Chapter 423

In the hospital, Lance met his nominal sister, Loraine.

Loraine was just an ordinary-looking girl, not very tall, with some scars on her body.

She wore very plain clothes and was curled up on the hospital bed.

When she saw Lance come in, she was obviously a little nervous.

The policewoman next to her, who got along well with her, also stood up, because Sub-bureau Chief Bruce was right behind Lance.

“Let Lance and Loraine have a chat alone,” Sub-bureau Chief Bruce instructed the doctor. The policewoman immediately left the room, and he himself left afterwards, leaving only the two of them in the room.

Loraine didn’t look very old, probably around fifteen or sixteen, but she could have been a little younger.

Lance was not skilled at judging a lady’s age by her appearance. He felt he might guess wrong. After all, some children looked as old as old men, while some old guys looked as tender as if water could be squeezed out of them.

Loraine looked at Lance with some vigilance. Lance sat down in a chair. “We should have met.”

“That day I went to your house and had a chat with him. Were you peeking at me from behind the window?”

Loraine hesitated for a moment, then she nodded. “Yes.”

“Can you tell me what happened?”

Loraine didn’t speak, just remained silent, her mood very low.

Lance patiently persuaded, “The only one who can help you now is me. I don’t know what your situation is, but I believe that besides me, no one else will really care about these things.”

“Whether you want to start a new life, or whatever, you have to let me know what happened. I’m a little interested in this story.”

Loraine looked at Lance with some confusion, her eyes filled with distrust.

Lance gestured towards the door with his chin. “The one behind me just now was the chief of this sub-bureau. You should be able to see who has a higher status between us.”

“If you don’t tell me what happened, you might have to continue living with your mother.”

Although Lance only knew the general situation, he believed that for it to have developed to this extent, the perpetrator was definitely not just Mr. White alone.

Mrs. White must have also played some very disgraceful role. If they had really killed their two children…

Then when Mrs. White’s first child was killed, why didn’t she call the police? Why did she allow a second pregnancy, and the second child to be killed, and now this?

So Lance believed that Mrs. White might also be a perpetrator. She might have resisted at first, but was soon influenced by Mr. White’s heresies or other methods and became his accomplice.

As for why Mrs. White was the one being abused this time, Lance’s gaze fell on Loraine.

She was actually just a very ordinary girl, with golden-brown hair. Her figure was not that good, a little bit chubby. A teenage girl couldn’t really be called ugly or beautiful, just very ordinary.

But she had a special aura about her, like a… piece of paper, a piece of paper that could be drawn on.

Maybe it was Mrs. White, or maybe some other reason. Loraine obviously shivered. After hesitating for a while, she told Lance the story of the White family.

She actually knew that she had two older brothers, because there were some photo albums in the house with two different little boys in them. She had once asked the Whites who they were and where they had gone.

When she was a child, they made up a reason, saying they had gotten lost. But after she grew up, she found that something was not right.

She had gone to elementary school, but not to middle school, and was confined at home.

At first, the family of three all lived in one room. Sometimes Mr. and Mrs. White would not be considerate of her.

This made her feel an unspeakable embarrassment and shyness. Then he tried to harm her, and she would resist.

What followed was a cycle. Mr. and Mrs. White would abuse her together, and her father would sometimes give her a little favor.

After she had accepted fate’s first arrangement without being able to resist, a problem arose between the two firm allies in this family.

Mrs. White was very dissatisfied with this daughter of hers intruding into the family’s life and wanted to sell her to another place. Not only could she earn a large sum of money, but she could also get rid of this daughter who had stolen her husband’s affection.

And she was willing to have another child for Mr. White for them to vent their emotions on.

But for Mr. White… a young one is always better than an old one. So the first intense conflict occurred between them. Mr. White pushed Mrs. White down from upstairs, breaking her leg.

They had no money for medical treatment and borrowed money from Lance. At that time, the girl was peeking at Lance from upstairs.

Lance had also had Elvin briefly investigate this matter, but did not find anything unusual.

After all, as the perpetrator, Mrs. White could not possibly confess herself. Elvin did not continue to investigate in depth. After all, Mrs. White herself said she had fallen accidentally. What else could be investigated?

After this incident, a huge rift was created between the husband and wife. Mrs. White had always wanted to win back Mr. White, so she always abused this daughter, hurt her, made her suffer, to vent the terrible emotions in her heart.

And Mr. White gradually grew tired of his wife. After all… this created a vicious cycle.

Until a seed sprouted.

Mrs. White went mad and wanted to kill her, but was stopped by Mr. White. Another fierce conflict occurred between the two sides.

In the conflict, Loraine learned some things.

“She said they gave birth to me just to kill me, and my two brothers were killed by them,” her body was trembling slightly.

Perhaps even now she could not accept this fact. Her parents were perverts, and her birth was just for perverts to find a free toy, that’s all. Lance didn’t know how to comfort her. He walked to the window, opened it, and lit a cigarette.

