Hong Kong Film: Night Cop

Chapter 624 Looking for clues
"Husen! It's him, judging from the source."

Li Fei pondered for a moment, then asked, "Besides asking your sister for money, what else did Hu Sen say?"

“Kerr and Husen had a fight and said a lot of things. I remember Husen extorted 500,000 yuan from her, saying that if she didn’t pay it, he would reveal the secret.”

"That's all? Nothing else?"

Li Fei frowned. Logically speaking, someone like Hu Sen would never show up at Lobster Bay unless invited.

"No, the rest were just the two of them arguing." Zhong Xue'er thought for a moment and shook her head.

Did Hussen say why he was at Lobster Bay?

This is a very important question. If Zhong Ke'er is not the murderer, then if someone asked him to go to Lobster Bay, then that person is the murderer.

If this person can be found, Zhong Ke'er might be saved.

Regarding whether her sister was innocent, Zhong Xueer tried hard to recall everything that happened that day, not missing even the smallest detail.

After a long while, Zhong Xue'er's eyes lit up, and she said, "When I chased him away by threatening to call the police, he muttered something about coming back to cause trouble for us after he received a million."

“One million! That means someone in Lobster Bay is offering him one million,” Li Fei murmured.

So who is this person?

"Perhaps we overlooked something at the scene, Ms. Zhong. Could you come back to the scene with me again?"

Li Fei said.

"No problem, shall we go now?"

"Ah."

Li Fei brought Zhong Xueer to Liang Xiaorou's group office, and then asked Liang Xiaorou to call Shen Xiong and the others to come with him.

Liang Xiaorou didn't know what Li Fei was planning, but she still trusted him and asked some people to go out with him.

While driving, Li Fei told Liang Xiaorou about Zhong Xue'er asking him for help.

Upon hearing this, Liang Xiaorou and the others didn't complain at all. On the contrary, they were quite happy. If Zhong Ke'er was really innocent, then being able to help her would be a good thing.

Soon, the group drove to Lobster Bay.

After parking the car, Li Fei glanced at the surveillance camera at the parking lot entrance and said to Shen Xiong, "Shen Xiong, go find the parking lot attendant and take the parking lot video footage from that day back with you."

"Ok."

The rest of the people followed Li Fei to the scene.

Two days have passed, the body has long been taken back, and the scene has been damaged by the crowds, so it's unlikely that any clues will be found.

However, Li Fei wasn't there to see the scene; he was there to look for clues.

"Xiaorou, go into the women's restroom and see if anyone is inside," Li Fei said to Liang Xiaorou.

After receiving the message, Liang Xiaorou went into the women's restroom, then came out and said to Li Fei, "No one's here."

"Ah Sheng, you stay outside. If anyone wants to come in, tell them to wait."

Li Fei gave instructions to Cheng Weisheng.

"Yes, sir."

Li Fei led the others into the women's restroom.

An unusual smell wafted over, and Li Fei frowned, but quickly relaxed.

"Ah Fei, what are you doing here?" Liang Xiaorou asked, puzzled.

"Let's look for clues," Li Fei said.

"What clue?" Liang Xiaorou and the others were puzzled. Two days had passed, how could there still be clues left here?
"Search carefully in the toilet stalls and see if you find anything."

Li Fei didn't explain, but instead spoke to Liang Xiaorou and the others.

Upon hearing the order, Liang Xiaorou and the others began searching, and Zhong Xueer also joined the search for clues.

Li Fei wasn't idle either; he looked around the women's restroom.

Logically, Zhong Ke'er bumped into Liang Xiaorou in her panic. So why was she in such a panic? She must have found something in the women's restroom.

As for what it is!
It must be the murderer.

But why would she protect the murderer?
Li Fei couldn't understand this.

However, if we find clues about the murderer, we might be able to deduce the truth.

The women's restroom is not very large. Apart from the mirror on the wall, there are only a few toilet stalls. If the murderer planned to kill someone, he would obviously be seen by people using the restroom if he stayed here.

To avoid revealing his identity, he might have hidden in a toilet stall, waiting for Hu Sen to arrive, and then shot a crossbow bolt from the women's toilet window to kill Hu Sen.

Li Fei touched the window of the women's restroom. The window was very small and had iron bars installed. Apart from birds, it was probably impossible for a person to walk through it.

In other words, the murderer killed Hu Sen and could only leave the women's restroom through the front entrance.

If Zhong Ke'er had seen the murderer at the time, then the murderer might have been in the women's restroom.

Xiao Rou went into the women's restroom and said there was no one inside.

Could it be that the murderer was hiding in a toilet stall and Xiaorou didn't notice?
That's impossible! Xiaorou also said that every toilet stall door was open.

So how did the murderer avoid Xiaorou?

Li Fei was very curious.

After more than ten minutes, everyone had searched carefully, but because the trash in the toilet stalls was cleaned out every day, they couldn't find anything useful.

Liang Xiaorou covered her nose and said, "I didn't notice anything."

No!

Li Fei muttered something to himself.

He believed that if the murderer had indeed killed someone here, there would definitely have been clues left behind.

Squeak!

Suddenly, a rat darted out from somewhere, quickly passing over Zhong Xue'er's feet before disappearing into the sewer.

Ah!
Zhong Xueer was a bit slow to react; she only screamed in terror after the mouse disappeared, her face turning pale.

The appearance of the rat made Li Fei seem to remember something; he thought he had just seen the rat scurry down from above.

Li Fei couldn't help but raise his head and look at the ceiling.

what!
Li Fei noticed that one of the partitions appeared to have been moved.

Li Fei stepped on the sink, reached out and removed the partition, revealing a dark ventilation duct, just big enough for a person to crawl inside.

A slight smile appeared on Li Fei's lips. He finally understood how the murderer had left.

There were signs of someone climbing near the ventilation duct.

Li Fei stuck his head into the ventilation duct and looked inside. Ten meters away from the duct, there was a light, which was obviously the exit.

"Ah Fei, how are you?"

Li Fei jumped down from the water tank, and Liang Xiaorou quickly asked.

“Someone left from up there,” Li Fei said.

"So that means it proves Zhong Ke'er isn't the murderer?" Liang Xiaorou asked happily.

Zhong Xueer also said with a happy expression, "Li sir, can we release Ke'er now?"

"Not necessarily. Unless the murderer is caught, Zhong Ke'er is still the prime suspect," Li Fei said, shaking his head.

Finding clues doesn't mean Zhong Ke'er can be released.

"Let's go outside and take a look."

After Li Fei finished speaking, he led everyone to the wall behind the women's restroom. Looking up, they saw a ventilation opening covered by a mesh screen behind the women's restroom. The mesh screen had been moved, indicating that someone had climbed out from inside.

(End of this chapter)