Chapter 328: An unconventional arrest
After a few screams, everything fell quiet, but Old Shan and Xiao He still dared not move.
Sweat had soaked their clothes. After their initial nervous sweating, the night wind now left both of them feeling terribly cold.
Time crawled by. Neither dared look at his phone, so they had no idea how long it had been.
Fortunately, there were two of them. Alone, either might have been scared to death.
In any case, there was no chance of them accidentally falling asleep until dawn. Every passing moment was filled with tension.
Finally, Xiao He came up with an idea. He quietly took off his coat and covered his head with it, then carefully set his phone to silent and disabled vibration before texting his coworkers to ask them to call the police.
It was only around nine at night, well before most people went to bed. Several coworkers received his group text.
The message said only: "Someone's been killed in the cemetery. Old Shan and I are in danger. Call the police for help immediately!"
Perhaps twenty minutes passed. Perhaps it was as long as two years.
Only when they heard sirens did the two men finally let out a great sigh of relief.
They had never noticed it before, but now that they were in danger, the sound of police sirens seemed like the most beautiful music in the world.
Although Jin County fell directly under Rongcheng's jurisdiction, homicides were rare for the local police. Even a potentially false report had to be taken seriously, especially when several employees of Little Gray Mountain Cemetery called at once.
With a cemetery in the mountains as the location, all sorts of possibilities came to mind, from murder and body dumping to kidnapping. A large