Chapter 647: The disappeared corpse wakes up
After Hou Wendong finished speaking, he paused and explained:
"After all, Councillor, you must have heard about the discipline of the police station.
In fact, tonight it wasn't just the two captains; many detectives' phones couldn't be reached and they were unable to return to their teams in time to respond to calls.
A large part of this is probably because they slept too soundly and turned their phones to silent mode, so when the sun comes up, they will probably show up automatically, right?"
Before he could finish his words, Wang Xinfa interrupted him without question:
"Find the person, immediately, right now."
Hou Wendong's heart trembled, and he immediately bowed and replied:
"Understood. I'll arrange it shortly. By the way, Feng Muren has arrived. I asked him to wait in the corridor. Would you like to see him, Councillor?"
Wang Xinfa glanced at Li Hanyu casually. Li Hanyu did not rush to explain, but just responded with a gentle and calm smile.
Feng Mu is his son Qian Huan's confidant, and also her most trusted loyal dog. Even if she doesn't say it, Wang Xinfa must know it.
With such a big thing happening tonight, it was reasonable for her to call her loyal dog to guard her side. It didn't require any extra explanation.
As expected, Wang Xinfa did not ask any more questions, although he did not think that if something really happened, a mere prison guard would be of no use.
In Wang Xinfa's eyes, except for the warden who could barely be considered an official in the Second Prison, all the people below the warden, including the wardens and division heads, were equal.
They were just jailers guarding prisoners, not to mention Feng Mu, the weird Minister of Internal Affairs.
Wang Xinfa's voice was as cold as ice:
"I'm gone. Go down and ask him (Feng Mu) to find Feng Ju for me!"
Hou Wendong instantly understood the deep meaning behind Wang Xinfa's order. If something happened to Li Shang, the importance of another captain of the police station would naturally increase at this critical juncture.
He hurriedly accepted the order and said:
"Understood, Councillor, don't worry, I will take care of it."
Wang Xinfa seemed to feel that he had talked too much, so he picked up the teacup to moisten his dry throat. When he put the teacup down, he saw Hou Wendong still standing respectfully with his hands lowered, his brows slightly furrowed in impatience:
"Do you have anything else to report?"
Hou Wendong showed a strange expression on his face. He looked at Li Hanyu, then lowered his voice and said:
"Member, President Lu, Madam, regarding the body at the scene, there are some...abnormalities."
The three of them were stunned for a moment, their eyes focused on Hou Wendong's face at the same time, especially Li Hanyu, who felt a little uneasy because of Hou Wendong's previous look.
Hou Wendong organized his sentences and reported:
"Several bodies were carried out from the entrance of Emerald Garden. I personally checked and found out they were all security guards in the villa area. I also carefully examined the bodies carried out from the special commissioner's villa and confirmed their identities. They were all maids serving in the villa."
Wang Xinfa frowned slightly. He didn't care whether the security guards or maids were dead or alive. No matter how many small people like these died, they were just numbers and were not worthy of defiling his ears.
Lu Chenjia listened attentively. His intuition told him that Hou Wendong had laid so much groundwork, there must be a twist. Li Hanyu's heart was in his throat, and he pricked up his ears, afraid of missing a word.
Sure enough, Hou Wendong took a deep breath and said:
"However, I inquired in detail with the police station personnel who were responsible for collecting and recording the bodies at the scene, and verified the number of bodies. I found that... the police station did not find any bodies under the streetlight.
Instead, only a pool of black blood was found at that location, so there were actually two bodies missing from the scene."
As soon as the words fell, the expressions of the three people in the room changed at the same time.
Li Hanyu stood up in shock and said in a lost voice:
"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!
At the door, right under the streetlight! There were clearly two bodies lying there, one... one without a head, and the other wearing night watchman's clothes.
I saw it with my own eyes... no, it was my bodyguards who saw it through the crack in the door. There's no mistake!"
The bodyguard's confession to the police station was naturally false, and he knew nothing about anything. But when facing the two real masters, Wang Xinfa and Lu Chenjia, it was impossible for him to lie, and he answered everything he knew.
Lu Chenjia and Wang Xinfa naturally would not doubt the bodyguards they sent to Li Hanyu. Even if they doubted Li Hanyu, they would not doubt those bodyguards.
