The beauty was startled.
Xie Zilin almost gave up and threw the bag away. She stared blankly at the police officer who came out of nowhere and said nothing for a long time.
"We thought you would come down soon, but the cold wind blew for a long time and no one was there!" Lu Yao spread his hands and said with a sense of grievance and arrogance, "How should I put it? I just feel a little cheated? Are you really? Going to meet your boyfriend?"
But to her surprise, Xie Zilin said with hesitation: "I actually thought about it and thought it would be more appropriate to come to you..."
Lu Yao lost his temper now.
"Then why didn't you call...I gave you my business card!"
"Your car is still downstairs." Xie Zilin pointed outside, "Is that the... red one?"
Now Lu Yao also remembered that they had called on the road to confirm that the woman living alone was at home today, and then drove to the place. But generally speaking, even if you know someone is coming to your door, you will not deliberately look outside to see if there is a police car.
Only "thieves" will feel guilty. People who want to explain everything and everything will be fine do not have this kind of leisure - and it was this kind of impatience that Xie Zilin showed at the beginning.
In other words, this Xie Zilin was particularly concerned about this visit with a clear purpose from the beginning.
Liu Che looked back. He had noticed before that the car was borrowed from a police officer he knew from the local police station. It had a really flamboyant appearance and did not have any distinctive lights. But correspondingly, generally this type of vehicle is not easily regarded as a police vehicle.
In other words, before they arrived, Xie Zilin carefully observed all the vehicles coming downstairs, and matched the numbers of people and cars when they went upstairs to ask - the level of suspicion increased a bit.
"Actually, I hesitated for a long time..." Xie Zilin was a little unable to adapt, "because I was not sure what the situation was at that time. I was too young at that time and couldn't remember many things. At that time, I cared about it for a while, But I forgot about it later. It was only when I received a call again today that I remembered a little... fragment."
Lu Yao raised his eyebrows.
"I was a little anxious just now, so I didn't think about it for a moment." Xie Zilin lowered her eyes, "So, I'm sorry..."
This is a lie.
This thought flashed through their minds at the same time. But Lu Yao was not in a hurry to expose it, and Liu Che naturally stood aside. The two of them continued to listen to Xie Zilin's half-truth and half-false story.
"At that time, I remember there was a child who got along very well with me, and we exchanged a few words there." Xie Zilin bit her lip, "There were many people, but she was also next to me in the car. At that time, no one I thought that I had been abducted, and she was the only one who kept doing strange things. The traffickers probably thought that she and I were both girls, so they let us stay together."
Hearing the word "girl", Lu Yao vaguely felt that there was a breakthrough, perhaps a turning point in the predicament that the two of them were in.
"Then what? What did she do, who is she, and what do you think is wrong with her?"
Lu Yao's three consecutive questions made Xie Zilin finally raise her head from her "autistic state".
"That girl's behavior in front of human traffickers is no different from other children." Xie Zilin slowly said the words, "She is very obedient and has leadership skills. Other than that, she is even more kept in the dark than other children." Status - I actually thought that way at first, because I was not abused. But later, it was she who told me that the adults might want to get us away, but told me not to show off."
"So are you showing off?"
Xie Zilin shook her head: "She didn't seem to tell all the children about this. She only told me. I later thought that she thought I had a quiet personality and was not restless after leaving home like other children. , I am also older and less likely to spill the beans."
Lu Yao's expression froze: "This is quite far-sighted..."
If it were someone else, Lu Yao might have begun to think that Xie Zilin's childhood filter made the object grandiose, but this girl's behavior habits were very similar to Yu Xuanyi's impression of her from the beginning.
Being able to remain calm in the face of danger is not necessarily a skill that Yu Xuanyi "inherited" from her adoptive parents. It may be an innate talent. Instead, she "inherited" this ability to her adoptive father.
Mainly anti-customer.
"I remember when we were being taken into the car, there were a few naughty ones running around all over the place. It must have been to ensure that we were all alive and kicking before being sold. The traffickers were very kind to us at the beginning, and there were aunties taking care of us. ." Xie Zilin continued to recall, "But the person in charge of taking us to the car was a somewhat irritable person. He almost got angry and lectured others, but the girl put the topic aside before that and asked the children to behave. Get in the car."
For a child around six years old, his ability to adapt is indeed a bit outrageous... Lu Yao twitched the corner of his mouth. But it doesn't seem so surprising that this happened to Xuanyi. After all, more than ten years later, she is the ruthless "killer" in the game channel, commanding calmly and appropriately. It seems logical to show some leadership talent since childhood.
"I don't know who she is." Xie Zilin started to answer the next question, "Later I looked for her in the crowd, but only once. The police didn't ask me questions about the other children - they said the family was waiting. Me, I was only thinking about when to go home and didn't have time to worry too much. If I think about it after I get home, I won't have a chance."
Dozens of children were interrogated individually. In addition to the impression of the trafficker and the address of the family, the police had no time to take into account their connections with each other.
In other words, it is almost natural for a child to disappear from it so simply and casually.
But at what point did it disappear?
Lu Yao's eyes flashed, looking at the roots of Xie Zilin's hair exposed when she lowered her head.
She is still hiding it, this is an indisputable fact. The confession this time was not because she had decided to tell everything, but because she thought that if the police continued to investigate, sooner or later someone would appear who had an impression of that girl - and if that person happened to remember another quiet girl. Staying with the missing child made her deception a certainty.
Instead of waiting to be exposed, tell a half-truth to make your words authentic.
But now there are two other gains.
First, Xie Zilin must know the secret, she is a useful breakthrough. But she was not a suspect after all, and she was just a child at the time, so there were many ways to excuse her from other angles.
Second, it can be roughly concluded that the number of children changed and the moment when the final case broke out was probably between the time when all the children started to fall asleep, when they got in the car, and when the car accident occurred.
