TPODN Chapter 56

If the murderer’s methods were flawless from beginning to end, then it should be impossible to find any slip-ups in the recordings. However, there must be subtle evidence left somewhere.

Perhaps the murderer was hiding in the blind spot of the camera, with a faint shadow caught in the corner of the frame, or perhaps they ruffled the pattern of the carpet while rushing down the corridor. It is also possible that quickly opening and closing the director’s office door caused air currents and stirred up dust; these possibilities cannot be ruled out.

Although he could only hope for a sliver of opportunity that would be fortunate for him but unlucky for the murderer, the probability might not necessarily be zero.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, the door finally opened.

“…Damn, this is terrible, terrible.”

Muran walked into the room, muttering incessantly.

“I almost bumped into the director just now. Hey! If anything goes wrong, it’s all your fault!”

Muran stared at Wang Linfei with a pair of turbid, yellowish eyes like a wild beast. Even though he knew Wang Linfei was also from the city bureau, he still glared at him, feeling that the arrival of the “Special Criminal Investigation Unit” could not possibly be a good thing.

“I will fully cooperate with whatever excuse you need to use,” Wang Linfei replied calmly.

“Where’s the tape? Can we see it?” Wang Linfei continued.

“Nonsense! I don’t have time for this now!”

Before Muran could curse, he opened the door to check the situation in the corridor.

“Today’s not a good day, let’s cancel it, cancel it! We’ll do it another day.”

“That won’t do, if we keep dragging it out like this, Mr. Zhao Menglin will be prosecuted.”

Wang Linfei quickly tried to persuade Muran.

“If we just watch the tape again, we might be able to identify the fake culprit. If all goes well, this will all become my accomplishment!”

Muran wore a fox-like expression, pondering whether he could eat the bait from the trap and get away unscathed.

“…That tape, including Hu Shi from our team, you’ve already watched it until you don’t want to watch it anymore. Do you think I, alone, can find something you haven’t discovered? Besides, I don’t deny that I haven’t watched it.”

“That’s right, there’s a high probability of seeing something new again,” Wang Linfei replied with unwavering confidence.

“Now that you’ve roughly guessed 90% of the murderer’s methods, the effect is completely different compared to browsing aimlessly before, when you had no target,” Wang Linfei said.

“Oh?” Unexpectedly, Wang Linfei’s reply seemed to Muran’s liking.

“I’ll wait a little longer.”

After saying that, he swaggered out of the room again.

He didn’t return after this, and this time he waited for nearly an hour.

When he noticed the door being opened, he turned his head and saw a police officer holding a cardboard box, standing at the door with a suspicious look on his face.

“Huh? Who are you?”

Before Wang Linfei could answer, Muran’s face appeared behind the police officer.

“It’s okay, don’t worry about this guy.”

With a strange smile, Muran waved at Wang Linfei.

“Let’s go!”

Following behind Muran, he went up the stairs and entered the interrogation room. The narrow space, about one square meter, was crammed with a desk and two chairs. On the desk were a forty-inch TV screen and a VCR.

“I know how to operate it, right?”

“You can wait outside.”

After saying that, Muran took out a cigarette and lit it.

Faced with the barrage of smoke, Wang Linfei closed his mouth, picked up the VCR remote control, and pressed the play button. In an instant, he felt a strong sense of disharmony.

“Hey! Is this the original?”

“Yes, what’s the problem?”

The corridor footage of Maoyuan Building appeared on the screen.

“How could this be?”

Wang Linfei exclaimed in confusion.

“What are you saying?” Muran didn’t know what Wang Linfei was exclaiming about.

“This footage…”

Wang Linfei was so surprised that he couldn’t speak.

“What’s going on? Did you discover something?”

Muran also stood up and stared at the screen.

What appeared on the screen was the scene of three secretaries going back and forth between the secretary’s office, the chairman’s office, the general manager’s office, and the product planning department director’s office of Zhao Menglin, early in the morning of the incident.

However, this footage was not a series of photos taken every six seconds, but a smooth video like watching a movie.

“How can this be? The cameras installed in Maoyuan Building should all be intermittent recording cameras…?”

Muran’s lips were pressed against the cigarette, and his eyes stared blankly at Wang Linfei.

“Didn’t I even notice this before? The camera behind the chairman’s office is not intermittent recording.”

The recorded footage was clear and smooth. The faces of the three secretaries entering and exiting the office were all clearly visible on the screen. In other words, it was impossible to use the quick-change trick.

