Chapter 51: Henceforth there are elders above, and youngsters below
He quickly ducked down, and the deputy director poked his head into the "hole."
First, he glanced at the woman furiously stomping her foot downstairs, then looked at the thickness of the broken ceiling, his eyeballs almost bulging out.
"How did you do it?!"
"Ah..."
Chen Yu shuffled to the side, "I... um, noticed a big crack in the floor a while ago, and just now I pushed too hard... kicked it accidentally."
"You..."
"Don't move!"
"Put your hands up!"
"You're surrounded..."
Before the deputy director could spit out a word, a bunch of policemen suddenly rushed in from outside the door, all armed and serious, aiming their guns inside the room.
"Eh? Chief?" The leading officer hesitated, instinctively lowering his gun, "What are you doing here?"
"I want to ask, what are you doing here?!" The deputy director's brain was fried.
"We just discovered a thief, who was scaling walls outside and then escaped to this window... that's him!" The leading officer spotted Chen Yu and immediately raised his gun again, "Eh? It turns out to be a female thief!"
Chen Yu: "..."
Trembling all over, holding back the urge to continue "picking feet," Chen Yu said to the policeman beside her, "Quick. Put the hat on me. Otherwise, the whole building will collapse."
The policeman realized what she meant and hurriedly placed the hat on Chen Yu.
"What the hell is going on here?" the deputy director stood up, feeling an excruciating headache, and looked at Chen Yu: "Were you scaling walls outside just now?"
"I wasn't." Chen Yu was puzzled.
"Nonsense! It was you!" the armed officer shouted, "You didn't even change clothes."
"But the gender did change." Chen Yu spread her hands.
Armed officer: "...That makes sense."
"Makes sense your ass!" The deputy director completely lost his temper, "What are you playing at? I don't understand any of this?!"
Chen Yu: "I..."
"Shut up!" Pulling Chen Yu to her feet, the deputy director roared at the policemen in the room: "Let's go, back to the station for investigation! Everyone, move!"
"If you all leave, what about my shed?" Downstairs, the woman climbed up a ladder, reaching out angrily, "Come back! My shed!"
...
One hour later.
In the interrogation room.
Sitting in the familiar, cold, metal-tinged chair of regret, Chen Yu was especially regretful.
Looking at the well-regarded psychologist in front of him, he felt like slapping the man into unconsciousness.
"How is it you again!"
"Miss Chen Yu... Mrs. Chen." The psychologist adjusted his glasses, "The station says your mental issues are getting more serious, and they've commissioned me to provide you with psychological therapy."
"Does Hongtukeng Police Station have unlimited funds or what?" Chen Yu looked around and saw the surveillance cameras, then yelled at them, "Why keep harping on me? Let me go!"
"Mrs. Chen, your statement is already complete. Just answer a few questions for me, and the station will let you go," the psychologist smiled.
"Let!"
"Ah?"
"...I meant for you to ask quick."
"Oh, right." The psychologist nodded, took out a book titled "Postnatal Care of Sows" from his bag, opened the first page, and loudly asked, "Please tell me..."
"You're a damn vet, aren't you?" Chen Yu was about to explode.
"This book?" The psychologist flipped the book over to reveal a notebook tucked inside, "I'm not a vet; I just like to create a light-hearted atmosphere for our interaction like this."
Chen Yu: "Somebody, where's my knife?"
"Miss Chen... Mrs. Chen, you're still so hot-tempered." The psychologist continued, "First question, when did you start liking the identity of a female?"
Chen Yu yelled, "I never liked it!"
"Heh." The psychologist nodded understandingly and wrote four characters in the notebook — 'tsundere and naughty.'
"Second question, have you thought about the changes that will occur in your life after changing genders?"
"..." Chen Yu fell silent for a long time, then collapsed onto the table, "Mom... let me out."
"Understood." The psychologist nodded again and wrote four characters in the notebook — 'filial piety spoiled.'
"Last question, if I have the means to help you successfully fulfill your wish, how would you thank me?"
"I would fucking kill you on the spot!"
"Alright," the psychologist pondered for a moment and wrote down four words in the notebook—perverted sicko.
"OK, we're done here. You can leave," the psychologist put away the notebook and turned to leave, "but I'll be going first."
"Squeak—"
"Bang!"
Stepping out of the interrogation room and closing the iron door, the psychologist looked up to meet the deputy director's urgent gaze.
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"Shouldn't be," the psychologist touched his stubble, "He's just watched too much anime. But one thing's for sure, with her personality, after she becomes a girl, she'll definitely be very popular among the otakus..."
"Popular my ass! You motherfucker come back here! Let me kill you—" Chen Yu's voice roared hoarsely from inside the interrogation room.
"Lock him up for a few days." The psychologist suggested, "Let his mind stabilize a bit."
"I was thinking the same," the deputy director agreed wholeheartedly...
After seeing off the doctor, the deputy director walked into the interrogation room, looked at Chen Yu who was almost furious to the point of rolling his eyes, sighed deeply, and sat opposite, "Miss Chen. We're living in a technological society now, everyone has the right to choose their own gender, I can understand. But no matter what, whether you're a man or a woman...
especially for girls, you can't have such a big temper in the future. This counts as a socially destabilizing factor... Are you on fire?"
"No," Chen Yu immediately calmed his emotions, "You're seeing things."
"Really..." The deputy director rubbed his eyes and stepped forward, feeling Chen Yu's clothes with his hand.
"Let me out," said Chen Yu.
"Wait until you've calmed down a bit," the deputy director turned and left.
Before leaving, he left a remark, "No wonder you had the ability to be a felon, you're pretty good at scaling walls."
Chen Yu: "..."
"Bang—"
The iron door closed.
Now Chen Yu was alone in the room.
This brought him quickly back to his senses.
"No good."
"Why do I feel like I'm becoming increasingly unable to control my emotions."
"Could it be a side effect of the 'Beast's Power' superability..."
Closing his eyes, Chen Yu took a deep breath and began trying to clear his mind.
Before long, the rage in his chest was gone without a trace.
But then, his "rage" was quickly stirred up again.
Just outside the interrogation room, a steady stream of staff from the station walked by in pairs, from male and female officers to the cleaning auntie, all pointing and making comments through the barred window,
"That's the guy, isn't it? The one who wants to change?"
"Quite handsome, what a shame..."
"The internet is doing some serious damage these days. More and more perverts."
"The definition of virginity has broadened too."
"It doesn't matter whether it's a man or a woman, as long as they're good-looking..."
"Have the reporters arrived outside?"
"She used to be the number one murderer, humans really are fascinating."
"Truly a fucking piece of work..."
"Although it's abrupt, I'm really curious if her 'bitter bit' is already of the feminine kind..."
"In the future, she'll be someone with both elders and youngsters to look after. Sigh."
"What do you mean?"
"Grandmother and younger sister."
"Damn disrespectful..."
Fists clenched tightly, Chen Yu lowered his head.
Wisps of barely perceptible "flames" began to emerge clearly around him...
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