Through the driver of the business car, Li Jing learned that the male demon was called Bi Xiuwen, who acted as ng Chengfeng’s personal secretary, and has been with her for many years.
That’s all for the information.
Li Jing didn’t expect to know more.
The man was rely a dedicated driver for Huan Yu Estate. He was temporarily assigned by the company to pick up and drop off ng Chengfeng and Bi Xiuwen due to their return to the country for so matters. What could he possibly know?
The reason he could recognize Bi Xiuwen was that he had been working in Huan Yu Estate for a long ti and knew quite a bit about the company.
After a brief understanding of the situation from the driver, Li Jing imdiately returned to Huan Yu Cultural dia on his sword.
Before he even landed, he saw a long row of luxury cars parked at the front gate of the Huan Yu Cultural dia office building. A large group of reporters gathered outside the police cordon, and another group of elegantly dressed people were arguing with the officers of the Assistant Inspector Departnt, who were in charge of maintaining order.
Upon seeing this, Li Jing suspended his sword and slightly frowned.
The well-dressed group of people were obviously all relatives with ties to ng Hongtu and ng Fanhao. After hearing the news of the father and son’s sudden death, they rushed over imdiately.
Care about them?
Probably not.
These people were all here to vie for a share of the inheritance.
This, Li Jing had anticipated.
Although after the death of the father and son, only ng Chengfeng and Yue Ling Ling - the adopted daughter and the fiancee, were left as "direct relatives" of the ng family. Yet, they were not blood relatives and would not easily win the approval of the rest of the ng family when seeking control over their vast wealth.
Everyone knows about the dirty business of the wealthy families.
Not many people in the wealthy circles are simple-minded.
Just as Li Jing previously told Yue Ling Ling.
If she hadn’t devised so tricks and strategies, it would be better for her not to fuss about the ng family’s wealth after the incident. As a fox demon who only knew how to please n, she would not be able to outwit these individuals from the wealthy circle- each darker than the last.
It wasn’t surprising that a large number of the ng family’s relatives had rushed to the scene.
What surprised Li Jing was...
Among the crowd of about thirty people on the scene, there were five long health bars.
The shortest with over 3,000 points, and the longest with over 4,000 points.
The one that attracted Li Jing the most reached as high as 5,826.
These five health bars all belonged to females.
They were all dressed in high-class clothing, standing out in the crowd on their towering heels, each accompanied by a male.
They were not partaking in the argunt, but rather they appeared to be watching it with their wildly arguntative male companions.
Facing this scene, Li Jing didn’t know what to feel.
As the saying goes.
The birds of a feather flock together.
Given the character of ng Hongtu and his son ng Fanhao, how many good n could there be among the other mbers of the ng family?
However, Li Jing never expected that the other mbers of the ng family would be deeply involved in a matter concerning a demon.
These five female demons mingling in with the crowd were obviously playing the role of rich wives who had married into the ng family. They have gone further than Yue Ling Ling, only that they did not marry well, but rather into side branches of the ng family.
This matter...
Is really absurd when you think about it.
If these five female demons claid to have had no connection with the father and son of the ng family, Li Jing wouldn’t believe it.
Those n who had married them probably knew that they were demons and may even have married their "tasty" wives only through an "introduction" by the father and son of the ng family.
Each of these n who married the female demons of the ng family’s side branch probably had a hint of being "cuckolded".
Looking once again at the five female demons, each of them was noble and extravagant in their attire. They were not at all flurried in the crowd where the Assistant Inspectors and Patrols were hovering. They even seed a bit proud, indicating that they had achieved a rather high status in the ng family.
As their status increased, so did their guts, didn’t they?
After what Li Jing saw, this might not be everything.
With the ng family’s huge business empire, the family tree was certainly not small. There must have been so who didn’t have ti to make it over or who were simply like ng Chengfeng, developing overseas.
With a strange look, he swept his gaze over the crowd outside the cordon. Li Jing maintained his composure and landed inside the security line with his sword.
As soon as he landed, the crowd of the ng family’s side branch outside the security periter imdiately noticed him.
"Hey, you! Co here and explain the situation!"
Soone in the crowd began to grumble loudly.
As soon as the words fell, another, a plump and wealthy woman, shouted.
"We are all relatives of the ng family, we have the right to know what exactly happened in the case!"
As soon as these words ca out, everyone in the crowd started chattering in unison.
"We demand to know the truth! Now, imdiately, right away!"
"A big incident happened in the ng family and the patrol officers on the scene won’t say a word, keeping us relatives out. Are you trying to hide sothing?"
"How exactly do you officers do your job? You disregard human feelings! I want to lodge a complaint!"
The crowd of ng family’s side branch made all manner of commotion, while the reporters who rushed to the scene were not idle either.
