"Mr. Xu, please tell me everything exactly as it is, and don't try to hide it."
"You should know very well that if I want, I can use another method to make you speak!"
Chen Jing drove the jeep on a long stretch of winding road without street lights. Lu Xin sat obediently in the back seat. Beside him were Mr. Xu and Xu Xiaoxiao, who had just bandaged the wound on her wrist and took strong painkillers. They both curled up in the back seat, far away from Lu Xin. There were three seats, but Lu Xin occupied two.
It can be seen that the father and daughter were both hit hard at this time.
There were four cars in front and behind the jeep, and each car was full of fully armed soldiers, accompanying them all the way.
The interweaving lights occasionally tore the heavy night around them, illuminating the snow-white.
Chen Jing spoke calmly while driving the car, with a calmness that seemed to have everything in his hands.
Mr. Xu in the back seat hesitated for a moment, as if he wanted to say something tough to express his protest, but when he looked at Chen Jing who was driving in front and Lu Xin who was sitting quietly beside him, he thought of the fate of his private armed forces...
He sighed softly and said in a hoarse voice: "Actually, I don't know much..."
"I... I just feel sorry for the artworks buried in the abandoned towns..."
"In fact, in fact, many people in the main city have the same approach as me. We just pay to fund some wasteland search teams to enter the major abandoned towns and search for some artworks from them. In such a crazy era, what we lack most is the pursuit of beauty. The chaotic era where a piece of moldy bread is more important than everything should be over..."
"..."
Chen Pu interrupted him: "I listened to your lectures during the training at Qinggang University, so you can skip these feelings now."
Mr. Chen was stunned for a moment.
Lu Xin kindly said, "She probably meant for you to get to the point!"
"..."
Mr. Xu's expression was a bit complicated. After a while, he said dejectedly, "I regularly sponsor some wasteland search teams to find some valuable artworks, and give them rewards and compensation according to the different artworks, and then... Then I will use some of my personal channels to transport them to the main city, collect them, or share them with like-minded people..."
He added, "I think you understand that such things are not uncommon..."
Chen Jing nodded expressionlessly, and raised her voice slightly: "Continue!"
"It's the same this time..."
Mr. Xu was silent for a while, and then said, "I received a message from the wasteland exploration team outside, saying that they had just returned from an abandoned city not long ago and found some good things in it. There was also a list attached, including two Chinese paintings, a set of well-preserved Hainan Huanghuali Ming Dynasty furniture, a suitcase of jewelry necklaces, and several jade carvings, etc...."
Chen Jing interrupted him and said, "When did it happen?"
"This... was already two months ago..."
Mr. Xu was silent for a while, and then answered in a low voice, "Because I was a little busy at the time, I asked Xiaoxiao to go out and meet them. In fact, she had done it several times before, and she was quite skilled. She also knew the captain of the wasteland exploration team, but... I didn't expect that she would get into trouble soon after she came back this time. I was busy helping her treat it, and even the goods were piled up in Bengbu Port..."
"You should feel lucky!"
Chen Jing said indifferently, "If she hadn't gotten into trouble, these things would have been transported to the main city."
Mr. Xu was speechless for a while, and then he sighed softly.
"It's your turn, Miss Xu."
Chen Jing said no more, but directed her cold words to Xu Xiaoxiao who was nestled in Mr. Xu's arms.
The girl looked listless at this time. She had lost a whole hand and had lost a lot of blood. If Chen Jing hadn't ordered someone to inject her with an injection, she would have fainted at this time. Although she was still awake, she was also sick and listless. After hearing Chen Jing's words, she just glared at the back of Chen Jing's head and looked away.
Lu Xin next to him felt a little strange. At this time, she dared to resist, which was a little abnormal.
Mr. Xu was a little anxious and said hurriedly: "Xiaoxiao..."
Before he could persuade her, Chen Jing had already frowned impatiently.
Through the rearview mirror, she looked at Xu Xiaoxiao, and her voice became slightly low and penetrating.
"It's hard to keep secrets in your heart, right?"
Lu Xin noticed that her pupils turned red at this time: "So, you should tell me everything you know, and tell me all the secrets in your heart. Only in this way can I help you share those secrets, right?"
Lu Xin noticed that Chen Jing's words this time were more gentle and detailed than the previous times.
He had seen the description of "hypnosis" in old movies, but what Chen Jing did was similar, but the specific method was very different.
Unlike those who hypnotize people, they need to use the right means at the right time.
Chen Jing, this is more like a forced hypnosis.
No matter how gentle the voice is, the method is very rough and direct.
Listening to her words, Xu Xiaoxiao's expression suddenly became a little dazed. From the previous resistance, she slowly became dazed, as if she suddenly fell into a dream. She was clearly still awake, but she looked like she was sleepwalking. She murmured:
"When I went to their camp... "
"The people in the wasteland search team are all dead..."
"..."
Mr. Xu was slightly surprised and shouted: "Colonel Chen..."
"Let her talk!"
Chen Jing said calmly: "She is in a deep hypnotic state now. If you want to make her an idiot, try to disturb her."
Mr. Xu quickly closed his mouth, anxious and worried.
Xu Xiaoxiao had already told everything in a dull manner: "They...they died in a horrible way."
"I saw several team members, all without clothes, hugging each other, some of them were holding a pig's head..."
"There were many bullet holes on their bodies, and the one who fired the gun was...the captain of the wasteland search team."
"I know him, his name is Shen Baohui, a very loyal person, it was...it was he who sat on the chair and shot those teammates, the submachine gun was at his feet...and he, he also died, shot his chin through with a pistol..."
"I don't know what happened to them, I hurried to check what they said before, and found...found that the things they brought back from that city were still there, and...and there was one more thing they didn't mention..."
"It's a painting!"
"The other things are still sealed in the box, only...only the painting was placed in the middle of their tent, on a wooden shelf, covered with a layer of black cloth, it looks... looks like it was temporarily covered with black cloth..."
"I...I asked people to pack all the things, and through bribery of the old guards of the patrol army, transported them to the temporary warehouse of Bengbu Port, where they were sorted and classified. I...I took the painting away, because...because I could see...they valued the painting and thought it was very valuable, so I planned to appraise its value, so...I uncovered the black cloth..."
"..."
Hearing this, Chen Jing in front of him frowned.
And Lu Xin, who was sitting in the back seat, also turned his head slightly and listened very seriously.
Mr. Xu wanted to speak several times, but in the end he just sighed and let his daughter speak.
He also knew that after confessing the whole thing, his career would be over and many people would be implicated. This was also the reason why he didn't want others to know about it at the beginning. However, it has come to this point. What else can he do?
"That painting... is so beautiful..."
Xu Xiaoxiao was still in a daze, but when she mentioned the painting, her pupils, which were almost motionless, still lit up slightly.
There was even a faint sign of breaking through this confusion.