It seems that the villain is targeting me.

Chen Xiaoya is not self-

She suddenly recalled the scene when they first met.

Her first impression of Xiao Niao was that he knocked down her father who was about to abuse her like a god... and then was arrested by the police and taken back to the police station in disgrace.

At that time, she was the one waiting outside the reception room.

Chen Xiaoya knew that she would probably never forget that scene in her life - perhaps it was because the first impression was so strong that she was waiting outside for some unknown reason, wanting to see the person who saved her.

She had never expected that their destinies would become so intertwined after that.

She was almost grateful for her recklessness.

"teacher."

Chen Xiaoya smiled at the bird, and before she knew it, she had gotten used to calling her guardian by this title - she indulged herself in pouring her affection and admiration into it without having to worry about anyone noticing.

No... maybe someone has already noticed.

But in short, Xiaoniao himself is still confused.

Her impression of Chen Xiaoya still remained on her pitiful puppy-like appearance when they first met. Due to her experience, she never considered her as a peer and always treated her as a child.

So it is said that first impressions are fatal... Until now, Xiao Niao still foolishly thinks that the kid is so attached to him because he lacked maternal love since childhood.

"Um... is it over?" Xiao Niao knocked the back of his head against the back of the chair, and came back to his senses from his trance. "How did it feel?"

"It's okay," Chen Xiaoya answered truthfully, "It's just a very ordinary record. No tricky questions."

Xiao Niao was worried that Xiaoya would be questioned by the police, and she was worried that the other party would suffer psychological trauma as a result.

It is normal to have such concerns. After all, no matter what, the suspect detained in the detention center is Chen Xiaoya's biological father.

The father-daughter relationship between the two will definitely attract the attention of the police, and they will naturally question them more carefully when taking the statement to avoid missing any key points.

Especially this kind of crime that is harmful to the public - I guess the police officers in the police station would find it strange that the kidnapping and hijacking happened to his underage daughter. For a moment, it is hard to tell whether he is smart or just too clever.

In any case, Chen Zhengkang was in trouble this time: he was caught red-handed with the murder weapon, and he didn't even need to open his mouth. As long as the confession of the person involved was matched, he could just wait to go in and operate the sewing machine.

"...I've asked around, and he's being held in the detention center here," Xiao Niao said. "Do you want to go take a look?"

Chen Xiaoya shook his head.

"No," she answered without hesitation, "He and I have nothing to do with each other anymore. Is there any need to visit him?"

Not only is there no need for a visit, but once the court verdict comes down, Chen Xiaoya will probably buy some firecrackers and set them off to celebrate.

When Chen Zhengkang decided to escape from his debt, he should have thought that this day would come. He has fallen to this state entirely because of his own fault.

She refused to visit, and Xiao Niao naturally would not go against her personal wishes. He just reached out and smoothed Chen Xiaoya's shoulders.

The young man's shoulders were very soft, and the skin under his coat was warm and elastic. Xiao Niao followed the curve of his shoulder blades as if he was treating a cat stretching at his feet.

Chen Xiaoya narrowed his eyes, seeming to enjoy it very much.

It is really difficult to grasp the thoughts of adolescent children, Xiao Niao thought.

Suddenly, a sense of uneasiness passed through her heart without any warning.

There is no specific direction, just like seeing a dark cloud with a thunderstorm in the distance - you don't know whether it will move in your direction, but it has already appeared in your field of vision.

Xiao Niao didn't know where this feeling of unease came from.

Could it be Chen Zhengkang? No, after this incident, this man no longer posed any threat. He wouldn't even have the chance to appear next to Xiaoya again.

Xiao Niao had asked the system to collect all of Chen Zhengkang's criminal records from the past few years overnight and sent them to the court anonymously. Combined with his great achievements in bravely entering the campus this time, he could be sentenced to at least seven years.

——Chen Zhengkang would even cry and beg the judge to give him a heavy sentence, because compared to having his hands and feet chopped off by debt collectors, spending a few more years in prison was simply a heavenly treatment.

She was also not worried that Chen Zhengkang would take revenge on Xiaoya after he was released from prison.

Xiao Niao had been guarding against this matter a long time ago - she secretly had Chen Zhengkang bind a [game prop] - as long as he had the idea of hurting Xiaoya, he would be forced into a coma, which was better than Conan's anesthetic watch.

No matter from which level, Chen Zhengkang is finished.

But she still felt uneasy.

