[Urban] Campus Maple Leaves Red (Complete) - 36

【Volume 2: Passionate Maple Leaves】 Chapter 2: Unintentional? Destined? (7) He

hadn't slept well all night, and he had to sneak back to his room as soon as it was light. Seeing that there were three people on the eight-step bed where he could sleep soundly, Old Li, who really didn't want to disturb their sweet dreams by coming back now, carefully climbed onto the bed after rearranging the curtains of the eight-step bed. He

was really too tired, or maybe it was because he was back in his own nest that he could completely relax. He carefully pulled the corner of the quilt next to him, and Old Li's head had only been on the pillow for a few minutes when he was already falling asleep.

It was the familiar scent of a woman, and this scent seemed to be even more stimulating. Old Li, who was about to fall into a deep sleep, fell asleep even better. In the scent, Old Li casually hugged the fragrant body and fell into a deep sleep.

Just like last time when he held that fragrant body in his arms until he fell asleep, Old Li woke up half an hour later than usual. The three women who had quietly returned to the bed, just as they had when he returned, left without disturbing the sleeping Old Li.

Taking a deep breath of the familiar scent lingering on his pillow, Old Li stretched, when he heard Tian Rong's voice from the outer room: "Don't wake Old Li if he hasn't gotten up yet. When he does, tell him I went to contact the school about the summer training location for teachers. I'll tell him the details when I get back this afternoon."

"Okay, Sister Rong, you go first. I'll tell Old Li when he wakes up."

That replying voice… Old Li listened carefully; it was Xie Xin's voice.

"Could it be that Xie Xin was one of the people I slept in the same bed with last night?"

Having not had a good chance to spend time with Xie Xin for several days, Old Li's heart suddenly warmed, and he quickly grabbed his clothes and put them on.

Old Li, buttoning his shirt and lifting the bed curtains, strode out.

The outer room of the bedroom was empty, as if no one had spoken there at all. Startled for a moment, Old Li immediately widened his eyes and pricked up his ears, searching his surroundings.

The bathroom! It was over there! Hearing the sound of water, his wide eyes snapped to the slightly ajar bathroom door, and through that crack, a figure was moving!

Hehe… Little Xin’er! You’ve made my heart race! A slight raise of his eyebrows, followed by a tender smile, and with light steps, Old Li approached the bathroom door.

Gently, he silently opened the door, his steps even lighter, and came to the woman holding the showerhead.

After a brief pause, Old Li stretched out his hands, slipping them under the woman's slightly parted armpits and wrapping them around her chest. As he pressed his body against her back, he softly murmured, "Xiao Xin'er... Xiao Xin'er..."

Ah! The woman's immediate reaction to the sudden, unexpected attack from under her arms was a high-pitched scream that seemed to pierce the roof!

As soon as she cried out, the tenderness on Old Li's face vanished, replaced by a stunned expression.

"You! You... you let go!"

A moment of stunned silence means a slower reaction. While Old Li was clinging to her in his usual awkward embrace, forgetting to let go, the woman struggled and cried out in embarrassment and panic!

"Yes... yes... I..."

In a panic, Old Li released her and retreated, desperately trying to explain.

Oh

dear! When people are startled by an unexpected event, their most instinctive reactions occur when every nerve is extremely tense. When a pair of hands suddenly grabs from under the armpits and towards the chest, the most instinctive reaction after such extreme shock is for

