"Ahem..." Yu Yili said awkwardly, "...It's much more cruel, and it suits the sadistic mentality of torturers better."
“You were not involved in the case before, so I didn’t mention it to you specifically. Actually, when Chen Mu was found, she was completely naked,” Yu Yili said. “We suspected she had been sexually assaulted, but the final autopsy results showed that this was not the case. She was simply killed and then stripped naked.”
Upon hearing this, Yi Heye understood—he remembered that it had been mentioned before that all of Chen Sang's belongings had been taken from the scene. The other party was clearly afraid she was hiding something, so they simply stripped her naked as well.
“My intuition tells me that Chen Mu probably hired a robot to kill him,” Yi Heye said. “Absolute obedience to orders, never making any mistakes, stubborn and inflexible – the logic of thinking displayed in this case is far from that of a normal human being.”
—I only received the order to kill her. Even if I stripped her naked, I would never sexually assault her. I was asked to take away everything related to Chen Sang. I never thought I would just destroy the evidence by disposing of the girl's body.
Pei Xiangjin wrote down his words and agreed with his point of view.
The topic has returned to this coin once again—
"Considering her solitary death, I suspect she swallowed it when the murderer wasn't looking, trying to convey some message to us," Yu Yili said. "But the coin is so badly corroded that the pattern on it is invisible, so we can't guess what she wanted to express at all."
The investigation into the coin had to stop there due to a lack of other clues, until yesterday, when Little Cloud, a lucky star, appeared out of nowhere and found its twin brother under Ke Yu's bed. These two seemingly unrelated cases were now connected by a thin thread.
“We now strongly suspect that both of these cases were committed by SHEEP,” Pei Xiangjin, who had been silent until now, suddenly said. “These two ram’s head coins are the biggest evidence.”
Yi Heye never expected things to develop in this way.
He looked up in surprise, pointing to the pattern on the coin and said, "But this is a goat, while SHEEP is a sheep."
Pei Xiangjin sneered: "Then Fang Chunyang is still an electronic sheep."
“Exactly!” Yi Heye was driven to the brink of collapse by this man’s robber logic. “Because they were never related in the first place!”
Pei Xiangjin stared at Yi Heye in front of her, seemingly trying to read his expression. Her probing gaze seemed to want to dig out all his thoughts.
Yi Heye felt unwell.
But soon, Pei Xiangjin smiled and said, "Sorry, I just said it casually, I didn't expect Mr. Yi to be angry."
These words made Yi Heye frown. He felt as if he had fallen into Pei Xiangjin's emotional trap—that's why he really hated interacting with humans, and Yi Heye had never won in this regard.
At this moment, he could only feign composure: "Because no one in this world knows SHEEP better than me, I can see through any fake, no matter how similar it may be."
Pei Xiangjin smiled insincerely, clearly not taking Yi Heye's excuses to heart.
As they faced off in a tense standoff, the lights inside the room suddenly flickered.
The three people and the sheep looked up almost simultaneously, and then all the equipment in the office started buzzing and blaring alarms that made people nervous.
In an instant, the snow-white walls inside the room were stained blood red by the alarm lights of various machines, and the terrifying atmosphere made one feel as if they had fallen into the scene of a murder where the entire family had been executed.
The two security personnel tensed up and looked around nervously, but Yi Heye remained completely still.
He was all too familiar with this scene.
This is how he looked when he first met SHEEP. This guy always seems to like creating a villainous aura for himself that can't be washed away.
Sure enough, the projector in the center of the desk spun around, and then a long black shadow stretched across the wall, resembling either a sheep or a horned demon.
The next second, the largest electronic screen in the room lit up, and a familiar smiling face appeared in front of them.
"I just heard someone calling me."
SHEEP smiled, her eyes crinkling, but her gaze completely ignored the other two, landing squarely on Yi Heye's face:
"Let me see who thinks that way about me."
Author's Note:
You two are so sweet together, you miss him and he misses you!
Chapter 89, No. 089
The little lamb in front of him was dressed in a dignified tailcoat, with a decent little top hat on his head and a small cane in his hand. He looked at Yi Heye with an elegant but mischievous smile, just like a real little gentleman.
