Chapter 24

Only after getting into the familiar jeep on the way to the hospital did Luo Jingyao's stiff body slowly soften. She turned to the driver's seat and asked the question that had been lingering in her mind: "Isn't it inappropriate for me to go to this kind of event?"

That's an interrogation, not an arrest. What can she do as a professional Sanda fighter?

Do you think you should slap her in the face when she's being stubborn?

"Just visit as an employee. We'll take care of the rest. You don't have to worry about it." Lin Jiafan seemed to be comforting her. As he spoke, he stepped on the accelerator. The jeep was running frantically on the overpass where there were few vehicles in the second half of the night.

Luo Jingyao opened her mouth but couldn't say anything in the end. In the end, she just nodded reluctantly and looked sideways at the high-rise buildings passing by quickly outside the car window.

Soon, the big red words "Jinshi First People's Hospital" came into her sight.

She got out of the car with heavy steps following Lin Jiafan and Pang Guang, and took the elevator all the way up to the 15th floor. Outside Ward 7 of Ward A of the Department of Cardiology, Luo Jingyao saw Jiang Qi lying on the bed with a weak face through the glass on the door.

Because the woman is also an important person involved in the case, there are currently no other patients sharing this ward except her and the two policemen.

Boom boom boom.

Lin Jiafan walked up and knocked on the door twice. Without waiting for the person inside to respond, he pushed the door open and went in.

"Jiang Qi? Because we weren't able to contact your family right away, we contacted the employees in your store. Considering that you just woke up and might need care, we called a woman over." After he finished speaking, he moved aside, revealing the person behind him.

"Sister Jiang." Luo Jingyao had managed to calm down by then, and walked quickly to the bedside with a worried look on her face. "What's wrong with you? When the police called me, I thought I was being scammed!"

The moment Jiang Qi saw her, his expression suddenly became a little stiff. Although it was not obvious, the whole scene was seen by Lin Jiafan who was standing not far away.

Similarly, the change in the woman's expression did not escape the observation of Luo Jingyao, who was closest to her.

A hint of suspicion rose in her heart, but she still maintained her initial concern on her face: "Are you still feeling unwell? Do you want me to ask the doctor if there is anything you need to pay special attention to in the future?"

"No, thank you, Coach Luo." Jiang Qi refused: "I was just scared. My head still hurts a little now. I'll be fine after resting for a while."

"I'm not yet at the stage where I need someone to take care of me. You should go home."

As soon as she finished speaking, the woman turned her head to the other side, as if she was a little tired from talking too much in one breath.

"Sister Jiang, don't be so stubborn at this time! I always remember how you take care of me at work. It's my duty to come and see you when you encounter difficulties." However, Luo Jingyao seemed not to understand the meaning of her words. Not only did she not leave, she also pulled a stool from the side and sat down beside the bed.

"Rest assured, I'll be staying here tonight and won't be going anywhere!"

After hearing these words that sounded like an oath, Jiang Qi felt her temples swell even more. She unconsciously took two deep breaths, then opened her eyes again and looked towards the end of the bed. "Officer... Officer Lin, I know you're doing your job, but please, for the sake of my life, could you please let me spend the night in peace?"

"I'm so sorry, Miss Jiang." Lin Jiafan leaned against the wall behind him and said lazily, "I thought that as a victim, you would be more anxious than the police to see the perpetrator receive the punishment he deserves."

"What? Is it impossible to convict Zhao Weiqing without my confession? You saw him kidnapping me with your own eyes, right? The facts are there, but the police still have to ask questions." Jiang Qi frowned impatiently.

"Zhao Weiqing did confess to kidnapping you." As Lin Jiafan spoke, his eyes never left the woman's face. Naturally, he did not miss the flash of joy on the other's face after hearing these words.

"However, there is now evidence that he is involved in two other murders. To ensure that he no longer has the possibility of escaping legal punishment, please tell me, Miss Jiang, why did he choose to attack you now, even though you two have known each other for such a long time?"

"How should I know?" Jiang Qi thought he was a little baffling. "He's a psychopath! If I had known he wasn't mentally normal earlier, I wouldn't have been so blindly kind."

"And you just said he killed two more people? Oh my God? Did he really want to kill me?" The woman said this with a lingering fear.

Lin Jiafan shrugged and didn't answer her. Instead, he continued to ask, "Miss Jiang, do you really not know why Zhao Weiqing kidnapped you?"

Jiang Qi nodded unhappily.