After the conflict broke out, Mrs. White was subdued, and then she became Mr. White’s toy for venting his emotions. All the methods that had been used on the two children and on Loraine were now used on Mrs. White.

She was tortured with high intensity to the point of being on the verge of death.

Finally, the stuffy basement was too smelly due to the feces and urine. Mr. White opened a window for ventilation and forgot to close it when he left at night. Mrs. White’s cries for help were heard by someone.

So the neighbor called the police. This was the whole story.

Listening to Loraine’s simple narration, Lance still felt an indescribable shock. This is what fucking Federation people are like.

As everyone knows, the Federation produces perverts.

Most of the most horrifying pervert cases in human history have come from the Federation.

This land is as if it has been cursed by some mysterious power. After the great cultural fusion, people have not become more civilized and polite, but have become more degenerate and perverted.

Think about the perverted rich people in the Bay Area, think about the White couple, and those serial killers who are still committing crimes and have not yet been discovered by people. What kind of rotten land must it be to be able to bloom such evil flowers? I hope God can send down a punishing rain to cleanse the sins of the world.

The word “humanity” seemed to have disappeared from the couple. The reason for their division and turning against each other was not some outbreak of humanity, but merely an outbreak of desire and selfishness.

After listening to the girl finish speaking without much emotional fluctuation, Lance asked, “Do you have any thoughts?”

Loraine shook her head, “I don’t know…”

Lance looked at her, “Let me put it another way. These two people should not continue to live in this world. They don’t even have the right to be tried. Do you understand what I mean?”

The girl understood. After all, she had been in the ninth grade. She could understand what Lance meant, but she was a little dazed, dazed about the future, and dazed about whether this matter should be decided by her.

“Is there anything you’re worried about?” Lance asked again.

Loraine asked as if subconsciously, “If… they both die, what will I do in the future?”

“You can start a new life,” Lance threw the cigarette on the ground and stomped it out with his foot.

“You can go back to school…”

At this, Loraine’s eyes suddenly… lit up. She looked at Lance, “Can I really go back to school?”

“Of course, why not?”

“This time you can go to school as much as you want, do what you want to do, and you don’t have to worry about living expenses. I will take care of it for you.”

Loraine seemed to have made up her mind. “If that’s the case, I have no problem…”

Lance walked up to her, raised his hand, and ruffled her head. “Everything will be fine.”

Later, the doctor would give her some medicine to help her solve the problem of that sprouted seed.

As long as one is still alive, everything will be fine. At this moment, Loraine felt an unprecedented peace.

But some people were in agony. Mr. White, locked in a detention cell, was muttering curses in a corner.

From his appearance, he didn’t look like that kind of pervert at all.

His hair was a bit messy. He was wearing an old white shirt, a pair of light-colored pants, and a pin-buckle belt.

He looked clean, and besides being a bit disheveled, he didn’t make people feel that he was sloppy or dirty.

But his mouth was cursing the filthiest words. Of course, this might also be related to the limited vocabulary of the common language.

When the door was opened, the twisted ferocity on his face disappeared, and he once again became the harmless-looking Mr. White.

He looked at the visitor, who was Lance, and immediately went up to him. “Mr. Lance, I…”

Lance raised his hand, signaling him not to speak for now.

The police officer in charge of opening the door handed the key to Hiram and then left on his own initiative. There were two detention cells here, both empty.

Even the duty room at the end of the corridor was empty.

“I hear your first two children were killed by you and your wife, and buried behind the house?”

Mr. White’s expression looked terrified. He swallowed, his movement large. “The two children died of illness. We could only bury them.”

He was still lying. Lance stared into his eyes. “Why did you tell others that the children were lost?”

Mr. White still had that terrified look. “I was afraid they would talk about us, and also afraid that the police would cause us trouble. After all, someone had died.”

“You’re still lying!” Lance directly exposed his lie. “I went to see Loraine.”

At the mention of his child’s name, his eyes also lit up a little. “Is she okay?”

It seemed that he did indeed have a special feeling for Loraine, but this feeling was perverted, evil.

“She’s not okay, but that has nothing to do with you anymore.”

Lance was silent for a moment. “Your actions make me feel disgusted. If this matter is publicized, I will also be implicated, so…”

Hiram and Lawn walked out from behind Lance. Under Mr. White’s even more terrified expression, they walked to his sides. “…I can only trouble you to commit suicide to escape punishment.”

“No…”

He hadn’t even shouted it out when Hiram choked him with a tie. Lawn assisted him on the side, not letting Mr. White break free from the tie.

Lance lit a cigarette and stood about two meters away from him, watching him calmly.

Watching his face turn red, first reaching out to him, but soon his face began to turn blue, and he used his hands to try to pry up the tie that was tightly wrapped around him.