Moreover, they were only carrying thin documents in their hands, and they shouldn’t have been able to take any weapons or other things out of the president’s office.

In this way, it could be said that the first half of his goal had been achieved, and Lu Yao’s ridiculous hypothesis had been overturned.

However, it also declared that the method of hiding invisible using the six-second gap of the motion sensor was also completely ruined.

“If that’s the case, how did they do it…?” Wang Linfei whispered.

…

Maoyuan Building –

As soon as the elevator doors opened, Jiang Kefan ran out of the general secretary’s office with a surprised expression.

“Huh? Uh… thank you for your hard work.”

“I’ll be done right away, please let me see the surveillance camera behind the chairman’s office.”

Wang Linfei nodded and smiled, and continued walking forward on his own. Jiang Kefan followed behind with a confused expression.

“Excuse me, did Officer Lu Yao come with you today?”

“No, just me. Because there’s something that needs to be urgently confirmed.”

Wang Linfei set up a ladder at the end of the corridor, posing as if he was going to check the surveillance camera.

“Secretary Jiang, the security guards might be startled, could you please tell them?”

“Okay.”

As Jiang Kefan was about to turn around, Li Meng walked out of the secretary’s office.

“I already called the security office.”

“Thank you.”

“…However, please contact us first next time. Because Chairman Liu has ordered us to fully cooperate.”

“I’m sorry, because there was just one thing that had to be confirmed, and it was urgent.”

Wang Linfei bowed deeply under the ladder, while the two secretaries stood in place.

Just then, the elevator rang. The bell announcing the arrival of the floor rang, and the two secretaries looked towards the elevator hall at the same time.

Xu Hao, the department director, was walking slowly towards him.

“Hello, what’s… going on?”

Although he had a smile on his face, his eyes were wide open, and he must be secretly cursing himself for being an impolite fellow.

“I’m really sorry for suddenly barging in without contacting you first.”

“Don’t say that, it’s nothing, don’t mind it. However, to avoid security issues, it would be great if you could contact us beforehand.”

“Yes, I’ll pay more attention in the future.”

Wang Linfei also replied with a smile on his face.

“There’s one more thing… may I ask, how did you get up here in the elevator?”

“Oh, are you referring to the password?”

“Yes, after all, it has to be kept secret from outsiders. If you…”

“I pressed the floor button as usual, and I went up.” Wang Linfei thought to himself, he absolutely couldn’t let the people of Maoyuan International Group know that he knew the password to the fifteenth floor.

“What? But, how could…”

“Maybe there’s something wrong with the machine. I had already forgotten about the password. If the password is invalid, then who knows when dangerous people will run up here. You should immediately notify the elevator maintenance company, right?”

“This… this, yes, this is terrible, we have to make a call quickly.”

Director Xu Hao took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweat frequently.

“Speaking of which, what brings you here today?”

“It’s over.”

“What?”

“I only had one thing to confirm, and it’s already done. I’m sorry, I disturbed everyone. Well then, I’ll take my leave.”

Wang Linfei climbed down the ladder, folded it, and carried it on his shoulder. Director Xu Hao followed him to the elevator hall, feigning a smile.

“I apologize again for not notifying you in advance. You also know that although I’m a police officer, this is a private area, and I was eager to solve the case. I will definitely pay more attention in the future.”

Wang Linfei bowed to everyone again after entering the elevator. Director Xu Hao also quickly nodded, but he seemed to still be thinking about the elevator password, with a worried expression on his face.

“I’ll take my leave… by the way, may I ask you something?”

Wang Linfei blocked the elevator door from closing, and Director Xu Hao was stunned for a moment, his mouth slightly open.

“What is it?”

“Is February 4, 1994, your company’s anniversary or something like that?”

“Yes, that’s right. It’s the founding date of our company’s predecessor, ‘Maoyuan Toys’.”

“I see, I understand, goodbye.”

Until the elevator doors closed completely, Director Xu Hao still had a blank look on his face.

…

Wang Linfei then climbed to the roof of Maoyuan Building.

He took out a master key backup and opened the iron door.

The hot wind that could almost wither trees on the roof rushed at his face, so hot that it felt like a knife.

Wang Linfei decided to hide in the cleaning basket that could shelter him from the wind. He lifted the blue tarpaulin and sat cross-legged in the metal basket.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became at his own muddleheadedness.

If he had just asked Muran, he would have known immediately that the motion sensor trick was impossible.

