Chapter 154: Angry
Translator: 549690339
Luo Ziling, Cao Jianhui, and other classmates were taken to the police station, where, like the other party involved, they were all questioned for their statements.
The police officer questioning them was quite polite, simply following procedures in an official manner.
Luo Ziling was the last one to be questioned.
To avoid any mishaps, he posted a moment on social media while waiting to be questioned, taking a photo at the police station and adding some text.
“Just had a meal and sang some songs, and ended up being brought to the police station by a police car. I’m totally floored.”
After posting the moment, he was called in to give his statement.
“Name!”
“Luo Ziling!”
“Gender, age.”
“Male, 20,” Luo Ziling answered the officer’s questions truthfully.
After asking a bunch of questions related to his identity, the police finally asked about what happened just now.
Luo Ziling answered truthfully as well, and even the few times he had taken the initiative to hit others, he didn’t claim it was in self-defense.
The scene surprised the questioning officer. They couldn’t understand why this student, with an exceptionally high Combat Power, wouldn’t narrate the event in a way that was most favorable to himself.
Just as the questioning was coming to an end, the door to the interrogation room was violently pushed open, and several people entered at once.
One plainclothed fat man, another tall figure also in plain clothes, followed by two people in uniform.
Upon seeing the newcomers, the officer taking the statement immediately stood up.
“Are you done with the statement?” the plainclothes tall man asked the questioning officer with a frown, glancing at Luo Ziling who sat in front of him.
“Almost.”
The tall man looked over the record book, then exchanged a glance with the fat man, and then gestured for the questioning officers to leave.
“We’ll handle it from here,” the tall man said, sitting down at the desk after instructing the original two officers to leave.
The fat man sat down too, looking at Luo Ziling with sharp eyes.
Luo Ziling met their scrutinizing gaze without fear, wondering who these people were and whether they had come to help him.
After the tall man sat down, he signaled with his eyes to the two uniformed men standing behind him.
Understanding the hint, the two in uniform immediately walked over.
“Could these people be preparing to deal with me?” The thought no sooner occurred to Luo Ziling than he confirmed his suspicion.
Certainly, these people looking at him with fierce eyes weren’t here to rescue him; probably they had been ordered by someone to come after him.
Reflecting on the whole event, he noticed many discrepancies, and vaguely felt that it was a trap.
“Luo Ziling!” While he was pondering, the tall man suddenly slammed the table with an imposing query, “Confess the details of your crime today!”
Although Luo Ziling had been prepared, the man’s shout still startled him.
But he quickly calmed down and replied with neither humility nor arrogance, “Don’t slander me. Today, someone tried to harass our female classmate and started hitting us first; I was just passively fighting back!”
“Still arguing,” the tall man, not expecting Luo Ziling to talk back, angrily slammed the table again, pointing at the words on the wall behind, “The situation now is that so many people have been injured by you all, and you are to bear criminal responsibility. Confess the details of your crime at once. Do you see that? To confess is to receive leniency, to resist is to face severity. If you don’t confess, the law will severely punish you.”
Luo Ziling said indignantly, “I’ve already recounted today’s events, and you have recorded them. The fact is, we were only forced to fight back after being bullied by some bad people who attacked us and even drew a gun. Their actions constitute the crime; don’t twist the truth.”
Before they came in, the fat man and the tall man hadn’t thoroughly understood the situation, only asking briefly and learning that some people had been injured by a group of students. They came to deal with a student named Luo Ziling, so they skipped the others and went straight to questioning Luo Ziling.
They also didn’t clarify who had injured those people.
They certainly didn’t expect Luo Ziling to be so tough and to question them with such words.
“Bang!” The tall man, angered, slammed the table again, “Luo Ziling, are you determined to resist to the end?”
“If you refuse to confess the details of your crime, you will face even more severe legal sanctions,” the fat man, who had been silent, said coldly with a threatening tone, “You should know this isn’t your home, and we have the final say!”
“I’ve already told the events, I haven’t committed any crime, I was merely fighting back in self-defense. They attacked us outnumbered and even pulled out a gun; what they did is a crime, don’t invert right and wrong.” Luo Ziling was already very angry inside, unable to believe that the two plainclothes men who had entered later would outright accuse him of committing a crime.
“It seems you won’t confess the details of your crime without tasting some bitterness,” the tall man sneered, “Do you really think you are someone untouchable? You will soon understand where you are!”
With that, he shouted at the other two men in uniform, “Cuff him!”