I Was Taken by the Female Lead After Transmigrating into a Book - Chapter 92

In the deathly silence, Li Wei stared at the ground.

A moment later, he and Chen Bin exchanged glances. He spoke, “What do you mean by that?”

Wu Ling once again replayed the video and turned the screen toward the three of them so they could all see it. But the group had already watched this video countless times. Besides confirming each time that Fusang had deliberately planned for their brothers to die in an accident, they couldn’t see anything else.

“Why are you playing it again? What’s there to see?” Chen Bin was enraged by the sound of the collisions replaying over and over. “What else could you possibly see? Watch it a hundred more times, and it’s still this bitch deliberately waiting at that intersection. When she saw us, she threw herself into that pile of garbage!”

Meanwhile, Sanzi remained silent, only staring at the window. He would occasionally and gently caress the disabled half of his body, but he didn’t touch the scarred, gnarled skin under his torn jeans. He just stared for a while, touching it vaguely with his hand.

Fusang suddenly recalled a scene she had witnessed by chance.

Because Sanzi was fast and had a quick mind, and because his parents ran a garbage recycling plant, he was familiar with all the streets and alleys of the city. He was always the one responsible for running errands in the group.

Once, by chance, she heard that this boy had great potential and excellent sprinting results. He was even contacted by the provincial team and had even won a few gold medals.

But this thought was just a fleeting one.

She heard Wu Ling speak calmly, “The police have also seen this video, not just you. But has she been convicted?”

Apparently not.

Fusang had escaped from the old alley in a state of disarray while being continuously harmed. It was pouring rain, and she was at a crossroads that was completely different from what it looked like during the day. She told the police at the time that she was too flustered from being chased and completely lost track of the road. She could only see the road and run forward. When she suddenly found no one in front of her, only a wide road, she had no choice but to choose a nearby place to hide.

No one would disbelieve what she said because everything was filled with countless coincidences.

The motorcycle had braked too hard, and one car with four people had gone directly through the guardrail. The people on the car were thrown more than ten meters, and all four died on the spot. The remaining two cars had rear-ended each other. The front car had a head-on collision with the van and also died on the spot. The people in the car behind were seriously injured.

But no one could accurately know when the green light would turn on and off without the help of any electronic devices. No one could have predicted that the van driver who was running a red light would go through the intersection at that moment. And no one could have predicted that at that time, a group of hooligans would be chasing a girl in an alley.

She was a complete and utter victim.

She could not be convicted based on speculation alone. Even though so many people had died, even though the matter had become so big it caught the attention of the provincial authorities, the police had considered this possibility, but evidence was evidence.

Wu Ling saw the expressions in their eyes and, after a moment, said, “What did the person behind you tell you to do? Let her confess, or… let her die?”

Li Wei’s body stiffened, while Chen Bin’s reaction was more obvious. His hand trembled, and the shattered rock he was holding dropped to the ground. He instinctively glanced at Sanzi.

Fusang’s gaze also moved over again.

It seemed that Sanzi was the fall guy.

If she died, then the source of everything would no longer exist. All the evidence she had would become worthless without a witness, and the fate of this evidence would likely be to get lost or be damaged one by one.

“It seems I guessed correctly,” Wu Ling’s gaze also turned to Sanzi.

She scrutinized Sanzi for a moment, her eyes dark and deep, almost having the power to penetrate a person’s heart. Just by looking at him, Sanzi, who had always stood in the corner as an insignificant person, flinched and turned his body to the side.

Wu Ling then focused her gaze on the crutch he was desperately trying to hide. She gave a meaningful look to Li Ran, who swallowed and nodded almost imperceptibly.

“But I suggest you all let her go,” Wu Ling moved to the window without leaving a trace, pushed open the dirty window, and the sound of the rain inside suddenly grew, breaking the silence. “Fusang is now a key protected witness. She has someone protecting her 24 hours a day. Do you think that if she dies, any of you will be able to escape?”

Li Wei and the others had bad grades and usually watched inappropriate films. Although they were often in and out of the police station, they had never dealt with formal criminal police or armed police. They couldn’t have known what methods criminal investigators used. This was why there were footprints, fingerprints, and their cigarette butts with saliva everywhere. They also didn’t think that even though there was no surveillance inside the old school, there were countless city-wide surveillance cameras outside.

