Chapter 247 He seems to be a dog owned by my master.
After lunch, in the police station conference room.

Jiang Yuan sat in front of the terrarium, feeding the trembling little spiders, her mind preoccupied with Fu Xiaoxiao in the office area.

She turned her head to Xiao Xu and said, "I'm going to check on Xiao Xiao."

"Okay." Xiao Xu nodded. "It's probably quite frightening since it's the first time he's encountered something like this."

“Yes.” Jiang Yuan got up and walked out of the conference room.

Fu Xiaoxiao had just finished giving her statement and came out of the interrogation room when the two of them bumped into each other. "Yuan Yuan."

"Feeling better?" Jiang Yuan took her hand. "Want to go across the street and buy a coffee or milk tea?"

"I feel much better." Fu Xiaoxiao took her arm and smiled. "No need, you can go ahead and do what you need to do. I've already asked Xiaohang to pick me up."

Jiang Yuan still pulled her towards the police station exit, saying, "Since Xiao Hang hasn't arrived yet, let's go buy some first, and also buy a cup for the others."

The two crossed the street and bought more than a dozen cups of milk tea. When they returned with the milk tea, Fu Xiaohang had already arrived.

Seeing them return, he asked anxiously, "Sister, Yuan Yuan, what happened? Why are you at the police station?"

"It's nothing," Fu Xiaoxiao waved her hand. "I'm keeping your sister Yuan Yuan company while she works."

Fu Xiaohang looked at Jiang Yuan with a puzzled expression, "Does Sister Yuan Yuan work at the police station?"

"Don't ask too many questions, kid." Fu Xiaoxiao shoved a cup of milk tea into his arms. "Drink your milk tea."

She then looked at Jiang Yuan, "Can you lift it?"

“Okay.” Jiang Yuan took the milk tea from her hand and looked at Fu Xiaohang, “Go shopping with your sister.”

"Okay." Although Fu Xiaohang was full of questions, he nodded. "I understand."

Jiang Yuan watched the two leave, then carried the milk tea into the police station.

"Xiao Kai, please distribute the milk tea to everyone." She gave the milk tea to Meng Xiao Kai, and then took two other cups into the meeting room. "I'm back."

Xiao Xu looked up and asked, "Is your friend feeling better?"

"Her brother picked her up." Jiang Yuan opened the milk tea and handed it to her. "Have some milk tea."

"Thank you." Xiao Xu took the milk tea and took a sip. "It's delicious."

Jiang Yuan looked at the little spider in the terrarium, took a picture of it, and then used image search to find out what it was.

Blue-green tarantula?
Judging from its size, this spider is probably still a baby spider.

Why would Xie Yuchen suddenly start raising spiders?

Jiang Yuan put down her phone and looked back at the terrarium. The little spider had probably recovered; its eight legs were no longer trembling, and it was slowly eating dried insects.

She said softly, "Hello, little spider, I'm Jiang Yuan, you can call me Yuan Yuan."

Hearing that humans seemed to be talking to it, the little spider stopped eating, and its eight small eyes, located at the front of its head, began to move.

"Are you talking to me?" the little spider asked.

Seeing that it responded, Jiang Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up, and a faint smile spread across her lips. "Yes, what's your name?"

The little spider seemed a bit slow to react, taking several seconds to answer, "I don't have a name."

"Can I help you think of a name?" Jiang Yuan asked tentatively.

Sensing her kindness and pleasant scent, the little spider agreed: "Okay, then help me think of a nice name."

The spider's body was covered in fine hairs, like velvet. Jiang Yuan raised her eyebrows slightly, "How about we call it Rongrong?"

"Rongrong?" The little spider thought for a moment, then said excitedly, "It's a very nice name, I like it very much." "I'm glad you like it." Jiang Yuan asked gently, "Rongrong, why aren't you staying in the terrarium? Why are you hiding under the sofa instead?"

"My door was open, so I wanted to go out for a walk," Rongrong said. "But I got lost and couldn't find my way home."

Jiang Yuan nodded. "I see."

Rongrong continued eating the dried insects.

Jiang Yuan thought for a moment, then found a photo of Xie Yuchen and showed it to Rongrong: "Rongrong, do you know this human?"

"Let me see." Rongrong crawled forward and peered at the photo on the phone through the glass. "This is a bad human. He hates me."

Why do you think he dislikes you?

"That day, a human brought me to his house. When he saw me, he yelled and said I was disgusting." Rongrong said, still a little sad. "Am I disgusting?"

Jiang Yuan immediately shook her head: "Of course not, I think you're very cute."

When someone complimented her on how cute she was, Rongrong wasn't so sad anymore.

"That wicked human even tried to throw me away, but luckily my master disagreed, so I wasn't thrown away. But he didn't care whether I lived or died, and he hasn't fed me anything. I almost starved to death."

"Your master?" Jiang Yuan frowned in confusion. "Isn't this human your master? Do you know what her relationship is with your master?"

Rongrong thought for a while before answering, "He seems to be a dog that my owner keeps. It's so strange. He's clearly a human, so why does my owner say he's a dog?"

Jiang Yuan: "Is your master male or female?"

Rongrong: "It's male."

Jiang Yuan was silent for a moment, then spoke again: "Rongrong, did you know that this bad human is dead?"

"I don't know." Rongrong swayed her body slowly.

Jiang Yuan pursed her lips, clasped her hands together to support her chin, and her delicate eyes revealed a thoughtful expression.

At that moment, the conference room door was pushed open from the outside.

He Lewei walked in with a tablet computer. “I checked the property surveillance footage. On May 21, Jiang Yuan left Xie Yuchen’s house. Fifty minutes later, a deliveryman brought him a box. He went out on the evening of May 22. When he came back at around 3 a.m. on May 23, he was acting very strangely. He hasn’t gone out since then.”

Jiang Yuan took the tablet and looked at it, then frowned and said, "I've known him for many years, and this is the first time I've seen him like this."

His expression was blank, he looked lost and dejected, his steps were unsteady, and he swayed as if he had suffered a heavy blow.

“Something must have happened during the ten hours he was gone,” Jiang Yuan said, looking at He Lewei. “Can you find out?”

“I’ll give it a try.” He Le glanced at the little spider. “Any progress on your end?”

"We're still asking," Jiang Yuan said. "All we know so far is that this spider wasn't raised by Xie Yuchen; it was probably delivered to his house by me after I left that day."

He Lewei nodded: "Okay, I'll check again."

He turned and left the meeting room.

Listening to the humans' conversation, Rongrong asked curiously, "Are you investigating why that bad human died?"

Jiang Yuan: "Yes, I brought you here to ask if you know the specifics."

"Then ask away." Rongrong liked her quite a bit. "You're a good human being, and I'm willing to tell you, but I don't know if it will be of any help."

Jiang Yuan laughed, her tone gentle: "Do you remember what those bad humans did yesterday?"

"Let me think," Rongrong said, twirling her eight legs as she spun around, trying to recall what she was going to do.


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