133: Chapter 133 Dawn at Dragon Lake Manor

Half an hour later.

The SUV drove into Longhu Mountain Villa.

The security here remained strict, and the morning shift security guards were standing guard at the gate.

Old Chen drove the car outside the courtyard wall of Guanhu Residence.

He turned off the engine and pulled out the car key.

"Boss, we're here," Old Chen said.

Jiang Feng pushed open the car door and stepped out.

The air was heavy with moisture, and the dew on the lawn dampened the tips of his shoes.

The morning breeze was cool, and being blown by the wind made his mind much clearer.

He reached out and pushed open his wrought-iron gate.

Jiang Feng crossed the threshold and stopped.

He saw a person sitting on the outdoor rattan chair placed in the center of the courtyard.

That person was wearing an off-white trench coat.

Without a doubt, it was Lu Cheng.

She sat there without saying a word.

Her back was straight, and her hands were placed on her thighs.

She wasn't looking at Jiang Feng, but rather at the tree in the yard that had lost half of its leaves.

Jiang Feng walked a few steps closer.

The sky was slowly brightening, and he could clearly see Lu Cheng's face.

There were obvious dark circles under her eyes, and her lips were pale.

That was the physical reaction to staying up all night without any sleep.

She looked extremely exhausted.

This fatigue had long since transcended the physical; it was an ordeal that seeped entirely from her bones.

Jiang Feng didn't tell her to leave; instead, he sat down on the rattan chair opposite Lu Cheng.

He casually tossed his canvas bag onto the grass beside him.

Lu Cheng heard the movement and withdrew her gaze from the tree.

She looked at Jiang Feng.

The scanner-like gaze from the past was completely gone.

Now, her face revealed the weakness and limpness of a living person pushed to the extreme.

She reached into the pocket of her trench coat and took out a neatly folded piece of white paper.

She placed the paper on the table, pressed it down with her fingers, and slowly pushed it toward Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng looked down at it.

"What is this?" he asked.

"My confession," Lu Cheng said, her speech very slow.

No longer like before, spitting out various technical terms and data analysis like a machine gun.

"Everything is written on it," Lu Cheng pointed to the paper.

"Xiangyanghua Orphanage."

"The basement, the structural data of the load-bearing walls, the drainage rate of the accumulated water."

"How I used physical principles to create that perfect locked room."

"And, how I murdered Fiend."

Jiang Feng didn't reach out to take the paper.

He leaned back in his chair and just looked at Lu Cheng.

"You've figured it out?" Jiang Feng asked, his tone devoid of fluctuation.

Lu Cheng withdrew her hand and placed it on her knees.

"Last night, after you left, I sat in the chair at the police station the whole time," Lu Cheng recounted in a low voice.

"I tried to reconstruct my deduction model."

"But I found I couldn't calculate it anymore."

"All the formulas were stuck."

"Because within that data, things that couldn't be quantified started to mix in."

She raised her head.

"I didn't sleep all night."

"I felt restless, had an irregular heartbeat, and my stomach was very uncomfortable."

Lu Cheng's chest rose and fell heavily.

"Every time I closed my eyes, I could see Fiend lying in the water."

"I could sense the water temperature cooling down."

"That is the fact that I killed her."

She looked at her own hands.

"You won, Jiang Feng."

"That so-called perfect evolution of Eden is all a lie."

"I didn't evolve into a machine without any emotional fluctuations."

"I just locked fear and guilt in a box and then lied to myself that the box didn't exist."

Lu Cheng put her hands down.

"Yesterday, you were the one who smashed that box."

"Now, I can feel the pain."

This was a pain unique to humans.

Without the protection of a data shell, the karmic retribution had all backlashed onto her in a single night.

"Congratulations, you are one step closer to being human."

Jiang Feng was not surprised by Lu Cheng's reaction.

This is what it means to be human.

If you do evil, your conscience will condemn you.

Even if you killed an evil person.

Karma, retribution is inevitable.

This was originally the law of the Heavenly Dao.

Fiend used scientific methods to erase human nature, which in itself was the act of a fool going against heaven.

Therefore, she also suffered the backlash.

"So?" Jiang Feng pointed to the paper on the table. "Came to me to submit a letter of allegiance?"

"This thing shouldn't be given to me."

"Zhao Yi is looking for me," Lu Cheng said.

"The police station is conducting a comprehensive investigation of me. In that Prophet's data, there is a record of my participation in the Xiangyanghua Orphanage project."

"They will find me sooner or later."

"I wanted to give this to you in person before they come."

Lu Cheng's logic was still very clear.

"You broke my shell and made me a human again."

"As a human, a life for a life, this is the most basic social rule."

"I am going to surrender."

She didn't plan to hide anymore.

Evasion couldn't solve any problems.

She would rather walk into prison in handcuffs than continue to wear a mask of a machine without blood or flesh, living in this world by self-hypnosis every day.

That way of living was too tiring.

Only legal sanctions could cleanse her blood-stained soul.

Jiang Feng stood up.

The sky was completely bright.

The rising sun poked its head out from behind the distant roof.

Golden sunlight spilled onto the courtyard lawn.

"Wouldn't it have been easier to do this sooner?" Jiang Feng's tone was mixed with a bit of street-smart rogueishness.

"Had to make such a big fuss. Trying to slice me up with some broken instrument every day."

He walked to Lu Cheng's side.

"Alright, keep the thing safe. Keep it for the police to see."

Just at this moment.

A low sound of car engines came from outside the courtyard.

Two police cars drove along the villa's asphalt road and stopped outside the gate of Guanhu Residence.

Zhao Yi, wearing a police uniform, stepped out of the first car.

He wasn't carrying any weapons, but held a folder in his hand.

Two young Police Officers followed behind him.

Zhao Yi pushed open the iron gate and walked into the courtyard.

He saw Lu Cheng sitting on the rattan chair at a glance, and Jiang Feng standing beside her.

Zhao Yi's footsteps slowed down, and he stopped three meters away from the rattan chair.

He stared at Lu Cheng, his gaze exceptionally complex.

In the past period, this woman, as the highest-level special consultant, had used her near-perverted brain to help the Jinghai City police solve several unsolved major cases.

But after the city-wide crisis last night, the police followed the clues to clean up the remaining data of Eden.

They completely cleared up the truth about the Xiangyanghua Orphanage.

Those bloody cases that had been dusty for more than a decade were brought to light.

This genius scientist in front of him was a survivor of that tragedy and also the true culprit who killed the dean back then.

Zhao Yi opened the folder in his hand.

He took out an arrest warrant stamped with a red seal.

"Lu Cheng," Zhao Yi's voice echoed in the courtyard.

"Regarding the murder case of Fiend at the Xiangyanghua Orphanage."

"We are now arresting you in accordance with the law."

The wind blew through the courtyard, rolling up a few fallen leaves.

Lu Cheng looked at Zhao Yi, didn't speak, just nodded.