Chapter 159 Your Girlfriend Lin Yan May Have Been Murdered
Another sleepless night.
The ashtray on the coffee table in the living room was full of cigarette butts.
Xing Yu leaned on the sofa with his eyes closed, looking haggard and with a gloomy complexion.
Lin Yan has been missing for two days.
Although the police have registered a case for investigation, there is no trace of him at all.
After Lin Zhi finished his call, he returned to the living room from the balcony and sat down next to Xing Yu.
He rested his elbows on his knees, his hands in his hair, his voice cold.
"My brothers from Lantai called and said that Qin Zhuoyi was released the day I returned to Jingbei. They said it was Qin Yuan's order."
"I never thought... that my most trusted subordinate would betray me..."
Xing Yu then realized: "Did you capture Qin Zhuoyi?"
"It wasn't me, it was Qin Yuan who caught them personally." Lin Zhi sneered, "It seems that the two of them deliberately put on a big show in front of me. But they are really reckless. They are not afraid that I will really take ruthless action against them."
Xing Yu asked, "Qin Yuan has been by your side all these years, and you haven't noticed anything unusual?"
"No. He was loyal and devoted, and even took a knife for me."
"How did you keep him around in the first place?"
Lin Zhi collected his thoughts and recalled.
"I forgot exactly when, but it seemed like I had just attacked Mo Jiaozi and went to Lantai to hide. Less than two months later, I saw Qin Yuan in a ditch near my home, his head broken and bleeding."
"I ignored him the first day, but when I passed by him the next day, he was still there, almost dying. I asked someone to bring him some water and food."
"On the third day, he knelt at my door and begged me to take him in. Lantai is a lawless area where murder and arson are common. It's a very chaotic place. How could I dare to take him in casually?"
"But he knelt at my place in the middle of summer until he fainted. In the end, I relented and took him home."
"After waking up, he said he was tricked into coming to Lantai to fight in an underworld boxing ring for money. He had no family or friends and only wanted food. He would follow me wholeheartedly and work for me from then on."
"Although I was hesitant at the time, I had just arrived in Lantai and really needed a trustworthy subordinate by my side. Plus, he's good at fighting and computers, so it wouldn't be a bad idea for him to stay by my side."
"I paid someone to check him out, and since he had a clean background, I kept him with me..."
Lin Zhi's tone grew colder, his eyes flickering with a cold light. "I never thought I'd be tricked by him. He's been hiding himself well enough these past few years. I didn't notice anything unusual about him at all."
Xing Yu sorted out his thoughts: "The time when he approached you was exactly when Mo Jiaozi was in trouble. Qin Zhuoyi was Mo Jiaozi's boyfriend in high school. Qin Yuan and Qin Zhuoyi must have a relationship. So, could Qin Yuan's approach to you also be related to Mo Jiaozi?"
"Maybe." Lin Zhi took out a cigarette from the box, lit it and put it in his mouth. After a while, he spoke.
"Xing Yu, sometimes when I think back on what happened to Yanyan over the years, I always feel like she was being manipulated, but I can't find any reason why she was forced into this game. We may seem to be the manipulators, but in reality, we've long been treated as pawns."
"Also, I still can't figure out where Mo Jiaozi's malice towards Yanyan comes from. How could a high school student use such cruel means to hurt another girl of the same age as her?"
"That's not bullying, that's cruelty!"
"When I dealt with Mo Jiaozi, I asked her the reason, but she didn't answer. She only laughed sinisterly. At sixteen or seventeen, can you imagine how creepy that laugh was?"
"It was as if she were God, looking down upon the mortals below, holding countless lifelines in her grasp, and killing anyone she pleased. Originally, I just wanted to cripple her, but not only did she not beg for mercy, she even calmly cursed Yanyan in front of me, saying she deserved death."
"In a fit of rage, I hit her head with a brick and stabbed her three times. I went to Lantai only after I confirmed that she had died of a cerebral hemorrhage in the hospital. Now that I think about it, since I didn't see her body, her death might have been deliberately spread as a false report."
Lin Zhi continued to take a deep breath, and the sound continued as the smoke rings came out.
"And the most baffling thing is that I can't find any information about Mo Jiaozi's identity. Everything about her is blank. After she died, I also asked Qin Yuan to investigate. If Qin Yuan really had a relationship with her, it seems that he was deliberately hiding it from me."
Lin Zhi put out his cigarette, his expression suddenly became serious, and he looked at Xing Yu.
"Assuming Mo Jiaozi is still alive, could it be that she is the one behind all this?"
"Lin Zhi, there's no need to make assumptions. Mo Jiaozi is 100% alive."
"How do you say that?"
Xing Yu asked in return, "You kidnapped Qin Zhuoyi and took him to Lantai, but you didn't interrogate him?"
"I did." Lin Zhi said, "He said he couldn't get over Mo Jiaozi's death all these years, so to get revenge on Yanyan, he threatened to use Cheng Qing to send videos and photos to provoke her. But he didn't expect Cheng Qing to turn against him that night and plan to tell Yanyan everything."
"In order not to expose himself, he simply pushed Cheng Qing down the stairs."
Xing Yu: "What he said was logical, but he lied. Mo Jiaozi wasn't dead at all. Qin Zhuoyi certainly didn't expect Cheng Qing to leave a message for A Yan before his death."
"What?"
"Cheng Qing said, 'She's still alive...' This is what Ayan told me herself. Although Cheng Qing didn't mention a name, the answer now seems obvious."
Lin Zhi felt a chill down his spine and didn't dare to think any further.
"If... it's really as we speculated... Yanyan appears..."
The last few words were drowned out by the ringing of the cell phone.
After Xing Yu answered the call, he hung up in less than a minute, and a light flashed in his dark eyes.
He stood up and said, "It's the police station calling. They said Qin Zhuoyi turned himself in. Don't show up. Wait here for my news. I'm going to the police station first."
When Xing Yu drove to the police station, Qin Zhuoyi was sitting in a cubicle with his hands handcuffed and taking a statement.
He stood outside the door waiting.
Every minute and every second.
They were like needles piercing his heart.
With every prick, his worry for Lin Yan grew.
After waiting outside the door for more than forty minutes, the police finally came out with Qin Zhuoyi.
Qin Zhuoyi in front of him was covered with wounds from his face to his neck. Almost no exposed skin was intact. Some of the wounds had already scabbed over, while others were still covered with thick water.
One of his eyes was swollen and bulging, his lower lip was broken and turned outward, and he looked horrifying and ugly, and it was completely unrecognizable from his original appearance.
Lin Zhi's masterpiece.
How miserable.
So cool.
Their eyes met and Qin Zhuoyi's cheek twitched slightly.
The corners of her mouth curved up slightly towards him.
It wasn't a friendly smile, but a naked provocation.
The emotions that had been suppressed for two days were completely ignited by Qin Zhuoyi, and he couldn't calm down.
Can't calm down at all.
He quickly punched Qin Zhuoyi in the face.
"Where is Lin Yan! Where is she!"
When Xing Yu was forcibly pulled apart by the police, his eyes were bloodshot, the same color as the blood flowing from Qin Zhuoyi's nose.
Qin Zhuoyi didn't say anything and continued to stroke the corners of his mouth nonchalantly.
I look like a jerk who says, "You can't do anything to me."
Before he could calm down, the police officer next to him spoke to him.
"Mr. Xing, according to the criminal's confession, your girlfriend Lin Yan may have been murdered..."
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