Chapter 13 - The Aquarium (2/2)

”I don't go as often anymore. As you know, I moved homes a couple months ago and now I live further from the orphanage. It's a bit harder to get there,” Isaac shook his head.

”Did you go recently?” Halia asked.

”The most recent would have been two weeks ago,” Isaac replied. ”Are you interested?” he asked.

”It sounds like a nice thing to do,” Halia smiled.

”Do you want to come with me next time?” Isaac quickly offered with a hopeful expression.

”I'll think about it,” Halia replied politely.

”Round two is here,” Dr. Su said as he arrived with more drinks.

...

By the time the fourth round of drinks came around, the bar was beginning to fill up and live music had started playing. Halia struggled to ask any more questions over the noise, but she had gathered a decent amount of information. At least, she knew that she could remove Dr. Tang from the suspect list and now only five names remained.

At that moment, Halia's phone suddenly rang.

It was an unknown number.

Suspecting that it could be Dr. Ren or the police chief, Halia quickly excused herself and went to pick up her phone.

”Halia, I had a look at your suspect list. Because of Sara's death, you definitely got a much smaller list of suspects than she did. If you don't discover anything else, we will bring these 6 doctors in for questioning on the 1st of April. We need to catch the killer before he kills again,” a familiar voice said over the phone.

It was the police chief.

”Well, you can cut the list to five. Dr. Tang has an alibi for the entire day. He was at a kickboxing tournament.”

”You're doing great, Halia. By the way, Dr. Ren said you had a flashback of an aquarium, am I right? Sara didn't visit any aquariums recently. She's been working almost every single day. Maybe the memory you had was from a long time ago...”

As the police chief spoke, Halia's eyes suddenly fell on the wall behind her and she froze. She didn't realize at first...but there was a projection that covered the entire wall behind her. It was amazing and looked almost real.

”It's just like an aquarium,” Halia whispered to herself as she looked at the glistening water, the seaweed, the coral, the fish...and the shark swimming in the middle...

”I think I found the aquarium,” Halia said over the phone.