Lin Shuyue was moved. She remembered a sentence that was circulating on the Internet in her previous life.
The world is a mess, but there are always people patching it up.
It is precisely because of this group of people that no matter how desperate we are, we will cheer up and continue to live in this world.
Lin Shuyue posted this sentence on the forum, and once she refreshed it, many people responded to her. People of this generation use relatively old-fashioned words, such as "偶" and "倒" and so on, which are very old-fashioned. (TL's Note: "偶" (ǒu) = used instead of "我" (wǒ, "I / me"), and "倒" (dǎo/dào) = likely a simplified or punny substitute for "到" (dào, "arrive"))
That night, Lin Shuyue fell asleep with a smile on her face. Before going to bed, she completed her task. Lin Shuyue took a look and found that her system points had increased by 300, her cash reward had increased by 2,000, and her life span had increased by half a month.
The system's task rewards, cash points, and life spans were still irregular. Lin Shuyue looked at the red bills in the system's backpack, and her heart was no longer moved.
Lin Shuyue woke up, looked around, and then took out a newspaper from the future from the bedside table, which appeared after each case was over.
However, this newspaper was different from the previous ones. This newspaper not only reported the funeral home incident, but also the follow-up of the incident. The dates of the reports were different. This newspaper reminded Lin Shuyue of the clippings about national events that her grandfather collected when she was a child.
At that time, the Internet had become popular and print media began to decline. When she was in high school, her grandfather stopped clipping newspapers and instead started collecting them on WX.
The curtains in Lin Shuyue's house are blackout curtains. As long as the curtains in the bedroom are drawn, the whole room will become dark. Lin Shuyue was too lazy to get out of bed, so she turned on the reading lamp at the bedside.
Lin Shuyue specially asked someone to reinstall this lamp. Compared with the dim bedside lamp, this reading lamp is brighter but not dazzling.
Today is December 12, and this newspaper was published on December 18. The beginning of the report is the scene where cremator Ran Kangshun was on duty at the funeral home but died unexpectedly.
After receiving the report, the police went to the funeral home for a thorough investigation. At the strong request of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Ran family, the police investigated the scene and then took Ran Kangshun's body back to the police station.
After confirming that Ran Kangshun's death was not an accident, the police targeted Long Jingyi, who had exchanged shifts with Ran Kangshun that day. Following this line, their target shifted to Long Jingyi's wife, who had an extramarital affair with Ran Kangshun and had an illegitimate child.
As Long Jingyi's doctor, when the police came to investigate, he also guided the situation to a murder of passion, and after the police investigation, Long Jingyi did have time to commit the crime that night. Just when the police were about to close the case on Long Jingyi, Dr. He took action.
But this time, the person he killed was not Old Wang who was guarding the tomb in the back mountain, but Wu Rong, the director of the funeral home. His tool was not a scalpel and an air needle, but a silver needle that went straight into the heart.
Two days after Wu Rong's death, the body of Wu Liang, who had taken leave to go out for something in his hometown, was found by a driver passing by the cliff. When local police arrived, his body was already rotten.
Because time was not urgent in the previous life, the young woman sent by Wu Liang for a ghost marriage was not found at the crime scene.
The local police informed the Pengcheng police of the incident, and the Pengcheng police once again realized the seriousness of the matter. They were sure that this was a hunt targeting the funeral home.
They immediately questioned and investigated the funeral home staff and their families, and also checked the interior of the funeral home and the residence of the deceased again.
Before their investigation was finished, the body of grooming chef Fengda was found in Xijiang, and he had been dead for a long time.
Fengda's death raised the seriousness of the matter again. On the 10th of December, the old man Wang who guarded the tomb on the mountain, the anxious Ran Xiaodong and Ran Xiaoxi, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Ran family, and the owner and his wife of the barbecued pork bun shop were killed at the same time.
When the judge performed an autopsy on Lao Wang's body, he not only found residual human tissue in his stomach, but also discovered his brain that had been corroded by prions into a honeycomb shape.
So at this time, the truth finally came to light, and the crimes of Baixun Funeral Home were exposed to the sun.