Hou Wendong naturally understood the reasoning behind this, and he didn't understand what happened in between. He just reported the situation truthfully:
"The madam and the bodyguards naturally wouldn't lie, so that's where the problem lies.
The current situation is that two bodies are missing from the scene, and the police station is currently unaware of their existence. In other words, the police station is completely unaware of the Jade Garden, and a night watchman died tonight."
Hou Wendong added in one breath and gave the final conclusion:
"The police are now just thinking that some criminals attacked the Special Commissioner's villa, and then the Special Commissioner disappeared."
Li Hanyu opened his mouth wide, but couldn't utter a word.
Her mind was in complete chaos, like a ball of wool that had been scratched madly by a cat. Countless clues, fears, and questions were tangled together, and she couldn't find any clues.
Another accident?!
What do you mean the body is missing?!
Where are my two huge bodies?!
Not long ago, the bodyguards witnessed the two shocking corpses under the street light through the crack in the door.
How come in the blink of an eye, they disappeared from the police station's records, leaving only a pool of black blood of unknown meaning?
Is this accident a blessing or a curse for her?
Lu Chenjia had lowered his head, staring intently at the tea leaves floating in the cup in his hand. There was no expression on his face, like a bottomless ancient well. No one could tell what he was thinking.
Wang Xinfa's expression was uncertain. After a while, he asked Hou Wendong:
"What do you think?"
Hou Wendong had obviously thought it over carefully before reporting. He spoke cautiously:
"Based on the assumption that the lady and the bodyguard wouldn't lie, then there should indeed have been two bodies lying under the streetlight: a headless corpse and a night watchman.
The headless corpse is definitely dead, but that night watchman..."
Hou Wendong repeated the bodyguards' description of the night watchman falling to the ground and continued:
"The bodyguards were inside the villa at the time, separated by a crack in the door, at a distance, in dim light, and given the emergency situation, they only saw him fall and instinctively assumed he was dead too.
But in fact, that night watchman might not have been truly dead at that time!"
Hou Wendong had been in contact with Li Shang for a while, and he actually learned some reasoning skills:
"After the bodyguards closed the door, the night watchman might have come back to life and carried the corpse next to him away."
Upon hearing this, Wang Xinfa turned his gaze to Li Hanyu, who nodded in agreement as if waking from a dream.
"Yes, yes, Secretary Hou's analysis makes a lot of sense. This should be the case!
It’s all my fault! I was too scared and too cautious at the time. I didn’t let the bodyguards rush out to check and confirm immediately, and then I closed the door, so I might have missed this scene... "
Wang Xinfa waved his hand, interrupting Li Hanyu's self-blame. It was meaningless to pursue this at the moment.
If he had been here at the time, he would have seen the gangsters outside the door meeting the night watchman, rushing into the special envoy's villa, killing everyone in and out, and then calling his accomplices, killing the night watchman and escaping.
He also needs to be cautious.
Yes, from the perspective of Li Hanyu and the others at that time, they would not think that the fierce fighting sounds coming from the special envoy's villa were caused by the bad guys who accidentally broke in in a panic.
I would just think that the bad guys were heading for the special envoy's villa.
Except for the night watchman, everyone who appeared before and after, whether seen or not, those who saw clearly or not, were all a group in their eyes.
They are all cruel and vicious.
(ps: The view through the door crack is limited, and you can’t see the villa next door.
Therefore, the bodyguards inside the door faced a "blank" of sound for a long time, but this did not prevent them from imagining the fierce battle outside through the sound.
As for whether the criminal has a terrorist background, it is hard to say.
Anyway, they dared to kill the night watchman and rushed into the special commissioner's villa, killing all the maids inside. You can think about it yourself.
In this situation, would you rush out and do what is right?
Whether you save him or not, you might end up getting yourself into trouble.
Although the current situation is not necessarily that good.
After Hou Wendong finished his speculation, he added very cautiously, leaving himself ample room for maneuver:
"Member, this is just my personal speculation, based on limited information. There is currently no direct evidence to support this speculation, so it is not necessarily correct."
He paused briefly and offered another possibility, albeit one that sounded even more bizarre:
"Another possibility exists. Someone else stole the two bodies without anyone noticing before the police arrived."
