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Chapter 626 The Wandering Car
Of course, Gu Mian was just trying to scare the driving instructor.

Once you've squeezed every last drop of value out of him in this instance, who cares where he goes in the next instance?
Seeing the coach's panicked expression, Gu Mian sat up straight and leaned back in her seat, feeling quite pleased.

Seeing Gu Mian's smiling face, Coach Che felt that he had been tricked.

But so what if he tricked me? Could I really raise my already hardened fist to hit him? No, Coach Che wouldn't dare.

He could only clench his hard fists and shrink into the corner of the back seat, plotting his next clandestine job.

As he thought about it, Coach Che suddenly felt a little sad.

He felt he might not be able to find another job.

His three adorable little hearses are still waiting to be fed at the auto repair shop...

Just then, Gu Mian's voice suddenly rang out from the side: "Oh right, there's something I forgot to tell you."

"What?" Coach Che looked at Gu Mian cautiously, hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Good news or bad news?"

Gu Mian raised an eyebrow: "One bad news, one good news."

The driving instructor hesitated, wondering whether he should hear the bad news or the good news first.

But Gu Mian didn't give him a choice and announced directly: "The good news is that you don't have to work as a car repairman anymore."

Upon hearing this, the driving instructor looked up in astonishment. Had the instance taken pity on him and fixed his car? Could he then continue being an NPC in his special instance?
Thinking of this, he became excited, and a happy expression spread across his face.

Then Gu Mian announced the bad news: "Because they've all gone to the junkyard, you can be a homeless person forever."

The driving instructor's eyes rolled back and he fainted.

Coco, sitting in the passenger seat, felt a little guilty. It turned out that the ambulance she'd been rummaging through the junkyard was this poor NPC's car...

She also remembered that there was a note with writing on it stuck to the windshield of those cars: "I'm temporarily leaving these cars at this repair shop. I'll come back to get them repaired when I have the money. Please don't tow them away—Driving Instructor"

But the last three cars still ended up in the landfill.

Just by reading these few lines, you can tell it's a tragic story.

The taxi drove through the traffic lights and slowly came to a stop at the roadside.

"We've arrived at Dianxin Hospital," the driver stopped the car and looked back at the unconscious driving instructor. "Well... you've arrived, you can wake him up now."

In the end, Coach Che was pulled out of the car by Gu Mian.

When the doctors at the hospital saw Gu Mian, wearing a white coat, carrying someone into the hospital, they assumed that the doctor had picked up a patient who had suddenly died on the street.

Thanks to Coco and Bailu's efforts, Gu Mian and the others soon found Li Shu's hospital room.

His ward was on the ninth floor at the far west end, opposite the staircase.

It's clear that the people in this city are all quite healthy; there aren't many people in the wards, and Li Shu has a ward all to herself.

Presumably for ventilation, most of the ward doors were left open.

When Gu Mian arrived at the door, she saw a young man quietly leaning against the middle of the hospital bed, reading a book with his head down. The midday sun was intense and bright, almost filling the entire ward. The sunlight poured onto the book in the young man's hands, making the pages so white that they were almost blinding. The young man looked up from the book with slight discomfort and saw the group of people standing at the door.

"Who are you?" The young man stroked the pages of the book in his hands, his gaze lingering on Gu Mian's white coat. He didn't think this person was a doctor from a hospital. Then he turned his gaze to the unconscious driving instructor.

Upon seeing the driving instructor, Li Shu seemed to understand something: "People from the court? Judges?"

It seems that Li Shu went to court and met with the driving instructor after the incident.

Gu Mian nodded: "That's right, it is I."

This world is quite interesting.

Judging from the reactions of the judges, it seems that it's not unusual for a judge to visit a victim alone.

It's important to know that judges and victims in Earth's courts rarely have any contact in private.

Li Shu gave the group a polite smile: "The court told me that someone might come to investigate, and I will cooperate with you."

As he spoke, he closed the book he was holding and placed it on the off-white bedside table beside him. Gu Mian glanced at the book's cover; the title was "The Vanished Murderer."

The others also saw the book's title.

Bai Lu sneaked up to Gu Mian and whispered, "Although I haven't read this book, it looks like it teaches murderers how to get away with their crimes. Could he really be the real culprit?" Bai Lu had previously considered the possibility that Li Shu was the real culprit.

It's highly suspicious that they've run into this guy reading something about "The Vanished Murderer." But if he really is the murderer, would he so openly and brazenly place the book in front of the judge?

Noticing Bai Lu's curious gaze, Li Shu pushed the book toward the group: "It's so boring here, so I'm looking for a book to read."

His expression was so frank that Bailu was unsure of her own guess.

Gu Mian glanced at the book that Li Shu had pushed over, then looked away and casually tossed the unconscious coach onto the empty bed next to her.

Because it was thrown casually, Coach Che let out an unconscious groan when he hit the bed.

