Chapter 68: 68
“There is no modern device in the cave, at least none that requires internet connection. It is the perfect hideout. The ice cellar contains an altar for ng Si so that proves that the owner of this place is deeply connected to her. Overall, the chance of the owner of this place is ng Changxi is very high.” Li Xue’s analysis sent a tremor of excitent through her colleagues. Now the entire police force was searching for ng Changxi but they had zero clue. But this was a giant breakthrough. Putting on the gloves, Li Xue plucked down Han Fei’s picture. “This photograph was taken only a few days ago, see if the CSU can get any prints from it. Then try to analyse the buildings in the picture as well as the cara angles. After that, pull out the surveillance footage from the related areas.”
“Wait a minute.” It was not until the picture was removed from the wall that Han Fei noticed there was sothing written on the back of it—The Last Prospect. “I am ng Changxi’s last prospect? What does he an by that?”
Li Xue pulled down He Shouye and ng Changan’s pictures to see if anything was written on the back of them as well. The back of He Shouye’s picture was covered in bloody smudges while a date and ti was written down on the back of ng Changan’s picture.
“Wait, isn’t that today?” Li Xue was the first to notice the problem. She looked through the stack of docunts and noticed sothing unusual. “A fake Identity card model? The structural layout of Immortal Pharma’s Xin Lu Branch? The map of Xin Lu’s international business centre?” When Li Xue found these things, she researched them on the internet. “Today at 1.30 pm, there will be a big gaming convention at Xin Lu’s international business centre. Immortal Pharma and Deep Space Tech have been advertising it for weeks. The event is to unveil the world’s newest and biggest space gaming hub.”
“Assuming the owner of this cave is ng Changxi, the reason he familiarized himself with the map of the convention is because he will be there in person? But the business centre is in the intelligent city, there will be a surveillance cara every few steps. The mont he appears on the cara, he’ll be discovered!”
“ng Changxi is not going to take such a huge risk for a re ga. He has his own reason to show up there.” Han Fei took out his phone to conduct his own research and he soon found sothing, “The latest gaming hub is a joint project between Deep Space Tech and immortal Pharma. So higher ups from Immortal Pharma will be present at the venue.” He turned his phone screen over to show the police. “One of them is ng Changan!”
“ng Changxi is going there to murder ng Changan?!” The two officers were shocked. They were going to call in this update imdiately. If an important personnel from Immortal Pharma was murdered in broad daylight, it would cause great public distress.
“Calm down!” Li Xue scanned the docunts in the cave. “Initially I didn’t quite believe what Han Fei said either, various evidence suggests that ng Changxi is the murderer but now that we’re here, I think the case is not that simple. Why would a murderer spend years to investigate a case he committed? Only soone who was frad would do that.”
“Other than that, ng Changxi is a very clever person. He is also extrely patient so why did he choose this particular timing to make such a risky move? He has already waited for a decade so why now? From what I gathered about the man, he is not one to do anything drastic unless he has no choice. ” Han Fei turned to the two other officers.
“Yesterday midnight, the station received an anonymous tip. The person handed over solid evidence that confirms ng Changxi as the killer of the frozen body case.” One of the officers looked at Li Xue and then at Han Fei before he began hesitantly.
“We have new evidence?” Li Xue was shocked. “How co I’ve not heard about this?”
“You’ve been insisting that we should focus more on ng Changan and use kiddy gloves around ng Changxi, that goes against the vein of our investigation.” The officer shook his head. “The evidence we received is a series of recordings. They record a young ng Changxi burying different animal carcasses. There were mutilated birds, stray cats and dogs. That is firm evidence of the man’s twisted mind. Of course, that was not all. The last video was a stealth recording of ng Changxi carrying a dead body.”
Li Xue’s other colleague spoke, “Sister Li, I’m sorry but evidence speaks louder than subjective opinions. After the station received the evidence, the captain ordered to heighten the search for ng Changxi. We have employed the latest technology to locate him. He probably sensed the danger and knew he’d be found sooner or later so he had to take this risk.”
