Just at that critical moment, a shrill scream erupted from the midst of the crowd.
Subsequently, all the onlooking crowds involuntarily followed suit with screams of their own.
Li Jing's finger was on the trigger but didn't press it; her body went rigid, and she was completely dumbfounded.
A faint, indifferent smile played on Su Fan's lips.
Because the "corpse" that had been lying on the ground suddenly leapt up, deftly avoiding Su Fan's blow with a roll.
Of course, that strike from Su Fan was merely a feint—if he had truly meant it, how could the other party possibly have dodged?
"My head, my head, there's nothing wrong, thank goodness, thank goodness."
The man sat on the ground, clutching his head, checking it over, and when he was certain there was nothing wrong, he let out a long sigh of relief, and at the next moment, it seemed as if he remembered something.
He steeled himself and looked around, indeed finding himself the target of hundreds of astonished, perplexed, and angry gazes.
That was out of the question.
By now, even fools could tell that this man was simply pretending to be dead.
"Boss, why did you get up? Didn't I tell you to stay put no matter what, how are we supposed to end this now?"
The woman chided her husband with a mix of fear and panic.
The husband muttered under his breath,
"The stick was coming right for my head, if I hadn't dodged, I really would have ended up a corpse."
Su Fan snorted coldly, and turned to look at Li Jing with her gun raised, his tone laced with a trace of faint mockery.
"Officer Li, where's the corpse? Is there a corpse here?"
"Instead, you almost killed an innocent person."
"You couldn't even see through such a simple trick; seems your professional skills need a bit more practice."
Li Jing's face instantly turned as red as a monkey's butt.
It was truly embarrassing.
To have been fooled by such a simple trick,
It was also a lapse in her emotional judgment, her personal feelings getting the better of her.
Because she found Su Fan disagreeable, she subconsciously wanted to cause him trouble, so she charged in without properly assessing the situation first.
The next moment, Li Jing's angry gaze locked onto the so-called "deceased."
The man swallowed nervously, looking guiltily as he spoke.
"I, I'm feeling a lot better, it's all a misunderstanding, let's go home, wife."
He stood up, trying to escape the scene.
Angry, Li Jing unleashed all her fury on the swindler, rushing forward with a bolt and pinning him to the ground.
The man's brother-in-law, along with the other burly men who had come with him, were looking guilty and trying to make a run for it.
Su Fan shouted loudly,
"Fellow villagers, these scoundrels have been exploiting your sympathy to deceive others, we can't let them get away."
"Fraudsters, catch the fraudsters!"
"These scoundrels, to think I spoke up for them, only to be deceived."
"Plus, we wronged the Divine Doctor, we can't let them off."
"Beat them to death..."
The seven or eight hundred villagers, faces flushed with rage, surged forward en masse, surrounding the group and beating them with fists and kicks.
"Su Fan, you are really impressive."
"You scared me to death just now."
Liu Ye walked over to Su Fan, giving him a thumbs-up.
Su Fan smiled faintly; the idea that anyone trying to play dead could escape his keen observation was laughable. Just one glance at the man, and Su Fan immediately knew that he was in good health, with no sign of illness—how could he possibly be dead?
Moreover, his memory was infallible; he had never seen this man during his free clinic in Citizens Village. Plus, the attitudes of Liu Feng and Sun Zhigang made it blatantly clear that this matter was linked to the two of them.
"Section Chief Sun, what do we do now, what now?"
As expected, upon seeing his scheme exposed by Su Fan, Liu Feng panicked, almost on the verge of tears.