the

woman to use all her strength to instinctively clamp her armpits together to block the attacking hands, while simultaneously struggling and twisting her body violently. Realizing he had grabbed the wrong person, even though his reaction was slightly slower, Old Li reacted quickly to the woman's shout and tried to pull his hands back. However, the instinctive reaction in the midst of shock caused even a woman to unleash a tremendous amount of strength in her instinctively clamped armpits, a strength that even Old Li, a grown man, found incredibly difficult. Recalling that moment, Old Li had to use every ounce of strength to pull his hands back, and the more the woman tried to break free, the tighter she clamped her armpits around Old Li's hands, struggling and twisting even more violently. So, with all his might, Old Li finally managed to pull his right hand free from under the woman's armpit. The woman, writhing and twisting her body in the most intense struggle, suddenly lost her balance and lurched forward, screaming as she fell into the bathtub. In the midst of the struggle, Old Li's remarkably fast reflexes returned. Just as the woman lost her balance and fell into the tub, Old Li's quick reflexes followed. His right hand, which had just freed itself from the woman's armpit, combined with his left hand still under her other armpit in a tight embrace, neutralized the woman's immense forward momentum. With his left arm around her and his right arm around her lower arm, Old Li spun her around a perfect 270 degrees, turning both of them around and landing steadily. "You…" was the woman's unsure whether to thank him for preventing her fall or to continue scolding Old Li for being so confident in catching her. "I...I was at the beginning trying to explain but didn't know how, and now I still don't know how to apologize," Old Li said , only managing to utter half a sentence. A moment of silence followed, no more than two seconds, before Old Li not only immediately released his grip on the woman but also took a large step back, saying " I'm sorry," and stepped out of the bathroom. After what seemed like a while, waiting outside the bathroom for the woman to come out and apologize again, and also to explain his earlier behavior, Old Li saw Xie Xin, the woman he was looking for, walk in after the door opened. Just as he finished greeting Xie Xin, the woman Old Li was waiting to apologize to in the bathroom also came out. "Sister Chu Xiu, did you find the car keys?" Xie Xin asked the woman who came out of the bathroom. "Found them, they're in the soap dish in the bathroom." The woman, who appeared calm as she emerged from the bathroom, casually waved the water-drenched car keys to Xie Xin as she answered. Chu Xiu, this woman who so loved wearing cheongsams, how could she have left her car keys in the soap dish in her own bathroom? Old Li didn't have a chance to find out the details, but after Chu Xiu left with her car keys, he saw Coach Mi, who had also arrived early, walk into his room. Old Li immediately remembered that the two coaches of the school's girls' team had entrusted him with the full responsibility of training the team. Realizing the heavy responsibility on his shoulders, and that even a moment of intimacy with Xie Xin this morning was now a luxury, Old Li quickly ate breakfast, got in his car, and drove over to the school. The team's physical reserves and tactical skills had already reached an excellent level in daily training, so the current training for the No. 33 Middle School girls' team was to maintain this state until the competition, and to ensure that the players fully utilized their accumulated training in every match.

The most important aspect of training to maintain the athletes' condition is striking a balance. That is, the athletes need sufficient training volume to maintain their peak performance, but the intensity shouldn't be so high that they completely exhaust their potential during training, resulting in a lack of competitive drive when facing actual matches. The athletes' current

training reserves can be viewed as a fully inflated balloon, desperately searching for an outlet. Coach Li's current task is to maintain this balloon's immense potential while keeping it within manageable limits, preventing it from bursting due to excessive pressure. A

certain training volume helps alleviate the physical restlessness resulting from ample energy reserves, while also providing necessary psychological support to allow the athletes to release the psychological tension generated by their physical eagerness. Moreover, this release process must be gradual, even in actual matches. Otherwise, if the players release all their pent-up energy in just two or three games, they won't be able to continue in the later stages.

The reason Old Li was put in charge of this final pre-match training phase was because he was responsible for arranging the women's team's physical training. Now, thanks to his training, all the girls on the team are bursting with energy, like little lionesses ready to tear their prey apart. If Old Li doesn't intervene, who else will?

Take Ya Rou, for example. She's never had such boundless energy before, and this energy has a consequence: it's fueled her restlessness and impulsiveness. She just wants to find an opportunity to release all this excess energy.

Ya Rou, who's always ready to charge into action and scream and yell as soon as she steps onto the field, is the kind of person who's eager to challenge Old Li to a duel.

If it were just Ya Rou, it wouldn't be so bad, but her explosive energy has stirred up all the other energetic girls in the team! They're now standing before Old Li, a pack of little lionesses sharpening their teeth and claws.

Old Li, who arrived at the training ground at 7:30, was leading his group of sharp-toothed little lionesses to burn off their excess energy, ensuring they conserved the necessary energy.

This was a fun and game-like training session, incorporating relatively physically demanding games that effectively engaged the little lionesses and subtly depleted the excess energy that drove them to such ferocity.

Old Li's original idea was to let the lionesses control the pace of the game themselves. But who would have thought that the excess energy within them would not only fuel their restlessness, but also cultivate something else within them—a longing for males that they had accumulated during their psychological and physiological maturation. The lionesses

tacitly drew Old Li, the only male in the training area, so the entire game-like training involved only a dozen or so lionesses and Old Li. The

physical collisions and contact began when Yu Lian faced Old Li, and became the model for all the other lionesses when facing him.

