1244 I Want to Make You Stay 122 (1/2)
”If that's the case, I could have just killed you guys when you found the staircase and made it to the exit. Why would I have let you leave? Besides, I didn't kill that man too, did I?”
Remaining calm and composed, An Xiaoning questioned, ”Could you tell me how that archeologist died in there, then?”
”This is exactly what I wanted to tell you in private tonight, yet you just bombed my home because you were afraid that I would harm you! If I hadn't sensed that something was amiss and rushed out immediately, I probably would have died tonight.”
An Xiaoning and Jin Qingyan looked at each other, feeling perplexed and uncertain if they should believe her words. After all, her statement seemed to have made some sense.
”How did that man in the tomb die?”
”Will you believe what I say? Don't you already take me for a murderer now?” the woman gibed indignantly.
”How can I deduce whether or not you're telling the truth if you don't speak up?”
”You'll be able to tell if I'm speaking the truth?”
An Xiaoning nodded firmly and said, ”Of course. As long as you tell me everything that you know, I'll have my own ways to determine if what you said was true.”
”Will you set me free once you validate my statement?”
”To be honest, I haven't thought about what I should do with you just yet. However, one thing's for sure: I won't lay a finger on you if the murders really have nothing to do with you.”
”Okay. Have a seat,” the woman said while turning around and taking a seat on the straw mat on the floor.
An Xiaoning sat opposite the woman and said, ”Speak.”
”The person who killed the archeologist is the one who left the tomb together with you.”
An Xiaoning scoffed and quipped, ”You're kidding me, right?”
If Zong Jingyi was really that invincible, why would he need to beg me to help him take revenge and clear his name?
Besides, he even got on his knees before me.
Doesn't seem like it at all…
The woman said firmly, ”I'm not kidding you, I saw it with my very own eyes. He's aware of my existence, but he doesn't know if I'm human or a ghost. Little does he know, I had witnessed him killing someone.”
The smile on An Xiaoning's face stiffened and faded. ”How did he kill the man?”
”I saw him placing his hand on the crown of that archeologist's head, after which the archeologist immediately collapsed. He then picked the archeologist up again. However, I knew that he had already killed him.”
”I'll verify if your statement is true,” said An Xiaoning, who then rose from her seat.
”Are you going to question him personally? Do you really think he'd admit to it?”
”No, I won't question him. I have other ways of proving the truth.”
”What ways?”
”By asking the deceased.”
Thinking that she had heard An Xiaoning wrongly, the woman asked in disbelief, ”What? Ask the deceased? He has already been dead for several days. He must have already reincarnated.”