Chapter 122 Tumi 13
At five o'clock in the afternoon, in the wealthy Dongcheng area of Donglan City, two cars were parked at the corner on the east side of the community.
These two cars have been here for some time. They look particularly out of place in this luxurious residential complex where ground parking is not allowed. However, the community security guards and nosy owners dare not intervene.
This is the city bureau's surveillance vehicle. Looking out from the windshield, you can just see 36 villas in the community. That house belongs to Hua Wenyi.
At this time, Shen Qing and Liu Ran from Team 2 were summarizing their daily routine for this afternoon.
"Today was just like any other day. I didn't go out. Lunch arrived at 12:30. I ordered seafood takeout. A dozen beers were also delivered at 12:45. Everything was checked and there were no problems. The delivery driver left it at the door, and Hua Wenyi came out to pick it up herself."
"This set meal is really a standard for gout. What kind of wine are you drinking in the middle of the day?" Shen Qing asked, "Are there no calls coming in?"
"No, no one has come to visit."
After checking the information, Liu Ran asked, "We've been stalking here for a week. How long do we have to continue?" At this point, he stretched lazily. "Surveillance every day is so boring."
At this stage of the investigation, the officers responsible for monitoring the suspect are in a very passive position. They lack sufficient evidence to make an arrest, but they also cannot leave the suspect unattended.
This week, Hua Wenyi hardly went out. He ordered takeout every day and occasionally asked the cleaning staff to come and clean.
These police officers have to remain vigilant at all times, paying attention to any signs of trouble. They even order meals and eat outside the car for fear of anything going wrong.
Shen Qing looked out the window. Hua Wenyi didn't like the sun, so the curtains were always drawn, making it impossible to see what was going on inside. He said, "It's probably going to be soon... Captain Luo has already started checking the people in the Potential Workshop..."
As soon as Shen Qing finished speaking, the phone rang.
Liu Ran also received the message. He picked it up and read it, then jumped up from his seat. He exclaimed in surprise, "Arrest order!"
Shen Qing frowned and looked at the message on his phone, then gripped his gun tightly. "Hua Yanming has broken through! We'll arrest him immediately."
A group of people quickly got out of two cars and filed to the floor-to-ceiling windows. They had no time to contact the locksmith, so the best way was to break in through the window.
Shen Qing pulled the trigger without hesitation. With a bang, a bullet broke through the air and shattered the glass. The double-layer tempered glass instantly shattered into a spider web. He hit it with the butt of the gun and the glass fell down.
Shen Qing waved his hand and made a gesture. Several young police officers with guns in hand pulled aside the curtains and walked in one after another.
There were no lights on in the room, and all the curtains were tightly drawn. It took Shen Qing a while to adjust to the light. He had a bad feeling in his heart. If Hua Wenyi was there, he should have heard the noise. But the villa was unusually quiet.
A living person will never disappear out of thin air.
The police officers were divided into three groups of three to check the first floor, second floor and basement respectively.
Shen Qing was in charge of searching the first floor. This was the first time he had stepped into the villa after so many days of surveillance.
He had just searched the bedroom and bathroom when he heard Liu Ran's voice on the intercom: "Found it, in the basement. It's safe here, but the person has already..."
Shen Qing had a bad premonition, so he went downstairs with two auxiliary police officers.
As soon as he walked down the stairs, Shen Qing saw a bloody scene, and then he recognized that it seemed to be a screen covered with flames.
Shen Qing walked around the painting and saw a strange scene.
The basement of this villa is very deep, with a floor height of nearly six meters. It is cast in two floors, and some parts of the basement are retained.
Hua Wenyi decorated this place like a dark art gallery, with dark cabinets and some strange statues.
At that moment, a small light was on in the basement, but the dim light allowed Shen Qing to see the villa's owner, Hua Wenyi, hanging from a railing in the elevated area. His lips were purple, his head drooped, his eyes and tongue protruding, his neck tilted to the side, and his limbs dangling, like a giant pendant in this eerie villa.