“Are those recordings true?”
“Yes, the tech has checked for their authenticity.”
With that, Li Xue turned to Han Fei. She only insisted on ng Changxi’s innocence due to Han Fei’s words but now with this new evidence, her conviction also started to shake.
“Sothing’s wrong!” Han Fei claid confidently, “The videos only show ng Changxi burying the animal carcasses, right? Did they show him torturing and killing them?”
“No, but that is not the point. One of the videos caught ng Changxi on the cara trying to drag away a dead body, that is more than enough to convict him!” That silenced Han Fei. However, Han Fei knew the truth deep down. ng Si told him personally that, as ng Changan’s actions got more dented, his elder brothers started to intervene. ng Changshou helped ng Changan register in counselling sessions while ng Changxi helped ng Changan deal with his horrible ss. In other words, the animal carcasses buried by ng Changxi were ng Changan’s hapless victims. ng Changan did not appreciate none of the things his elder brothers had done for him. If anything, he turned their kindness against them by silently recording the videos of ng Changxi burying the animals. When he was so young, he already knew how to make use of his brother’s love to his own advantage.
The damning evidence of the dead man was probably taken the night ng Si encountered the siblings at the abandoned bungalow. ng Changxi was carrying a secret video cara on him that night. While he was being lectured by ng Si, the cara recorded his brothers moving the dead drifter whom ng Changan killed.
ng Changan had a handso appearance that inspired confidence and trust while ng Changxi who was born with a facial birthmark would give others a bad first impression. Probably since the mont ng Changan started his search for that butterfly, he already decided to use his brother as his scapegoat.
At this point, sothing cleared in Han Fei’s mind. ng Si was the person who knew the 3 siblings the best, she was the only person who could absolve ng Changxi’s suspicion so she would have to die.
‘The evidence that the police found at ng Changxi’s ho is definitely planted by ng Changan. This devil has planned everything. He has been keeping this ‘smoking gun’ on ng Changxi. Once his position is threatened, he’d push ng Changxi out to take his fall.’ But to the devil’s credit, none of the evidence was technically tempered. They were rely frad a certain way. ng Changxi was guilty but the real sinner was ng Changan.
“Take a look at this!” The officer found a hand-painted map at the corner. It marked out the cara locations at the centre, and used that to plan a relatively safe route through it. “The fake id is prepared for the disabled. Citizens with facial disfigurent or blindness can skip the facial recognition registration. We have no idea where ng Changxi got that Id but the system will not be fooled for more than 5 minutes. The alarm will ring after that! In other words, he only has 5 minutes to commit the murder after he enters the centre. According to the route he mapped out, 5 minutes is more than enough to do that and escape without being seen. His plan is perfect.”
After knowing the murderer’s plan, the two officers launched into action. Han Fei did not follow them, instead he stayed to study the killer’s supposed route. He placed himself in ng Changxi’s shoes. If he was going to do sothing like this, he’d morize the route and then burn away the evidence. Why leave it behind to be discovered?
“It feels like ng Changxi purposely left these behind for us to find. He probably knew we’re onto him. If that is the case, this route has to be false.
“On the other hand, the fact that ng Changan will be present at the convention is suspiciously easy to find. He could have easily hidden away his nas like so of the other higher ups, so why didn’t he? After sending the videos to the police, he knew it would place a great pressure on his brother so why make an obvious target out of himself? Unless of course, he has sothing else planned… This whole thing slls like a trap.
“Neither of the two siblings is dumb. They would have been able to guess the other’s plan. But the pressure is on ng Changxi. If ng Changxi does not go after ng Changan now, he’d lose his chance and eventually be captured by the police. He’d be condemned due to the overwhelming evidence against him. So in this situation, what can ng Changxi do?”
At this point, Han Fei turned to his own picture. “Why am I the last prospect for ng Changxi? How do I figure into his plan?”
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