Because of the organ trade, Wu Rong and others from the funeral home extended their evil claws to innocent people outside, Wu Rong and Wu Liang. Because of his special fetish, Ran Xiaodong killed an innocent girl and then raped her corpse.
The cannibals Old Wang and Ran Kangshun who are in cahoots with Old Wang. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who are in control of the ghost marriage business. Fengda, the grooming master who knows everything but says nothing and helps the evil with the stolen money. And Ran Xiaoxi who is not innocent.
Ran Xiaoxi was also very ruthless. When they were in school, she couldn't stand Wang Xiaoru, a classmate who was prettier than her, so she brought Wang Xiaoru to his brother. A month later, Wang Xiaoru completely disappeared from her sight.
This time, except for Long Jingyi's cheating wife and illegitimate son, everyone else is guilty.
The police from the parallel universe interrogated Long Jingyi, and after knowing that everyone in the funeral home was dead except him, Long Jingyi's psychological defenses were broken. After his collapse, he confessed everything, and Wu Rong's superior Wan Yuanhua came into the police's sight.
But Wan Yuanhua had already seen what happened in Baixun Funeral Home and fled to Hong Kong. With the efforts of the police on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, they successfully arrested Wan Yuanhua and the human organ trading gang within a week.
According to police statistics reported in the news, this human organ trading organization hidden in Hong Kong has been importing "goods" from mainland China since 1984. After 2000, their demand for organ trading increased, so many of their subordinates began to target innocent people.
In the end, 90% of the organs in the organization came from here, and the organization made a profit of up to 80 million over the years!
The organization was arrested, and when the police cracked down on those illegal organ harvesting outlets, they also rescued many people who were about to have their organs harvested.
This newspaper was particularly heavy. The only thing that could comfort Lin Shuyue was that her participation this time helped the police avoid many detours and exposed the evil of the funeral home in advance. It also indirectly saved the innocent people whose organs were removed during the one-month gap.
Lin Shuyue read the second newspaper. This article was similar to the previous one, but the third article was different.
This report said that "An employee of a plastic factory in Kaixin District died from prion in the barbecued pork buns he ate."
The plastic factory employee who died was Liu Pei. After the human flesh barbecued pork buns shop was exposed, he did not go for a physical examination. One reason was that the media did not write about the harm of eating human flesh when reporting on it. The other reason was that on November 20, his eldest son suddenly had acute appendicitis, and he sent all the money he had back home.
On November 25, Liu Pei suddenly lost control of his body while at work. Before other workers could react, he had already fallen to the ground laughing. After being sent to the hospital, the cause of his death was announced after a doctor's examination.
This was the first time that prions were shown to the public, and it instantly caused a sensation. Because of Liu Pei's death, people who had eaten BBQ pork buns at the restaurant went to get checked out, and they actually found several people who were carrying the virus.
After Liu Pei died, his factory was also very sad. After the barbecued pork bun incident, their factory changed to a free meal system. They expressed regret for Liu Pei's death and organized a fundraising for him. The money raised was not much, but it was enough for Liu Pei's children to go to school.
Just like in this life, they also did not think about publicity. The reason why it was exposed was that Liu Pei's wife told the story when a reporter went to interview Liu Pei's family. Once the report was issued, Dawang Plastic Factory, like in this life, welcomed their peak in orders.
Their conscience has made them a typical factory that does good things, and their boss was even named one of the top ten outstanding enterprises in Pengcheng.
Most of the newspapers that followed were interviews with the criminals who had taken revenge on the people in the funeral home. Lin Shuyue read every one of them and felt very depressed.
It was already an hour later when she got out of bed. After she went downstairs to wash up, she received a call from Hang Jiabai, who said, "Ah Yue, I have to go to Jiangzhan now, and I will probably be back the day after tomorrow..."
Lin Shuyue thought of the newspaper she had just read and knew that Hang Jiabai was going to crack down on outlets that traded human organs. Regarding his reported itinerary, Lin Shuyue pursed her lips, looked at the bright sunshine outside the window, and said, "Have a safe trip."
Many of those involved in the organ trade are desperate criminals. This was not mentioned in the reports, but there must have been casualties among them. Lin Shuyue sincerely wishes these police officers fighting on the front line peace and safety.
