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Chapter 010
Beeihae Shinnshiow
There was silence for a few moments. Might be forty or fifty seconds. Shinnshiow didn't know what was going on. The two friends who were in the room looked at each other with a slightly odd look in their eyes.
"What do you think?" Yihshyong asked.
"I feel something strange about Dahge." Iren walked over to the bed where Shinnshiow was lying. "Dahge was acting very mysterious."
"Right now, I don't dare to voice my opinion about it. I don't know how Dahge's mental state was just before he disappeared," said Shinnshiow.
"I get the impression that Dahge knows a lot more than he's telling us." Yihshyong said that in a tone filled with caution.
"So you think Dahge is just faking his amnesia?" Iren stared deeply at Yihshyong.
"Could be so. Maybe for a few days Dahge disappeared to investigate. After successfully uncovering some surprising facts, Dahge felt that what he knew could even threaten his life." Yihshyong said in a voice so low it was almost a whisper.
"So by pretending to be amnesiac, Dahge hopes that those who don't want their secrets to be spread feel calm so they don't have to take extreme measures to silence Dahge," said Iren.
"And by not telling us the truth, Dahge is actually protecting us. If we know things that the public shouldn't know. There's a chance we'll become targets for criminals who fear their secrets will be found out." Yihshyong launched those words with twinkling eyes.
"Wait a minute!" Shinnshiow exclaimed. "Isn't this all just your imagination? This is just your confirmation bias. There is absolutely no scientific basis."
"Maybe my words are too much," said Iren. "But I'm almost certain that Dahge was pretending to forget what had happened to him."
"What evidence is there that Dahge was just pretending?" Shinnshiow challenged Iren to prove his words.
"I don't have any proof. But in all the years I've known Dahge, I've been able to more or less distinguish between Dahge's expression when he's in a normal state and when he's hiding something," said Iren.
"I have no proof either," Yihshyong said. "But I can point out things that aren't natural."
"Please, Shyongge, shed some light on this stupid mind of mine," asked Shinnshiow.
"If you notice, Dahge didn't mention Miss Liuchiou at all. He didn't even react at all when you mentioned Miss Liuchiou when you were explaining what happened."
"Maybe he knows that Miss Liuchiou is okay," said Shinnshiow.
"How would he know that? Remember, he had fainted before?" said Iren.
"Perhaps Tsaehorng told him that Miss Liuchiou is fine," said Shinnshiow.
"Do you realize what really happened between those two?" Yihshyong seemed a little worried because he might have assumed that Shinnshiow was slow to think.
"Between aware and not," said Shinnshiow. "But I'm more inclined to be aware."
Yihshyong sighed. "Even if Tsaehorng had told him about Miss Liuchiou's condition, Dahge still wouldn't have believed it. He would have urged Tsaehorng to take him to see Miss Liuchiou. Instead of coming straight to us."
"But Miss Liuchiou is now in another hospital, which is probably very far from here. I think Dahge is sane enough not to insist on being taken there," said Shinnshiow.
"You know that whoever the person is, will most likely lose their sanity if they are infected with feelings like that," said Yihshyong. "Even if he hadn't asked Tsaehorng or one of us to drive him there, he should have asked someone else to check on Miss Liuchiou. In fact, he didn't."
Shinnshiow could only nod. He didn't know what to say.
"It means, from the start, Dahge is sure that Miss Liuchiou is fine. Or at least he already knows that her condition is not a cause for concern."
This is indeed a bit odd. Maybe they are right!
Yihshyong stared at Shinnshiow. "What do you think?" Shinnshiow shook his head. "Not enough information for me to come to a conclusion."
"Further than that." Iren opened his mouth again. "It's possible that their presence, tied up in the basement, in a house that happens to be close to this place is just a way for Dahge to have an excuse to say that he doesn't remember anything that happened before this. If the police were observant in investigating this matter, perhaps they would find irregularities in the series of events that occurred around there, which occurred before they were found. How did the people around the house first suspect that something bad had happened in the house?"
"I suspect that from the start you guys suspected Dahge was lying," said Shinnshiow. "I even suspect that Shyongge and Renge are hiding something. Something you didn't tell the rest of our friends. For example, Yihge and Chioujen."
"Wow! It turns out that our Shinnshiow is only pretending to be slow in thinking." Iren laughed. "Shyongge, you have been lied to by our Shinnshiow."
"But the point is," Yihshyong said. "I still believe that everything Dahge does is for the good of all of us. So I don't blame Dahge at all."
There was a knock on the door. Then two policemen came inside.
"Has the doctor allowed you to ask for information from Mr. Beeihae?" asked Iren.
"Not yet, Sir," said one of them.
"Then what should you do now?" Yihshyong asked.
"Our job is actually not to ask for a statement from Mr. Beeihae, but just to look after him. The two policemen who were on duty to request a statement have returned to the police station. We don't know when they will be back here. Therefore, we have an additional task, namely gathering as much information as we can and as much as possible. For example, earlier we have heard things that Mr. Beeihae said to the doctors. We have also heard a bit from Mr. Mingju about what Mr. Beeihae said related to his kidnapping case. So for the time being , the police, who we are currently representing, don't have any further questions that we would like to ask Mr. Beeihae."
"If it's not about that matter, then you guys have good news for us." Yihshyong's face brightened once the words left his lips.
"That's right, Sir! Our commander told us to share this news with the gentlemen who are here."
"Please tell me," said Yihshyong.
"We have managed to trace the whereabouts of the two bags. We even managed to arrest several people when we found the two bags."
"Excellent," said Yihshyong "Thank you, Sir!"
"We don't know the details yet. So we can't provide clearer information yet."
"It's all right, Sir. Later we will ask Mr. Chioulin directly," said Yihshyong.
The two police officers saluted and quickly left the room.
"It looks like everything will be over in a day or two," said Iren.
"It's about time." Yihshyong exhaled air from his mouth.
"This is really encouraging news amidst a wave of uncertainty." Shinnshiow smiled. "If this are novel, the readers would have been so annoyed because even though it has reached more than a hundred chapters, the story is still spinning wildly."
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