Wang Xinfa took a sip of his tea. Although Hou Wendong suggested other possibilities, he was already 70% convinced that the night watchman was still alive and had dragged the body away.
This seems to be the most logical answer and the one that best explains the current situation.
However, this answer itself brings more puzzling doubts.
Who was that night watchman? How did he survive? Why did he take the headless corpse away? And who was that headless corpse?
I really can't understand it. This kind of thing should be left to the detective.
Wang Xinfa put down the teacup and looked at Hou Wendong with a frown:
"You must go outside immediately and personally monitor the police station. Utilize all technical means and manpower to search for the whereabouts of the special commissioner.
And Li Shang, any progress, no matter how big or small, no matter when, must be reported directly to me immediately, understand?"
Hou Wendong immediately straightened up and replied solemnly:
"Yes! Councillor! I'll do it right away!"
Then, he turned to Li Hanyu and respectfully asked:
"Madam, if you don't have any urgent matters at the moment, could you please let Feng Mu help me with some things first?"
Li Hanyu naturally couldn't refuse Hou Wendong's reasonable request here, she smiled and agreed:
"Okay, Secretary Hou, please make the arrangements."
Just then, hurried footsteps suddenly came from the door.
A doctor from the medical team, wearing a white coat, rushed in in a panic, with beads of sweat on his forehead and his glasses tilted on his nose.
Hou Wendong's face darkened, and he immediately scolded loudly:
"What are you doing? Are there any rules? How dare you barge in like this?"
Wang Xinfa looked at the doctor with a slightly gloomy expression, and Lu Chenjia half turned away.
Li Hanyu's heart skipped a beat, but he pretended to be confused, with his brows unconsciously furrowed.
The doctor was frightened by Hou Wendong's harsh shout and Wang Xinfa's cold gaze. His face turned pale, his lips trembled, and he stammered:
"Madam, Qian Huanhe, he."
He kept muttering "he he he" for a long time, as if the news was too shocking and it was stuck in his throat and he couldn't say it smoothly.
Li Hanyu stood up abruptly, his voice rising sharply with an unnatural sharpness, completely different from his usual elegant and calm demeanor.
"What happened to Qian Huan? Tell me quickly."
The doctor finally took a deep breath, and with all his strength, he almost shouted:
"Miracle! Madam! It's a miracle! Qian Huan...he woke up!!!"
Li Hanyu seemed unable to believe his ears and stood there in a daze for two seconds.
The next second, she didn't care about anything else and pushed the doctor who was blocking her way away. The force was so great that the doctor was caught off guard and staggered and almost fell.
Li Hanyu didn't even look at him or turn her head back, and ran downstairs in her high heels.
Lu Chenjia's expression froze. He had just thought that Qian Huan had finally succumbed to his death and was about to die. He began to think about the possible chain reactions that Qian Huan's death might bring.
I never expected that—he actually… woke up?!
Why wake up at any other time, tonight, at this moment?
The special envoy outside is missing, but Qian Huan inside wakes up at this critical moment?
His mind raced:
Qian Huan and the special envoy... Logically speaking, they have nothing to do with each other and should have no direct connection. However, the timing is really a coincidence.
The disappearance of the special envoy, the loss of contact with Li Shang, the disappearance of the night watchman's body, Qian Huan's awakening,... these things may be related, or may be related, anyway, they all happened together.
Then, I want to sort out and deal with these things one by one, but, tsk tsk tsk, it’s not easy.
Lu Chenjia suddenly turned his head to look at Wang Xinfa, who was still sitting upright on the sofa, looking back at him expressionlessly.
The face was calm, even a little dull.
But Lu Chenjia knew that Councillor Wang must be as restless as himself at this moment.
No, Councillor Wang must be even more upset than himself, because Qian Huan is still nominally Councillor Wang’s “big son”.
In fact, Lu Chenjia didn't want Qian Huan to wake up. It had disrupted his original plan a bit. However, looking at Wang Xinfa's stiff expression, he didn't seem so annoyed anymore.
He grinned and congratulated Wang Xinfa:
"Congratulations, Councillor! Your son is awake. Let's go and see him together."
Wang Xinfa stood up a little stiffly, with a forced smile on his face as he said:
"Thank you. This is rare good news tonight. Let's go and see my... blessed and fortunate son."
………
(End of this chapter)
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