Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 68: Back in the Interrogation Room
Jiangcheng, Municipal Bureau.

Su Miaoyi sat in the interrogation room once again.

Moreover, before sitting in the interrogation room, a tuft of his hair was cut off and taken for a drug test.

Su Miaoyi knew that this case involved drug trafficking.

"Name."

“Su Miaoyi.” She looked at the police officer who had arrested her.

She obtained some information after being arrested but before getting into the police car.

The two people who arrested her.

One of them is Kang Ting, the head of the criminal investigation branch of the Jiangcheng City Public Security Bureau.

The other one is the deputy detachment leader: Song Yucheng.

"Age?" Kang Ting asked.

"Twenty-five," Su Miaoyi replied, looking at the man in front of her.

She answered the questions while thinking them through in her head.

While in Jinghai, she didn't even go into the interrogation room; she simply told Zhuang Yanzheng what she had seen in the fire escape of the Jinrong residential building.

But what if it were the policeman in front of you?
She won't say.

Looking back now, aside from wanting to verify whether she was really sick or had really seen the murderer, she seemed to have an inexplicable trust in Zhuang Yanzheng from the very beginning.

She felt that if she spoke up, Zhuang Yanzheng would believe her.

But she didn't have that kind of trust in the person in front of her now.

In fact, because she felt uncomfortable in Jiangcheng, she also felt uncomfortable with the people in front of her.

"Where are you from?" Kang Ting asked again.

“I’m from Jinghai,” Su Miaoyi replied.

What brings you to Jiangcheng?

"I'm accompanying my younger brother to his art exam," Su Miaoyi answered truthfully. "On the way to the police station, I mentioned that we took the high-speed rail back to Jinghai this morning."

Her phone was turned off while she was sitting in the police car.

Yesterday afternoon, she wandered around outside until evening. Her phone hadn't been charged, and after more than seven hours, she arrived at the woods outside Jiangcheng. She managed to keep it running until she checked the time, then turned it off.

It took more than an hour to drive from the woods to the police station.

She walked all night.

After getting on the bus, I belatedly realized that my feet and legs were hurting.

However, since she was treated as a suspect, the police did not allow her to contact Cheng Jue, fearing that she would pass on information to others.

However, since Cheng Jue is underage and is out of town, the police have sent people directly to the hotel to look for him.

"You accompanied your brother to the art exam, but why did you take the high-speed rail this morning and end up in the woods outside the city?" Kang Ting asked.

“I have a mental illness and I also sleepwalk at night,” Su Miaoyi said. “The Jinghai Municipal Public Security Bureau can prove this. I almost jumped into the river while sleepwalking last night, and the police have records of it.”

"The Jinghai Municipal Public Security Bureau must have nothing better to do than handle cases like sleepwalking and jumping into rivers," Kang Ting said, his words laced with skepticism and barbs.

Su Miaoyi was very unhappy with his tone of voice.

"You sleepwalked from the hotel to the woods outside the city and casually dug a chain out of the ground," Kang Ting continued. "Were you really sleepwalking, or were you taking advantage of the fact that no one was around to retrieve your things?"

“Everyone at the Jinghai Municipal Public Security Bureau is dedicated to their duties. Sometimes when there are cases, they don’t even go home,” Su Miaoyi said.

Not knowing why she suddenly said something like that, Kangting looked at her without saying anything.

However, he obtained a piece of information: she was very familiar with the Jinghai Municipal Public Security Bureau.

Su Miaoyi continued, "Even if everyone stayed up all night, working around the clock for 24 or 48 hours, there would be no situation where such a significant piece of evidence as the jade pendant necklace would be missed at the burial site."

Kang Ting narrowed his eyes.

Su Miaoyi stared at him.

"How did you know that was the burial site?" Kang Ting quickly picked up on the information in her words. "The size of the pit, and the smell of rotting corpses in the soil," Su Miaoyi said. "Was it discovered yesterday?"

Kang Ting looked at her without saying a word.

Su Miaoyi dug out the jade tablet by hand at the edge of the pit.

“I really did sleepwalk there. It took me more than seven hours. You can check the hotel's security footage, or you can look along the route I took,” Su Miaoyi said. “If that jade pendant was mine, why would I walk for more than seven hours to get it?”

"I can take a taxi there, it'll only take an hour at most. I can finish digging and leave right away. It's late at night, so it's very convenient. Why would I walk for more than seven hours? Don't I have all the energy I need?"

"Then how did you manage to dig up the jade tablet so precisely?" Song Yucheng asked.

“I woke up from sleepwalking and found myself in an unfamiliar place. Of course, I had to observe my surroundings. I saw a police cordon and a dug pit. I guessed where it was, and then I saw something sticking out of the soil, so I dug it up,” Su Miaoyi said calmly.

Actually, by the time she woke up, she had already dug the pit.

"You sleepwalked into an unfamiliar environment, the same place, and you even figured out what happened there. Aren't you scared?" Song Yucheng asked.

“I was scared,” Su Miaoyi said. “If you had come any later, you would have seen me crying from fright.”

Kangting really wanted to tell her to be serious.

But seeing how serious her expression and tone were, he swallowed his words back.

He went out to contact the Jinghai Municipal Bureau.

Song Yucheng asked Su Miaoyi some more questions.

Then Su Miaoyi stayed in the interrogation room by herself.

Time passed minute by minute.

She was calculating the time in her mind, worried about Cheng Jue.

More than an hour later.

Kang Ting walked in, sat down, and looked at Su Miaoyi: "The Jinghai Municipal Public Security Bureau said you helped solve quite a few cases?"

Su Miaoyi nodded: "Have you seen my brother?"

“He’s already at the police station,” Kang Ting said. “He’s in a real hurry.”

Su Miaoyi did not speak.

But I did feel a little more at ease.

At least the police station is safe.

"What do you think of this case?" Kang Ting suddenly asked.

Su Miaoyi looked at him: "Do you want me to give my opinion on the case based on a jade pendant, a chain, a burial pit, and a forest?"

Kang Ting seemed to have suddenly tricked her, and then said, "The deceased, Xu Shuxuan, was thirty-five years old, from Jiangcheng, and married. The cause of death was drowning. His hands and feet were bound before his death. He tested positive for drugs. The time of death was more than one month ago."

"Is it okay for you to tell me these things?" Su Miaoyi asked.

“You are innocent, and you can help solve the case. If you are not innocent, you should know more about the deceased than I do,” Kang Ting said. “Director Meng of the Jinghai Municipal Public Security Bureau recommended you to help solve the case.”

Su Miaoyi raised an eyebrow.

Director Meng?
She hasn't met her yet.

But I've heard of her great reputation.

She asked, "How was the body discovered?"

"A young couple went to play in the woods. Seeing that the burial site was empty, they wanted to set up a tent there. When they were hammering nails, they nailed the corpse to the ground."

Su Miaoyi: "."

"More than a month has passed since the death. Has anyone reported him missing?" Su Miaoyi asked.

“Xu Shuxuan’s parents reported him missing,” Kang Ting said. “So the body was identified very quickly.”

"What about his wife?" Su Miaoyi remembered that he specifically emphasized that he was married.

"They've also disappeared."

(End of this chapter)