After Hang Jiabai said "OK", he hung up the phone and set off with his colleagues who were waiting for him.
After glancing at the time, Lin Shuyue went to the breakfast shop downstairs to eat a bowl of rice noodles, then staggered to the newspaper office.
As soon as she entered the newspaper office, she was called into the office by Huang Qiang: "There was a car accident over in Taohuaping Village, go over and take a look."
Lin Shuyue glanced outside, and Huang Qiang leaned back in his chair: "You know how big a thing has happened recently, and everyone else is busy."
Hearing this, Lin Shuyue said nothing more. She said to Huang Qiang, "Okay, I'll go over there."
So Lin Shuyue left the newspaper office before she had even spent five minutes there, and drove to Taohuaping.
When she was about five kilometers away from Taohuaping Village, Lin Shuyue couldn't get through because there was a traffic jam ahead. Faced with this situation, Lin Shuyue didn't panic. She turned the steering wheel and parked the car on the roadside nearby. Then she took a bicycle from the trunk, locked the bicycle, and rode to Taohuaping Village.
Even if something as serious as a car accident happened, she didn't need to ask for directions. She could just follow the crowd to find out where the traffic jam was the worst or where there were the most people.
When she arrived at the place by bicycle, she parked the bicycle in front of a roadside shop door, locked it with an iron chain, and squeezed into the crowd with her camera in her arms.
The accident happened thirty minutes ago at an intersection. A private Honda car collided with a small van, leaving two long ruts on the asphalt road. The front of the small van was flattened, and the black Honda private car overturned on the ground. The people in the car had been rescued. They were lying on the scorching ground. One of them had no movement in his chest, and the other three had scars of varying degrees all over their bodies.
There was blood all over the ground. The traffic police set up a cordon and were waiting for the ambulance to arrive.
Lin Shuyue found different angles and took several different photos. Then she looked around and based on her past experience, found several aunties pulling vegetable baskets.
She discovered that when something happened, it was useless to look for young people, but if she looked for older people, even if they didn't know everything, they could at least know about 70 or 80 things.
"Auntie, how did this car accident happen?"
The aunt was chatting with her companions. When she heard Lin Shuyue's words, she glanced at her and said, "I don't know. We were just walking from Nagada to the supermarket over there. We were waiting for the traffic light to cross the road when we heard a bang. The two cars collided. The car flipped over on the spot, and the front of the train was also dented."
The auntie spoke with a northern accent. Before Lin Shuyue could continue to ask, she started talking very quickly: "Did you see the person lying on the ground? That was the driver of the car. He was dead when everyone dragged him out of the car. The one with a broken leg was sitting in the passenger seat. The other one who was intact was sitting in the back seat. The other one who had less injuries and could still sit up was the driver of the pickup truck."
Lin Shuyue nodded, and the aunt continued, "I heard from the man with a broken leg that there was supposed to be another person in their car. It was a singer!"
When talking about singers, the aunt's smile got bigger, and the aunt next to her also joined the group chat: "Yes, yes, but when we asked which singer it was, they didn't tell us."
Lin Shuyue raised her eyebrows: "This is a singer's car!"
Things in the entertainment industry, whether in the past life or this life, have nothing to do with Lin Shuyue. If she really wants to be involved, it is that when various celebrities in the entertainment industry fall from grace, she is the one jumping up and down in the melon field.
She took another close look at the Toyota. It was a very ordinary five-seater car, and the price was only between 200,000 and 300,000 yuan. This was very different from the stereotype that the entertainment industry had given Lin Shuyue. Looking back at the novels and TV dramas she had read in her youth in her previous life, as well as the exaggerated news that appeared in the entertainment industry later, when celebrities usually travel, they must be accompanied by a group of bodyguards and must ride in a nanny car.
This is too low-key.
"Yes, yes, we've been looking here for a long time, but we still can't tell which singer's car this is." Auntie lost interest at this point.
At this time, the ambulance came with the sirens blaring. Several people got out of the car and carried all the injured people into the car. The people who had stopped breathing were also carried away.
The casualties of the accident left, and the traffic police continued to investigate the scene. The results of the investigation were not in yet, and reporter Shi came. She was obviously not awake yet, and she walked towards Lin Shuyue while yawning.