He could only blame his misunderstanding of the intermittent recording camera and his preconceived notion of Lu Yao’s ridiculous method, which had blinded him.

…However, now that things had reached this point, those things were irrelevant. The problem lay in the truth of the locked room.

As long as he could uncover this secret, he could recover his previous losses. Wang Linfei sat in the basket and continued to think intently. There was still a long time until midnight, and if he fell asleep in this place, he was guaranteed to catch a cold. In short, there was nothing else to do besides thinking.

The faint sound of the alarm clock came from his watch.

Although the setting was a digital ringtone that ordinary people couldn’t hear very well, Wang Linfei immediately came to his senses.

Looking at the numbers on the watch, the date had just changed to the next day.

He slowly climbed out of the basket. Spending a long time in the narrow space had almost made his hands and feet numb. He began to stretch his limbs, waiting to regain normal sensation.

The wind was still strong, so cold that he shivered.

After pricking up his ears and listening for a while, he opened the iron door and walked down the white-painted stairs, stopping behind the door on the fifteenth floor. The sound of unlocking the door broke the silence of the entire floor, where there was no one.

Wang Linfei remained still for a moment. If the security guard heard the sound, he should take the elevator up to check.

After waiting for three minutes, there was no movement.

Wang Linfei thought to himself, even if the security guard came up, he would just tell him that he was a police officer investigating a case.

But Wang Linfei enjoyed the fun of investigating cases secretly by himself. He wouldn’t reveal his identity unless he was forced to. He enjoyed the time of “sneaking around” to solve cases by himself.

At this moment, Wang Linfei actually calmly and intently opened the lock on the president’s office door.

The master key couldn’t open the lock on the chairman’s office door. It seemed that he had replaced the same type of knob lock because he wasn’t confident in ordinary door locks.

Wang Linfei had obtained the chairman’s office door lock in advance in the name of the case team. At this moment, he decided to investigate the case by himself.

Wang Linfei pushed open the heavy wooden door and walked into the chairman’s office.

Suddenly, he felt a strange chill in his back.

Although he had broken into various places before, he had never had the experience of entering a murder scene in the middle of the night. Even though he didn’t believe in ghosts and gods at all, he couldn’t help but start praying.

At this moment, Wang Linfei took out his mobile phone, turned on the flashlight, and in the state where the entire field of vision became as bright as day, Wang Linfei browsed the entire chairman’s office again, and found that the scene was still maintained as it was at the time of the incident. Chairman Liu Zilin seemed to still be in the general manager’s office.

Wang Linfei skillfully began to search.

There were two purposes for this trip: first, to find clues that could solve the mystery of the locked-room murder; and second, to find the hiding place of the 600 million yuan in embezzled funds that was said to be hidden in this room.

It was virtually impossible to hide 600 million yuan in cash. Even if it was converted into gold bars, the weight would be quite astonishing. Therefore, if he wanted to keep it on hand, he should have converted it into securities or gemstones. If Zhao Menglin was to be trusted, then it should be gemstones.

However, no matter what form it was in, the possibility that the money was still intact was likely to be very small. But as long as he knew the original hiding place, he might be able to identify the murderer who stole it.

After spending nearly thirty minutes carefully searching every corner of the room, unfortunately, he failed to find the embezzled funds. As expected, it had already been taken away by the murderer.

Wang Linfei sat in the chairman’s chair, looking up at the ceiling.

A thought suddenly flashed in his mind that if he wanted to hide the embezzled funds, maybe it was a good place. If that was the case, then perhaps this case would have a completely different direction for solving it.

Wang Linfei touched the pocket of his jacket, and suddenly felt the urge to smoke a cigarette or drink a cup of coffee, but now he had to rely on eating coffee candy to relieve it.

Just then, his mobile phone vibrated in his inner pocket.

Looking at the caller ID, it turned out to be Lu Yao. It was already close to one o’clock in the morning.

“Hello.”

After a brief hesitation, Wang Linfei answered the phone.

“Um, hello? Is this Team Wang?”

“Nonsense.”

“…I’m sorry for disturbing you so late.”

“I’m full of energy and working.”

“Are you outside?”

“No, I’m outside.”

Regardless of what Lu Yao imagined, the two people’s conversation fell into a moment of silence.

“Listen to me, I’ve thought about it for a long time, and I still think that besides Liu Zilin, I really can’t find anyone else who could be the murderer.” It seemed that Lu Yao was really thinking about this matter all the time. This kind of persistent and unwavering nature might be suitable for being a police officer.

