Chapter 70 Red Spider Lily 09
Luo Siwei took out handcuffs and handcuffed Master Zhang. Chi Li went to make a phone call and arranged for a police car from the Municipal Bureau to come and arrest him.
Guo Zhengyao took advantage of this opportunity to go to the back and capture a few of the master's disciples, but perhaps seeing that the situation was not going well, the other staff members ran away.
Chi Li hung up the phone and turned around and said, "It's okay. We've caught the fish anyway. As for the shrimp, we can deal with them slowly later."
The ice is three feet thick and it didn't freeze overnight. It seems that this store has been open in Donglan for a long time.
After all, they are just a criminal investigation detachment. After tracing the clues of the case and finding this line, they can ask Director Chen to conduct a strict investigation, but there is no need to interfere in the matter.
Luo Siwei and Huo Cunsheng came to Master Zhang's side and took the opportunity to question him about the relevant situation.
Master Zhang was handcuffed, and he looked like a completely different person. His previous sage-like demeanor was completely gone. He huddled up in a ball, crying out that he was wronged.
Old Huo searched Master Zhang's pockets and frisked him, pulling out an ID card for someone named Zhang Angu. He scanned it in the system, revealing Master Zhang's information and place of origin. This Master Zhang was forty-two years old and from the Donglan area.
Huo Cunsheng looked at his detailed information and found that he only had a junior high school education. Old Huo still remembered the grudge and was furious: "You dare to come out and cheat after graduating from junior high school? You won't live for more than two years. It's because of your family discord that you are destined for disaster!"
Guo Zhengyao also taunted him, "Your fortune telling is really inaccurate. Even a room full of ghostly props can't help you."
Master Zhang: "I just didn't expect this day to bring me such a disaster."
Huo Cunsheng mercilessly seized on the details and retorted: "You are the one living in the gutter. Your whole family lives in the gutter."
Zhang Angu shrank back and admitted, "The officer is right. I'm just a rat in the gutter, not worthy of being on the stage. You are all wise and powerful, so don't bother with me. Besides, I really didn't do anything. I just helped people with feng shui and fortune-telling. You know, it's all a scam. I... I... I just want to make a living."
Luo Siwei turned the topic to the current case: "We came here today mainly to ask about the haunted house." She did not explain in detail, hoping to trick Zhang Angu.
"A haunted house..." Master Zhang's expression froze, as if someone had pointed a finger at his acupoint, and he froze in his seat.
Luo Siwei didn't know if it was her imagination, but at that moment, she saw a hint of fear in Master Zhang's eyes. She frowned slightly. She didn't know why this charlatan, who told fortunes every day and always talked about haunted houses, froze at the mention of them. Could it be that he had amassed so much wealth that he couldn't relate to the idea of a haunted house?
Seeing this scene, Chi Li asked, "What do you know about those haunted houses?"
In that instant, Master Zhang regained consciousness. He rolled his eyes and smiled apologetically, "Officer, in your eyes, that's a haunted house. In our eyes, it's all business..."
Luo Siwei asked again: "What's so special about the haunted house you've calculated?"
Zhang Angu raised his eyes to look at her, shook his head, and said with a wry smile, "Officer, you think too highly of me. How would I know? I'm really just a small fry. And none of this money went into my pocket. I was just the one who was pushed to the front... actor, you know? It's similar to special actors. They thought I could act, and I've loved this since I was a child, so I was developed..."
"Development?" Luo Siwei hadn't expected this feudal superstition to have an organization. She followed up by asking, "Who's behind this?"
Master Zhang stuttered again, curled up, and coughed softly twice. "It's just those wealthy bosses. They believe in this, and they think everyone else believes in it too... My master followed them around, and gradually became an accomplished master, so I followed him to learn his craft."
Luo Siwei asked, "Who is your master?"
Master Zhang said, "I don't even know his name. I only know he's called a fortune teller, also known as the Peach Wood Immortal. A few years ago, after my master passed away, people started asking me for divinations. Someone asked me to come and sit in the office, so I did. That's all I know."
Luo Siwei asked him a few more questions.
Zhang Angu lowered his head and said nothing.
Seeing that he didn't speak for a while, Luo Siwei took out the picture of the talisman that Zhou Zitu had said on her phone and showed it to him: "Do you recognize this talisman?"
The phone was placed in front of him. Zhang Angu squinted his eyes to identify it for a moment, then admitted: "I drew it."
Luo Siwei asked, "Do you remember when and to whom you gave this talisman?"
