SS Chapter 36

Long Xinyu lit the cigarette he was holding in his mouth and began to brainstorm Wu Linyan’s words as he took a puff. He exhaled a cloud of smoke and asked, “Did everyone in your fan club take that ‘lozenge’?”

Wu Linyan nodded, “Qi Hua said the ‘lozenges’ were a fan club perk.”

“Where did the ‘lozenges’ come from?”

“Why?”

“I really don’t know. I’ve told you everything I can. Please stop Qi Hua’s bleeding. He’ll die if this continues. Please, I’ve told you everything I know, please let us go. We haven’t done anything to hurt you!”

Long Xinyu exhaled smoke, “What about Qin Kai? What do you know about Qin Kai?”

“I’m not familiar with Qin Kai. He’s not always at fan club activities. I just heard Qi Hua say that he seemed to be sick and dropped out of school. I don’t know anything else.” Wu Linyan sobbed.

Long Xinyu thought that the school might have suppressed the news about Qin Kai’s assault on Ye Xiaochen, so it was normal that Wu Linyan didn’t know. After careful consideration, there were no flaws in what Wu Linyan said. She probably really didn’t know much. So Long Xinyu turned to look at Lu Ye and gave him a look. Lu Ye understood and walked towards Wu Linyan.

Rao Xian and Sha Rou were anxious, watching Lu Ye knock Wu Linyan unconscious with a single chop to the neck. Then he kicked the “Qi Hua” lying in the pool of blood, “Get up, the show’s over.”

Then, the “Qi Hua” who had just been gasping for breath in the pool of blood suddenly stood up, leaving Rao Xian and Sha Rou dumbfounded.

Long Xinyu explained with a smile that this person wasn’t Qi Hua, but an actor that Li Guang had generously provided.

When Long Xinyu decided to get on the boat, he obtained the passenger list from Jiang Lang. Long Xinyu circled two names he recognized—Qi Hua and Wu Linyan, two names that had appeared when he was investigating the fan club.

Long Xinyu said with some annoyance, “I didn’t expect this Wu Linyan to know so little, I should have come to scare Qi Hua instead.”

As he spoke, he went over to untie Rao Xian.

“Isn’t that what Wenren Ying said? The idea was his, the person was selected by Wenren Ying, the actor was found by Li Guang, and I was just making a friendly appearance. Facts prove that Wu Linyan is easy to fool. She said everything after being scared, but there wasn’t much of value.”

Long Xiuyu & Long Xinyu & Lu Ye: “Yes!”

Long Xinyu even blew a smoke ring, adding with a completely rogue-like expression, “This textbook-level acting was specially trained by a performance teacher arranged by CEO Li, realistic, isn’t it!”

Long Xinyu: “…”

Sha Rou glared at Long Xiuyu, “You kidnapped people, threatened and intimidated them, what’s the difference between you and them? Don’t—don’t you know that you have to be responsible for your actions?”

Long Xiuyu added fuel to the fire nonchalantly, “I really don’t understand you, when have you ever been responsible for your actions!”

“Sha Rou!” Rao Xian stopped Sha Rou, who was about to criticize the Long brothers. He hadn’t said anything and was rubbing his wrist to the side—the struggling had made his wrist a little red. Long Xinyu saw it and felt that his planning this show without telling Rao Xian and Sha Rou was a bit foolish. Seeing the red mark on Rao Xian’s wrist, Long Xinyu’s little remaining conscience felt a little pang.

Rao Xian turned to Long Xinyu, “What is our plan? It can’t be just scaring Wu Linyan, right?”

Rao Xian’s eyes were dangerous and his tone was devoid of emotion as he said, “Have I ever thought about using unconventional methods to investigate a case?”

Rao Xian looked at Long Xinyu without saying a word and finally snorted softly without saying anything more.

Sha Rou glanced at the two of them, “Captain, I could tell they were acting, what about you?”

Rao Xian composed himself, “The direction of blood flow at the severed finger and wrist of the fake Qi Hua was too deliberate, and the traces of struggle on the ground were also wrong. It was easy to tell that there was a problem with the scene!”

Sha Rou: “Captain, is that what you were asking?”

Rao Xian: “Uh, wasn’t it?”

Sha Rou angrily: “N-No, it wasn’t!”

