Chapter 31

It wasn't until the evening of the next day that Li Pu returned to the city where he had previously lived.

Before parting, Chen Xin, who had not carried much money when she went out, left Li Pu a debit card she often used, but there wasn't much cash. She asked Di Tianxia to give Li Pu some living expenses. Di Tianxia generously took out his wallet, pulled out a stack of bank cards and credit cards, ranging from Swiss banks to Standard Chartered Bank, all were available. But there was a very practical problem—none of them were from a Chinese bank.

Fortunately, Brad had quite a bit of paper money on him. He took it all out and gave Li Pu over three thousand dollars and a thousand yuan. The fare was enough, but in his emotional excitement, Li Pu ran in the wrong direction and got lost.

After much effort, he found a "Little Yellow Fish" taxi. The young man directly pulled out a hundred dollars, wanting the driver to take him home, but the driver suspected it was counterfeit and strongly demanded payment in yuan. Li Pu didn't have much yuan, and he almost paid half of it to get the driver to take him back to the city.

After getting out of the car, Li Pu thought for a moment and didn't go home or to school. Instead, he walked towards the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

The incident of the street murder yesterday was witnessed by a large number of community residents. It was impossible to act as if nothing had happened and just go home. Li Pu didn't want to become a wanted criminal at a young age, so he decided to turn himself in to the police.

Standing in front of the imposing Municipal Public Security Bureau, Li Pu wanted to go inside. The security guard in the guardhouse raised his eyes, saw a student-like young man, and waved him over, asking, "Little classmate, what are you doing at the police station? If you want to go in, you need to register here."

This was Li Pu's first time turning himself in. Although he wasn't afraid, he was a bit nervous and thought it would be better to find someone he knew. So he asked, "I'm looking for Uncle Liu, is he here?"

"There are a bunch of Lius in the bureau, I'm Liu too! Which Uncle Liu are you looking for?" the guard laughed.

Li Pu recalled the specific name of his neighbor's uncle but quickly realized he didn't know it. Fortunately, he had heard the neighbor's little girl mention her father's position.

"The Uncle Liu who is the captain of the criminal investigation team, a bit balding, with a scruffy beard, and quite burly," Li Pu described roughly.

"Oh, you mean Deputy Captain Liu Jianjun of the criminal investigation team. Do you have something important?"

"Yes, tell him I'm Li Pu from his neighbor's house, he should understand."

The guard flipped through the contact book and made a call. After the call connected, Liu Jianjun's voice was clearly lowered, asking, "...We're still lying in wait here, what's up?"

"Captain Liu, there's a student looking for you."

"A student?" The voice on the other end seemed confused.

"A student named Li Pu, he says he's from your neighbor's house."

"What! Damn!" The voice on the other end suddenly rose, "Hold him! Make sure to hold him! Don't let him leave! I'll be right back!"

A few minutes later, a police car carrying Liu Jianjun rushed back. Li Pu was sitting on a stool inside the guardhouse, reading a newspaper out of boredom.

Liu Jianjun was drenched in sweat, and there were several people with him. Seeing Li Pu from a distance, a young man in plain clothes next to him asked, "Is it him?"

"That's him," Liu Jianjun exhaled, quickly walking up to the young man and asking seriously, "Li Pu, where's your mother?" Before Li Pu could answer, he asked urgently, "What kind of people did your mother offend? Do you know how serious this is?"

Shanghai, after all, is a major city and an economic center. Killing three people in public in a community is already a major and heinous murder case. But what made the government even angrier and more fearful was what happened after Liu Jianjun called the police.

First, the nearest police station sent a police car and five officers to the incident site, but they were attacked by a man in a hooded sweatshirt on the way. A car weighing over a ton was actually flipped over! Subsequently, officers from other police stations were also attacked. Chinese police, who rarely use guns, drew their weapons, but the attacker seemed to have no sense of pain or fear and continued fighting even after being shot several times.

Finally, the Public Security Bureau, at a loss, had to notify "special personnel." Unfortunately, by the time the special personnel arrived, the incident in the neighborhood was over. The criminals and the murder suspects had all fled, leaving only three bodies.

When the three bodies were brought back, based on Liu Jianjun's suggestion, they contacted Interpol. The results were shocking!

One of the elderly men was a super expert nicknamed "Eagle King," Luo Liuzu, an Australian-Chinese, one of the three leaders of the Dakuang gang, who had been missing for five years. A middle-aged man named Thomas Liu was the head of the Chinese Martial Arts Hall in California and also served as a special combat instructor for the CIA, who had been missing for four years. The most robust Slavic man was Kalinin Salmanovich, a leader of a terrorist armed group trained in Siberia, who had committed multiple international crimes and was wanted by 22 countries.