Wu Ling’s voice carried a hint of pity. “It seems you don’t know anything.”

It was true that they were seeking revenge, and it was true that they wanted Fusang dead. But their real purpose was to use Fusang’s death to get the money and people from behind the scenes. The three of them were now crippled or paralyzed, and one of their friends was still in the ICU. Money was flowing out like water, but suddenly, that friend was not only transferred to a regular ward, but even the money owed to the hospital was paid off.

That family was tight-lipped about it. They would rather go to jail than betray who gave them the money. The police had also investigated their whereabouts and financial transactions but found nothing. Moreover, since the family hadn’t committed any substantive crimes, holding them for 24 hours was the limit, and the trail was once again cut off.

The police had a definite suspect and were even sure he was the mastermind, but they still lacked evidence.

“How much do you police really know?” Li Wei’s voice was hoarse, like a broken bellows. “Even if we don’t kill her, our sentences won’t be light. Do you think it was easy for us to sneak out? If we don’t do what ‘he’ says, we’ll spend the next ten years in jail! Look at us. We’re crippled and paralyzed. If we spend another ten years in jail and come out in our thirties or forties, will we still have a future?”

It wasn’t until this moment that Fusang finally had a noticeable, superficial change in her expression.

Bai Feifei was very shocked, a shock that was probably no less than what Fusang was feeling.

The wound on her forehead was still throbbing. She could endure it, but it was incredibly taxing. Since she couldn’t see it, Bai Feifei couldn’t help but imagine the wound as something terrifying—maybe a bloody mess, or a piece of flesh missing. All in all, the sharp pain continued, and it caused her whole head to hurt.

Her breathing was a little too hot, and Bai Feifei’s thoughts were a little confused, but she suddenly felt that maybe everything wasn’t completely without a trace.

Wu Ling was always out early and coming home late. Although her circumstances seemed to be the most fitting as a ‘prey’ among all the students, she was never bullied. Even Li Mingming, when he saw her, seemed a little wary, afraid of being caught.

If she thought about it carefully, the reactions of Li Mingming’s small group when Wu Ling caught them causing trouble were as if a group of hooligans had encountered a community police officer—they would pretend to be old friends, acting shamelessly to get close to her.

Then there were the books on her desk that only a police academy would have. Although she wasn’t showy about it, her muscles were clearly built from years of training. Going to a bar probably wasn’t just to work… it was because the owner of the bar where Wu Ling worked was Li Jianshu, Li Mingming’s father.

Li Jianshu was a regular there.

He had two sons, a so-called ‘crown prince’ from his legal wife and a bastard son, but he had many mistresses. The one who gave birth to his son received the most resources.

And that scent she always had on her… Bai Feifei and Fusang couldn’t quite figure out what it was. Maybe they would only find out when the plot progressed further.

Even though they lived together for so long, there was a lot of distance between Fusang and Wu Ling. Both of them were hiding too many secrets and carrying too many burdens.

Just like how Fusang couldn’t understand why Wu Ling was categorized as ‘you police’ by Li Wei when she wasn’t even old enough to be in college.

After Li Wei’s speech about being ‘forced to do it to survive,’ Chen Bin’s eyes turned red. But Wu Ling’s expression didn’t change at all. “Do you think you’ll live if you do what he says?”

Li Wei finally couldn’t hold it together, and his expression started to crack. “What the hell do you mean?”

“Wake up,” Wu Ling said coldly. “All the people involved in this incident will die. You don’t even know who the mastermind is. You only know that the balance on your card has increased, and that the other person is an adult male. What else do you know? Once Fusang dies, the next ones to die will be you.”

“Do you know how many ways there are to kill a few crippled hooligans in an alley, a junkyard, a pile of mud, or under a bridge?” Wu Ling said. “Do you know how fast a body rots in the summer? How much strength it takes to smash pig and cow bones into a pulp? How many ways a meat processing plant or a chemical plant can make a person completely disappear from this world without a single drop of blood left?”

Li Wei’s jaw suddenly trembled.

However, just as Wu Ling turned away from the window and bent down to untie Fusang, Sanzi, who had been like a transparent person, suddenly went berserk. With a ferocious and terrifying expression, he pulled a very thin, long knife from his crutch and raised it high.

His target was not only Fusang but also Wu Ling, who was almost completely blocking Fusang’s body!