"So you punched him once?" Officer Jenny Meng sat in Heath's food truck, holding a pen and a notebook as she gave him an odd look. Heath nodded as though it went without saying. He admitted that he really had only punched the man once. He had not so much as used an extra finger. He had simply thrown one punch and done nothing else afterward.
After all, this A-Yu had quite a talent for acting. Heath had only punched him once, and he had immediately flown backward, crashed into the opposite wall, and spat out several mouthfuls of blood, looking as though he was about to die.
"I suspect he was trying to scam me! I really only punched him once." Heath was furious. Were there any decent people left these days? The man had come to steal his food truck, and Heath had merely punched him once, but who could have known he would start coughing up blood? Heath strongly suspected that A-Yu's original plan had been to provoke him into throwing a punch so that he could fall to the ground and extort him.
Officer Jenny Meng pinched the bridge of her nose. Naturally, she believed what Heath said, but calling it a scam was really stretching things a little. In fact, even if Heath had thrown many punches rather than just one, she would not have minded. After all, they had found gasoline and a knife on A-Yu, along with rope and tape. What he had intended to do was as plain as day.
It was just that...
Officer Jenny Meng looked at the report in her hands. According to Miss Nurse Joy Light's on-site examination, A-Yu had four broken ribs and bruising on his back from a heavy impact, as though he had been in