Chapter 255 The assassination target is not here
"I'm checking, I'm checking—"
Pei Qinyue lowered his head and fiddled with his phone. "I remember giving it to the Zhou family—"
Suddenly, he stopped talking.
Xia Lili saw Pei Qinyue suddenly froze, "What's the matter? Hurry up, don't keep me in suspense!"
"Fei Yu Liu Guang was purchased by Ms. Zhou Ruoxing, the daughter of a real estate tycoon."
The second brother moved his lips, his voice a little stiff: "However, Ms. Zhou Ruoxing did not attend this fashion feast."
Xia Lili: ???
"What?"
The second brother showed Xia Lili the screen on his phone: "Look at Zhou Ruoxing's Moments."
"This was sent at 4:00 this afternoon. She's at a beauty salon in Haicheng and just had her face done."
Last week, Ruoxing posted a selfie on her phone, locating it at a beauty salon in Haicheng, with the caption: [I’m in a really good mood today, so beautiful~ [sun] I’m going to meet an “old friend” later, I hope he will be happy to see me too [smile]]
Xia Lili stood there in shock. She originally thought that finding the wearer of the Feiyu Liuguang would be able to prevent the assassination from happening.
As a result, Xia Lili was completely confused by this incident.
Did something unexpected happen, or was her guess wrong?
The person the murderer wanted to assassinate was not here, but in Haicheng?
Xia Lili suddenly felt exhausted and quickly called Li Qihan.
After the call was connected, Xia Lili seemed to have grabbed a lifeline: "Captain Li, save me! My brain is not enough!"
"What happened?" Li Qihan's tone sounded a little surprised. "Didn't you catch a poisoner and a thief?"
"This achievement was so impressive that even the coast guard was amazed."
Xia Lili sighed: "That's all in the past."
Xia Lili discussed the earring incident in detail with Li Qihan.
"So there are two suspicious points in this matter. The first suspicious point is that the murderer mistakenly killed the wrong target because of the earring."
Li Qihan said calmly, "The second one is the target he originally wanted to assassinate. He is currently in Haicheng and is not on the cruise, nor is he on the island of Emerald Bay."
“Yes, yes, yes!”
On the other end of the phone, Xia Lili's voice was filled with anxiety: "I have sent people to protect Ms. Lu, but what about Ms. Zhou Ruoxing?"
Li Qihan's deep voice came from the receiver, with a reassuring calmness: "Don't worry."
He coughed lightly and spoke slowly, "You have ensured Ms. Lu's safety, which has completed the most important task."
The sound of shuffling papers came from the phone. Li Qihan seemed to be looking up some information. "I just contacted my colleagues in Haicheng and asked them to confirm Ms. Zhou Ruoxing's whereabouts."
His voice suddenly became serious. "The colors of the two earrings are very different, red and green..."
Having said that, he paused.
Xia Lili could almost imagine Captain Li's thoughtful look on the other end of the phone.
"The murderer had the wrong target..."
Li Qihan's voice suddenly lowered, with a thoughtful tone, "You said..."
His speech suddenly slowed down, as if he was choosing his words carefully.
——"Is it possible that the murderer is red-green color blind?"
"Is it possible that the murderer is red-green color blind?"
Li Qihan's low voice came through the phone, and this sentence struck Xia Lili's mind like a bolt of lightning.
"So to him, these two pairs of earrings look exactly the same?"
Xia Lili's fingers gripping the phone suddenly tightened, and a shudder ran down her back.
This speculation is so accurate.
If the killer really was color blind, then confusing the red and green earrings would make perfect sense! No wonder he mistook his target for the assassination!
Xia Lili secretly marveled in her heart, Captain Li is so amazing!
At this moment, all the clues were perfectly connected together.
"Wow, Captain Li, you're just like me!"
"This doubt is resolved. Now the only thing left is Zhou Ruoxing's position."
Xia Lili became worried again.
——"Wait a moment, I'll give you the answer right away."
Li Qihan's voice came from the other end of the phone: "The person you mentioned, the one hiding in the crowd and cursing the murderer for making a mistake, can you find him now?"
Xia Lili shook her head slightly, even though she knew the other party couldn't see her: "It's difficult."
"The guests all prepared their own costumes, and no one knew what others would be dressed up as before the mask party started."
Her tone was somewhat helpless. "We can only use the hotel room surveillance video to check the guests who attended the mask party one by one."
At this point, Xia Lili paused, frowning slightly: "But there will be some fish that slip through the net."
"Because some guests will not change their clothes in the hotel room, but will choose to bring their own clothes to the dressing room provided by the organizer to change."
Her voice dropped a few notes. "It's illegal to install surveillance cameras in dressing rooms."
"So we can't necessarily confirm who the woman in my hallucination, the one wearing the blonde wig, the blue dress, and the fox mask, is."
As Xia Lili said this, she realized one thing: it would be really dangerous if a murderer sneaked into this kind of masked party where the identities of the other party could not be identified.
She added: "I have informed the security at the banquet venue to stop this woman immediately if they see her."
"I've also asked the Deputy Director of Security to pay special attention to the airspace and check for any unfamiliar drones intruding."
After listening to Xia Lili's arrangements, Li Qihan was silent for a moment, and couldn't help but sigh, "It's a very thorough deployment."
At this moment, Li Qihan suddenly ended the call.
Xia Lili became nervous. Could it be that Captain Li’s friend in Haicheng had given her a clue?
After a long while, Li Qihan's deep voice rang out again: "Haicheng police have just verified that there is no record of Zhou Ruoxing visiting that beauty salon today."
His tone was somewhat solemn. "The data from the Civil Aviation Administration shows that she took a flight to Jiangcheng last night."
Xia Lili could hear the scratching sound of a pen on the other end of the line. Li Qihan continued, "It's worth noting that Zhou Ruoxing always traveled by private jet, but this time, unusually, he chose a commercial airline."
He paused, his voice deepening. "And she specifically asked the crew to keep her itinerary confidential."
Hearing this, Xia Lili's heart tightened, and she suddenly thought of the circle of friends that Pei Qinyue showed her that Zhou Ruoxing had posted.
The copy says "going to meet an old friend".
Could it be that Zhou Ruoxing wanted to hide his itinerary and come to Jiangcheng or Feicui Bay to meet someone?
Her fingers unconsciously clenched around the phone. "Could it be possible... Zhou Ruoxing is already in Emerald Bay?"
Her voice trembled slightly. "But she didn't come to Emerald Bay on a cruise ship, but arrived in Emerald Bay by another ship?"
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