All three were killed in public by Chen Xin, the beautiful woman who was ostensibly a surgeon, with her bare hands.

This incident was classified as the 4.11 Major Murder and Police Assault Case. The mayor and the central government were furious, and the higher-ups issued a strict order to investigate thoroughly and quickly. Two special response personnel from a nearby military district were also dispatched to assist in the investigation.

But when the young man mentioned the word "Changguo Snake" in the interrogation room, Liu Jianjun didn't react much, but the young man in plain clothes next to him frowned slightly and then looked at the middle-aged man who had been silent.

"…You mean the person from 'Changguo Snake,' your adoptive mother Chen Xin's acquaintance, named Di Tianxia, and another named Brad, nicknamed 'Skin Peeler'?" the middle-aged man asked sternly.

"Yes, the three people killed by Aunt Xin were brought by them, and they were apparently modified? I didn't hear it clearly…" Li Pu nodded, sensing that this middle-aged man was definitely not an ordinary police officer. After he spoke, everyone in the room fell silent and looked at him.

"Continue," the middle-aged man nodded indifferently.

So Li Pu continued his confession, even revealing when he first met Chen Xian. Finally, the young man asked, "I've said everything, can I go home now?"

"Hmph, you think it's that easy to go home?" a police officer sneered, "Do you know what you're involved in?"

This was intimidation, trying to dig for more information. Li Pu was a bit unhappy; he had been very cooperative. Anyway, Aunt Xin and Xiao Xian had already gone overseas, and all the blame had been pushed onto "Changguo Snake." He hadn't done anything illegal.

Seeing Li Pu's不服 (unconvinced) expression, the police officer slammed the table, "Is there anything else you haven't said?"

"I've said everything I should!" the young man's temper flared, "Are you trying to make me a scapegoat because you can't catch the real culprits?"

This left the police officer speechless. In such major cases, they might indeed do that. Unfortunately, the young man's household registration showed he wouldn't turn 14 until mid-July, making him too young to be a scapegoat.

But he still had a card to play. Glancing at Liu Jianjun and getting confirmation, he looked at the table and slowly asked, "Do you know Xiao Qiang and Wang Baozi?"

"No," Li Pu shook his head; he really had no memory of these two names.

The police officer took out a stack of files, pulled out two photos, and threw them in front of the young man, "Are you sure you don't know them?"

Li Pu looked and recognized one. "That's Xiao Hu. The other one… I don't really remember."

"You had physical altercations with them," the police officer pressed, "Xiao Qiang was hospitalized twice, both times because of you. And Wang Baozi had a physical altercation with you on April 9th."

"I fought with them," Li Pu blinked and found a reason, "They were street thugs who extorted me, but I learned some martial arts from Aunt Xin, so it was self-defense."

The police had to admit that Xiao Qiang and Wang Baozi were frequent visitors to the police station, known for extortion. Being beaten up was almost expected.

"Do you know they're dead?" the police officer changed the subject, "And their boss, Zhu Yi, along with over twenty of his men, most are in the emergency room, and some are already in the morgue?"

Li Pu really didn't know this. So many deaths? This was trouble! But he quickly composed himself and showed an innocent expression, "I don't know."

"Don't play dumb when so many people are dead!" the police officer slammed the table again, trying to intimidate the young man.

"It was probably 'Changguo Snake' who did it," the young man in plain clothes suddenly said, "The surviving thugs in the emergency room described a man about 1.86 to 1.88 meters tall, wearing a black suit, with a slightly hooked nose, thin lips, narrow eyes, and a bronze complexion."

"Sounds like Brad," Li Pu smiled. It was Brad who had cleaned up those scum, truly a veteran killer certified by Interpol.

The interrogation lasted for a long time. Finally, Li Pu had a quick meal at the police station and was arranged to stay in an office.

The young man in plain clothes put away the interrogation notes and followed the stern middle-aged man to the cafeteria, ordering a few dishes. He suddenly said, "Master Feng, I've seen that boy before."

"Hmm?" The middle-aged man, Feng Kuzhan, raised his eyelids, "What? Xiao Fei, do you have new information?"

"Not very important, but during the 'Starfall' last year, when I led the Jianye Military District's team to rescue, the first batch of people we saved included this boy. Now I think about it, the girl he was protecting was probably Chen Xian. That little girl was really cute, beautiful, smart, and well-behaved. I didn't expect her to be involved with Changguo Snake."

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