Inquiry

  Just as the atmosphere was frozen, there was a "creak" sound, and the door in front of me opened. Everyone's gaze shifted from high to low, all fixed on the person sitting in a wheelchair inside... um, with disheveled hair and a listless expression. I didn't think much of it, but judging by Xu Jianglun and the others' astonished expressions, they clearly hadn't expected this scene when the door opened.

  The little girl couldn't help but exclaim in surprise: "How can you be crippled? I saw you standing yesterday!"

  I furrowed my brow and stared at the girl. She felt my gaze and shrank back, as if realizing her mistake, taking a half step back behind Xu Jianglun. It was only then that I spoke up to explain: "It's like this, his leg was originally injured, and he uses a wheelchair at home, but when going out, he insists on not using it."

  I noticed that when I spoke, Gao Cheng, who had been drooping his eyelids as if he was about to fall asleep, raised his head and gave me a mysterious glance.

  Xu Jianglun listened to my explanation and then exchanged a glance with the cold-faced policeman beside him. The cold-faced policeman took a step forward, looked down at Gao Cheng and said in a low voice: "Hello, I am Zhang Ji, a criminal police officer from the Public Security Sub-Bureau. There is a case here that requires your assistance in the investigation. Please answer the following questions truthfully."

  I was secretly shocked, it turned out to be a detective!

  Subconsciously, he went to look at Gao Cheng, but saw that he had lowered his head again, with his eyelashes half-closed, as if sleeping yet not sleeping, as if awake yet not awake, without any intention of acknowledging him.

  Inspector Zhang's face sank, and when he spoke again, his tone turned cold: "Where were you between 1am and 2am this morning?"

  "Officer, it's the middle of the night and you're not at home sleeping, where can you go?"

  My forehead suddenly appeared black lines, and I thought he would continue to ignore me, but unexpectedly returned a sentence that was so arrogant.

  As expected, Zhang Ji shouted sternly: "Be serious! Answer me."

  Gao Cheng raised his head, with a clear and bright look in his eyes. Where was the tiredness? He lightly bit off two words: "At home."

  "Is there a time witness?"

  As soon as I saw Gao Cheng's mouth curl up with a sarcastic smile, I knew he was going to be rude again. I quickly pulled on his sleeve to signal him to behave, but instead, he lowered his head and focused on me.

  In an instant, several glances swept over, I awkwardly withdrew my paws, the back of my hand scorching hot.

  Gao Cheng revealed a faint smile of schadenfreude and replied: "No."

  Zhang Ji's eyes became extremely sharp, and he asked word by word: "Around 5:30 yesterday afternoon, someone saw you having a conflict with a father-daughter pair in the neighborhood. Is this true?"

  Gao Cheng didn't answer, but instead asked: "Who said that?"

  A small voice came out: "It was me." It was the little girl, she stood behind Xu Jianglun, stuttering to recount: "I came back from school yesterday and saw Uncle Wu and this brother entangled together, then Xiaobing was crying beside them. I didn't dare to go forward, so I hid and watched, later this sister came over, Uncle Wu carried Xiaobing away, I saw them enter this building."

  It finally made sense, and it was about the dispute between Gao Cheng and that father-daughter pair yesterday evening.

  Zhang Ji no longer asked more questions and directly issued a police order: "Mr. Gao, please follow us back to the police station for a trip."

  I felt a sudden surge of anxiety, grabbed Xu Jianglun and asked: "What's going on?" It was just a conflict with Mr. Wu, it shouldn't be so serious as to involve the police station, could it be that Gaicheng hurt someone last night before I arrived? The flashing lights of the police car and ambulance in the middle of the night flashed through my mind, and I had an ominous premonition.

  But then Xu Jianglun said in a heavy voice, "At around 2 o'clock this morning, Wu Yan and her daughter Wu Bing fell to their deaths from the 11th floor." I trembled all over, my eyes wide with incredulity, this...

  The next moment suddenly realized, they were suspecting Gao Cheng was the murderer? How could that be?

  I looked around nervously at the person sitting in a wheelchair inside the door, who seemed to still be carefree, but his eyebrows were slightly furrowed. A certain scene flashed into my mind, and I hastily spoke up: "Last night, no, it was early this morning, when I got up to get a drink of water, I saw him on the balcony. Can't that count as an alibi?"

  As soon as I finished speaking, I successfully became the center of attention again.