I am a loser, a socially phobic, and a shut-in? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes!

"But I still got some clues... I found that Xu Lin and another young man named Yang Lailiang would often go out in the early morning every day. Every time they went out, stray cats would be abused and killed. There must be some secrets about them."

"I tried to follow them separately, but they were always fighting wits with the air and easily got rid of me without noticing my presence, and I couldn't alert them."

Xie Qiangdong felt a little helpless when he said this, as his defensive ability from his horizontal training kung fu was excellent and his attacking power was also good.

He is very good at charging on the battlefield under hail of bullets or killing people as a super special forces soldier in street fighting. However, he is not good at following and tracking. Even a random spy who specializes in anti-tracking can get rid of him.

"Xu Lin is absolutely impossible"

Seeing that Xie Qiangdong actually suspected his niece Xu Lin, Black Dog Sylvie said seriously.

"Well, before the black dog Sylvie was killed, I thought Xu Lin was a big suspect, but Xu Lin shouldn't be so cruel as to kill even her favorite dog."

"..."

"Then Yang Lailiang is the most likely suspect, and Daisy is also the one who is suspected."

"But Yang Lailiang's body shape doesn't match the tall hooded man in Xiliwei's memory, and Yang Lailiang doesn't have any scars on his face. Could it be that he didn't intend to do it himself, and chose to hire the tall scarred hooded man to attack Xiliwei?"

"Indeed, the hooded man said that his first target was Sylvie. It was very clear that he must have been someone who knew Xu Lin to hire that scarred man."

"As for the motive, Xu Lin said that Yang Lailiang confessed his love to her, but was rejected by her. Could it be that Yang Lailiang turned his love into hatred and wanted to take revenge on Xu Lin?"

'...'

'Today, Yang Lailiang finally took Daisy away. Could it be that the two of them have been in the same group from the beginning?'

Chapter 17: Simple Folk Customs, Chongming Town

"Hey...hey...it's really hard to swallow the food...hey...then let's try this trick..."

In the early morning, the street lights went out one after another, and the woman's slightly neurotic and low muttering voice echoed in the deserted Chongming Town Park.

'In the red maple forest, there is a drunkard with red eyes hugging a big tree and acting crazy. At the Huaihe River dock, there is a poor old man meditating and shouting that he is absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon. There are also people going crazy in the park... I am a cross-dresser, but I am the most normal one, right? Tonight, Chongming Town is as full of talents as always! '

The more you see it, the less afraid you will be. Li Wuxin, who was wearing a Gothic maid outfit, black stockings and a mask, stopped and looked left and right, and finally found the source of the sound on the slide in the park.

She looked to be about 1.9 meters tall and very strong, with a long ponytail that fell automatically to her calves, healthy deep wheat-colored skin, long bangs that covered her eyes with thick dark circles, a large dark red birthmark on her face, and she was wearing obvious women's sportswear.

"I feel like he looks familiar. I guess we've met before. Let's go. Let's go to another place to shoot the video."

He is a handsome teacher during the day and a sexy transvestite at night. Li Wuxin likes this kind of immoral feeling the most. In order to avoid social death and to be able to play longer, he cannot expose his identity as a famous TS blogger.

"Hey...hey...I hope you won't scare anyone..."

Her ears moved slightly, and she stopped paying attention to the footsteps gradually fading away. With a silly smile, Li Xuemei contentedly smeared Lao Gan Ma on the white flour bun, and then took a bite with an expectant look on her face.

“Hey…hehe…why does it feel like the taste is different from before…not as delicious as before…but I’m happy enough to have something to eat…hehehehe”

I have heard my grandmother talk about this before. When my grandmother fled to Chongming Town during the Great Famine in the 1960s, they were lucky to have tree bark and roots to eat, let alone white flour buns. Some people were even so hungry that they wanted to eat their own children. Even now, there are many people in war-torn areas in foreign countries who do not have enough food to eat and have to live in dire straits every day.

In comparison, now I not only don’t have to worry about safety issues, but I also have white flour buns and Lao Gan Ma to eat. If even this is not happiness, then what is happiness?

"Hehe...Be content with what you have, I am already very happy"

Not sure if it was because of the comparison or because of the addition of Lao Gan Ma, but Li Xuemei felt that the overnight steamed buns in her hand tasted even better.

