Chapter 20: Bribery Fails

  Helpless Li Yang had no choice but to start the car and drive down a random road, taking the police flower with him to search for that factory that only existed in his imagination.

  He drove the car, his eyebrows furrowed unconsciously, feeling suffocated to death in his heart. Liu Xia noticed the change in his expression and smiled warmly from the spacious leather seat of the passenger seat.

  "Beautiful girl, why don't we skip that broken factory and I'll take you to the seaside for a stroll instead?" Li Yang said with a sad face to Liu Xia.

  "No way, be honest and open up! Colleagues in the bureau gave me a nickname, calling me a human lie detector. You little brat, your forehead is secretly sweating, your eyes are dodging back and forth, and your throat can't stop swallowing saliva. This clearly shows that you have a guilty conscience! Why don't you just confess now? Where did you steal those steel materials from? We won't waste any more time." As Liu Xia spoke, she surprisingly held up a shiny silver handcuff in her hand, waving it back and forth.

  Slowly leaving the city, Li Yang aimlessly drove onto the highway. Originally, having a beautiful woman in the cramped driver's cabin of the Dongfeng car was supposed to be a romantic and pleasant thing, but the current situation was a bit frustrating. Li Yang couldn't feel any romantic atmosphere at all, his heart was anxious and burning as he desperately thought of a solution.

  The matter of his own flying saucer and mining ship must not be known to this policewoman, but now that she is pressing him so hard, how should he solve this problem?

  Upon hearing Liu Xia's threat, Li Yang forced himself to remain calm and said: "You'd better put away whatever you're holding in your hand. You keep calling me a thief, it's simply preposterous! I sold a truckload of steel materials to Nanfeng Group, but you say I stole them. Has any steel factory reported missing steel materials?"

  Liu Xia rolled her eyes and said, "No one reported it to the police, but you can't even produce any evidence of where this batch of steel came from. There must be a problem here. I've investigated and found that for the past few years, you've been going back and forth between home and school, with no time to run a factory and smelt steel."

  Refining steel requires a huge amount of capital, but your family couldn't even afford the 600 yuan rent in the past, where would you get the funds to set up a factory?

  "In short, you little brat became rich overnight, there must be some untold inside story. If I were to expose it, my probationary police officer identity would definitely become official."

  Li Yang's cold sweat dripped down, this little girl's eyes are really poisonous, all her own sore spots were found by her!

  "How much salary can you get after being converted to a formal employee?" Li Yang suddenly turned his face and asked.

  "Two thousand four," Liu Xia said subconsciously.

  "How much salary is paid during the internship period?"

  "Twelve hundred. What's with the question?" Liu Xia realized that Li Yang was changing the subject.

  "Heh heh, never mind, big sister. I'm about to take the college entrance exam and need to hurry back to school to review my lessons. Can we reschedule for another day? Honestly, you're only doing this for a bit more money, right? I'll give you 2,400 yuan, that's two months' salary. Let me go study first, okay?"

  "How dare you spout nonsense, I'll tear your mouth apart! As a people's police officer, my duty is to rid society of evil and bring peace, not just for the sake of a salary! You said you were in a hurry to go to school, but yesterday you ran around all day without being in a hurry to attend school. I think you're just making excuses." Liu Xia said angrily.

  "What if the police department doesn't give you a salary, would you still work hard riding your motorcycle all over the streets to catch thieves?"

  "You... police are also human beings, they also need to eat... but catching a bad egg like you, even if the top doesn't give me a single penny of expenses, I will not shirk my responsibility!" Liu Xia said with puffed up anger.

  Li Yang was driving the car, suddenly turned around, opened the armrest box beside him, took out a large gold brick from inside, and handed it to Liu Xia.

  He just used his mind to let the mining ship take out a 10-kilogram gold brick from the warehouse and put it in the car's armrest box. He wants to use this gold brick to test whether this policewoman can be bribed with money. At this time, Li Yang is rich and arrogant, and he doesn't care about this little bit of gold at all.

  Liu Xia subconsciously took over the steering wheel, but her eyes were terrified as she stared at Li Yang's hands, which had both left the wheel. She shouted: "This is a highway, you'd better drive your car!"

  At this time, Dongfeng car was speeding on the highway at a speed of 120 miles per hour. If there was even a slight mistake, it would have been a fatal accident!

  Liyang didn't budge, smiling and waving his hand: "Autopilot, I told you I'm a rich man, my broken Dongfeng has its own special features, it's been modified to be particularly advanced. Officer, you're really country bumpkin, inexperienced and gullible."

  After finishing speaking, Li Yang put the seat back a bit and lay down comfortably. He turned his face to look at Liu Xia, who had a terrified expression, and reached out to turn on the music again. The soothing melody of "Dong Feng Po" filled the car...

  Liu Xia watched the scenery on both sides of the car quickly recede, the steering wheel slowly turning with the curve of the road, and only then did she put her mind at ease. Just now, she thought Li Yang was going to drive the car to a common doom with her!

