Chapter 202 Xiao Huai was detained

Xiao Xingyu lowered his head like a large dog, letting Zhang Moyan blow-dry his hair. A warm breeze blew, and gentle fingertips brushed against his scalp, gently brushing away the wisps of wet hair. He was enveloped in a warm, relaxing atmosphere, and even the air seemed to ripple with soft light.

Xiao Xingyu felt warmly that blow-drying hair was definitely the most romantic thing in the world.

"Mo Yan, stop for a moment, there seems to be a phone call." Xiao Xingyu suddenly looked up, with his airy hair scattered across his eyebrows, like an ignorant boy.

Zhang Moyan turned off the hair dryer. Xiao Xingyu recognized it as his own ringtone, stood up and walked to the table to pick up his phone. He looked at the number and answered the call.

"Hello, where? ...Now?" Xiao Xingyu turned to Zhang Moyan, holding the phone to his ear, and said, "Okay, I'll be there right away."

Xiao Xingyu hung up the phone, his expression slightly heavy. Zhang Moyan walked towards him, coiling the cord of a hair dryer. "Who's calling? Do you want to leave now?"

"Yes, it's a call from the police." Xiao Xingyu's voice was serious.

Zhang Moyan was stunned for a moment: "Police? It's so late, what's going on?"

"Xiao Huai has been detained by the police!" Xiao Xingyu frowned slightly. "The police notified his family. Xiao Huai gave them my number."

Zhang Moyan immediately put the hair dryer aside and opened the closet to find clothes for Xiao Xingyu: "Why was Xiao Huai detained? What happened to him?"

"Yesterday, Mumu and Sasa discovered an account that had been interacting with Lin Yin in the game for a long time. However, the player of this account had not been online since Lin Yin's accident, as if he knew about Lin Yin's death in advance. So they found it very suspicious and provided this account to the police."

"Could the user of that account be Xiao Huai?!" Zhang Moyan guessed in shock.

Xiao Xingyu didn't say anything and nodded.

"Then let's go there quickly!" Zhang Moyan said without delay.

Xiao Xingyu looked at the wall next door and said, "Let's keep the noise down. Don't alert anyone else until the matter is fully investigated."

"Okay." Zhang Moyan agreed, and seeing Xiao Xingyu taking off his pajamas with difficulty, she came over to help.

Avoiding looking below his neck, I helped him put on his shirt, buttoning it up one by one, and then stuffed the trousers in my hand into his hand. "Look, is this a complete outfit?"

The question was just a formality; Zhang Moyan knew the answer would be yes. The clothes hanging in Xiao Xingyu's closet were all pre-matched sets, preserving the designer's original intention while also eliminating the need for daily outfit considerations. Of course, a clothes hanger like Xiao Xingyu could still walk the runway at a fashion show even if he were wrapped in rags.

Zhang Moyan drove Xiao Xingyu to the police station, where the male and female police officers who had been in charge of the case were waiting for them.

"The suspect admitted that he was using the game account and also admitted that he concealed his true identity and communicated with the deceased Lin Yin in the game. However, he refused to admit to murdering the deceased," said a male police officer in a cold, incandescent-lit room late at night, rubbing an unlit cigarette back and forth in his hand with a serious expression.

Xiao Xingyu stared at the table, thinking and slowly shaking his head: "Why did Xiao Huai conceal his identity and contact Lin Yin in the game?"

The policewoman said, "The suspect's explanation was that the deceased was too withdrawn and introverted, and he hoped to guide her to become more outgoing by teaming up in the virtual world."

After the female police officer finished speaking, she and the male police officer looked at Xiao Xingyu calmly, as if they wanted to use his expression to evaluate whether what Xiao Huai said was credible.

You can hear a pin drop in the room.

As the two police officers waited in silence, Xiao Xingyu shrugged. "It's not impossible, is it? Lin Yin is indeed very introverted, but adults always need to interact with society and people. She's our sister, and we all care about her. We all hope she doesn't live in her own little world. Everyone in the game wears a vest, so it might really be a more relaxing way for Lin Yin to communicate."

Xiao Xingyu spoke very naturally, but Zhang Moyan was quite surprised, because his words and deeds showed his favoritism towards Xiao Huai, which was contrary to everyone's impression that he disliked Xiao Huai.

Xiao Huai was also hard to figure out. When he was detained, the police were required by law to notify the detainee's family within 24 hours. However, he left his entire family alone and notified Xiao Xingyu instead. No one knew what he was planning.

The two police officers naturally caught on to Xiao Xingyu's tone. The male officer tapped the filter of his cigarette on the table. "But there's a big question about him. He previously told us he was at the company from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM on Thursday, but our subsequent investigation confirmed that he left the Xiaosheng Celadon Park at 12:32 PM that day and didn't return until 2:15 PM. He didn't drive or take any other transportation when he left, suggesting he was deliberately concealing his itinerary."

Xiao Xingyu straightened up slightly after hearing this. He stared at the male police officer for a while before he said, "Really?"

The male officer nodded, and the female officer added, "According to our review of the property surveillance footage in the residential complex where the deceased, Lin Yin, lived, we found that she took a taxi back to the complex at 1:13 p.m. on Thursday. The surveillance footage shows a man riding with her."

The suspect admitted to lying when the surveillance evidence was presented to him, but he refused to explain his whereabouts during that time and was extremely uncooperative.

"Since the surveillance camera has captured it," Xiao Xingyu cast his gaze towards the two people in front of him, "then if you compare them, won't you be able to tell if the man riding with him is Xiao Huai?"

The male police officer closed his eyes and said, "Unfortunately, the surveillance camera that could have captured the entrance to the deceased's building was malfunctioning that day, so we didn't capture the man getting out of the car."

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