The caras clicked furiously as they focused on Li Jing. So even started writing news articles on the spot, God knows what they were fabricating.
Seeing such a scene, the corner of Li Jing’s mouth twitched slightly.
Patrol officers also have their helpless tis, he knew.
But right now, he really felt it.
With a stiff glance at the crowd of the ng family’s side branch and the crazy photographers, Li Jing wordlessly gestured, took two demon corpses out of the storage space, and threw them onto the square in front of the building.
When he took out the massive body of the male demon, he deliberately raised it high so that it would smash into the ground.
"Boom!"
"Thud!"
Two dull sounds were heard as the two scorpion-like demon corpses, one large and one small, landed on the ground, successfully shocking the side branches of the ng family and the reporters.
Especially the five demoness aristocrats mingling in the crowd, including the one with the health bar reaching 5826 and the cultivation level of Four Realm. It wouldn’t be overstating to say that their calm deanor was completely distorted.
They reacted quickly, however, acting as if they were frightened and throwing themselves into their n’s arms, their squeamish looks eliciting pity.
Indeed, they were scared.
But not to the point of crying.
As long as they didn’t act, their identities would not be exposed.
As long as there was nothing wrong with them, the patrols had no reason to investigate them.
However, they had to put on an act.
Li Jing, looking at the five female demons acting like theatre perforrs, didn’t pay much mind.
He didn’t care about what happened to these female demons.
Nor did he care about the problems with the ng family.
He presented the demon corpses not for anything else, but to keep the ng family’s side branch quiet for a while and, by the way, to distract the attention of the reporters so they wouldn’t keep pestering him.
The effect, indeed, was achieved.
Two scorpion-shaped demon corpses, one with the head and tail separated, the other with its shell shattered due to heavy pressure.
Upon seeing this, the mbers of the ng family’s side branch collectively fell silent.
The females on the scene turned pale as a sheet out of fear.
The n, however, were more interesting.
There were those with doubtful looks on their faces, those who couldn’t believe what they saw, and even more who were glancing at the five female demons in the crowd now and then.
The n embracing those female demons were quite direct, acting as if they were protecting their own won.
Even when he was faced with the gazes of male relatives in the crowd that were intentionally or unintentionally looking at him, their faces visibly upset, he could see a hint of green.
Li Jing had a full view of this scene, and found it hard to look directly at it.
Clearly, it was no secret among the ng family’s male relatives that there were monsters among them, while the female mbers remained oblivious.
What was even more provocative was that these female demons seed to have had their way within the lateral lineages of the ng family tree, each of them seeming to have put more than one colorful hat on their n.
What to say?
The rich and powerful circle, truly a ss.
Aside from ng family mbers and Li Jing, journalists, upon seeing the two demon corpses at the scene, acted as if they were injected with chicken blood, forsaking Li Jing and incessantly taking shots of the two demon corpses, afraid that they may miss any details.
It was at this ti that Chen Yuran walked out from the office building.
Seeing the two demon corpses the mont she stepped out, she paused, casting an odd glance towards Li Jing before she approached him and whispered.
"Why did you bring them out so rashly?"
"Why didn’t you tell soone was at the door when I got back?"
Li Jing retorted.
"..."
Chen Yuran was at a loss for words, saying.
"My bad."
Then, she spoke in a hushed voice.
"Which one of the two demon corpses is ng Chengfeng?"
"The smaller one."
Li Jing replied, saying.
"The larger one is her secretary, Bi Xiuwen, they were boinking."
While he was speaking, he briefly explained the encounter with the two.
After listening to his words, Chen Yuran looked up at him, saying.
"Next ti when we encounter such a situation, don’t act alone, what would we do if sothing happened to you?"
Then she spoke softly.
"Leave the demon corpses here for now, to shut up those ng family mbers. As for the journalists, ignore them. I’ve asked the Forensics Departnt to collect evidence, confirming that the ng father and son were killed by ng Chengfeng’s poison. You don’t need to worry about the rest, just go write a detailed report and submit it to the Patrol System."
"..."
Li Jing.
Just hearing the word ’report’ made his head throb.
Especially given the current situation, there were many things he couldn’t put down in writing.
He had to avoid ntioning that Yue Lingling was a monster.
He also had to avoid the ng family’s control over many monsters.
If he were to expose all this, it would cause a huge ss.
Ignoring the five female demons that were married into the ng family’s side branches, the mistreated and exploited monsters had already suffered enough. They finally got rid of the ng father and son and got a chance to regain their freedom, but if they were to be targeted by the Patrol, it would be akin to pushing them into a dead-end.
Li Jing was neither a saint nor a holy mother, but he didn’t wish to be the villain.
Above all, he owed Yue Lingling, who had provided him with a crucial lead, so protection.
