The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 295 Influencer Transformation
The store manager looked at the footage of pedestrians coming and going on the monitor and pointed to a girl with long, straight black hair and an outstanding figure without hesitation, confirming that she was the one who had argued with Lin Yu that day.

Wu Shanqiu looked at him with some surprise: "Are you so sure?"

The store manager smiled and said, "Beautiful women always leave a deep impression."

As the camera zoomed in, the face that appeared on the screen surprised both Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu; it was a familiar face.

"Where have I seen this person before?" Qi Fei pondered.

Wu Shanqiu thought for a moment, then suddenly said loudly, "Brother Fei, Lü Ying! Do you remember her? That internet celebrity! The one from the case of Brother Ba Hei, the one who took the wrong makeup box that was inlaid with real gemstones."

Upon hearing this, Qi Fei looked at the face again and realized it was indeed the same person, only the clothing and appearance were completely different. Back then, Lü Ying dressed in a gaudy and tacky way, but the appearance in the surveillance footage showed her as a pure and innocent girl. He couldn't help but wonder, "This is quite different from the Lü Ying I remember."

"We'll know if it's the same person just by asking Lü Ying," Zhong Kui said decisively from the side.
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Lu Ying opened the door sleepily. Her previous wavy hair had indeed turned into straight hair, and her face, without heavy makeup, actually looked quite elegant and pretty.

She rubbed her eyes and saw three people in front of her. Her first instinct was to close the door: "This isn't a delivery, you must have knocked on the wrong door?"

Qi Fei held the door shut: "Lü Ying, we meet again."

Hearing that familiar voice, Lü Ying finally looked up at Qi Fei, and the moment she saw him clearly, she was half-awake: "You're that policeman from last time?!"

Qi Fei said, "We suspect you are involved in a recent fall case and we're here to find out more about it."

Lü Ying's eyes widened: "What case? I was already wronged by Xiao Hei last time, what bad luck is this?!" She scratched her head and complained.

Qi Fei had no choice but to show her Lin Yu's photo. As soon as Lü Ying saw it, she exclaimed, "Oh, it's that scoundrel! What bad thing has he done this time?"

"He's dead," Qi Fei said, uttering only three words.

"Huh?" Lü Ying looked confused. "Wait, I don't know this person at all. I just bumped into him on the street. You're not looking for me because of this?"

“Someone witnessed a conflict between you and the deceased earlier that day. We found you through surveillance footage, so please cooperate with our investigation and tell us what happened that day,” Qi Fei said.

Lu Ying was a little agitated and hurriedly explained, "Please, I was just walking along the street when this guy suddenly chased after me and asked if I was so-and-so, and if I wanted to come to his house tonight. He's not the first person to hit on me, but directly asking me to come to his house tonight is just outrageous. What does he take me for? I was so angry that I cursed at him a few times. It's such a simple thing, I don't even know his name!" As she spoke, she looked at Qi Fei, who was expressionless, "No way, you guys suspect I killed him? That's hilarious!" "So-and-so?" Zhong Kui, who was standing next to her, imitated Lu Ying's tone and then asked, "Your name has two characters. Judging from what you're saying, he wasn't calling you by your real name?"

“Yes, he said he mistook someone for someone else, thinking it was someone named Kong Xiaowen. Who knows if he just made it up? Haha, there’s nothing I can do about what he says.” Lü Ying said irritably, “I was in a hurry to attend the event that day, and I didn’t argue with him much. It’s just a trivial matter. What does his death have to do with me? You all have to say it like that. Everyone on the street that day could have been a murderer!”

Qi Fei believed that Lü Ying was telling the truth, but this only deepened his doubts. If Lin Yu were a playful young man, Lü Ying's description might indeed be a clumsy attempt at flirting. However, he was a designer with a very limited social life and had no prior record of harassing women. There must be a reason for this.

"Kong Xiaowen?" Zhong Kui didn't know why she was so interested in this name. "Would someone suddenly make up such a specific name in a moment of panic? According to cognitive shortcuts, we often say Zhang San and Li Si. If someone were to suddenly fabricate a name, at least in terms of surname, the liar would choose a more common surname. Kong, although not uncommon, is certainly not the first surname that comes to mind compared to Zhang, Li, and Zhao."

"You mean, the name Kong Xiaowen wasn't made up by Lin Yu?" Qi Fei asked.

“Does my opinion matter? Anyway, it’s not worth your trust,” Zhong Kui retorted, clearly still angry about Qi Fei’s earlier doubts about her. She then turned to Wu Shanqiu to continue discussing the case. “Based on what you’ve said about the deceased, he seems to have a type of social inhibition. People in this state usually experience significant social pressure. Let alone suddenly talking to a stranger, I suspect he would even experience pressure communicating with colleagues. His sudden transgression towards Lü Ying, a stranger, on the street suggests either a sudden mental illness or some triggering situation we don’t know about.”

“But he was still drawing blueprints before the accident that night, so he should still be in a normal mental state…” Wu Shanqiu replied while stealing glances at Qi Fei.

Qi Fei coughed lightly and awkwardly replied, "It seems this Kong Xiaowen is the person Lin Yu arranged to meet tonight. But I don't understand, a man and a woman alone meeting at home in the middle of the night, they should be quite familiar with each other. We hacked Lin Yu's phone, and his WeChat is mostly filled with work-related conversations with colleagues and clients, there's no romantic content at all, right? How exactly did Kong Xiaowen contact Lin Yu?" After saying that, he cautiously glanced at Zhong Kui, but Zhong Kui deliberately avoided his gaze, wandering around Lü Ying's house as if no one else was there. After a while, her gaze fell on a suitcase placed in the corner, her slender fingers tracing the various tags on the suitcase, and she asked Lü Ying, "You've recently taken to traveling? It seems like you're traveling all over the world."

Upon hearing this, Lü Ying gracefully tossed her long hair and said, "This is my job."

Upon hearing this, Wu Shanqiu immediately said, "Aren't you a live streamer? How come you switched careers to become a tour guide?"

“What tour guide? I’m an international person now, I’m quite well-known on Instagram, I graduated from an Ivy League school, and I’ve traveled the world,” Lü Ying said with no small amount of pride.

"What? You're lying!" Wu Shanqiu remembered that Lü Ying didn't have a high level of education.

“How can you say I’m lying? This is just a persona I’ve created,” Lü Ying said without a hint of guilt.

"What is Instagram?" Zhong Kui's rare area of ​​ignorance was touched.

Lü Ying looked at Zhong Kui in surprise: "Did you travel from ancient times? You don't even know about Instagram?"