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In China, blackmailers are a very common phenomenon. We can often see news on television or on the Internet that an old lady has been run over by an electric car and blackmailed tens of thousands of dollars without getting hurt, and even more, that some old people have completely abandoned their social morals and become professionals, walking the streets in search of goals they think they can make a profit on.

Under the blue sky, we would often see such a scene on the streets where countless streams of people were streaming in and out of the city. We can hardly see the young people around the elderly who walk alone. They will choose the S-shaped route in front of the old people, and some timid people will avoid the plague in their hearts even if it is too far away.

We can't imagine what the older people are thinking, and we can't feel what the young people are worrying about.

Sometimes, we would see a group of people talking on the street. Sometimes they were here to watch the accident, sometimes they were here to catch Little San. Sometimes they were here to watch an old man lying on the ground.

Were these people cold and heartless? Or would this old man, lying on the ground, suddenly change his face?

The blackmailer has become a phenomenon, a culture, and the blackmailer has also gradually aged. If a victim, no matter how noble the moral standard is, is entitled to civil compensation by the state, why would they give it up?

This was abnormal!

The case of Ms. Qin's son was an unusual one. The parents of the defendant were completely unaware of the victim. Similarly, the accused did not tell his guardian who he had raped. Could it be that Wang Yang had something that was difficult to say at that time? Or was he threatened?

Shanghe County was a small city with a population of less than a hundred thousand.

Since we took over the case, there has been a strange kind of anger. I have the feeling that there's a big hand hanging over us, and even though we've found a lot of clues, we haven't been able to form a network until now.

He had wanted to find out more about the identity of the victim, but his file had been deleted. Fortunately, Wang Yang's mother was still alive. I asked him, ”Which high school did your son attend all those years ago?”

”It's the fifth high school of this county!” Miss Qin said: ”My Shanghe County's conditions are pretty good. What Wang Yang offered was a bargaining price, aiya, it's all my fault!”

I think she won't be able to recover for a while. I'll have Auntie Wang accompany her first, while I drove quickly towards the Fifth High School with my car.

The Shanghe County isn't too big, and in less than ten minutes of driving, we arrived at the entrance of the Fifth High School.

Looking around, the buildings of No. 5 High School were actually very old. Although the outer walls looked as if they had been renovated, the style of this building was probably something left behind from the 1980s.

When I opened the door of the reception room, I saw an old grandpa sitting in front of a writing desk, listening to an old-fashioned radio. I walked over and showed his my ID card, asking, ”Grandpa, may I ask if Teacher Zhang Wei is there?”

”Let's go!” The grandpa said, ”I left half a month ago!”

”Ah?!” This is too depressing, isn't it too much of a coincidence? Why did the person involved in this case leave or get knocked out?

”Then... ”Then where did she go?”

The grandpa said, ”I heard that he went to some farty place to teach. Isn't that a tiger?”

Longevity Day! My train of thought was completely disrupted. What was going on? I looked at the grandpa in front of me. I noticed that he was quite old. I asked him, ”Do you remember a rape case in your Fifth National Male Middle School?”

”A rape case?” The grandpa thought for a while and said, ”It really is like that!”

Seeing that there was still hope, I hastily lit a cigarette for the old man and asked, ”Then do you know who the victim is?”

”Let me think!” The grandpa said: ”That was very bizarre. I heard that a student raped a pair of cousins! ”I'm not sure about the details, but the cousins left school later on, but there was one girl who seemed to have the surname Jiang …”

Jiang …! My heart skipped a beat. I suddenly thought of Jiang Shan. Could he be the elder brother of the victim? If that was really the case, could it be that he had killed Wang Yang in order to avenge his sister?

From the deletion of the file, it could be seen that there was definitely a traitor within the Public Security Bureau. Could it really be a river or a mountain? Before I could understand what was going on, the grandpa suddenly interrupted me and said: ”You better not investigate this. Those who knew of this matter at that time either retired or were transferred away. The case is old and the murderer has also been sentenced. Why are you still investigating?”