This long-unseen smile and tone made Yi Heye momentarily think that the person smiling at him was Jian Yunxian.
He quietly held his breath.
"Baa!" Little Cloud couldn't help but bark happily when it saw its father. Yi Heye was afraid that its reaction would give it away, so he quickly pulled himself out of his complicated thoughts and kicked its bottom.
Little Cloud seemed to understand the code, and immediately shut its mouth in fright, pretending not to recognize the little lamb in front of it.
There was a half-second silence in the air, then the three people in the room quickly raised their hands/guns, raised their scalpels, and the third person, after thinking for a moment, suppressed his other emotions and clenched his fists along with everyone else.
The first two are really determined to take down SHEEP; they've already loaded their guns and their scalpels are gleaming coldly.
The one clenching his fist clearly hadn't thought that far ahead; he was just staring intently at him, thinking, "Great, this guy's still alright."
But then he thought, this guy is perfectly fine, why hasn't he told me anything for so long? Thinking about what kind of person this guy used to be, he even started to suspect that this guy was teasing him again, deliberately playing with his feelings?
Thinking of this, he clenched his fist and then made it solid.
Looking at the gun, the knife, and the fist in front of him, the little lamb smiled and spread his hands: "Oh, if smashing the screen makes you happy~"
Everyone knows that this guy is just an image projected onto the screen, and no matter if you shoot, stab, or punch him, you can't hurt his real body.
Ultimately, only the expensive displays of the units and their wallets are harmed.
Pei Xiangjin was the first to put down his gun, then immediately picked up the walkie-talkie to arrange manpower. Yu Yili also nervously put down his knife and pressed his back against the wall, as if he was afraid that the sheep would shoot him through the screen.
They all tacitly stopped expressing their anger towards the display screen—because that thing was really, really expensive.
Just as the two of them tacitly withdrew from the battlefield, Yi Heye, with a cold face and clenched fists, walked up to them.
By the time Pei Xiangjin realized the situation was dire, it was too late.
As Yi Heye walked past barehanded, he seemed possessed by a god of death, his terrifying aura almost suffocating.
"Wait..." "Bang!!!"
Before Pei Xiangjin could even utter a word of protest, Yi Heye's fist smashed a large dent into the expensive display screen in front of them.
In an instant, all the creatures, including the little cloud and SHEEP on the screen who hadn't had time to react, all showed expressions of horror on their faces.
Yi Heye admitted that his mind had already gone too far when he walked over with his fists clenched.
His punch was for Xiaoyunduo, who was forced to become a left-behind child living under someone else's roof; for himself, who had been left to dry for so many days and was feeling depressed; for the collapsed milk powder mountain in his dream; and of course, most importantly, for revenge against Pei Xiangjin, who was always suspicious and annoyed him.
Sure enough, when Pei Xiangjin saw the expensive monitor in front of him crack open, his face turned pale.
Then, the image on the screen began to blur and flicker from the crack. As if out of respect for Pei Xiangjin, it struggled with its last breath, but ultimately lost to physical violence, distorting SHEEP's sheep face, and went out completely under Pei Xiangjin's gaze.
The screen shattered, SHEEP's face disappeared, and Pei Xiangjin's salary for the past few months vanished.
The air fell silent again, this time tinged with a hint of anger.
Pei Xiangjin was furious about the wages he had earned from sacrificial rites for several months, Yu Yili was furious about the asymmetrical cracks on the screen, and Xiao Yunduo, unaware of what had happened, thought Yi Heye had murdered its father and thus also became angry.
Pei Xiangjin took a deep breath, suppressing her curses, and questioned Yi Heye through gritted teeth: "Are you beating him up? Are you deliberately getting revenge on me?"
Despite having a quarter of his thoughts guessed correctly, Yi Heye remained remarkably candid: "Did you feel his fear just now? My punch struck his very soul, causing real damage."
Soon after, SHEEP herself appeared to confirm the power of this wave of "real damage".
When he reappeared in front of another projector in the office, Mr. Yang, who always maintained composure and calm in public, now showed an unusual look of fear on his face, a result of the threat of that punch.