Shen Qing walked over and didn't pay attention to his feet. He bumped into something and made a gurgling sound.
Shen Qing lowered his head and saw several beer bottles scattered on the ground.
Liu Ran went over, put on gloves, and touched the body's ankles. "It's starting to get cold, and rigor mortis has set in. This person must have been dead for several hours. He probably died shortly after lunch."
It seems that the police's action was still a step too late.
None of the young police officers expected that the target would end his life so quietly.
Shen Qing hurriedly picked up the phone and called Luo Siwei...
At this time, Luo Siwei was already sitting in the police car.
The sky gradually darkened, the horizon gradually turned crimson, and the street lights were about to light up.
Guo Zhengyao was driving the car and Huo Cunsheng was sitting in the passenger seat. The three of them didn't speak for a while. Their car was driving very fast, heading in the direction where Hua Yanming escaped.
Luo Siwei was thinking about today's unexpected events with her head down when she suddenly heard her cell phone ringing. She picked it up and heard Shen Qing telling her the news of Hua Wenyi's suicide.
Luo Siwei frowned.
Judging from the time, Hua Wenyi committed suicide not long after Mu Yuexin arrived at the Municipal Bureau. It was all too coincidental.
At this time, Luo Siwei remained calm. She said to Shen Qing, "Report it as soon as possible, protect the scene, and ask the forensic doctor to come and perform an autopsy."
Just after I finished giving these instructions, Chi Li called.
Luo Siwei hung up Shen Qing's phone, and as soon as the call was connected, he said to Chi Li: "We were a step too slow, Hua Wenyi committed suicide..."
Chi Li didn't seem surprised by this. He said in a clear voice, "I just talked to Director Chen. This might be a trap."
Luo Siwei said, "I understand what you mean. This might be a trap set for the police. Hua Yanming is the cake hanging on the hook of the trap."
Luo Siwei had considered this possibility before leaving. Today's events were so strange. Mu Yuexin had just confessed, Hua Yanming ran away, Hua Wenyi committed suicide, and Lin Shuangting was still nowhere to be found.
Luo Siwei paused for a moment, and said with some embarrassment: "But now, we have no choice but to chase."
The evidence is right in front of them. If the police do not pursue Hua Yanming, it would be a dereliction of duty. They cannot let this suspect go unpunished, nor can they let him endanger others outside.
Chi Li said: "Yes, we have to chase, but we must avoid the trap as much as possible. How do you think this hook was delivered to us?"
Luo Siwei analyzed: "Through Mu Yuexin."
Chi Li said, "They just sent me the information. It's the files in Mu Yuexin's USB drive. I think most of the evidence is true. But have you noticed that at this point in the case, we've collected all the evidence on other people, but there's nothing about Lin Shuangting."
Luo Siwei's brain raced as she gathered her thoughts. "You mean the person behind this...will try their best to hide themselves and shift the blame onto someone else. So you think Lin Shuangting might be the one behind this?"
She had originally analyzed based on the testimony provided by Mu Yuexin that the fortune teller's disciples and the Hua brothers were exploiting each other, but what if... Mu Yuexin was hiding something, and the mastermind was Lin Shuangting?
The Fahrenheit brothers may just be puppets he supported.
In the previous reasoning and analysis, they all felt that Lin Shuangting was very important. He appeared at the key points of each case and connected all the characters together.
He was the victim of the fortune teller's attack. He was also the fortune teller's apprentice. He may have been at the scene when Lv Mingsi committed the attack. He has been hiding in the detention center. He is suspected of killing Zhang Angu to silence him...
But these things are just Chi Li and Luo Siwei's inferences, and there is no empirical evidence.
It was this person who they could not find any evidence of guilt.
Even the teaching records of the Potential Workshop were very detailed for others, but his were almost unmarked.
