At 4:38 on Sunday morning, the tired trio were taken to the nearest police station.
It is said to be a police station, but the size of the police station is not large. Many small towns on the outskirts of Hannover are basically its satellite cities. They have a small permanent population of tens of thousands and simple folk customs, so the scale of law enforcement agencies is also very limited.
After handing in all their belongings, the three were nervously put into the detention room. After more than ten minutes, they were taken out of the detention room and took notes separately.
A policewoman with an angular face and a blond ponytail sat opposite Tong Lele. Since it was still early, both the interrogator and the interrogator looked a little tired.
"Name?" The policewoman looked at Tong Lele's passport.
"Tong Lele."
"Tourist or student?"
"Student. Hannover Music Academy, classical music major, advanced course level."
"Why do you have so much money on you? Where did you get this money?" The policewoman put a pile of bills on the table, looked straight into Tong Lele's eyes, and asked straight to the point.
Tong Lele's mind recalled what Dong Qiangqiang whispered when he was sitting in the back seat of the police car: except for the two things about wild boars and fishing, tell the truth to the police about everything else.
So she told in detail how they took the car to the wild boar forest, how they encountered the wild boar, how they passed through the wild boar forest, how they arrived at Muller's villa, how they cleaned, how they met Muller who was pretending to be a ghost, and how the two sides resolved the conflict. There was a misunderstanding, and then an agreement was reached, and the matter of the joint treasure hunt was told to the policewoman as completely as pouring beans through a bamboo tube. Since she knew nothing about how Dong Qiangqiang escaped from the wild boar, what happened to Dong Qiangqiang, Lei Lanting and Mueller after entering the cave, or how the three people in the secret room shared the money, she just told them in one sentence.
Her language is simple and her speech is coherent and logical. When she talked about someone blocking the door and deliberately setting a fire, she escaped to the basement and accidentally found the other three people trapped. Muller suddenly left. How did they escape through the tunnel, how did they encounter someone with a gun and burned the house, and how were they forced to hide? While sheltering from the fire in the well, the policewoman's mouth opened in a round shape, and she could not utter a word. There was only the rustling sound of the pen tip writing quickly on the paper.
"So," the policewoman tapped the table with her pen holder, "Before you escaped from the secret room, Mueller had already left the room through the tunnel. And you don't know his whereabouts??"
"That's it." After saying everything, Tong Lele breathed a long sigh of relief, and her emotions gradually calmed down.
"When you crawled out of the well and were about to leave the house, you happened to encounter someone who set fire to the house and burned it down. So you had to go back down the well and didn't leave the villa until the house burned down and called the police?"
Tong Lele nodded and added: "I used my mobile phone to call the police. Then we met Chief Fischer and his colleagues at the station, and finally ended up here."
"Have you met Mueller before?"
"Yesterday was the first time we met."
"What about Lei Lanting? Did he mention it?"
"What did you mention?" Tong Lele didn't understand what the policewoman meant.
"Has Lei Lanting mentioned to you before that he has met Mueller?"
"He never mentioned it to me. In fact, I think he met Mueller for the first time yesterday."
"Do you know or see the people who set the fire?"
"Never seen it before." Tong Lele shook her head firmly.
"Is it possible that the two people with you knew the people who set the fire?" the policewoman asked.
"We are both students. We usually study and work part-time. I don't think the two of them know each other."
"It's not necessarily that they know each other," the policewoman continued to inspire, "Have they ever told you about anyone they had conflicts with or offended anyone?"
Tong Lele shook her head: "I don't know about that."
"Then the money you have on you is part of the reward? Huh?"
"Yes, according to the agreement, each of us will take half of the treasure found."
"Where's the agreement?"
"In Lei Lanting's hands." Tong Lele bit her lip and said softly.
In another room, Sheriff Fischer looked at several dark handprints on the paper and asked suspiciously: "So this is the agreement you just mentioned?"
"That's right." Lei Lanting leaned up slightly from his chair, pointed at one of the fingerprints and said, "The darkest one is Mueller's thumbprint."
Sheriff Fischer glanced at him, and Lei Lanting immediately sat down knowingly, and then said righteously: "These are the things that have happened since yesterday afternoon. The three of us are all good people."
Sheriff Fischer clutched the agreement and said seriously: "We will verify what you said. Now you have a look at the transcript, and if you confirm that there is no problem, sign below. But if we find that you lied, you will be punished by law. punish."
"Everything I say must be true, and there is absolutely no lie. Don't worry, go check it out." Lei Lanting said as he signed his name with a big stroke of a pen.
Dong Qiangqiang's situation over there was similar. The three of them returned to the detention room one after another and asked each other about each other's situation, only to find that they had not received clear instructions from the police on what to do next. Just when everyone was uneasy, Sheriff Fischer swayed over with his slightly bulging beer belly.
"We need to check the information you three said, but it is too early now and it is Sunday again, so you need to stay here a little longer to cooperate with our work. Once we find out that you are indeed innocent, we will release you immediately Let's go. If you remember any information again, I hope you can tell us as soon as possible. That's it for now." After that, he turned and walked out of the door.
Lei Lanting immediately raised his arms: "Police officer."
Fischer quickly turned around: "What did you think of again?"
"What time is breakfast here?" Lei Lanting asked boldly.
Fischer said nothing and glanced at the other two people behind the iron fence.
Seeing that the other party did not refuse directly, Lei Lanting became more courageous: "We didn't eat much yesterday, and we worked hard all night. Now it's about to get light, and we are really... really hungry."
Lei Lanting said while winking at Tong Lele and Dong Qiangqiang, "That means you two should also cooperate quickly, don't just let me say it alone."
Tong Lele, who was tired and hungry, was sitting on a chair by the wall, listening to Lei Lanting talking in front. Suddenly she heard Lei Lanting shouting that he was hungry. When she saw him winking at her and indicating something, she immediately understood what Lei Lanting was saying. Meaning, but she was a girl after all, she was thin-skinned and didn't know how to express hunger, so she could only put her hand on her belly awkwardly and rub it slowly.
At the critical moment, Dong Qiangqiang had the quick wit. He closed his eyes, tilted his body, and fell against the wall next to him with a plop. His body slowly slid along the wall to the floor.
Fischer didn't know what was going on with Dong Qiangqiang, so he stood outside the iron fence and watched suspiciously.
Lei Lanting quickly knelt down, pinched Dong Qiangqiang's man, and slapped his cheek. However, Dong Qiangqiang's eyes were closed tightly, his face was pale, and his lips were blue, but he could not say a word.
Fischer quickly opened the iron fence and walked in quickly. He bent down and rolled Dong Qiangqiang's eyelids, listened to his breathing again, quickly stood up, and ran towards the door, shouting something as he ran.
Looking at Fischer's retreating back, Lei Lanting said in a low voice: "You are still ruthless. You really acted like one. We will definitely have breakfast this time."
But Dong Qiangqiang still closed his eyes tightly and showed no reaction, as if he didn't hear his words.
Tong Lele glanced at Lei Lanting and shouted nervously: "Dong Qiangqiang!"
Dong Qiangqiang still had no reaction.
Lei Lanting also realized something was wrong at this time. He quickly picked up Dong Qiangqiang's head, put it in his arms, and shouted: "Old Dong, wake up! Wake up!"
Dong Qiangqiang looked peaceful, as if he was asleep.