Li Shu looked curiously at the man in the suit on the bed next to her: "What's wrong with him?"

"Motion sickness." Gu Mian didn't want to explain, so she just made up a short excuse.

But this reason was not convincing at all. Even Bai Lu, who was standing next to her, looked incredulous. It was the first time she had ever seen someone faint from motion sickness.

Gu Mian didn't intend to discuss the driving instructor's matter too much. He plopped down on Li Shu's bed and began to introduce himself.

"Hello, I'm the best-performing judge in our court. I've handled at least eighty or a hundred wrongful convictions. You can rest assured when you hand over a case to me..."

Xie Bi'an chuckled softly, and Li Shu on the bed subconsciously glanced at the person who was covered up completely.

The egret stiffly twisted its neck, genuinely afraid the doctor would blurt out, "Just wash your neck and wait to go to jail!"

Fortunately, Gu Mian stopped herself in time and did not say what Bai Lu was thinking.

These three people, no, these four people are definitely not normal people. Bai Lu also included Chu Changge in Gu Mian's group.

Working on cases with such a group of people, she felt that she was probably going to die soon.

Li Shu's expression also became somewhat stiff.

He moved slightly back, trying to distance himself from the judge who looked like a doctor. Once he was sure the distance was safe, he looked up at the others, his eyes full of questions, as if he had begun to doubt the authenticity of Gu Mian's identity.

Bai Lu quickly coughed a few times to cover up his words: "He really is the most outstanding judge in our court, a genius, haha, geniuses are always a bit eccentric...yes, eccentric..."

Her smile was so stiff when she said this that she almost lost it.

Li Shu nodded hesitantly, seemingly accepting Bai Lu's words for the time being: "I see."

After introducing himself, Gu Mian, who was sitting on the bed, dutifully began his investigation, remembering that he had come here to find the truth.

“I came here to ask you a few questions,” Gu Mian recalled the contents of the case file. “I’ve read the case details. Yuan Haotian stormed into your house and killed your two roommates. What was your relationship with Yuan Haotian? Did you have any grudges against him? Why did he kill your two roommates but not you, giving you a chance to call for help?”

Li Shu bowed his head slightly.

Bai Lu felt that Gu Mian's question was somewhat inhumane, and it was cruel to directly reopen old wounds. But there was nothing she could do; they were just a few players who could die at any moment, and they had no time to provide psychological counseling to the victims.

“We’ve met Yuan Haotian several times. A friend of mine works in the same office as him. We first met him at a dinner party hosted by that friend. Yuan Haotian gives off a feeling… well, very quiet…”

He spoke slowly, as if searching his memory for the few times he had met Yuan Haotian: "He didn't talk much, and was silent most of the time, as if he had suffered some kind of blow. Later, that friend told us that he had recently lost his parents and sister in a fire."

As Li Shu was speaking, Xie Bi'an's black hood suddenly moved, as if he had turned his head.

"At that time, all his relatives had died, and he was the only one left alive. My friend told me that his temper had become bad since he lost his family, and told us not to provoke him."

"Of course we wouldn't provoke him, but things always happen by chance. Later, during the Qingming Festival, that friend's company organized a tour. It was a very affordable way to travel out of the province. Some people in his company didn't want to go, so they sold their spots. The three of us were bored during the holiday, so we bought three spots from his colleague."
"You can imagine what happened next. We met Yuan Haotian again. That trip was to climb Weishan Mountain, but for some reason, Yuan Haotian and Cao Deren got into an argument while climbing the mountain..."

Cao Deren was one of the victims in this case, and the other victim was named Zhang Shengli, Gu Mian noted in her mind.

"To this day, I still don't know what exactly caused their argument back then, but it was just a minor conflict. Because Yuan Haotian wasn't quite right in the head at the time, my friend quickly tried to smooth things over and get Cao Deren to apologize, but Cao Deren was stubborn and refused to apologize, so the matter was left unresolved."
"But I don't know if it was because of that argument, Yuan Haotian seems to have his eye on us. We often run into him after we came back from Weishan."
"Sometimes, on my way to work, if I suddenly turn around, I'll see him following closely behind me."
"Sometimes when I order takeout, I see a figure flash by in the hallway when I open the door to pick up the food, and it looks a bit like him;

"The worst part was when we went to the toilet. Our apartment was a middle unit, and the toilet was separated from the outside corridor by a wall. To allow for ventilation, a window was installed more than two meters high on the toilet wall, which could only be opened through a gap about two fingers wide. Once, when Zhang Shengli was using the toilet, he looked up and saw Yuan Haotian staring at him with wide eyes through that two-finger gap."

Upon hearing this, the egret shuddered.

Coco also shrank closer to Gu Mian in a very cooperative manner.

Damn it! GuGu organized a monthly ticket event and a fan title event, but they still haven't passed the review.

Waaaaaah, the event is about to expire after the review is completed!!! Auntie is crying.

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