The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 40 Hijacking
"That's right, Niu Yinzhu is quite fat. It would be difficult to move the body here without attracting attention, right?" Zhong Kui said.

"Old Qian said that a few days after Niu Yinzhu disappeared, he saw a figure moving around in her room. Furthermore, her desk contained the original documents. She needed people in her department to make plans for meetings and business trips, but the plan for this trip was missing. What if…"

"If the person who made the plan made a completely different plan, Niu Yinzhu would have gone to the nearby address according to the plan and found only rice fields. Then she began to doubt it and asked the other party for confirmation." Zhong Kui continued speaking according to Qi Fei's words.

"So, the murderer is the person who came up with the mission plan, that is, the people in Niu Yinzhu's department." Qi Fei said thoughtfully, "That person made Niu Yinzhu walk into the trap of death step by step."

Wu Shanqiu, who had been silent the whole time, stared at the skull's face and murmured, "Is it my illusion? Why do I feel like it's smiling?"

After hearing Wu Shanqiu's words, the other two looked at the skeleton together. Sure enough, the flesh clinging to the bones had dried up, leaving only a wry smile on the face, as if it had encountered some absurd joke before dying.
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"The forensic report on the body we found is out, and the DNA results show that the deceased is Niu Yinzhu." Wu Shanqiu's words dispelled everyone's last bit of doubt.

"After being exposed in the wild for three years, she has become a mummy, but she has also retained some valuable information. Straw and clothing fibers were extracted from the deceased's nasal cavity and trachea. Combined with the strange smile on the corpse's face, we have reason to believe that she was still alive when she was tied into a scarecrow. This smile is..." Xiao Tao hadn't finished speaking.

Zhong Kui had already taken up his words and continued, "This smile is an hallucination caused by extreme cold. It's an expression people make before they die. Many people who freeze to death will have similar expressions. Three years ago, it was a winter once in a century, with freezing rain. No one would pass by that place. She must have died from the freezing and fear."

After Zhong Kui finished speaking, the office fell into silence - this was such a cruel way to die.

"Ahem." Xiao Tao cleared his throat, breaking the silence, and continued, "Also, I discovered something peculiar: this." He displayed the knot used to bind the body. "As a forensic pathologist, I have to pay attention to this. This is a surgical knot we commonly use. I wonder if this indicates that the murderer has a medical background."

"A medical background again?" Qi Fei couldn't help but frown again, and the suspicion fell back on Li Jian, a doctor from Nancheng Medical University.

When Qi Fei hurried to Nancheng to invest, Li Jian was not there.

"Dr. Li, he went on a business trip with General Manager Feng early this morning." Someone in the department answered.

Qi Fei, who already had some understanding of Nancheng Investment's business, was puzzled. "Isn't your department under Feng Yi's jurisdiction? Why would Li Jian go on a business trip with her?"

"We don't know about this either. It was Dr. Li who took the initiative to report to President Feng and requested the business trip."

"Just the two of them? Where did they go?" Qi Fei had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Hey? You have to ask Secretary Feng, we don't know." The people in the department acted as if it was none of their business.

At this moment, Feng Yi's female secretary came over hurriedly.

Seeing Qi Fei and the others were there, he couldn't help but hesitate, not knowing whether to go forward.

"That's right. I want to ask you, do you know where Feng Yi and Li Jian went on their business trip?" Qi Fei asked.

The secretary had the same timid expression as usual: "I, I don't know..."

"Huh? Doesn't Feng Yi need you to prepare for his business trip?" Qi Fei was now familiar with Feng Yi's hands-off style and was surprised that the secretary didn't know her boss's whereabouts today. "I just found out this morning that Manager Li was accompanying Mr. Feng on a business trip, so I came to ask." The secretary was clearly worried.

As he was speaking, Zhong Kui appeared between Qi Fei and the female secretary without anyone noticing.

"What's your name?" Zhong Kui, who was slightly taller than the female secretary, asked with a condescending expression.

"Zhuang Xueqing, what's wrong?" The female secretary was surprised by this nonsensical question.

"Xueqing, you seem to be very worried about Feng Yi's whereabouts. I mean, extremely worried, beyond the scope of what a subordinate should care about." Zhong Kui looked at Zhuang Xueqing and said.

"I, I'm just afraid that Mr. Feng will criticize me for not providing adequate service..." She murmured and lowered her head.

At that moment, Wu Shanqiu ran over in two or three steps. "Brother Fei, look! Something's happened." She was holding a piece of paper with a line of words written on it: "Niu and Feng, I killed them all - Li Jian."

At this moment, there was a commotion downstairs, and people could vaguely hear people talking, "Someone jumped off the building!"

Everyone hurried outside and looked up. Sure enough, next to the big words "Nancheng Investment" on the roof, there were two figures teetering on the edge. They could vaguely see a man and a woman. Judging from the woman's bright clothes, it was most likely Feng Yi.

"Senior Brother!" Zhuang Xueqing blurted out, and was the first one to run towards the roof. Seeing this, the others followed closely behind.

On the rooftop, Li Jian was holding Feng Yi hostage with a knife, and he became even more agitated when he saw someone coming.

"Don't come over here, people! I killed him, and Feng Yi deserves to die too!" His eyes were red, a completely different look from the last time Qi Fei saw him. The knife in Li Jian's hand gleamed brightly in the sun. It was a truly heartbreaking sight: this doctor of medicine, whose hand should have been holding a scalpel, was now gripping a butcher's knife.

The held hostage Feng Yi had long lost her usual arrogance. Her face with high cheekbones was as white as paper, and she didn't dare to breathe.

"Li Jian, killing people won't solve the problem. You come down first." Qi Fei tried to persuade her, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Li Jian pressed the knife against Feng Yi's neck even harder. The tip of the knife had already dug into her skin. She was so scared that she didn't even dare to cry. You could vaguely see water stains on her colorful skirt - she was so scared that she wet her pants.

Behind Qi Fei, Zhong Kui's calm voice came: "Let Feng Yi go."

Li Jian's gaze shifted from Qi Fei to Zhong Kui, and he immediately became horrified: "Let her go!"

Everyone looked at Zhong Kui and was also shocked. At some point, Zhong Kui put a copper knife to Zhuang Xueqing's throat and said calmly, "You can die. I promise that your junior sister will go down to accompany you."

Qi Fei had not expected to see Zhong Kui act recklessly at this critical moment. He could not help but get angry and growled at Zhong Kui, "Zhong Kui, are you crazy?"

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