Although he quickly composed himself, his fear was evident to everyone present.
At this moment, at least Yu Yili felt from the bottom of his heart that the two of them were truly enemies.
"Ahem..." The little lamb cleared its throat as if trying to save face. "Long time no see, Mr. Cheetah... still as brave and courageous as ever."
Yi Heye remained expressionless—in fact, he didn't know what kind of expression to make.
At this moment, his inner emotions were far too complex: a little bit of joy at regaining what he had lost, a little bit of resentment from waiting so long, a tiny bit of resentment at being fooled... all these messy entanglements were beyond the normal range that a simple emotional being like him could handle.
After the satisfaction of that punch, he decided to completely empty his mind and stop thinking about anything, so as to avoid overthinking, doing too much, and making more mistakes.
—It would be best for them to remain in a state of mutual loathing and hostility for now.
At this moment, those present were embarrassed, heartbroken, bewildered, joyful, and even shut down. After a brief surge of mixed emotions, SHEEP regained control of the situation.
He tiptoed and gracefully twirled on the table, then swept his cane around from left to right: "I heard some idiot cop is trying to pin the blame on me for another case where they can't find the killer?"
Pei Xiangjin, the stupid cop whose nose was pointed at by the cane, ignored his verbal insults and picked up the walkie-talkie again to urge for backup.
SHEEP, leaning on her cane, watched as he called several times without success, and finally smiled and said, "You don't think I'm incapable of handling your little walkie-talkie, do you?"
Sweat beaded on Pei Xiangjin's forehead. He secretly gave Yu Yili a look, signaling him to go out and get reinforcements.
Before Yu Yili could even move, SHEEP lazily intercepted him: "I've already locked the door. As long as you listen to me finish what I have to say, I absolutely won't kill you."
Yu Yili silently pulled his foot back after he had just raised it.
SHEEP flew around the room once and finally sat on Yi Heye's shoulder.
In Yu Yili's eyes, this behavior was nothing short of a serious provocation, like dancing on a tiger's head—making him even more convinced that the two were mortal enemies.
“Listen.” SHEEP’s little cane pointed at Pei Xiangjin’s nose again. “I never cared about how you used to smear me, because I didn’t care back then. But it’s different now. You’re seriously affecting my normal life now.”
An AI talking about its "normal life" sounds as absurd and ridiculous as a human saying they forgot to charge their phone today.
But Yi Heye secretly glanced at him—he wanted to know what the difference was between the past and the present for SHEEP, and whether the “normal life” that had been affected was really as he thought.
“I know that you will never believe my innocence just because I say it,” SHEEP said. “So I will assist you in investigating this case, not for any other reason than to keep things quiet.”
Upon hearing this, Yu Yili turned to look at Pei Xiangjin.
Things took an unexpected turn – they certainly didn’t believe SHEEP was unrelated to this series of events, but they couldn’t believe that SHEEP would proactively offer to collaborate with them.
He looks like he has ulterior motives.
SHEEP himself, whose credibility was already overdrawn, didn't seem to care. He simply reached out and turned on the screen.
On the screen, all the internal data of the Security Department, which had undergone multiple encryptions, was displayed without reservation to both insiders and outsiders, just like a huge advertisement erected in the center of a square.
Pei Xiangjin's face turned even paler, yet he was completely helpless against it.
"Let me see where the investigation is going—" SHEEP was rapidly processing the case files at superhuman speed.
"Ugh~" SHEEP stopped flipping through the pages. "A goat-head coin~ How can there be such an ugly thing in the world?"
No one dared to speak. The little cloud, which had once been deeply attracted to this "ugly thing," lowered its sheep head in shame.
"I don't understand, how could you associate such an ugly thing with me?" SHEEP said disdainfully. "Surely no one is really stupid enough to think that goats and sheep are both sheep, so they are the same thing?"
Pei Xiangjin, the complete idiot, was so angry she couldn't speak.
“But I’m serious. This time, they didn’t deliberately frame me, at least not for now,” SHEEP said. “Didn’t you guys notice? They never intended for you to see those two coins.”