I'm only five years old, how come I've become the military region's darling?

Su Mei trembled uncontrollably. She no longer cared about the harsh words; all she knew was that if those people really caught the woman who had performed the surgery on her, she was finished.

Just then, several figures suddenly appeared outside the door.

"Captain Xing, have you found my Jingjing?"

Xing Yong looked at the child's mother and comforted her, "Our people have sealed off the surrounding area and are searching house by house. We'll have news soon."

"Waaaaah, my Jingjing." The woman collapsed into Jiang Dajun's arms, the once tough man now holding her shoulders with red eyes. Jiang Hongxia, standing beside them, pursed her lips and looked at Su Mei, who had appeared in the courtyard, with some surprise.

"Dr. Su, what are you doing here?"

Su Mei looked up in a flustered manner. Jiang Hongxia? She instinctively felt guilty. "I... I was looking for a house nearby when they dragged me here."

Jiang Hongxia was taken aback. "Why would I arrest you if you're looking for a house?"

"What do you mean, looking for a place? That woman's here for an abortion!"

The onlookers laughed and mocked, while Jiang Hongxia was shocked, staring at her stomach. "Dr. Su, you, you... you're pregnant?"

She thought Su Mei forged the divorce papers because of true love, never expecting that she would actually... have an affair?

She took a few steps back, as if she had some kind of virus on her. In this day and age, messing around with men and women is something that will be condemned by thousands.

Anyone who gets involved will be disgusted.

She hissed in disbelief, "Dr. Su, how could you do such a thing?"

"So what if she did this? She even forged it. Oh, right, aren't you her good friend? She knows where the bad guy who kidnapped Jiang Jingjing went, but she won't tell."

Xiaochun speaks in the softest, most childlike voice, yet she harbors the greatest malice.

"Does she know where Jingjing is?"

The child's mother released Jiang Dajun and collapsed in front of Su Mei, crying, "Comrade, do you know where my daughter is?"

"I...I don't know!"

The woman knelt down helplessly, pleading, "Comrade, please tell me, where is my daughter? Please!"

Heavy thuds echoed as heads pounded on the ground.

It felt like a blow to the hearts of everyone present.

Many mothers in the public were moved to tears, saying, "Does that woman know that saying something to someone's child would kill her?"

Forced to retreat, Su Mei reached her breaking point and yelled as she pushed the woman to the ground, "I don't know, I don't know."

"Su Mei, are you crazy? Why did you push my sister-in-law?!"

Jiang Hongxia pushed Su Mei back, "Ah—"

Su Mei was shoved hard to the ground, and a sharp pain shot through her palm.

Jiang Hongxia snorted, "Serves you right."

Xiao Chun looked at Su Mei, who was sobbing, with a cold expression.

Do not live by sin.

Just then, footsteps came from the doorway, and Zhang Ning walked in from outside carrying a toolbox, accompanied by a young male forensic doctor.

"Squad leader, where are they?"

Xing Yong pointed to the house over there, "In the water tank, the scene isn't very good."

Zhang Ning nodded and calmly carried the suitcase inside.

She put on gloves and clothes, and opened the lid of the water tank.

His brows furrowed.

Even though she was used to seeing all sorts of gruesome corpses and disgusting scenes, this was the first time she had ever seen anything like it.

The water tank, which could hold three people, was now filled with blood, and the contents were soaked with unrecognizable human tissue.

"Xiao Dong, prepare the tools."

The two worked together to take the contents out of the water tank one by one and spread them on the special body bags on the ground.

There were still some visible tissues floating on top, until a little bit of blood was removed.

The sight at the bottom of the water tank caused Zhang Ning's expression to change drastically.

The densely packed bones intertwined together are enough to make one's scalp crawl, and there are even a few small skulls among them.

These are clearly not abortion clinics.

Zhang Ning picked up the bone that had fallen to the bottom of the jar and examined it carefully.

His expression gradually became serious.

"Xiao Dong, take note: Bone number one. Preliminary assessment: girl's tibia. Initial age estimate: three years old."

Xiao Dong quickly put the No. 1 bone in a bag and labeled it.

Zhang Ning bent down to continue picking up the sinking objects from the water tank. "Skull number two, girl, teeth indicate an age of four."

"Skull number three, girl, estimated age three years old."

"Number four..."

As fewer and fewer bones remained at the bottom of the water tank, the atmosphere in the entire room completely changed.

The police officers, who were initially nauseated by the stench, now had bloodshot eyes filled with tears. The bags placed on the bags contained the remains of children.

To prevent panic, the onlookers outside have been cleared away.

However, the commotion was still noticed.

The crowd buzzed with discussion, as if a wildfire had begun to ignite.

Zhang Ning carefully cleaned the contents of the water tank, bending down repeatedly to reach them without uttering a sound. Her hands were stained with blood, but she only wanted to quickly extract the souls trapped in the tank and let them see the light of day again.

Knowing that the last tiny finger bone had been removed from the water tank, Zhang Ning handed it to Xiao Dong, who was weeping beside her, and said, "Put them together and piece them back together."

Xiao Dong choked back tears as he placed the bones into the pile of bags that were indistinguishable from one another. Since leaving school, he had handled quite a few cases, and he thought he had long since become heartless.

But when Xiao Dong saw so many small skeletons, he felt a tightness in his chest and couldn't breathe.

"Teacher, these children..."

Zhang Ning said expressionlessly, "Crying is the most useless thing. If you want to give these children justice, go back to work hard."

"Understood." Xiao Dong said in a muffled voice as he sealed all the bags.

Zhang Ning, drenched in sweat, stared at Xing Yong at the door, whose aura had already plummeted to a frightening degree.

"Squad leader, preliminary estimates indicate five sets of female remains, one set of male remains, and several pieces that appear to be embryonic tissue. We'll need to go back and examine them more closely."

Xing Yong stared silently at the bones scattered on the ground.

"Thank you for your help, Forensic Doctor Zhang."

The police officers outside came in one by one, heads down, to help carry the evidence.

Outside the courtyard, the onlookers were dumbfounded. "What are those things?"

"The last time I saw that only dead bodies were put in those bags."

"How many people would die?"

As Jiang Jingjing's mother looked at all this in the crowd, her vision suddenly went black. "My Jingjing..." she cried and collapsed.

Ruan Xiaochun looked at Xing Yong who came out, "Captain Xing, those are all..."

Xiaochun didn't say it aloud, but looking at Xing Yong's expression, she knew the answer.

Xing Yong strode over to Su Mei, who was being held captive, his eyes sharper than ever before.

"Su Mei, I am now solemnly warning you, if you do not cooperate with the police, then you are a murderer and an accomplice to human traffickers. If they cannot find you, you will be the prime suspect."

"I...I didn't." Su Mei panicked completely. "I only saw that woman today. I don't know her at all. I didn't know she was a human trafficker, no, a murderer."

Su Mei was completely flustered and her words were incoherent.

She never imagined that she would get involved with murder and human traffickers. She just came to have an abortion, how could this happen?

If she doesn't say it, does she still have a choice?

It's over, it's over.

"Take Su Mei back and interrogate her properly."