Super Soldier in the City

"Mr. Li, the secretary wants to invite you for lunch. He..." Jiang Hu finished his business talk, then lowered his voice slightly and said.

Li Yifei shook his head and said, "I’ll pass on lunch. I have things to do in the provincial city. I’ll treat you next time."

"Then... okay, I’ll inform the secretary," Jiang Hu didn’t expect Li Yifei to refuse directly. After a slight pause, he quickly nodded.

After Jiang Hu left, Li Yifei looked at Lang Wenqin and said, "I need to leave first. You still have to stay for one or two days until things are sorted out."

"Okay!" Lang Wenqin blinked her big eyes at Li Yifei, still feeling a bit reluctant about this super cool uncle she had just met two days ago. She was from Sichuan province and didn’t know much about veterans, but after last night’s hot event broke out, Lang Wenqin looked up the veteran’s introduction and realized how amazing the person who saved her was! She considered herself incredibly lucky, reaffirming her belief that there are more good people in this world.

Li Yifei left and drove to the countryside to pick up Li Manli as promised, but upon arriving at Li Manli’s house, he didn’t see anyone. The Wu family home was locked, and Li Yifei frowned, stood at the door for a moment, then walked out of the alley. Checking around, he noticed that the entire Wu family of three was not home. Had something happened again? Didn’t the previous encounter scare them enough?

While pondering, Li Yifei turned around and saw an elderly man. Without needing Li Yifei to ask, the old man with an accent asked, "Looking for the Wu family?"

"Yes, sir. Where are they?" Li Yifei asked.

"His family went out last night and hasn’t come back yet." The old man replied.

"Where did they go?"

"I don’t know. They left last night!"

They’ve gone? Li Yifei clicked his tongue, nodded, waited in front of the door for a while, but naturally, no one showed up, so he drove back to Dan City. Since Li Manli wasn’t home, he couldn’t fulfill his promise to bring her back.

Li Yifei didn’t foresee that, despite rescuing Li Manli twice, she couldn’t escape the Grim Reaper or her tragic fate. When Li Yifei returned to Dan City and Jiang Hu was giving the final report, he received a call from his subordinates. As soon as he answered the phone, Jiang Hu’s expression changed, and Li Yifei overheard that a jump incident had occurred at a commercial building in downtown Dan City. Two people jumped together: a young girl, jumping from a hotel on the building’s first floor, died with disheveled clothing... suspected of being violated. Jiang Hu, a veteran policeman, upon hearing such information, had a preliminary judgment that it was likely a malicious case.

He hung up the phone, looked at Li Yifei opposite him, and with a bitter smile, said, "Mr. Li, there’s a new case over there, and I’ll probably have to go over."

"I’ll take you there, then I’ll head back to Mile City," Li Yifei said.

"Well... thank you, Mr. Li." Jiang Hu initially wanted to refuse; although he didn’t drive here, he had a dedicated driver waiting. However, riding in Li Yifei’s car isn’t something just anyone can enjoy, especially when the other party personally drives. From another perspective, it showed Li Yifei’s down-to-earth nature, with no airs. If you provoked him, he’d deal with it, but if there was nothing to provoke, Li Yifei wouldn’t actively cause trouble.

The car reached the building, which was already cordoned off by the police. Li Yifei stopped the car, and after Jiang Hu thanked him, hurried off. As the bureau chief, he didn’t have to personally go, but he had to show his position since Li Yifei was right there when he received the call. Rushed over, the cop in charge came to meet him and explained the case.

Li Yifei was already prepared to leave. The person who died from jumping was indeed pitiful, but... it was not his responsibility, especially since Jiang Hu was there. As an official, he had to manage such matters.

Just as Li Yifei was about to leave, he suddenly heard a scream, followed by cries calling out a daughter’s name.

Immediately, Li Yifei’s heart tightened. He turned around, increasingly finding the cries familiar. Listening closely, he heard the names Manli, painfully and sorrowfully crying out. Li Yifei’s heart skipped a beat, he quickly unfastened his seatbelt, opened the door, and walked quickly towards the crime scene.

Because Li Yifei remembered the voices and knew the name being called.

"The police are handling a case inside, you can’t go in!" A policeman came over and stopped Li Yifei.

"I know the victim!" Li Yifei applied a bit of force, blocking the policeman’s hand reaching out, and continued walking inside, moving through the crowd, where he already saw a small figure lying beside the deceased, crying mournfully. It was Li Manli’s mother. Two policemen were holding her back, preventing her from damaging the body. Wu Gang was also kneeling nearby, looking distraught.

As for the deceased... Li Yifei recognized Li Manli’s shoes. The cheap shoes, costing just tens of yuan, yet Li Manli was very careful with them, meticulously cleaning even a bit of dust. Now, those shoes had a lot of blood on them because it had been a while since the jump, and the blood had partly dried.