There was nothing wrong with his work record in the detention center, and there was no problem with his experience over the years.
His biggest evidence was the box of peaches, but the police couldn't arrest him just for the peaches.
In other words, even if Lin Shuangting was arrested, they would release him due to lack of evidence.
After analyzing this, Chi Li paused and said to Luo Siwei: "We can't passively let him lead us around anymore."
Luo Siwei knew that Chi Li's reasoning was probably correct.
They couldn't let the tragedy of the last hijacking happen again.
Chi Li said: "We need to reason and analyze Lin Shuangting's psychology to deduce his ultimate goal. So what do you think, if it was Lin Shuangting, why would he do this?"
Luo Siwei felt a sense of pressure and hesitated, "I may not know him well enough to profile him."
"Lin Shuangting and you had a conversation in the detention center. You are the officer who has the most contact with him and you know the situation best. I believe you can give it a try." Chi Li said this and continued to comfort her, "Now that things have developed to this point, we will continue to arrest according to the normal plan. The profiling is just a warning. Any deviation will not increase additional losses, but if the direction is correct, we can prepare in advance. I will analyze it with you."
Luo Siwei tried to calm herself down and recalled the feeling and all the details every time she saw Lin Shuangting.
"Lin Shuangting... He said those prisoners deserved no death, that my attempt to save Cha Junxi wasn't worth it... He treated those prisoners with disdain... Or rather, he looked at everyone as if they were ants on the ground... His plan was heavily focused on exploitation, taking advantage of every possible opportunity."
Chi Li analyzed: "Your analysis is correct. In Lin Shuangting's view, his accomplices, Mu Yuexin, Hua Wenyi, and Hua Yanming, are all expendable."
Encouraged by Chi Li, Luo Siwei continued, "Hua Wenyi's death may be related to Lin Shuangting. Mu Yuexin pushed all the blame onto the Hua brothers. Now that Hua Wenyi is dead, there is no evidence."
Luo Siwei closed her eyes and tried to put Lin Shuangting's perspective into her mind. She imagined what kind of behavior that person would have and what kind of words he would have said.
"Hua Yanming... he wanted to escape, so Lin Shuangting must have invented a beautiful, seemingly feasible way for him to escape. But... that was just a mirage. The escape was fake, and there was no way he could keep Hua Yanming. He used him while hating and despising him. He loved death, and the more death, the happier he would be..."
The image of hell emerged in Luo Siwei's mind.
"He wants to turn the world into hell."
Chi Li continued to enlighten her: "So what do you think is the destination he chose for Hua Yanming?"
Luo Siwei looked at the direction he was heading, various clues intertwined in his mind.
It was impossible to drive away. The police had blocked all the highway exits. It was only a matter of time before they could intercept the car. They could only buy time.
The airport is impossible, the first thing you should take is not the road to the airport.
Private jet parking? Aircraft cannot hide from radar and are very dangerous in the air.
Luo Siwei had the answer in his heart, and said in a trembling voice: "The dock..."
The southeast corner of Donglan is adjacent to the sea. Smuggling on unlicensed ships has always been common, and smuggling by sea has never been eliminated.
Once on a light boat, it only takes a short time to travel a long distance. At night, visibility is low, and it is difficult to conduct a large-scale search at sea in the vast ocean.
At the same time, the dock is easy to arrange, and there are a large number of items traveling to and from various places, making it easy to tamper with.
But there are three large ports in the direction they are heading.
Luo Siwei concluded, "Lin Shuangting wouldn't have allowed Hua Yanming on board. His goal was to silence him, and he might have taken a few more people with him. Therefore, he probably made arrangements at the dock ahead of time. Therefore, the dock had to be large and well-organized enough to reach the high seas as quickly as possible."
"You did a great job." Chi Li said. He seemed to be looking at the map at the same time and summarizing. "Based on the overall route, the most suitable place is Sanlongwan Wharf. I will contact them and deploy defenses in advance."
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