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When the young male police saw the middle-aged officer, he let out a breath of relief. He immediately walked to the middle-aged officer's side and said: ”Brother Lin, you're finally here.”
After saying that, the young male police quickly passed the statement he just made to the middle-aged policeman called Brother Lin. He lowered his voice and continued: ”Brother Lin, these are all the statements I made.
Brother Lin's eyes quickly went through all of the statements made by the young male police and nodded. Then, his gaze turned towards An Xingchen and asked her the main point: ”Miss An, because this fire is related to the jumping case, and all the clues pointed to you, I have some things that I need to ask you about, and I hope you can answer truthfully.”
An Xingchen frowned her eyebrows slightly, and took a deep breath helplessly. She held Gong Lingqian's hand, and nodded at Lin Ge: ”Ask away, as long as it's something I know, I will answer truthfully.”
”Right now, we, the Police station, have investigated the cause of the fire in the private room. It was because the incense candle on the table fell to the ground and ignited the carpet, resulting in the fire.”
”Earlier, you said that no one was in the room, but we asked the waiter at the coffee shop. Some of the waiters said that they heard a quarrel in booth 103 before the fire.”
After An Xingchen heard the police's words, she felt her head full of tears and subconsciously said, ”Could it be that I made a mistake … The first time I went into a private room, I didn't see anyone in there. ”How could there be any more arguments …”
After hearing An Xingchen's reply, the middle-aged policeman also frowned. After pondering for a moment, she looked at An Xingchen and asked, ”Do you still remember when you first entered the room?”
An Xingchen carefully thought back to these words for a while. After a few dozen seconds, An Xingchen replied, ”It should be around 11: 35. I walked into room 103.”
”Why did you remember it so clearly?”
Hearing the police's words, An Xingchen replied with certainty without hesitation, ”Because before I went into the private room, my mother called and said that she wanted to go to the washroom. I subconsciously looked at the time on my phone.”
The middle-aged policeman frowned as he heard this. The time was not right. The waiter in the coffee shop said that it was around 11: 20 PM when he heard the commotion in the room. The interval was almost 10 minutes.
It was impossible to match it in terms of time alone.
After the middle-aged officer heard An Xingchen's reply, he spoke out again, ”Miss An, then I'll have to trouble you to call your mother and inform her to come over.”
An Xingchen nodded, and her gaze subconsciously turned to look at Gong Lingqian.
An Xingchen was still dripping something on her hand, which was inconvenient to take.
Gong Lingqian caught An Xingchen's gaze and came over. He took An Xingchen's bag from the bedside table, took out the phone from inside and dialed Yu Huimin's number. Then, he placed the phone beside An Xingchen's ear.
”Du, du, du, du … …”
The phone rang for a long time. Finally, a cold mechanical female voice came out of the phone, ”Sorry, the number you have dialed is unanswered. Please try again later … … ”I'm sorry...”
No one answered Yu Huimin's call.
However, this time, as expected, no one answered, so An Xingchen did not give up and made her third call.
At this very moment, in a small and narrow apartment on the other side of the house, Yu Huimin hurriedly pushed open the door and rushed in.