Song Xiaotian seemed to have grown used to things like this.
"In a big enough forest, you get every kind of bird."
"Let's wait for word from Officer Liu. He's an old hand. Since he agreed to help us, he probably won't let us down."
I nodded and stopped complaining.
But seeing how pitiful Meng Yifan had looked earlier, I simply couldn't help myself.
I felt this was fucking bullying, plain and simple.
Now that Meng Yifan had been arrested, there was no way he would be released after just forty-eight hours.
The drunk-driving charge alone was enough for them to detain him for fifteen days without any trouble.
That evening, Song Xiaotian and I returned to Meng Yifan's home. Seventh Master came over too.
We were all waiting for word from Brother Liu.
Money really could motivate people.
Brother Liu had been terrified of getting dragged into our trouble, but once I offered three hundred thousand, he really did take the money and get to work. He brought us good news that very night.
He had gotten the surveillance footage!
The footage came from the camera outside that villa's entrance. It clearly recorded when Du Yunting had gone in and when he had come out, as well as when Meng Yifan had appeared at the entrance and when he had disappeared from it.
We watched the entire recording carefully and wrote down every time the two men appeared.
According to the footage, Du Yunting had entered the villa at 11:20 p.m. and walked back out at 11:51 p.m.
Meng Yifan had appeared outside the villa at 11:35 p.m. He had stood at the entrance like a block of wood for five minutes before leaving, disappearing from the front entrance.
After watching the footage, we were all dumbfounded.
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