It seems that the villain is targeting me.

"...Oh, well, thank you very much." Xiao Niao took the bowl of soup a little awkwardly. "So, what's the bad news?"

Officer Lan stopped working, put down the porcelain spoon, pulled over a chair with some heaviness, and sat down in front of the bed.

Xiao Niao was infected by her emotions and couldn't help but straighten his back, looking at the serious-faced police officer nervously.

Lando slowly exhaled a breath of foul air.

"I've discussed this with our leader," she said in a heavy tone, "your situation..."

Xiao Niao swallowed his saliva and held the soup bowl tightly with both hands.

"...The best we can do is commend you for your bravery," Lando said dryly, "just a certificate and fifty dollars."

Xiao Niao: “…”

Lando looked very sad: "I'm still trying my best to get compensation for your minor injuries, probably around a hundred yuan..."

Xiao Niao: "Oh."

She began to sip the soup spoonful by spoonful.

Officer Lan continued, "But our bureau has unanimously decided to write you a letter of commendation! Which unit do you work in? I'll send the letter to your leader..."

"I'm not at work yet," Xiao Niao said vaguely, biting the spoon. "Please, don't send it."

Landuo looked at Xiaoniao with some confusion, and muttered softly, "Okay then." Then she looked at her hesitantly, as if she wanted to say something but stopped herself.

"...Anyway," Officer Lan's eyes flickered, "this time you're assisting the police with cross-regional work, so your compensation will be less... You'll probably have to cover your medical expenses yourself."

Xiao Niao didn't expect Landuo to be entangled in this: "It doesn't matter, I still have some savings."

"And I'm not seriously injured," Xiao Niao said, touching his left leg. "The doctor said there's a small bone fracture, but the rest are just superficial injuries that look scary."

Lando couldn't help but shift her gaze to the bird. After a few days in the hospital, the wounds on her arms and forehead had basically healed, and only her left leg still needed some time to rest.

...What a miracle, she thought, luckily no one was hurt.

"Well, now that you're almost well," Officer Lan pulled out a small notebook from his jacket pocket, "I have something I want to ask you."

"Where did the stun grenade you used in the underground facility come from?"

Xiao Niao thought, okay, so you are waiting for me here.

She put down the soup bowl, pulled up the quilt, buried half of her face under the quilt, and mumbled in response: "Well... I picked it up on the road..."

"Where did you pick it up?" Officer Lando pressed for details. "And how did you get into the underground facility? That door should have a password."

Xiao Niao pieced together his impromptu confession and told her that he accidentally saw someone enter, stole the password, and then took advantage of the guard's inattention to slip away.

Went in.

The stun grenade was naturally found in the cabinet in the basement - anyway, the underground had become a black coal mine, so even if the police wanted to investigate, there was nowhere to look.

The cause and effect and coincidences she made up were a bit too bizarre. Not to mention Lando, any rookie policeman could tell that Xiaoniao was lying.

But when he thought of the scene where Xiao Niao was almost buried alive, Officer Lan really couldn't get angry.

I can't really force her to ask.

Without Xiao Niao's assistance, the police would have no idea how much it would cost to catch the criminals hiding in the underground facilities.

Even later, if it weren't for the guidance of the bird, it would have been difficult for the victims to leave the underground alive.

And when the staircase was about to collapse, Xiao Niao used all his strength to throw her out from between the bricks and stones...

From beginning to end, Xiao Niao never did anything bad and was always helping the police.

Both publicly and privately, I owe her.

Besides, a bird that would risk its life to save people...can't really be a bad person.

Officer Lan sighed and put the notebook back in his hand.

"I understand," she said. "If you remember anything later, please let the police know."

"as well as……"

"...This is my personal opinion," Officer Lan rubbed his knuckles uncomfortably. "I'll leave you my contact information. If you need any help in the future, please feel free to ask."

Xiao Niao hummed muffledly while hiding himself in the quilt.

Lando paused for a few seconds, and her tone became more relaxed: "What are your plans next?"

