Chapter 52: Humbert Humbert Nineteen

Chapter 52: Humbert Humbert Nineteen

Crazy... Crazy, crazy. Had Fei Du suddenly lost his mind and got arrested by Luo Wenzhou himself for recklessly driving in downtown and got locked away in the 'little dark room', it would've sounded less crazy than this.

Luo Wenzhou's temples throbbed wildly. His overloaded CPU barely got time to cool down: An offer in April. That means, even for someone as affluent and well-connected as Fei Du, he would have to start preparing all of these since last year.

Why?

Did he just wake up one day and suddenly became madly in love with research? Did he have too much to eat and nothing else to do? Did he do it to get close to Tao Ran? Or was he suddenly sick of this world that stunk of money? This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

Meanwhile, the crowd still bustled downstairs. A mid-aged woman accidentally dropped her photograph - one that she had been holding in her hand the whole time. She quickly reached for it but a gust of wind blew and carried the dated piece of photo further and further away. It was clearly a minor accident. However, to a brittle-nerved person it was enough to break her. As if sensing a bad omen, the woman stumbled, then knelt on the floor and started wailing.

Her hoarse yet piercing cry climbed up the staircases, penetrated the shut windows in the hallway and stabbed everyone in the heart. Amidst the agitating clamor, a forensic technician rushed toward them and reported: "Captain Luo, the test result came out -- the one you sent over yesterday -- the blood on the fabric belongs to Qu Tong!"

Luo Wenzhou inhaled deeply. He stared at Fei Du for a while, then walked toward Director Lu's office in silence.

Twenty minutes later, Fei Du walked into Su Luozhan's room with two boxes of ice cream in hand. He laid both of them down on the small table and asked: "Ice-cream? Which flavor do you want?"

Su Luozhan hesitated. She looked at him for a moment, then pointed at the strawberry one.

Fei Du gave her the strawberry one and picked up the other for himself. Then he took out a pair of headphones from his pocket, inserted it on his cell phone and turned on a soccer game. Legs crossed and ice-cream at hand, Fei Du paid her no more attention.

The two sat there wordlessly for quite a while. At first, Su Luozhan was very quiet and avoided eye contact. Half way through the ice cream, seeing that the man really had no intention of talking, she finally gave in and peeked at him. Her eyes glanced over Fei Du's shirt, his cell phone, and finally arrived at his wrist that was resting on the table.

After studying his watch for a while, she lightly tapped on the floor and asked, "Is your watch genuine?"

Fei Du made no response, as if he hasn't heard her at all.

She waited. Then, after a short pause, she reached one finger across the table and lightly tapped next to his cell phone.

Fei Du finally noticed. He took out one earphone and asked: "Yes?"

The volume of the game was indeed very large. The commentator's yelling and screaming leak out of the earphone into the quiet room.

Su Luozhan chewed on the corner of the plastic spoon while asking: "What are you here for? Aren't you going to ask me questions?"

"Oh, my colleagues are busy so they sent me to look over you for a while." Fei Du seemed reluctant to pause the game. He only spared a casual glance at her before focusing back at the game. His answer was absentminded too.

When others kept asking questions, the girl played the card of ignorance and let nothing out. But when others were completely uninterested, she now seemed a little discontent about being ignored.

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She started peeking at him, at first just occasionally. After finishing the ice-cream, she stared at him altogether, even tried to start a conversation: "You're a cop too?"

Fei Du answered lazily: "An intern."

"Are interns rich?" Su Luozhan raised her eyebrow like a grown-up. "Your watch seems expensive. Is it genuine or a replica?"

As if finding her question funny, Fei Du first raised his brow in surprise and then chuckled: "You know what a 'replica' is? Girl, who taught you all these?"

Su Luozhan's face suddenly fell. Clearly he did not take her seriously and treated her like a kid. She was offended.

She remembered him, the man with a plastered left arm. Back in the Su house he was like this too. He didn't think that she could do any real damage, or do anything at all.

Most people are like this: when they got away with things by playing innocence, it feels great. But the good feeling fades quickly, because the point of "playing a pig to eat a tiger" is at the "eat a tiger" part. No one likes to play a pig forever -- especially when others really thought of you as a pig.

