when the moon whispers

Chapter 449: Accomplice - Phone Call (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Ninety Calls (Part 1)

"He said directly on the phone that he was willing to release one of the hostages first... Song Yike was planning to make his cards clear."

Gu Xing slowly walked to the corridor next to the rooftop stairs with a cigarette box in his hand, and looked down at Jiang Mo, who was sitting on the steps, yawning and holding up his phone to repeatedly confirm the call recording. He stretched out his legs and sat down on the cold marble floor next to his beloved apprentice. He glanced at the gauze on Jiang Mo's forehead that had lasted for such a long time, and snorted, "It's different if someone is in charge. If it were before, no matter how I persuaded you to be honest, it would be useless. The gauze would be gone in a few hours."

Gu Xingtiao looked over at the fire door, where Yuan Lanyin was standing at the wide-open door, throwing the garbage bag in her hand to the auxiliary police officer who was taking a short break with disdain, and looking as if it was her due. He stared at her lips that were flying up and down and making specious excuses, such as "I need two people to clean up the mess myself, so it's better to leave it to the police comrades." He snorted without any expression, and was about to hold the intercom to support the two aggrieved people in the police station. Hu Xu, who had just come downstairs with a big bag of lunch boxes, took two steps at a time and walked up the stairs to the center of the atmosphere that was almost on fire. Hu Xu's worried face forced a kind and slightly playful expression, and at the same time handed the lunch box in his hand to the female police officer from the police station who had probably been bullied many times. He turned around and took over the obvious provocation from Yuan Da reporter, and smoothed it over.

"Reporter Yuan is really annoying. Hu Xu has inherited the temper of their team leader Huang, and he has been forced to be the peacemaker here..." Gu Xing opened the cigarette box and searched his pockets again. He thought about the missing lighter for a while, and then he remembered that when he met Zhu Silai in the small conference room, Director Zhu easily slipped his lighter past his pocket. "It's a good thing that Zhu is a forensic doctor. If he was walking on the street, he would have picked it up quickly. Take the lighter again!"

"It's because we've been busy with cases lately, otherwise Old Zhu would have confiscated even your cigarette box and destroyed it." Jiang Moxian raised his eyebrows and accepted Captain Gu's joke. He tilted his head to look at Yuan Lanyin, who seemed a little anxious on the other side of the fire door. He raised his eyebrows inexplicably, thought silently for a few seconds, turned around and turned off the recording in his hand. "Xiaomi just recorded a call back, and Yuan Lanyin's call recording has been confirmed. Song Yike's voice and background sound should have been processed. The ambient sound has basically no auxiliary reference value, and I guess there is not much point in trying to restore it."

"You took all the confiscated cigarettes away as punishment, right?" Gu Xing nodded as expected, flipped the cigarette in his hand twice and put it back into the cigarette box. "Since Song Yike clearly knew that Yuan Lanyin would be under the protection of the police at this point, he still dared to call here, which means that he has lost his patience... Rather than threatening Yuan Lanyin, it's better to say that he wants to use the mouth of reporter Yuan to get us into a position that he can reach."

"No matter what, Yuan Lanyin knew that it was the murderer's threat, but she was still so arrogant. I always feel that her reaction is not right... It's like she deliberately dragged us here and waited for Song Yike to confess something--" Jiang Mo frowned and thought for a while, then his brows suddenly tightened: "Officer Chen... nothing will happen, right?"

"It shouldn't be a big problem for now, but looking at how anxious Song Yike is to attack... Chen Rui's condition is likely to keep him from holding out for too long—"

Gu Xing shook the watch on his arm, tapped the dial and calculated the time since Reporter Yuan received the last threatening phone call. Following the sound of the fire door "clicking" open, he raised his eyelids to look at Hu Xu who came over with a lunch box and mineral water to bring warmth. He stood up and took it, holding the lunch box and asked in a hoarse voice: "Has Yuan Lanyin done anything unusual these two days?"

"She's not normal any day." Hu Xu snorted with a wry smile. He looked back at the closed door only after he finished speaking. He sighed with a sad face, thought about it for a few seconds, and said dejectedly, "Yuan Lanyin... has some problems. You see her ordering people around like she's really annoyed, but if no one is watching her, she'll get mad. She doesn't want us to be too far away from her, but she also wants to keep a safe and private distance. She doesn't allow us to watch or monitor her. Otherwise, she wouldn't have made two calls without finding the signal location..."

"Have you eaten? Here are exactly three boxes, let's eat together." Gu Xing opened the lunch box, picked up a mouthful of rice with the chopsticks that had not been opened, and moved his butt to make room for Hu Xu: "What is Yuan Lanyin doing behind your back? Didn't you eavesdrop?"

"I did want to take a sneak peek and listen, but she was too defensive... She was either hiding in the study with her computer or locked in the bedroom. Wang Hao and I tried to ask around but it was no use. She said we couldn't interfere with anything that had nothing to do with the case and that it was an invasion of her privacy. I don't know whether life or privacy is more important..."

Hu Xu rubbed the back of his head, looked at Jiang Mo who was already eating, then looked at Gu Xing who had handed him a lunch box, and tugged at the waist of his trousers which had become a little loose due to his busy days. Just as he stepped forward, there was a sudden commotion in the room separated by the door behind him. Before Hu Xu's shoe tip could touch the marble steps, Wang Hao, who had been watching Yuan Lanyin's cell phone the whole time, suddenly opened the fire door with the intercom that was like a decoration in his hand, and anxiously poked his head towards the corridor.

"Captain Gu! The phone is ringing again."

Jiang Mo had just choked on a mouthful of food when her master grabbed the back of her neck firmly. She kicked and shoved her way to the monitoring device on the coffee table. Jiang Mo quietly took the disposable chopsticks in her hand that were still stained with rice, wrapped them with a piece of paper towel and put them in her pocket. She looked away and ignored Yuan Lanyin's glare at the uninvited guests who came into the house with shoes on and destroyed her home environment without permission. She picked up the monitoring headphones and was about to hand them to Gu Xing, but her arm was suspended in the air and she suddenly looked up at her master.

Gu Xing put his hands in his pockets and stared at the phone that was still ringing and vibrating on the coffee table, as if waiting for the person on the other end of the line to lose all patience. Then he calmly swiped to answer the call and clicked on the external speaker to record.

"Song Yike, let's get straight to the point. You didn't even consider the risk of being monitored and located, and you dragged us to Yuan Lanyin after making a few phone calls. Are you seeking revenge against the reporter Yuan, or... do you want us to help you accomplish something?"

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