The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 81 Managers and Agents
"Hey, Captain Liu, are you going to the scene today?" Qi Fei smiled wickedly, knowing that it was the bureau leader who ordered him to show up.

Liu Tong held a cup of hot coffee in his hand and said calmly, "As the captain of this major case, of course I have to show up."

"Fortunately, this is a club in the deep mountains, otherwise it would have been known to the whole internet by now." Qi Fei stood up and said, looking down at the corpse.

The female star who was glamorous on the screen was now wearing a red off-shoulder dress and lying on her back on the bed. There was a pile of rose petals mixed with blood. It was hard to tell whether it was dirty or beautiful. Her deformed facial features and frightened face seemed like a scene from a horror movie starring the female star.

"There is no impenetrable wall in the world. It's only a matter of time before the news gets out. You better hurry up." Liu Tong took a sip of coffee and walked up to the club manager who was under investigation.

"Bao Chuchu, the manager of Yunshen Secret Realm, right?" Liu Tong recited the difficult-to-pronounce name of the club with difficulty. In front of him was Bao Chuchu, who was wearing a service uniform and had not yet removed her makeup.

Unlike most people being interviewed, Bao Chuchu, dressed in a business suit and with her hair meticulously combed back, looked exceptionally sophisticated. She calmly replied, "Yes, I am Bao Chuchu."

"This is Qi Fei, a backbone of our Nancheng Police Station. He has some questions for you." Liu Tong immediately took a half step back after he said that. He originally thought that the interrogation was going to begin, but it turned out that the beginning was the end. He really spared no effort in being lazy.

Qi Fei was used to this. He took the initiative to walk up to Bao Chuchu, took out his notebook, and asked in a routine manner: "The police report said that you found Hong Mei?"

Bao Chuchu nodded and said, "Hong Mei checked into our club last night. Since she was a VIP, I brought her breakfast myself. I knocked on the door for a long time but there was no response, so I used my administrator's room card to open the door. When I came in, I saw this. I was terrified."

"You don't look like you're scared to death at all." Qi Fei said, looking at the calm Bao Chuchu.

Bao Chuchu is quite proud of this: "We receive VIPs here and are trained in all kinds of emergency response. Staying calm is my professional quality."

Qi Fei looked around this luxurious environment and at the superb mountain scenery outside the window. At this time, another heavy snow had just passed, and the snow was white and particularly beautiful.

"Were the doors and windows closed when you came in?" Qi Fei asked.

"It's so cold, of course the doors and windows are closed," Bao Chuchu said. "I told you, we're all professionally trained. As soon as I discovered the incident, I didn't let anyone in. We kept that closed until you arrived."

"Who among you was the last person to see Hong Mei?" Qi Fei asked, looking at the silent waiters outside the door.

"Xiao Sun, come here and tell the police what's going on." Bao Chuchu immediately called out.

A waitress came out trembling.

Qi Fei was deeply suspicious of Bao Chuchu's quick reaction: "Hiss, how did you know it was this person?"

Bao Chuchu's eyes showed a hint of impatience, as if Qi Fei's question was redundant. "It's very simple. Our villa is not open to the public. It's all by appointment. All the houses are independent. To prevent unnecessary disturbance, all visitors who need to visit guests must be confirmed by our front desk and the guests before they are allowed in. No one came to visit Miss Hong last night.

At 12 o'clock in the evening, Miss Hong called the front desk and said she wanted some red wine, which Xiao Sun brought over.

Qi Fei turned to the obviously immature Xiao Sun and asked, "Have you seen Hong Mei?"

Xiao Sun nodded. "Yes, when I brought the wine in, I happened to see Miss Hong coming out of the bathroom. It's right there..." She pointed in the direction of the bathroom. This hotel was a suite with a living room outside and a semi-open bedroom. From the living room, you could just see the area between the bathroom and the bed.

"I told her the wine had arrived, and she pointed at the coffee table and said to put it there. I saw that she was still wrapped in a bath towel, and I felt embarrassed to keep staring at her, so I didn't dare to stay any longer. I quickly put the wine down and left." Xiao Sun said.

Qi Fei looked back at the direction Xiao Sun pointed and confirmed again: "Are you sure that person is Hong Mei?"

"Yes, Miss Hong was talking to me. I saw her face. It was so beautiful. I am 100% sure it was her." Xiao Sun answered very confidently.

"Didn't the Internet say that she joined the crew to film a movie? Why is she here?" Wu Shanqiu asked Qi Fei's question.

Bao Chuchu responded fluently: "I'm just the manager of this villa, not Hong Mei's agent, so I can't answer."

As he was speaking, a man was frantically communicating with the police outside the cordon, trying to get in.

After asking about the general situation, the police officer brought her over: "Hong Mei's agent is here."

The person who came was a short, plump man with short hair, wearing plastic-framed glasses and a thick down jacket. He appeared in front of them.

"I'm Hong Mei's agent, Li Peter. I received a call saying that something happened to her. Where is she?" Even in the middle of winter, beads of sweat covered his forehead. It looked like he had been through a lot on the way here.

When he asked this question, it was obvious that he didn't know that Hong Mei was dead.

Several people made way for him to see what was happening in the bedroom. The moment he saw the scene, the agent was so scared that his legs went weak and he fell to the ground.

"What, what's going on?" Li Peter's glasses fell to the ground. He picked them up awkwardly and tried to put them on several times because he was scared.

Qi Fei looked at his watch and said, "You're not qualified to be an agent. It's been several hours and you've only just arrived?"

"I, I rushed here from Lianhu and took the earliest flight... It took me two hours to get to this place by taxi!" Li Peter said aggrievedly, "They told me that Hong Mei had an accident, and I thought she was injured or sick... I sent her countless messages along the way but she didn't reply, but... but I never expected..." He muttered to himself, as if only in this way could he not panic.

"Did Hong Mei come alone?" Qi Fei asked.

Li Bit nodded, mustered up the courage to look inside again, then immediately shrank back in fear, as if he still couldn't believe that Hong Mei was dead.

"Hong Mei is such a popular artist, but she doesn't have any staff accompanying her here?" Qi Fei asked doubtfully.

"This is Sister Mei's private schedule... She had originally planned for me to pick her up tonight, as she has a scene to shoot tomorrow. Oh my God, the scene is already halfway through, and the entire crew is waiting for her to return to film... How am I going to explain this to the producer..." Li Peter held his head, seeming to be even more devastated than when he first learned of Hong Mei's death.

(End of this chapter)