Fei Du frowned and stared at Su Luozhan in fury and disbelief: "How could you think this!"

From the moment that he treated her like a stupid child and tried to "enlighten" her, Su Luozhan had a sullen anxiety in her heart. How she wished to break apart that calm and gentle face of his! Now she finally did it. Seeing his calmness shatter brought her some strange pleasure.

"Anyways, I won't be sentenced, right?" Su Luozhan looked at Fei Du triumphantly. "The lambs are so stupid. They believe everything you say. You talk to them once, and the second time they'll see you as a friend and they'll follow you wherever you go... haha, so funny it's killing me."

"Su Luozhan," Fei Du's lips trembled, "Stop saying this nonsense!"

Su Luozhan didn't get to see the expressions of Qu Tong's parents when they received the recording. Just imagining it made her heart itchy. Now, imagining the aguish of this young "police officer" being grafted onto the targets of her psychotic torturing, her eyes lit up with excitement.

"It wasn't nonsense." she lightly tapped the ground with her toes, speaking naively, "My mom taught me this. She said that when other animals are in danger, they either fight or flight. Only lambs are different. When lambs get scared they lose their mind and stand still, and they will follow anyone. But my mother was a lamb too, very stupid after all. I read her diary once. When she was my age she was once frightened out of her mind. Since then she never had the guts to leave her signature any more. "

Fei Du: "... What signature?"

Su Luozhan naughtily put one hand next to hear ear like a phone, and answered: "Because her 'knight' was dead, she never dared to do it again."

"Her knight?"

"Yeah, pretty cheesy, right?" Su Luozhan smirked, "He was just a nicer 'customer'. My family lived on the hunt. My mother was good at nothing except "catching the lambs". When she grew old, she couldn't even do that anymore and I had to support her...Phew, finally she died."

"... Enough, knock it off." said Fei Du stressfully, "You can't...you're not old enough."

"Oh but I am. I learnt it when I was seven." Su Luozhan grinned at him delightfully, "My mother entertained the guests with the lambs I caught. Sometimes she let me go "hunting" with the guests too. When they were finished, they only need to take the lamb home and she will take care of the rest. She learned it from her mother. "

In front of the monitoring screen, Luo Wenzhou jumped to his feet: "Su Xiaolan's drunkard mother, search her!"

Lang Qiao barely entered the monitor room. Hearing this command she turned around and dashed out immediately.

Tao Ran was completely awake by now: "What? She's saying...that...Su Xiaolan's mother was a procuress in child prostitution, and Wu Guangchuan was just one of her customers? Wait, but why did she refuse to say anything when we asked her, but now telling everything to Fei Du even if he didn't ask anything at all?"

"You treated her like a suspect. You were the 'police'." Luo Wenzhou answered softly, eyes on the screen, "Fei Du treated her like a 'naive child'. He was the 'parent'. So she can't help but send him the 'recording'."

"Impossible," Fei Du shot up so fast that his knee bumped into the table. The table jumped, then landed heavily on the ground. "The killer was Wu Guangchuan, and he was dead by stabbing from the victim's father. After that no more similar cases... "

He suddenly stopped. His eyes were wide open as if he was stricken by a horrific thought.

"You never heard of them, that's all." Su Luozhan admired his expression, "Anyways, that uncle deserved it. My mother loved him so, but he was no different from the other scumbags. Having my mother was not enough, no. He wanted the other stupid lambs too. Jealousy drove her mad so she invented a 'fun' signature. "

Fei Du: "What about you and Xu Wenchao? Are you in the same kind of rela..."

"Of course not!" Su Luozhan called out angrily, "Who did you think he was? Just a temporary cleaner!"

Fei Du suddenly raised his voice: "Then why did you send the recording to Qu Tong's home!"

Su Luozhan kept smiling, arms stretched out on the table.

"It's fun." she said.

"Boss! Su Xiaolan's mother was called Su Hui. She was mostly unemployed, an addict, and ran a Majong house. Under her name there is a second-handed truck!"

playing a pig to eat a tiger: Pretending to be silly in order to beat someone smart.