After wolfing down the steamed bun, Li Xuemei opened the Meituan takeaway app and adjusted the status to automatic order acceptance, and then started to settle the bill as usual.

"Hey...hehe...I bought three big white flour buns yesterday. Each bun costs one dollar. I only need to eat one and a half per day, so my daily food expenses are one dollar, and my monthly food expenses are about ten dollars...Hehe, this way I can have three thousand dollars left from the money I earn from delivering food...There will be no problem with my mom's medical expenses this month..."

Thinking of her mother, even Li Xuemei, who was always optimistic and liked to giggle, lost her smile.

My family is a typical rural family. After my father died in the flood-fighting expedition, my mother worked hard on the farm in Xinhong Village and raised me and my sister. She even sent me and my sister to go to school in an advanced town.

Going to school at Chongming Town Primary School is generally free, but there are some miscellaneous fees and tutoring fees to pay. One pound of grain cannot buy a bottle of drink. It is okay to survive solely on the income from farming, but it is unlikely to have enough money to pay these miscellaneous expenses. In order to support myself and my sister to go to school, my mother went to work in a cement factory, and her hair turned a lot whiter due to the hard work.

I see how hard my mother works and I really want to respond to her, but I was born with an intellectual disability.

Not to mention his average academic performance, he was often bullied by his classmates in school. If he went to the teacher for help, the teacher would say that it takes two to tango, so why didn't he bully others instead of himself?

I have been looking for the reasons in myself, but maybe because I am stupid, I could not find the reason and could only feel distressed about it. Finally, I chose to drop out of school and work to earn money, which disappointed my mother's expectations.

Fortunately, my sister is different from me. Her academic performance has always been at the top of the school. Maybe my family will really have a college student in the future.

All my mother's and my expectations were placed on my younger sister. After I dropped out of school and worked, my family had one less person to spend money and one more person to earn money. Our lives became much better because of this. Not only could we eat meat, eggs and milk every day, but we could even save money!

For me, that was the happiest time in my life.

But the good times did not last long. Just this year, my mother, who had been working in a cement factory, suddenly fell into a coma while working. After being sent to the hospital, she was diagnosed with pneumoconiosis. Her hospitalization drained out all of her family’s savings.

The labor contract is useless. The cement factory with strong background directly dismissed my mother who had no medical insurance. After the agricultural insurance reimbursed a small part, my mother still needed about 3,000 yuan of medicine every month to prevent her condition from worsening, and she had to be hospitalized two or three times a year, and each hospitalization cost 10,000 or 20,000 yuan.

I wanted to hide it from my mother, but she still found out the truth by trying to snatch the test report. My strong-willed mother didn’t want to burden the family, so she chose to drink paraquat like those sick elderly people in the same village. That time, I was really scared to death. I almost lost my beloved mother... Fortunately, my mother was reluctant to spend money and went to the second-hand market to buy fake paraquat...

Contrary to the online saying that a monthly income of over 10,000 yuan is not worth mentioning, it is very difficult to earn 4,000 yuan a month in Chongming Town.

After pondering for a moment, Li Xuemei, who is always optimistic and positive, smiled again.

"Hehe... Hehe... Pneumoconiosis can be cured with money. Teacher Wang said that being poor is because of not working hard enough. I'm dumber than others, so I have to work harder... Hehe... Calculating the time, Xu Lin's uncle Sun Shihan should have started ordering takeout, right?"

Sun Shihan would order takeout every morning. Chongming Town was not very big, and there were only a few deliverymen. Even fewer would continue to take orders at night. Maybe Sun Shihan didn't even realize that he was the one who usually delivered the takeout to him.

Normally, I am not very smart, but when it comes to looking at some things, I am more perceptive than ordinary people.

Although Sun Shihan tried to cover it up and often wrote in the notes that she was out with friends and that she could just send a text message and leave the takeaway at the door, he could still tell at a glance that Sun Shihan was a socially anxious person.

Others may have some opinions about this, but I will only find it interesting. After delivering food to Sun Shihan for a long time, there will be some tacit understanding that will not be exposed.

"Ding"

"Hey...hey...the order has come..."

Chapter 18: Do good things and don’t worry about the future

Li Xuemei, who is 1.9 meters tall and strong, slid down the slide with a silly smile and sat down next to the small electric car, causing deep dents in the tires of the electric car.