"I saw you from a distance. Your speed was quite good." The traffic accident happened during the morning rush hour.
Pengcheng has developed well. Even in 2004, there were still many private cars on the road, plus various kinds of trains, which never stopped on the road from morning to night.
Once the car accident happened, the traffic on this road section was paralyzed. The traffic jam was so serious that even the ambulance took a lot of effort to arrive. Reporter Shi set out as soon as she received the news, but was stuck halfway. She parked her car in the hotel parking lot and walked here.
The sun was shining brightly today. It was only nine o'clock but the sun was already high in the sky. Reporter Shi was fanning himself with a flyer he had received on the roadside.
Lin Shuyue said: "I was also stuck in traffic, but I put a bicycle in the trunk and rode here."
The hardcover flyer in reporter Shi's hand slapped against her right hand. "I originally put my bicycle in the trunk, but I've been busy lately and forgot to put it back."
After saying that, reporter Shi looked around and said, "The traffic police have already collected evidence at the scene. Should we go to the hospital? I just walked over here and heard someone say that a singer had a car accident?"
The speed of word transmission is so terrifying. The version Lin Shuyue just heard was that the singer's car was in an accident, but in just a moment, when reporter Shi heard it, it became that the singer was in a car accident.
Lin Shuyue was speechless: "It is said that it is the singer's car, but the singer was not sitting in the car."
Reporter Shi was also choked up. She couldn't help but complain: "If I knew the singer wasn't in the car, I would have walked slower."
You have to know that reporter Shi walked all the way here very fast in order to get this news. Even though she had good physical strength, it was at least two miles from there, and she still couldn't handle it.
Seeing that the tow truck of the traffic law enforcement department had arrived, Lin Shuyue said to reporter Shi: "I plan to go to the hospital, do you want to go?"
"Go." Reporter Shi arrived late. When she arrived, everyone had been taken away. She didn't get any information. If she didn't dig up any information, she would definitely be criticized when she returned. She had just made some achievements in front of the leader, so she couldn't let them down.
Lin Shuyue took her to the door of the store where she parked her car, paid the owner fifty cents for parking as required, then rode away. Reporter Shi sat on the back seat of Lin Shuyue's car, and the two chatted as they rode. In a few minutes, they crossed the traffic and arrived at Pengcheng Hospital.
They parked the car in the bicycle shed in front of the hospital and went into the hospital together.
In the emergency hall of the hospital, there were already many reporters with cameras waiting here. Lin Shuyue saw several acquaintances. After they saw Lin Shuyue and the other person, they came over and talked to them.
From their ears and mouths, Lin Shuyue finally found out who the singer was.
"But isn't Yu Xiangwan an actress?" Lin Shuyue had also watched TV series with Lou Fengqin and the others. This TV series was called Yu Xiangwan, which Lin Shuyue had also watched. Her acting was pretty good and she was also very beautiful.
Reporter Shi said: "No, she debuted as a singer first, and then she started acting in TV dramas after she became a good singer. She is an amphibious singer and actress. She is very popular with the public, and many people like her." Reporter Shi has worked at the city TV station for several years, and she has seen most of those TV stars: "I have met her once before. She looks better in person than on TV, but she is much thinner and looks small. She is very polite. After the recording of the show, she even ordered coffee for the staff on the scene."
As soon as reporter Shi finished speaking, another reporter named Zhang from Pengcheng Entertainment News, who specializes in writing entertainment news, came over and said, "Some time ago, there were rumors that Yu Xiangwan secretly married and had a child, and many people went to watch her news. Your master went there before."
Reporter Zhang's words also reminded Lin Shuyue. Before the former Pengcheng Public Security Bureau Director Yang Baozong fell, Huang Qiang was a reporter specializing in entertainment news. He did cover this news at the time, but the incident did not make much of a splash. Whether Yu Xiangwan secretly married and had a child has not yet been concluded.
Reporter Shi asked: "Did you take any photos of the evidence at the time?"
Reporter Zhang smiled without saying anything, then opened his arms towards them.
Reporter Shi exclaimed: "Five hundred thousand? You guys are too shady, aren't you?"
