"Are you okay?" Blake Pang kept looking at Ethan Shen's pale face as he drove him home. Ethan Shen pursed his lips, adjusted his sitting position, and faced the window, not wanting to pay attention to Blake Pang. Blake Pang took his right hand off the steering wheel and touched his forehead.
"Don't touch me." Ethan Shen frowned and shook off his hand, leaning towards the window. Blake Pang said, "If you don't want me to touch you, sit in the back next time."
Ethan Shen remained silent.
"Next time I will make sure to ask Captain Lucas to change the location." Blake Pang said cautiously.
Ethan Shen's eyes moved slightly towards him, and he whispered incoherently: "It's too empty at the back."
Blake Pang looked at Ethan Shen, who almost wanted to retract his feet, and sighed inaudibly.
Ethan Shen predicted that the woman Natalie Wang would be killed within three days. This meant that during these three days, Blake Pang had to take care of Ethan Shen at the highest level of tension. Blake Pang always remembered the state of Ethan Shen when he had a heart attack. That scene was more exciting than the one he had killed during actual combat training. Blake Pang didn't want to make himself feel that Ethan Shen was too important to him, so he tried his best to prevent that scene from happening again.
Death is the most terrifying and the most relaxing thing a person can experience.
No one can tell how painful death is, but Ethan Shen is the only one who can measure that pain. Blake Pang knows that a broken bone will only cause Ethan Shen to ache for a week at most, but a person's death will send Ethan Shen to the hospital immediately.
Ethan Shen did not say how Natalie Wang died.
The next day, Mason Yang told Blake Pang that Natalie Wang was released on bail. Blake Pang held the phone and looked at Ethan Shen. Ethan Shen was sitting on the sofa pressing the TV button. When he felt Blake Pang's gaze, he looked back at him inexplicably.
"Natalie Wang was released on bail."
"Who?" Ethan Shen narrowed his eyes. Being released on bail meant that Natalie Wang would no longer be protected by the police, and she would have a greater chance of dying tomorrow.
"I don't know. I'm going to look for Fei now."
"I'll go too." Ethan Shen stood up barefoot and picked up his coat. Blake Pang glanced at him, somewhat happy and somewhat worried. He said, "Put on your socks."
When Blake Pang and Ethan Shen saw Mason Yang in the cafe, he was opening his laptop. When he saw Blake Pang, he complained: "Brother Hui, if you want to meet, why don't you just meet at the bureau? Why do you have to...ah, Mr. Shen...?"
"Call me Ethan Shen." Ethan Shen's cold face made Mason Yang unable to be polite. Blake Pang said: "Ah Liang is not convenient to go to the police station, so try not to go if possible. What did you find out?"
"We checked the surveillance cameras on the road around the villa and found a car. The cars passing through the villa area at that time were all high-end, but this car... didn't look like a car that would enter or leave the villa area."
"What car? Who is the owner?" Blake Pang asked.
"It's a second-hand car. The owner is still checking. Kevin Xiao said he would give it to me later." Mason Yang retrieved the surveillance photos of the car and showed them to the two. It really didn't look like a good car. The market price was 20,000 or 30,000 yuan, and no one knew how many times it had been passed around. However, Ethan Shen didn't watch the surveillance, but just asked: "Have you investigated Natalie Wang's family?"
"Family? I've investigated," Mason Yang said with some doubt. "She and her sister live in that villa. Her parents have been divorced for more than ten years. Her mother lives in another province. Her father is a freelancer and is currently working in this province."
"Show me their pictures."
Mason Yang was not used to Ethan Shen's commanding tone. He frowned and said angrily, "What did you see that day? You acted like you saw the murderer of your father. You didn't tell us your intelligence. Why should I tell you all the information in exchange? This is a police case. You are meddling too much."
Blake Pang kept signaling Mason Yang to pay attention to his tone, but Mason Yang ignored Blake Pang and just watched Ethan Shen's brows getting more and more furrowed, feeling secretly refreshed.
