you completely. I've left you a way out.]
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