194: Chapter 194 Lin Xiao's Tragic Past

The footage was from Lin Xiao's first-person perspective.

The two mean, distorted, and disfigured faces of his adoptive parents suddenly appearing on screen startled everyone present.

"You're just a dog we picked up!"

"It's a great blessing for us to give you a bite to eat!"

"You can't even do a small thing right! You're such a good-for-nothing!"

"..."

The adoptive parents in the footage looked younger than they do now, and the filming perspective was mostly looking up.

Combined with the occasional appearance of those thin, small hands, it wasn't hard for everyone to see that this must be footage from Lin Xiao's childhood.

His adoptive parents were seen cursing and grumbling, throwing mixed-grain pancakes onto the ground for Lin Xiao to eat, truly treating him like a dog.

And just because Lin Xiao accidentally spilled a little water while fetching it, they beat him severely.

The wooden stick as thick as a child's arm and the thorny rattan cane striking down were terrifying to watch.

At night, Lin Xiao didn't even have his own bed.

He barely spread a piece of tattered cloth in the woodshed, shivering from the cold in the middle of the night.

The scene shifted, and a silly-looking little girl appeared in the video.

Although the little girl was silly, she fully inherited the wickedness of her biological parents!

Her attitude towards Lin Xiao was also very bad; she didn't treat him like a human at all.

Fortunately, because of this silly child, their family attracted the attention of others in the village. The Village Chief felt pity for Lin Xiao and suggested he go to school.

At first, his adoptive parents naturally disagreed, but later, hearing that a child from the village head's family could earn a lot of money working after junior high, they finally agreed to let him go.

Of course, there were no tuition or living expenses; Lin Xiao relied on working at the school, and the teachers and principal, feeling sorry for him, covered the costs.

When Lin Xiao became an adult, his adoptive parents, seeing his gradually improving appearance and physique, started causing trouble again.

To raise money for their silly daughter's treatment, they found some channel to make Lin Xiao become a 'duck,' to entertain those Rich Women.

When Lin Xiao refused, they drugged him.

When Lin Xiao tried to escape, they dragged him back, beat him severely, and locked him in the cellar.

Lin Xiao was starved for several days in the cellar, feeling like he couldn't survive. In a daze, he began to murmur his last words.

"I hope, in my next life, my biological mom and dad don't lose me again. I'm really so tired..."

The onlookers, seeing this, all had red eyes.

Su Xiumei was already sobbing uncontrollably.

Lin Qingshan held his wife, tears welling up in his own eyes.

The self-reproach and guilt in his heart spread continuously.

It turned out that in these twenty years, their biological son had suffered so much.

It was all their fault; why didn't they find him sooner!

While they cherished Lin Yu like a treasure, their biological son almost died multiple times.

Lin Xiao's sisters were also quietly sobbing.

Lin Wanwan cried the most.

She almost became an orphan herself, luckily adopted by the Lin family.

Otherwise, she might have lived such a miserable life too.

Lin Xiao's adoptive parents were still kneeling on the ground.

Feeling the atmosphere around them was off, they quickly explained.

"Wait, it's not like that!"

"None of this is real!"

"..."

However, no matter how they explained, the people around them didn't believe it.

The adoptive father stared at the screen, as if he suddenly thought of something, "This, this must be fake! Twenty years ago, our village was so poor it didn't even have telephones. What was used to film these things?"

These words also reminded everyone.

Today, the internet is developed, and various first-person perspective videos are constantly emerging.

But twenty years ago, how could a child who suffered so much have the conditions to record in real-time?

They looked suspiciously at Lin Xiao, also hoping for an explanation.

Lin Xiao was well-prepared for this and opened his school's official website on the computer.

"I am an A University student. You should have heard that A University has been researching 'Memory Fragment Extraction' these years. What I just showed you is this project, which is still under research... Sigh, if anyone still doesn't believe it, you can go to the village where I grew up and ask around. The Village Chief and school teachers from back then should still remember me."

The people living here were either rich or noble, and some indeed had knowledge of related industries.

Coupled with the fact that A University's official website had indeed published this research plan, they believed him.

After all, the video Lin Xiao displayed was too real.

With all the technologies they currently knew, none could achieve this.

It could only be a project still under research.

Seeing that everyone believed him, Lin Xiao slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, he didn't understand this project of his school at all.

What he just showed was 'Memory Fragment Extraction' that he exchanged from the System Mall.

Most of these fragments were displayed directly by him, and a small portion was modified by him.

For example, intensifying some scenes of abuse.

And for example, that last 'last will and testament'...

The original owner had already fainted from hunger in the cellar at that time; how could he have said such emotional words?

That's why the adoptive parents' reaction was so strong.

On one hand, they didn't believe Lin Xiao truly recorded the situation at the time, and on the other hand, they didn't remember being so heavy-handed!

But at this moment, all their explanations turned into sophistry.

No one would sympathize with child abusers.

Now that it had come to this, Lin Xiao didn't forget to twist the knife further.

"By the way, your Live Stream Channel has been on the whole time. You've gone viral online!"

"..."

The adoptive mother tremblingly picked up her phone.

Looking at the Live Stream Channel with tens of thousands of people online and the continuously scrolling barrage of insults.

She almost couldn't catch her breath.

"As you wished, things have escalated."

Lin Xiao said faintly, his gaze directed towards the intersection not far away.

A police car was seen approaching.

The Police had also caught this Live Stream Channel.

Because the spread was too wide, their superiors instructed them to handle it properly and give the victim justice!

Even if Lin Xiao hadn't called The Police in advance, they would have come to investigate.

When the adoptive parents were being taken away by The Police, they kept explaining that they had been wronged.

Lin Xiao also 'kindly' reminded them, "My adoptive parents have always lived in the countryside. Although they are not good people, they probably don't have the guts to cause trouble here. This time, they might have been instigated by someone. I hope you investigate thoroughly!"

These words, seemingly excusing them, were actually forcing them to expose Lin Yu behind the scenes.

The adoptive parents, hearing this, also realized something was wrong.

They immediately shut their mouths, even forgetting to cry out.

They weren't fools; they knew some people absolutely couldn't be offended.

They might have to just accept this matter, perhaps only being detained for a period.

But if they exposed Lin Yu, who knew what the Jin family would do to them!

Watching The Police car drive away, Lin Xiao smiled with relief.

"Alright, let's go back..."

However, as soon as he turned around, he was met with several pairs of red, swollen, tear-filled eyes, full of sadness and guilt.

"Wh-what's wrong?"

Lin Xiao awkwardly rubbed his nose.

This time, the emotional manipulation seemed to have been a bit too much...