Even After My Death
Chapter 347 - 262: Regretting When Caught, Going Crazy When Not

Chapter 347: Chapter 262: Regretting When Caught, Going Crazy When Not

Whether it was Shu Liqin or Chen Wanliang, both knew in their hearts that they absolutely couldn’t let Jiang Ning call the police today.

Once the police arrived, the only ones taken away would be them!

Both had fierce expressions and were focused on Jiang Ning, but they didn’t notice the person who stood behind Jiang Ning, protecting her.

It might also have been because Qi Xingzhou arrived later than Jiang Ning, and he hadn’t said anything the whole time, which is why they overlooked him.

Seeing how aggressive the two were, Qi Xingzhou, with his deep black eyes flashing a cold light, suddenly raised his hand and stopped their advance. Not only that, but he also pushed Shu Liqin and Chen Wanliang away.

Shu Liqin and Chen Wanliang were both stunned, "Who are you, meddling with us like this!"

"Are you going to pay if you hurt us?!"

Their immediate demand for compensation made the onlookers somewhat displeased.

Some passersby, who had been led astray by Shu Liqin’s earlier words, were now belatedly coming to their senses, realizing something was off.

Jiang Ning’s phone call connected, and she said to the operator, "Hello, I want to report a crime, I’ve encountered a suspected case of child kidnapping by traffickers. I am currently at the entrance of A City train station, There are two suspects, please dispatch the police quickly..."

Shu Liqin and Chen Wanliang, who were yelling at Qi Xingzhou, weren’t deaf. Upon hearing Jiang Ning’s words, their complexions changed, and they no longer voiced their challenge to Qi Xingzhou, instead turning and attempting to flee.

Qi Xingzhou, with his sharp eyes and long reach, grabbed their clothes and stopped them both.

By now, Jiang Ning had finished speaking with the operator, pocketed her phone, and stepped forward to help Qi Xingzhou block their escape.

Each of them restrained one person.

Shu Liqin was pinned to the ground by Jiang Ning with a grappling move, twisting and turning while cursing and threatening incessantly.

Jiang Ning, with a stern look in her eyes, grabbed Shu Liqin, lifted her, and then let her fall heavily. Shu Liqin, caught off guard, smashed her face directly onto the cold, hard cement.

It wasn’t clear if it was her forehead or her nose that was struck, but the pain made Shu Liqin scream out terribly.

Jiang Ning said harshly, "You speak once, I’ll hit you once."

Seeing that she was not joking, Shu Liqin, with tears in her eyes from the pain, finally yielded, "Stop, stop, I won’t talk anymore..."

Meanwhile, Qi Xingzhou had also subdued Chen Wanliang on the ground.

Qi Xingzhou pulled Chen Wanliang’s hands behind him and pressed his knee onto Chen Wanliang’s back. Chen Wanliang, crushed by Qi Xingzhou’s towering and heavy frame, had no chance of breaking free.

This sudden turn of events occurred in just two or three short minutes, something none of the surrounding onlookers expected.

The words that Jiang Ning had spoken when calling the police had been heard not just by Shu Liqin and Chen Wanliang, but also by the onlookers.

"Kidnapping"?

But hadn’t that middle-aged couple just said that the little girl was their daughter?

If she was their daughter, why did they run?

"So..." the woman who had previously spoken for Shu Liqin finally realized, her gaze shifting back and forth between Shu Liqin and the others, eventually settling on Li Ling, who still had tears in the corners of her eyes. She murmured, "They’re really not your parents?"

"No!" Li Ling immediately retorted, on the verge of crying again.

She sniffled and tried to hold back, but ultimately could not, bursting into tears, "My mom died when I was little, I don’t have a mom!"

The girl’s sorrowful cries echoed to the heavens, and her words left everyone present in a somber, moved silence.

Nearby passersby hurried forward to comfort her and even took things out of their own bags to give her something to eat.

Li Ling, however, simply shook her head, and after stopping her crying, she walked to Jiang Ning’s side, clinging tightly to her, full of a sense of reliance.

Public security officers were regularly on patrol outside the train station, and seeing so many people gathered together, they, of course, had to come over and ask what was going on.

"What happened here?"

"What’s going on?"

Noticing the navy-blue uniforms on the officers, the crowd’s spirits lifted. They immediately made way for the two public security officers, and at the same time, they pointed at Shu Liqin and Chen Wanliang, who were pinned to the ground by Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou, and explained the whole situation to the police.

Hearing that someone had come to the train station in broad daylight to abduct a person, the expressions on the officers’ faces turned grave as they pulled out two pairs of silver bracelets from their pockets and cuffed Shu Liqin and Chen Wanliang’s wrists.

"Where are you two from, and why are you abducting someone? Are there other gangs involved?" the officers asked Shu Liqin and Chen Wanliang authoritatively and sternly.

Shu Liqin and Chen Wanliang remained silent.

Shu Liqin had originally wanted to defend herself, thinking, how could they say she was abducting someone when the little girl was right there.

But the officer next to her pointed in a certain direction and said, "We have surveillance here. Several cameras around here have captured everything you just did."

"Even if you don’t talk now, once we check the surveillance later, we will see clearly exactly what happened!"

"Concealing a crime makes it even worse!"

The eight characters had an intimidating effect, like a huge rock smashing heavily against the hearts of Shu Liqin and Chen Wanliang.

Their already weak defenses crumbled in an instant.

"Officer, we were just confused for a moment!" Shu Liqin cried out, admitting her mistake, "We just thought she was too cute, we don’t have children of our own, so we wanted to bring her home and raise her for a few days."

Chen Wanliang, his face smeared with traces of blood, became utterly cowardly, nodding repeatedly, "Yes, yes, we had no ill intentions, we just wanted to bring her home to raise her for a few days, not to traffic children."

The patrolling public security officers: "..."

The onlooking passersby: "..."

Do you even believe what you’re saying?

The woman carrying the purse even spat toward Shu Liqin, "Tui!" and cursed, "I even spoke up for you just now! You heartless woman! Officer, you must check the surveillance; she’s definitely a trafficker! Sentence her to death!"

"Ma’am, please calm down, don’t get overexcited," the officers said before asking, "Has someone called the police?"

"It’s been reported already," Jiang Ning took out her phone, "They should be here any minute."

Three to five minutes later, a police car appeared before everyone.

Shu Liqin and Chen Wanliang were taken onto the car.

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As the person who reported the crime, Jiang Ning quickly completed her statement after being questioned by the recorder.

Then, everyone turned their attention to the other person involved in this incident — Li Ling.

Li Ling leaned against Jiang Ning, her expression somewhat nervous.