Chapter 20
The Detective finished speaking and walked ahead.
Wu Xiaojiu looked at the postcard lying quietly in his hand, wanting to crumple it into a ball.
He wasn’t stupid.
No matter how many unidentified heads there were in this case, it had nothing to do with him or his own affairs.
With trouble in the Wu Family, Wu Xiaojiu was already stretched too thin.
How could he care about anyone else?
“Wait, give me that postcard.”
Bo Suihan suddenly spoke up, the hospital lights shining directly on his face.
Bo Suihan pressed his lips together, stepped forward, and grasped Wu Xiaojiu’s hand.
He gently took hold of the postcard.
“You must have heard, this case is exactly the same as the one that happened to the Bo Family over a decade ago. The killer’s method, and the place where the severed heads were left, are all identical.”
Bo Suihan unfolded the postcard.
His eyes lowered.
Under Wu Xiaojiu’s gaze, he continued, “The case ten years ago was related to me, and the case now is still related to me. This time, it even implicates the Su Family.
Wu Xiaojiu, I have no choice but to get involved.”
Bo Suihan’s voice was subdued, and in the darkness, he seemed inexplicably obedient.
“I understand. Didn’t you say I’m your only good friend? Good friends should help each other. If you’re looking for the mastermind, count me in.”
Wherever Long Aotian is, Wu Xiaojiu will be there too.
Wu Xiaojiu barely hesitated.
He blurted out these words, and firmly grasped Bo Suihan’s hand.
The two of them looked at each other in the darkness, hands clasped.
“You don’t have to do this. You might not know what happened back then. More than ten members of my family were all killed-their heads and limbs cut off. Even the children couldn’t escape being turned into human stumps.
I survived only because I was mischievous and hid outside, afraid to go home. That’s how I escaped. But for more than ten years, the mastermind has been searching for me, and their background is not simple either.
I used to think maybe it was some business dealings that provoked them, but now, with the Su Family also targeted, it seems the only possibility is a family in the city aiming to become the richest.”
Bo Suihan sighed.
He lifted his eyes.
He was ready to see a timid look in Wu Xiaojiu’s eyes.
But Wu Xiaojiu did not retreat.
Instead, his gaze was deep and unwavering.
In the darkness,
only those eyes shone frighteningly bright.
“I said, I’ll help you.”
Just those words.
The emergency exit fell into a long silence.
The two looked at each other for a long time.
Bo Suihan finally let out a sigh.
“Alright. With your promise, I, Bo Suihan, swear a deadly oath today: whether you can help me to the end or not,
from now on, whenever you need me, even if it means braving blades and fire, suffering a thousand cuts, I, Bo Suihan, will help you fulfill your wishes.”
With those words,
a notification sounded in Wu Xiaojiu’s mind from the System.
[Congratulations, Host, Long Aotian Favor Value +50, current Favor Value 60!]
At the same time, as the System sounded, a voice came from Wu Father’s hospital room.
“Dad, you can get out of bed and walk!”
Then another voice:
“Dad! The Board of Directors secured investment, our Wu Family’s crisis is resolved!”
When Wu Xiaojiu and Bo Suihan hurried to the room,
they saw Wu Yuting bouncing around with their father and mother.
The atmosphere in the room was full of joy.
Wu Xiaojiu, exhausted, felt comforted.
“There’s actually improvement. Does that mean the Bet Agreement with Second Cousin can be stopped too?”
Wu Xiaojiu really didn’t trust Wu Dan.
You could tell at a glance he was scheming to harm their family.
There are probably some unscrupulous and domineering clauses in the Bet Agreement. Even if it means paying the penalty for breach of contract, Wu Xiaojiu still wants to get out of it as soon as possible.
Just to stay far away from Second Cousin’s family.
“We can’t. The penalty for breach is a full three hundred million. The company has just received a capital increase of five hundred million. If we breach the contract, we’ll have to empty all our savings.”
Wu Xiaojiu’s father stood there, like a resurrected mummy.
The revolution has not yet succeeded; comrades still need to work hard.
Wu Xiaojiu knew the penalty was as much as three hundred million, so the clauses in the contract must not be anything good.
From that one sentence, he had already foreseen his own future.
He might have to keep pleasing Bo Suihan to gain Long Aotian’s favor points.
Otherwise,
If anything goes wrong with the Bet Agreement,
The Wu Family will be facing an endless abyss.
Thinking of this, Wu Xiaojiu couldn’t stand it. He grabbed Bo Suihan and ran to the next room.
Just as they reached the doorway,
They happened to see the police wrapping up.
The Detective who had given him the postcard was at the end of the group.
Hearing footsteps, he turned and looked back.
Seeing it was the two of them,
He quickly waved them over.
“Come quietly, I’m on duty alone tonight.”
They followed all the way and finally arrived at the Police Station.
After the Detective’s colleagues went home for their shift change,
He led the two into the interrogation room.
At the same time, he brought a huge basket of files,
Piling them in front of the two.
“I knew you both had good hearts. These are all materials the police don’t release to the public. Inside are files about this case and the one from ten years ago. Take a look.”
Wu Xiaojiu was the first to pick up a file.
He flipped through it.
The case on top was the one from ten years ago, and the content described the brutal scene in detail.
Ten years ago, the Bo Family was an even more prosperous family than the Su Family, having held the top wealth spot for fifty years.
The family business spanned both sea and land, and in the most prosperous year for real estate, they monopolized every property in the city.
Aside from that,
The Bo Family was also involved in all sorts of highly profitable industries.
Antiques, jewelry design, auctions, calligraphy and painting-these extremely lucrative trades were also dominated by them.
Such a massive family,
In a single night,
Was wiped out.
Men, women, elders, young, children, and infants-without exception, all were made into human sticks.
And on the highest wall of the Bo Family’s ancestral hall,
The culprit,
Even took a brush stained with Bo Family blood and flamboyantly wrote:
“If one day I may achieve lofty ambition,
Dare to laugh at Huang Chao as less than a man.”
Such a line of poetry.
About this tragedy, some said it was a home invasion robbery, others said it was committed by someone familiar.
Because at that time, there wasn’t a single sound from the Bo Family’s villa.
It was as if the family willingly allowed themselves to be killed and dismembered.
They never made a sound until death.
This also meant that the Bo Family’s case was only discovered more than ten days later, after the smell of corpses began to spread.
Wu Xiaojiu’s face was grave as he flipped through the files.
He saw the crime scene captured by a black-and-white camera: headless and limbless bodies everywhere, blood everywhere, remains scattered all over.
He almost couldn’t hold back from throwing up.
“Do you have any clues?”
The Detective saw how pale his face was and patted Wu Xiaojiu on the back.
“I noticed all these corpses were gathered in the backyard. Even their severed limbs were scattered all over the backyard, but their heads don’t appear anywhere in the photos.”
“So where are the heads of these dozens of people?”