Chapter 66
"Idiot! Can't you even understand something like this?!"
"...Just arrange for them to come out, and I'll take care of the rest..."
"This is a rare opportunity. The domestic open trials will begin at the end of next month..."
As she spoke, the woman outside lowered her voice cautiously, and her vague words came into Luo Jingyao's ears intermittently.
As she listened, she keenly felt that something was wrong, so she stepped on the toilet lid silently like a cat, and peeked outside through her eyes while holding onto the partition of the cubicle.
Through the mirrors on the wall outside, Luo Jingyao saw the figure of the person coming. The other person was very tall, about 1.78 meters tall.
The woman seemed to have encountered some difficulties. She paced back and forth anxiously, listening quietly to what the person on the other end of the phone was saying.
Just as she turned around, a somewhat thin face flashed in the mirror, and Luo Jingyao successfully recognized the identity of the person.
He quietly got down again and she sat on the toilet with a look of surprise: It's her?!
After a few minutes, the suppressed voice of the woman outside finally stopped, and after the sound of flowing water, the sound of footsteps gradually faded away.
To be on the safe side, Luo Jingyao stayed in the cubicle for a while. After several waves of people came in and out, she got up, left the bathroom, and returned to her seat.
Lin Jiafan and the others did not show any strangeness when she disappeared for nearly twenty minutes without any reason. At that time, two extra plates of scallops had been neatly placed in front of her, and the three people at the same table stared at her with expectant eyes.
Pursing her lips, Luo Jingyao finished the food on the plate in a few bites as expected, then stretched her neck and glanced around the restaurant.
"I'm going to the front to get some free ice cream. Officer Pang, please help me get two plates of cheese baked crab legs." After saying that, she ignored the increasingly weird looks the three people gave her and went straight to the ice cream display case at the entrance of the restaurant.
After asking the staff for a strawberry and chocolate combo, she deliberately took a detour back the other way. When she passed one of the tables, she stopped in her tracks, her face full of surprise. "It's you?"
The woman who was chatting with the man across the table probably didn't expect to run into someone she knew here, let alone that the person she met would be her. Suddenly, all the rich expressions on her face froze.
"Ms. Luo...Ms. Luo." Perhaps she was not sure how to address her, and the woman spoke haltingly for a long time.
The other party was the female contestant who had fought with her in the ring yesterday. She must have witnessed the communication between her and the police after the final, so it was understandable that she felt scared.
Of course, Luo Jingyao had no intention of hiding this fact at all. There were many people in the factory yesterday, and if she tried to hide it, it would only arouse suspicion.
"Don't overthink it. I just saw you and came over to say hello." She casually moved closer and whispered in the woman's ear, "Don't worry. Although the police have shut down Eric's club, they're mainly targeting the online gambling group and Eric, the organizer of this underground tournament. We contestants are not included in this operation."
"By the way, I was in such a hurry yesterday that I didn't have time to ask you your name."
After hearing her words, the woman seemed to be slightly relieved and took the lead in extending her hand: "My name is Qi Huimei."
Luo Jingyao shook hands with her gently, exchanged a few words, and then tactfully said goodbye. However, she did not go far, but hid behind a green plant at the corner in front. As expected, she saw the backs of the woman and the man at the same table as they quickly left.
Soon, the restaurant staff came up to clean up. When they were about to wipe the table with a rag, a hand suddenly stretched out from the side.
Then, in the face of the waiter's stunned expression, Luo Jingyao first took a few tissues, and then carefully picked up the high-heeled glass with the lip print on the rim.
"I want to take this with me. Please put it on table 26. Thank you."
When she returned to the table, the cheese baked crab legs had been placed in place. She carefully pushed the cup towards Lin Jiafan and began to feast on the food under the man's somewhat confused gaze.
He picked up the cup with the tissue on it and took a quick glance at it. Lin Jiafan naturally knew that this was not a good place to ask questions, so he raised his hand calmly and asked the waiter for a sealed bag to put the cup in.
It was not until Luo Jingyao had almost finished eating that the four of them finally left their seats and slowly came to the bar at the entrance of the restaurant.
