Soul Patch

Chapter 170 Li Shiman is here!

The real culprit has left the hospital.

Wenjie had originally planned to go to the hospital with Captain Wu to arrest the person.

This is interesting; the whereabouts of "Wen Tianyi" have been completely lost.

Captain Wu glanced at Wenjie, tilted his chin toward the driver's seat, waved his arm, and said, "Let's talk in the car."

Wenjie nodded and got into the car with Captain Wu.

After getting into the passenger seat, Captain Wu started the car and sped off with a burst of acceleration: "Which hospital?"

Clearly, Captain Wu was asking which hospital Wen Tianyi had been taken to.

After a moment's thought, Wenjie leaned over and pressed down on the steering wheel, saying, "Stop!"

With that shout, Captain Wu slammed on the brakes.

Due to inertia, both of them leaned backward at the same time, and Captain Wu crashed directly into the back of the driver's seat.

Wenjie was in trouble. He leaned his upper body towards Captain Wu, and when he leaned back, his head hit Captain Wu's shoulder squarely.

Ouch, Wenjie rubbed his head.

Captain Wu rubbed his shoulder blade, which was throbbing from the impact of Wenjie's head.

"What? You've got the wrong person? Wen Tianyi is no longer a suspect?" Captain Wu asked while rubbing his shoulders.

For him, having a suspect was undoubtedly a good thing. Since there were no leads at the moment, it was better to arrest a suspect and question him than to go back to the station and wander around aimlessly like a headless fly.

"No, I'm wondering where the killer might have gone."

"If they haven't been away from the hospital for long, we'll storm the hospital. I'll deploy police to conduct a thorough search around the hospital, setting up checkpoints at every intersection near the hospital. We'll make sure the killer has nowhere to escape!"

"Wouldn't that be too much of a fuss, and the results might not be good? Searching for a cunning and ruthless serial killer in such a large area is like looking for a needle in a haystack."

Wenjie was deep in thought, so he spoke very slowly.

After listening, Captain Wu looked at the young man in front of him with great interest. He already knew that this was the eldest son of the Wen family when he was questioning and taking statements from the employees of Huahai International.

However, this young master is quite mysterious, rarely comes to the company, and there are few reports about him from the outside world.

During this investigation, he realized that this young CEO Wen was somewhat intelligent, but also a bit arrogant.

What Mr. Wen just said made it very clear: your search and capture plan is not working.

Who gave him the confidence to tell a captain who had been in criminal investigation for over a decade that his arrest plan was no good?

Therefore, at this moment, Captain Wu's gaze towards Wenjie contained a hint of disbelief, but more so, doubt.

"His target was Li Shiman. I think wherever Li Shiman is, that's where the murderer should be."

After some thought, Wenjie said decisively, completely unaware of the sarcastic look in Captain Wu's eyes!

"Oh?" Captain Wu couldn't help but be surprised.

Having worked in criminal investigation for so many years, this is truly the first time I've heard of such a thing. If you weren't an accomplice, how would you know who the murderer's real target was?

Captain Wu's hand subtly reached for the pistol at his waist.

Wenjie didn't look up at Captain Wu, but he could guess that Captain Wu must be looking incredulous and... and starting to doubt him.

"Stop touching the gun again. How many times a day do you point a gun at me?" Wenjie smiled indifferently, seemingly unconcerned about Captain Wu's wariness of him.

There's nothing to be bothered about; any normal person would think the same way.

As an NPC in the system mission scenario, Captain Wu is just a normal person, so his way of thinking is also that of a normal person. He doesn't know what the patch carrier and the system mission are.

Wenjie wouldn't argue with him about those things, because he wasn't sure if it violated the principle of leaking secrets.

Wenjie simply wanted to use Captain Wu and the powerful government police behind him to deal with the murderer.

Solving cases is what the police should do. If you think about it carefully, Wenjie's actions are actually helping the police and contributing to solving cases.

"Heh, young man..." Captain Wu ignored Wenjie's words and pointed a cold gun barrel at Wenjie's forehead.

"You'd better tell me everything you know! Otherwise, don't blame me for being impolite."

As he spoke, Captain Wu held his gun in one hand and reached for his lower back with the other, making a rustling sound.

There should be a handcuff there.

Wenjie remained calm. He knew that the police would not easily fire their guns. Although being held at gunpoint was unpleasant, if he wanted the police's assistance, he would rather be held at gunpoint by Captain Wu than be held at gunpoint by the murderer while confronting him.

"There's not much to say. The killer's target is Li Shiman. That's what the restaurant employee who was poisoned said. You can investigate. So the killer is definitely looking for Li Shiman now, because he's planning to... probably make a move on her this afternoon."

When Wenjie mentioned the time of Li Shiman's murder, he added the word "estimated" to avoid the rigid NPC in front of him not understanding, so as not to have to explain it to Captain Wu.

"Afternoon? How did you know?" Captain Wu asked suspiciously.

Wenjie shook his head helplessly, thinking: I knew you would ask. He reached up and touched his chin, saying, "I guessed, is that okay?"

