Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

The policewoman came and sat down in front of Yu Ru, leaning slightly to look at her face. Yu Ru's face was pale, her eyes were tightly closed, and her eyelashes were trembling slightly.

"Little boy, don't be afraid. I'm not a bad person. I'm a police officer. You fainted on the roadside that day and I took you to the hospital. Do you feel better now?" the policewoman said softly.

Yu Ru still pretended to be asleep and ignored her.

"Little boy, you are awake, right? Are you still in pain? That's why you can't open your eyes. I brought you a gift. Do you want to try to open your eyes and see what it is?"

The policewoman took out a square box from her bag, opened it, and took out another square box covered with cartoon characters. There were three buttons on the side of the box, and she reached out and pressed one of them. The box rang a few times and started to sing.

The song was the theme song of a popular cartoon in recent years. Yu Ru felt it was a little familiar and couldn't help but open her eyes to see what was making the sound.

The policewoman smiled and immediately introduced the things in her hands to her, "Little friend, are you awake? Look, this is the gift we brought for you. This thing is called a magnetic dressing box. You can change the clothes of the princess attached to it. Let me show you once..."

As she spoke, the policewoman took out all the accessories in the box and prepared to demonstrate them to Yu Ru.

"Children, this is very fun. Many children like to play it..."

She leaned forward to look at Yu Ru's face, but found that Yu Ru was like an old cat, not interested in anything around her, including the dressing box in her hand. She stared blankly at the ceiling. After a few seconds, her eyes would blink very slowly, and more often, she would stare blankly. Her eyes were staring and stiff, like a dead body with eyes open.

The policewoman turned to look at her colleague and shook her head helplessly.

"This child has no reaction, right? Was she beaten and became deaf?" the male police officer asked in a low voice.

"I talked to the doctor and they said that the child's eardrum was broken and her hearing was severely damaged, but not to the extent of deafness. It has been repaired now, so she should be able to hear others talking. And she opened her eyes just now because the toy made a noise," the policewoman replied.

"Maybe she's suffered too much psychological trauma and doesn't want to chat. How about...we tell a joke to cheer her up?" the male police officer suggested.

The policewoman shook her head. "The doctor advised this child not to laugh or cry, and to avoid getting excited. I'll try to talk to her about family matters and see if I can get her to talk."

She leaned down and approached Yu Ru, and was about to say something to her, but Yu Ru's mouth opened and closed, and she was about to speak. She immediately leaned down even lower and listened carefully to what Yu Ru said.

"Ah...wu..."

Yu Ru let out a few weak cries, and after a long while, she finally spoke normally. "Are you... the police?"

"Yes, kid, we are the police. We are here to help you. We want to catch the bad guys who hurt you." The policewoman responded immediately.

"Then...will you...embezzle?"

The policewoman was stunned, thinking she had misheard, and asked uncertainly: "Little boy, can you say it again? The last two words you just said were corruption?"

Yu Ru nodded with difficulty.

"No, don't worry, we don't embezzle, we are here to handle the case." The policewoman said with a smile.

"Then you...you swear to heaven...not to engage in corruption and not to help bad people, otherwise you will fall into...the endless hell and never be reincarnated." Yu Ru said with his eyes closed.

"Okay, no problem." The female police officer immediately agreed, and then said to the male police officer, "Li Xiang, take out the recorder and prepare to record it. What this kid wants to say is definitely a big deal. Then you swear an oath with me, swearing that we will not embezzle or help bad people, otherwise we will fall into the endless hell and never be reincarnated."

The male police officer looked at Yu Ru lying on the bed and asked in surprise: "Did this kid say that?"

"Correct."

After the two of them swore to the sky as Yu Ru said, Yu Ru asked them to turn on the TV in the ward and watched two episodes of anti-corruption confessions with her.

After watching TV, she still did not tell her story, but fell into silence. She was in a low mood, with tears in her eyes. The policewoman saw this and did not continue to ask her anything, but waited for her to speak. During this time, she told her stories to comfort her.

About half an hour later, Yu Ru opened her mouth again and acted as if she was about to speak. Seeing this, the policewoman immediately lowered her head and listened to her carefully.

"Please save my second dad, please. If no one goes, my second dad, my second dad... will be beaten to death... I don't want him to die..."

"Okay, kid, where is your second father? Why was he beaten to death?"

"He was...in a coal-digging...place, he worked as a cook, cooking for people. The people there were very bad, they often cut off people's hands and feet, and they would kill people as long as they were...not happy. Many, many people...died, died...The number of dead people there was as many as a mountain. They also put people's hands, feet and heads...into the pot to cook. My second father helped me escape, they were definitely...going to beat him..."

"The coal mining area?" The policewoman took out a notebook from her bag and quickly wrote down the key points of Yu Ru's words. "Little boy, the bad guys there want us to mine coal there? If we don't obey, they will chop off our hands and feet, right?"

Yu Ru had no strength left, she closed her eyes, "Well... and they asked us to fight, if we win, we live, if we lose, we die. Anyway... those bad guys did everything that was said on TV to be executed. They asked us to dig coal, didn't give us money, and dug out the things in our bodies and sold them, one heart for 200,000. They also sold drugs, many people went to buy them, I heard that there was conch, ketamine, duck, and cocaine, all of which were on TV. They also made women give birth to children, saying that women... Their stomachs have turned into lucky beads, but many people’s children have been beaten to death before they were born. They also said that we can’t escape, because there are their people for dozens of kilometers outside, and there are many wolfhounds. If we dare to escape, they will chop us into pieces and feed us to the dogs. They also have a lot of guns. Last time someone ran away, they used a gun to smash his head. They also said that no one can control them, the police dare not touch them, the mayor is their subordinate, the governor is their relative, and whoever touches them will die, die, die... "

As she spoke further, Yu Ru's voice became quieter, and the policewoman had to get close to her face to hear what she was saying. After the last word, Yu Ru stopped talking. She lay motionless on the bed, looking painful.

The policewoman suddenly stood up and pressed the call button beside the bed to call the doctor over.

A month later.

Yu Ru's health has improved a lot. She can stand up and walk a few times, and can speak normally. The information she provided last time was reported to a higher-level agency. The higher-ups took it very seriously and set up a special task force to investigate. The people who came to question Yu Ru this time were from the special task force. There are four main members in total, three men and one woman. The four of them have their own unique skills and will work together to solve this shocking case.

Yu Ru currently shows resistance to men other than her family members. In order to avoid irritating her, the second interrogation was handed over to An Xiuhe, the only female member of the task force. The chat between her and Yu Ru will be monitored throughout the whole process, and the other three members of the task force will stay in another place to analyze their conversation from the monitoring content and draw other conclusions.

When An Xiuhe arrived at the ward, Yu Ru was sitting on the bed watching TV. She was the only one in the ward. Gu Yulan and Yu Yousheng had gone home to work and earn money, leaving Xu Shenwei alone in the hospital to take care of Yu Ru. At this moment, Xu Shenwei went out to buy groceries and was not in the ward.