Chapter 162: Interrogating the suspects

The captain moved very quickly, gathering all these people in just five minutes in a separate room on the helm.

During this time, the net search had already begun, slowly moving outwards from the arcade with the pretense of providing house cleaning or maintenance to gain access to each individual suite.

But of course this was a slow process since they were trying to keep their actions under wraps to avoid arousing the suspicions of the kidnapper.

Lin Fan really hoped that he would be able to find something from these six, otherwise he would have to rely on the sweep to turn up results. But by the time the sweep turned up results, it might already be too late for Song Shu…

In short, time was of the essence right now.

When Lin Fan came into the room, he could tell that the six of them were all clearly agitated from being suddenly brought here, but that only made it worse since it was hard to tell who was guilty or not.

The six of them all turned to look at Lin Fan the moment he came into the room with surprise as they never expected someone so young.

Of course, Angela had been left outside the room. With how agitated and angry she was, who knew what she would have done if she was allowed in. She was just glaring at the screen, watching the situation in the room as the people around her all sat there nervously, not daring to make too loud of a sound.

Inside the room, Lin Fan didn't rush as he calmly sat down. He knew that if he were to rush, he would be showing how anxious he was and that would throw off the balance of power that he had.

These people were anxious because they had suddenly been caught and placed in a room with no explanation, they had been given enough time for their imaginations to run wild, so even the smallest bit of guilt that they had was tearing into them at this moment.

When he had still been on earth, Lin Fan's parents had been strict with his education while not caring about his upbringing, so they forced him to go to university to get a degree.

While most subjects bored Lin Fan, he did find one subject that didn't completely bore him like the others. When he graduated, he had even made that one subject his major.

The only thing that had appealed to him during university was psychology.

He liked the feeling of using what he learned to manipulate the other rich young masters.

But now his love for manipulating others played a great use when it came to interrogating these six suspects.

Lin Fan just calmly walked over to a chair that was in front of all six of them and slowly sat down.

Finally, one of the six couldn't take it anymore. This was a large man with bulging muscles who was wearing a white tank top, showing off the bulging muscles on his arms. It was clear that this was a man who had simple thoughts and only relied on force to get his way.

The man slammed the table in front of him and shouted, "Who are you and why are we being locked up here?!"

Lin Fan calmly looked at him and asked with one raised brow, "You don't know why you're here?"

The man's face turned even more red as he shouted, "If I knew why I was here, do you really think I would still be asking you?!"

Lin Fan just nodded.

He knew that his man wasn't lying based on his personality and the minor changes with his body.

Unless this man was a master of acting, there was no way he could be faking these minor changes. Changes like the slight intonation in his tone, the slight tensing of his muscles when he shouted, and the bit of sweat that did come from his forehead.

This man was indeed guilty, but he wasn't guilty over the matter that Lin Fan cared about. This man was one of the top lieutenants of a powerful gang and his boss had entrusted him with an important package to bring to Water Pearl City. While he didn't know why he was brought here with all these people, he was worried that it had something to do with this package.

Lin Fan then turned away and ignored this man.

The man's face turned bright red as he slammed his fist down on the table again, but he was soon covered in a cold sweat when Lin Fan's gaze turned to him.

The aura that came from Lin Fan was like nothing he had ever felt before, it was a feeling of a mountain that he could never climb, one that completely crushed down on him, shattering all his bones.

It had to be known, this man as one of the top lieutenants in his gang was actually a Gold Realm Expert! While he was only in the low Gold Realm, he was still considered quite the expert.

The muscular man instantly fell silent and fell on his butt on the couch behind him.

Lin Fan ignored him and turned back to look over the rest of the six people in the room, but no one took the initiative to speak.

He knew that this was as far as this trick would take him, but being able to get one out of six was already good enough.

So without waiting any longer, Lin Fan slowly said, "The six of you have been gathered because you were in the arcade area between 5:40 and 6:00. During this time, there was an incident in that area and we wish to ask you what you saw during that time. Please cooperate with us and you'll be free to leave right after."

The six of them were all confused when they heard this, but they still cooperated with Lin Fan.

The six of them tried their best to answer the questions that Lin Fan had, but the answers they gave were all answers that didn't give Lin Fan any clues at all.

The only strange thing he could get from these people were slight observations from two of them.

They came from one meek looking lady with glasses and one scholarly looking gentleman who had been reading his book while waiting for his turn.

The two of them hadn't seen anything strange, but they did mention that they had seen an old couple wandering the halls near the arcade during the period that Lin Fan had mentioned. They didn't talk to the old couple, but they did remember the old lady giving them a sweet smile when they walked past.

This was strange to Lin Fan since he hadn't noticed this old couple in the camera footage at all.

Could it be that these two were lying or could it be…

But thinking about it, it didn't seem like these two were lying since he had been using his spiritual sense to observe them the entire time. At no point during their account did their heartbeat increase or did they break out in sweat.

Then could it really be that old couple?

Lin Fan fell into thought again and he suddenly thought of the old couple that he had met when he first came onto the ship.

He did get a strange feeling from them, but he had ignored it then. However, thinking back now, the words they said were indeed quite strange.

While Lin Fan was lost in thought, there was someone that suddenly came in to get him.

Lin Fan left the six in the room while he came out to the helm where the captain had something to tell him.

"Young master Lin, there's been reports of other missing children on the ship." The captain said in a worried voice.

This situation was just getting worse and worse, not only had Lin Fan's companion gone missing, there were even more children going missing on his ship. If he wasn't able to solve this, he wouldn't be able to get out of this mess in one piece.

Lin Fan fell into thought for a bit before asking, "Where did the other children go missing?"

The captain looked at the report he received before answering, "The missing children were reported from all different parts of the ship, but the kidnappings did happen at different times."

Lin Fan turned to the monitors and said, "Bring up all the surveillance tapes during this time and play them all at once."

The captain nodded at the person in charge of the tapes and soon the tapes were playing on various monitors.

Lin Fan already had a hunch as to who the suspects were, but going through the tapes confirmed this hunch even more.

As he went through, he saw various different people moving in these areas, but the people he wanted to see didn't appear on the tapes at all.

Lin Fan immediately turned to the captain and asked, "When you questioned the parents of the kidnapped children, did they ever mention seeing an old couple, one where the old lady had a sweet smile?"

The captain looked through his reports and he revealed a surprised look before turning back to Lin Fan, "You're right, all the reports that we received mention an older couple with an old lady who had a sweet smile. How did you know that, young master Lin?"

Lin Fan ignored this and immediately said, "Find the room of that old couple right now, they are our prime suspects!"