"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 get you to talk!"
Chen Jing was driving a jeep on a long winding road without street lights. Lu Xin sat in the back seat honestly. Next to him were Mr. Xu and Xu Xiao Xiao, who had just bandaged the injury on his wrist and taken powerful painkillers. Both of them were huddled in the back seat, far away from Lu Xin. Although there were three seats, Lu Xin occupied two of them.
It can be seen that both father and daughter were hit hard at this time.
There were four other vehicles in front and behind the jeep, each with heavily armed soldiers accompanying them all the way.
The interweaving lights occasionally tore apart the surrounding dense night, illuminating streaks of snowy white.
Chen Jing spoke calmly while driving, as if he had everything in his hands.
Mr. Xu in the back seat hesitated slightly, as if he wanted to say something strong to express his protest, but when he looked at Chen Jing who was driving in front, and Lu Xin who was sitting calmly next to him, he thought about the fate of his personal armed forces...
He sighed softly and said in a hoarse voice, "Actually, I don't know much..."
"I... I just feel sorry for those works of art buried in abandoned towns..."
"Actually, in fact, many people in Main City have the same approach as me. We only fund some wasteland search teams and let them enter major abandoned towns and search for some artworks. 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 anything else should pass..."
"..."
Chen Jing interrupted him, "I listened to your lectures during Qinggang University training, so now you can skip these emotions."
Mr. Xu was stunned for a moment.
Lu Xin said kindly on the side, "She should want you to get to the point directly!"
"..."
Mr. Xu's face was a little complicated. After a while, he said with some dejection, "I regularly fund some waste-recovery teams to find some valuable works of art, and give them rewards and compensation according to the different works of art, and then... then through some of my private channels, they will be transported to Main City, collected, or shared with like-minded people..."
Then he added, "I want you to understand that this kind of thing is not uncommon..."
Chen Jing nodded expressionlessly and raised his voice slightly. "Continue!"
"It's the same this time..."
Mr. Xu was silent for a while and said, "I received a message from Pioneer Team from outside, saying that they had just returned from a large abandoned city not long ago and found some good things from it. There was also a list attached, which included two Chinese paintings, a set of well-preserved Hainan Huanghuali Ming Dynasty furniture, a suitcase of jewelry necklaces, several ancient jade carvings, etc..."
Chen Jing interrupted him and asked, "When did it happen?"
"This... was already two months ago..."
Mr. Xu was silent for a moment, and then replied in a low voice, "Because I was a little unable to get away at the time, I asked Xiao Xiao to go out and contact them. She has actually done this a few times before, and is relatively skilled. She also knows the captain of the wasteland search team, but... I didn't expect that something happened to her as soon as she came back this time. I have been busy helping her to treat her, and even the goods were piled on Bangbu Port..."
"You should feel lucky!"
Chen Jing said indifferently, "If something hadn't happened to her, these things must have been shipped to Main City."
Mr. Xu suddenly became speechless, and after a while, he let out a low breath.
"It's your turn, Miss Xu."
Chen Jing said no more, but directed his cold words towards Xu Xiao Xiao, who was nestling in Mr. Xu's arms.
This girl seemed to have no energy at all at this time. She lost one of her hands and lost a lot of blood. If Chen Jing hadn't ordered someone to inject her with a pair of injections, she must have passed out by this time. Although he is still awake now, he is also sick and has no energy at all. After hearing Chen Jing's words, he just glared at the back of Chen Jing's head and looked away.
Lu Xin next to her felt a little strange. At this time, she actually dared to resist, which was a little abnormal.
Mr. Xu suddenly became anxious and said hurriedly, "Xiao Xiao..."
Before he could persuade him, Chen Jing already frowned impatiently.
Through the rearview mirror, she looked at Xu Xiao Xiao, and her voice became slightly deeper and more penetrating.
"It's hard to keep a secret in your heart, isn't it?"
Lu Xin noticed that her pupils turned red at this time. "So, you should tell me everything you know and all the secrets in your heart. Only in this way can I help you share those secrets, right?"
Lu Xin noticed that Chen Jing seemed gentler and more meticulous this time than before.
He had seen descriptions of "hypnosis" in old movies, but what Chen Jing did was similar, but the specific methods were very different.
Unlike those who hypnotize people, they need to use the right method at the right time.
Chen Jing, this is more like a forced hypnosis.
No matter how gentle his voice is, his approach is very rough and direct.
Listening to her words, Xu Xiao Xiao's expression suddenly became a little dazed. From the previous resistance, he slowly became trance-like, as if he suddenly fell into a dream. He was clearly still awake, but he looked like he was sleepwalking. He murmured:
"I was... 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 say it!"
Chen Jing said calmly, "She is in a deep hypnotic state now. If you want her to become an idiot, try disturbing her."
Mr. Xu hurriedly closed his mouth, anxious and worried.
And Xu Xiao Xiao had already told everything in a dull manner, "They... the way they died was terrifying."
"I saw several team members, all without clothes, hugging each other, and some even hugged a pig's head..."
"They all have many bullet holes on their bodies, and the person who fired the gun is... the captain of the wasteland search team."
"I know him. His name is Shen Baohui. He is a very loyal person. That is... he sat on the chair and shot those teammates. The submachine gun was at his feet... and he, he also died. He shot his own chin with a pistol..."
"I didn't know what happened to them. I hurriedly went to check what they said before and found... I found that everything they brought back from that city was still there, and... and there was one more thing they hadn't mentioned..."
"That's a painting!"
"Everything else is still sealed in the box. Only... only the painting was placed in the middle of their camp, on a wooden shelf covered with a layer of black cloth. It looked... it looked like it was temporarily covered with black cloth..."
"I... I asked people to pack all the things and bribe City Patrol Army Lao Wei to transport them into the temporary warehouse of Bangbu Port, where they were organized and classified. I... I took away the painting because... because I could see... that they valued the painting and thought it was very valuable, so I planned to appraise its value, so... I uncovered the black cloth..."
"..."
When he heard this, Chen Jing in front of him frowned.
Lu Xin, who was sitting in the back seat, also turned his head slightly and listened very carefully.
Mr. Xu wanted to speak several times, but in the end she just sighed softly and simply let her daughter do the talking.
He also knew that after explaining the whole thing, his path would definitely be over, and many people would be implicated. This was also the reason why he didn't want others to know about it in the first place. But, having reached this point, what else could he do?
"That painting... is so beautiful..."
Xu Xiao Xiao was still in a daze, but when he mentioned this painting, his barely moving pupils still shone slightly.
There is even a faint sign of breaking through this confusion.