Captain Wu felt like he had a bellyful of questions but nowhere to ask them. He had originally wanted to ask Wenjie why he suspected his father of being a murderer, but after all that back and forth, with all the driving and parking, he hadn't gotten a chance to ask.

He slowly lowered the gun barrel, pointed the muzzle at his face, and blew on the muzzle.

Wenjie was getting a little impatient. Was this a common problem with police officers? Why were they always blowing on the muzzle of their guns? Weren't they afraid of them accidentally going off?

However, he remained calm, as if he had just been suspected and had a gun pointed at him, but now he had regained trust and was out of the situation. He didn't care about any of this.

Why do you suspect your father is the murderer?

"Is it okay to guess?"

Captain Wu felt a surge of anger welling up inside him, and he had to get it out.

To be honest, when Wenjie questioned his arrest methods, he felt that his authority was being challenged.

The criminal investigation team at the police station, they listen to whatever he says, so how could they dare to talk to him like that?

But now he wasn't facing the criminal investigation team, but the eldest son of Huahai International, so he just suppressed the anger that was rising in his heart.

At this moment, Wenjie pushed him to his limit again. He thought that Wenjie's act of reporting his own father, which was so righteous, must be because he had some kind of evidence.

So this was just a guess!

The police arrest people based on evidence. What are you trying to prove with them by guessing or relying on your sixth sense? You're just asking for trouble.

Wu's anger surged, and he gritted his teeth, saying in a low voice, "Guess? Are you sure you're just guessing?"

Wenjie sensed the low mood in Captain Wu's mood and smiled slightly, saying:

"Yes, the restaurant employee who was poisoned said that Wen Tianyi poisoned him and also asked him to help kidnap Li Shiman."

Oh, I see!

Wu was skeptical. He put away his pistol, reached into his pocket for his cell phone, found a number in the contacts, and dialed it.

Soon, a police officer's voice came through the phone: "Captain Wu, good!"

Team Leader Wu specified a time period and asked the other party to retrieve the restaurant's surveillance footage.

Wenjie turned to look at Captain Wu, wondering to himself, "Have the police already obtained network monitoring access to Huahai International's surveillance system? How can they just investigate like that?"

If that's the case, he'd like to see it too!

So he looked at Captain Wu with expectant eyes. Captain Wu seemed to sense it, turned his head to look at Wenjie, and whispered, "Wait a moment, it's being deployed."

Inside the car, Captain Wu gripped the walkie-talkie tightly, while Wenjie stared intently at it. Both of them unconsciously held their breath.

"Oh... a thin young man, right! Suddenly collapsed, coughing up blood?... Hmm! Okay, got it!"

After saying a few words, Captain Wu hung up.

He stared down at the walkie-talkie in his hand, pondering for a long time, clearly thinking about something.

Finally, he tossed his phone back onto the windshield, turned to look steadily at Wenjie, and asked slowly, "Where is Li Shiman now?"

Wenjie was stunned for a moment after hearing what Captain Wu said. He had just been worried that if the surveillance footage showed him having dinner with Li Shiman, he wouldn't be able to explain himself.

He was unsure what Patch Carrier 2's shape-changing function would look like under the surveillance camera: would it be Li Shiman, or Patch Carrier 2's original form?

So he was thinking about what would happen if Captain Wu asked him later, about Li Shiman's disappearance after he had dinner with her.

How does he explain this?

Isn't he an accomplice of the murderer?

As a result, Captain Wu didn't ask any questions and simply chose to believe him!

Does that mean that the transformation of patch carrier 2 was restored after passing through the lens of an electronic device?

Wenjie's mind flashed back to the scene where he and the patch carrier were in the elevator, and he used the mirror reflection to restore the other party's true appearance!

In other words, there is now a way to break this kind of body disguise.

A phone camera will do!

Why didn't I try it before?

Nonsense! Why would I have thought of that before?

So... what about the identity you redeemed from the very beginning? Like the assistant, Xue Xiaowan, or Wen Tianyi?

His eyes were focused on the windshield of the car, but his mind was unusually active. He carefully reviewed the fragments of his interactions with these people, trying to find a mirror-like reflection that could show their true faces.

Wenjie thought for a long time but came up with nothing.

Oh dear! I didn't pay any attention to these things back then, how could I possibly remember them now!

Seeing Wenjie exhale a breath of stale air and slump back in his car seat, he felt a sense of dejection.

"Where is Li Shiman? You... don't know either?"

Captain Wu thought Wenjie was pondering where the murderer was, and that he had been thinking for a long time but couldn't figure out where they should go to catch the murderer.

Well, it's not appropriate to call him a suspect yet.

Captain Wu mentally corrected his own thoughts. It seemed that after the technical department officers reviewed the surveillance footage and reported back to him, he subconsciously believed that Wen Tianyi was the prime suspect, or even the murderer.

"Li Shiman is still here!"

As Wenjie spoke, he pointed to the building in front of them. The large, bright characters on the building shone brightly in the sunlight: Huahai International.

(End of this chapter)