The Years of Imprisonment

The tanker hijacking incident has been successfully resolved.

Following that, the Armed Detective Agency and the Metropolitan Police Department, at Leiji's notification, dispatched a rescue helicopter to the location of the oil tanker at sea.

At that time, the tanker was already heading back towards Gakuen Island.

Meanwhile, the speedboats equipped with submachine guns all obediently followed behind, returning to the Gakuen Island under remote control without human drivers.

In other words, for the people on the tanker, this incident was merely a close call.

Fang Li and Aria, who had infiltrated the tanker beforehand, were not rewarded but instead condemned.

Upon learning the whole story, the high-society figures on the tanker condemned Fang Li and Aria for failing to notify the organizers beforehand and canceling the ball, which put them in danger.

However, in response to this situation, Aria made a direct declaration.

"The warning letter was sent to the organizer's address long ago, but unfortunately the organizer did not accept it. If you intend to pursue this matter, then it is your own fault!"

In fact, three days earlier, when Fang Li learned that the oil tanker had been targeted by Armed Detective Killer, Fang Li had Aria send a warning letter.

However, just as Aria said, the organizers did not process the application at all.

That's only natural.

Without any evidence, it is simply unconvincing to ask them to cancel a pre-arranged high society ball.

Unfortunately, Aria did send a warning letter, but the organizers did not accept it.

Therefore, if we were to hold these upper-class individuals accountable, the blame would naturally fall on them.

Now, the upper-class people were completely speechless.

If it were just ordinary armed police, these powerful upper-class people would have plenty of ways to deal with them, making the armed police, who inevitably face danger, the targets of their venting.

However, Aria was a England nobleman, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would naturally not allow him to become a target of the country's upper class.

As a result, the upper-class people not only had to swallow their bitterness, but also had to pay a considerable sum of money for being saved by Fang Li and Aria.

You should know that these people are all powerful figures in their respective fields; they have everything, but the most money.

With so many people involved, the total compensation would be enough to make any wealthy family drool.

The England noblewoman was overjoyed to have caught Vlad and generously transferred the money into Fang Li's account, instantly adding several zeros to Fang Li's balance.

In other words, Fang Li made a lot of money from this incident, while Aria caught a big fish, which finally reduced her mother's sentence and allowed the Judgment to be restarted.

As for Riko, she was admitted to the hospital under Fang Li's arrangement.

"Let me talk to Riko about the Armed Detective Killer matter for now, and we can deal with it later, okay?"

When Fang Li told Aria this, Aria hesitated for a moment, and then immediately agreed.

"Although the Armed Detective Killer also caused my mother to bear the blame, now that Vlad has been caught, I will put aside Riko's matter for the time being."

"Besides, that child seems quite pitiful, you should have a good talk with her."

After leaving those words, Aria left the hospital to contact a lawyer and deal with her mother's affairs.

Under these circumstances, Fang Li went to Riko's hospital room.

"Click..."

With the sound of the door opening, Fang Li opened the door to the ward and walked into the private room.

This is a rather spacious hospital room.

On the bed, Riko, dressed in a hospital gown, sat up, seemingly unaware of Fang Li's arrival, gazing at the scenery outside the window.

Looking at Riko like this, Fang Li fell silent.

In reality, Riko's injuries were not serious; she only took a few bullets through her Bulletproof Uniform, which was equivalent to being hit a few times with a metal rod.

As a member of the armed reconnaissance unit, who hasn't been shot by bullets?

Even Fang Li sometimes gets hit by stray bullets during Assault Department training, let alone Riko.

Therefore, Riko's injury was not at all serious enough to require hospitalization.

However, after Vlad was knocked down by Fang Li, Riko remained in a daze, which worried Aria. In the end, Fang Li had no choice but to take her to the hospital.

Thinking of Vlad, Fang Li took a deep breath. Just as he was about to say something to Riko, Riko suddenly spoke up.

"Do you remember me saying that no one has celebrated my birthday since I was eight years old?"

Fang Li was taken aback.

"I was eight years old when my parents died." Riko said as if talking to herself, "After that, Vlad came to my house, pretending to be a friend of my parents, and said he wanted to adopt me. So I went with him."

Fang Li's brows furrowed immediately.

Fang Li could guess that Vlad had his eye on Riko because he wanted to obtain the superior genes of the Robin family.

If that's the case, then Riko leaving with Vlad won't end up in a good situation.

As expected, Riko's next words confirmed Fang Li's thoughts.

"Vlad only wanted to obtain my genes, but just like what Sayonari said before, I didn't inherit any of my ancestors' excellent abilities at all. Genetically speaking, I'm just a useless person." Riko said in a voice devoid of emotion, with her back to Fang Li, "In order to obtain excellent genes, Vlad locked me in a cage, intending to use me as a tool to produce excellent offspring, just like raising superior pets."

"For the next few years, I was always in a cage." Riko picked up her uniform from the bedside table and laughed self-deprecatingly, "Vlad said that livestock don't need clothes, so he didn't give me any. I could only wear a tattered rag, and just stayed there... and there..."

Upon hearing this, Fang Li sighed inwardly.

That's probably why Riko is so passionate about pretty and cute clothes, even modifying her uniform to be so fluffy and beautiful.

"Later, I escaped from Vlad's cage and joined I-Yu in order to get rid of the label of 'trash.' But Vlad immediately chased after I-Yu, like a demon, and had no intention of letting me go." Riko bit her lip and said this.

"Vlad promised me that if I could prove that I had surpassed my great-grandfather and crossed the limits of genes, he would set me free."