Chapter 158 - Getting Information In A Smart Way (2)
Chapter 158: Getting Information In A Smart Way (2)
When Zhao Youlin heard this, her pupils shrank, and her expression changed, which was something rare for her. She instinctively moved a little faster.
Mu Chen had been prepared to speak to the person in the picture a little, but suddenly, he heard a shocked but unfamiliar voice appear behind him. “What did you say?”
The two people in front of the tomb were dumbfounded. They turned their heads to look at the woman who appeared at some point behind them.
Mu Chen sized up Zhao Youlin for a while. Once he was certain he did not know this person, he frowned and asked a little warily, “And you are…?”
The moment Mu Chen asked this, he snapped Zhao Youlin out of the shock given to her by the shocking news. At that moment, she realized that due to her shock, she had actually moved in front of these two people.
When Mu Chen asked this question, she found herself speechless, and after panicking for a while, she asked, “I’m… I’m… Oh, I’m Zhao Youlin’s friend. My surname is also Zhao, so you can just call me Ms. Zhao.”
“Sister Lin’s friend?” Mu Chen cast Zhao Youlin a puzzled glance and mumbled, “I grew up together with Sister Lin, and I never heard that she had a friend like you. Besides, I didn’t see you on the day of Sister Lin’s funeral. You…”
“Ah, this is what happened.” After a brief period of panic, Zhao Youlin soon regained her usual calm. Before Mu Chen fully suspected her, she explained, “I got to know… Sister Youlin, ahem, online. Since we got along, we slowly became good friends. We met each other a few times in person, but it wasn’t a lot of times. Most of the time, we just chatted with each other online or chatted with each other through video calls. It’s not strange for you to have never met me before.”
After saying this, Zhao Youlin added this sentence to increase her believability, “Um, do you remember that Sister Youlin went to Friset to work during April last year? At that time, I went over there to pick her up.”
In truth, when she went to work during April last year, Zhao Youlin had received a secret mission and was sent to Friset to mobilize forces in preparation to capture escaped convicts who ran to Friset.
However, this matter was a secret. At that time, Zhao Youlin had only told Mu Chen that she was going to Friset. She never went into detail about what she was doing there.
Now, it gave Zhao Youlin a chance to develop her story freely so that she could deceive Mu Chen.
“So, you’re someone from Friset?” Aside from him, only a handful of people in the police station knew that Sister Lin went to Friset to work in April. If this woman knew about it, could it be that she was really Sister Lin’s friend?
With that thought in mind, Mu Chen’s gaze on Zhao Youlin changed a little. At the very least, he was not as guarded as before.
Zhao Youlin saw his reaction, and her eyes sparkled a little. She nodded and sighed, “Yes, I’m from Friset. The city is pretty far from Shalnork, and I’ve basically only ever met Sister Youlin online, so I’m not up to date when it comes to her. I haven’t met her for a few months online, so I thought that she went on some emergency mission. After all, something like this has happened before, so I didn’t pay too much attention to it. I didn’t expect…”
When Zhao Youlin said this, she put on a slightly sad expression in a timely fashion, making Mu Chen and An Kexin believe in her even more.
“I just found out that Sister Youlin accidentally… passed away during a mission a few months ago. I didn’t know about this when her funeral procession was being carried out, so I… Sigh, once I learned about this, I immediately rushed here. I didn’t expect to meet both of you here, and I heard that you even captured Sister Youlin’s killer, so I got worked up and rushed over. I’m sorry if I offended you.”
Zhao Youlin’s words sounded really logical. While Mu Chen and An Kexin did not believe her fully, they already pretty much trusted her.
“I see.”
To prevent the both of them from suspecting anything, Zhao Youlin asked something intentionally, “Mister, Miss, who might you two be?”
It was only at that moment that Mu Chen and An Kexin remembered that they had not introduced themselves. They quickly said, “Ms. Zhao, hello. I’m Jiang Muchen, and this is An Kexin. We’re both Sister Lin’s colleagues and good friends.”
“Oh, you’re Mu Chen? Sister Youlin often mentioned you.”
“Sister Lin mentioned me to you before?” Mu Chen was stunned, then said rather shyly, “Sister Lin must have said a lot of bad things about me.”
When Zhao Youlin heard this, she chuckled in her heart. She knew it, he might appear to have grown up a little, but at the end of the day, he was still a child at heart.
“Sister Youlin did often grumble how you always make her worry, but I can tell that she loves you a lot. She has always been proud and relieved for having a friend and younger brother like you.”
Mu Chen was stunned, then the awkward, shy smile on his face turned gentle because of Zhao Youlin’s words. A clear, nostalgic look appeared in his eyes. “Is it? So… that’s how Sister Lin looks at me, but she never told me these things before.”
When Zhao Youlin saw what he looked like, she was a little sad too. But she had to fight down the urge to tell him that she was a woman that never voiced her thoughts and was proud of him as her younger brother.
Since they were talking about Zhao Youlin, the distance between them instantly closed up by quite a huge margin, and they were now not as distant as before.
Zhao Youlin could tell that Mu Chen was no longer as guarded as before, so she could not help but test the waters. “Speaking of which, you mentioned that the criminal who killed Sister Youlin was caught. Is that true?”
Since Mu Chen had pretty much believed that the person in front of him was Zhao Youlin’s friend at this point, when he heard Zhao Youlin ask this question, he decided not to hide it anymore. After all, right now, this case was no longer a secret. He sighed and said, “Sister Lin was killed during a special mission a few months ago. At that time, we were going to capture a group of dangerous people, and Sister Lin charged into the fray ahead of us. Every time we carry out missions, she always rushes to the front. In the end, the enemy was too cunning. They used the information that we had, and we were ambushed. Sister Lin was also…” When Mu Chen said this, his eyes turned red. Clearly, he remembered the scene where Zhao Youlin fell down after she was shot. “After Sister Lin died, I did my best to chase down those cunning criminals. Recently, I captured all of them and took revenge for Sister Lin.”
The light shining in Zhao Youlin’s eyes became dimmer when Mu Chen said this. So, the boy was talking about the criminals they were after. She thought that the boy was actually that good and managed to capture the traitor who shot her.
But Zhao Youlin thought about this from another angle and found that it made sense. The traitor’s shot had come from a cunning angle. It practically pierced her heart while stuck to the other bullet. No one could tell from the outside.
The police officers who died on duty did not need to have their bodies checked. After their bodies were cremated, all evidence would be gone, so how could Mu Chen discover anything?
This… was all preempted!