Chapter 878: Gunshots on a Rainy Night 9
"What did Niu Rang hide in the gun?" He Zhilan pressed, "It was really close that day. If it weren’t for taking Jialang and Jiaqing to the mall a couple of days earlier, where Jialang took a fancy to a toy gun and it ended up with me, otherwise, the thing that Niu Rang risked his life to send out would have been taken by others."
"After dismantling the gun, a very small piece of paper was found inside. It contained a string of numbers and English letters, similar to a code or secret message. However, we haven’t been able to decipher its meaning yet, and we don’t know if it was left by Niu Rang himself or he got it from somewhere else. We’ve already contacted experts in this area, so we should have some leads soon." He Teng didn’t hide anything; He Zhilan was already involved in this matter, and Xing Ye had arranged for people to protect her in secret.
The initial guess was that the person who stole the toy gun would have immediately gone after He Zhilan after discovering it, but unexpectedly, everything had been quiet around her till now, not even a tail.
For two consecutive days, He Zhilan was surrounded by calm as usual, with no signs indicating that she was being followed. Two days later, Niu Rang’s family and fiancée arrived in S Province. Even though several days had passed since they learned of Niu Rang’s sacrifice, the moment they saw Niu Rang’s body and the wounds on him, realizing the torture he had suffered before his death, the family still cried their hearts out.
"Who could be so cruel? Was it not enough to shoot him once, but they also had to cut him so many times? Is there any humanity left?" Niu Rang’s mother threw herself on Niu Rang’s body and dared not count the number of wounds he had.
Watching from the side, He Zhilan silently shed tears as well, but she didn’t dare to tell Niu Rang’s family that he had been tortured before being shot to death.
Niu Rang’s funeral service was scheduled for the day after his family arrived. On such a cold day, his fiancée Xiaojia insisted on wearing the white dress left to her by Niu Rang.