At this time, Li Dian was standing in the middle of the crowd, surrounded by the core members of the Inescapable Net. Li Dian suddenly felt like a mouse surrounded by cats.
Lü Shu looked at Li Dian and smiled. "Long time no see. You look good."
"The food is okay." Li Dian smiled bitterly.
"I read your file." Lü Shu held back his laughter. "Do you have to be so sneaky?"
"I don't want to carry the Spirit Stones, so I can only rely on swindling to make a living …" Li Dian said, feeling wronged.
"That's enough." Lü Shu said seriously, "Don't feel wronged. The people you swindled haven't felt wronged yet. Why should you feel wronged?"
"Hey, you're right." Li Dian thought to himself, 'If I show a better attitude right now, this Ninth Heavenly Luo might even give me some leniency.'
"I have something to ask you," Lü Shu said. "Where did you get the gourd and other things?"
Li Dian was anxious. "It's passed down from my ancestors!"
How could he settle old scores? He still had three years left in his sentence, and now he was going to settle old scores again. He might have to stay for another three years …
Lü Shu smiled. "Think about it again."
Li Dian said with a sobbing tone, "You've wronged me. It's really a treasure passed down from my ancestors."
As he spoke, Li Dian secretly looked at Lü Shu's expression.
At this time, Lü Shu took a document from Chen Zu An and handed it to Li Dian. "I fought for you. To be honest, it can be reduced. As for how much, it will depend on your performance. But don't be too happy just yet. We won't let you go out to do evil and harm normal people. So, even if you're released after serving your sentence, you'll still be heavily monitored by us. You can only move about in Dragon Gate Fortress and help out.
This was also the principle of Tengra's Earth Net. They could give Li Dian freedom in advance, but this freedom was relative. After all, it was irresponsible for ordinary people to let a repeat offender like Li Dian out in advance.
Li Dian took the document and looked at it. Sure enough, it was a proposal to reduce his sentence.
He knew very well that as the Ninth Tengra, Lü Shu would not lie to him about such a small matter. There was no need to do so, and he was not an enemy.
"Then you have to keep your promise!" Li Dian said.
"Tell me, where did you get the gourd and those magic tools?" Lü Shu asked.
Li Dian wasn't a tough nut to crack, and he knew that it would be a piece of cake for the Inescapable Net to make him talk if it really came to this.
In the past, there were a lot of gangsters who thought that they were very good at handling things. In the end, when they entered and came out, they understood what was going on. If they didn't have such tough bones, then they shouldn't pretend to be heroes.
"First, I have something to tell you." Li Dian said cautiously, "That compass really belongs to our family. Our ancestors really were necromancers. I used to rely on Fengshui to support my family, but later I changed my name. "
"Mm." Lü Shu was noncommittal. "What about the gourd and the cloth?"
"I stole them …" Li Dian said obediently.
Lü Shu was silent for a while. "Where did you steal them from? Don't lie. How could you steal something like that?"
"That's a long story," Li Dian said. "Because the gourd and the cloth are very strange, I remember very clearly that they were stolen in Luoyang City. Back then, I came to Luoyang City to roam the pugilistic world …"
"Tell me the truth."
"Back then, I came to Luoyang City to swindle …" Li Dian corrected.
"Negative emotion points from Li Dian, + 199!"
"Continue."
"Back then, I was doing fortune-telling in the old city. It was a coincidence that I met a very strange woman that day. I've roamed the pugilistic world for more than ten years, but it was the first time I met someone like her," Li Dian said.
Lü Shu was stunned. "Like what?"
"She was too fat. Her hands were full of meat, and I couldn't touch her bones …" Li Dian explained.
Lü Shu's face darkened. "Did I ask you to show off your baggage to me?!"
"Let me finish," Li Dian said. "Back then, everyone wasn't rich. I saw that she was fat and had a face full of oil. Her family must be well-off, so I followed her and wanted to steal something. You also know that it wasn't easy for people in our line of work to earn money by hiding …"
"Hmm, continue." Lü Shu nodded and said, "So, you stole the gourd and the cloth from her house?"
"Yes." Li Dian nodded. "When I went there, there was a baby in her house. Actually, the cloth was used to swaddle the baby, and the gourd was placed next to the baby's hand. I thought that her family was rich, but it turned out that the woman's family was also poor. They couldn't even find a piece of jewelry. I saw that the cloth and the gourd were not ordinary items, so I stole them."
Lü Shu was silent for a while. "Did the baby have any special characteristics?"
"There were no special characteristics. It just looked sickly and difficult to raise. I don't know how that woman raised herself to be so fat and raised the baby like that …" Li Dian said. "There's one more thing about the gourd. Will it reduce the sentence if I tell you?"
Lü Shu said calmly, "Yes, tell me."
"The gourd originally had a crack, but I don't know why the crack slowly healed after more than ten years. It was probably when it healed that I realized that the techniques passed down in my family were really useful for cultivation, so I knew that the gourd should be a treasure!" Li Dian said.
Therefore, the gourd had broken once in the past for some reason, but it repaired itself after the Spirit Qi Awakening. The magical cloth turned out to be just a baby's swaddle.
Chen Zu An, Zhong Yutang, and the others didn't even know why Lü Shu suddenly wanted to interrogate Li Dian. Now that they were talking about it, it was even more confusing. It was as if only Lü Shu knew the real similarity.
Lü Xiaoyu was the only one who seemed to be deep in thought. She knew that Lü Shu had been sickly since he was young. If there was anything similar between the baby and Lü Shu, it would be that both of them were sickly.
Therefore, at this moment, Lü Xiaoyu suddenly understood that Lü Shu was investigating the origins of his life.
"Do you still remember where the woman lives?" Lü Shu asked.
"It will be a little troublesome to find her now. At that time, I went in the dark." Li Dian thought about it and said, "But if you let me see that woman, I will definitely be able to recognize her. She left a deep impression on me!"
"That's what you said." Lü Shu took a deep breath and said, "I will take you to find that residence first. If you can find it, I will reduce your sentence!"
As long as they found a residence, they could easily find out who lived there by checking the household register. This was especially true for the old city of Luoyang City, which had not changed for decades.
However, the problem was that Lü Shu himself wanted to know when he had arrived at the orphanage and who the woman was.
Lü Shu had never thought that the woman could be his mother, because he had already guessed some things.
He could only wonder how he had crossed paths with this woman.
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