Chapter 1416
: 32 Ex-Girls Speak Out in Unison, the Entire Internet Explodes!
But he had to go.
Because in the Great Xia, no one can deal with Tianyu Shencang. The National Security Bureau can't, the military can't, and the special forces can't. Only Luo Fei, only he who also possesses a system, has a chance to compete with Tianyu Shencang.
Even if the odds of victory were slim, even if he might not return, he had to go. This wasn't to clear his name or prove his innocence, but to build a defensive line, even if it consisted of only one person, against the most dangerous enemy of the Great Xia.
Thinking of this, Luo Fei felt in his pocket and took out his phone.
The first thing he did after leaving the interrogation center was to turn off his phone and remove the SIM card.
He was well aware of the Dali Division's technical surveillance methods. As long as his SIM card was still in his phone, even if it wasn't turned on, they could still pinpoint his location using base station signals. But he couldn't worry about that now.
He decided to make one last call.
To Chen Xuanran.
Luo Fei put the SIM card back into the phone and pressed the power button. The moment the screen lit up, the phone started vibrating incessantly, as if it were going crazy.
WeChat messages, text messages, and missed call notifications kept popping up, filling the notification bar on the screen to the brim, almost making it freeze.
In just two or three hours, news of his escape from punishment had spread throughout the entire Great Xia.
There were dozens of missed calls. Chen Xuanran was at the top of the list, making twenty-three calls. Then came Lei Wanting, making over a dozen. Wei Gelao's number appeared five times. Each member of the special case team made several calls.
Master Zhou Gang's number showed eleven missed calls. Uncle Li Guo called fifteen times. The numbers of Zeng Jian and Zhou Xuan also filled the entire call log page.
Looking at these names, Luo Fei's lips curled into a bitter smile.
He found Chen Xuanran's number, hovered his fingertip over the screen for a second, and then pressed the dial button.
The phone was answered almost instantly after it rang for the first time.
"Luo Fei!"
Chen Xuanran's voice came through the receiver, trembling noticeably, sounding anxious and flustered, as if he had been waiting for this call for a long time and was afraid that it would be cut off at any moment.
"What exactly happened to you? Is what the arrest warrant says true? Did you kill someone? Did you run away? They say you committed treason—where are you?"
She spoke very quickly, asking several questions in one breath, her voice trembling with suppressed sobs, but she was trying hard to control herself and prevent her voice from shaking too much.
Luo Fei did not answer these questions.
"Xuanran".
His voice was calm, as if he were talking to her in his living room at home, unhurried and unhurried.
Do you believe me or not?
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone. Then Chen Xuanran's voice rang out again, this time without trembling or hesitation. Every word seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, firm and unwavering.
"I believe it one hundred percent."
Luo Fei smiled slightly, but something was churning in his eyes.
"I killed someone because someone framed me. The person who framed me is very high-ranking, higher than you can imagine. But no one can hurt me, remember this—no one."
I will prove my innocence, but not now, because I have more important things to do.
He paused, his voice deepening.
"Take care of yourself and our children. Take good care of Grandma for me."
"Luo Fei—"
"Hang up."
Luo Fei pressed the hang-up button.
On the other end of the phone, Chen Xuanran's hand holding the phone trembled violently. She bit her lip, desperately trying to hold back her tears, but they still welled up uncontrollably, streaming down her cheeks and dripping onto her swollen belly, leaving a small dark stain.
She wasn't the only one standing beside her.
In the living room, several uniformed police officers stood silently to one side. On the coffee table was a portable listening device, and a laptop screen displayed a series of constantly fluctuating data.
A technical investigation officer, wearing headphones, sat in front of a computer, his fingers flying across the keyboard.
"The signal has been located."
The technical investigation personnel looked up, their voices very low.
"The signal source is located in Donggou Village, Daling Town, 60 kilometers away from Kyoto, along the ancient Great Wall."
The person next to him immediately picked up a walkie-talkie and sent the location information to the Kyoto Dali Division.
At the same time, Luo Fei stood on the top of a tower on the Great Wall and took his phone away from his ear.
