No one woke her but the smell of food awoke her.
She got up and saw that Detective Cheng had just finish laying a plate of food and pointed to her "That's yours".
When she sat down at the table, she also notice a metal key
He turned to her while holding the spatula, "you know what this is?" using the spatula to point at the keys. She nodded, "This is the key to the door?"
Detective Cheng then thought for a moment, I guess they did have locks and keys back then.
"Hey look I'm just going to show you how it works anyways, he open the door then showed how it was locked when he used the key to turn and open.
An Jian nodded then asked "Does that mean I should come back here tonight?"
Detective Cheng swallowed for a moment "Yes you can stay here as long as you want, its not a big deal, we are working on the same case and I can keep an eye on you. I think it works out for the both of us"
An Jian looked at him with gratitude "Thank you, I promise I won't damage anything else"
Detective Cheng seeing she was still feeling guilty about the table "Seriously it's nothing, think of this place as yours, you can eat anything, use anything you see in my apartment, I'm really not attached to anything here" he then checked his watch "Take your time and eat, I need to head to the station"
As An Jian stared at her egg and toast breakfast, Detective Cheng hurriedly left waving good bye
When Detective Cheng finally arrived at the office it seemed some of his colleagues were waiting for him. As he walked in he looked at everyone and ask "Whats up?"
One of his colleagues then excitedly said "You know that cute cosplay girl that was sleeping in the corner out front, she is like some viral circus performer, check this out" They pull up a video on the computer where a costume girl suddenly jumps over the crowd. "Is this done with AI? Where could they even hide the wires there", and wait look at this one, This video showed An Jian standing in front of the punching machine then the punching bag explodes. "I'm guessing she is some kind of actor for staged viral videos?, obviously this can't be real". Detective Cheng seeing the punching bag exploded suddenly looked at his hand remembering when he had asked An Jian to punch his hand holding the pad, causing him to look down at his hand with a sigh of relief.
Detective Cheng seeing his colleague quite distracted ready to click on another video, coughed "Did you get those transcripts on Li Zhao?"
The man passed the transcripts over and also some pictures "These bodies were pulled out of the river today, look at this one, it's some kind of weird palm print, and look at his back, it's like they stuffed fire crackers in his back and blew him to bits"
Detective Cheng narrowed his vision on the black palm, "is this what An Jian was referring to" he said to himself