Sun Qiaoqiao’s death hit Cai Xiaobing and me hard, and Zhao Zichen even more so, leaving us both reeling for a long time.
Zhao Zichen’s gloves were still stained with blood, he took them off, removed his mask and gave my shoulder a firm shake: “Brother, I understand.”
Cai Xiaobing grabbed his hair, a whimper of extreme pain suppressed in his throat, and asked me with red eyes, “Captain, why didn’t we save her, we were that close!!!”
My eyes were also red, having been on the battlefield so many times, having seen so many lives and deaths, I still couldn’t face it honestly.
But at this time, I couldn’t sink as low as Cai Xiaobing, because I was his captain!
“The goods that Shi Sheng will deliver on October 28 should be the new batch of guns, so you should go back and ask the old man for transfer orders and support. This time, we’ll wipe out all of Shi Sheng’s underlings! Sun Qiaoqiao’s name will be immortalised along with future military medals.”
From the day we joined the Snow Leopards, we have dedicated our lives and all of our personal lives to our country and our troops. We have long been prepared to die at any time. But the death of a comrade or an ordinary person can still sting us like a sharp blade, turning us from steel-blooded warriors back into helpless ordinary people.
Cai Xiaobing clenched his fist and gritted his teeth, “Yes, we want to avenge Sun Qiaoqiao!!!”
Zhao Zichen handed me and Cai Xiaobing cigarettes, behind us was a no-smoking sign, but I thought better of it and took it, I really couldn’t hold out without one.
“Sun Qiaoqiao died from an infection caused by a tear in her lower body, it is certain that it was caused by rape – rape, how tragic I will not say, you can also smell the smell of feces on her body, it is a miracle that she survived for three more days, rape caused a rupture of the rectum, the last treatment was only a simple suture. The exact cause of death will also be forensically determined, if s*men – fluid and biological tissue left by the rapist can be extracted from the lower body, then the police can be called to make an arrest.”
Zhao Zichen spoke with conviction, but with a confused look, as if he was talking about something that was impossible to achieve.
After he finished, he looked at the ceiling himself and smiled bitterly, “You can call the police, but can you arrest someone? Who dares to go to the Nightclub to make an arrest.”
Cai Xiaobing said angrily, “Then is a human life just gone? The police don’t care? Now that the person is dead, this is a murder case, and murder cases must be solved! Is there no law in this place, is there no justice?!”
I thought of Qu Shufang’s unbelievably wild, yet unbelievably true words to Sun Qiaoqiao.
In this city, they were the king’s law.
Zhao Zichen himself was a triad member, and even he could say such desperate words, so you can imagine whether there is any heavenly justice or king’s law in this place.
I said, “This is the place where I grew up, I never thought it had become like this.”
Zhao Zichen stared at the rising smoke, smiled a little and said, “I thought the same as you when Brother Ge died. I never imagined that Tong City would be so dark, so dark that I couldn’t breathe.”
I must take revenge on Sun Qiaoqiao, for no other reason than that she called me Uncle Liberation Army in my arms and asked me to save her.
Zhao Zichen told us that Sun Qiaoqiao did not die a normal death, and that the doctor in this case must call the police.
In view of the fact that we did not want to reveal our identities yet, he told us to leave the hospital first, lest the police would catch us for questioning and the fact that we had saved Sun Qiaoqiao would be exposed.
I always felt that Gongsun Qingfeng had already seen through me, that Shi Sheng would probably not trust us anymore, and that there was no longer any need to act.
“You’d better go first, this will be more complicated than you think. I know better than you how shady Tong City is, you would never want to be bitten back by this gang of lapdogs.” Zhao Zichen laughed.
I understood what Zhao Zichen meant, last time Chen Yu Zhou was like this, it was obvious that he was the one who wanted to rape Lin Fang, yet he was able to bite back that I deliberately hurt.
With the ability of the Nightly Incense Nightclub, on the matter of Sun Qiaoqiao, it might really be able to point to black as white, move a few times behind the scenes, and harden Cai Xiaobing and me to take this black pot.
The actual fact is that I’m not the same as I was before, when Chen Yu Zhou denigrated me, not many people in the city knew who I was, now I at least have the aura of Junran’s young proprietor.
“You are right, we have more important things to do next, if we are held by the police, even if it is only for 48 hours for questioning, it will delay a lot of things.”
Cai Xiaobing and I left the hospital first, and as we were leaving on our first foot, we saw the police car drive into the hospital on our second.
A cold breeze blew over, and I instantly sobered up a lot.
Cai Xiaobing said, “Winter is coming.”
As expected, once the police arrived, they first asked who had sent the person, and Zhao Zichen insisted that he didn’t know and that the person had been sent and laid out in front of the hospital.
The police immediately went to transfer the surveillance, fortunately Zhao Zichen had long ago asked the brothers in the surveillance room to do something, the cameras were all positioned off to the side and did not capture us.
There were many less professional locations in the hospital where he had planted people from the Red Light Society. The brothers of the Red Lantern Society can all rest a*sured that they will not betray Zhao Zichen even if a knife is held to their necks.
Without seeing anything wrong from the surveillance, the police asked Zhao Zichen for Sun Qiaoqiao’s body, along with all the preliminary investigation reports.
Zhao Zichen claimed that the hospital had to keep the originals and could let the police take away the attachments.
At the time, I was on the phone with Zhao Zichen and the police came in before he could hang up, so I could hear his conversation with the police.
“Dr Zhao, don’t give us a hard time. Dr Zhao is about to retire. Wouldn’t it be better if you let him have a peaceful last period of retirement? Or do you want the Health Department to come and talk to President Zhao about this document.”
This was a naked threat! These people were so rampant that they didn’t even bother to cover up their act.
Zhao Zichen was absolutely right in guessing that our staying there would definitely come back to bite us, but I didn’t think that Nightly would be so fast, it had only been a few hours since the report was made and they had already moved through to the police.
There was a dead silence on the phone, and a rattling of papers being turned over.
The policeman who had spoken earlier had a kinder tone this time: “Dr Zhao is a smart man, it’s definitely right to cooperate with us. By the way, the Red Light Society has been in a lot of trouble recently, right?”
Damn, Zhao Zichen’s relationship with the Red Lantern Club could not be hidden anymore. Now he could only hope that his identity as the boss would remain hidden for a while.
Zhao Zichen’s voice had a suppressed anger in it as he said, “What else do you want, make it clear all at once. I really don’t know who sent her here. I’m a good citizen, and I like working with you police the most. But you can’t make me create something out of nothing that I don’t know.”
“I was looking for something you might be able to come up with, but since you can’t think of anything then forget it. I’ll be off then.” The policeman had just walked a few steps away when he suddenly sneered again and said, “By the way, I will find someone to take good care of those who are in the Red Light Society. Dr. Zhao is a promising young man, don’t let anyone report him for having ties with the Red Light Society, it’s not worth ruining your life for this, don’t you think so?”