Time and again, one by one, the lionesses took turns in front of and behind him, and Old Li, having adapted and completely opened himself up, immersed himself in the game of training amidst the changing of the lionesses.

Sweat, some thick, some faint, mingled and touched, the girls' flower-like faces and figures swaying before her eyes. Just as Yu Lian, Lü Na, and Tian Tian had slipped past, Zhang Nan and Yuan Yuan approached and then moved away. Ya Rou, who had bumped into her the most, not only pressed her large bottom against her waist, but with a turn, her tall body almost half-pressed onto her shoulder.

Suddenly, the dark-skinned girl, moving with the fastest pace of all the girls in the group, crossed paths with Ya Rou. This girl, even though she had gained some weight, was still the most slender in the group, rushing straight to her side.

Whether before or now, this little dark-skinned girl, who always liked to watch the sunset, was thinner, more silent and stubborn, yet evoked a deep sense of pity, was the one who least approached her closely.

This was the second time she had come to him for this game today. Perhaps she knew the training was nearing its end, or perhaps she had truly entered the rhythm of the training. Aside from yesterday afternoon's hazy training ground, where the dark-skinned girl, whose expression he couldn't see, was so engrossed in dancing two songs with him, this was the first time she had been so close to him like this.

Perhaps the training was truly nearing its end, or perhaps the team members had forgotten to keep changing their opponents. It wasn't until Xie Xin and Coach Mi arrived at the training ground at 9:30 that Lao Li and the dark-skinned girl, who had been playing against each other, stopped their game and rested with everyone, their bodies covered in sweat.

Xie Xin and Coach Mi had come beforehand to take Ya Rou and several other girls from the team to buy some items for the girls outside of school. However, after such a long period of closed training, all the girls in the team, even the dark-skinned girl who rarely liked to go out, wanted to go out.

Yes, it would be best if everyone were together! Even Xie Xin, known for her strict management within the team, had a growing agreement with this idea. However, these girls, still in the prime of their youth, displayed a remarkably disciplined demeanor. Besides the four who had already agreed to go, and including the dark-skinned girl, the girls selected two more girls to represent them in buying supplies. The rest of the girls voluntarily stayed behind to continue training.

Stopping training for half a morning wouldn't have any substantial impact on the overall training plan, but the girls managed to suppress their anticipation and choose to continue training. Old Li, Xie Xin, Coach Mi, and the team doctor, Xiao Zhang, who was watching from the sidelines, all secretly wished the girls could go with them, but they respected the girls' choice. Those who went out rode in Xie Xin and Coach Mi's car, while Old Li and the team doctor continued training with the girls who stayed behind.

It was around 11 a.m. Old Li, who had just finished training with the girls, picked up his water cup to drink some water when Yu Lian, who had gone to the locker room, came over to him with Old Li's phone, which was flashing with incoming calls.

It was a very unfamiliar phone number, and it was a local landline. After a slight hesitation, Old Li answered the call that had been dialed again (because when a call is dialed but not answered immediately, it usually only lasts for 15 seconds before being disconnected).

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"Teacher Li! Are you Teacher Li?"

A girl's anxious and uneasy voice came from the phone.

"Yes, I am Teacher Li! Don't worry, tell me what's wrong."

Perhaps it was the anxiety and unease in the girl's voice that made his heart skip a beat. With a very bad premonition, Old Li tried his best to calm the girl and let her explain what was going on when she called.

"Teacher Li! I just saw Teacher Xie and several female team members on the way to the pedestrian street, and they were almost surrounded by a group of people I don't know. Now Teacher Xie and several female team members have been chased into an alley by that group!"

The girl didn't explain the whole story on the phone, but she very concisely described the situation Xie Xin and the female team members were in after the incident.

"Which pedestrian street? Which alley did Teacher Xie and the others go into?"

An unprecedented unease welled up in Old Li's heart, and he asked directly and briefly about the location of the incident.

"It's the pedestrian street behind Xingfu Street. Teacher Xie and the others encountered that group of people when they came out of a small alley in the back street. Now, Teacher Xie and the others have been chased into that alley by that group?"

The girl gave a very clear general area, but she couldn't give an exact location for Xie Xin and the others. "Okay! You wait there, I'll be right there!"

Now was not the time for rambling. Old Li told the girl as he quickly walked outside.

He made almost a 180-degree U-turn, and his car sped off, leaving a trail of blue smoke.