“Why do I think so?”

“The motive, he has such a strong motive, but he lied to us, didn’t he?”

“Even if he lied, you can’t immediately take that as a basis for guilt.”

“What? Are you defending Liu Zilin?”

“I don’t mean that, I’m just wondering, is the so-called tax savings from delisting the stock really going to create such a strong motive?”

“This involves hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits! If that’s not strong enough, there’s probably no other strong motive in the world.”

“Perhaps so for the average person, but he doesn’t have to do anything, and he can inherit so much property. And for a young business owner, he has both business acumen and prestige. Even if he can earn a few hundred million more, it’s not worth risking losing everything, right?”

“That shows how confident he is in his perfect crime! In fact, he hasn’t been exposed yet.”

“That’s just a result. No matter how meticulously a plan is designed, as long as your luck is bad, there’s bound to be a risk of failure. For a capable business owner like him, he shouldn’t be so negligent in risk management.”

“But in reality, hundreds of millions of dollars is not a small amount. Would he be willing to be taxed so easily?”

“If that’s the case, then the biggest reason why I don’t think the murderer is Liu Zilin is that he has other ways to save those hundreds of millions of dollars.”

“…For example?”

“Let me think, the former chairman’s remaining lifespan is at most one year. As long as he prevents the stock from being delisted during this period, that’s all he has to do. A company’s stock must meet various conditions to be delisted. Finding a trusted subordinate and deliberately dragging his feet in the preparation work for delisting the stock should not be a difficult thing for him.”

“Is that so? If he does that, wouldn’t he be discovered by the former chairman immediately?”

“If there are difficulties in delaying the preparation work, he can also deliberately create some scandals. Although doing so will have some impact on the company’s reputation, it can be remedied immediately afterwards. In short, no matter what means he uses, it’s much better than the crazy choice of murder.”

Lu Yao was silent, perhaps a little surprised by the reaction she received.

“…In fact, I even think that Liu Zilin might have been the one who was behind the former chairman’s shooting. That is, it would be more beneficial for him if the former chairman survived after the stock was delisted, right?”

“That’s not the case. According to my investigation, the shooting incident should be fake. There was no plan to kill anyone in the whole case.”

“Then who did it?”

“I think there’s a high possibility that the former chairman staged it himself.”

Lu Yao was obviously taken aback.

“Why?”

“In order to install surveillance cameras, set a password in the elevator, and replace all the windows on the fifteenth floor with anti-theft glass.”

“This… what’s that for?”

“If the former chairman really hid the huge amount of embezzled funds in the chairman’s office, then it’s only natural to worry that this place will be invaded by thieves. If he used ordinary glass, it would be easy to break the top floor windows by hanging a rope from the roof.”

“But he doesn’t have to go to so much trouble. A chairman who is so dominant can directly order the purchase of anti-theft equipment, right?”

“Surveillance cameras and elevators are okay, but if all the window glass on the fifteenth floor is replaced, it will cost a considerable amount of money. If a large amount of money is invested in anti-theft measures for no reason, wouldn’t that fuel the rumors? If the whole thing reaches the ears of the Internal Revenue Service, the most troublesome situation would be facing an investigation.”

“Can’t he use Security Dealer No. 3 as an excuse?”

“If that’s all he needed, it would be cheaper to move the robot elsewhere or put it in a safe.”

Lu Yao was silent. Wang Linfei pricked up his ears and listened.

“What are you eating?”

“Chocolate. According to what you’re saying, the former chairman shot at the room himself with a BB gun?”

“The marks on the glass windows weren’t made by a BB gun.”

Wang Linfei explained to Lu Yao the details of the angle being wrong and breaking the glass from the roof using a pendulum.

“That’s just your personal hunch. It’s very possible that Zhao Menglin, the department director, carried it out.”

Lu Yao sighed.

“…It seems that moral depravity isn’t the exclusive domain of young people.”

“These two cases should not be related to each other. However, this may be a very important clue to solving the mystery of the locked room.”

“What does that mean?”

“The former chairman’s personality.” Wang Linfei looked up at the ceiling.

“…Due to the special nature of the locked-room murder case, I’m looking for ways to break into this room.”

“This room?” Lu Yao’s tone sounded slightly doubtful.

“…Therefore, to sum up, I still insist that it’s impossible to break in from the outside. I said before that of the three entrances, the windows and vents are definitely impossible to enter. The only possible entrance is the door. Now it’s known that the type of surveillance camera is real-time recording instead of intermittent recording, so it’s impossible to not be discovered.”