Reporter Zhang didn't like what he heard. He said, "How can we be the ones doing the dirty work? We both made the deal voluntarily."
Reporter Shi exclaimed in disapproval to what he saide, and Lin Shuyue also did. With the development of the times, the country has given these entertainment workers too many preferential treatments. A huge sum of money like 500,000 is used to buy such news. They are rich, really too rich!
Reporter Zhang said: "Yu Xiangwan is very popular in both Mainland China, Hong Kong, and even in Asia. For her, 500,000 is just a drop in the bucket. None of these celebrities are poor. Just look at Liu Chongbin, who spent 1 million to buy a picture of his fellow travelers in the capital."
As soon as this sentence came out, the reporters around him unconsciously formed a small circle around reporter Zhang: "What kind of photo is so valuable?"
"It is said that he was playing with five young models." Reporter Zhang looked at everyone with an expression that you know.
Lin Shuyue and the others all exclaimed in unison. This was not difficult to understand. After all, in the eyes of the public, Liu Chongbin, who had a tough appearance, often played positive roles and had a wife who was familiar to the public in the entertainment industry. Such photos of him playing with five girls at night must not be exposed.
The contrast is too great and it is easy to ruin his career and family. After all, people all over the country know that he was brought up by his wife. If it weren't for his wife, he would still be a supporting actor in Hengzhen.
Just as a group of people were discussing entertainment gossip, a group of people walked in from outside. The leader was a woman who was about 1.6 meters tall, slim and innocent-looking. She looked anxious and worried, and her 6-centimeter high heels were as smooth as walking on flat ground. Next to her stood a man in his thirties wearing glasses, and about a meter away from them were four burly men wearing black shirts and sunglasses.
The reporters who were gossiping just now shut up instantly and raised their cameras to take pictures of Yu Xiangwan from all angles.
Yu Xiangwan ignored the reporters and walked directly to the traffic police at the door of the emergency room: "Comrade police, I am the employer of Huang Zhipeng, Ruan Yangyang, and Zhao Xiaochun. My name is Yu Xiangwan. May I ask how they are doing now?"
The traffic policeman was not surprised by Xiang Wan's arrival. He glanced at Lin Shuyue and the other reporters and onlookers, frowned and said, "Huang Zhipeng died on the spot, Ruan Yangyang's leg was amputated, and Zhao Xiaochun was sitting in the back seat, so his injury was not serious. We checked the other small van involved in the accident. It was driving normally on the road, and it was the Toyota that hit it. We have inspected the accident vehicle, and the brakes of the Toyota were tampered with."
"We have handed this case over to the criminal police. They will be here soon. Just tell them anything you remember."
Yu Xiangwan's face turned pale. She subconsciously glanced at the man next to her. The ordinary-looking man pushed his glasses up and said, "It's like this. Before the incident, we were traveling in another car because we had something to do. Since there were not many people, Huang Zhipeng and his two assistants took the car. And this car was always driven by Huang Zhipeng. We really didn't know that the car was tampered with."
"Yes, yes, yes." Yu Xiangwan agreed.
Lin Shuyue was in the crowd, silently checking everyone's good and evil radar. The people around her were easy to deal with, with the highest sin value being only 16%. He was the reporter Zhang who had just revealed the news to Lin Shuyue. Lin Shuyue estimated that his 16% came from years of blackmailing celebrities.
Yu Xiangwan's sin value was not high, 10%, and the sin values of the men around her were the same as hers. But the burly men behind him were different, and none of them had a sin value lower than 50%.
The traffic police questioned Zhao Xiaochun, who was still able to move, and he agreed with what Xiang Wan and her agent Li Heng said. Then he asked, "Have you offended anyone recently?"
Li Heng shook his head, but Yu Xiangwan's face turned even paler. She staggered back, almost unable to stand. She ignored her own loss of composure and grabbed Li Heng's sleeve: "It must be James, it must be James. He has disliked me for a long time. Yesterday he even threatened me that I would die a miserable death."
Li Heng supported Yu Xiangwan and pinched her arm fiercely: "Ah Wan, Ah Wan, wake up. No matter how powerful James is, he is only a ten-year-old child. He can't do this."