Hearing that, Penny hurriedly controlled her mood.
"I won't cry, Dad."
"What did you tell the police about the case..."
Before Richard finished, Penny suddenly hung up the phone.
It occurred to her that the police had been there the day she returned, so she was not sure if there was
any surveillance in the house. If she told her father, it was like telling to the police.
She then sent a text message to her father to tell him why she couldn't continue.
"Dad, if anyone's around you, you mustn't be seen. Delete every message I send you."
Soon Richard replied.
"I know. Don’t tell the truth"
Richard reminded Penny and then deleted the two messages.
Since Richard said so, Penny was sure that someone was with her father, so she followed her father's
instructions.
"I have told my own story; I do not know the rest."
Penny knew her father must have asked this question. Moreover, she must communicate with her
father about this matter. After all, she had something to do with Daniel Wong's death.
"Okay, I know what to do."
Richard said in euphemism, for fear Thomas standing by the window saw it. He did not delete all the
information, as Penny suggested.
So if Thomas wanted to see the message, there was not a big deal.
These were the words they had been waiting for so long.
"What's the matter with your illness? Cancer?"
Richard continued to send messages.
"Don't worry, I'm not ill. I have a doctor who gave me a false diagnosis, otherwise the police wouldn't
have let me out."
"You mustn't tell anyone about it, or I'll have to go in again."
Penny told her father the truth, afraid that her father would be worried.
When Richard read it, he deleted it, and then he felt relieved that Penny did not have cancer.
"Good, talk to you another time."
Richard was in a hurry to end the message because Thomas urged him.
"I found another place, get out of here."
Thomas was eager to ask Richard to leave, because when Richard told him that there was police had
been in Penny’s house and she might be monitored.
If so, Richard's phone number could had been traced. He was not sure about it, but he could not be
careless.
When Richard and Penny were sending messages to each other, Thomas had found another place for
Richard.
Richard deleted all messages from his phone, threw it into the water and left with his luggage ready at
all times.
Penny also deleted all messages, but she still felt worried about being found out, so she wanted to
destroy the phone.
"Ah..."
Penny shouted, and then Oscar ran over.
"What's the matter? Penny, Open the door."
Oscar urgently shouted outside the bathroom. Penny felt sorry to worry Oscar, but now she had to do
so.
Penny went to the door and opened it, and Oscar rushed in.
"What's wrong with you?"
"I am ok, but I dropped the phone in the toilet accidentally. I put the phone in my lap when I finished
and then I forgot about it and dropped it in the toilet when I got up."
Penny said she was unintentional, deceiving her best friend.
Oscar first looked at his phone and saw that it was indeed lying in the toilet and then he said with a
smile.
"I thought it was a big deal. It is ok."
Oscar was indeed relieved, as long as Penny's condition did not worsen.
"But you don't have a phone. I'll buy you one."
It was better for Penny to buy the best phone for Oscar than for her message to be found.
Oscar and Winnie were software masters, and it was easy for them to find what she deleted.
"I used this phone to contact friends, not the one I work with. It doesn't matter that it fell into the water.
You don't have to blame yourself for a phone."
"You don't need to buy one, I will buy myself. Go out, it's time for you to go to bed."
Oscar helped Penny out of the bathroom.
After sending Penny back to her room, Oscar went to the bathroom to deal with the phone that fell into
the toilet.
With the phone soaking in water for so long and nothing important was inside, Oscar decided to throw it
directly into the trash.
Looking at his phone lying in the trash, Oscar suddenly thought of a question. Why did the person
looking for Penny know his number?
He didn't recognize the person by voice.
Although puzzled, Oscar did not explore the question.
Winnie had been busy until eleven o'clock. After a shower, she was ready for bed. As she was just
lying in bed, she got a call from Officer Lee.
"What's up?"
Winnie thought there was a new case.
"Richard appeared."
"Richard?"
Winnie sat up in surprise.
"Yes, but we missed him and he got away. You'd better be careful. He is alert, I don't know what he'll
do."
Office Lee's was chagrined, but it was important to remind Winnie.
