Soul Patch

Chapter 143 A Childhood Torn Apart

The truck driver was completely deflated. When the traffic police repeatedly asked him why he didn't brake when he saw a car at the intersection, he stammered for a long time before finally managing to utter a few words: "There was a car. There was... a car..."

The traffic police looked puzzledly at the road network camera hanging above the intersection. Judging from the angle of the camera, it should be able to capture the entire intersection.

The entire traffic accident was filmed frame by frame, but the traffic police cannot view it yet.

Therefore, Wenjie, who witnessed the accident, saw it more clearly than Wenjie.

Wenjie was just a short distance from the intersection, and by sheer coincidence, he happened to be at the right angle to see the truck rushing towards the intersection.

Judging from the weight of the truck fully loaded, once Andy saw his father's car, he reacted and desperately tried to brake with his foot, handbrake, and intermittent braking... No matter what braking method or technique he used, the distance between the two vehicles was not enough to stop them.

What if you swerve sharply?

As the driver said, if it swerved in the direction it wanted to avoid, it would crash into a car traveling on the same side.

Moreover, in case of an emergency, turning the steering wheel sharply is a big no-no, as large trucks can easily overturn, with their massive bodies pressing down on cars on the same side.

This could actually put truck drivers in danger.

So the truck driver chose to crash into the car in the intersection, and crashed into it directly.

At the time of the traffic accident, the driver of the car on the same side as the truck witnessed the crash happening very close to him.

He avoided the scene of the accident and drove away from the intersection.

There is a delay of a few minutes between the car accident and the traffic being paralyzed at the intersection.

During this time, vehicles in both directions slowed down and then came to a stop due to the accident in the middle of the intersection.

The intersection had become a parking lot, with cars from both directions forced to stop in the middle of the road. Horns blared, people got out to check the situation, and onlookers gathered to watch the accident—all sorts of things happened.

A small number of vehicles successfully passed through the intersection, including those on the same side as the large truck.

Little Andy was awakened from her sleep when the vehicle jolted violently. When the vehicle made a loud noise, her petite body was thrown from her seat and fell heavily to the ground.

Most of the car body was crushed by a large truck, twisted and deformed to an unimaginable degree. The front seats were pushed back by external force, and the gap between the two rows of seats narrowed sharply.

Little Andy was trapped in the crevice, her body wracked with pain, and her cute little face was filled with fear and dread of death in her eyes.

Death was truly imminent; just a chair back away, her father and the aunt she disliked were crushed to death on the spot, their deaths horribly gruesome.

Her body was paralyzed, and her face was stained red with blood splattered from somewhere. Her once chubby and adorable little face now showed an expression of extreme pain: "Ah... Dad... Dad... Help!"

She strained to open her eyes, only to see a crimson expanse before her. The car's license plate, which should have been blue with white English letters and Arabic numerals, appeared eerily colored in her vision.

M12345.

She stretched out her chubby little hand forward with all her might, pleading for help from the car's owner, but the intense pain caused little Andy to faint.

Wenjie stroked his chin. During rush hour in M ​​City, minor scrapes and rear-end collisions are common, but accidents that crush people on the spot and leave them bleeding profusely... tsk tsk... it really makes one's scalp tingle.

He watched as the paramedics carried little Andy out, carefully placed him on a stretcher, and put him into the ambulance.

Wenjie breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, he knew Andy was fine; not only was he fine, but he also had almost no visible scars.

Isn't that right? Andy was just trying to outdo him in acting.

The two cooperated flawlessly in front of the police.

Again!

Wenjie quickly logged out of the system.

After logging out of the system, Wenjie met the gaze of Jia Nan, who had a chubby face.

Jia Nan looked carefully into Wen Jie's eyes and said calmly, "After all that trouble, how's the progress?"

Even without asking, Jia Nan knew it was hopeless.

Because Wenjie seemed very silent, he rubbed his cheeks, licked his lips, and said in a rough voice, "Give me some water."

Jia Nan glanced at Wen Jie, then her gaze fell on her own arm...

Does that mean, which of us is the disabled person?

Who should get the water?

"..." Wenjie ignored Jia Nan.

He scrambled to his feet and walked toward the tatami computer desk, where there were several bottles of mineral water.

Wenjie walked straight over without turning around to look first, or asking Jia Nan where the water was at his house.

Anyway, I just walked over, picked up a bottle of mineral water, twisted it open, and poured it into my mouth.

"How did you know there was bottled water there?" Jia Nan asked curiously.

The only response Jia Nan received was the pleasant sound of mineral water rushing down her throat.

"Ton~ton~ton"

Wenjie drank with great relish, as if he had been thirsty for a long time.

He was enjoying his drink when Jia Nan's question immediately brought a scene to Wenjie's mind:

He asked Jia Nan to get bottled water from the tatami area, and then he picked up the metal lamp base and smashed it against the back of Jia Nan's head.

Hehe, that was a measure he had no choice but to take in order to protect himself, which was also a way of indirectly protecting Jia Nan. He knew that Jia Nan was looking for revenge.

Now it's no longer necessary; the two have clearly reached some kind of consensus on saving Jia Nan's brother, Jia Song, and their own father.

Although it sounds far-fetched, Jia Nan's willingness to believe him... made things much simpler.

Unexpectedly, this moment of distraction caused me to choke on my water.

"Cough~ cough~ cough"

When people don't want to answer a question, they usually choose to change the subject. Wenjie decided to do the same, wiping the water from his mouth as he said:

“When Andy joined your gang…” Wenjie paused, pondering how to phrase it so as not to sound too abrupt or strange.

He had indeed met three of Jia Nan's accomplices, no... at least four.

The man who ambushed him with Jia Nan downstairs that day was clearly not either of the two men who acted with Andy.

That means Jia Nan had at least four accomplices: three men and one woman.

After a moment's hesitation, Wenjie continued, "Did Andy mention a car accident to you back then?"

Jia Nan casually squinted as she watched Wenjie take a bottle of mineral water, unscrew the cap, and drink a few sips.

He wondered if Wenjie might have sneaked in through the window three years ago, passed the tatami computer desk, and seen the bottled water on it.

I have an almost obsessive insistence on where things should be placed:

There are five bottles of mineral water on the computer desk.

Bottled water was placed to the left of the laptop, neatly arranged in a row.

The computer is placed in the center of the computer desk, and the wireless mouse is placed close to the computer on the mouse pad to the right... These are habits that have remained unchanged for many years.

Wenjie suddenly threw out a question that disrupted his train of thought.

A car accident? The car accident that happened to Andy when he was a child!

He stared blankly at Wenjie, wondering how Wenjie knew about this.

This is a hidden pain deep in Andy's heart, which he has only ever told himself.

Ah Chao and Quan Ge, who often acted with Andy, probably didn't know.

When Andy spoke of it, he was shrouded in gloom, his voice hoarse and filled with deep pain and sorrow.

After many years,

To reiterate,

The horrific scene of the car accident seemed to transcend time and space, striking Andy and plunging her into immense pain, leaving her utterly defenseless.

In Andy's pained and helpless eyes, Jia Nan seemed to see a little girl's childhood shattered by a car accident.

(End of this chapter)