"Are you going to stay in Taoyuan for a while longer? Or are you planning to go back soon?"

"I plan to be discharged from the hospital in two days and then take a bus back home," Xiao Niao poked his head out a little, "school will start soon."

It took Officer Lan a while to realize that it was already the end of summer vacation and it would soon be time for primary and secondary school students to return to school.

As far as she could remember, there had never been such a long summer vacation.

Chapter 67 Aqiong: I am leaving, you live a good life with her

Two days later, Xiao Niaozhen went to the hospital front desk to complete the discharge procedures as he had said before.

She really felt that she had almost recovered.

This is the truth. Whether it was a minor fracture in the left leg or some skin and flesh injuries, they all healed at an extremely bizarre speed, as if there was some special medicine in the body that was taking effect.

Especially those wounds caused by shrapnel, which did not even leave scars after recovery. Only very faint marks were left on the arms. If you didn't look closely, you couldn't even see them.

Xiao Niao actually found this very strange.

Although her pain sensation was blocked at the time, she still had a rough idea of how badly she was injured before her consciousness completely disappeared.

To be honest, when the stairs collapsed and the pipes fell down, Xiao Niao actually gave up on escaping - she didn't think she could survive in such a desperate situation.

Xiao Niao didn't expect that someone would come to save him in such a situation.

She originally thought that person would be Lando, but after careful questioning, she found out that was not the case.

"You mean, you don't know that person either?"

Xiao Niao turned his head to look at Officer Lan, who was dressed casually, and hummed thoughtfully: "So she's not a police officer..."

"Hmm?" Lando glanced at her strangely. "Did you say something?"

If the police officer remembered correctly, this big fool's previous statement should have meant that she had no impression of the person who sent her to the hospital.

The two people had already walked out of the hospital gate. Officer Lan helped her carry the luggage. A colleague from another police station also came to help send people off and was waiting outside the hospital in a car.

Chen Xiaoya leaned on the left side of the bird's body, and her position was like a crutch.

"Well," Xiao Niao organized his words in his mind, "I'm just curious about who saved me."

"Look, after all, she saved my life," she said, extending her hands to the officer. "If possible, I'd like to meet her in person."

This was not entirely an excuse, Xiao Niao really wanted to know the other party's true identity.

The bird was not completely unaware of what happened that day.

She could feel someone touching her in her sleep, and when she was awakened by the pain, she saw a blurry figure through the misty water vapor.

Under the impact of huge emotions, she subconsciously recognized the other person as Gwyneth.

The other person's actions at that time were indeed too suggestive... Only Gwen would hug her like that. Strangers would subconsciously maintain social distance, and only people who had spent intimate time together would have such natural body movements.

And when she finally realized it...

Xiao Niao unconsciously rubbed his lower lip hard with the knuckle of his index finger.

This is too bad, a dark rage rose in her heart, don't let me catch who that guy is.

"...Ah, don't let me catch who that guy is." Officer Lan said to himself.

In the past few days, Lando's main energy has been focused on tracking down the murder suspect - based on her many years of experience as a criminal police officer, she judged that the other party must be an extremely dangerous guy.

Just thinking about each other

After shooting and killing three people in a row, he still appeared in front of her as if nothing had happened. Lando couldn't help but feel a tingling sensation on her scalp.

Such psychological quality, such clean and efficient techniques... Even if you said that this guy had killed a hundred people, she would believe it.

After obtaining confessions from several human traffickers, Lando's Third Brigade conducted an overnight investigation and visited several nearby blocks, trying to find traces of the traffickers' escape.

What is particularly strange is that neither Lando nor the other witnesses present were able to describe the other person's appearance.

Lando remembered that she had seen the man's face very clearly, but no matter how hard she tried to recall it, she could not find more details from her memory.

Officer Lan later suspected that the other party might have some kind of connection with Xiao Niao - after all, the other party risked his life to rescue Xiao Niao from the fire, and even sent the person to the hospital personally despite the possibility of being arrested.