If it weren’t for Yue Lingling’s confession, he might still be stuck between the possibilities of a love cri and revenge.
Even if he was aware that ng Chengfeng had returned ho for two days and then traveled abroad again, he may not have been able to link her to this incident.
ng Chengfeng’s career was predominantly overseas, there wasn’t anything wrong with her returning ho to handle so affairs and then heading abroad again.
The news of her father and brother’s death, she could have easily feigned ignorance.
Given that Yue Lingling, a direct relative, was already present at the scene, the Patrol wouldn’t go out of their way to notify all relatives of the news of death, leaving the task to the forr instead.
A more important point is that even if Li Jing hypothesized that ng’s father and son were poisoned in bed, he mostly suspected that it was their carelessness, rather than suspecting ng Chengfeng - a foster daughter who had already been adopted for over a decade.
With a sigh, Li Jing headed inside the office building.
As Chen Yuran followed him in, she spoke softly.
"The case hasn’t concluded with this. ng Chengfeng might not have been acting alone, there may be other people behind her. The Intelligence Departnt is currently investigating ng Chengfeng’s interpersonal relationships and financial situation, but these shouldn’t fall under our jurisdiction anymore, so there’s no need to worry."
Then she looked back, shaking her head and sighed.
"ng Hongtu adopted a human-shaped demon as a daughter, he was most likely aware of this, even possibly obtaining unspeakable benefits from it. There are probably many mbers of the ng family who also knew about it. From my perspective, there are not many in this family who are clean. This is beyond our jurisdiction. The variety of vested interests and tricks involved are too sensitive, we’ll have to wait until they make a ss of it themselves, that’s when the Patrol will have the opportunity to intervene."
Upon hearing Chen Yuran’s words, Li Jing glanced at her and nodded silently.
Chen Yuran’s experience in investigation was evidently rich.
Even without knowing the specifics, she realized that the ng family had deep connections with human-shaped demons.
But with just this, it still couldn’t be a reason to deeply investigate the ng family.
The ng family had various connections, who knew what strange things and people could be dragged out. If the people linked with this family were to start defending themselves the mont the Patrol started investigating, the Patrol might be covered in stench despite their resource consumption, and it simply wouldn’t be worth it.
...
Once inside the office building, Li Jing went directly to a quiet office room on the second floor to write the report.
Employees of Huan Yu Cultural dia were still lingering in the office building, the mbers of the Assistant Inspector Departnt were interrogating them and recording the inquiries one by one, the first floor was too noisy.
Writing this report took Li Jing two hours.
On one hand, writing a report was brain-draining, on the other, typing on the tablet was not as smooth.
During his report writing, Chen Yuran sent a ssage that the Forensics Departnt had confird that the poison in ng Chengfeng’s needle was of the sa type as the poison that had killed the ng father and son.
With this affirmation, they began to wrap up the cri scene.
The detained Huan Yu Cultural dia was progressively released.
The Assistant Inspector Departnt also began to clean up the cri scene and assist with the final collection of evidence.
By the ti Li Jing went downstairs, there were less than a hundred people still recording their statents in the first floor office.
After finding Chen Yuran who was also involved in the recording work, Li Jing looked around and asked.
"Where’s Luo Zhize? Why don’t I see him?"
"After the Forensics Departnt’s results ca out, I asked him to take Miss Lingling ho. With so many ng family mbers outside, it’s not appropriate for her to stay here."
Chen Yuran answered casually.
"There are already more than a dozen ng family mbers who heard the news and rushed here, and the crowd will only grow bigger. It’s about the division of property, they’re no different from mad dogs. Miss Lingling is rather timid, and it’s inevitable she would be taken advantage of if confronted by that group of people. We can’t help her very much, all we can do is let her stay away from all this for now."
Then she added.
"The case ends here for now, the rest will depend on the results from the Intelligence Departnt. Submit your report to the Patrol System, the case will then be officially handed over to the Cris Investigation Departnt, they will notify us of any follow-up results. Once we finish the last record here, we need to return to our respective positions."
"Hmm."
Li Jing nodded, took out the record notebook at hand, and went to help with the records.
The Security Departnt Patrol has a lot of things to handle, cris are just a part of them.
Usually, the Security Departnt doesn’t spend too much ti on a single cri, cases that can’t be cracked in a short period of ti are handed over to the Cris Investigation Departnt for handling.
The Security Departnt is indeed the departnt with the most staff in the entire Patrol System, but they are actually under great pressure in terms of human resources.
Every mber of the Security Departnt Patrol is responsible for a certain jurisdiction, if too much ti is spent on a single case, then no one would manage such a large jurisdiction.
During the ti that Li Jing and the others were working on this case, the jurisdiction was temporarily handled by colleagues from neighbouring jurisdictions, but after so ti, they might not be able to cope with the workload.
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