"I'm fine. I'll be careful. Tell me how you found him."
Winnie was nervous, but she believed she could overcome it.
"He contacted Penny about an hour ago. He didn't call Penny’s phone, but Oscar’s. But Penny hung up
after a few words.”
"Then she went to the bathroom, and we were able to confirm that she was communicating with
Richard through those wiretaps you installed. Then we found Oscar's phone and used the method you
gave us to locate Richard. By the time we found his location, he had already run away."
Officer Lee outlined the story, but it didn't end well.
"Are you sure it's Richard?"
Winnie asked.
"It's definitely him. We have his fingerprints at the house where he lived and a submerged mobile
phone. It must be infallible."
Officer Lee was pretty sure it was Richard.
"Did you check the security cameras around there?"
Winnie continued to ask, in the monitoring, the whereabouts of Richard could be found.
"The place was isolated and unmonitored, and there were two bad cameras in the junctions nearby.
Richard showed up, but we didn't get a clue."
Officer Lee was helpless. He did not know if Richard's anti reconnaissance ability was strong, or if
someone was there to help him. Officer Lee could not believe he got away so fast.
"That's not easy. I thought if we had surveillance, we would be able to catch him."
Winnie was disappointed. She hoped that Richard would be caught as soon as possible.
"What are you going to do? Should we interrogate Penny?"
"We have studied this matter and cannot alert anyone yet. I think Richard will keep in touch with Penny.
We should still have a chance."
"Find Oscar sometime tomorrow and see if he has found anything. We'll check the neighborhood
tomorrow and see if anyone can help him."
Office Lee did not want to disturb Penny so quickly, on the one hand, Penny would deny or refuse to
answer. She was a terminal cancer patient, the police could do nothing to her. On the other hand, if
Penny was disturbed, Richard might not appear again.
As long as Penny was not disturbed, Penny would certainly relax her guard.
"All right, I'll see Oscar tomorrow."
Winnie then hung up.
The next day at noon, Winnie asked Oscar out for lunch.
"I have no time to see Penny these days, and she doesn't want to see me. I don't know how she is."
Winnie chatted with Oscar while eating.
"She is Ok. She has no mental pressure, so she is better."
Oscar was gratified speaking of Penny. Penny had no painful reaction as other patients. Oscar
sometimes felt it was misdiagnosis that she did not have cancer at all.
"Is there any other abnormality these days?"
Oscar understood what she meant.
"There was nothing unusual when I was there... By the way, I got a call on my phone last night looking
for her. Is that anomaly?"
Oscar felt strange about it, but he did not know if it was helpful to Winnie.
"Do you remember the number?"
Winnie was not strange about it, because she had known about, but she could not tell Oscar about the
surveillance.
She was afraid that Oscar had psychological burden and knew her identity.
The monitoring equipment was only installed in the living room and the kitchen, but detectaphone were
everywhere, so Penny’s words in the bathroom were heard.
"I don't remember, I just took a casually look and picked it up after making sure I don’t know it."
Oscar recalled it but he really did not remember the number.
"Show me your phone and I'll see if I can check it."
Winnie knew Penny would not keep the message, but she wanted to try to restore it.
"The phone was accidentally dropped into the toilet by Penny. I threw it away."
Oscar explained, if he knew the mobile phone was useful to Winnie, he would keep it.
Winnie was surprised to hear that. Officer Lee should know it, but they did not mention it to her.
"Oh, you'll have to change your phone."
"By the way, Oscar, be careful. If you meet Richard, you must not have a direct confrontation with him.
You must protect yourself."
Winnie did not have strong evidence but she had to remind Oscar.
Now that Richard knew that Penny was out there, he might go to see Penny, so she was worried about
Oscar's safety.
Although Richard was not a desperado, but if he was accidentally exposed to Oscar, no one could
guarantee he would not kill Oscar in order to protect himself.
After the lunch, Winnie went back to her company. When she parked the car and walked to the
elevator, unexpectedly she met Brian.
His face was still cold, and seemed colder when he saw her. And he frowned.
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