Chapter Nine New World Hotel 7
Although Tong Jia was forced to stay in the police station for an extended period, she wasn't having a bad time. She insisted that she had only made a false police report and hadn't done anything else.
A veteran police officer, upon seeing this, privately remarked that if this were a criminal, his mental fortitude would be exceptional.
After several searches, it was confirmed that there were no bomb fragments at the accident site. The policewoman deeply regretted misunderstanding the hero and started buying him boxed lunches every day, two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes, the kind she herself couldn't bear to eat.
Tong Jia had good food, no psychological pressure, and no work to do, so she gained weight in just a few days.
The investigation results are in.
The captain pulled the man out for one last question, "Why did you make a false police report?"
Tong Jia repeated for the nth time, "The boss is extremely stingy. No one repairs the cracked beams and pillars of the building, and he doesn't care if the mirrors in the guest rooms are broken. When my colleague told me this, I was terrified. I felt that this building was too unsafe."
“If the building is unsafe, we can have someone inspect its structure. If there are indeed safety hazards, we will require the hotel to cease operations until the issues are rectified. But you skipped this step. Even if it's a false alarm, the customers must leave the hotel immediately.” The captain looked directly at Tong Jia and said, word by word, “It's as if you have a premonition that the building will collapse.”
"Yes!!" Tong Jia nodded frantically. "I had a really bad feeling at the time. It was like my sixth sense was telling me that I had to get out, or something terrible would happen."
"I don't know how to describe that feeling. Anyway, this is the first time in my life I've felt that kind of heart-wrenching fear."
“One of my colleagues was a girl, and she was also very scared. She even called the police, hoping they would notify the hotel to evacuate the customers quickly. But the operator didn't believe her at all and said she was just scaring herself.”
“I really had no other choice! If the operator had believed her, I wouldn’t have needed to make a false police report.”
team leader,"……"
Good job.
He asked, "Why were you so sure that an accident would happen, and were you willing to make a false police report in order to evacuate the crowd?"
The other party replied that if the operator hadn't been so unreliable, she wouldn't have needed to make a false police report.
While that is indeed how things happened, isn't your answer a bit off-topic?
But this wasn't a criminal; she was a great hero who risked everything to save more than seventy people. He couldn't be too harsh on her, so he used the same methods he used to interrogate criminals on her.
"Officer, when are you going to let me out?" Tong Jia said pitifully. "I only made a mistake because of a momentary lapse in judgment."
"And strictly speaking, I only made a tiny mistake. But I saved so many people, so it should offset that, right?"
"It's one thing for the police station not to give me a banner or an award, but to keep me locked up like this, isn't that a bit much?"
"The news media heard about this, and some people even wanted to interview me."
As Tong Jia spoke, she pointed to her index finger, "Officer, actually I'm quite busy too, I can't live in the station every day..."
The captain began to wonder what kind of environment had nurtured this talent. In just a few words, he used threats, sob stories, negotiation, and whitewashing—he did it all.
"We called you in for a routine inquiry," the captain said sternly. "The accident investigation results are in, you're cleared, you can leave."
"Really? I can go home now?" Tong Jia was overjoyed and quickly stood up, not forgetting to say, "Thank you, officer."
The captain then stood up, intending to escort Tong Jia out.
As they entered the lobby, a veteran police officer shoved a young man in a hip-hop shirt into the room, cursing, "You little brat, why can't you do anything right? Why do you have to be a thief? Aren't you ashamed? You've disgraced your ancestors for eighteen generations!"
The young man remained silent.
As Tong Jia passed by them, the young man suddenly broke free from the veteran policeman, wrapped his left arm around Tong Jia's neck, and pulled a small knife from his pocket with his right hand, yelling, "Don't come any closer!!"
The veteran police officer panicked, "Don't do anything reckless. You only stole a small thing, you'll be released after a few days in jail, but injuring someone is much more serious than stealing."
"I don't want to be locked up," the young man said fiercely. "You all go over there, I want to get out."
The veteran police officer and the captain moved together in coordination.
The young man stared at them intently, as if afraid someone might launch a sneak attack.
At this moment, Tong Jia grabbed the wrist of the man holding the knife with her right hand and used her left hand to elbow the young man in the abdomen.
The young man was completely unprepared, and in pain, he let go, falling to his knees.
Tong Jia turned around and kicked the young man in the shin. "You look for me everywhere in the hall, do you think I'm easy to bully?!"
As he spoke, he kicked, kicked, kicked, kicked.
The policewoman quickly came to stop them.
The veteran police officer quickly subdued the young man and dragged him away.
The captain's expression was complicated. "I'm sorry, I startled you."
"It's alright." Tong Jia tossed her hair. "Luckily, I had practiced before."
The captain looked at the policewoman and gestured, "You see her off."
The policewoman understood and quickly escorted Tong Jia out of the police station.
In the corner, the hip-hop youth lay on the floor, grimacing. "Boss, you didn't tell me she was this fierce. Wow, she really went all out."
When I lifted my shirt, I saw that the area where I had been hit was completely bruised.
"How dare you say that?" the captain glared at him. "If you can't even beat her, how are you going to protect the citizens on duty?"
The hip-hop youth's lips twitched as he listened. "Such capable citizens, why would they need my protection?"