The world will has sensed the approach of destruction and will begin its final dying struggle.

Yes, yes, things are destined to develop in a direction that Xiao Niao could not have expected.

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Lando has been stuck on this case for quite some time.

She is the captain of the Criminal Investigation Team 3 of Taoyuan Police Station, specializing in serious criminal offenses. Logically speaking, this case should not be handled by her.

It is not an independent criminal case, but a police report during the "Special Operation to Crack Down on Human Trafficking" more than half a year ago: it is suspected that a modified pistol was lost among the stolen goods.

During the on-site investigation, they discovered that someone had shot and killed someone not far from the meat processing plant.

Three members of the trafficking gang were found. The ballistic test did not match any of the stolen goods seized, and it was basically confirmed that they had been taken away by someone.

The police at the scene initially determined that a conflict had occurred within the trafficking gang, and during the conflict someone opened fire, killing three accomplices including the core member "Lao Li".

But this conclusion was quickly overturned.

They questioned several people who were present at the time, but their statements were very consistent: there was no internal conflict at all, and a complete stranger suddenly came up and cut Lao Li's throat.

But when asked about the person's specific appearance, they all hesitated and couldn't say anything, and they couldn't even tell whether it was a man or a woman, as if their memory had been deleted out of thin air.

Such vague statements certainly could not convince the police, and the police officer on duty even felt angry: he felt that he had been fooled by this group of human traffickers.

The case basically came to a standstill at this point, and within a few days, no one in the bureau even discussed it anymore.

But since Lando is the person in charge of the anti-trafficking special event, she is still paying attention to the follow-up progress of the matter and wants to catch the person who fired the gun next to the cold chain truck.

Her intuition told her that it was that man who drove the truck into the fire and saved dozens of children.

It was she who saved Xiao Niao - in such a desperate situation, that person sneaked into the fire scene alone and miraculously brought back the injured bird.

From a personal emotional point of view, Lando wanted to thank the other party very much - after all, if it weren't for her, who knows how many people would have died in the fire that day.

But at the same time, her intuition was screaming wildly at her: this was a terrible and dangerous person who came and went like a ghost without a trace.

She was obviously very cautious and did not leave any traces of identity information at the scene. She killed the three vicious criminals as skillfully as if she were killing chickens.

Last time, Lando chased her all the way to the hospital and was almost able to catch her, but ultimately missed her.

After that, Lando never got any news about this person again, and all the investigations seemed to have fallen into oblivion, without any further waves.

Lando even had a strange feeling: the people around her were quietly forgetting this matter.

First, one day she went to look through the files, but found that the records of this matter had been inexplicably transferred to the archives for archiving - usually only the files of cases that have been solved and closed are handled in this way.

She reported this to her superiors and spent an entire afternoon trying to find the information again.

Originally, Lando thought it was just a mistake in the archives, but two days later, another strange thing happened: she discussed the possible whereabouts of the lost gun with her colleague, but the other party had no memory of it at all.

"Did this happen?" He widened his eyes in surprise. "I don't remember... Didn't they die in a quarrel among themselves?"

No, this is not possible.

It was clear that the other party was present during the interrogation and on-site investigation, and they even went into the archives together two days ago to look for relevant files.

It's weird. It's really weird.

It was as if something in the dark was preventing her from continuing her investigation.

But people who can become criminal police probably have a natural stubbornness in their character. The more difficult the case is to solve, the more obsessed she is with investigating it.

So, when new clues appeared, Lando almost did not hesitate to submit a report to her superiors requesting to go.

Jiangcheng, this place name gave her some associations.

It hadn't been too long since what happened in the summer, and Officer Lando still remembered the enthusiastic citizen who suddenly appeared and provided a lot of help to the police in various incredible ways.

At that time, he helped to book her ticket back home, so Officer Lando wrote down her destination.

Xiao Niao's home address is in Jiangcheng, and the bullet was also found in Jiangcheng - the person with the greatest suspicion had personally sent Xiao Niao to the hospital for treatment.

Is there any connection between them?

Lando suppressed the doubts in her heart and set off with a few team members amid the puzzled looks of her colleagues.

It's understandable that colleagues would be confused: they were influenced by unknown forces and thought the case was closed long ago, and there was no missing gun or elusive killer.

Lando was completely busy for a trumped-up suspect and couldn't even earn two dollars in overtime pay. Of course they would find it strange.

