When James heard Winnie’s question, he instinctively handed her the phone.

“Here, you can see—” As soon as those words escaped his mouth, James stopped abruptly, remembering that Winnie could no longer see.

Coughing drily to cover up his embarrassment, he quickly retracted his hand. “The texts that he had previously sent you are still kept in the phone,” he explained.

Winnie furrowed her eyebrows upon hearing that. “The chat history between him and me is kept, but not the others?”

“That’s right. He probably cleared the data on his phone before contacting you. Even the call history had been cleared. However…” James changed the point of focus. “There’s a missed call during the day of the incident. Unfortunately, we only discover this now. It has been a few days since the incident. If the caller was Harold’s ally, they would have probably gotten the news that Harold had gone into hiding.”

Winnie nodded in response. “Are there any clues we can obtain from the phone number?”

James shook his head no. “I don’t think so. It’s obvious that this is a fake number generated by the internet. We most likely wouldn’t be able to find anything, but these are all just my assumptions.”

As he spoke, he passed the phone to David, who was standing beside him. “Take a look.”

David accepted the phone from James and confirmed that it was a fake number with just one glance. “Phone numbers like this are usually a one-time random generation. There’s not much value in this discovery. The number will definitely be unavailable.”

The keys of the old phone were proportionately much smaller compared to David’s thumb. As he was inspecting the phone number, he accidentally pressed the dial button.

Startled that he had pressed the button, he quickly reassured the others, “It’s ok. Everything’s fine. It won’t affect anything. After all, the number is unavailable.”

Amused, James teased David in feigned anger. “You’re almost forty years old. How are you as clumsy as a prepubescent boy?”

“Hehe.” David chuckled sheepishly before handing the phone back to James. “See? Nothing happened!”

Winnie had lost her sight. Naturally, she had no clue about what had just happened.

her head toward Xavier and whispered, “What

in Xavier’s heart as he saw Winnie in that state. It was as though someone had stabbed his heart repeatedly with a

seconds

lightly. “I see. It probably wouldn’t change

and Xavier, he turned the speaker’s volume up. The automated voice of the device could be heard loud and clear. “The number you

It could have been a disaster if someone were to pick up the call. We should send this phone back to the station as soon as possible and let the tech guys try

became solemn. “Madam Winnie Garland, on behalf of the police department and the school, we would like to

execution, Greta and David stood up straight and gave Winnie

see, Winnie could hear the shuffling noises of all three of them

stood up and

this phone with us now and stop disturbing your peace. Rest well. If you find any clues or are in need

Winnie smiled. “Police are working for the sake of our country. I will contact

Winnie with a smile. “Once your quarantine is over, I’ll bring you out

spoke, Winnie

quickly stretched out her arms and stopped Winnie in her

of them turned around to

the old phone in David’s

sudden sound, David quickly

he was

is it?” James

probably a generated online dial as well. Could it be the same ally that called Harold a few days ago? What do we do?

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