The cashier behind the bar smiled with her standard eight-toothed smile and gently reported a number.
"How much?!" Pang Guang took a step forward, his eyes wide open in disbelief, and said, "We didn't waste any food at all. Are you sure you didn't make a mistake in the calculation?"
"Well, sir, it says here that you're taking a wine glass home. All our wine glasses are crystal glasses that the owner brought back from France himself. Only 998 is quite a bargain."
"Isn't this taking advantage of someone's misfortune..." The young man seemed very unconvinced. He didn't believe that a busy buffet restaurant like this would use French crystal glasses. If a customer accidentally broke one, would he have to pay compensation according to the price?
It's obvious that the merchants are asking for exorbitant prices.
"Thank you for your help." Lin Jiafan's action of handing over the payment code successfully suppressed Pang Guang's subsequent complaints.
The young man kept a pained expression on his face until the four of them returned to the jeep. He rubbed the sealed bag containing the goblet reluctantly: "Coach Luo, if we can't find anything out of this, it will be a shame for our Captain Lin's 998 yuan!"
"You don't know, it's not easy to make money in our line of work. Even 998 can..."
Unfortunately, his chatter was once again ruthlessly interrupted by Lin Jiafan. As the man started the car, he casually asked, "Who used this cup?"
"Qi Huimei." Luo Jingyao responded.
"Qi Huimei?" Lin Jiafan repeated the name, his slender fingers tapping the steering wheel intermittently, as if trying to search for something in his memory.
"She was the female contestant who played against me in Liu Pinsen's club that night. Officer Lin and Officer Pang, aren't you two still watching from the audience?" Afraid that they didn't know who this person was, Luo Jingyao thoughtfully gave an explanation.
"I accidentally overheard one of her phone calls in the bathroom. The content of the call sounded like something about a domestic competition. It was nothing special. Anyway, meeting is fate, and there is no harm in checking it out." As she spoke, she touched the tip of her nose with a guilty conscience.
It doesn't sound very fair that the police spent nearly a thousand dollars relying on no solid evidence and only on that mysterious intuition.
Lin Jiafan didn't seem to care about this. Instead, he turned his head and asked the two people in the back row, "Ask the medical examination department for the list of people who arrived at the crime scene before the police."
"No need, I just have it in my photo album. I took the photo at that time." Pang Guang was complacent with his rare inspiration. He smiled and took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket and successfully found the photo.
In the dim light of the car, the faint glow from the phone screen illuminated his long face, revealing a hint of terror. After studying carefully for a long while, Xiaoqing suddenly looked up, "Qi Huimei? She's really on this list!"
"At the time, she registered as... a reporter for Shengye Entertainment. We later verified this with Shengye Entertainment Co., Ltd., and there's no problem with her identity."
"This is a difficult situation." Pang Guang's face wrinkled with worry. "After the incident, Shengye Entertainment did publish a report about a murder in a livestream. At that time, many companies published such reports. We just asked them to remove the report and let it go."
"Besides, Qi Huimei claimed to be one of the first people to arrive at the scene. It's normal for her fingerprints and DNA to be found at the crime scene. There's no way to prove she's connected to the murder!"
"That's the crux of the matter." Lin Jiafan stopped his rhythmic tapping on the steering wheel, the corners of his lips curled up slightly: "If I remember correctly, at the crime scene, Qi Huimei left nothing behind except a set of footprints."
Other media reporters or onlookers, after arriving at the crime scene, left more or less fingerprints and other traces out of curiosity, but she left nothing.
You might not think the other person is suspicious if you just look at them, but as I said, there are simply not that many coincidences in the world.
A reporter from an entertainment company who has reached a professional level in kickboxing...
Lin Jiafan's handsome face was full of amusement. "Regarding Liu Pinsen's confession of the deceased Cheng Yinan's whereabouts in Jinshi, how's the progress at the laboratory?"
Pang Guang scratched his head uncertainly: "Before we came out of the bureau, they had just set out for the scene. I guess they haven't finished their work yet."
"Want to take a gamble?"
As soon as Lin Jiafan finished speaking, accompanied by a roar, the black jeep rushed out in the blink of an eye.
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