He glanced at the still-flashing call duration on the screen, casually took out the SIM card, broke it in half, and then threw it away forcefully, along with the phone.
The phone traced an arc in the night sky, tumbling and crashing into the depths of the valley, disappearing into the darkness.
Two points of light appeared on the distant horizon, moving rapidly.
The light spot drew closer and brighter, accompanied by the deafening roar of the propellers tearing through the air.
Two helicopters painted in military green camouflage emerged from the other side of the ridge. The high-powered searchlights under the nose of the helicopters shot out two snow-white beams of light, sweeping across the ridge and treetops, illuminating the ground as bright as day.
Luo Fei looked at the two helicopters and said, "They came pretty fast."
Then he leaped into the air.
His body plummeted straight down from the top of the Great Wall tower, flipped over in mid-air, and with a powerful push from his feet, he shot into the depths of the valley like a cannonball.
His figure flashed a few times in the interplay of moonlight and searchlight beams before disappearing into the layers of mountains.
The helicopter pilot paused for a moment, then shouted into the communicator, "Target disappeared! Repeat, target disappeared! He jumped—no, he flew away!"
Only the sound of the wind and the rumble of helicopter rotors echoing in the night sky remained in the valley.
The news that Luo Fei was a spy quickly spread across the internet.
At 11 p.m. that night, the topic "Luo Fei's treason" topped the Weibo hot search list, and the "hot" tag that followed changed from red to dark purple. The popularity was so high that the algorithm of the entire hot search list almost crashed.
On Douyin, Kuaishou, Zhihu, Baidu Tieba, Toutiao, and every other social media platform you can think of, Luo Fei's name was ranked number one on the trending searches.
The next morning, Luo Fei's wanted poster began playing on a loop on the large screens in the squares of major cities in Daxia. The giant LED screen on the east side of Tiananmen Square in Kyoto, the billboards on Xidan Commercial Street in Kyoto, the display screens in the waiting hall of Kyoto Railway Station, and the glass curtain wall screens on the exterior walls of the skyscrapers in Kyoto's CBD—screens that usually broadcast the evening news and commercial advertisements—were all replaced with the same photo.
The person in the photo has a cold, stern face and sharp eyes. Next to him is a bold, large red lettering: "Class A Wanted Notice." Below that is a line of smaller print listing Luo Fei's name, ID number, place of origin, height, weight, and the reward amount.
Ten million.
The number was deliberately enlarged and bolded, using a striking gold color that stood out starkly against the background of the red notice. Ten million—this was the highest reward ever offered by the Great Xia National Security Bureau.
As long as you provide valid clues to bring Luo Fei to justice, you can get this ten million.
Luo Fei had briefly become famous after winning the International Special Police Competition. However, his fame was limited to a small circle, and only a few million people knew about him.
Later, due to the need for secrecy, the authorities quickly removed all his photos and related reports, and many people who saw the news at the time gradually forgot what he looked like.
But this time is different.
Once the nationwide arrest warrant was issued, Luo Fei's face appeared in every corner of the 9.6 million square kilometers of land in the Great Xia Dynasty.
His wanted posters were plastered all over the city streets and alleys, on community bulletin boards, bus stop billboards, subway station electronic screens, highway service area notice boards, and even on the propaganda boards in front of rural village committees.
The A4 paper with his photo printed on it was copied countless times. The words "Class A Wanted Notice" in red, along with his ID photo, were so eye-catching that they were almost blinding.
Luo Fei went from being a national hero to a multi-millionaire.
Everyone walking down the street carries a ten million "lottery ticket" in their pocket. Just a glance at the people passing by, and a comparison with the photo on the wanted poster, might just reveal some clues.
This nationwide fervor made Luo Fei a household name in just one day.
Most ordinary people take a "watching the show" attitude towards this matter.
Luo Fei's verified Douyin account, which he opened after winning an international competition, originally had just over one million followers. After the wanted notice was issued, the account's followers skyrocketed to twenty million in a single day.
The few videos he had previously posted—daily life on the training field, clips of joking with members of the Tianji team, and scenes of eating in the SWAT base canteen—each received millions of comments.