The veteran police officer chuckled to himself. When the captain looked over, his expression immediately turned serious. "Captain," he said solemnly, "according to my analysis, the premonition of the building collapsing was likely a coincidence. I observed carefully just now; Tong Jia was completely unprepared when Xiao Wang attacked. If she had an exceptionally strong sixth sense that could provide early warning, she wouldn't have been so easily subdued and wouldn't have waited for an opportunity to retaliate."
The hip-hop youth, Xiao Wang, nodded in agreement. "My sudden move caught her off guard, and her subconscious reaction is usually the most genuine."
The captain lowered his eyes in deep thought, then looked up after a moment. "She said a female colleague called the operator to report a crime. Who was that person?"
In early spring, the weather is still chilly despite the warming temperatures, with a cool breeze blowing.
Yunxin went to the small supermarket next to her rented apartment and bought a big bag of snacks. On her way home, she saw a familiar figure standing in front of the apartment complex.
At the same time, the other person also saw her.
"Shall we chat?" Tong Jia asked.
This sentence sounds like a question, but it actually leaves no room for refusal, so Yunxin silently followed.
After Tong Jia found a bench in a nearby park and sat down, she took out a can of coffee from her bag. "Want some?"
Tong Jia silently accepted it and sat down at one end of the bench.
Yunxin opened a bottle of milk tea for herself and sat down at the other end of the bench.
“The boss has been arrested,” Tong Jia told Yun Xin. “He may be sentenced to prison and won’t be out for more than ten years.”
Yunxin, who had read the police investigation report on the cause of the accident, said, "He deserves it."
It is said that professionals who looked at the architectural plans said that if the building was constructed this way, it would collapse sooner or later.
To save money, they tampered with the building during construction, causing the deaths of so many people. If the boss doesn't go to jail, who will?
“When I was in the police station, many people came to see me. Some people said they were grateful that I saved them and gave me a check as a reward. Some people said they were willing to offer me a new job, with high pay, little work, close to home, no overtime, a luxury car as a starting offer, and an apartment as a reward after ten years of service. In addition, many reporters wanted to interview me,” Tong Jia added.
"That's great," Yun Xin congratulated. "Fame, money, a new job, you've got it all at once. It was worth risking breaking the law to make a false police report."
Tong Jia remained silent.
After leaving the police station, the first thing she did was go home and take a shower, and the second thing was to look for Yunxin. She even called the manager to ask for the residential address Yunxin had filled out when she joined the company.
Fortunately, the paper documents were buried with the collapsed building, but the manager's home computer still had electronic copies; otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to find him at all...
"Speak up, what do you want to talk to me about?" Yun Xin didn't want to just sit there in the cold wind, so she encouraged the other person to say what they wanted to say.
So Tong Jia asked directly, "From beginning to end, were you just acting as me?"
For a moment, the air seemed to fall silent.
Yun Xin paused for a moment, then said, "I don't understand what you're talking about."
“It’s not me who can foresee danger, it’s you.” Tong Jia was furious when she brought this up. “My ability ‘insight’ is to see through lies and perceive the truth of events. In other words, my subconscious doesn’t sense danger, but rather judges that you are telling the truth, which is why I’m afraid.”
"The same thing happened with Wang Ze, and it also happened with the hotel collapse. You deliberately acted very anxious in front of me, and I believed you and even went to make a false police report."
So in the end I'm just a tool for calling the police?
Tong Jia felt more and more wronged.
"How can this be called acting?" When Yun Xin heard the words "ability," "insight," and "perceiving the truth of the matter," she knew she couldn't hide it anymore.
She no longer denied it, but instead said, "People naturally have many faces. One face when facing strangers, another face when facing familiar people. One face when facing friends, another face when facing family. One face when interacting with others, and another face when alone."
"When faced with an emergency, if you know which face you can use to get away with it by being cute, you will switch it unconsciously. You can't say it's deliberate deception, it's just a survival instinct."
In order to regain her freedom as soon as possible, Tong Jia, who had just put on a show for the police, was speechless.
She couldn't help but ponder a question—if she were to scold Yun Xin now, wouldn't she be scolding herself as well?
"And I didn't expect you to make a false police report. I just wanted to call you out and find a legitimate reason to call the police..." Yun Xin said innocently.
Tong Jia, “???”
The culprit was actually myself?
After calming down for a moment, Tong Jia asked again, "After the hotel building collapsed, I think I had some problems with my eyes. I sometimes see strange things. What about you? Do you have similar symptoms?"
This refers to transparent panels.
Because she couldn't easily mention it to others, she spoke rather vaguely.
Yunxin replied, "I've been like this before. But it's okay, just pretend you can't see it and everything will be fine. Just live your life as usual."
Tong Jia's anger, which had just subsided, flared up again. She said fiercely, "If you keep this up, I'll only give you a third of the reward I was originally going to give you!"
They were all ordinary working people. Originally, they could have split the money equally and received 250,000 yuan. But because she made him angry, the amount instantly shrank to 170,000 yuan. If the other party knew, wouldn't they be heartbroken?
Just as Tong Jia was feeling a sense of satisfaction at having pulled off a prank, Yun Xin said, "You should keep them all for yourself. I've inherited a fortune of hundreds of millions; I don't need these."
Tong Jia, "..."
Say no more, just destroy it!!
(End of this chapter)
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