“Oh, is that Team Wang’s conclusion?”

“However, the mystery of the locked room still hasn’t been solved.”

Wang Linfei rubbed the corners of his eyes.

“…I think it might be most appropriate to think that the former chairman’s survival was originally intended to be a simple accident.”

A gasp came from the other end of the line.

“What’s wrong?”

“Food accidentally… got stuck in my throat. However, didn’t the forensic results prove that it couldn’t be an accident?”

“Judging from the situation at the final crime scene, that’s certainly true. However, if the scene was altered after the accident occurred, the whole situation would be different.”

“Wait a minute.”

He could hear Lu Yao getting up and walking around, followed by the sound of opening the refrigerator and the crisp sound of ice cubes falling into a glass, as well as the sound of a liquid like whisky being poured into the cup. Then water was added, and finally, a stirring stick was used to mix it evenly.

“Sorry… what do you mean by altered?”

“As long as one thing is missing, the explanation of the whole situation will change as well. For example, what if there was a ladder in the center of the chairman’s office? There’s only one thing that can’t explain the former chairman’s head injury. That is, in the event of a fall from the ceiling, there can be no injuries near the top of his head. But if he had fallen from the ladder at that time, it wouldn’t be strange at all.”

“…Continue.”

Lu Yao’s voice suddenly carried a hint of coolness, accompanied by the sound of ice cubes hitting the glass as she shook the glass.

“Let’s change the subject first.”

“Why change it?”

“When I suspected that the murderer used a pet monkey to commit the crime, I checked the air-conditioning ducts, right? Did you find anything unusual at that time?”

Ignoring Lu Yao’s protest, Wang Linfei continued with a new topic.

“Anything unusual? I don’t understand… what is it?”

“The air-conditioning ducts in the equipment machinery room were covered with a thick layer of dust. That place, like the ceiling layer, has hardly been cleaned. That’s not surprising. But the air-conditioning ducts outside the chairman’s office are different. At least within the scope of what I could see, they were quite clean.”

“Listening to you, I seem to have heard you say that before, but I didn’t see it myself. But is that important?”

“Think about it, the funds embezzled by the former chairman may have been exchanged for gems or other things and hidden inside the air-conditioning ducts.”

“Ah! That’s right.”

Lu Yao sounded very surprised.

“Rather than randomly hiding it in the ceiling, it’s less likely to be discovered if it’s hidden in the duct.”

“Indeed, there is ample possibility.”

“If that’s the case, then can you vaguely guess what happened during the accident?”

“…Um…”

There was another sound of shaking the glass.

“In fact, I’m in the chairman’s office right now.”

He could hear Lu Yao almost spitting out the liquid in her mouth.

“…When I said ‘this room’ just now, you felt that something was wrong.”

Lu Yao said resentfully.

“As a result, you were looking at the ceiling in ‘that’ chairman’s office, and you found that the vent was roughly in the center of the room, and the glass table of the sofa set was slightly closer to the west side.”

“So what? …Ah! Wait! Now I understand! The former chairman was…” Lu Yao seemed about to guess the answer.

“Was taking out the gems hidden in the air-conditioning ducts, and accidentally lost his balance, and the whole person fell upside down, so his head hit the glass table. That sounds reasonable, right?” Wang Linfei interrupted Lu Yao, not letting her say the correct answer.

“But, wait a minute. Isn’t that strange? What about the sleeping pills? Would he take sleeping pills and then deliberately make such a dangerous move when he was still in a daze?”

“Um, so someone must have drugged him.”

“Who could it be?”

“Right now, this is just my personal guess. For example, Liu Zilin could easily put the drug in his pre-dinner coffee.”

“But why? Wasn’t the former chairman’s death accidental?”

“He was planning to meet with the senior management of the investment company. If he was doing that behind the chairman’s back, it would be best to take care of it during his nap. If he went one step further and used sleeping pills to ensure that the chairman was asleep, perhaps it would make things more convenient for him.”

“Um, that’s also possible. …In other words, the former chairman, who was unknowingly drugged, suddenly became eager to take out the gems for some reason, and as a result, he lost his sense of balance due to the effects of the drug and fell down.”

Lu Yao stopped halfway through, looking like she was drinking whisky mixed with water while pairing it with chocolate.

