Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 78 No Such Person 9
We waited for most of the day for the murderer to be caught.

Xiao Chen and the others didn't return until evening, covered in sweat and with injuries. Tan Ming's clothes were torn somewhere.

Huang Zhixuan wasn't much better off. During the day, he was a wealthy man who owned a company and wore a suit and tie, but now he's a pathetic prisoner.

"He can really run!" Xiao Chen said, his cheeks aching. "He drove straight to the airport without any luggage, got stopped and couldn't go through security, so he tried to rush into the crowd, climb over the railing to force his way through, but failed, and then tried to take passersby hostage. It was an airport, with thousands of people crammed in, and no cars around. Even if we let him run, he couldn't! It was like his IQ suddenly dropped."

"Maybe his IQ has indeed declined," Zheng Yan said meaningfully.

Tan Ming changed his clothes and came out, then slumped heavily into a chair to catch his breath.

"We've finally caught the real killer—like an onion heart. If this case had dragged on any longer, we'd never have finished writing the report."

Tan Jia had no worries about writing reports. She was rubbing the thighs of her clay figurine while watching Huang Zhixuan on the monitor.

"Qianqian is really a guy, tsk. Do men like to use female accounts to talk about relationships with other men? Looking at those chat logs, his flirting skills are better than most girls'."

Xiao Chen: "Maybe they went to take special courses? They really went to great lengths. I don't know why they made it so complicated. If they just wanted to kill someone and use a fake child to scam money, why not just create an accident? Why endure this disgusting fake relationship?"

"How do you know he feels disgusted? Maybe he feels incredibly good. Watching a rich young master being played around by him, and even if he dies, he won't be able to find his way back to him, is like a high for someone like him who hates others being rich and himself being poor."

She started to empathize with the murderer again.

"However, the Qianqian he portrayed in front of Chen Anxun was a very well-rounded character, even with some minor flaws that appealed to Chen Anxun, indicating that he valued the Qianqian aspect. But he had already poisoned Chen Anxun a year ago, so why did he only introduce the Qianqian character a few months ago?"

Zheng Yan: "We'll know once he opens his mouth."

However, they need to find out more information before they can get him to talk.

For example, Huang Zhixuan's family background, past experiences, and financial situation.

This step isn't difficult; you can find it by trying out a few different systems.

"Huang Zhixuan, 27 years old, from out of town, currently has neither a wife nor a girlfriend. He was 21 when he was admitted to university, and was a senior in the same major as the deceased Chen Anxun. Half a year after graduation, with Chen Anxun's investment, he opened an entertainment company, which has now been transformed into a well-known film and television production company."

"Last year, the films produced by this company grossed a total of 700 million yuan, one of which unexpectedly became a dark horse and even caused a stir online. He has made a lot of money in the past two years through film and television revenue sharing."

Xiao Chen interrupted: "A movie that was a total flop last year? Could it be that piece of garbage I watched? I was wondering how such a movie could attract so many people and even make money. The girl I went on a blind date with never contacted me again after we watched the movie."

Tan Ming: "The fact that people don't want to contact you shouldn't be a problem with the movie. And is that even the point? The point is that Huang Zhixuan clearly became rich with Chen Anxun's investment, and he's made a fortune in the last two years. Why would he want to kill his benefactor to swindle two million?"

"Could it be a false prosperity, with most of the profits actually going into the pocket of investor Chen Anxun? Huang Zhixuan mentioned in his previous testimony that Chen Anxun only knew how to invest money and never cared about the company. He put in a lot of effort to make the company profitable, but it all benefited Chen Anxun. Could he be resentful?" Tan Jia added, "Possibly. He was resentful and jealous that Chen Anxun could solve everything with money, so he wanted to kill Chen Anxun, create the character Qianqian to fool him, cover his identity, and make a fortune in the end. He could use the child as the heir and secretly become the sole shareholder of the company... But why would he choose this time to close the net after poisoning him for so long?"

Xiao Chen: "Let nature take its course. It's time to kill."

"I mean, why not wait a little longer? Let 'Qianqian' be a little further along in her pregnancy, or let Xiao Qian carry the baby for nine months in place of 'Qianqian' and give birth before scamming money. Wouldn't that be more convincing? We've already put up with it for a year."

Zheng Yan also had a wild idea: "Because Chen Anxun is a playboy who cheated on his wife with Qiu Shuyu, and maybe Qiu Shuyu will get pregnant over time. Then Qianqian will claim that the child she is pregnant with will not be the sole heir, so he is in a hurry?"

“Wow, that’s really interesting,” Tan Jia said with a subtle expression, piecing together the limbs of the clay sculpture and casually sculpting a penis. “A man uses a female character to seduce another man into a romantic relationship, planning a long, careful, and foolproof scheme. But the other party cheats on him, which angers him, so he decides to speed up the murder process?”

Even men can't tolerate another man's infidelity.

Zheng Yan couldn't bear to look directly at her masculine clay sculptures and these bizarre love stories, so she chose to abandon any immersive analysis.

"Forget it, let's wait for him to tell us himself. Have we found any connection between him and belladonna toxin? The yogurt we found in Xiao Qian's house was a brand-name product that we bought normally, but we found a needle hole on the packaging, which means he probably injected it with a needle. If we need to get next year's worth of toxins, the belladonna we need can't just be found anywhere on the mountain."

Xiao Chen: "We haven't found anything yet. Maybe it was bought? I'm having someone check."

"What about the financial transactions under his name? Even if the two million given by the Chen family was dispersed and transferred, there will always be traces of him. And the accounts of the film and television company, we need to find out whether most of the money earned went to Chen Anxun."

We need to get help from the Economic Crime Investigation Department. With professionals doing professional work, they uncovered the shady dealings without much effort.

"Chen Anxun didn't receive much profit from the film company during his lifetime. After making a fortune from a movie last year, the company even changed its shareholding. At that time, Chen Anxun invested more money. It seems that he didn't want to dilute his shares and wanted to maintain his decision-making power in the company."

"Does that mean Chen Anxun is seeing the company making money and might be thinking about managing it?"

"Perhaps. The murderer definitely didn't want the other party to interfere too much, because the company's profits didn't add up at all. Last year's movie made money, and after the dividends were transferred to the film company's account, they flowed to other regions and other companies at different times. Moreover, I've seen online that many people have questioned the movie's box office success. Do you know what this series of operations resembles? Money laundering."

Film and television productions involve numerous expenditures, making it difficult to investigate each item. Furthermore, manipulating box office data and falsifying audience numbers during screenings can create false box office revenue, making it a highly favored method of money laundering.

It dawned on them.

"Huang Zhixuan was using the film and television company to launder money. He was afraid that Chen Anxun would find out, so he decided to get rid of him."

Now we have the motive, the means, and the goal.

Zheng Yan stood up and said, "Now we can interrogate this 'Qianqian'."

(End of this chapter)