13: Still a habitual offender...

"What's going on?"

Yang Dian took two quick steps to reach the two of them and looked the middle-aged woman up and down:

"You say she stole your necklace, do you have any proof?"

"When and where was the necklace purchased? Please show me the payment record for the necklace."

Yang Dian had certainly seen plenty of news online about staged accidents and framing others.

But encountering it in real life was truly a first.

The middle-aged woman was taken aback by Yang Dian's question, and she turned around, intending to scold him for meddling.

But when she saw the Policeman uniform on Yang Dian, the profanity that was about to spill out got stuck in her throat.

"Uh..."

After stammering for a long while, she touched her neck again.

This was her subconscious action when she felt guilty during an argument.

Seeing her stammering, eyes darting around, yet unable to make anything up, Yang Dian couldn't help but shake his head.

These people are all like this.

Fierce of face but faint of heart, bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

When they meet someone easy to bully, they push their luck to the limit.

When they meet someone they can't afford to offend, they can't even get a word out.

"What, can't remember all of a sudden?"

Hearing Yang Dian's hint, the middle-aged woman's eyes lit up:

"Right, right, right."

"Little comrade, I bought that gold necklace over twenty years ago. Who remembers which day exactly it was bought?"

"Back then, there was no online payment; we just used cash for everything."

"The receipts and such were lost long ago."

Nodding slightly to acknowledge her explanation, Yang Dian continued:

"Are you sure you were wearing the necklace when you left the house this morning?"

"I was definitely wearing it." The middle-aged woman nodded frantically:

"I've had the necklace for over 20 years, and I've never taken it off. It's always been on my neck."

As she spoke, she slapped her thigh, putting on an annoyed expression:

"Who knew that just coming to the park for a stroll with Old Wang would lead to this?"

"First, I fainted for no reason, and then the necklace disappeared."

"I bet this little bitch used some kind of drug to knock me and Old Wang out, taking the chance to steal my things."

"Maybe she even wanted to play the good person and frame someone else."

"It's just that this little bitch probably didn't expect me to be in such good health, waking up so quickly and catching her red-handed!"

"Little comrade, you must stand up for me!"

After complaining tearfully for a bit, she glanced at the girl again.

Seeing the girl holding a phone and filming her, she reached out to grab the girl's phone:

"Filming, filming, what are you filming!"

"Give me back my gold necklace!"

That self-righteous attitude made it seem as if the girl had really stolen her gold necklace.

'When this person decides to be shameless, she is truly invincible.'

With a sigh in his heart, Yang Dian stepped forward to pull the two struggling women apart.

Just as he was about to speak, he heard the roar of an engine entering his ears.

Listening closely, he could also hear the melodious "beep ~~~ beep ~~~" sound within the roar.

Stopping his words, he waited a moment, and Lin Mo and Shi Sheng arrived in front of Yang Dian on their police motorcycles.

After stopping their vehicles, the two exchanged a glance before looking at Yang Dian:

"What's the situation now?"

Yang Dian first pointed to the middle-aged woman and the two people leaning against the tree trunk, who were still in a state of unconsciousness:

"They fell into a coma earlier, and I moved them into the shade of the tree."

"After she woke up, she said the gold necklace on her neck was missing, and insisted that she stole her necklace."

Upon seeing Lin Mo and Shi Sheng appear, the middle-aged woman first shrank her neck, but then, not knowing what she thought of, her expression became even more arrogant:

"Policeman comrades, it's good you're here. Just now, she stole my gold necklace."

"Old Wang and I suddenly fainting must also be her doing. Hurry up and arrest her, don't let her run away."

Lin Mo sized up the middle-aged woman and then looked at the aggrieved-looking girl.

Having been a Policeman for many years, he guessed the cause and effect at a glance.

So, he turned his gaze to Yang Dian:

"What do you think?"

Yang Dian pointed to his own neck:

"First, we need to determine if she was actually wearing a gold necklace."

As soon as Yang Dian spoke, the middle-aged woman's expression tightened immediately.

"In this hot weather, everyone isn't wearing many clothes."

"If we pull the surveillance footage from the Wetland Park, it will be clear at a glance whether she was wearing a necklace when she entered the park."

At this point, Yang Dian looked at the middle-aged woman again, the corners of his mouth curling up imperceptibly:

"If, as she said, the gold necklace is gone, then the next step is to find the necklace, and then determine liability."

"If an arrest is warranted, we arrest."

"But if she wasn't wearing a gold necklace when she came in..."

"Heh~"

After a chuckle, Yang Dian looked at the girl again:

"I suggest you sue her for extortion and defamation."

Hearing this, the girl put away the phone she was using to film and bowed slightly to Yang Dian:

"I understand, thank you, officer."

The middle-aged woman's expression changed drastically:

"Uh, I just remembered, I took a shower when I left the house this morning, and I think I forgot the necklace in the bathroom."

Yang Dian pointed to the phone in the girl's hand:

"Didn't you insist repeatedly just now that the necklace was on your neck and that you'd never taken it off in your life?"

The middle-aged woman opened her mouth, and not knowing how to quibble, she suddenly covered her ears:

"Ouch~, ouch~"

"My ears hurt, my head hurts too."

"It hurts so much!"

"I'm not talking to you people anymore, I'm going to the hospital!"

After saying that, she ignored Yang Dian and the others, turned around, and tried to slip away.

While Yang Dian was shocked by her shamelessness, Shi Sheng had already taken out the silver handcuffs and stepped forward, clicking them onto her wrists.

Facing the curious gazes of the others, he waved the police terminal in his hand:

"Habitual offender."

"Jiang Ping, female, 47 years old, lives on Pingshui Street in Changle District. She has 9 public security penalty records. She started staging accidents seven years ago, and after the SkyNet system became widespread, she made a living by cheating at gambling with accomplices."

"Not long ago, someone reported her for gathering people to gamble in a rented house."

"Just in time to take her back for questioning."

As he spoke, he glanced at Yang Dian's shoulder.

Seeing that he wasn't wearing a body camera, he beckoned to the girl:

"Add me on WeChat, and send me a copy of the video you filmed later; it can serve as evidence that she tried to extort you."

"However, she's a slippery old fox; she has no assets to her name. If you sue her, the most you can do is get her locked up for a while; getting financial compensation will be very difficult."

The girl looked indignant:

"I don't want financial compensation, I just want to send her in!"

"The longer she's locked up, the better!"

Seeing this, Yang Dian could only say the girl was young.

Or perhaps her family was well-off.

If her circumstances were any worse, she would be thinking primarily about financial compensation.

But that didn't have much to do with him.

How others choose is their own business. He could only do this much, partly because he had always despised such people.

And partly because he didn't want to let down the uniform he was wearing.

Seeing that Yang Dian didn't want to get involved in the subsequent matters, Lin Mo stepped forward to start asking for information and, by the way, contacted the station to have them send regular Policemen over.

A few minutes later, the ambulance arrived.

He arranged for Shi Sheng to go to the hospital with the ambulance, then looked at Yang Dian:

"Didn't you say there was a suspected exotic creature in the park?"

"Where is it?"