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Chapter 55 Another Interrogation Room

In the video, Xiaoxi and Xiaoyun are having a meal at a family restaurant. They are chatting happily and enjoying themselves.

Suddenly, a figure burst into the surveillance footage—it was Zhao Zhiguang. Even through the monitor, you could see that he was drunk, his face flushed and his gait unsteady.

He rushed to Xiaoyun's side, grabbed her arm, and spat as if he was cursing something. Xiaoyun turned her head away and ignored him, but he splashed soup all over her face.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Zhiguang suddenly sprang up, grabbed Xiaoyun's hair, and dragged her out of the restaurant onto the street like a sack.

This scene startled the surrounding guests; some panicked, some took pictures, but no one came to help.

Seeing that Xiaoyun was about to be dragged out of the restaurant, Xiaoxi, who couldn't stand it anymore, finally rushed forward and slapped Zhao Zhiguang hard across the face. But this action completely enraged the latter. In a fit of rage, Zhao Zhiguang pushed Xiaoxi away, causing her to crash into a chair and scrape her forehead on the corner of the table.

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In front of the computer screen, Lin Chong paused the recording with a grim expression, turned to look at Xiao Xi, who had lowered her head in guilt, and questioned her.

"Tell me honestly, besides your forehead, where else are you injured?"

Xiaoxi looked down at the tips of her shoes and whispered, "I bumped my waist, but it doesn't hurt too much. It should be fine..."

Lin Chong's eyelids twitched, and he said seriously, "I'll take you to the hospital for a check-up later."

"We need Zhao Zhiguang to reimburse us for the expenses."

Xiaoxi was initially reluctant to listen to the first half of the sentence because she didn't want to waste money, but when she heard the second half, she looked up in surprise.

"Is this even possible? But we weren't fighting, and he's still more seriously injured than me?"

Lin Chong thought for a moment and explained, "What you were doing just now could be considered a fight, but it's different now..."

Judging from the humble demeanor Director Dong displayed after receiving Jiang Qianxun's call, Lin Chong has reason to believe that Zhao Zhiguang can now be considered the "perpetrator."

Press the spacebar to continue the monitoring.

Seeing Xiaoxi pushed to the ground by Zhao Zhiguang, with blood flowing from her forehead, Zou Xiaoyun, who had previously dared not resist her stepfather and had only silently endured it, suddenly became anxious.

She released the gluttonous mole. This time, her mother wasn't there to stop her. The gluttonous mole, whose muscles seemed to have become more muscular, rushed towards Zhao Zhiguang as soon as it appeared. Its claws pierced through his forearm and sent him flying. Even through the surveillance camera, Zhao Zhiguang's screams could be heard.

Upon seeing this, Lin Chong in front of the screen gasped. He could see that although the gluttonous mole did not use any special moves, the force of its charge was unstoppable!

It seems that Zhao Zhiguang's trip to the hospital for a medical examination wasn't just for show; he was genuinely injured.

Lin Chong had misunderstood him...

"Wait a minute." Lin Chong suddenly remembered something and frowned. "Where is Zou Xiaoyun now?"

Xiaoxi slapped her forehead and exclaimed, "Ouch!"

She rushed out of the meeting room, shouting as she ran, "Sister Yun and I were questioned separately! I need to go find her right away!"

"Brother, wait for me here!"

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Meanwhile, in another corner of the Shishan Police Station.

On the bench in the corridor, Xiaoyun lowered her head, her hands on her knees, and dried soup stains remained on her long shirt.

The door to the interrogation room next to her opened a crack, and her mother's pleading voice could be heard from inside.

"Officer, my daughter really didn't mean it. She's usually very well-behaved and never causes trouble..."

The police officer's voice sounded somewhat helpless: "It's a fact that your daughter commanded the sprites to injure people, and according to the regulations, you can be held criminally liable."

"If you don't want your daughter to go to jail... you know what the other side is asking for."

Yun's mother's face turned pale. Zhao Zhiguang had already told her that he demanded that Zou Xiaoyun drop out of Mudu Academy and sell all three of their existing Pokémon at a breeding center to repay every penny the family had spent over the years on Xiaoyun's efforts to become a professional trainer.

How could she possibly agree to such a request? Becoming a skilled professional trainer was a dream that Zou Xiaoyun had had since childhood and had always strived for.

If Xiaoyun were to drop out of school now, or even sell her elves, all her efforts over the years would be in vain!

But if she didn't do that, and Zhao Zhiguang used his "bureau chief uncle" relationship to pursue the matter to the end, Xiaoyun would have to go to jail! That was something she couldn't accept!

With her mind racing, Yun's mother walked out of the interrogation room absentmindedly, not even hearing Xiao Yun's calls. She walked to the corner of the corridor, her fingers trembling as she took out her phone and made a call.

"...Hey? How's your injury?"

On the other end of the phone, accompanied by the noise of the television, Zhao Zhiguang launched into a tirade of abuse.

"You have the nerve to ask! Your well-bred daughter calls in outsiders to beat me up! Now you know to call me, are you deliberately trying to make a fool of yourself?!"

Yun's mother hurriedly shook her head, her voice trembling slightly: "No, no..."

"What I meant was, could you please stop pursuing this? Xiaoyun is still young, if—"

"Your daughter beat me up like this with her Pokémon, and you want me to drop the matter? Did you get your head stuck in a door? Let me tell you, this isn't over!"

"Unless that brat drops out of school tomorrow, sells all her elves, and goes home to stay put! And that little girl who hit me, her family has to pay compensation too, twelve thousand, not a penny less!"

Yun's mother fell silent, her wrinkled and calloused fingers gripping her phone tightly, still wearing her dirty apron.

She suddenly felt a chill around her, a chill that went to her very bones. She opened her mouth as if to say something, but the call had already ended, and the busy tone of her phone rang in her ear.

She stood there, motionless, her slightly bent body like a tree bent under the weight of snow.

Xiao Yun walked over from the bench at some point, knelt in front of her mother, and took her hand.

Xiaoyun looked up, her voice bitter: "Mom, don't beg him anymore. I'll drop out of school, and I'll sell the elf to him too."

"Thanks to a friend, my gluttonous mole has been training exceptionally well lately, it's sure to... fetch a good price."

"...What did you say?"

Yun's mother turned her head in disbelief, clenched her fist, and gently tapped Yun's shoulder.

"How could you drop out of school? How could you sell Pokémon? Have you forgotten how hard you've worked? You even said you wanted to be a key player on the academy team... How could you just quit like that?"

Her voice grew softer and softer, until it became a muffled sob: "It's all my fault, I'm so useless, I was bewitched and went to that bastard, and now you're suffering like this..."

Xiaoyun didn't say anything, silently shed tears, and got up to hug her mother.

Under the harsh white light of the overhead fluorescent lamp, the figures of the mother and daughter resembled saplings about to be blown down in the cold wind, barely managing to stay upright by supporting each other.

Just then, two sets of footsteps, one fast and one slow, suddenly came from the other side of the corridor.

Director Dong's voice rang out, and the mother and daughter, whether they had misheard or not, vaguely sensed a hint of flattery in his tone.

"Xiaoxi, your sister Xiaoyun is in the interrogation room over here. Don't worry! I've had someone check, her injuries aren't serious..."

Xiaoxi hummed in agreement, not really wanting to talk to Director Dong, so she quickened her pace slightly.

When she turned the corner in the corridor and saw the mother and daughter, a happy smile immediately appeared on her face.

"Sister Xiaoyun, you're here!"

Xiaoyun forced a smile, but when she saw Director Dong appear behind Xiaoxi, her smile froze.