He used his fingernails to do so. Under the force, his fingernails even bent back, yet he still couldn’t shake the strength produced by the two strong arms. His struggle became weaker and weaker, until finally, he completely lost the ability to resist.

Even so, Hiram continued to choke for a while, until his heartbeat completely stopped, before he loosened the tie.

“Give me a hand,” he pulled a nearby chair over. The two of them together hung Mr. White on the window, the kind of one-person-high window that was just right for hanging some heavy objects.

Fortunately, he was not that heavy, otherwise, it would have been very difficult even to hang him up.

Seeing him hanging properly, the three of them left.

The police quickly came in. He took a broom and dustpan, and a rag. They swept the remaining cigarette ash on the floor into the dustpan, and then wiped the chairs that might have left fingerprints and footprints clean.

They also mopped the floor on the side.

After the floor was dry, the police officer picked up his spoon and blew on it. “A suspect has committed suicide.”

On the other side, Lance bought two doses of special painkillers from the doctor. The doctor had specifically instructed that if the dose was too large, it would cause cardiac arrest.

Originally, Lance thought she was not yet awake, but in fact, she was already awake. So when Lance and the others entered the room, she was with her eyes open.

She recognized Lance. She had seen him once, when Lance had first given her money.

She knew that Lance was a big shot, and recently, with more news spreading, it was impossible for them not to notice this.

Just as she was about to say something, Lance said, “Mr. White committed suicide at the police station to escape punishment.”

Hearing this, Mrs. White’s eyes instantly turned red. “Impossible, this is impossible, he can’t be dead…”

It could be seen that she did indeed love Mr. White very much, no matter what that man had done to her.

Hiram walked to the bedside, took out the two doses of painkillers, then drew them into a syringe, and finally injected them into his IV drip.

“What is this?” she asked with the same terror as Mr. White, and even wanted to call for help.

Lawn grabbed her mouth and nose. Soon, she seemed to have lost control of her body.

“Fucking disgusting!” Lawn pulled his hand back and wiped it on the quilt.

He saw that Lance and Hiram were both looking at him with a puzzled look. His face turned slightly red, and he explained, “This bitch licked the palm of my hand with her tongue.”

Actually, it wasn’t that Mrs. White wanted to lick the palm of his hand. It was purely that the large dose of painkillers had made her lose control of her body.

She wanted to speak, wanted to call for help, but her tongue and facial muscles began to not cooperate, and in the end, it became a subconscious, or unconscious, tongue movement.

Soon, an unusual red color appeared on her face, very red. Then her whole person seemed to have lost her spirit.

Lawn felt her carotid artery for a while, then nodded. “It’s stopped.”

The three waited for another half a minute. After confirming that it had completely stopped, they left.

At night, during the hospital rounds, the nurse found that Mrs. White’s body was already stiff. The hospital quickly came to a conclusion: cardiac arrest. The trigger might have been continuous hunger, the physiological and psychological trauma caused by the abuse, which had suddenly erupted after she was rescued.

When she was not rescued, she might have had a will to live that supported her vitality. When she was rescued, this breath was gone, and she suddenly stopped.

If they wanted to know the more detailed cause of death, an autopsy would be needed, but Loraine refused an autopsy.

This matter did not ferment quickly. The criminal suspect chose to commit suicide. The police officer in charge of guarding the suspect had obvious dereliction of duty.

He lost his job as a police officer, but at the same time, he got another job.

The other victim’s heart suddenly stopped, and she died in her hospital bed. Because Loraine was unwilling for her mother to suffer even after death, she refused an autopsy.

The doctor filled in “natural death” on the cause of death.

The case had reached this point. It seemed that it could no longer proceed, nor was there any need for it to proceed.

Loraine, according to the story Lance had told her, would say she didn’t know when asked. As for whether she knew about her brother’s death and other matters, she also said she was not aware and had not heard anyone talk about it.

The people from the criminal case team of the city police department came to ask twice. They seemed to want to dig out some valuable information from Loraine’s mouth, but in the end, they all failed.

Because every time they appeared, Lance’s men were on the scene, and there was also a very troublesome guy—Roben the lawyer.

Roben the lawyer had a certain fame in the legal circles of Golden Port and even Likalai State. Many people were ashamed of his work attitude—specializing in defending criminals.

But they also envied his income.

After coming twice, the people from the criminal case team no longer continued to investigate this case.

One more thing is not as good as one less thing. This case itself had no profit, and it was also very dangerous.

Even with Hunter’s support, these police officers were unwilling to touch it.

The bodies of the White couple were soon cremated and scattered directly into the sea. The two small skeletons in the backyard were also dug out by Lance and properly buried in a new place.

This house was also completely sealed up.

Lance had someone clean up the house, then sealed it completely with cement boards, along with its courtyard.

And Loraine was sent by him to a boarding school, to start a new life from the eighth grade…

(End of chapter)