The Devil Doctor's Spicy Love
Chapter 80: The maze

Chapter 80: The maze

Eventually, Yong withdrew her gaze and looked away.

"You...!" Yibo threateningly bent his body as if he would jump at Jia to strangle her.

"Don’t be stupid, Yibo!" Aang sent a warning glare along his way.

"Yes, let it go Yibo - *cough cough*" Jinping urged, sweating hard.

Yibo felt a hand on his shoulder to pull him back, irking him like anything. "Get your hand off me Shilin!"

Shilin let out a small smile. "You should calm down, Yibo. Inspector Song is just doing her job. The scans don’t lie. Dr. Yang is right. Anhe cannot suffer that much damage by an accident. Even if she was running at full speed with all that adrenaline inside her, crashing against a wall might have at most caused abrasions and a concussion, not a deformity in the very bone."

Jia raised her brow slowly, appreciating that at least somebody in the group was reasonable.

Yibo balled his fist, his knuckles tightening with rage. "I hate being threatened."

He whispered into his ear. "But what you did was uncalled for. I suggest you apologize to Mr. Lu or else Inspector Song looks really serious with the litigation against you. I believe you wouldn’t want to get kicked out from college for the fourth time, right? That will be pretty damning."

His gaze darkened.

"Let’s not pick a fight with a cop, shall we? She can choose to make the interrogation difficult for us if she wants," he smiled.

"Calm the fuck down, Yibo," Aang quietly snarled. "You will fucking get us all in trouble."

Facing pressure from both sides, Yibo caved in and grudgingly apologized. "Sorry."

Shilin smiled at Jia. "Yibo has realized his mistake, Mr. Lu, Inspector Song. We apologize for this unnecessary commotion. I hope you forgive him."

Bojing peeked at him from Jia’s back and radiated his gratitude through his beaming gaze.

Lanying grinned. "I knew that Jia could easily handle that puny brat."

Jia said, "So if your friend is done with it, can I continue with my questioning? Let’s start with the easy one. Does anybody know what was in Anhe’s phone that made somebody break it so badly?"

There was a tense silence.

She narrowed her eyes at Daxia, who was frequently throwing nervous stares towards the guys’ group. "Yes, Daxia. I feel you have something to say."

She jolted upright. "No, n-not really...It’s Anhe’s phone. How would I know anything?"

She neither believed nor disbelieved her and threw a glance at the rest of them. "Anybody else?"

Aang shrugged. Jinping shook his head too. Shilin said, "I am relatively new in the group so I don’t know much."

"Oh," she then looked at Yong, "You?"

Since Yong definitely had some beef with the group, Jia thought it was reasonable to assume that she might know something.

She immediately felt a stark rise in the edginess as if she just stepped on a landmine.

Yong smiled, neither admitting nor denying anything. "How would I know? I am not her friend, after all."

"Then whose friend are you here?"

"Nobody’s."

"Why would you come to this park trip then?"

"Oh Anhe is such a cheerful extrovert. She likes inviting lonely people and making them feel a part of her group. Right?"

She posed that question to the guys, who seemingly smiled at her. Aang replied. "Yeah Anhe is very caring."

Jia cocked her brow with interest.

She said, "If I missed pointing out before then I would highlight that lying would only make your life difficult. First, one of you or perhaps all three of you have lied that none met Anhe. But that’s not the case. Somebody attacked her and was very furious to break the phone and hide it like that. Now you claim that you don’t know what possibly could be in her phone to warrant such an attack. Well then, I will move on to the next question and I hope I get some answers this time or trust me, this interrogation is gonna turn ugly."

She placed a basic blueprint of the horror house on the table given to her by the attendants. She focused on the maze map of the first tunnel and said, "Anhe was found here," she pointed at the incident spot. "You all entered from here."

She marked the entrance of the maze.

"Now I want you three to think hard and remember the path you took while finding the exit. Tell me what you recall about your positions as much as you can. Any landmarks."

Yibo gritted his teeth. "That’s ridiculous! How are we supposed to remember anything? It was a freaking maze!"

She smiled. "I am giving you two options. Either you answer me what’s in that phone or answer what path you took to exit."

Aang asked, "What if we don’t know the answer to both?"

"You can accompany me to the bureau then. You three do realize that you are the prime suspects behind the attack, right? Fortunately, Anhe survived but it could have become life-threatening. This is not a joke so better come out of your picnic mode. Your fun trip ended long ago," she acutely cautioned.

The seriousness of being escorted to the bureau seemed to finally settle in them.

Jinping cleared his throat, taking another sip of water and nervously stepped first. "I-I will try to remember..."

He wiped his forehead and traced his finger on the map. "I think it was around this point that we lost her...? I remember because a gust of fog suddenly came. We lost sight of each other."

"Then?"

He bit his lip. "I think I drifted in the general direction of the right...O-oh this! I remember these orange leaves along the way. I think I pretty much hovered around the entrance part of the maze after the mist came. But I never really came across her."

Yibo went next. "Yeah I remember this deadend..." he pointed at the right side of the map with a large prop tree beside it, "I entered one and decided to sit in until the exit sign would light up. I was bored all alone and just blasted the music in full volume. Then the sign lit up after a while, and I followed it the way out. I was just crashing in the deadend the whole time, so I never met her. I just heard some screams, but I got really annoyed so I turned up the volume in my headphones."

Jia eyed Aang and he looked at the map expressionlessly. "I don’t remember much of the route, but I do remember passing by this big pumpkin here at this dead end. It had given off ghost lighting. Then I just randomly walked until I found the exit."

She studied the landmarks for a moment. In no way was that a concrete proof of their positions at the time of the attack, but she wanted to get a rough idea of the distance between them and Anhe.

The maze is going to make this case very difficult.