Rao Xian: …

Long Xinyu: “Officer Sha—”

Sha Rou: “Shut up.”

Long Xinyu: …

Long Xiuyu: “Officer Sha has a lot of authority, it’s your own fault for not seeing that we were acting, why are you taking it out on us!”

Long Xiuyu: …

Long Xinyu saw that Sha Rou was in full attack mode, invincible, and no one dared to speak, so he could only force a smile.

At this time, the door was pushed open and Lu Ye, who had escorted Wu Linyan out, came in with a bad expression, bringing a piece of news: “Qi Hua is dead in Wu Linyan’s room!”

“Say that again!” Long Xinyu rubbed his ears.

“Qi Hua is dead.”

Lu Ye had placed a bug on Wu Linyan, preparing to bring her back to her room to eavesdrop on Wu Linyan’s conversations with Qi Hua or Yue Zhonglin. This was also the purpose of flushing out the snake.

However, as soon as they pushed open the door to Wu Linyan’s room, they saw that Qi Hua was already dead on Wu Linyan’s bed, shot in the head, and the pink “lozenges” were scattered all around the body.

Rao Xian said, “It wasn’t you who did it?”

“No!” Long Xinyu said decisively, “I only want to find the truth, not to commit murder.”

Rao Xian frowned and said to Lu Ye, “Take me to Wu Linyan’s room, I want to see the scene.”

Wu Linyan’s room was in the ordinary guest room area. As soon as they entered, they could see Qi Hua lying by the bed, shot in the head. His skull, brain matter, and blood were splattered everywhere, and the room was filled with the stench of blood.

Rao Xian and Sha Rou first examined the body, then looked at the door. There were no signs of forced entry, and the room wasn’t messy. The scene showed that the murderer had entered normally, and looking at Qi Hua’s wound, it could be determined that he had been shot at close range.

Rao Xian turned to ask Lu Ye, “Where is Wu Linyan?”

Lu Ye said, “She’s been arranged in another room.”

Rao Xian said, “Bring her over.”

Lu Ye looked at Long Xiuyu, and only when Long Xiuyu nodded did he have someone bring Wu Linyan over.

Sha Rou asked, “Zang Hao is already dead, who else would target you?”

Wu Linyan shook her head, saying she didn’t know.

Sha Rou frowned, “Was Qi Hua still alive when you were taken away by Long Xinyu and the others?”

Wu Linyan nodded. She and Qi Hua were going to have something to eat, on the way, she went to the bathroom.

Sha Rou looked back at Rao Xian.

Seeing that Wu Linyan’s emotions were unstable after a series of events, Rao Xian told Long Xiuyu to take her to another room to comfort her, and that the matters here needed to be dealt with.

Wu Linyan was taken away.

Rao Xian asked Long Xinyu without much hope, “Are there surveillance cameras on the ship?”

Long Xinyu shook his head. What was this ship for? Everyone knew that people and transactions were shady. If there were surveillance cameras, who would board the ship?

“Then what do we do in this situation?” Although Rao Xian didn’t know the situation on the ship, but since they dared to do such business and could gather a large number of people with complicated backgrounds, it definitely wouldn’t be smooth sailing, so there should be countermeasures.

Long Xiuyu looked at Lu Ye.

Lu Ye said, “Everyone who boards the ship does so based on their own abilities. As long as they don’t touch the crew, basically when someone is found dead, each family resolves their own grievances. If no one resolves it, they’re thrown into the sea.”

How could he admit that? Long Xinyu ignored Rao Xian’s gaze with an unchanged expression.

Rao Xian said, “Who else did Yue Zhonglin bring on board? Find those people. If the murderer is targeting Yue Zhonglin’s people, Qi Hua is already dead, and the others will be in danger.”

Long Xinyu curled his lips, “Let them kill each other, they’re all bad things anyway, one less, and the world will be a little cleaner.”

Long Xinyu was silenced by Rao Xian’s series of words.

Long Xiuyu paused, and a knock on the door indicated that there was a situation.

Lu Ye went to open the door and returned to say, “Yue Zhonglin is coming this way!”

“Tch!” Long Xinyu cursed.

Lu Ye told everyone to leave the room immediately. Everyone withdrew, and before leaving, Rao Xian noticed Lu Ye clip something onto the flower arrangement next to the TV.

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