Chapter 41: Chapter 41: The Sharpest Spear, the Strongest Shield!
Liang Yan is considered the person who knows Zhang Xian the best.
When she saw him come out of the interrogation room, Liang Yan was the first to ask:
"Brother Xian, with all your interrogation methods, why did you have her write something?"
Zhang Xian immediately frowned, not answering Liang Yan’s question, but instead asked back, "Do you really not know my intention?"
The sudden seriousness left Liang Yan at a loss for words, and there was even a hint of panic in her eyes.
Seeing this scene, Chen Xiao was full of gossip.
Liang Yan and Zhang Xian are like siblings from the same mentor, and the two are indeed the best partners at the Hongshan Branch.
However, Liang Yan actually has a sense of fear towards her senior.
This fear is like a student being afraid of their teacher.
Zhang Xian obviously noticed Liang Yan’s embarrassment and said speechlessly, "Oh, come on, how old are you now, still seeing yourself as a naïve little intern?"
"Can you blame me? You look just like the teacher! If I’m asking you, it means I definitely don’t know, right? Just answer me, why ask me back?"
Zhang Xian was taken aback, rolling his eyes, "Ah, right, right, you’re justified, okay?"
After teasing Liang Yan for a bit, Zhang Xian turned to Chen Xiao with a smile, "What about you? Have you figured out why I did that?"
"See the writing as seeing the person."
Chen Xiao spoke the four words he had in mind, and Zhang Xian instantly gave him a thumbs up.
Lin Xi happened to see this scene as she walked over, and she asked in surprise, "Captain Zhang, why are you praising my husband again?"
"Because your man is so impressive, summarizing my interrogation method in four words."
Zhang Xian said with a smile, while Lin Xi looked puzzled.
Chen Xiao explained, "Both Captain Zhang and Sister Liang feel the person inside has some issues, but Captain Zhang didn’t choose a conventional interrogation method. Instead, he gave her a blank notebook and let her write whatever she wanted."
"Write what?"
"No specific request, just anything she wants to write."
Hearing this, Lin Xi couldn’t help but frown: "You think there’s something wrong with her, yet you just let her write on her own. Can this really uncover the root of the problem?"
"You’ve only thought about the surface without touching deeper. We don’t care about what she writes, but her handwriting and the demeanor she exhibits while writing!"
Chen Xiao said with a smile, and Lin Xi instinctively blurted out, "What if she writes nothing?"
"She might write nothing, but what if she writes something?"
Lin Xi felt there was some contradiction in these words, but being smart as she is, how could she not grasp the deeper meaning of it?
Indeed, within just a second or two, Lin Xi suddenly realized, "She might write nothing, but her father is dead. During this period, she would show all sorts of negative reactions. If she’s seriously thinking about what to write, then there’s certainly something wrong with that girl!"
Chen Xiao nodded, "Yes, Su Ting is known at school for her great literary talent. Her personality, based on information from Captain Zhang, suggests that most people perceive her as obedient and introverted. Such a girl would have a lot of emotional expressions facing her father’s death."
"Regardless of whether she writes anything, we’re looking for her emotional expressions. But if she does write, it’ll be like using her sharpest spear to attack her strongest shield."
Chen Xiao laid out all of Zhang Xian’s intentions, and the latter frequently nodded his agreement.
"Let’s wait and see. A daughter mourning her father’s death should naturally pay attention to my eyes from time to time. For such a girl, internally she might not be as pure as she seems."
Zhang Xian also expressed his thoughts.
Unfortunately, Chen Xiao couldn’t speak much. If he could, he would really love to tell everything from the previous life.
But the fact that he couldn’t tell others didn’t mean he couldn’t think it through himself.
In the previous life, after being found, Su Ting finally revealed everything that happened on Swallow Lane. She said on the day of the crime she should have gone home early but became engrossed in schoolwork and returned home late with nightfall.
Since she often walked down Swallow Lane, she didn’t have any sense of crisis. When she stepped into Swallow Lane, a shadow pushed her down, then dragged her into number 314.
Just as the shadow was about to assault her, Luo Dali appeared.
He grappled with the shadow, and in fear, Su Ting fled from number 314 of Swallow Lane.
Racing home, her expression alarmed Su Haidong, and under questioning, Su Ting spilled everything.
Learning about her daughter’s experience, Su Haidong was both shocked and frightened, but he, usually an honest man, turned cowardly in such a moment.
He warned his daughter never to disclose anything outside to avoid the bad guy coming for Su Ting again.
With this mindset, even when the Su Family learned the next day about what happened on Swallow Lane and that Su Ting’s savior Luo Dali was brutally mutilated by a demon, they still kept silent.
All this was later explained to the police by Su Ting, and she also described the general features of the shadow.
Unfortunately, for over a decade, that shadow was never found.
Now the case has changed completely, and the cowardly, shameless Su Haidong became the victim, while Su Ting, being his relative, couldn’t avoid involvement.
But what’s different is that this is Chen Xiao’s first time seeing Su Ting, and after just one glance, there’s something seriously wrong with Su Ting.
The problem isn’t just her fleeing later, leaving her father, and pretending she knew nothing.
It is more that she seems to be hiding a lot of things!
Because the night of the case isn’t a Sunday as it was in the previous life!
She shouldn’t have left the school tonight!
If she hadn’t left the school for Swallow Lane, why did a fishbone case occur on Swallow Lane?
The more Chen Xiao thought, the more shocked he got, and Su Ting, just a newly grown woman, suddenly seemed unfathomable to him.
It’s simply terrifying to think about!
Perhaps in the previous life, it wasn’t Su Haidong who wanted to hide things, the one truly afraid of taking responsibility and wanting to hide it was Su Ting!
Su Haidong likely admitted to protect his daughter!
These thoughts had already caused subtle changes in Chen Xiao’s eyes, but then suddenly Lin Xi gently tugged his sleeve and whispered:
"Looks like Su Ting is about to write something."
Chen Xiao pulled himself back together and looked into the interrogation room.
Su Ting, holding a pen, seemed ready to write on the paper, but the pen remained suspended in the air.
"Is she not planning to write?" Lin Xi mumbled, but at this moment, Chen Xiao remarked:
"Better if she writes, but it doesn’t matter if she doesn’t. Because Captain Zhang has already gotten the answer he wanted."
Zhang Xian produced a cold smile: "Indeed, the girl inside is pondering, but she overlooks that the more she thinks, the bigger the problem becomes!"