"In that case, we won't disturb your rest. If Miss Jiang remembers anything, you can call the police at any time." Lin Jiafan exchanged a glance with Luo Jingyao beside the bed without leaving a trace, then put the business card on the bedside table, and then left the ward with Pang Guang and the other two policemen without looking back.

Click.

The ward door closed again, blocking out the empty noise in the corridor.

"Sister Jiang, go to sleep. I'll help you watch the IV." Luo Jingyao said, and stretched out her hand to help the person on the bed pinch the corner of the quilt.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Qi turned around and dodged: "I told you to go back."

Despite being given the cold shoulder, Luo Jingyao wasn't discouraged at all: "I'm your employee, so don't be polite to me. If you feel bad about it, just give me a little more performance this month."

"Employee?" The woman seemed to have finally lost her patience and sneered, "Will you come back to work at the training camp after I'm discharged?"

"Are you trying to fool me? That Officer Lin has been following Zhao Weiqing around for the past two days. Do you think I can't see him because I'm face-blind? The police have suspected Zhao Weiqing a long time ago, right?"

"And you, are you in cahoots with Officer Lin? Did you come to my training camp to investigate Zhao Weiqing? Congratulations, you've got what you wanted. Goodbye!"

Jiang Qi's reckless series of attacks directly tore his face apart.

Luo Jingyao was really shocked. After being shocked, she began to review the situation quickly in her mind. When were she and Lin Jiafan discovered?

After much thought, the only possibility was that Jiang Qi happened to run into her when she and Lin Jiafan met in the stairwell on the first day.

But that's not right.

The woman followed her nervously the entire afternoon. It was more like she was afraid that she would investigate the training camp than that she was afraid that she would investigate Zhao Weiqing.

Could it be that Zhao Weiqing really has some connection with the training camp, or Jiang Qi?

The twists and turns here were too complicated for Luo Jingyao. Since she couldn't figure it out in a short time, she simply put it aside. It would be more appropriate to leave such a difficult question to a smart person like Lin Jiafan.

Since the mask on my face has been exposed, there is naturally no need to stay any longer.

She stood up slowly, but just before leaving the ward, she accidentally dropped the clothes on the bed next to her onto the ground.

"Sorry..." She apologized subconsciously, then Luo Jingyao bent down and reached out to pick it up.

Unexpectedly, after picking up the coat, something fell out of the coat. Seeing this, she hurriedly reached under the bed and finally took the thing out after several efforts.

It was an ordinary-looking brooch, but it was such an ordinary little thing that actually made Luo Jingyao stunned.

Why does it look so familiar?

She tilted her head uncertainly, trying to recall where she had seen him before.

Perhaps because she didn't make any new moves, Jiang Qi unhappily turned his gaze back to the window. Unexpectedly, he sat up with a changed expression the next second and took back the brooch without saying a word.

In a flash, Luo Jingyao's eyes suddenly lit up, and she remembered!

It was the thief who was caught near the second murder scene! He seemed to have this thing pinned to his chest.

The reason why Luo Jingyao was so impressed was that during the fight with the opponent, the little thing broke the skin on her palm, so she took a second look at it.

etc!

The police still haven't figured out why the thief's footprints appeared at the scene of the body dumping. Could this be the real motive they've been looking for?

Swallowing unconsciously, Luo Jingyao felt that she must have discovered something extraordinary.

Suddenly, she remembered the two unknown pills lying quietly in her coat pocket.

It's now known that the trainees at Jiang Qi's training camp seem to have been taking these so-called vitamins, which come from unknown sources. Zhao Weiqing has also been taking psychotropic and analgesic soft drugs for a long time. The thief Ma Hongtang has the same brooch as Jiang Qi and was also at the scene where the second victim's body was dumped...

Some guesses were right in her mind, about to come out.

Luo Jingyao came back to her senses, first glanced at Jiang Qi on the bed with a half-smile, then slowly put the coat in her hand back on the bed beside her.

Under the woman's surprised gaze, she retracted her leg and sat back on the chair.

"Maybe Sister Jiang, do you know Ma Hongtang?" she asked lightly.

However, this seemingly meaningless question successfully caused Jiang Qi to lose control of her facial muscles. After more than ten seconds, the woman managed to regain her voice: "What are you talking about? Who is Ma Hongtang?"

"Oh? Don't you know?" Luo Jingyao curled her lips, clenched her right fist and thrust it directly under the other person's eyelids: "Then you must have seen this Sister Jiang before, right?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she opened her hands, and in the center of her fair palms were two light pink pills.

Looking at Jiang Qi's delicate face that was distorted in an instant, Luo Jingyao smiled with satisfaction.

She actually guessed it right.