Chapter 30
Hearing this, Li Sisi was stunned. She didn't expect Lin Sheng to speak so directly.
Lin Sheng didn't want to continue this topic, so he continued to ask,
"Did Wan Jiang tell me what exactly happened at the company that tripped him up?"
"No, he never confessed, and I never asked."
After saying that, Li Sisi suddenly felt confused. She looked at the two of them and seemed to realize something was wrong. She suddenly spoke.
"Why don't you go to the company to find Wan Jiang? Did something happen to Wan Jiang?"
Lin Sheng and Xu Guannan looked at each other and understood what the other meant.
Xu Guannan's expression was somewhat serious, and he said in a steady tone,
"Our investigation revealed that Wan Jiang was very close to Liu Xiaofen, a female intern at Fengxin Group. Liu Xiaofen died at noon today. The initial diagnosis is homicide. We haven't found Wan Jiang yet, so we can't rule out his potential murder suspicion."
Li Sisi's expression was shocked and stunned. She couldn't believe what Xu Guannan said at all. She asked with a trembling voice,
"No, no, he... he doesn't have the guts. I've lived with him for five years. There's no way he would..."
Lin Sheng was pulled by Li Sisi. Seeing her eyes full of panic, he could not bear to comfort her.
"I know you don't dare to believe it, but now, we must find Wan Jiang to get rid of suspicion. If you have any clues, please contact us."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Sheng handed a business card to Li Sisi.
Li Sisi took the business card tremblingly, tears welling up in her eyes. Just as she was about to ask with a trembling voice, she heard a soft voice coming from the room.
"Mom, who are this beautiful sister and handsome brother?"
Their daughter Xiaonian, with black curly hair, was holding a rabbit doll in her arms and wearing a cute pink pajamas. She appeared in front of the three people with sleepy eyes.
When the three heard the sound, they all looked at Xiao Nian.
The tears in Li Sisi's eyes were held back in an instant. She swallowed the grievance and helplessness in her heart. Her dry throat moved slightly. She forced herself to hold back and adjust her emotions. She slowly exhaled and dared to walk towards Xiao Nian. She squatted in front of her and stroked her face.
"Why are you out? Didn't you promise mom to go to bed well?"
Xiao Nian met Li Sisi's eyes, and gently stroked Li Sisi's eyebrows with a small hand. Her childish voice was tender, but the words she said were extremely heartwarming.
"Mom, your eyes are red. Is it because Dad is too busy and can't accompany me? It's okay, Mom. Dad is not at home. I will take good care of you and won't let you worry."
Hearing this, Li Sisi's eyes were instantly filled with tears. She hugged Xiao Nian tightly in her arms, and then two lines of tears slid down her cheeks.
Even though she didn't see Li Sisi crying, Xiao Nian seemed to feel Li Sisi's emotions. She raised her little hands and hugged Li Sisi back, just like Li Sisi usually took care of her. She patted Li Sisi's back like an adult and coaxed her softly.
"Don't cry, Mom. Xiao Nian has grown up and can take care of her. We can wait for Dad to come back together."
Li Sisi suppressed the bitterness in her heart and tried her best to sound normal in her response.
"Okay. Mommy's with you."
When Lin Sheng and Xu Guannan saw this scene, they felt very uncomfortable.
After the two of them said goodbye to Li Sisi briefly, Li Sisi took Lin Sheng's hand and pleaded,
"Officer, if you have any news about him, whether dead or alive, please let me know."
Lin Sheng shook her hand back, sincerely comforting her.
"Yes, I'll be the first to inform you when there's news."
After saying that, the two left.
As soon as he walked out of the community gate, Xu Guannan received a report - a male corpse was found in the Phantom Hotel.
The worst-case scenario seems to have been confirmed.
The two immediately rushed to the Mirage Hotel.
In the cleaning storage room, several large garbage bags were piled together. One of the garbage bags had a big hole in it, and the head of the deceased leaked out.
"The deceased had no other wounds on his body. He was stabbed from behind and died instantly. His eyes were terrified. He must have seen someone or something that shocked him and was caught off guard. The situation was urgent and the police arrived at the scene quickly. The murderer had no time to dispose of the body and could only temporarily hide it in the storage room.
Anyone who can freely enter and exit the hotel storage room must be a hotel employee. We should start by investigating the hotel staff first."
Lin Sheng examined the condition of the body, analyzing and making a judgment.
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Guannan received a call from Tang Ziyan.
"Captain, Zhou Yan bought the next bus ticket and left with her luggage. She's now on her way to the North Street Bus Station."
Xu Guannan hung up the phone and met Lin Sheng's gaze, his eyes showing a hint of determination.
"Zhou Yan wants to run away."
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Zhou Yan once again sat in the interrogation room of the police station. Seeing Lin Sheng and Xu Guannan in front of her, there was no fear or tension in her eyes. Instead, she looked calm, as if she had foreseen the ending in advance.
"Did you kill Wan Jiang?"
Lin Sheng's face was gloomy and unhappy, and he had no patience with Zhou Yan at all.
When Zhou Yan heard the name "Wan Jiang", a trace of ripples appeared in her eyes. Her eyes were sinister, and a layer of coldness spread all over her body. She gritted her teeth and said,
"He deserves to die! They all deserve to die! But my ability is too limited, I can only kill Wan Jiang."