"Hey...hehe...pick up the food at Zhou's Malatang, and deliver the food at Coral Community. Let me think...is the shortest way from the park to Zhou's Malatang the one over there at Made Bridge...hehehe..."

Leaving the park, they drove alone onto a dirt road, surrounded by trees and weeds. It was dark as far as the eye could see. Li Xuemei did not feel scared even though she knew that this road had a bad reputation.

The people of Chongming Town are simple and honest. When I first started walking on this road, I would encounter robbers. But after walking this road more often, I no longer encountered robbers.

"Hey...hehe...even though the security situation in Chongming Town is so good...few of my colleagues are willing to deliver food at night...it's really a bargain for me...hehehe..."

It took less than a minute to reach the Made Bridge. Amid the sound of trickling water, Li Xuemei wanted to drive directly across the bridge as usual, but the faint sobbing sounds coming from under the bridge made her subconsciously slow down.

"I only want money. Listen to my advice and hand over all your money to me!"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

"..."

"Hey...hey...this sounds a bit like robbery?"

Li Xuemei was not afraid of the fool's big heart, she only felt hesitation.

I have done many brave things before, but the results were not good. I felt very uncomfortable, so I asked my smart sister to analyze the matter.

My sister convinced herself with a lot of examples of good people not living long and people who stand up for justice not having a good death, and that today's society does not encourage people to stand up for justice.

If I get beaten or killed when I go to help, I will have to bear all the consequences alone. The people I rescued will thank me, the Internet will praise me, but my mother and sister will lose me forever.

Perhaps someone would raise funds after knowing their family's situation, but the money raised is destined to never reach my sister and mother, just like the subsidy that was blocked by an unknown layer after my father's death, and the subsistence allowance quota that was applied for but eventually taken away by Zhu Guang, the owner of the cement factory. There are too many examples.

I am just a little dumber and slower than ordinary people, but I am not stupid. From any perspective, the disadvantages of being brave and righteous outweigh the advantages. Under the subtle influence of society, morality is degenerating, and having a conscience seems stupid. I may live a better life by following the main theme and becoming a petty bourgeois, a sophisticated egoist, or choosing to stay out of things like a utilitarian ordinary person.

"Hey...hehe...it's just like my sister said. It's hard for me to even take care of my family...to be brave and righteous? Am I worthy of it...hehehe..."

After struggling for a while, Li Xuemei twisted the handlebars to accelerate the electric bike and chose to leave here, but the words she heard next made her heart tighten.

"This stretch of road is so remote, no one will pass by at night. Keep crying, even if you cry your throat out, no one will come to save you!"

"You can only cry and cry, but can't say a word? Oh, sorry, I forgot that you, a little beggar, are deaf and dumb. You can't understand what I am saying at all!"

"I can't pretend I didn't hear that!"

Are you not a human being if you even rob people with disabilities?!

Li Xuemei, whose blood pressure soared, pulled the gate hard, slid sideways and chose to go in the opposite direction. In extreme anger, she pulled out a mop that was suspected to be stained with feces from a roadside trash can.

...

In the dark and damp bridge tunnel.

Wearing a black down jacket, a red miniskirt and a mask, Zhu Ting waved a dagger and forced the beggar girl, who was wearing tattered clothes and had messy hair like a bird's nest, into a corner, making her tremblingly take out the only ten-yuan bill from her pocket.

She grabbed it in her hand and saw the little beggar's eyes become tearful. Zhu Ting felt happy as always.

"Pfft, if I asked you to hand over the money, you really handed it all over? You're so stupid, no wonder you ended up becoming a homeless person."

Asking this little beggar to hand over all his money is just a test of his obedience. Once the first step is taken, there will be a second step. Zhu Ting’s favorite thing is to crush the dignity and pride of the vagrants and then watch them die in pain!

"These ten dollars are very important to you? Yes, ten dollars can keep you from starving for many days! But what does this have to do with me?"

As the little beggar looked on in disbelief, she tore up her only ten-yuan note and revealed a cruel and twisted smile, unable to suppress her deep malice any longer.

