"And you rushed out of the house...?"
"Yes."
"What time was it when you rushed out of the house? Do you remember?"
"Eleven fifty? It's still twelve o'clock sharp. It's about that time. You can check the phone records."
"Telephone records are not reliable. After all, relying on phone records cannot evade guilt and cannot clear suspicion."
"...So in the end you actually think I did it?"
In the interrogation room, Mandy leaned back slightly and pulled the silver chain on her hand. The sound of metal collision caused the two small town police detectives across the table in the room to sit upright slightly. After looking at each other, their cheeks on the right Detective Hu put his right fist in front of his mouth and coughed twice, then turned to look at the wall clock in the interrogation room.
It was already 9 o'clock in the morning, and the sunlight outside the airtight interrogation room was just right, penetrating through the dark clouds and dispersing the concealment and weirdness of last night into smoke.
"Let's go through the process one last time. What's your name?"
"Mandy Gonzalez."
"age?"
"18."
"Relationship with the missing person?"
"Friends, or besties?" Mandy sighed.
"Why did you appear at the scene of the disappearance case for the first time?" the bearded detective asked in a deep voice, "I hope you can answer this question well. It depends on whether you can continue to go back to school as usual today instead of sitting Spend time with us here. Our agents are more patient than you think and have encountered more difficult suspects and confession providers."
"I said it." Mandy stared at the bearded detective expressionlessly, "Amara was talking to me on the phone before she was killed. I heard the whole thing on the phone, and I also heard everything on the phone. I’ll retell it to you in full!”
"An upside-down...upside-down 'person' with big teeth attacked your best friend." The tall detective on the left of the bearded detective spoke, with an indescribable expression of doubt or ridicule on his face, " It’s hard for us to believe this confession... After all, the people in this room are all adults... Oh, Miss Gonzalez, you seem to have just grown up, and you even have to wait two years before you can buy cigarettes and alcohol independently?"
"Hey, I don't like your friend's tone." Mandy lay down on the chair and glanced at the bearded police detective, "If you want to be a red face and a bad face, maybe you should find some more handsome and temperamental police officers to try. ?”
"My companions probably don't mean this. It's just that after an all-night investigation, everyone's minds are a little unclear, so it's easy to say some misleading words... Just like your confession, Miss Gonzalez, as a police detective, It's hard for us to believe what you said about a 'monster' that crawled out of Hell in the Bible, attacked Miss Amara at home, and took her away by force." The bearded detective rubbed the bridge of his nose. Said, "To be honest, because of the bizarreness of your confession and your unstable mental state when they found you at the scene, many police detectives in the bureau are now suspicious of you..."
"Doubt me? Do you suspect me that I drove my Porsche to my best friend's house at midnight, climbed over the wall into her yard and pretended to be a ghost to scare her, and then forcibly took her out of her house?" Mandy's voice was a little cold. , "And after doing all this, I had to drive back to the scene for a walk, and I happened to be discovered by you?"
"Sorry, the lover and the murderer will most likely come back to the scene for a second time... We just happened to find you and your sports car near the victim's home..." the bearded detective said, "And... The surveillance video of that entire stretch of road also happened to be cut off."
"Then I guess you must have searched my trunk?" Mandy said, "How about it, did you find anything in it? Is there a girl's body that was tied up and her mouth was wrapped with tape?"
"No..." The bearded detective glanced at his companion and shook his head slowly.
"Why don't you believe what I say..." Mandy sighed quietly, placed her hands gently on the table, and looked at the two police detectives across the table who still had silent and suspicious expressions on their faces, "You should also Have you inspected the site?"
"Are you referring to the living room of the victim's house?" the bearded detective whispered, "Yes, of course we checked it. There are no fingerprints, no footprints, just...just a mess."
"Do you think I could destroy that place like that?" Mandy whispered.
The scene of the crime instantly appeared in the minds of the two police detectives. It was a single-family house that can be seen everywhere in the town of Carmel. It was located on the street with a front yard and a backyard, and floor-to-ceiling windows on the lawn in the backyard. Connected to the living room of the single-family house, where the tragedy occurred.
When a large number of police officers rushed to the scene after receiving the alarm call, they were completely stunned by the scene in the yard and living room. The first thing they saw was blood, a large amount of blood, splashed on the lawn of the yard and in the living room. The ceiling, walls, and even the fish tank were covered with blood, and it was red as far as the eye could see.
The floor-to-ceiling window connecting the living room to the courtyard shattered into pieces and scattered evenly on the lawn and living room floor. After that, the scene in the living room was almost devastated. The most impressive thing was that a sofa weighing hundreds of kilograms was inserted upside down into the wall. Almost at right angles to the floor, the TV was cut in half with some kind of sharp tool, and the electronic 'guts' inside could be clearly seen.
The coffee table and door panels were all covered with dents and cracks caused by heavy objects hitting them. There was a big hole in the shoe cabinet as if it had been pierced by a gun, but there was no smell of gunpowder smoke. Blood stains were found on it... The initial judgment is that it was punched through by some kind of creature.
