I Turned the Villainess System Over to the Government - Chapter 2
I shot Officer Li a look, signaling for her to let me try.
Whoosh—
I flung one arm out into empty space, snapped it back, spread my fingers in front of my face, then slowly lowered my hand. With my middle finger, I pushed my glasses inward and stared at Shen Yi from a dramatic forty-five-degree angle.
“An evil will from the Chaotic Void Sea has laid cursed shackles upon you.
“We are the ‘Shield of Order,’ Harmonizers who walk among the mortal realm. We have come to help you strip away the evil god parasitizing your thread of fate.
“Join us! The bonds of destiny between us shall weave an invincible reverse incantation and utterly annihilate this evil will!
“This is not persuasion.
“It is a summons!”
After being exposed to my cousin’s nonsense day after day, I could imitate at least seventy or eighty percent of her style.
Officer Li was still struggling to process the Chinese words that had just come out of my mouth. Xiao Heng, meanwhile, was looking at me like I was a complete idiot.
But Shen Yi—
The surging light in his eyes could no longer be contained. He sprang to his feet so hard he knocked his chair over.
“I—I’m in!”
A deep alley filled with darkness, swallowing the bright young woman who happened to pass by.
A yellow-haired thug clamped one hand over Xiao Heng’s mouth and hooked the other around her slender neck, dragging her into the thick night.
Xiao Heng panicked, kicking wildly.
Deeper in the alley, more malicious eyes pierced through her thin dress, while filthy hands crawled toward her innocent body.
Xiao Heng whimpered, clear tears wetting her bare shoulders.
At that very moment, I hid in a corner outside her line of sight and let out an evil laugh.
[Mission complete. Item obtained: “Mind Reading.” After activation, the effect lasts 24 hours. You can read the thoughts of everyone within a ten-meter radius.]
The message appeared in my mind.
I gave an “OK” gesture behind my back.
Officer Li entered the alley with a huge crowd of people and raised her radio.
“Operation complete. All departments, begin wrap-up procedures!”
Martial Arts Team: “We gave the blond thug emergency training. The kidnapping technique looks rough, but it doesn’t actually injure the target.”
Directing Team: “The female lead’s acting has improved significantly. Any interest in joining a real production?”
Hair and Makeup Team: “We rushed out a skin-tone full-body suit. The female lead and the ‘thug’ never made actual skin contact.”
The blond thug ripped off his fake stubble, held out one hand with his pinky delicately raised, and began removing his makeup.
“How many times do I have to tell you? Stop calling me ‘the blond thug.’ Call me Sister Maomao~”
“If it weren’t for little sister Xiao Heng, I never would’ve cut off the hair I spent two years growing out, much less dyed it this god-awful color~”
Medical Team: “We hired several newly transitioned women who had just undergone gender-confirmation surgery. Their facial features haven’t changed much yet, but physiologically and psychologically, they are women.”
Our first large-scale operation ended in complete success. The organization summoned experts from multiple industries to discuss detailed rules for using the [Mind Reading] item.
Interrogation room.
A woman was escorted in by police and sat down reluctantly.
“I already told you I don’t have any leads. Why do you keep dragging me in here to ask the same questions over and over?”
“Huh? Why does this place look different from last time?”
Officer: “Who killed Wang? You really have no idea?”
Woman: “Who knows? He was always out drinking and messing around. Maybe someone got sick of him and took care of him…”
In the room next door, I stared at the interrogation-room feed and activated [Mind Reading].
“It was her boyfriend, Li Dashun. Last week he went to M City to stay with her second uncle’s third son-in-law. He didn’t bring enough clothes. I wonder if he’s cold… We haven’t contacted each other for days to avoid suspicion. He better not be out there finding some other woman!”
Officer Li, sitting beside me, said, “You don’t need to repeat the irrelevant details.”
An assistant beside us hammered away at a keyboard while the recording equipment quietly ran.
Back in the interrogation room.
Officer: “What were you doing on the day Wang died?”
Woman: “I think I was cleaning at home… It’s been a while. I don’t really remember.”
Me, in the next room: “She was helping Li Dashun clean up the aftermath. The murder weapon was a hammer. It’s buried in the garden of Brother Jiang’s suburban villa. Li Dashun washed his bloodstained clothes there too. The cops are supposedly pretty good—they can detect blood traces. I absolutely can’t let them find that villa…”
Officer: “All right. You can go.”
Woman: “That’s it? So fast this time?”
Officer: “Go. Now.”
We still had the next person to question.
The second one came in wearing shackles, slouching around like he didn’t have a care in the world.
Officer: “Where are the other children you abducted?”
The trafficker rolled his eyes.
“Tch~”
Me: “Wangba Village, Blindman Town, K City next door. The merchandise we couldn’t sell? If we can’t make money off them, you don’t get to bring them back either. Let them starve to death in the mountains.”
Officer: “Get out. Next.”
The third one was a bald man with a vicious, gloomy expression.
Officer: “Where are the goods? Where were you planning to sell them?”
Bald man, internally: Do I look like someone who’s easy to talk to?
Me: “Karabari City in M Country. Five hundred kilograms—the biggest shipment. The buyer’s in Sada Village, Y City. Price is already agreed on. Payment is in cryptocurrency. Wei Xiaogui controls the account.”
…
I strongly recommended that the system reduce the usable duration of reward items to eighteen hours or less.
That way, I wouldn’t have to wash down compressed biscuits with coffee and work around the clock for twenty-four straight hours.
The gratifying result was that every major cold case in Hua Country from the past ten years was solved.
Without exception.