"I've been watching you for a long time. Ever since you came to Chongming Town, you've been begging. Even when I personally put the job advertisement of my cement factory into your hands, you still chose to beg. Don't tell me you don't even know Chinese characters! It's clear that in this society, as long as you work hard, your life will definitely get better, but you don't even want to work hard! If you don't work hard for my family, how can my father continue to buy luxury cars?"

"People are divided into different classes. For a worthless person like you who has no ambition and only likes to lie down and do nothing, your only value is to help me relieve stress!"

"I haven't made a move for a long time since I killed that old monk who was playing tricks on me this year. Do you know how much pressure I have accumulated? Do you know how much pressure I have accumulated because of my father's expectations of me to play the role of a perfect girl in the eyes of outsiders, and how much pressure I have accumulated as someone else's child!"

"Of course you don't know! After all, you are just a useless deaf-mute! You have to fight for your right to survive by yourself. I will give you a chance! Come, pick up the dagger!"

Throwing the dagger next to the little beggar, Zhu Ting's expression became more and more distorted and crazy. This kind of pleasure of giving a little hope and then destroying it with her own hands, this kind of pleasure of controlling the fate of others would make her addicted to it every time.

"Come on! Come and try to kill me! Kill me and you can live! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"

“Hahahahahahahahaha, why are you just looking behind me? If you don’t do something I’m going to aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

Under the shocked gaze of the little beggar, the tall girl who was driving the electric bike at high speed used the mop handle in her hand as a spear. Using inertia, she used all her strength to push hard at Zhu Ting's buttocks. The penetration of the handle caused Zhu Ting to collapse to the ground, covering her buttocks and crying bitterly.

His electric bike was illegally modified, and using the electric bike's extreme speed and its own strength to deliver a critical strike to the enemy's weakness was no joke. The robber must have been seriously injured.

If a thief dies accidentally, the person who was robbed will be judged responsible, not to mention if someone is harmed by someone else because of his bravery. My sister said that if you encounter such a situation, you should run away as soon as possible! Anyway, there are not many surveillance cameras in Chongming Town. If you are not discovered, it is not a brave act and you will not be held accountable!

"It's now!"

She carried the frightened little beggar to the back seat, twisted the handle of the electric bike to the bottom and drove away. The high-speed friction between the tires and the ground produced a lot of smoke, but Li Xuemei found that her electric bike was just moving in the same place.

"what's the situation..."

Looking back in confusion, Li Xuemei's expression froze for a moment...

Chapter 19: The Non-Existent Sister

Zhu Ting, who was lying on the ground with a red face, actually grabbed the electric bike from behind with her right hand!

The power of this modified electric car is so strong that ordinary people would definitely be dragged if they did this, but this seemingly fragile masked girl was able to hold the electric car with one hand without moving? !

The first time I saw the face of the masked girl, she looked more and more familiar.

"Zhu Ting?!"

Li Xuemei opened her mouth wide when she recognized the latter's identity. Zhu Ting was the daughter of Zhu Guang, the owner of the cement factory.

I will never forget the low-income security quota that was snatched away from my family by Zhu Guang, nor will I forget the heart-wrenching words that Zhu Guang said when my mother was diagnosed with pneumoconiosis and went to the cement factory. But those were Zhu Guang's words after all.

Unlike her father Zhu Guang, who has a very bad reputation, Zhu Ting is recognized as a perfect girl and a good child. She has always taken good care of the employees and family of the cement factory, and even treated me to milk tea. Both I and my sister have a good impression of her...

What is going on here? The person who robbed this little beggar is the cement factory owner's daughter, the perfect Zhu Ting? ? ?

As the daughter of a factory director, Zhu Ting is not short of money at all! What motive and reason does she have to do such an outrageous thing? !

Looking at the resentment, cruelty, distortion and madness in Zhu Ting's eyes, Li Xuemei seemed to have found the answer.

"She just simply likes to hurt others and enjoys it."

He used to be a good person, but now he enjoys hurting others. The huge contrast made Li Xuemei's mind go blank and she was angry about it.

"My sister once said that people have two sides, good and evil are hard to distinguish, there are no absolute good people and bad people in the world, and today I see that it is true."

"Just for fun, she wanted to rob and kill a deaf-mute beggar. No matter what her reasons were, I cannot agree with such behavior!"

The strength displayed by Zhu Ting is indeed far beyond my own, and she is indeed very strong, but I am also quite capable to dare to deliver takeout at night!