Ethan Shen did not explode as Blake Pang expected. He unexpectedly sat opposite Mason Yang, pulled his chair closer, and stared at Mason Yang with his eyes that seemed unusually large because of his thin cheeks, which made Mason Yang shudder. Ethan Shen said in a low voice: "You don't know, so I will tell you. What I saw was the victim's perspective, and what I experienced was what the victim experienced. I hate all the criminals. He killed Natalie Wang, which means he killed me---"
Mason Yang was so shocked by Ethan Shen's words that he couldn't move. Blake Pang held Ethan Shen's shoulders and tried to lighten the atmosphere, but it didn't work. Mason Yang coughed twice, and finally silently opened a few photos and turned the screen to Ethan Shen. When Ethan Shen saw one of the photos, his eyes suddenly widened. "Who is this person?"
"Who?" Blake Pang quickly moved to Ethan Shen's side. Mason Yang took a look and said, "Natalie Wang's father."
"Yes..." Ethan Shen was about to say something when Mason Yang's cell phone rang in his pocket. He quickly pressed the call button: "Hello, Kevin Xiao...ah? You found out...who...what? Her father's car?"
Mason Yang put down the phone in disbelief and looked at Ethan Shen. Ethan Shen said in a low voice: "It was this man... who killed Natalie Wang."
Before Blake Pang took Ethan Shen home, Mason Yang rushed out. Natalie Wang did not confess everything when she described her sister's murder, so the police almost missed this person. Blake Pang always wanted to ask Ethan Shen how Natalie Wang died, but Ethan Shen did not keep any records or take notes when he interrogated Natalie Wang that night.
Blake Pang called Jordan Wang using the car phone on the way.
"Things are a bit complicated. The previous case was already a headache for us... Natalie Wang was bailed out by her uncle, Gregory Wang, who works in this city. His record is pretty good. The trouble is her father, Robert Wang. Her father has been to the police station and a drug rehabilitation center several times in other provinces. Natalie Wang said he is a freelancer, but I think he is just a vagrant. Her mother is in good condition. After the divorce, she left the house to the two sisters. We checked the surveillance records and found that the car entered and exited the villa area on the 3rd and 13th of this month. It was on the 20th of this month that Wang Liyi was killed. We didn't think it was someone close to her who committed the crime, and now we have sent people to chase them. No wonder Natalie Wang was hesitant before. If it was really her father who did it, I don't know what to say..."
"Are you sure it's her dad?"
"Originally, her father could only be listed as a suspect, but Ah Fei just told me what Ethan Shen said, so it's almost certain." Jordan Wang's voice came through the car phone. Blake Pang saw Ethan Shen's hand clenched into a fist and placed on his thigh.
"I just contacted Natalie Wang's mother. She hasn't heard that one of her daughters has died... What a sin. Hey, the phone rang. Hang up first."
Blake Pang hung up the call and glanced at Ethan Shen from the corner of his eyes. Ethan Shen closed his eyes and said nothing. Blake Pang stopped at a red light and carefully observed his expression. Then he grabbed Ethan Shen's fist and said, "Here you come?!"
Ethan Shen didn't say anything, his eyebrows knitted together, beads of sweat oozed out of his forehead. Blake Pang was so anxious that he kept looking at the red light, and the tires had already moved out of the white line.
"Don't go to... the hospital..." Ethan Shen panted softly, "It's okay..."
"It's okay! How did she die?" Blake Pang couldn't help but swear and clenched Ethan Shen's fist tightly.
Ethan Shen's body began to twist slightly, as if he was trying to suppress the pain. He stretched his neck and made a hoarse and weak sound. Blake Pang drove the car out at the moment the green light came on. Ethan Shen said: "Go home... go... home..."
Blake Pang rushed all the way, fully demonstrating the characteristics of a special forces soldier and rushed home at lightning speed. When he got Ethan Shen off the car, Ethan Shen's legs could hardly stand. Blake Pang picked up Ethan Shen and carried him sideways into the door. Ethan Shen's legs kept rubbing against each other, and his body struggled, as if he was trying his best to suppress an unbearable but not extreme pain.
Blake Pang put him on the sofa and quickly searched the medicine box. However, he didn't know what kind of injury Ethan Shen suffered, and he couldn't prescribe the right medicine. He could only search blindly to make himself busy. Finally, he knelt beside the sofa where Ethan Shen was with a whole medicine box, looking at him helplessly. Blake Pang felt that all his helplessness in this life was used on Ethan Shen. During the special forces training, he was often the first one and never felt frustrated and incompetent. However, Ethan Shen was like his nemesis, making him feel incapable for eight years.