The pedestrian street behind Xingfu Street! It was a commercial street mainly selling clothing and accessories, and Old Li had come here a few times with Fei'er before. The alley leading to the pedestrian street! I remember the time I went to the pedestrian street before buying Fei'er a car. There was a small alleyway next to the bus stop across the street that led directly to the pedestrian street without having to go around.

It must be there! But this alleyway was winding and rarely frequented, and it had many interconnected side streets. If Xie Xin and the others really went there to hide, in this panicked situation, who knew which side street they would turn into?

However, thinking about that now was useless; the important thing was to get there as quickly as possible.

The wheels, locked by the brakes, screeched and carved four deep tracks into the ground. Before the car had even come to a complete stop, Lao Li had already flung open the door and strode out.

The alleyway was winding and had many interconnected side streets, but ultimately there were only two exits: one on the pedestrian street side, and the other was where Lao Li was now standing.

Because Lao Li had just spoken to the girl on the phone again on the way, and hadn't seen Xie Xin and the others coming out of the pedestrian street exit, and the girl, who lived nearby, had also told Lao Li that the alley looked chaotic, but there were only two exits.

He hadn't seen Xie Xin and the others at the girl's exit, and this exit was right next to the largest farmers' market in the northern district. The traffic and pedestrian flow seemed perfectly calm, with no signs of anything having happened (because Xie Xin and the others weren't alone; if they had come out from here, and that group had been following them, the place would have been in complete chaos). Looking around again, Lao Li quickly walked to a stall selling cold drinks under a parasol at the alley entrance to confirm, then dashed into the alley.

A series of hurried footsteps came from a side alley beside Lao Li. He stopped abruptly and turned to look in the direction of the footsteps when a figure rushed towards him, almost bumping into him.

It was Ya Rou! Dodging the person who was about to bump into him, Old Li recognized who it was. Just as he was shouting and pulling back Ya Rou, who screamed in fright at his sudden appearance, a flurry of footsteps sounded as Xie Xin and the others, covered in sweat, ran out from the side path Ya Rou had just come from.

"Teacher Li!"

"Old Li..."

Before Ya Rou and the others could finish their excited cries, a series of heavy, chaotic footsteps came from behind Old Li, causing the women to scream again.

Old Li suddenly turned around, and before he could even see who was in front of him, five or six panting men swarmed around him, shouting and yelling.

Old Li, in his youthful days when he loved playing with knives and guns, had learned some rather lethal grappling techniques from the military compound near his home. He had studied the techniques and practiced extensively with the soldiers, but now, when a group of vicious thugs attacked without warning, Old Li felt like, "Why did my parents only give me two arms and two legs?!" He was

physically strong and had plenty of power, but with five or six men suddenly appearing before him, he felt he needed even more strength and power. His hands and feet were fast, but even though the attacks were disorganized, the relentless fighting and the use of weapons meant Old Li landed his blows, and he didn't miss a single one. However, the attackers also landed just as many blows on him.

Fortunately, Old Li's quick reflexes allowed him to either dodge or withstand blows aimed at his vital areas, and he managed to take down two or three of the five or six men.

Perhaps if Old Li could just hold out a few more blows, he could take down the remaining few people in front of him. Then, amidst a flurry of footsteps, the people he was talking to cheered wildly.

Several more reinforcements had joined the fray. Old Li only had time to yell to the women behind him who were staring blankly, "Run!" before he was surrounded and attacked by even more people.

His eyes turned red with rage, and he fought desperately. Holding on, not retreating an inch, Old Li, like a trapped beast fighting for its life, suddenly became bloodshot. He grabbed the weapon he had just seized and began to fight with all his might.

Suddenly, someone grabbed him from behind, his hands held tightly. Amidst the urgent and anxious calls, Old Li, whose eyes were bloodshot and whose mind was blank, only knowing how to fight mechanically, was gradually brought back to some clarity by these urgent, anxious, yet familiar calls.

Holding him was Ya Rou, holding his hand was Xie Xin, and the other was his daughter Xiao Zhu.

Clang! Old Li's grip loosened, and the thing he was holding slipped from his grasp. He swayed and almost fell.

He could only vaguely see who was there; apart from the anxious calls from before, he could hear clearly. Now, his vision was as blurry as when he was struggling, and the familiar voices around him were now a cacophony of buzzing sounds, like a swarm of bees.

A sharp scream pierced the air. Old Li, his vision and hearing blurred, shook his head to clear his mind slightly.