“If that’s the case, perhaps he can be charged with Liu Zilin causing harm leading to death… Ah, right, I haven’t finished what I was saying just now. Why is the chair or platform that the former chairman used missing?”

“Because someone took it away.”

“Who is it?”

“There’s only one person who can do it, Liu Zilin.”

Lu Yao seemed to be thinking, and the conversation went silent for a short time.

“Team Wang, aren’t you supporting the idea that Liu Zilin isn’t the murderer?”

“That’s just my opinion that, for a murder case, the motive you’re talking about is too weak. However, if it’s because he was afraid of a scandal and concealed the former chairman’s embezzlement, that’s something that someone like him would do.”

“Is that the motive?”

“Yes. After the former chairman fell, he discovered that the vent on the ceiling had been opened, and he could immediately judge what had happened. Therefore, he immediately drove everyone out of the room and took out the embezzled money.”

“How did he take it out?”

“As soon as he entered the room, he immediately drew the curtains, probably because he was concerned about that young window cleaner. When there was no one around, he first moved the money to the general manager’s office, and then, in the time between when the police arrived, he may have moved it to other places in the company. If it was gems, the volume would naturally not be too large.”

“Um… But there’s still one thing that needs to be explained. When Liu Zilin first entered the chairman’s office, the three secretaries were also there. If a chair or platform was placed in the center of the room, it would have been impossible not to see it… Right, what about that young window cleaner? After Liu Zilin entered the room, he had already seen the situation at the scene from outside the window. If he had seen a chair, it should have left a deep impression, right?”

“If it was in the corner of the room, then it wouldn’t be surprising if no one noticed it, because everyone’s eyes were focused on the body near the door.”

“Corner? Why? Since he was going to use it as a footstool, why not place it directly above the vent?”

“Try to imagine, what did the former chairman use as a footstool?”

The conversation went silent again. The sound of glass and ice cubes hitting each other came over.

“Security Dealer No. 3?”

“I think it would probably be difficult to climb down.”

“That’s right, if he deliberately had the robot hug him, it seems quite troublesome, um… I know! It’s the chairman’s chair?”

“That’s right. As a footstool, the height is just right. In addition, there are six chair legs, so it won’t tip over. But what can’t be ignored is that the chair legs have wheels. The shaking may also be one of the reasons for the accident.”

“But even if the chairman uses a chair as a footstool, what’s the situation like?”

“Could it be that at the moment of the fall, the former chairman kicked the chair hard, and the reaction force made the chair slide to the corner of the room? Next, Liu Zilin would naturally move the chair back to its original place. He wouldn’t want to cause others to question him and ask why the former chairman was using a footstool.”

Lu Yao didn’t say a word. She didn’t say a word for nearly a minute, which made people worried.

“Lu Yao? Are you okay?”

“I see. So-called truth, is so boring…”

“We can’t determine whether that’s the truth or not. However, we can’t rule out this possibility.”

“Thank you.”

That voice made people feel grateful from the bottom of their hearts.

“Don’t say that.”

“It’s all thanks to Team Wang’s help. In this way, we can prevent someone from being wronged. Although the suspect is actually that kind of person, I’m still grateful to you from the bottom of my heart.”

At this moment, the sound of the wind outside the window suddenly increased, and it was mixed with a faint sound.

Wang Linfei reflexively looked in the direction of the sound.

“Hello? Team Wang?”

What was going on?

Wang Linfei felt very surprised, stood up, and slowly walked towards the object that was making the sound.

“What’s wrong?”

Wang Linfei reached out his hand. Sometimes, the sense of touch is more reliable than vision.

How could this be? Why is this happening? Could it be that… perhaps it is…

In the next moment, all the clues were connected like a flash of lightning.

How could it be? There’s still such a method?

In general, it is hard to imagine. But, if this was planned in advance, then there’s almost no other explanation…

“Team Wang… can you hear me?”

Wang Linfei whispered into the phone.

“Please forget everything you just said.”

“…What?”

Lu Yao’s voice became heavy and deep.

“Damn it, someone actually did this, what a joke…”

Even he could feel that his voice was filled with anger and excitement.

“This guy is like a ‘steel ball’ in billiards snooker!”

“Wang Linfei? What exactly happened? What’s wrong?”

“I’m really sorry.”

Wang Linfei had a hard time adjusting his breathing.

“The accident I mentioned earlier was really a laughing stock.”

“Huh? What exactly do you mean?”

“This is a genuine murder case.”

He could hear Lu Yao gasp in surprise.

“And, it should be using an incredible method.”

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