The comments were roughly divided into two camps.
Half the people were cursing.
"Traitor! Get out of Great Xia!"
This comment received 320,000 likes.
"I used to think you were a hero, you were such a blind man."
160,000 likes.
"Ten million bounty, brothers, I'm off to make some money. Anyone want to team up?"
This post received over 80,000 replies, all saying "Count me in."
The other half is questioning it.
"You want someone arrested for treason? Don't you think that's illogical? Murder and treason are two different things. The Dali Division hasn't produced any evidence of treason yet, and they're just making things up?"
A netizen with the ID "Logic Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" posted a long comment, which was pushed to the top of the comment section and received more than two million likes.
"That's right. Nobody knows what really happened during the interrogation. What if the interrogator was the one with the problem?"
Another highly-rated comment reads.
"I'm putting this out there: if Luo Fei is a traitor, I'll do a handstand while washing my hair live on air."
This comment has also received over a million likes.
The two groups were arguing fiercely in the comments section, and the scale of the war of words was so large that even the servers of Weibo and Douyin experienced lag at one point.
One side was shouting, "You're rushing to whitewash things without even presenting any evidence," while the other side retorted, "You're rushing to sentence people without even following proper procedures." Neither side could convince the other, and they argued for a whole day and night.
As Luo Fei's personal information was fully disclosed, his past deeds were also dug up one by one.
The most shocking thing is his list of over thirty ex-girlfriends.
Without the protection of his national security identity, Luo Fei's entire social record and romantic history from his university days to his working life were thoroughly exposed.
Someone compiled a list of Luo Fei's ex-girlfriends online, which included a total of thirty-one people. The list caused a huge uproar online.
Some people called him a scumbag, some were amazed by his dating efficiency, and some joked that if each of his 31 ex-girlfriends offered a reward, the total would probably exceed 100 million.
The development of events took everyone by surprise.
After the initial shock and silence, the ex-girlfriends on the list gradually posted videos on social media. Some posted them on Douyin, some on Weibo, and some on Kuaishou.
The videos were taken in various settings—some in their own living rooms, some in their company break rooms, and some even in their cars. But the content of these videos was remarkably consistent.
"I don't believe Luo Fei is a traitor."
"He is the most responsible man I have ever met."
"He has his reasons for everything he does; he must have been wronged."
“If he wanted to run, no one could catch him. But he wouldn’t kill someone for no reason.”
Thirty-two ex-girlfriends—one of whom came forward a few days later to admit it—all released videos, their accounts were highly consistent, not one of them kicked him while he was down, and not one of them said a single bad word about Luo Fei.
They spoke up for him, for his innocence, and some even broke down in tears, choking out, "You don't understand him, he's not that kind of person."
These videos were widely shared by netizens, and the topic "Luo Fei's ex-girlfriends speak out" immediately became the number one trending topic on Weibo.
The comments section was filled with enthusiastic remarks. Some said, "What an amazing group of ex-girlfriends!" Others said, "One or two might be faking it, but if all thirty-two are like this, you can imagine what kind of person this is." Still others joked, "Luo Fei, how exactly do you maintain your relationships with your ex-girlfriends? Publish a book, I'll buy it."
They were dubbed the "kindest ex-girlfriend group" by netizens. This title went viral from Douyin to Weibo, and from Weibo to WeChat Moments and public account articles, quickly becoming one of the hottest topics on the internet.
The news of Zhou Gang's suspension spread on the third day after Luo Fei's arrest warrant was issued.
Two staff members from the Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau's Discipline Inspection Team knocked on Zhou Gang's door early in the morning. Zhou Gang stood at the door in his pajamas, his expression as calm as a still lake.
The two staff members were polite and said that the Municipal Bureau had received a notice from higher authorities requiring a routine investigation of Comrade Luo Fei's immediate family members and close associates, and asked him to cooperate by going to the disciplinary inspection team's interview room.
Zhou Gang said nothing, changed his clothes, and left. Before leaving, he turned back to look at his wife, a look that contained so much. His wife's eyes immediately welled up with tears, but she bit her lip to hold them back. (End of Chapter)