Chapter 129

The next morning.

Xiang Siling wore a bikini and a towel and walked into the swimming pool of the community club. Sometimes she was the only one here for the whole day. But the staff of the club still kept the water clean and fresh, which was one of the reasons why she liked to swim here.

It was too early, even the lifeguards hadn't arrived yet, and there was only a young female worker in a cleaning uniform busying herself by the pool. However, Xiang Siling unexpectedly spotted a familiar figure on a lounge chair by the pool that she hadn't seen for many days.

He was dressed much more casually today than before when he was in Huayu. He was not wearing a suit, but a black long-sleeved T-shirt and sports pants, which made his skin look even whiter and gave him a bit of the youthfulness of his youth.

Xiang Siling threw away the bath towel and Pingting walked closer. As expected, she saw Luo Huaizheng slightly tilting his head to avoid looking directly at her body.

Xiang Siling chuckled and leaned closer: "Why do you still appear in front of me? Haven't you been fooled enough by me? Haven't I given you everything you want?"

Luo Huaizheng then raised his head, his eyes fixed on her face: "I came here to thank you."

Xiang Siling stood up and started to warm up on the sidelines. Luo Huaizheng turned his head and looked at the water again.

"Thank you very much, I owe you this," she said.

Luo Huaizheng's emotions were complicated. He said, "If I say I don't blame you anymore, you may not believe me, and I can't do it now. But I also know that you were also a child at that time, a few months younger than me. If a girl is controlled and threatened by someone, even if you don't do anything, it can't be said to be your fault.

I always thought I was the worst. But actually, when I was in prison, there were people who cared about me, who guided me and kept me from going astray. People kept telling me that I could start my life over again, and many people helped me. But you didn’t. I heard some of your stories. You didn’t have it any better than me during those years. You lived in another cage.”

Xiang Siling stopped warming up and looked at him sideways. However, Luo Huaizheng was such a person, always as tolerant and calm as the sea. When you look into his clear and peaceful eyes, you know that he really thinks so.

Xiang Siling turned around and jumped into the water.

Luo Huaizheng clasped his hands, sat on a low beach chair, bent over and looked down, silently watching her swim a thousand meters in one breath without stopping, then resurfaced and lay down beside the pool where he was.

"I calmed down for a moment." Her face was wet, and she said with a half-smile, "I was almost fooled by you. Forgiveness, deception, sincerity, or falsehood. I guess the main purpose of your coming here today is to test my strength on behalf of Li Qingyao, right? After all, they have been investigating a certain case for so long, but they still can't find any evidence of the murderer."

For a moment, Luo Huaizheng felt guilty. But he said, "I don't understand what you are talking about."

However, for Xiang Siling, his momentary hesitation was enough to make the judgment.

She tilted her head, resting her head on her arm, and looked at him with the innocence of a child, saying, "Last time, you stayed with me for two months before I remembered that Li Meiling had killed someone. Of course, the brain's memory is also unpredictable. This time, you want to get another truth. Are you planning to wrong yourself and stay with me for two months again?"

Luo Huaizheng simply did not deny it, staring into her eyes and said, "I didn't think so much. But from the moment you mentioned Li Meiling, I knew that you did so much just to help me. It did not do you any good and even brought you trouble.

So I think that you and I think differently. Maybe you don’t want to do bad things. Whether it was seven years ago or now, the decisions you made may have been made with hardship, and you may have been forced into a dead end. Don’t advise others to be good if you don’t know their suffering. Others have no right to judge your life, just like they have no right to laugh at and judge how I went from being a recommended student at Tsinghua University to a prisoner, even though there were many people like that back then. ”

Xiang Siling was stunned for a moment, but soon smiled disdainfully. She was silent for a while, rested her chin on her hands, stared at Luo Huaizheng and said, "Even if you want to coax me now, I don't have the heart to do that. Once the dream is awakened, people should return to reality and face the consequences they have to face. But who made you...you are you? If anyone else came to test me today, I would not pay attention.

Well, Luo Huaizheng, don't you just want to know if I am the real murderer who killed Luo Hongmin? I'll tell you the answer. However, this is my biggest secret, so from now on, I will never owe you anything, and we are finally even. Luo Huaizheng, in this life, I will never feel guilty about you again, and I am relieved. "

——That day, Luo Huaizheng rushed to the police station when it was almost dark.

Li Qingyao and Chen Pu were walking out, each holding a stack of evidence bags. The case of Luo Huaizheng had come to an end, and the two began to read Ye Songming's diary carefully again, but so far, they had not gained anything.

Seeing Luo Huaizheng, Li Qingyao spoke first: "Luo Huaizheng, what's the matter?"

Luo Huaizheng nodded seriously.

The two men immediately took him to the conference room, and Luo Huaizheng first took out the bug that Li Qingyao had given him.

After the audio was played, Luo Huaizheng said solemnly: "Then she did something. This thing is very strange. I don't know what it has to do with Luo Hongmin's death, so I decided to tell you right away."

They both asked in unison: "What's the matter?"

Luo Huaizheng's mind flashed back to the scene he had seen all day. The beautiful and slender woman showed a cold expression for the first time, like a flying fish, swimming freely in the water, not knowing how to get tired and refusing to stop.

"She was swimming the whole time," he said. "She swam for five hours, and only got up once to go to the bathroom, drink a bottle of energy drink, and take two pills, but I don't know what they were. I counted, she swam 5 times, 120 kilometers. This is not something that ordinary people can do, but her speed was very stable. When she came out at the end, her whole face was white and she almost fainted, but she did it."

After Luo Huaizheng left, Chen Pu and Li Qingyao immediately spread out the map of Mingya Lake, opened their investigation notebooks, compared various records, and quickly came to a conclusion -

They couldn't find proof of Xiang Siling's presence because they made a wrong prediction. They only checked the surveillance from 5 kilometers before and after the villa, and assumed that Xiang Siling could only swim 10 kilometers back and forth that night. After all, it was spring, the lake water was cold, and people's physical strength was limited.

But today Xiang Siling told them that she could swim 5 kilometers in 12 hours, so she could go into the water in a place farther away from surveillance and in an absolutely safe place.

"But... there is not enough time." Li Qingyao hesitated.

"Enough." Chen Pu said firmly, "Do you remember, first, it was the night bus driver who deliberately drove very slowly and took 2 and a half hours to arrive. We estimated it based on the normal 1 and a half hour journey. But what if the driver drove faster than usual that night? Then it is possible to shorten it to within 1 hour. Add in the half-hour walk and swimming time, and she can just get to the villa at around 2 o'clock, kill Luo Hongmin, and then meet up with Lu Xing who arrived at the villa at 2:10.

Second, we speculated at the time that the attendant at the Yingzhu Mountain campsite might not have seen Xiang Siling at 7: in the morning, and she was misled. Then, she might have actually arrived at Yingzhu Mountain later, which would have given her more time. "

"But her child is only over 3 years old."

"What if the child is able to cooperate with the mother and forge an alibi?"

Li Qingyao was silent.

Chen Pu sneered and said, "Xiang Siling has clearly admitted to us that she is the real murderer who killed Luo Hongmin. But the reason she dared to expose herself to Luo Huaizheng is that she knew we couldn't find any evidence. There was no surveillance where she went into the water, and the driver didn't see her face. She was completely 'invisible'."

Li Qingyao thought: "But it's not completely without loopholes. Lu Xing, as long as we catch him, we can get a confession; and as for the van of unknown origin, as long as Team Ding can find the source, maybe they can trace it back to Xiang Siling!"

"That's right." Chen Pu said, "It's only a matter of time before we catch her."