The grand piano in the center of the room was broken from the middle and collapsed to the ground, as if it had been violently smashed. A blood flower bloomed on the wallpaper above the TV, occupying almost half of the wall, replacing the one hanging above. The only abstract painting.
The most horrifying thing is the countless deep ravines on the ceiling, walls and tiled floors that have been carved by sharp tools. Those ravines are everywhere, making people feel as if someone has placed two beasts in this living room. There was a short-term fight between trapped animals, or a giant rotating cutting machine flew across the living room. The violent and frantic atmosphere in the scars still remains in the minds of all police officers. lingering in it.
At the same time, a question also locked everyone tightly. What happened in this room last night? And where are the victims now? If it's death, what about the body?
"Did you investigate the large amounts of blood?" Mandy asked.
"We are still collecting evidence and testing... It is very tedious, but it is a necessary process." The bearded detective pressed his hands on the table. "The scratches in the living room are very deep and sharp. Even if an adult is holding a knife, Sharp kitchen utensils are difficult to cut through so many marks... But according to the neighbor who called the police, the whole chaos ended in less than one minute, which means everything on the scene was left within one minute. ."
“I can run up to two-thirds of a circle around the playground in one minute,” Mandy said.
"I admit... one person's human power is indeed unable to achieve that step." The bearded police detective nodded and said, "So we did not recklessly characterize you as a major suspect... Please understand what we are doing now You have done all the necessary procedures, and you are the only person who had direct contact with the victim before he disappeared, so you maintain a very important position in this case!"
"Amala acted very scared on the phone." Mandy said softly, "I can feel her panic through the phone. It's not fake...it's the fear of near collapse. I think she really only has Only when you see something incredible and indescribable fear can you tremble like that."
"Do you still insist on what you think... Your best friend has met a ghost... We found several bloody kitchen knives at the scene. Your best friend is very brave. At least she confronted the devil head-on and stabbed him. "The bearded detective said with a slight sigh. "To be honest, the first time I arrived at the scene, I thought I had met a ghost... But the police station and the people above would not consider this a valid confession. They would say that you were either scared to death. Either you are the murderer trying to cover up his crimes."
"I don't care." Mandy said calmly, "If you think I am suspicious, you can issue an arrest warrant, provided you can find evidence. When I am chatting with you now, it is very likely that many detectives have already Did you go to my house to collect evidence?"
The bearded detective said nothing, but his eyes quietly avoided Mandy.
"I stand by my confession, but I also believe that my friend is not dead yet," Mandy said. "I will not believe that she is dead until I see her body."
It was at this time that the door of the interrogation room was knocked open, and a female police officer walked in from the outside. She walked up to the bearded detective with a phone and handed it to him. The detective took the phone and listened for a few minutes. Seconds later, he raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Mandy. He twirled his beard and whispered a few words before holding down the phone.
"I wasted too much of your time, Miss Gonzalez. On behalf of the police department, I would like to express my sincere apology to you... We will truthfully record your statement here. The blood stains at the scene are now being tested for matching. I believe it can be It is an important key to promote the entire case. If there are further breakthroughs in the case and we need your help, we will visit you as soon as possible." The bearded detective stood up and reached for the handcuff key from his waist. Help Mandy untie her hands.
"Don't you think my confession is just the imagination of a frightened little girl?" Mandy asked, looking at her untied hands.
"Maybe, in my opinion, your confession is still not very good." The bearded detective said, "But at least compared to the confession, you have a very good uncle, the mayor... As of now, it seems that you have not committed any crime. You have no motive and no ability to commit crimes, so we have no reason to detain you for more than twelve hours, and as far as I know, a girl cannot carry a sofa and swing it around."
At the murder scene, a sofa was inserted into the wall, leading directly to the bedroom next door. That scene was the second most horrifying scene.
"Does uncle know about this?" Mandy glanced at the phone on the table and roughly understood what happened. She sighed, "Can I leave now?"
"Of course, your car is parked in front of the police station and you can leave at any time." The bearded detective said.
"Detective...what do you think the truth of this matter is?" Mandy looked at the bearded detective sitting in her seat and asked as she stood up to leave, "Based on your intuition from so many years of experience in handling cases. "
"Intuition?" The bearded detective said after a moment of silence, "I don't think there really is a monster... at least I won't easily blame the incomprehensible case on the monster. This is a sign of incompetence."
"So you think this is still a man-made crime?"
"Yes." The bearded detective nodded, looking at Mandy with determination in his eyes, "I also hope that Miss Gonzalez can take the initiative to stay away from the follow-up of this case after you are out of suspicion... I don't Hopefully there will be a second victim soon."
"She is my friend. I don't want to let it go... I hope you can make further discoveries. I am more eager to find my friend than any of you." Mandy said softly, her eyes filled with tears. Tired, he walked straight out of the interrogation room.
She hadn't slept a wink all night.
In the interrogation room, the bearded police detective and the tall police detective looked back at the girl's leaving figure, and after a long time they spoke to each other, "Do you think she really has no suspicion?"
"I don't know." The bearded detective whispered, "I just know that the town of Carmel will not be peaceful during this period... Be prepared to work overtime and die in the line of duty! My friend..."