In short, no matter how outsiders looked at her, she still insisted on her own ideas and set off with her people.

On the fourth day after Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau received the report, Officer Lan took a train to this strange city.

For Lando, it is actually very difficult to carry out work in this city because she has neither local connections nor is familiar with the specific conditions of this jurisdiction.

The only clue, the bullet, cannot be searched on a large scale due to limited conditions.

The superiors would not particularly support this action - if Lando had not insisted, this case would most likely have been closed as "internal conflict within the criminal gang" and thrown into the archives to gather dust.

Lando could only find a way to conduct reconnaissance on her own.

She doesn't have many relatives or friends in Jiangcheng, and the only person who can be considered her acquaintance is probably Xiao Niao.

Policewoman's hand

Of course, Xiao Niao's contact information was in the account, but out of caution, she did not take the initiative to call the other party.

She had a hunch: this call might alert the enemy.

Chapter 112: Symbol of Desire

The incident of breaking into the campus with a knife is extremely serious in nature.

The local daily newspaper in Jiangcheng made it the headline the next day, and reporters from various tabloids and magazines rushed over like dogs smelling meat. They followed the scent and dug up every detail of Chen Zhengkang's life in just one night.

What would be a good title? "Why did a father rob his own daughter at knifepoint?" or "Shocking! The bizarre truth behind a campus crime"?

The tabloid reporters' brains were filled with excitement, their fingers clacking at the keyboards with a loud clatter, and they only wished their parents had not given them a second pair of hands.

They exhausted their knowledge and vocabulary to create a brilliant and diverse fan fiction around the knife-wielding case overnight. It is said that all the versions could be compiled into a novel.

Some of them were even smarter and tried every possible way to sneak into the detention center in order to dig up more explosive information, or simply ran to the homes of the two girls involved and waited there.

This crazy carnival came to an abrupt end after a day and a half.

The incident was bizarre: the computers in the editorial department of the tabloid were attacked, all the manuscripts that had not been sent out were directly deleted, and the offset printing machines used for printing also malfunctioned frequently, making it impossible to print normally.

Even the reporters who tried to stake out the situation suffered varying degrees of memory loss. After wandering around for a few times, they inexplicably returned home.

In the end, miraculously, this matter remained a low-profile topic in Jiangcheng.

Only the more authoritative local newspaper reported this incident in an objective and fair manner, intending to alert people to campus safety issues.

They are a formally edited newspaper and naturally would not violate the law and disclose the personal information of minors just to attract attention.

Fortunately, the Internet in this era was not as developed as it is in later generations, and information transmission mostly relied on television broadcasts or traditional paper media. Therefore, as long as the random reports of these tabloids were suppressed, the real information of the parties involved could be avoided from being leaked.

However, Chen Xiaoya didn't know the inside story.

She only knew that Xiao Niao was a bit busy during this period and always had things to deal with outside, and he also reminded her to stay at home as much as possible and not go out casually.

Which meant...she had to share a room with some annoying adult for a while.

Chen Xiaoya had no reason to complain: first, it wasn't her house, and second, she was indeed to blame for someone having a bad cold.

She then decided to put aside her hatred temporarily and be a good girl in the home of her rival... I mean, the kind-hearted doctor.

Xiao Niao went out (to have a friendly consultation with some journalist friends). She swept the floor, washed the dishes, and helped the doctor tidy up the messy bookcase. She spent an hour finishing the homework reserved for physics and chemistry, and took half an hour to read dozens of pages of "Robinson Crusoe".

By the way, this is also Xiao Niao’s favorite book - this is not surprising, she prefers farming literature.

When the natural light in the room was no longer suitable for continuing reading, Chen Xiaoya became bored and could no longer sit still.

She walked to the bedroom, knocked on the door, asked politely, and then pushed it open and entered.

The doctor was half lying on the bed, writing and drawing, with some puffed junk food on the table.

Chen Xiaoya came forward and remembered that this person had snatched his pocket money from him with a clear conscience, so he took a snack with the same clear conscience.

The doctor leaning against the head of the bed raised an eyebrow: "What's the matter?"

Chen Xiaoya felt that the tone this person used when speaking to him was very subtle. It didn't seem like he was talking to someone younger than him, but more like he was talking to a peer... or a peer he had known for many years.

"Well, nothing much," Chen Xiaoya's eyes wandered slightly as he chewed on a puffed biscuit, "I have something to ask you..."

"What do you want to ask?"