The policewoman secretly followed him for several days and took the opportunity of delivering soup to him to ask him questions in both overt and covert ways.

Xiao Niao was wary of this - this shouldn't be Lando's illusion. Ever since waking up that day, Xiao Niao seemed to have been in a state of emotional stress.

This college student looked very young and easy to deceive, but he was surprisingly very wary of this kind of leading question and covered it up without any loopholes.

Lando tried for a few days but failed to pry out anything else. She only confirmed one thing: the bird really seemed to not know that person.

The clue ends here.

I have to think of other ways, Officer Lan thought to himself, I must catch her as soon as possible.

Chen Xiaoya, who was standing by, shuddered for no apparent reason.

This attracted the attention of the people around her. Xiao Niao lowered her head and reached out to touch the back of the boy's furry neck.

Chen Xiaoya looked up, a little flattered.

During the few days she was in the hospital, she was actually a little neglected.

The child, who was good at observing people's expressions, saw that Xiao Niao was in a bad mood and didn't want to talk to anyone, so he sensibly stepped aside, leaving the bird some space to be alone so as not to disturb her.

Xiao Niao found her reaction a little amusing, and couldn't help but smile: "We'll take the bus back this afternoon. Do you have anything else to do?"

Chen Xiaoya shook his head at the bird: "No more."

Zheng Qiong had already left Taoyuan at this time.

She was originally receiving treatment in the same hospital, but just a few days ago, she was taken back by her parents who came from other places.

Zheng Qiong's parents are both ordinary migrant workers. They were almost scared to death after receiving the letter from home at their workplace.

They bought tickets and rushed back to He County overnight, and followed the same process as Chen Xiaoya to find someone, going through the route of "grandmother-factory-cousin".

Unlike Chen Xiaoya, they contacted their local network in He County, arrested their third cousin who was about to escape, and then took him to the yard and beat him to death.

According to the person involved, when the third cousin was rescued by the police, he looked like he had been beaten by three bears.

But since my cousin was just a very small fry, he couldn't even tell me the name of the buyer, and he couldn't even say where he sold the person to.

In those days, this meant that it could not be recovered.

Zheng Qiong's mother burst into tears, while her father picked up a kitchen knife and walked out the door, saying that he was going to chop the heartless beast to death.

The neighbors and relatives around tried to stop them and try to persuade them - at this moment, the Taoyuan District Police Station sent a telegram saying that the child had been found.

Zheng Qiong's parents were almost stunned by the sudden news. Her father threw away the kitchen knife and hugged his wife, crying bitterly.

Arjun learned the news from his sister who came with him.

She was actually a little at a loss: her relationship with her parents had always been tense, and because they seldom saw each other, they had never been very close.

But it seems that this experience of almost losing their daughter forever made Zheng's father and mother realize their own negligence in guardianship.

They suddenly made up their minds to bring their grandmother and Zheng Qiong and others who stayed in He County to the city where they worked, so that the family could live together.

Chen Xiaoya later told Xiao Niao about this incident. She was a little confused as to why Aqiong's parents had undergone such a big change.

It was obvious that they didn't seem to care much about their daughters before. They left the two children to their elderly mother and went out to work and were away from home for seven or eight years.

But Xiao Niao thought it was very normal after hearing it.

Human beings are such complex creatures, not that bad, nor that good, and no one is black or white.

It was only after the little bird experienced many things that it realized that a person can be both kind and vicious at the same time.

In short, Aqiong and his family will move soon, his sister will transfer to another school, and Aqiong may go to school for another two years - because nowadays, those with professional skills are more popular when working in big cities.

Aqiong is not yet an adult and cannot work in a formal factory. It would be better for him to go to a technical school for another two years.

Chen Xiaoya felt very disappointed after hearing the news.

Of course, she was happy that her friend's life was getting back on track, but the other party was moving, which undoubtedly meant separation.

The two friends who had reunited after going through so much hardship hugged each other with tears in their eyes.

While making an agreement with the little boy that they must meet again in the future, Aqiong patted his good friend's back vigorously.