Chapter 24 The Truth

At the corner, Da Huang and Bai Ma Shan unexpectedly met.

Bai Ma Shan recognized Da Huang at a glance. The collar with the dark red light flashing on the dog's neck made Bai Ma Shan's heart skip a beat. He knew Bai Xun had already made his move.

Bai Ma Shan knew that when he came out, the police must be following him. Taking advantage of the fact that they hadn't caught up yet, he grabbed Da Huang's collar and slipped into the utility room on the side with the dog.

Bai Ma Shan wanted to quickly remove the collar from the dog's neck. The police in the corridor were already catching up. If the police got this collar, Bai Xun's life would be over.

Bai Ma Shan's right palm was inserted between Da Huang's neck and collar. Da Huang shook its head frantically and barked. Instantly, an electric current ran through Bai Ma Shan's arm.

Bai Ma Shan gritted his teeth and didn't let go. Da Huang was being shocked, baring its teeth and shaking its head, making it impossible for him to accurately undo the collar.

Seeing that the police outside were about to find them, Bai Ma Shan dragged it to the slightly higher sink used for mopping the floor. He thought that if he put the dog in it, he could secure it.

There was a basin in the sink with some water left in it. Bai Ma Shan couldn't care less. But the dog was unwilling to go up, and struggled violently, as if it saw something extremely terrifying.

Bai Ma Shan was anxious and insisted on putting the dog in. Unexpectedly, Da Huang, who never dared to bark at him in the past, suddenly bit his wrist, without any mercy.

Bai Ma Shan hissed in pain and quickly let go. Blood spurted out.

The dog broke free and ran out of the utility room like a wild horse. But at this moment, the plainclothes officer who had rushed over from Zhao Di's ward blocked the dog's path, holding a steel fork used for riot control in his hand.

Da Huang was trapped between Bai Ma Shan and the plainclothes officer, with nowhere to go. Stimulated, it spun around madly. Just as it was spinning around, the light on the dog's collar went out.

"Da Huang, come here," Bai Ma Shan called the dog's name, trying to control the dog and tighten the collar again.

"Don't move!" the plainclothes officer warned Bai Ma Shan while quickly approaching.

Seeing the steel fork approaching, the dog, driven to desperation, growled in a low voice. In a stress response, confused, it actually pounced towards Bai Ma Shan.

Bai Ma Shan thought it wanted his protection, but unexpectedly, the dog leaped up, brushed past his side, and jumped out of the opened window, dying on the spot.

The plainclothes officer and Bai Ma Shan were stunned for a moment. The noisy sounds outside the utility room grew louder and louder. The police following Bai Ma Shan had all arrived.

Bai Ma Shan looked at the people coming to arrest him, knowing that the situation was over, and said dejectedly, "I did it all. I confess."

At the same time, Bai Xun, who had just run to the stairwell of the emergency exit, was blocked by the police.

"Bai Xun, right? Come back to the police station with us. We suspect you are related to the Zhao Di murder case."

Bai Xun didn't panic at all and looked calmly at the police officer who was about to restrain him. He said indifferently, "No need to suspect, it was me."

The police officer was stunned for a moment, and then twisted him away.

The sound of sirens broke the silence of the hospital. The doctor rescued Zhao Di. Jia Wenjun stood in the corridor. Seeing the police officers taking Bai Ma Shan out of the utility room, Jia Wenjun's heart surged. It was him. The person hiding behind the scenes was him.

Her whole body trembled slightly. She took out her phone and called Wu Peng.

Jia Wenjun returned to the ward, looking at Zhao Di, who had been snatched back from the brink of death. Her tears fell drop by drop. The repression and grievances of so long could finally be vented.

A hand slowly touched her hand: "Jia... Jia Wenjun."

Through her teary eyes, Jia Wenjun saw that Zhao Di on the bed was awake. She was tremblingly holding her hand and making vague sounds. Although the sound was not loud, Jia Wenjun still heard it clearly. Zhao Di was calling her name. Zhao Di had recovered!

"You, you can talk?" Jia Wenjun wiped away her tears, hearing Zhao Di struggling to call her name again.

She didn't dare to delay and quickly called the doctor over.

The doctor didn't expect that Zhao Di, who had been dying just now, had now recovered all her functions. After examining her, the conclusion was that it was likely that her nervous system had been greatly stimulated, which had miraculously cured her.

After the doctors and nurses left, Zhao Di asked Jia Wenjun in a hoarse voice, "Have those who harmed us been caught?"

Jia Wenjun looked at the faint light of dawn about to appear outside the window, with a smile on her face: "They have all been caught. We have finally waited for the truth."

After she called Wu Peng, Wu Peng went directly to the police station. There, he immediately told her the information he had found out.

At this time, Bai Ma Shan and Bai Xun were being held in separate cells, and the interrogation rooms were also separate.

After several days of interrogation, these difficult father and son had a new problem. They both wanted to take all the responsibility on themselves, and the police had to carefully review the entire case from the beginning.

After being discharged from the hospital, Zhang Lin personally interrogated Bai Xun.

Bai Xun's expression was indifferent, and he was a little impatient: "How many times have I said, I pushed Zhao Di off the boat. I was afraid she would wake up and recognize me, so the several times she was in danger in the hospital were all my doing. It has nothing to do with my dad."

After a pause, he added: "In my bag there is a key. This key can open the small house on the first floor on the west side of Building 19 in the alley in the aquatic market. In the house there are all the things I used when committing the crime."

Zhang Lin's people had followed Bai Ma Shan several times before, but he had slipped away next to the aquatic market. Everyone went to the small house that Bai Xun mentioned. In addition to the things used for training dogs, they found all kinds of clothes and props inside, both men's and women's, even more complete than in a photo studio.

From the evidence found in the house, the police also found a photo of the girl who committed suicide by jumping off a building in the Lu Ming community half a year ago.

Holding the photo, the police once again interrogated Bai Ma Shan. Compared to Bai Xun, Bai Ma Shan's condition was extremely bad. He had a low fever, was shivering all over, and was irritable. He seemed to have aged ten years overnight.

The police showed Bai Ma Shan the evidentiary photos taken in the small house. He slowly raised his head and tried to think for a while, but the occasional throbbing in his brain made it impossible for him to concentrate.

"Bai Ma Shan, you said that all these things were done by you, but we found Bai Xun's fingerprints and things in the house where you hid the dog, as well as this photo."

The police took out the photo of the girl in red swinging.

Bai Ma Shan remained silent, silently looking at the wound on his body where he had been bitten by Da Huang.

The wound had been bandaged and was no longer bleeding, but he knew that his symptoms in the past few days were not normal. Bai Ma Shan didn't want to drag it out for too long, because he knew that his dizzy feeling and feverish symptoms at the moment were likely that he had been infected.

He had been bitten by Da Huang. He didn't think much about it at the time, and only wanted to take the responsibility to protect Bai Xun. When he reacted, he had already realized that something was wrong.

The shortest incubation period for rabies is only four days. He remembered Da Huang's anxiety and abnormality before jumping off the building. He previously thought that the dog was just irritable from being locked up for a long time, but now he finally realized something was wrong, but it was too late.

He, a person who specializes in subduing dogs, eventually succumbed to a dog. Perhaps this is karma.