Chapter 87 Misunderstanding and Hallucination
Xiang Quan, who was short of money to support his family, was struggling: "But I've already taken all the leave I can take this month. My third child is sick, and I took two days off to take care of her. If I'm absent again, I'm afraid most of this month's salary will be deducted. 3,300 yuan!"
He works in this supermarket, and his supervisor always finds reasons to deduct his salary. He can only try his best to do everything perfectly and not give the other party a chance to find fault.
Xia Lili gently soothed him, "Don't worry, Brother Xiang. We will definitely get your salary. Wait a moment, I'll discuss with the leader how to plan for tonight."
Xia Lili turned off the microphone and looked up at Li Qihan: "Captain Li, what are your instructions?"
Xia Lili had just downloaded the video and forwarded it to Li Qihan.
"Although the video is a bit blurry, you can see that they used professional incubators, the kind that hospitals use to transport transplant organs."
Li Qihan's face was serious. "The boxes have clear biosafety markings and a temperature indicator on the side. This kind of equipment is simply not needed in ordinary logistics."
"I checked, there's an Ankang Hospital within a radius of less than 200 meters from the Denghuo Wanjia Supermarket."
Xia Lili gasped: "So, this supermarket's cold storage might be used to store human organs?"
Li Qihan shook his head: "I'm afraid there are more than that. Since they will attack Xiang Quan tonight, let's catch them in the act tonight."
"We're like this..."
Li Qihan discussed the plan that had already formed in his mind with Xia Lili.
After listening to it, Xia Lili sorted out her thoughts and then turned on the microphone.
, he said to Xiang Quan on the other end of the phone: "Can you cooperate with us tonight and see if we can catch these people tonight?"
"Don't worry, our police will ensure your safety and will not let you put yourself in danger."
Xiang Quan nodded repeatedly: "Of course, the sooner we catch the murderer, the sooner I can rest in peace!"
"Officer Xia, how do you need my cooperation?"
Xia Lili hesitated for a moment and said, "Listen to me..."
…
The call ended, and Xia Lili was about to breathe a sigh of relief when suddenly—
"call out!"
A fat cockroach with two ponytails flapped its wings and flew straight towards her face.
“Oh my god!!!”
She took a step back reflexively, but she tripped, lost her balance, and fell backwards violently.
"Bang!"
The moment her back hit the hard chest, she subconsciously stretched out her hand and pressed her palm directly on Li Qihan's chest, pushing him against the door panel of the utility room.
The air solidified.
Li Qihan: “…”
Xia Lili: “…”
It feels quite solid.
They were so close that she could count each other's eyelashes. She could even smell his cool fragrance, mixed with the dust from the old cardboard boxes in the utility room.
Three seconds later, Xia Lili retracted her hand as if she had been electrocuted. She raised her hands, said sorry, and then ran out.
Xia Lili and Li Qihan came out of the utility room one after another and happened to run into Xia's parents and Xia Xubai and Yu Shou who were discussing dinner in the living room.
Four pairs of eyes were cast at the same time, and the air froze instantly.
The recipe in Chang Yue's hand fell to the ground. "What are you doing..."
——"We just finished discussing the case! A major case!"
Xia Lili hurriedly explained, dashing to the entrance and grabbing her coat to throw it on. "I just received an emergency notice and need to return to the team immediately."
She clasped her hands together in front of her parents and said, "I'll order takeout from Juxianlou tomorrow to make up for it!"
Before Chang Yue could come to her senses, Li Qihan had already bowed slightly: "Sorry to bother you." When he turned around, the back of his black coat was still stained with dust from the utility room.
"Hey Xiao Li!"
Chang Yue chased him to the door and said, "We are neighbors. Come and try the sweet and sour pork ribs made by Auntie some other day!"
Before the elevator door closed, everyone heard Li Qihan raise his voice, a rare gesture, and reply, "Sure."
Xia Lintian bent down to pick up the recipe book and dusted the cover thoughtfully: "The dust in the utility room is quite particular, it tends to rub against people's backs."
Xia Xubai was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and lowered his fox eyes.
He said to Chang Yue, "Mom, Captain Li has a cold personality and doesn't interact with people very often. He might have just been being polite. Don't take it seriously."
"He doesn't seem to like sweet and sour pork ribs or anything with strong flavors."
Chang Yue said with regret: "Is that so..."
*
Ten fifty at night.
Xia Lili and Li Qiuhan had already taken the police force to wait near the cold storage.
After all the members of the police force arrived at the scene, Xia Lili looked at them one by one to confirm that there were no hallucinations, and then heaved a sigh of relief.
Now everything is ready, only the east wind is missing.
Xiang Quan, wearing a work uniform for unloading, clocked in at the time clock machine and entered the password to enter the cold storage.
At 11:05, the transport truck drove to the front of the cold storage, backed up to the door of the cold storage, and Xiang Quan unloaded the frozen products from the transport truck bag by bag.
At half past eleven, Zhu Yongfeng, another loader at the cold storage, arrived late.
According to Xiang Quan, Zhu Yongfeng is a relative of his supervisor, is always late and leaves early, and leaves a lot of work to Xiang Quan. He is just a slacker who earns a white-collar salary.
Xia Lili did not see the stevedore named Zhu Yongfeng in her hallucination.
She couldn't make up her mind: "Is this person a passerby who has nothing to do with the incident, or one of the two murderers in white coats in the hallucination..."
She carefully observed Zhu Yongfeng's body movements, trying to match them with the two men in white coats in the hallucination.
"Lao Xiang, I'll watch the live broadcast for a while, you keep moving."
After moving three boxes of goods, Zhu Yongfeng sat on a small stool and browsed his mobile phone.
Xia Lili, who was observing secretly, suddenly had her pupils shrink.
As Zhu Yongfeng's rough thumb slid quickly across the screen, she was suddenly struck by a strange sense of déjà vu - the movement of his little finger against the bottom of the phone was so peculiar.
Normal people's little fingers would naturally hang in the air when watching videos, but his little finger was tightly clasped on the charging port like a hook, and the second joint of his index finger bulged forward strangely, leaving an obvious dent on the back of the phone.
In the hallucination, the man in the white coat who unlocked Xiang Quan's phone was the same - when unlocking Xiang Quan's phone, the man's deformed little finger joint cast the same shadow on the screen, and the raised joint of the index finger formed a completely consistent sharp angle in the reflection.
Xia Lili immediately told Li Qihan this important information.
Li Qihan's eyes immediately became solemn.
In the hallucination, Xiang Quan received a phone call after get off work and then returned to the cold storage, and was then killed.
So the police's arrangement was that when they turned back, they would arrange for a policeman with a similar build to Xiang Quan and wearing exactly the same clothes to enter the cold storage.
Because Zhu Yongfeng was not in Xia Lili's hallucination, everyone judged that Zhu Yongfeng was just a passerby.
But now that they know that one of the murderers is right next to Xiang Quan, everyone is feeling uneasy!
Tonight, will things happen as planned as Xia Lili imagined?
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