Chapter 333: Do You Know How I've Spent These Five Years?

It's exactly this kind of sudden news that can test a person's true reaction.

Listening from the side, even Yu Dazhang couldn't help but break a sweat for Hong Liuwen.

At this moment, he absolutely must not react directly—any immediate reply would prove that Hong Liuwen had known the news in advance.

Because when a person learns major information, it takes them two or three seconds to think and judge.

So, no reaction is the best reaction.

This delay is extremely important.

Yu Dazhang now wanted to warn him, but it was already too late—he could only watch him helplessly.

Fortunately, Hong Liuwen very fittingly made a stunned motion, as if he truly didn't know his daughter's situation.

Although the other party couldn't see his action, he did achieve the delay.

After being stunned for two seconds, he replied:

"Say that again?"

"Your daughter has gone missing." The other party repeated, then added:

"We suspect she was taken by someone."

Listening to the gender-ambiguous synthesized voice on the other end, Yu Dazhang couldn't help feeling a wave of confusion and curiosity.

He tried hard to catch some information about the other party from that emotionless voice, but came up empty.

Under normal circumstances, one can roughly judge the other party's gender, age, and emotional state from their voice.

But the voice, processed through a voice changer, gave away no emotional fluctuation at all—it was more like a mechanical coldness.

"Are you joking with me?"

Hong Liuwen's voice gradually grew heavier, carrying obvious anger:

"You're the one who said my daughter is under your surveillance at all times—under such circumstances, how could she possibly be taken by someone?!"

Facing his questioning, the other party seemed to feel in the wrong too—although no emotional fluctuation could be heard, the words clearly softened:

"It was indeed an oversight on our side, so I…"

Hong Liuwen gave the other party no chance to finish, and roared directly into the phone:

"F#@k your m#@%er……%#@&*……@#%@&%*"

Even though Yu Dazhang and the others were mentally prepared, they were still startled by the sudden torrent of profanity.

That was filthy!

Professional indeed~

At the same time, Yu Dazhang was also a bit puzzled.

Down south here, people rarely curse like that—could Hong Liuwen's family have migrated from the Northeast?

But his accent doesn't sound like it.

Hong Liuwen was still going on the other end:

"En niang ge jiao! Ni ma mai pi, ni ge dian pi luo han guo, cao nen niang ah!!"

Bro, where the hell are you from… At this moment, Yu Dazhang couldn't bear to look directly at this fellow.

A master—this is absolutely a master!

In that one sentence just now, Hong Liuwen actually used dialects from four different places.

To curse at this level—this is definitely no ordinary master.

No matter where the other party is from, he's got them all covered.

Nationwide coverage with no blind spots—how do you plan to respond, sir?

Sure enough, the other side couldn't hold out for even five seconds and hung up directly.

Hong Liuwen was in the middle of his cursing spree, as if all the pent-up frustration and resentment of the past five years had erupted in this moment.

"I@#¥……%¥%*&……@#&**"

The busy tone coming from the phone was completely ignored by him.

He just kept yelling loudly, as if trying to use every ounce of strength in his body to roar out the pent-up anger in his heart.

"Alright, alright, stop cursing."

Yu Dazhang pointed at the phone in his hand:

"The other side already hung up—who are you cursing at?"

Only then did Hong Liuwen notice the busy tone coming from the earpiece.

"Hung up? When did they hang up?" He looked at Yu Dazhang somewhat blankly:

"Then wasn't all that cursing just now for nothing?"

"Not for nothing." Yu Dazhang said in what seemed like a comforting tone:

"Only the very last sentence the other side didn't hear—everything you cursed before that, they definitely heard, otherwise they wouldn't have hung up."

Hearing his words, Hong Liuwen took a deep breath, then let out a long exhale:

"That's good then."

"Why do I feel like you're venting?" Yu Dazhang looked at him in confusion:

"You cursed way too smoothly just now, like you'd cursed it in your head countless times, and this time you finally let it out loud."

Hong Liuwen didn't answer, but pulled a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a hard drag, exhaled thick smoke, and only then said leisurely:

"Five years… five years! Do you know how I've spent these five years?!"

He even knows how to play memes!

"Alright, alright." Yu Dazhang had no mind to play along with his meme, pointed at the phone in his hand and said:

"Get ready—the other side will call back soon."

He had already calculated that the other party wouldn't just let it go — the abrupt hang-up earlier was probably because they'd been stunned into silence by the scolding.

The probing was over; what came next from the other side would be soothing.

The reason they hadn't called back immediately was probably that they were waiting for Hong Liuwen to calm down.

"Remember, don't say anything too final." Yu Dazhang reminded him:

"You have to leave yourself some room. Keep it natural — you need to steady the other side."

"Got it." The moment Hong Liuwen answered, his phone rang again.

This time the other party spoke first:

"Don't get worked up yet — let me finish what I have to say. I'll mobilize every connection I have over there to find your daughter. You can rest easy."

From the tone, it was clear the other side was also trying to steady Hong Liuwen.

Now both sides' thinking was, oddly enough, perfectly aligned.

"You'd better do exactly what you say." Hong Liuwen warned in an icy voice:

"If anything happens to my daughter, I'll stake my life on making sure you don't get off easy!"

He had to admit — the man did have a bit of a gift for acting.

His tone sounded as though he were barely holding back the fury in his chest, as if he might explode into a tirade at any second.

Clearly scared by the scolding, the other party quickly assured him:

"Don't worry. Wait for my word — once I find her, I'll notify you right away."

Apparently afraid Hong Liuwen would start lashing out with his mouth again, the person on the other end hung up the moment they finished speaking.

Something felt off… Yu Dazhang suddenly sensed that something wasn't quite right.

Why did it feel like the other party's mental fortitude was far weaker than he'd imagined?

No.

Weak was more like it.

Although Hong Liuwen's earlier tirade had been filthy, for someone with strong mental fortitude, it really wasn't much.

Someone who could come up with enslaving mentally disabled people to rake in money — just how rotten must that person be?

Would a person like that really break down from a few harsh words?

The contrast was just too great.

Unless…

The gender factor!

The other party was a woman!!

The moment this thought struck him, Yu Dazhang couldn't help but shiver.

Was this whole chain of tactics really cooked up by a woman?

Was that even possible?

Back at the police academy, he'd once heard an instructor cite a statistic.

Among all serious criminal cases, the proportion of female perpetrators was roughly 9.4% — not even one in ten.

And those were mainly cases of killing an intimate partner, like a husband or boyfriend, and sometimes their own children or female relatives they had conflicts with.

Women who took part in and plotted out major cases were an even tinier minority.

In Yu Dazhang's memory, he had never come across a major or serious case led by a woman.

In his brief Stunned effort, every eye in the room had landed on him.

"Alright, just go back to your normal duties from here on out." Yu Dazhang quickly gathered himself and said to Hong Liuwen:

"I'll explain things clearly to the people coming from the provincial bureau. Your freedom won't be restricted — you'll keep working at the station. Just act natural."

He figured the other side's probing wouldn't be as simple as a single phone call.

If they wanted to confirm for sure whether Hong Liuwen had truly been brought to justice, there was actually a more direct Effective method:

Simply observe whether he was still going about his normal work in real life.

And confirming that was easy too — just have someone quietly watch near the police station.

"Understood." Hong Liuwen nodded in agreement, then asked:

"Besides that, is there anything else you need me to do?"

Yu Dazhang thought for a moment, then a smile spread across his chubby face:

"Over the next few days, the other side will probably call you again to soothe you. When you need to vent, vent. When you need to curse, curse. Don't hold back at all."

(End of chapter)