Ya Rou was pointing at Old Li's lower abdomen and screaming. Then, every woman who looked in his direction screamed. Instinctively, he looked down in the direction Ya Rou was pointing, and with some difficulty, saw a long, bloody wound on his lower abdomen. More importantly, he saw a small section of red and white intestines flowing out from the wound.

Suddenly, everything went black, and Old Li lost consciousness.

The coma, caused by excessive blood loss, was gradually broken after he received adequate blood transfusions, his wounds were stitched up, and he was given an IV drip. More than ten hours later, driven by intense thirst, Old Li slowly awoke, murmuring for water.

A joyful voice rang in his ears, followed by Fei'er's frantic calls for the doctor. Weak but now fully conscious, Old Li looked around and realized he was in a hospital. Exhausted, he closed his eyes again.

The doctor's examination and instructions, coupled with Fei'er's sobs as she wiped her parched lips with a damp tissue—it seemed the doctor had instructed her to wait a while before giving him water—made

him too weak to even move a hand. He gently nibbled on Fei'er's finger and managed to open his eyes again.

Fei'er, her face pale and haggard, was covered in tears. Her eyes were filled with a mixture of surprise and worry as she gazed at him.

"Fei...er..."

The difficult words escaped his lips, and Old Li forced a smile of joy and relief.

"Dad! Waaah..."

Fei'er cried out, burying her face in Old Li's chest and sobbing uncontrollably.

Finally, after drinking her first glass of water, Fei'er managed to sit up halfway in bed. A knock on the door followed,

and three police officers entered. The routine investigation and evidence collection process lasted about twenty minutes. Then, one of the officers briefly explained the sudden incident two days prior to Old Li, who was lying in bed.

The group that surrounded Xie Xin and her friends, based on the current interrogation results, was a group of drug dealers who were also drug users. The night before they met Xie Xin and her friends, this group of drug dealers had just landed a large deal. Excited, most of them went to a nightclub near their hideout, not far from the pedestrian street, after receiving their reward.

The drugs weren't traditional drugs like heroin; they were new, soft, psychoactive substances. These young drug dealers, fresh from their successful deal, began consuming large quantities of what they had sold.

New types of psychotropic drugs can cause people to go into a state of frenzy and euphoria. After this group of guys had been in a frenzy all night, they hadn't fully sobered up when they left the nightclub. One of them, a former vocational school student, had been stalking Ya Rou near the 33rd Middle School with others. After his urging, these guys, still under the influence of the drugs, rushed towards their target in broad daylight.

After briefly explaining the incident that had occurred two days prior, the police investigation team, consisting of two men and one woman, got up to leave.

Fei'er saw the three police officers to the door before turning around. Old Li, who was half-lying and half-sitting on the bed, frowned. Yes, some things need to be connected in context to be digested.

After being attacked by a group of reinforcements that day, Old Li, who had suffered repeated attacks on his head and body, quickly became somewhat delirious. If it weren't for the desperate desire to protect the woman behind him, Old Li might have collapsed on the spot.

It was this sheer willpower that sustained Lao Li, allowing the women he protected behind him to remain unharmed when the police arrived seven or eight minutes later. While the women behind Lao Li were unharmed, Lao Li, who stood frozen in place, paid a heavy price. He suffered

multiple blunt force trauma to his head, making it appear larger than usual. His shoulders, back, and other areas capable of withstanding blows were also badly lacerated from repeatedly acting as a shield. Two minor fractures in his scapula are the primary reason he can't move his arms significantly.

As for the knife wounds, including the one that caused a small section of intestine to protrude, the doctor stitched up five wounds in total. However, after treating all of Lao Li's injuries, the doctor explained that these knife wounds were truly superficial. The wound that caused the intestines to protrude—which looked gruesome—would heal very quickly once stitched up, provided it didn't become infected.

The fractured bone and subcutaneous bruising on Lao Li's head were the focus of the doctors' attention for the past few days.

In the final minutes of his life-or-death struggle with a group of equally reckless individuals, Lao Li remembered nothing. Just before the three police officers arrived to take his statement, he heard from Fei'er that the alley was too narrow for police cars to enter, so the officers who responded to Lao Li's roadside call and the call from the girl waiting at another exit searched the alley on foot.

When the police arrived, those who hadn't fallen among Lao Li's group began to scatter and flee. Even after the police had subdued the few they could catch, the disoriented Lao Li, with no opponents left around him, stubbornly continued his desperate struggle against himself.

