Chapter 10: What on Earth Were You Thinking!

Upon realizing that the situation this time seemed a bit more serious than they had imagined, Liu Jianguo and his wife hurriedly requested leave and rushed all the way to Jingzhou City.

Because the person had already been taken to Jingzhou City for detention, and the couple still did not have a clear understanding of the case, they only felt in their hearts that their son could not possibly have committed theft.

Perhaps because they did not understand the law, in the eyes of Liu Jianguo and Zhou Chun, what was theft? It was stealing things—sneaking around on the street to steal mobile phones or wallets, or stealing an electric scooter or something similar.

Now that it was linked to the internet, and some game account, they were very confused.

They needed to hire a Lawyer quickly to go and understand the situation.

Furthermore, the person who reported the crime was right there in Jingzhou City; after their phone number was blocked, if they wanted to obtain the other party's forgiveness, they also had to make a trip to Jingzhou City.

Most importantly, the couple could no longer bear the looks from the people around them.

What is the drawback of a small place? Usually, nothing major happens, but once something major does happen, it spreads to everyone in a very short time.

Many people in small counties have a deep understanding of this; often, some things happen that make you sigh, "This damn place is really too small..."

You will feel that people who you would never have any connection with on a normal day can be linked together in inexplicable ways.

And for someone like Liu Xu, who had been a model student since childhood and had been admitted to a good university in the college entrance exam, to be arrested naturally caused a huge sensation!

On normal days, the couple was constantly being asked by people at school how to manage children and how to teach children, and the couple would always talk endlessly about it.

But now? No one talked to them like that anymore; on the contrary, quite a few people would dodge them when they saw the couple, as if their son had really committed a major crime.

So the couple bought plane tickets and headed straight for Jingzhou City, and they had already contacted a Lawyer.

A few hours later, Liu Jianguo and his wife got off the plane, headed straight to the contacted Law Firm, and after signing the contract, Letter of Entrustment, and other such things, they found a hotel to stay in and began to wait, while also wanting to ask where the reporter of the crime lived.

If it were some special prisoner, perhaps it would not be easy for a Lawyer to see them, but for this case, even the veteran police officers in Jingzhou City had a feeling of looking up at the sky in helplessness.

Therefore, Wang Tiancheng, a Lawyer from the Dakang Law Firm in Jingzhou City, did not expend much effort to receive the notice of permission for the meeting.

In the Detention House, Liu Xu's eyes were dazed; he still did not know why he had to go to jail just for recovering an account!

This, this really exceeded his imagination, or rather, it was something he wouldn't even see in a dream.

When he was arrested, he had thought that perhaps returning the account to the other party would be the end of it, but he had not expected that the people in Qingshan County would arrest him and transfer him directly to Jingzhou City.

One moment he was a college student who had been admitted to a good university, a pride of heaven, and the next he suddenly became a suspect, with a high probability of going to jail; no one could handle that.

Just at this moment, Liu Xu heard the sound of the door opening.

Immediately, a police officer brought a middle-aged man wearing a suit inside.

"Hello, you are Liu Xu, right? I am the Lawyer entrusted by your parents. My surname is Wang." The middle-aged man sat down in front of Liu Xu, a smile on his face.

Hearing this, Liu Xu suddenly seemed to have grabbed onto a savior and hurriedly shouted, "Lawyer Wang, Lawyer Wang, you must help me! I didn't commit a crime! I just, I just recovered my own account. If he wanted it, I could have just given it to him. I just wanted to play around with it..."

As if the emotions accumulated over these two days had suddenly found an outlet, Liu Xu wept with snot and tears, shouting while he cried.

The police officer who brought the Lawyer in exchanged a look with Lawyer Wang, shrugged, signaled for the other party to handle it, and then went out to stand at the door.

Wang Tiancheng's expression did not change much; he was a professional Criminal Defense Lawyer, and it could be said that in his past career, he had seen all kinds of people.

This kind of crying and shouting was already considered not bad; many people thought that Lawyers were omnipotent, and as long as they were paid, they could talk the dead into living.

Old Wang really wanted to say that those weren't the Lawyers here; their Lawyers didn't have that much power.

Based on facts and guided by the law, it is what it is; the role of a Lawyer can only be to mitigate as much as possible.

After all, regarding this matter, a certain Lawyer named Zhang Wei has the right to speak; originally it was only a three-year sentence, but after a round of his defense, it was directly changed to twenty years—how wonderful.

And this kind of venting is necessary; many people are completely unable to adapt after being Arrested, as the purpose of Criminal Law is to punish, and to protect the people by way of punishing crime.

There is no regret medicine in this world; if one could still be as comfortable after committing a crime as before, then the purpose of punishment would be lost!

Therefore, Old Wang just watched, watching the other party vent, and only when Liu Xu finally finished venting did he speak: "How is it? Do you feel a bit better? If so, then tell me, what exactly is the situation?"

Having vented like that, Liu Xu finally felt a little better and said, "Lawyer Wang, the situation is like this: a year ago, I sold a 'Genshin Impact' account on a trading platform..."

He stated the situation as he knew it; of course, he did not mention that Zhou Yi had called him or sent him messages, nor did he say that he had blocked the other party.

This is also a common failing of many people nowadays: they cannot see the situation clearly.

They always pick the good things to say; looking at the stories some people tell themselves, it's as if they are all saints who don't make mistakes at all, but in reality?

That is why the internet is now a mess; someone can jump out and say a bunch of things, and without a shred of evidence, they can ruin another person.

Therefore, regarding the current situation, the onlookers on the internet are not as easily incited as in the past; "let the bullets fly for a while" has become everyone's consensus.

You cannot just say whatever you want; you have to produce evidence. Don't jump to conclusions so easily!

Who is Old Wang? A greenhorn who just started college had no secrets in front of him, so seeing that Liu Xu was still not telling the truth, Old Wang suddenly got a bit angry.

"Liu Xu, I told you to tell me everything that happened, understand? Pay attention: everything. You need to know that if I cannot fully understand the case now, then you are definitely going in, you know?"

He really felt a bit of "hate that iron doesn't become steel"; he had previously thought that the other party had at least gotten into a good university and was smart enough, but he hadn't expected that there was no intelligence there at all—he was simply a blockhead.

After being yelled at by Old Wang a few times, Liu Xu did not dare to lie anymore and hurriedly told the rest of the story.

Old Wang was already frowning as he listened: "So, actually, after you recovered that account, the buyer had called you and sent you messages, and stated things very clearly?"

"And then you directly blocked them?"

"Can you tell me what on earth you were thinking? What made you think that you could just recover an account someone else paid money for? Just because it's on the internet?"

A single sentence made Liu Xu lower his head. He didn't know how to explain it now, because he felt that recovering an account was nothing; so many people on the internet had recovered them, and he hadn't seen anything happen, so why did he run into trouble this time?

"Also, you should have discovered after logging into the account later that the buyer had topped up quite a bit of money. You even bragged to your classmates that your account had at least 500,000 in it, which shows you knew about this, but you still didn't take it seriously!"

"500,000, Liu Xu! Why did you think this wasn't a big deal? Someone willing to spend 500,000 on a game—what made you think they would just let it go?"

"And, I can tell you now: that buyer, they didn't top up 500,000, but one million!"

"And that was done after they tried to contact you and were blocked by you!"

What? Liu Xu was stunned upon hearing this.

This part is relatively difficult to write, as I haven't truly experienced this situation, so it's all based on hearsay... For those of you in these departments who feel it's unrealistic, please go easy on the criticism...

(End of chapter)