"I remember it roughly." Zhang Angu lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said, "Mrs. Zhou said she had recently encountered a ghost and couldn't sleep well at night. She wanted a talisman, and that's when I drew it for her."
"Do you remember her name?"
Zhang Angu nodded. "I remember Zhou Zitu who lives in Liyu Bay. She's an old client of mine. When something happened in their villa more than ten years ago, it was my master who took me to perform the ritual. We've known each other since then."
At that time, Zhang Angu was still young and was a little apprentice standing by to help.
"She's dead." Luo Siwei said, carefully observing Zhang Angu's expression. "When she died, she was holding this talisman of yours in her mouth."
Zhang Angu's expression instantly turned into horror, as if he had witnessed something horrific. He trembled and said, "This has nothing to do with me. I just sold her a piece of paper..."
Luo Siwei asked him carefully: "Why did Zhou Zitu come to you? What else did she say?"
Zhang Angu said, "She said...she said...that man is back."
She asked, "Who is that man?"
Zhang Angu said, "I don't know either. Mrs. Zhou didn't elaborate."
Just as he said this, there was a whoosh sound outside, and a black shadow flashed past and ran towards the back door.
"who?!"
Chi Li shouted, then turned around and chased after him.
"Old Huo, Deputy Guo, keep an eye on him!" Luo Siwei shouted, and she followed closely behind, running out of the back door of the fortune-telling shop.
Tonight is a bottom-testing operation. Luo Siwei seems to be dressed modestly, but in fact she deliberately chose a red skirt with a slit on the side. She wore a pair of light flat shoes on her feet and ran very fast in the night.
There was only one person on the other side, wearing black clothes, a hat and a mask. The man looked familiar with the environment and was moving around in the dark alley.
They chased for a while, and in the dark night, three figures were chasing each other in the alley.
Chi Li looked at the environment, went through a parallel alley nearby, arrived at the front first, and blocked the mysterious man from the front.
For a moment, the mysterious man was trapped in the alley, like a mouse trapped in a bellows.
He looked at Chi Li who was standing in front of him, then turned around and looked at Luo Siwei.
The man thought that Luo Siwei would be easy to deal with because she was a woman, so he turned around and swung his fist at her.
The fist made a sound of wind and hit Luo Siwei directly.
Luo Siwei showed no fear. She flexibly turned sideways and kicked the man sideways, forcing him back and creating some distance between them. Then she spun around quickly, her long hair drawing an arc in the air as her body moved. The next second, Luo Siwei's elbow quickly hit the man's chest with a bang.
The human elbow is the hardest part of the body, and Luo Siwei's moves are accurate and fierce.
The man groaned in pain and staggered back two steps. A fierce look appeared on his face and he reached out to pull Luo Siwei's arm.
Luo Siwei didn't dodge, but used some clever tricks.
She was holding a chain handbag in her hand, and she threw it out with a snap, hitting the man's shoulder hard.
Taking advantage of the close proximity, Luo Siwei reached out and pulled the mask off the man's face. Her nails were slightly long, and they scratched a bloody mark on the man's face.
With the help of a ray of light from the surroundings, Luo Siwei saw the man's face clearly when they passed by.
But she was suddenly stunned at that moment, her hair standing on end. It was the face of a dead person. The person in front of her looked almost identical to the deceased in the file she had read!
Luo Siwei remembered that the man was called Ding Zhaomo, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in Liyu Bay fourteen years ago...
She finally understood why Zhang Angu said, "That man is back."
In the moment she was stunned, the man pulled out a knife from his arms and stabbed Luo Siwei with it. Chi Li shouted "Be careful" and attacked the man from behind.
Luo Siwei woke up as if from a dream, and quickly ducked to avoid the attack, as the blade brushed past her body.
The man did not want to fight any longer, but turned around and stabbed Chi Li again with the knife in his hand.
Chi Li saw the knife coming towards him and dodged sideways.
The three men fought in close combat. Luo Siwei and Chi Li cooperated tacitly. Chi Li attacked the man's lower lane, while Luo Siwei attacked the man's middle lane.
The man pulled his legs back to avoid being hit by Luo Siwei on the back again.
After a few moves, Chi Li seized the opportunity. His height and physical strength gave him an advantage. He reached out and grabbed the man's wrist. The dagger fell to the ground with a clang. However, the man's face turned fierce, and he raised his knee to hit his lower abdomen as if he was risking his life.