"Where exactly are you injured? Tell me! What did he do to you?" Blake Pang was scratching his head anxiously, but he didn't dare to touch Ethan Shen. Ethan Shen's forehead was covered with sweat beads, and his hair was stuck together and tangled. He narrowed his eyes and uttered a series of fierce and hoarse sounds from his throat: "...Sc*mbag..."
Blake Pang clenched his fists and watched Ethan Shen curl up like a shrimp. "It's going to... split... split..."
Ethan Shen didn't calm down until midnight. Blake Pang received a call from Jordan Wang and learned that Natalie Wang did not return home after leaving the police station. He also couldn't contact her uncle Gregory Wang. The police station dispatched many police cars to search, and the surveillance cameras of all streets were called up. The search lasted until three o'clock in the morning - until Gregory Wang called the police.
Gregory Wang said on the phone that after Natalie Wang was released on bail, she received a call on the way home. Natalie Wang seemed very scared and asked him to take her home immediately. After that, he called Natalie Wang many times but couldn't get through, so Gregory Wang finally called the police.
"We didn't find her at her home!" Mason Yang said quickly on the phone, "The community surveillance only saw her leave the villa half an hour after she got home. The villa area is surrounded by mountains and forests on both sides, and the surveillance can't see that far. By the time we finish searching the mountains, Natalie Wang will be dead! Can you... ask..."
Blake Pang turned on the loudspeaker of his phone, and Ethan Shen listened to their conversation. When Ethan Shen gestured to him, Blake Pang put the phone to Ethan Shen's mouth.
Ethan Shen's eyes were bloodshot and his face was very tired. However, his hoarse voice was still calm: "Go out of the small door at the north gate of the villa area, go west for 1,500 meters, to the southwest corner of the temporary wooden shed... She was dragged for 50 meters and beaten for 33 minutes, but she remained conscious."
When Mason Yang heard Ethan Shen's usual cold and hoarse words, he clenched the phone in his hand and kicked the door of the villa. "North small door! Five hundred meters west!"
Blake Pang had been sitting by Ethan Shen's bed, waiting with Ethan Shen for the phone to ring again. In the quiet room, the only sound that could be heard was Ethan Shen's slightly heavy breathing.
"Would you like some more water?" Blake Pang asked.
Ethan Shen covered his eyes with his arms and expressed his disapproval with silence.
Half an hour later, Blake Pang's phone rang. Ethan Shen's eyes immediately moved to his phone, and Blake Pang picked up the phone shortly afterwards.
"Brother Hui..." Mason Yang's voice came from the external microphone, "...she's dead."
Ethan Shen closed his eyes and reached out to turn off the bedside lamp. "Get out."
Blake Pang was silent for a moment, then left as he was told. He closed Ethan Shen's door, walked into his room, stood on the balcony and said, "How did he die?"
Mason Yang's voice was very low, carrying a sense of deep regret and self-annoyance.
"It's the same as what Ethan Shen said. She was stripped naked and dragged for fifty meters, with multiple injuries and fractures all over her body. Her father, Robert Wang, beat her, R@p3d her, and then killed her."
Blake Pang didn't say anything for a moment.
Mason Yang was silent for a long time, and asked with some guilt: "Ethan Shen...are you okay?"
Blake Pang said: "He is not dead."
Mason Yang has been with Blake Pang since he was a child, playing together, training together, and fighting together. This was also the first time that Blake Pang hung up on him. Mason Yang suddenly realized that during the time when he and Blake Pang were not together, Brother Hui already had a more important friend. Ethan Shen may not be able to match the friendship he and Blake Pang have built up since childhood, but Ethan Shen has been with Blake Pang for eight years, sharing life and death. Their experiences may not be like those of ordinary people, or even ordinary soldiers or prisoners. In addition to avoiding surveillance and hunting by both the black and white sides, Ethan Shen also has threats from himself. As long as he uses his ability once, Ethan Shen walks on the edge of life and death. And Blake Pang also paced between losing him and not losing him.
Mason Yang suddenly realized why Ethan Shen never smiled. The reason why he hated prisoners and was unwilling to help the police was not just because he had been to prison.
