Chapter 135 Warehouse Location
The boy in the photo had sharp eyes and brows, and his coldness revealed a hint of immaturity, which made Xia Lili's heart skip a beat.
“Is this... Li Qihan?”
She almost wanted to stick it to the photo to confirm, but she couldn't reconcile the calm and reserved man in the morning with the sharp-edged young man in the photo.
"Did you see anyone you know?"
Song Ying's voice came from the end of the corridor, with a smile of understanding.
Xia Lili turned around, her eyes gleaming with sudden realization: "So Coach Song and Captain Li were college classmates."
"We weren't really classmates." Song Ying approached, her eyes landing on the photo, her tone tinged with nostalgia. "Captain Li was a grade above me. He came back to campus that year as a representative of the outstanding graduates to give a speech and also presented us with awards."
She paused, the corners of her lips curled up slightly, "He was a famous figure back then. I wonder how many of his junior schoolmates were striving for him."
Xia Lili couldn't help but smile. With Li Qihan's handsome looks and exceptional abilities, it was only natural for him to become a campus legend. She blinked and said jokingly, "Then Coach Song must be a prominent figure on campus, standing on the podium."
"You little girl." Song Ying laughed and flicked her forehead. "Senior Brother Li told me that you were introverted and timid and asked me to take care of you. But I think you are quite sharp-tongued."
Xia Lili pursed her lips and smiled, her eyelashes fluttering twice like a butterfly: "I'm just shy of strangers."
She is introverted in front of strangers, but she lets herself go when she gets to know people.
Song Ying stared at the photo with a distant look in her eyes, her tone filled with emotion. "We all thought that with such an excellent resume, he would naturally enter the capital's public security system and then be promoted step by step to the ministry. After all, he grew up in the capital."
"I didn't expect him to take the initiative to apply for a transfer to Yangcheng, which is almost 2,000 kilometers away from the capital."
Xia Lili was stunned when she heard this, and her eyelashes trembled slightly.
She knew that Coach Song chose to return to Yangcheng to work after graduating from the National Public Security University because his parents were in Yangcheng.
She originally thought that Li Qihan was in the same situation, but she didn't expect it to be the case.
There was a flicker of confusion in her eyes.
Song Ying keenly noticed the confusion on Xia Lili's face. A knowing smile appeared on her lips, and she lowered her voice and asked, "Are you curious about why Captain Li came to Yangcheng?"
Xia Lili's eyes lit up, and she nodded repeatedly like a chick pecking at rice, her face full of anticipation.
Of course she had to listen to the gossip, and she leaned forward unconsciously.
Song Ying pointed her index finger at her head and said, "If I want to know, promise me you can practice for another hour today."
Xia Lili's bright eyes suddenly dimmed.
But curiosity was like an ant, crawling on her heart.
Xia Lili had a determined look on her face: "Practice more, no problem!"
"But first, have the goodness to tell me!"
Song Ying smiled, and her eyes gradually became profound.
“I was actually very curious at the time,” she recalled.
Song Ying paused. "At that time, I was still in the Yangcheng General Administration, and was a colleague of Captain Li. By chance, I roughly guessed the reason why Captain Li was transferred to Yangcheng."
"I'm quick at looking up documents. When I was in the team, I was often responsible for looking up case files and researching relevant cases."
Song Ying's brows gradually furrowed, and her voice deepened. "I happened to notice that Captain Li would often look up a case file from twenty years ago on his computer. He always looked incredibly focused, sometimes even staying in the office late into the night."
"Twenty years ago, there was a yacht explosion in Yangcheng."
Song Ying's fingertips unconsciously traced circles around the seam of her pants. "The victims were a couple. Police investigation revealed they were the founders of a precision instrument manufacturing company."
"The fire department initially determined it was a gas leak," Song Ying's eyes sharpened. "It wasn't until the autopsy that they discovered that the wife had non-standard bullet fragments in her skull. They were specially made dumdum bullets."
She took a deep breath and said, "At that time, this type of bullet was only issued to a certain overseas security company."
Hearing this, Xia Lili's pupils suddenly contracted and she unconsciously held her breath. She had already vaguely guessed the identity of the couple who died in the explosion.
"But in the past twenty years," Song Ying's voice was tinged with heaviness, "the police have not found the murderer."
She shook her head helplessly. "The statute of limitations for intentional homicide is twenty years, and this case has already passed the statute of limitations."
When a criminal case exceeds the statute of limitations, it means that the judicial authorities will no longer pursue criminal liability in principle, and the suspect will no longer be considered a criminal under the law.
"The couple who died in the explosion were Li Qihan's parents. They left him forever when he was only seven years old."
When Song Ying said this, she sighed deeply, her eyes dimmed, and her tone was full of regret and sigh.
At this point, she clapped her hands, suppressed the sentimental look she had just shown while reminiscing, and regained her coaching seriousness: "Okay, we've talked too much today. Let's go and start training."
She stood up and moved her wrists, the joints making a slight clicking sound, and a meaningful smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.
Xia Lili's face immediately fell when she heard this, and the smile on her lips froze instantly, as if she had heard some bad news.
She followed Song Ying reluctantly, her steps as heavy as if they were filled with lead.
The next two hours were like a training session from hell.
Song Ying's training method is extremely rigorous. From basic physical endurance to actual combat confrontation, every movement requires precision.
Xia Lili first performed five sets of high-intensity shuttle runs, followed by weighted squats and core strength training. Finally, Song Ying pressed her on the fighting mat to repeatedly practice grappling and counterattack techniques.
Sweat soaked her training suit, her hair stuck to her forehead, and her breathing was as rapid as if she was pumping a bellows.
Two hours later, Xia Lili was completely exhausted. Like a zombie whose strength had been drained, she collapsed straight on the soft cushion in the training ground, too lazy to even move a finger.
She stared at the ceiling with lifeless eyes, gasping for breath, with only one thought in her mind - this woman, is she a devil?
After dragging her exhausted body back home, Xia Lili washed up, had her meal, browsed her phone for a while, and then went to bed.
After turning off the lights, Xia Lili looked at the city lights outside the window. For some reason, she always felt that she was not there, and she felt a little uneasy.
Still worried about A Quan's case, she fell asleep with a heavy heart.
Xia Lili woke up very early the next morning.
The first thing she did when she opened her eyes was to check the internal police alert on her phone.
At two o'clock last night, A Quan went out.
He first went to a barbecue stall 2 kilometers away from his home to buy some midnight snacks, then borrowed the car keys from the barbecue stall owner and drove alone to a barren mountain 20 kilometers away.
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