Getting close to Lao Li meant certain injury due to his incoherent state; trying to shout from a distance was futile—Lao Li, unconscious, couldn't hear anything. Just as the police were at their wits' end and about to take coercive measures against the potentially dangerous Old Li, Ya Rou and Xie Xin, who had been anxiously jumping up and down behind him, disregarded the potential danger of being harmed by Old Li and rushed forward to hug him.

As for Old Li's daughter, Xiao Zhu, she knew her father was training the girls' team at school and was eager to see how he led the training. She brought two classmates who were staying at their house, along with Qu Rou, and pestered Chu Xiu, who had just found her car keys and was about to leave, to take them to Old Li's school.

Old Li had received a phone call and then rushed out like a madman. Yu Lian, bewildered and worried, didn't know what to do when Chu Xiu arrived with the four girls in her car.

Yu Lian, unaware of what had happened, told Xiao Zhu and the others that Old Li had rushed off in such a hurry. The girls, eager to understand why Old Li had left in such a rush, looked to Chu Xiu for help while trying to call him on his cell phone, which was already busy.

Chu Xiu was also worried about what had happened, but being an adult, she comforted the anxious girls while quickly asking around. She could only vaguely recall hearing Old Li mention Xingfu Road pedestrian street on the phone, so she drove off in that direction.

Old Li had stopped by the roadside and was quickly spotted by Yu Lian, who was squeezed into the car with the girls. Old Li had already disappeared, but the owner of the cold drink stall at the alley entrance had pointed him out, so Chu Xiu led the girls, unaware of the danger, and rushed in.

However, when they arrived at the place where Old Li and his group were surrounded, they witnessed Old Li fighting a second group of people. Just as the police were about to subdue the rampaging Old Li, Xiao Zhu and Yu Lian, father and daughter, rushed in from the other side.

After Yu Lian was struck by the weapon in Lao Li's hand, she was knocked aside by him. Just as Ya Rou tightly clung to Lao Li's lower back, Xiao Zhu and Xie Xin each grabbed one of Lao Li's hands, holding them firmly.

Lao Li, who only regained consciousness briefly, saw the three people around him and glanced at the knife wound on his abdomen before completely losing consciousness.

However, these weren't the key reasons for Lao Li's frown. What troubled him was the sudden incident two days prior, which, according to the police, had been highly accidental. No one could have predicted that Xie Xin and her friends would so coincidentally encounter a group of drug dealers who had just finished using drugs while out on the street.

But Lao Li also knew that even among drug dealers, there was a certain degree of wariness towards drug users. This was because drug users would stop at nothing to get drugs, even betraying anyone, and their withdrawal symptoms often made them vulnerable to exploitation by various parties.

Another point is the emergence of new psychoactive drugs in recent years. Due to their hallucinogenic and euphoric effects, users of these drugs completely lose self-control. Therefore, within drug trafficking organizations, users of these drugs are never allowed to access the core of the organization.

According to the police, this incident was caused by several drug dealers who were excessively euphoric. Although Old Li, the eyewitness, was disoriented at the end of the incident, he was completely conscious when the second group began their desperate struggle.

He knew very well that the second group wasn't as frenzied as the first. The first group, while seemingly fearless, hadn't managed to inflict any fatal damage on Old Li despite their seemingly mechanical movements. The second group, however, was clearly different. They nearly knocked Old Li to the ground in just a few moves.

Not only were they highly aggressive, but they were also incredibly agile; these people were definitely a group of very clear-headed individuals!

The problem is, why would a group of sober people associate with those who are incoherent after taking drugs? Are drug dealers now so audacious that they'll do anything in broad daylight without any scruples?

The police said one of them had been tailing Ya Rou, and Old Li clearly remembered that two students from his school had provided Ya Rou with information to some people in society. Could it be that one of the people who tailed Ya Rou is connected to the person who targeted his school last time?

If that's the case…

“Xiao Zhu, come in quickly, your father…”

“Sister Wei, Sister Hong, you…”

First came Xiao Zhu, who rushed in, followed by her stepmother Sister Wei and stepmother Sister Hong from the hospital. Just as Fei'er was greeting them, another large group of people appeared at Old Li's hospital room door.

No wonder so many people came to visit Old Li. After Old Li woke up, Fei'er only informed Tian Rong about it, repeatedly telling everyone that Old Li was too weak and to wait a while before visiting. As for the outside world, although Fei'er was reluctant, she cooperated with the police to handle the situation properly. The police had also said that the hospital would notify them once Old Li woke up, so Fei'er first informed Old Li's sister-in-law, who was also a police officer.

