Chapter 43: Discovering the Murder Scene
——"It's so boring. You guys move first. I'm going out to find some fun."
——"Someone's dead, and you still want to have fun?"
——"Don't worry, you wimp. The boss's agent can handle it."
Then there was a series of footsteps coming towards him.
Xia Xubai was extremely panicked at that time.
He realized that he might have stumbled upon a murder scene.
But there was no time for Xia Xubai to think.
Then Xia Xubai heard a voice: "Fuck, there's someone in the corridor!"
He was discovered!
Xia Xubai was panicked, but he couldn't see the road, so he couldn't run away immediately and there was no way he could escape.
In a hurry, he quickly put on his neck-hanging headphones, turned on the music, and used his blind stick to explore the way as if nothing had happened, pretending that he didn't notice anything unusual.
The three people who were walking towards Xia Xubai also noticed that something was wrong with Xia Xubai and were surprised to see that he did not run away.
Then the three of them noticed that Xia Xubai was using a blind stick and wearing headphones.
A blind person wearing headphones is both deaf and blind.
Xia Xubai's condition made the three of them feel relieved.
However, in order to test Xia Xubai, the three of them deliberately discussed at the same volume as before whether Xia Xubai was pretending to be deaf and blind.
And send someone to test Xia Xubai with a fruit knife to see whether Xia Xubai would avoid the blade or bump into it without knowing it.
In order to save his life, Xia Xubai pretended nothing happened and continued to pass by, but his hand was cut by the knife.
This is the origin of the knife wound on Xia Xubai’s arm.
Xia Xubai recalled the scene with a lingering fear: "After returning to my room, I found the housekeeper to bandage my wounds, and then called Boss Jiang to pick me up that night."
Xia Lili held Xia Xubai's hand tightly, feeling a chill in her heart.
"You heard a man say, 'This is boring, you guys move first, I'm going to go find some fun,' right?"
Xia Xubai nodded: "What's wrong?"
When Xia Lili was listening to Xia Xubai's narration, she immediately thought of what Shangguan Xu said in the conference room in the hallucination: "You guys chat first, I'll go find some fun."
She searched online and found a video of Shangguan Xu being interviewed by a media reporter. "Brother, listen to the voice. Does this sound like what this person said?"
After listening to the interview audio, Xia Xubai's face suddenly turned pale, and his voice was a little uncertain: "The voice is indeed very similar, but the voice of the person I met in the corridor of the resort villa was a little hoarse."
Although he is blind, Xia Xubai has exceptionally good hearing. He can accurately distinguish pitches and clearly remember the timbre of other people's speech.
Xia Xubai asked with trembling lips, "Lili, whose interview video is this?"
Xia Lili's face was as gloomy as water: "Shangguan Xu."
Xia Xubai was struck by lightning when he heard this answer. Shangguan Xu, the agent settled it... the combination of these words shocked him immensely.
No wonder he felt familiar when he heard one of the three people speaking. This was the voice of Shangguan Xu that he usually listened to, but it had been edited. The timbre was different, and he couldn't imagine it was Shangguan Xu at all.
"How is this possible?"
Xia Xubai's face was filled with disbelief. "Isn't he a popular singer with an excellent reputation in the industry? How could he possibly kill someone?"
"I was shocked, too, but that's probably the case."
Xia Lili tried hard to calm herself down, recalling everything Xia Xubai had just narrated, connecting it with the clues in the hallucination, and sorting out what was going on.
Five days ago, Xia Xubai discovered Shangguan Xu's murder scene. Although he escaped by chance, Shangguan Xu was still afraid of Xia Xubai.
In the future hallucination, when signing the contract in the conference room, Shangguan Xu had been observing Xia Xubai, and the sentence "You guys chat first, I'm going out to have some fun" was probably said by Shangguan Xu deliberately to test Xia Xubai.
In the hallucination, Xia Xubai recognized Shangguan Xu's voice and dared not cooperate with him anymore, fearing to be involved in the dispute, so he refused to cooperate.
But in fact, no matter whether he refused or not, Xia Xubai had already been targeted by Shangguan Xu, the poisonous snake. Shangguan Xu would not let Xia Xubai go no matter what, and would use various means to create the illusion of Xia Xubai's accidental death.
This is a dead end.
Xia Lili felt cold all over.
The matter has been roughly guessed.
Now there is still one doubt left.
In the future scene, Shangguan Xu's fans say that Xia Xubai plagiarized Shangguan Xu.
It is obvious that my brother is the original creator, so why doesn’t he clear his name?
Is it because there is no evidence?
Xia Lili was thinking about what was wrong. She always felt that this was related to the "Original Song Collection Contest" that could not be found on the Internet.
There's something wrong with this Boss Jiang.
At this moment, Xia Xubai suddenly asked, "Lili, how did you know that Shangguan Xu was among the people I ran into that day?"
Xia Lili choked and forgot to fool her brother.
She said seriously with a stern face, "This is the clue our police currently have. The source is confidential."
"Oh, okay, I won't ask anymore."
Xia Xubai answered obediently.
Xia Lili lamented that her brother was really easy to fool.
She felt that what she had to do now was to preserve the evidence that her brother was the original author of "Letter from Kirishima".
It's impossible for Shangguan Xu to travel through time and space to steal his brother's work. His brother was speechless in the hallucination, which must be because there was something wrong with the evidence.
Either no evidence can be produced, or there are obstacles in releasing the evidence.
"Brother, do you still have the engineering file for the song you submitted?"
"Did you record the writing process of this song?"
“Is there anything to prove when I first started creating?”
Xia Lili bombarded him with a barrage of questions.
Xia Xubai answered politely. "Everything is recorded. I started writing 'Letter from Kirishima' in May of this year."
"On May 20th, I watched an old movie, and suddenly inspiration came to me that night. I played a short melody on the piano and recorded it in my recorder."
Xia Xubai said as he took out a recorder from his black backpack.
This recorder was a New Year's gift that Xia Lili gave to Xia Xubai after she learned that her brother had started learning to compose songs.
When Xia Lili heard the date May 20th, her pupils suddenly dilated.
In the hallucination, amid the sound of Shangguan Xu's fans chasing him and cursing at him, she remembered one fan saying, "Brother Xu wrote this song for us on May 20th, you thief!"
Could it be that Shangguan Xu sent someone to take away this crucial recorder?
After careful consideration, Xia Lili asked, "Does anyone know that you record your inspirations on a recorder?"
Xia Xubai: "Don't I often practice piano at Boss Jiang's piano shop? Boss Jiang should know."
The one who could go wrong in this link is Boss Jiang.
Xia Lili found it incredible.
Boss Jiang and my brother have known each other for three years, and my brother's income is entirely due to Boss Jiang's support.
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