Li Yifei’s eyelids twitched a few times, almost certain that the woman covered by the white cloth, who jumped from the building and died, was Li Manli—the girl he had just met yesterday!

Li Yifei had saved her twice but ultimately couldn’t save her this time. Seeing Li Manli’s corpse, despite having witnessed many life-and-death situations, Li Yifei couldn’t help but feel sadness and anger. A vibrant life had ended; he had promised to take her to Mile City. How had she died?

"What are you doing? Stay away from the spectacle!" Li Yifei had already reached the side when several policemen immediately came over to stop him. Jiang Hu heard the commotion, turned his head, and upon seeing it was Li Yifei, he hurriedly came over, pushing aside the policemen, not knowing why Li Yifei’s face was like that.

"Who did it?" Li Yifei asked in a low voice.

That tone... Jiang Hu’s heart skipped a beat and replied, "Mr. Li, I just asked a hotel staff member, and she said she didn’t know; the girl just jumped from the hotel room and died!"

How did Li Manli end up in a hotel room under such circumstances? And with her clothes disheveled, Li Yifei ignored Jiang Hu, walking a few steps towards the dazed Wu Gang, grabbing his collar and angrily demanding, "Wu Gang, what the hell did you do?"

Wu Gang initially had an unfocused look but immediately recognized who was before him, his eyes widened instantly. After understanding Li Yifei’s question, he shook his head repeatedly, saying, "No... it has nothing to do with me. Don’t blame me; her mother and I didn’t know anything!"

Is this... acquaintance? Jiang Hu opened his mouth, fearing that things might turn bad. Finally sending off Li Yifei, shortly after, his other female friend had an incident, and this time she’s directly dead.

Li Manli’s mother then noticed Li Yifei, crying and crawling over to him, kneeling and begging, "Please, save my daughter. Save her; she’s so young, how did she die?"

"Sister, what exactly happened? Everything was fine when I left yesterday!" Li Yifei asked.

Li Manli’s mother just cried, so Li Yifei turned to Wu Gang for an answer. The latter was equally scared, stammering, "We don’t know either. Last night, we intended to bring Li Manli’s mother to Dan City for a check-up. The money came from Wang Feng; he even drove us here. We had dinner at the hotel. But upon reaching the city, the doctor said it was too late, and asked to check the next day. We stayed overnight in Dan City, and in the middle of the night, Li Manli disappeared. We searched all night but couldn’t find her. At first, we thought she went to meet classmates or something, but there was no call or way to contact her. This morning, when Li Manli still hadn’t returned, we felt uneasy. Her mother needed to go to the hospital for a check-up; I had to accompany her. With the girl not around... who knew? When we finished and came out, the girl had... jumped!"

Wu Gang seemed genuinely unaware, not appearing to lie. Hearing Wang Feng’s name made Li Yifei’s eyes flash with a trace of killing intent; the other party had organized the check-up and deceived Li Manli to leave overnight?

"Where’s Wang Feng?" Li Yifei asked sternly.

Wu Gang trembled and said, "He’s waiting for us at the hotel; he got the money, but this morning we went by ourselves."

Li Yifei immediately suspected Wang Feng, called Jiang Hu directly and instructed, "Send someone with him to the hotel to arrest a man named Wang Feng. The deceased is my acquaintance, and I need to investigate this matter clearly."

"Ah?" Jiang Hu’s heart skipped upon hearing, thinking how it could coincide so eerily, yet another incident involving Li Yifei’s friend, and this time directly leading to death... He quickly dispatched a team with Wu Gang to arrest the person. Meanwhile, Li Manli’s mother still wept heartbreakingly. Her only family member in this world had died, and it was her daughter. Regardless of nationality or ethnicity, anyone would find it unbearable. Li Yifei didn’t know how to console her, for he was also deeply saddened.

He saw Li Manli’s remains because she fell flat; though it was just five stories high, she landed on the back of her head and died instantly. Despite Li Yifei being an extraordinary expert, he couldn’t revive someone already deceased. Li Manli’s face was pale, her hair unruly, her looks delicate, her eyes unfocused and open as if she couldn’t rest in peace. Her clothes had signs of tearing; even the lower pants only had one leg on, the undergarment was torn.

Such a scene could never be considered a normal death, so Li Yifei was very angry because fate led him to save Li Manli twice but still couldn’t prevent her death. Li Yifei felt a sense of helplessness, causing him to be very angry; if Li Manli had died normally, he would only regret it. However, it was evidently not a normal death, and Jiang Hu, after preliminarily understanding the situation, had reached the same conclusion.