But after informing the police, Fei'er thought about it again and decided to tell her family as well. Otherwise, they would worry, and she didn't want to cause them any resentment later. So Fei'er made phone calls to her family one after another…

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There were still many questions that hadn't been answered. Even setting aside his daughter, who was already very carefully nestled in his arms, now approaching him with a medical tray, 'Sister Wei' (whom Old Li always called Xiao Wei) was about to change his dressing. Old Li could only put aside his doubts, gently stroking his daughter's soft hair with his arm, which was aching slightly in his shoulder blade, while Xiao Wei began examining the injury on Old Li's head.

The people who came in after Xiao Zhu and the others were Tie Yi, Chu Xiu, Qu Rou, Xiao Ru, and Xiao Zhu's two classmates. Except for Tie Yi and her daughter, the others had all witnessed Old Li's injury and the entire process of him being taken to the hospital.

Seeing that Old Li could sit up, the four girls happily stood beside Xiao Zhu, greeting him one by one. Tie Yi and Chu Xiu didn't say anything at this time, but the concern in their eyes fully revealed their feelings.

The CT scan results were available less than half an hour after Lao Li was admitted to the hospital. The detailed examination of his brain showed that Lao Li's skull was definitely strong enough; otherwise, it wouldn't have cracked after taking three or four heavy blows. However, while his skull was hard, Lao Li's scalp wasn't so lucky. All the areas that suffered the blows were now swollen to a great extent.

Besides using anti-inflammatory medication, the swelling would have to be reduced by the body's own absorption. Xiao Wei carefully examined Lao Li's head injuries and, confirming that there was no further sign of worsening, she began to change the IV fluid in his hand.

"Dad, you've suffered such a serious injury; you should lie down more. Sitting for too long will be tiring."

Seeing her stepmother change her father's IV, Xiao Zhu, feeling sorry for her father, wanted to lower the headboard so that her father could lie down and rest properly.

Having said he wasn't tired from sitting, Old Li didn't let his daughter lower the headboard. The numerous open wounds on his shoulders and back would cause him excruciating pain if he lay down, making him want to sweat profusely. However, he didn't want to tell his daughter about this pain; otherwise, the tears he was trying to hold back would flow uncontrollably.

Xiao Zhu's aunt Xiang Hong and stepmother Xiao Wei knew why Old Li was so weak yet still forced himself to sit. They also understood why he didn't want Xiao Zhu and the other children to see his condition. So, they decided to check Old Li's other wounds after the girls left. Meanwhile,

Fei'er was quietly discussing the case with the newly arrived women, mentioning the police. Da Mei, Qing Yu, Tian Rong, and, to Old Li's surprise, Fang Jing, Bai Xue, and Yue Yue also arrived.

The spacious ward was a bit crowded. Some of the people who had come to visit Old Li earlier, especially Xiao Zhu and her friends, as well as Yueyue and Bai Xue who had greeted Old Li, voluntarily left first.

While Old Li lay unconscious in the hospital, the incident that Xie Xin and the others had encountered had already caused a huge uproar in Jiangzhong City. Yes, the aftershocks of the vocational school incident had just subsided, and now a similar incident had resurfaced! The citizens who heard about this incident were outraged, and it also caused a great shock throughout the provincial and municipal governments of Jiangzhong City.

Although the legal system construction in recent years had made the country's government agencies very cautious in using the keyword "severe and swift" when it came to legal matters, the fact that so many key figures in the provincial and municipal governments had shown great concern for this matter meant that when Old Li woke up, the Beicheng District Public Security Criminal Investigation Team, which had been busy with two days of interrogation, came to Old Li's place to collect evidence and also briefed Old Li, one of the parties involved, on the preliminary case details.

Yesterday, Fang Jing accompanied the mayor to visit Old Li, who was still in a coma. Today, she and Yueyue came to visit him in their personal capacity.

After kindly inquiring about Old Li's injuries, Vice Mayor Fang Jing also informed him of the city's decision in advance: Old Li, who risked his life, would be awarded the title of hero, and the city television station would be conducting a special interview about his actions.

Hero? Old Li, who had thought deeply about the incident, never expected such a title to fall upon him. It's understandable; from childhood, Old Li had always thought that heroes and their earth-shattering deeds happened to other people, never considering it for himself.