Mason Yang sat in the interrogation room, looking at the ragged, disheveled man opposite him. After killing his daughter, he ran three kilometers and was caught by the police. When he was caught, he still had a neurotic smile on his face. Mason Yang stared at the man coldly, and Ethan Shen's words echoed in his mind again and again: "What I saw was the victim's perspective, and what I experienced was what the victim experienced. I hate all the prisoners. He killed Natalie Wang, which means he killed me---"
Jordan Wang came out of the interrogation room and closed the door. Mason Yang's expression made him feel relieved. When he came out, he saw Gregory Wang sitting outside. Gregory Wang's face was a little pale, and his body trembled when he saw Jordan Wang.
Jordan Wang handed him a cup of warm water and said, "Drink it. If you turn yourself in, you can suffer less punishment."
Gregory Wang seemed to be greatly frightened, his hands shook, and half of the water spilled out. Jordan Wang said: "The person who collected fingerprints is now in the department. When he comes out, there is another 'fugitive' who will be arrested sooner or later."
Gregory Wang seemed to have aged a dozen years in an instant. He squeezed the paper cup tightly, and the water in it spilled onto his knees. He was silent for a full five minutes, then lowered his head and said, "I surrender..."
Gregory Wang's family situation is very good. His only brother is Robert Wang. After Robert Wang started taking drugs, Gregory Wang became his financial source after his divorce. And what Robert Wang used to repay Gregory Wang was his two daughters.
Mason Yang sat in a coffee shop and slowly told Blake Pang: "After Robert Wang came out of the drug rehabilitation center, everyone thought he was successful, and so did his two daughters. But they got addicted again in the second year. Natalie Wang and Wang Liyi were sentenced to live with their mother. After they found a job, their mother moved away. Gregory Wang supported Robert Wang's drug use with the condition that Wang Liyi and Natalie Wang would be the ones to take care of the drugs."
"You mean, Gregory Wang and Robert Wang teamed up to rob Natalie Wang and her sister?" Blake Pang glanced at him and said with a frown.
"Gregory Wang confessed that he asked Robert Wang to cheat the two sisters and that he was unwilling to pay unless the two sisters were willing to follow him."
"Robert Wang agreed?"
"He didn't agree at first, but it's hard to say for someone who's taking drugs," Mason Yang said coldly, "and Gregory Wang told him that the sisters were not his biological children." Mason Yang sneered. "Natalie Wang and Wang Liyi are kindergarten teachers, and one just started working. Neither of them has the money to support their father for a long time. What can they do?"
Blake Pang turned the cup and frowned, "What about that case?"
"Natalie Wang had a long-term S3xual relationship with Gregory Wang, but Gregory Wang still wanted Wang Liyi. This was the conflict that triggered the incident," Mason Yang said. "Wang Liyi was killed in a dispute with him, and Natalie Wang still had a close relationship with Gregory Wang, so she refused to give Gregory Wang away at the time."
"What happened after that?" Blake Pang asked, "Gregory Wang thought Natalie Wang had already betrayed them?"
"Yes, who wouldn't be scared when they go to jail? Natalie Wang concealed the truth and didn't lie. But Gregory Wang didn't believe her. Before Gregory Wang released Natalie Wang on bail, she had already informed Robert Wang," Mason Yang said. "He later reported to the police that Natalie Wang received a threatening call, but in fact, he handed Natalie Wang over to Robert Wang. Robert Wang was almost insane and only knew to 'teach' his 'non-biological' daughter a lesson."
Blake Pang closed his eyes, took a sip of coffee and sighed.
"First R@p3 and then kill... It is said that even a tiger will not eat its own cubs. Can a person who can do such a thing still be considered a human being?" Mason Yang angrily pounded the table, shaking the coffee on the table.
Blake Pang thought of Ethan Shen's expression of endurance and the heavy and extremely angry voice of "Sc*mbag".
"Ethan Shen...are you okay?" Mason Yang looked at Blake Pang's expression and said cautiously.
"It's okay. I took him to the hospital. It's just bruises, and there's no serious problem with the bones." Blake Pang rubbed the cup with his fingers, but his mind was wandering elsewhere.
"Brother Hui!" Mason Yang called Blake Pang back. He looked at Blake Pang seriously and said, "Brother Hui, I take back what I said to Ethan Shen before. Please thank him for me. Next time, we will catch the murderer before the victim is killed!"
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