  "What's this?"

  At this time she felt the cold and heavy thing in her hand, which was also shining brightly and piercing her eyes, and she was startled.

  "You're just a country bumpkin, nothing but a piece of gold!" Leyang said with disdain.

  "Wow! Such a large piece of gold, I've never seen it before! Li Yang, tell me, how heavy is this piece of gold?"

  "There's not much, just about 10 kilograms, now as long as you let me go home, this gold will be yours."

  "Wow, 10 kilograms! That's 10,000 grams, and at 320 yuan per gram, this gold is worth 32 million! Haha, Leyang, your fox tail is exposed! Hurry up and get off the highway, I'm going to report you for bribery! We have both witnesses and evidence, do you dare to deny it?"

  "Dizzy, I just let you hold it for fun, and we haven't even finished talking, why is it bribery?"

  "Didn't you just say that if I let you go home, this gold would be mine? How dare you say this isn't a bribe?"

  "Sister, please listen carefully to what I'm saying! What I just said was, as long as you let me go home, this gold is yours... You were too impatient and interrupted my words. Besides, you're just a rookie cop who hasn't even been confirmed yet, why would I bribe you with gold worth hundreds of thousands? Who would believe it if it got out?"

  "You little brat... isn't it just a broken gold bar? What's so fun about it!" Liu Xia's face turned green with anger, she lifted the armrest box, threw the gold in, and then heavily closed the lid.

  Liyang pretended to close his eyes and rest, but in his heart he was sighing heavily. This stinky police flower is so unresponsive, such a large piece of gold placed in front of her doesn't even move her heart. It seems that he should think about what to do next.

  He said to Xing Nao with his consciousness: "Flying Saucer Big Brother, now Little Brother is in trouble, being entangled by a mother tigress, I'm at my wit's end, you take care of it."

  "Hey, with a beauty by your side, let's go on a one-day trip to the suburbs, and you can slowly hook up with her there. It's called 'a rogue paired with a beautiful policewoman', sounds interesting, haha!"

  "Hey, flying saucer little brother, you can say such words! If you dare to ignore me and not help, I'll expose you, and when the time comes, this police flower girl will come after you to make trouble for you, see what you do then!"

  "Then let her come, I've been watching romance movies every day and I'm full of romantic feelings. It's just right to take a look at what an earth woman looks like. Who knows, maybe I can even have a romance with the policewoman. This is called: A love that transcends time and space."

  "Haha, you're an alien, a machine, aren't you? You and Earth people are fundamentally incompatible. If you really want to fall in love, I'll help you find some refrigerators and washing machines another day, they might be more suitable for you."

  "I'm dizzy, I'm a super invincible flying saucer in the universe, and you let me talk about dogshit romance with washing machines and refrigerators, which are as insignificant as dust? You really thought of this!"

  "Haha, I'm warning you, if you don't help out, things will get out of hand and the country will protect me like a giant panda. Then no one will be able to mine for you, and once your star crystal runs out, you'll definitely be finished. Aren't you afraid?"

  "Oh! You're ruthless! I'll help you get out of this predicament, but in return, you'd better work hard for me and dig mines!"

  "No problem! Hurry up, this little police flower is about to go crazy!"

  Li Yang ended his connection with Xing Nao, noticing that Liu Xia was no longer angry, but carefully examining the items inside the Dongfeng car. She widened her eyes as she looked more and felt that this car was a bit strange, with many details different from what she knew about Dongfeng cars.

  Especially she noticed that the car ran without any vibration, and couldn't hear the sound of air outside and the high-speed running body forming a whooshing wind sound, nor the humming tire noise formed by the friction between the car tires and the asphalt road surface. It was too quiet, as if the car wasn't moving at all.

  The interior of the car was spotless, not a speck of dust anywhere, and even the engine hood outside didn't have a single grain of dust on it. You know how strong the wind and sand are outside right now? She didn't hear the sound of the air conditioner running, but the air inside the car was cool and refreshing. Except for the faint scent of masculinity from Li Yang's body, there wasn't even a hint of any other smell, not even the usual leather smell that should come with black leather seats.

  "Li Yang, why doesn't your broken-down car make a single vibration or noise when it's running? And there isn't even a hint of leather smell?" Liu Xia rubbed the genuine leather seat with a puzzled expression.

  "Modified cars, big sister, you're out of touch," Lei Yang said disapprovingly. "Do you think it's the taxi you used to ride in?"

  "Nonsense! Where can a car be modified so well? Do you think I'm an idiot?"

  "You saw that gold too, don't you understand I'm a rich man? In this world, as long as you're willing to spend money, anything can be done. If I were to splurge 2 billion US dollars, I could turn this Dongfeng car into a spaceship, believe it or not?"

  "Haha, go ahead and brag, you little scamp is so glib!"

  Liu Xia looked around with a gloomy face, she found that this car was different from others in every way, but as someone who knew little about cars, she couldn't pick out any problems.