"Police office."

"Miss, please open the door."

It's nighttime now.

I lay on the couch playing a game, feeling dazed.

My finger movements were getting slower and slower.

Vaguely, I heard a man's voice outside.

A teammate's cursing message appeared in the lower-left corner, but I had no interest in looking at it.

Because the person outside knocked on the door three times again, not too hard nor too soft.

My heart skipped a beat, suddenly feeling a bad premonition.

After hurriedly exiting the game, I composed myself.

I got up, put on my shoes, and walked cautiously towards the door, turning the doorknob carefully.

"Hello~ Officer, good evening!"

I opened the door.

At this moment, my forced cheerfulness and awkward, sheepish smile faded in the quiet stairwell.

The visitor was tall.

At least my height only reached his chest.

If I'm 1.65 meters, then he must be nearly 1.9 meters.

"Hello, Miss Jiang."

A deep, somewhat muffled voice sounded from behind the mask.

He was wearing a police uniform and a hat, looking down at me.

Probably due to the pandemic, he was also wearing a mask.

The officer seemed to smile.

His eyes, dark as ink, stared at me, with a ripple at the corner of his eyes.

"Officer, why are you here so late?" Realizing he was probably young, I immediately changed my tone.

"There's something..."

His voice was light, with a bit of nonchalance.

"We were notified to come to Chaoyang Community to take statements from each household."

The officer took out a notebook and then found a pen from his pants pocket.

At this moment, my mood was anxious.

However, I remained calm on the surface.

I smiled and invited the officer inside to sit.

Turning around, I pondered a strategy.

The officer paused, then followed me in.

Seeing him sit on the couch, I hurried to pour him a glass of mineral water.

After taking a deep breath, we began the interview awkwardly.

"Yesterday afternoon, the resident of apartment 301 in this building suddenly died."

"Do you know about this?"

"Ah, yes! It's been widely discussed, everyone in the community probably knows..."

I chuckled, but I felt my mouth muscles stiffen in his gaze.

My hand unconsciously tightened on my clothes.

He glanced at me, quickly jotting notes in his notebook.

"Did you see any strange people?"

"Strange?"

"Or someone who shouldn't be in this building."

The air suddenly fell silent, the officer seemed to wait for my answer.

I lowered my head, recalling the scenes from yesterday afternoon.

Actually, I had returned around two or three in the afternoon when the incident happened.

Because I forgot an important document at the company, I quickly took a taxi back to get it.

Unfortunately, there was a power outage in the entire community, and the elevator was out of service.

So I had to climb the stairs.

Thinking about it now, maybe I was really unlucky.

When I passed the third floor, I suddenly heard the sound of a chair tipping over.

I glanced through the window crack and only saw a man entering the room with his back to me.

Thinking of this, I looked at the officer nervously, meeting his gaze.

After a long while, I confessed to him: "I seemed to see a man..."

"Oh?"

He made a strange sound from his throat.

"Did you see his face clearly?"

I shook my head, innocently and excitedly said:

"I don't know if that person was the deceased, I only saw his back... but he entered the room!"

It's just that I didn't pay much attention at the time, anxious to get my documents.

Who could have imagined so much could happen in just one afternoon?

"You're lying."

To my surprise, the officer's note-taking stopped suddenly.

He looked up at me, his eyes deep and unreadable.

Somehow, my heart skipped a beat.

Subconsciously, I quickly waved my hand.

"I really didn't lie to you!"

"I can't be sure the person I saw was the murderer."

"If I hadn't heard people discussing it when I returned last night, I wouldn't have known the person was dead..."

After listening to my explanation, the officer suddenly smiled.

"Okay, Miss Jiang. Let's stop here for now. I'll contact you if there's anything else."

Before leaving, his deep, hoarse voice lingered in my ears.

The door closed with a bang.

I watched his departing figure through the peephole.

A feeling of unease rose in my heart.

But I couldn't grasp why.