To be honest, it wasn't that Old Li was being pretentious, but such a title felt somewhat strange to him. Perhaps he felt that everything he had done was somewhat undeserved.

He verbally agreed to Vice Mayor Fang's request, but a strange feeling in his heart made Old Li somewhat absent-minded. Having suffered such serious injuries and only recently regaining consciousness, he seemed exhausted. Vice Mayor Fang, being considerate, took her leave.

Just as Fei'er's voice faded as she saw Fang off in the corridor, Old Li's sister-in-law, Yu Rong, slipped in. As one of the main leaders of the special task force from the North District Public Security Bureau responsible for this case, she had come to see Old Li at this time, not wanting to face Vice Mayor Fang directly.

"Brother-in-law, the guy who stalked Ya Rou committed suicide in the hospital."

After briefly inquiring about Old Li's condition, Yu Rong, her face somewhat somber, revealed news that surprised everyone.

"Yu Rong, what happened?"

Surprised, but eager to understand the whole story, Old Li pressed for details.

Xu Lei was the name of the suicide victim Yu Rong had just mentioned. At seventeen years old, if he were still in vocational school, he would be a high school sophomore. When he led his men to ambush Ya Rou and her group, the police officers from the North District 110 team who came to arrest them were from the North District.

At that time, he and four other people who were under the influence of drugs were the first to encounter Lao Li. Of these five people, three were incapacitated by Lao Li during the fight. The worst off was Xu Lei, whose shinbone was broken by Lao Li.

When the police arrived, he and the other incapacitated individuals were the first to be arrested. The rest, except for three who were slower on their feet, escaped using the narrow alleyways and side passages.

At the beginning of the arrests, the police didn't take the case seriously. They briefly questioned the people arrested and treated it as a typical case of disorderly conduct.

However, Ya Rou first told her family about it, then Lao Li's daughter tearfully told her uncle, Lao Li's brother-in-law, and later, some bystanders learned the truth. The news spread like wildfire throughout Jiangzhong City.

To be honest, Lao Li wasn't entirely sure what influence Ya Rou's family had in Jiangzhong City, but looking at Qing Yu and Da Mei, he was fully aware of the extent of the storm these two girls could stir up once they knew about it. If Ya Rou's family and Lao Li's brother-in-law were the beginning of this storm, then Qing Yu and Da Mei's subsequent actions truly made it the eye of the storm.

However, regardless of how this hurricane started, and even though Xu Lei, who was under the influence of drugs and surrounded Ya Rou, causing Old Li to be seriously injured, was not particularly hateful, at only seventeen years old, he didn't deserve to die!

Yet, this young life, after causing this incident, chose suicide? Old Li, who had stood on the podium for many years, found it hard to accept this.

But then again, he had to accept it, after all, the boy had made his choice. Somewhat heartbroken, Old Li inquired about the specific details of Yu Rong's incident.

A series of immense pressures from high-level leaders, with a special task force personally led by the deputy director of the Jiangzhong City Criminal Investigation Bureau taking over the case from the 110 emergency hotline. Under

the immense pressure of repeated interrogations, seventeen-year-old Xu Lei quickly broke down completely. He not only confessed to surrounding Ya Rou and her friends and seriously injuring Lao Li, but also revealed his involvement in drug trafficking the previous night. Even further back, while still a vocational school student, he confessed to providing information about girls staying at the school to those responsible for the incident.

Ironically, Xu Lei wasn't implicated in the vocational school incident, but he was subsequently taken in by a gang. He was assigned

to look after the brothel, collect protection money, and, when necessary, follow his boss, brandishing a knife to intimidate others. Xu Lei quickly became a somewhat well-known henchman.

With a bit of fame, he quickly recruited several followers. Then, for the first time in his life, his boss told him he was involved in a major operation—that is, when the boss, who had arranged the drug deal, went to the dealer's location, Xu Lei and a few other henchmen were sent on patrol. He genuinely believed he had secured his position.

They withdrew from the periphery of the transaction. After the boss had tipped off all the underlings, it was already past midnight. Extremely excited and thrilled, Xu Lei humbly accompanied a few high-ranking henchmen as they partied in the nightclub, while also gathering his smaller underlings there as well.

As dawn broke, exhausted and having vented their frustrations, the high-ranking henchmen dispersed, leaving Xu Lei and his remaining underlings to continue their unfinished thrill and excitement.

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