The men in the floral shirts and bell-bottom pants were taken to the police station. Su Xiaoliu briefly explained the situation.
The police station chief, An Xuming, had recently been transferred to this post.
In his thirties, he had retired from the army and then become a police officer, possessing considerable martial arts skills.
His personality was characterized by a certain righteous indignation.
Although he had only been transferred here for less than a month, he had heard about a group of people who bullied the weak, harassed the innocent, and monopolized businesses.
An Xuming had heard these people boast about having connections, so he wanted to test the waters and see what level of connections they truly had.
During this time, he appeared to be moving around and gathering information, but in reality, he was trying to get a handle on this group of people.
However, perhaps due to being oppressed for too long, the local residents were tight-lipped about these individuals.
As a result, he hadn't achieved much substantial progress in the past few days.
This left Chief An feeling quite frustrated.
But he also knew that as a newcomer, he hadn't even settled in properly, so it was understandable that people were hesitant to tell him the truth.
Therefore, he decided to wait until he had been there for a while and familiarized himself with the work before trying to get information from these people.
He absolutely could not tolerate the existence of such bandits and scoundrels under his jurisdiction.
Such people needed to be corrected, to be made to be good people again.
Who would have thought that a timely arrival would be like finding a pillow when you're sleepy? Someone had actually brought these people in bound.
An Xuming was quite surprised after hearing Su Xiaoliu's account.
"Were these people captured by you all?"
These were adults who roamed the streets, habitually committing evil deeds, and they wouldn't be easy to deal with. Why were they captured by a few children?
Could it be that these children had adult help behind them?
Su Xiaoliu smiled and said, "We've practiced some martial arts since we were young, following our elders. We're a bit better than these weaklings!"
His words were humble and polite, but could he really hide the smug look in his eyes while speaking so modestly?
"You all practiced?" An Xuming asked, scanning the group with a puzzled expression.
There were seven culprits, and five children here, along with a soft and adorable little girl.
Calculated, the young boys would have to fight almost two people each!
An Xuming successfully overlooked Su Xiaotian. It was simply too difficult to imagine this child, with her porcelain-doll-like appearance, getting into a fight.
As An Xuming spoke, he couldn't help but glance at the bell-bottomed man beside him, who had been beaten into a pig's head.
He wondered which young hero had delivered these blows, and what offense had been committed against the young heroes.
After all, the other culprits, even though they had been beaten, were not in such a miserable state!
"Officer, they beat people, I want to sue them."
An Xuming couldn't stand such people, and he said with a cold face, "Did they go to your house and beat you?"
With that one sentence, the thugs were speechless.
They had gone to commit violence, and they deserved to be beaten to death!
"Officer, we were just visiting. Who knew that we would encounter these unreasonable people who directly beat our brothers!" The round, chubby man was still trying to find an excuse to lessen their guilt.
They couldn't be beaten and then locked up, could they?
That would be too miserable for them.
At this moment, they had completely forgotten that if they hadn't harbored wicked intentions, wanting to get Tan Zishi's formula and sell it for a large sum of money, none of these subsequent events would have occurred.
"Lock these people up. Please ask Doctor Li from across the street to come and take a look, apply some medicine! And also to testify that it wasn't us at our station who did the beating," An Xuming instructed a junior officer.
The junior officer was stunned at first, suspecting if the chief had misspoke.
Doctor Li from across their station didn't treat people; he was a veterinarian. How could he be asked to treat people?
But then, he understood the chief's intention. The chief probably thought these people were worse than beasts for their evil deeds!
It had to be said that the junior officer's imagination had gone too far. An Xuming truly had no such intention.
He simply felt that it was too much of a waste to find a doctor specifically for these people. Anyone would do for a look.
After all, these were just superficial injuries, and they wouldn't die.
These people knew about it, but the men in floral shirts and others didn't know that An Xuming was referring to a veterinarian!
They thought that this comrade chief was a good person.
"Comrade, you are a good person. Good people are always rewarded. If you let us brothers go today, we will definitely repay your kindness in letting us go."
The floral-shirted man instantly felt that he had room to maneuver again.
An Xuming did not speak, but quietly watched the floral-shirted man speak so boldly.
"Comrade, I have connections. As long as you let me go today and arrest these bad people who beat us brothers, I will definitely speak well of you to my superiors, guaranteeing your smooth advancement in the future!"
Su Xiaoliu and the others looked on, completely bewildered.
Was there such a thing in this world?
Was it really appropriate to brazenly claim to have connections in a place like this?
They truly didn't know how high the connections of these people were.
Su Xiaoqi, however, was deep in thought. These people kept talking about having connections, but she didn't know what level they were.
If she asked her second grandfather, she didn't know if the matter could be resolved properly.
If the floral-shirted man knew that Su Xiaoqi was already considering asking Chief Dong Yuanzhong to come forward and resolve the issue, he would probably wish he could swallow his current words back!
But he didn't know, and continued to speak his mind.
An Xuming frowned. Why did these words sound so strange?
Putting aside whether these people truly had connections or not, even if they did, why would they say it in a place like this?
Moreover, they were making such promises right in front of him.
Should he call them foolish, or should he call them foolish?
An Xuming frowned, thinking, but couldn't come up with a clear answer.
"You keep saying you have people behind you. Why don't we give you a chance to invite the people behind you, and let them personally take you all back?" Su Xiaotian said with a half-smile, looking as if she were watching a show.
She had been watching for a long time and finally understood that the so-called connections these people spoke of were just bluster.
If they truly had connections, they would probably keep a low profile and make a fortune quietly, and would never speak of it so openly.
Furthermore, when they were at Tan Zishi's house earlier, and heard them call the police, these people had shown a moment of panic.
An Xuming did not expect Su Xiaotian to say something like that in front of him.
In that instant, he wondered if he had woken up that day?
Why did it feel like he was dreaming?
These adults and children all seemed a bit off!