This sentence shocked the three of them. Lin Sheng immediately changed his opinion of Zhou Yan. He frowned tightly, his face full of confusion.
"Why do you hold such a grudge against them? Because of Liu Xiaofen? She's your daughter, right?"
When Liu Xiaofen's name was mentioned, Zhou Yan's face was instantly filled with sadness. She clutched her chest tightly with one hand and beat it violently. She arched her body in pain and tears as big as beans fell to the ground in an instant.
"It's all my fault. I didn't notice Xiaofen's abnormality in time. She was such a strong-willed child. They ruined her. They all deserve to die!"
When he said the second half of the sentence, veins popped up on Zhou Yan's forehead, his tear-filled eyes were filled with great hatred, he clenched his fists and pounded on the interrogation chair, as if he could not feel the pain.
Lin Sheng looked at Zhou Yan's extreme behavior with doubt, his expression full of confusion, but he vaguely guessed that the matter was not as simple as a murder case, so he spoke calmly.
"Only if you speak out can Liu Xiaofen get justice for the injustice she suffered, and only then can we help you."
Zhou Yan was moved at this moment, hesitated for a second, then turned to Lin Sheng and said,
"My daughter is dead, Xiaofen is dead, what's the point of you saying all this now! Why didn't you act like competent police officers back then?"
Lin Sheng hit Tang Ziyan on the chest. Tang Ziyan cried out in pain and looked at Lin Sheng with surprise.
Zhou Yan was also stunned for a moment, but then she heard Lin Sheng throw out a sentence,
"The dead cannot be brought back to life. This punch is your apology. Since the 'evil people' you mentioned are still alive, they should be punished."
Zhou Yan stared directly at Lin Sheng, and the two looked at each other in silence. Finally, it ended with Zhou Yan's confession.
"After graduating from university, Xiaofen couldn't find a job and stayed at home unemployed for eight months. She was very anxious and even began to doubt her abilities, but she has always been a very good child.
A month ago, she suddenly received an acceptance notice from Fengxin Group. On the day she received the news, she told me happily that she had a job and was no longer a burden to me.
But after joining the company, she became more and more unhappy. I asked her if the work was too difficult, but she didn't answer. She just comforted me and said everything was fine. Until a week ago, I saw her with a man at the Mirage Hotel. Xiaofen was dressed very beautifully.
She used to hate heavy makeup, but that day she seemed like a different person. I saw them kissing and entering the room. Later I found out that the man was married and didn't really like Xiaofen.
I don't understand why she became like this, and I had a big fight with her. She asked me to stop caring about her and just treat her as if she were not my daughter. How could I not care about her? Later, when I became a logistics cleaner in Fengxin Group, I found out.
It turned out that the interns in the same project department as Xiaofen were isolating her. The project leader had taken Xiaofen's credit and fabricated stories behind her back, saying that she had a shameful relationship with her boss and that she was trying to seduce men every day.
They even blocked Xiaofen in a group chat, posted candid photos of her from various angles, and said the most vicious and obscene things. Even though they were both girls, they showed no mercy. Don't such scumbags deserve to die?
As Zhou Yan spoke, her eyes grew darker, her tone gradually became more gritty, her eyes were filled with hatred, and her emotions became increasingly agitated.
At this moment, after hearing Zhou Yan's statement, Lin Sheng realized how suffocating Liu Xiaofen's situation was. He also felt hatred in his heart and continued to ask,
"Why didn't Liu Xiaofen take the initiative to expose this to the company's top management at the beginning, and just let them bully her?"
With just a sneer, Zhou Yan's face showed extreme contempt.
"Of course I tried, but no one cared. Those bastards only cared about the results and didn't care about the interns' lives. The neglect from the upper management only acquiesced to their behavior. They started to intensify their behavior, even starting to use AI to make videos and spread rumors wantonly. They became more and more unscrupulous.
There was even one time when I posted the video directly to the company group chat. When Xiaofen saw it, she immediately broke down. Do you know how insulting this is to a girl? You can’t understand that feeling, and they, as girls themselves, can’t understand it either!
"Have you tried calling the police?"
When Zhou Yan mentioned this, her eyes became even more sorrowful, and she swept over the three of them with resentment.
"I tried, but in the end, because the company wanted to maintain a unified stance and didn't want to tarnish its reputation, they colluded with you so-called police officers and turned against Xiaofen. Later, Xiaofen completely changed, started wearing heavy makeup, and started to become the kind of person they described.
Originally, she wanted Wan Jiang to tell the truth today and record the conversation as evidence, but Wan Jiang found out and they started arguing. When I arrived, I saw Wan Jiang pushing Xiao Fen. Wan Jiang was panicked and hadn't expected this to happen. He didn't even notice me walking into the room. At that moment, I had the urge to kill him and stabbed him.
Hearing this, Xu Guannan's expression was complicated, his brows were furrowed, and he spoke in a tone of confusion and helplessness,
"Liu Xiaofen is already dead. We will investigate the case as soon as we receive it. You were too impulsive. You could have gotten justice without getting stained with blood."
Zhou Yan raised her eyes, glanced at him coldly, and said in an unusually calm tone,
"Justice like this comes too late and too slowly. If the report hadn't been sloppily handled, Xiaofen wouldn't have died. But if that's the only thing that happened, how can you guarantee that you're all worthy of my trust?"
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