Against the Fate - Chapter 20

Chapter 20

Evelyn re-interrogated the members of the theft and fraud gangs who were detained in the prison of Dawn City . This investigation let she knew a few things: Cui Ming was kidnapped by the gang’s boss from childhood . It’s not clear where they kidnapped him from, maybe Dawn City, maybe Moonlight City which was thousands of kilometers away, or it may be the West Continent . There were a total of 13 children who were kidnapped over along with Cui Ming . The remaining 12 people were successful members of the Acrobatic Troupe . Cui Ming was very smart . He was fancied by the boss of the gang, he adopted Cui Ming as his son and taught him various thieving techniques and tricks .

Evelyn combined testimonies given by the gang members and came to the conclusion that the fraud and theft gang had likely been destroyed by Cui Ming . At that time Cui Ming was responsible for checking, using his age to extract information from children and women . At the same time, he used public telephone booths to become an informant of the police . Eventually, the police tried to capture the gang members, no one escaped except Cui Ming . From there on out he was truly free .

Where was Cui Ming from? There was no answer because the leaders of the gang were sentenced to hang . The remaining members did not know where Cui Ming came from, they only knew that Cui Ming had been in the circus since the age of two . Evelyn judged that the gang boss was planning to buy a group of children from some traffickers and use the circus as a cover to transport the children . However, it was difficult to pursue the investigation because of miscommunications and other hurdles . According to Evelyn, Cui Ming was a Two Per Millioner, that meant his parents were not cultivators . Otherwise, even if he was abducted, the kidnappers couldn’t escape the wrath of his parents .

Cui Ming’s first recorded period was during his time in the Acrobatic Troupe, and the second period was during his childhood at the Charity School . The old nuns were very impressed with Cui Ming, “He was an extremely troublesome child . Cui Ming was very mischievous . If he put a bug in the chalk box of the nun’s teacher, it wasn’t just to scare the teacher but also to cover up his other pranks . For example, he would care for the scared teacher and then steal the exam question paper and then recite the answer to the class . He almost never allowed the examinations that should have been conducted to proceed normally and would disrupt order . For example, he made fake blood from red ink and tomato sauce, then poured it on the watching teacher, etc . He had many cunning tricks . ”

The Charity School advocated to care for these orphans with love, so it never resorted to corporal punishment for Cui Ming . Even under the advice of the old nuns, Cui Ming did not get rid of his tricks . Instead, he began to use them to serve his own interests .

Evelyn asked the old nun, “Is Cui Ming a bad boy?”

The old nun replied after thinking for a long time, “It depends on what your criteria are . He did a lot of bad things, but the children liked him . Objectively, he became a role model for some children, but he hurt some other children . On one occasion, four students had beaten up a priest . The four students were his admirers and they beat the priest because the priest had punished him by ordering him to clean the church for a month . What I was most angry about was what he said when he heard about that incident . ”

“What did he say?”

“He said they deserved it . ” The old nun fell into a reverie “At the time I was very angry and disappointed with his words . If he pleaded for the four students or swept his way down, I would feel that he was responsible . After all, those four children did that for him . But he also said, ‘There must be a bottom moral line to be a man . It is unforgivable, for whatever reason, to beat the people who give you food and a bed free of charge . ’ Yes, although he did a lot of bad things, he also had a grateful heart . ”

However, the Charity School finally punished Cui Ming . They believed that Cui Ming had incited those children . In the end, Cui Ming was physically punished for the first time . He was also the first student to be physically punished in ten years . Cui Ming received three lashes . After the whipping, Cui Ming ceased to be the leader of the students . He often disappeared, ranging from as little as ten days to as many as six months . A few years later, he went to prison because he did street scams, he was released three months later . The old nuns personally picked up Cui Ming . However, the old nun said that Cui Ming was no longer able to return . On the second day he left the Charity School for good . Since then, there has been no news of Cui Ming . The old nuns had always been guilty of self-blame . In that case, they should have stuck to their positions and not punish Cui Ming . This was the most important reason why she removed whipping as a punishment after she became the principal .

The following investigation surprised Evelyn . After the whipping, in the six-year period between then and his arrest there was no record about him . She originally thought that Cui Ming did not return to Charity School and went to join the street gangs . However, no one heard of this Cui Ming person . The reason for his arrest and jailing, and the reason for his imprisonment, were exactly the same . He did a poker scam on the street with plain-clothes policemen and be arrested .

After talking with The Professor, Evelyn inferred that Cui Ming had met a certain cultivator during these six years . That cultivator taught Release to Cui Ming before dying . Why did he leave no formal instruction to Cui Ming, it couldn’t be inferred .

The destructive power of a bad cultivator was great . This was why Evelyn had repeatedly contacted Cui Ming . At present, although several cultivators in Dawn City weren’t willing to serve the public, they could all be considered good people . Cui Ming was a cultivator who appeared out of nowhere . His record was fragmented and he spent his childhood in a criminal gang . All of that meant Evelyn couldn’t help but worry . Because of this, Evelyn did not hurry to leave Room 702, she directly and indirectly contacted Cui Ming several times .

In Cui Ming’s opinion, Evelyn was a confident and beautiful woman with strong logical thinking and keen observation . It was worth mentioning that she was a beautiful woman with a good figure, especially her legs which were long and strong . Evelyn was rather heroic, but she hid her true intention: to test Cui Ming’s character .

In a coffee and a dinner conversation, Cui Ming suddenly found out that Evelyn and North Luna turned out to be rivals . In the words of Evelyn, North Luna had repeatedly used the privilege of cultivators to ignore the law and connive with criminals . Evelyn was unsuccessful in their two contacts, because Cui Ming was too cunning and always vigilant . She couldn’t find out anything about where he had been for six years and who he had met . On the contrary, he successfully extracted from her the reason she signed a contract with Dawn City .

Although Evelyn was suspicious towards him, Cui Ming had a certain degree of affection for Evelyn . After the signing of the contract of Dawn City, Evelyn had the obligation to help Dawn City deal with cultivators who broke the order . Evelyn chose to become a police officer . In Evelyn’s words, she was a Two Per Millioner, so she had the responsibility and mission to protect Dawn City .

Cui Ming respected such people, but he would never be close to such people .