Just as Liu Yanbo had guessed, people came looking for him one after another.
The third person was Pan Yuyi.
Pan Yuyi spent all morning in the Transport Department looking through surveillance footage, but nothing was gained from it. Still, her instinct told her Liu Yanbo must’ve had something to do with the occurred.
She was a policewoman, naturally, she couldn’t handle the case by instinct, but she still wanted to confront Liu Yanbo.
The location chosen was the same small restaurant where they ate last time
Liu Yanbo came faster than Pan Yuyi imagined, not by an exaggerated amount, just five minutes earlier.
This time Pan Yuyi didn’t choose a table in the corner but instead asked for a small private room.
When Liu Yanbo came in, Pan Yuyi was ordering food from a waiter. She looked up and asked, “What would you like to eat? It’s my treat.”
It was a small private room with a big round table in the center.
If two people, especially a man and a woman, sat opposite each other at a big round table fit for eight people, it would look a little awkward.
Liu Yanbo scratched his neck and directly walked to the seat next to Pan Yuyi, saying afterward: “Anything, as long as it can fill my stomach. I’m not a picky eater.”
“Then we’ll have these please.” Pan Yuyi said to the waiter, pointing to some dishes on the menu. Once she was done, she turned to look at Liu Yanbo.
After such a long time, this man didn’t change one bit. He’s still ordinary, with the same indifferent personality as well.
Did he really not kill Jiu Ye?
Before they met, Pan Yuyi was more than 50% sure that he did, but now, she couldn't even say she was 10% sure.
He was an ordinary man struggling to live at the lowest level of society. Such a person did not resemble a demon who could kill eleven people in a row.
“You came pretty quickly.” Pan Yuyi wasn’t in a hurry to get into the topic. She hadn't eaten anything the entire morning and was a little hungry. She didn't want to talk about bloody things on an empty stomach.
"I happened to be near here when you called." Liu Yanbo chattered away: "Besides, Captain Pan personally invited me. Even if I was at the end of the world, I would still have to hurry to not keep you waiting, right?"
“Although Captain Pan, to what do I owe this pleasure?” Liu Yanbo asked knowingly, then waved his hand saying: "If you’re here for those scumbags’ whereabouts, I have nothing to tell you. These days I’ve been heading out early and returning late from work, but I haven’t encountered any suspicious clients.”
Pan Yuyi frowned: “Haven’t you seen the news?”
“Business has been doing well lately, I’ve been busy until now. I don’t even have enough time to eat lunch, so there’s no time to read the news.” Liu Yanbo asked back: “Why? Did something special happen in today’s news?”
Pan Yuyi didn’t say anything, she just attentively watched Liu Yanbo, she wouldn’t let any change of expression pass unnoticed.
There wasn’t much change to his expression, there was only a trace of doubt in his calm tone.
It seems like he really doesn’t know about it?
Pan Yuyi retracted her gaze, took a sip of herbal tea, shook her head, and said, "I'll talk about it after dinner."
Liu Yanbo nodded, took out a cigarette, and was about to light it. But when he saw Pan Yuyi frowning next to him, he had to give up.
The food was served quickly, and within a short while, the three dishes and one soup had arrived.
Liu Yanbo had always had a big appetite. The two eggs he ate during lunch weren’t enough to satisfy it at all. Pan Yuyi was even more hungry, if not starving, she hadn’t eaten a single grain of rice all day. The two ate as if they were racing against each other. Their mouths never stopped munching and their hands never rested aside. The food was gone in an instant.
“hip~” Liu Yanbo hiccuped, rubbed his belly and smiled: “It’s not the same when someone treats you, I might have eaten two bowls extra from the usual amount.”
Pan Yuyi glanced at Liu Yanbo and ignored his playful words: "Where were you last night?"
“Last night a homicide occurred in a private house of the western suburbs. Among the victims were Huang Jiucheng and one of his subordinates, and also nine Undercurrent scumbags. There were 11 people in total and none of them survived. Did you do this?”. Adhering to the investigation protocol was not Pan Yuyi’s style. She preferred a more direct and trouble-free method, which was one of the main reasons why she was never put responsible for planning tactics.
Liu Yanbo was astonished and looked at Pan Yuyi with a shocked expression.
Is this woman a fool? Does she think she can solve a case like this?
She doesn’t even show any evidence and just expects me to confess to murder. Does she take me for an idiot?
"I was sleeping at home." Liu Yanbo rolled his eyes and said with displeasure: "If you don't believe me, you can ask Zizhu Garden’s security, or you can check the surveillance footage to see if had gone out again after arriving home in the afternoon."
Did he really have to remind her of these?
Pan Yuyi wasn’t actually a fool, before coming, she had already gone to Zizhu Garden to investigate, and even visited Ruomeng Group to ask Yin Hanruo. All the answers she got were the same- ‘Liu Yanbo was at home last night, I didn't see him go out.’
The only reason she was questioning him face to face was because she had already tried everything. Of course, she knew that such questioning without evidence was meaningless, but at the same time, she had a bit of silly hope in her heart.
She couldn’t find evidence no matter how much she looked, why was she so persistent on Liu Yanbo? Did she hate him?
Actually, it wasn’t that Pan Yuyi hoped Liu Yanbo did it, nor did she deliberately target him and wanted to punish him. It was just because of her curiosity.
If it was him, how did he do all this?
Of course, there was also her sense of responsibility as a police officer, fighting crime, and not missing any suspicious person.
“I went there, and afterward I even visited your wife’s company.” Pan Yuyi didn’t have anything to hide.
Liu Yanbo raised his eyebrows and asked, "Have you found any evidence that makes you suspect me?"
Pan Yuyi shook her head.
If there’s no evidence, go look for it. Why the hell do you need me here for?
Liu Yanbo was close to exploding, so he finally asked: "Then why do you suspect me?"
Pan Yuyi thought about it and went through the original idea in her mind before saying with certainty: “Because among all Huang Jiucheng’s enemies, you’re the only one that has enough power to do this.”
Jiu Ye had always had a lot of enemies. Although he had kept a low profile in recent years, more and more people wanted him to die, but he was always in good health and lived in peace and stability.
When every person that hated Jiu Ye and wanted him to die were waiting for a miracle, an ordinary taxi driver suddenly appeared.
Less than two weeks after the two of them started having problems, the famous Jiu Ye was found tragically killed in the place he thought was the most secretive and safe.
This made people have to doubt Liu Yanbo!
Pan Yuyi meaningfully said: "I think your information has appeared on many people's desktops, and some people will work hard to fill out the blanks. Some won't care about laws and regulations. They don’t even want to avenge Huang Jiucheng, they just want to find out more about you."
A taxi driver who seemed to be very skilled was already questionable. The fact that he still had more than 20 years’ worth of files of his life made it even more mysterious.
Now, some people were even more interested in his previous unregistered 20 years than whether he killed Jiu Ye or not.
Of course, this didn’t mean his life was now surrounded by danger. But it did mean that for at least a period he would not be able to live as unknown as he did when he first starting living in Haishi.
Liu Yanbo had a headache.
He would now attract attention, it was the result he had wanted the least.
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