Chi Li let go of his hand and dodged sideways.
At this moment, Luo Siwei heard a bang in her ear. Before she could react, Chi Li called out to be careful and hurriedly pulled her behind a shelter.
Luo Siwei immediately realized that it was the sound of gunfire and the other party might have accomplices.
Then the second shot came, and this bullet almost grazed their bodies. Luo Siwei even saw the bullet hitting the wall not far away, and the fragments flew out.
Based on her experience, she determined that the bullet was fired from the opposite bank of the river.
The man nearby took advantage of the two shots to climb over the guardrail, turned around and jumped into the river nearby.
Luo Siwei and Chi Li carefully concealed their bodies and looked towards the lotus waterway. The sky was pitch black and they could not see the situation clearly under the lotus flowers.
The man seemed to be an excellent swimmer. After entering the water for a few seconds, he surfaced a few meters away to take a breath. Before they could locate him, the sound of water was heard again, this time ten meters away.
Then the surroundings became quiet and silent, and the man seemed to have disappeared out of thin air in this lotus corridor.
There were no more gunshots and the dark night returned to peace.
"They've already left." Chi Li said as he walked out from behind the cover. He turned around, took out a pair of gloves and put them on, picked up the murder weapon that had fallen at the scene, and then prepared to collect the bullets.
Luo Siwei stretched out his right hand and supported his wrist with his left hand.
Seeing her action, Chi Li suddenly became nervous: "Are you not hurt?"
"No." Luo Siwei shook her head: "My nails scratched the man's face, so I should be able to take a DNA sample." She held up her hand to prevent the blood sample from being contaminated.
Chi Li finally felt relieved and continued to work with his head down.
Luo Siwei walked over and remembered the thrilling scene just now. She said gratefully, "Thank you, Captain Chi." At that time, her reaction was a step slow. If Chi Li had not pulled her away, she might have been shot.
"It's what I should do." Chi Li's tone was as calm as usual. He picked up a bullet and made a mark on the ground. "There should be fingerprints on the dagger. The bullet can be tested for ballistics."
Although the other party escaped, they obtained a lot of clues.
Luo Siwei nodded: "What should we do next?"
Chi Li stood up and carefully put away the evidence: "Issue a wanted notice, request support, search along the river, and capture everyone in the city."
By the time they returned to the fortune-telling shop, follow-up support had arrived.
Zhang Angu was taken into the police car. The first to arrive were several criminal police officers from the police station, who helped them set up a cordon. Later, evidence collectors came and collected the blood from Luo Siwei's fingers.
Huo Cunsheng went to do the handover, and Chi Li took people to investigate the scene where they had just fought.
Luo Siwei stood at the scene and sorted out his thoughts.
By this time she had completely calmed down. The mysterious man she met tonight certainly couldn't be a ghost, nor could he be Ding Zhaomo. He looked almost the same as the photo of Ding Zhaomo before his death. If Ding Zhaomo was still alive, it would be impossible for him not to age.
So, he is either a relative of Ding Zhaomo, or he simply looks like him.
But in the darkness, when Luo Siwei saw him for the first time, she was still frightened by him and naturally thought of the old case.
No one knows who the other person who was hiding in the dark and shooting was. He might be his accomplice, or someone related to the fortune-telling house.
At this time, Luo Siwei's mind was full of questions.
Why did the man who looks like Ding Zhaomo come here tonight?
Is he the murderer of Zhou Zitu?
Then Luo Siwei thought of a possibility.
If the incident that happened in the villa wasn't an accident, but someone did it on purpose...
Could it be that Zhou Zitu... is the insider?
It's even possible that Ding Zhaomo died at the hands of Zhou Zitu...
So Zhou Zitu came to Master Zhang for fortune-telling, saying that the man had returned.
If it was a mysterious man who went to the villa to steal that night, and Zhou Zitu saw a man who looked like Ding Zhaomo appear in front of her while half asleep, would she be so frightened that she would bite the talisman under the pillow in her mouth and try to swallow it?
The more Luo Siwei thought about it, the more he felt that this possibility was very high.
At this moment, a physical evidence officer called out, "Captain Luo, we found a shoe print in the back."
Luo Siwei suddenly looked up. It had rained when they came tonight. It seemed that the mysterious man had left some traces at the scene.
She walked over to check the shoe prints on the ground. Although the shoe prints were a little incomplete, she could still clearly see a shoe size pattern in the middle.
Luo Si bent down slightly and identified it carefully.
No. 43.
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