Chapter 10: The Ninth Cycle of Time (IV)

Chapter 10: The Ninth Cycle of Time (IV)

Ten minutes later, after a casual meal, Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun arrived at the location set by the police and waited uneasily for them to arrive.

Almost as soon as they showed themselves, however, they were immediately swarmed by several stout men in ordinary dress who took control.

" Li Shiqing, Xiao Heyun?"

The man at the head of the group surveyed their looks and nodded to the rest of the group.

Li Shiqing had never been treated like this before and when one of the men cut her arms behind her back, she couldn't contain her inner fear and screamed out loud.This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

"Who are you people? What are you doing!"

Xiao Heyun's side wasn't much better, about as threatening as he was male, and most of the actions of these strapping men were directed at him.

He was pinned down to the point where he could not move at all, but staggered forward surrounded by three or four men with the expression of a lamb being sold.

The minds of the two men went blank.

In their original conception, they would wait here until the police officers came to summon them, and then follow them out of the area to cooperate with the investigation.

No one expected to be "kidnapped" right at the door.

The two men were controlled and boarded a spacious police car not far away.

It was only when they saw the police car that they realised that these burly men, who looked "not to be trifled with", were probably police officers on duty in plain clothes, and only then did their hearts settle down a little.

"Did the police find the explosives so quickly?"

Li Shiqing went pale and speculated in her mind, "Otherwise there would be no need to treat us with such harshness."

They were escorted from the rear to the car, and the two officers standing by the car immediately followed and got in with them.

The police officer at the head of the group is in his forties, with a face of a Chinese character, a deep gaze, tightly closed lips, and a deep head-raising wrinkle between his foreheads, a kind of unsmiling personality at first glance, and an aura of unrestrained anger.

The young officer who followed him was known to Li Shiqing as Officer Jiang, who had questioned him before.

When Li Shiqing saw Officer Jiang, she immediately withdrew her gaze and lowered her head nervously.

"What, you know me?"

Officer Jiang, who had just gotten into the car, didn't let go of the glance she had avoided him with, and his eyes were fixed on Li Shiqing with a stern look.

"Huh?"

Li Shiqing panicked and shook her head in a hurry.

"No. I was scared before when strangers took me away, but when I saw that it was the police who came and knew it wasn't some strange person who took me, I wasn't so scared anymore."

"That's some quick reflexes and natural acting, not bad for someone who can come up with strange ways to get out of a car."

Boy is secretly impressed.

And a quiet pat on the back to the police, what a talent.

"But ordinary people should be more frightened when they see that it is the police who have forcibly escorted them away, right?"

Officer Jiang said with an air of nonchalance, but without taking his eyes off Li Shiqing, "Wouldn't the average person first ask themselves what they had done wrong?"

"I, I ......"

Li Shiqing's palms were sweating as she panicked, and even though she was a good tactician, she was unable to organize her sentences when faced with such a question that was not at all "pre-determined".

Xiao Heyun learns his lesson and doesn't even look up anymore, staring at his toes without a word.

The officer in the lead identified himself as "Du", a criminal police officer, and after a brief introduction, he began to check his identity.

Neither Li Shiqing nor Xiao Heyun had ever been to the city's criminal investigation brigade before, and they didn't even know where this place was. They were taken away by Officer Jiang and Officer Du, who got out of the car behind them, with a cold heart, no trace of their previous appearance of "pointing and pointing" and "waving and waving" in the fast food restaurant.

As it was a summons and not an arrest, the two men were not handcuffed, but were simply taken into separate questioning rooms. In each questioning room there was a clerk who took statements and an officer who was a witness.

Even though he was dealing with a young girl, Officer Jiang did not look relaxed at all and began his questioning with a straightforward questioning of Li Shiqing.

"At 13:37 this afternoon, you and another passenger, Xiao Heyun, got off a bus on route 45 without waiting for a stop, is this true?"

"True."

Li Shiqing replied in a submissive manner.

"Why did you get off temporarily?"

Officer Jiang followed up with another question.

The question that had almost driven her mad now had a "suitable" answer.

"Because the passenger touched my breasts in the car, I got angry and I asked the driver to let me out of the car and call the police."

Li Shiqing said with some embarrassment as she bit her lower lip.

There was no need to disguise this emotion, her face immediately burned at the thought that Boy had touched her breasts without expecting her to have recovered her memory.

In another interrogation room, Xiao Heyun gave a different answer to the same question.

"Because the girl had to say I touched her boobs and said she was going to call the police, the people in the car treated me like a hooligan and blew me off the bus."

He replied.

Officer Jiang and Officer Du were somewhat surprised to learn of each other's answers through the voice transmission in their respective headsets.

Surprisingly, the statements were inconsistent.

"And did you know that your bus crashed into a tanker truck and exploded not long after you got off the bus?"

Officer Du's eyes were fixed on Xiao Heyun, and he spoke with emphasis, word by word.

"The timing of your exit from the car is too coincidental?"

"You'd have to ask that Li Shiqing, I was shocked too when I found out the car had exploded."

Xiao Heyun put all the blame on Li Shiqing, as if he was a "friend in need".

"At first I was pissed off that I got off the bus with such a shitty thing."

"When I saw the car blow up later, I was glad to see it, but after that I was only scared. It's better to be vilified as a pervert than to die, right?"

Just like Li Shiqing, he doesn't need to pretend. Just think of the aggravation he felt when he was dragged out of the car for the first time after Li Shiqing inexplicably accused him of being a "pervert", and that look comes naturally to his face.

As for the panic he felt at the scene when he found the car exploding and the despair he felt when he was taken to the hospital, his face turns pale and his heart beats wildly as he recalls it.

On the other hand, Li Shiqing burst into tears when she heard the same questioning.

"Then shouldn't you guys ask the man? I was having a nice ride in the car and something like this happened. I wanted the driver to help me take the car to the police station and he wouldn't! I wanted the people in the car to testify for me, but no one would either! They even thought I was taking up their time and told us to get out of the car and settle this 'private matter' ourselves.

She had directly faced the distrustful and reluctant questions of the passengers on the bus, and this moment of aggression and resignation was genuine.

"You ask me why the timing was too coincidental, why didn't you guys find out why that man didn't touch me earlier or later, but at that exact moment? He was the one who forced me out of the car at that time!"

With tears in her eyes, she complained to the officer.

Plan A.

--Mutual identification.

Execution.