Chapter 2166: Chapter 2167: The Gradually Erging Flaws
Peering through the window, Zhou Li watched as Lin Yi and Zhang Zixin entered before steadying his expression and saying,
“Don’t panic, everyone, let’s continue playing cards. Don’t worry about anything, it wouldn’t be good to give ourselves away.”
“Do you see their posture? As soon as they walked in, they started looking around. Do you think they suspect us?”
Zhou Li had noticed this too, but he couldn’t be sure.
“Brother Li, I have a bad feeling about this. Should we run away through the back door?” another said.
“They’re all here, there’s no escaping now.”
“What do we do then? If they really suspect us, then we’re done for; we all go down together.”
“Everyone, take out the stuff from under the bed.” Zhou Li said nervously,
“If we can bluff our way through this, then good; but if they really won’t let it go, we’ll take these two down!”
“Understood.”
Several people got into action, pulling out several folding knives from under the bed and slipping them into their pockets.
“Don’t just stand around here, keep playing mahjong, act natural.” said Zhou Li,
“Nobody panic. It’s probably a false alarm. If they really suspected us, they would have grabbed us already.”
The others didn’t speak but were still visibly tense.
The four returned to their mahjong table and resud playing.
A few seconds later, their expressions had normalized, at least they weren’t showing anything on their faces.
anwhile, Lin Yi and Zhang Zixin were slowly walking around the courtyard, observing everything in it.
Sothing about this household seed off.
On the surface, everything seed normal, but upon closer inspection, many things were different.
The first point was just as Zhang Zixin had said.
Having such a large piece of land in the village ant the family was not badly off.
But their house was quite ordinary.
Moreover, in the nearly two hundred square ters of the yard, only a small central area looked sowhat maintained.
The rest was overrun with weeds, littered with trash as if it had been uninhabited for a long ti.
This was a significant contrast to the average family, which differed mostly in the lack of vitality.
After a look around the yard, Lin Yi could not find any useful clues.
Then, leading Zhang Zixin, they pushed open the door and saw Zhou Li and the others playing mahjong in the left-hand room.
The four acted as if nothing had happened and looked at Lin Yi and Zhang Zixin.
“Who are you?”
“Several children have gone missing recently, we’ve co to investigate,” Lin Yi said.
While speaking, Zhang Zixin took out so photographs, “Have you seen any of these children?”
Zhou Li glanced at the photos, “Don’t rember them.”
“Look carefully again. Clues suggest that the suspect has brought the children to Victory Village. We hope you will cooperate.”
Zhou Li feigned calm and smiled, “It’s just that we don’t usually pay attention to such matters, and I truly don’t recognise the people in the photographs.”
“Are you sure…”
Zhang Zixin wanted to press on, but Lin Yi interrupted her.
“Is it just the four of you living here?”
“They’re my good buddies. I’ve contracted a fishpond here, so they’ve co to work with .”
Lin Yi nodded thoughtfully, “I rember just now, a man in a black vest ca here, is he also your friend?”
Zhou Li’s expression flickered, but he concealed it well.
“He’s a friend of mine, he just left.”
While speaking, Zhou Li deliberately pointed toward the back, indicating to Lin Yi that the person had left through the back door.
Lin Yi, with a calm expression, looked around and then said,
“Call him and have him co back, I have so questions for him.”
“Have him co back?”
“Can’t he co back?” Lin Yi countered.
“When he ca earlier, he was in a rush, said he had so urgent matter to attend to, greeted us, took 200 yuan and left; I don’t know exactly where he went.”
“So, I didn’t ask you to find him, but to call him, do you understand what I’m saying?”
“This…”
Zhou Li paused, then pointing at the mobile phone on the table, he said,
“His phone’s here. Even if you call him, he won’t pick up.”
Seeing Zhou Li’s evasive gaze, Zhang Zixin also sensed sothing was wrong.
He gave off a different vibe than the other villagers, lacking that open and honest feel.
Following the direction Zhou Li pointed, Lin Yi noticed there were two mobile phones on the table.
“Whose two phones are these?”
“One is mine, the other belongs to Ma Hua, he’s the person you’re asking about.”
As Zhou Li finished, the bald man beca a bit evasive.
Because the phone on the table wasn’t Ma Hua’s, but his own.
“What are your nas?”
“I’m Zhou Li, and the person you’re asking about is Ma Hua.”
Lin Yi nodded, then turned to the other three.
“What are your nas?”
“They’re called…”
“I didn’t ask you, let them speak for themselves.”
“I’m Ding Weimin.” said the man with tattoos on his neck.
“I’m Zhang Youfu.” the bald man said.
“I’m Li Baoguo.” the short man added.
“Take out your mobile phones so I can check them.”
All three were reluctant, but Ding Weimin and Zhang Youfu eventually took out their phones.
Only Zhang Youfu remained still, as his phone, which Zhou Li claid was Ma Hua’s, was lying on the table.
“I dropped my phone in the fishpond this morning, my new phone hasn’t been delivered yet.”
“So it’s in the fishpond.” Lin Yi casually comnted, collecting all four phones and handing them to Zhang Zixin.
“Check these four phones, see if the registered owners match their nas, if they can match up with the actual owner.”
“Understood, Lin Bro.”
Hearing this, the four beca even more anxious.
The other side was already suspecting them.
Zhang Zixin called the four numbers with her phone and recorded the phone numbers.
“Lin Bro, I’ve sent the numbers to Brother Li, we should have the information soon.”
Lin Yi nodded, then fiddled with the four phones for a while before saying,
“Of the four phones, two people have saved the na as Ma Hua, and two as Ma Laosan, with the sa number. Unless there’s a coincidence of the sa na, it should belong to Ma Hua, right?”
“No, it’s not…”
Sweat beaded on Zhou Li’s forehead as he nervously explained,
“It’s a friend we all have in common, they just happen to share similar nicknas, but it’s not Ma Hua, just the sa surna, you’ve misunderstood.”
“So it’s just a similar nickna.” Lin Yi mused,
“Let make a call to check.”
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