Soul Patch

Chapter 171 Oh no, he's running away!

Following the direction Wenjie pointed, Captain Wu saw "Huahai International".

Is Charmaine Li still here?

"How did you know?" Captain Wu asked, puzzled.

Wenjie smiled slightly: "Is this a guess?"

Team Leader Wu was utterly speechless and on the verge of collapse, so he simply yelled, "No way!"

"Hehe," Wenjie laughed, tilting his head back. He glanced at his watch—13:30—and said slowly:

"The hospital where the murderer is located is about ten kilometers away from here, which is about a twenty-minute drive. That means the murderer will probably arrive here around 13:50."

Captain Wu looked at Wenjie in surprise, and blurted out a question: "How do you know? Even if your speculations are all correct, and the murderer is Wen Tianyi, and the person he wants to kill is Li Shiman, and the murderer takes a taxi or hitches a ride back to Huahai, would he still sneak in to find an opportunity to kill, and walk right past us without us even noticing?"

"Is it okay to guess?"

"Go to hell, can't you talk seriously for once?"

"I'm sorry, but seriously, I really don't know how to explain this to you..."

Before Wenjie could finish speaking, Captain Wu tapped him on the head.

Team Leader Wu was so exasperated by Wenjie that he couldn't do anything about it. He looked at Wenjie while panting heavily, and then laughed, tilting his head back. This kid was interesting; he had some of his own confidence from when he was young.

A mysterious confidence!

But you know what? He was right about everything when he was young. Even the most experienced police officers couldn't compare to him.

Captain Wu glanced at the time; it seemed there were still a dozen minutes until 13:50. He then made a call to the police station.

After the call connected, he said directly into the receiver, "Send police to Huahai. The only suspect in this case will be here soon. Arrest him."

The other party was probably stunned for a moment, because Captain Wu shouted impatiently, "Stop dawdling and get over here now!"

After hanging up, Captain Wu turned to look at Wenjie, leisurely took out a shrunken cigarette pack, and brought it to his nose to smell it.

Then, looking pitiful, he pulled out one of the few cigarettes left and handed it to Wenjie, while flicking out another one for himself.

The two people lit a fire, and wisps of white smoke rose up, quickly enveloping them.

While Wu was smoking, he kept his eyes on Wenjie, but Wenjie's eyes were fixed on the area around Huahai Building, paying particular attention to the fork in the road that led from that side of the highway.

Although he wasn't looking at Captain Wu, he sensed Captain Wu's gaze. He coughed lightly and asked casually, "Why are you looking at me?"

Captain Wu sighed, his voice turning somber, as if he were about to discuss a heavy topic: "Honestly, when Wen Tianyi shows up, you can stay in the car. I can arrest him by myself."

"He doesn't..."

Wenjie almost blurted out, "He's not my dad," but he stopped halfway through, glancing at the straightforward Captain Wu.

Sigh! He wouldn't understand even if I told him, so I just let it go and swallowed the rest of my sentence.

Wenjie turned to look at Captain Wu, his eyes filled with an unreadable expression.

To be honest, Wenjie was completely unprepared for what Captain Wu just said.

Wenjie hadn't really considered this point.

It's not hard to understand. Wenjie knew that Wen Tianyi was just a cover for the murderer, but Captain Wu didn't. But there was no way to tell Captain Wu about this.

Wenjie smiled faintly, patted Captain Wu on the shoulder, and said with a touch of gentleness in his voice, "Thank you, I... I'm fine!"

He was genuinely impressed with Captain Wu; he hadn't expected Captain Wu to have such a tender side, that he could perceive such delicate emotions.

However, Captain Wu's compassion was misplaced. Wenjie harbored deep hatred for the murderer because the murderer had exploited their feelings.

Wenjie cannot tolerate this deception!

Having never experienced fatherly love, he was particularly sensitive to interactions from his father. However, the murderer deceived him at this moment, which was a desecration of fatherly love. He wanted the murderer to be punished!

When Wenjie thanked him, Captain Wu just laughed and started smoking intently.

Men often find it awkward to express their feelings of gratitude, and Captain Wu isn't good at that.

The two smoked in silence for a while. Suddenly, Wenjie's gaze was drawn to a taxi that turned into the car. Although they were far apart, the person in the back seat looked so familiar. Wenjie could recognize Wen Tianyi from just a silhouette.

Even though he knew perfectly well that it wasn't his father, but just the murderer's cover identity, a system setting, Wenjie still hesitated when he actually faced that face that looked so much like his own.

Without waiting for a reply, Captain Wu pushed open the car door and ordered Wenjie inside, "Here you are! You stay in the car."

"No, I want to go too!" Wenjie insisted, even though his hands were trembling slightly.

"Whatever," Captain Wu didn't bother with him.

The two people got out of the car from opposite sides and headed towards the taxi.

Wen Tianyi got out of the taxi, glanced in their direction, and seemed to have no reaction, calmly greeting them.

Upon seeing this, Captain Wu turned to look at Wenjie.

Wenjie took out his phone and pointed it at Wen Tianyi. He wanted to see who this person was.

Wenjie was stunned for a moment. What he saw on the original phone screen was clearly Wen Tianyi!

What's going on here?

Were all the deductions wrong?

Or perhaps the disguised identity of the patch carrier cannot be revealed in front of the camera.

However, Wenjie was certain that he couldn't be wrong!

"Dad, why are you back? Shouldn't you be in the hospital recovering?"

Wenjie spoke first, breaking the slightly strange atmosphere.

"The doctor said it's nothing serious, but with so many things happening at the company today, I'm still worried!" Wen Tianyi clasped his hands together, his left index finger unconsciously stroking his right ring finger.

Wenjie's gaze shifted slightly downwards, pausing for a moment as it swept over the subtle movements in Wen Tianyi's hands.

"Who exactly are you?" Wenjie's voice suddenly deepened, carrying a solemn and imposing tone.

"You bastard! What kind of talk is that?" Wen Tianyi was furious when he was asked that question.

“You have nothing to hide, so why are you angry?” Wenjie looked at Captain Wu and suddenly laughed.

While the two were confronting each other, Captain Wu had already reached for his sidearm at his waist. Now, seeing that the murderer had given himself away under Wen Jie's questioning, he pulled out his gun and pointed it at Wen Tianyi's head.

"Come with me to the police station. You are suspected of murdering Hua Zhang Xiaoxiao, Xue Xiaowan, and two others. The identity of one of the victims is still under investigation." Captain Wu's gun reeked of gunpowder and carried the unique authority of a police officer.

Wen Tianyi was taken aback. He looked at the muzzle of Wu's gun and then at Wen Jie, unable to understand for a moment how these two had figured out his identity.

A thought flashed through his mind: time capsule

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Wenjie also received the system message and thought: Oh no, he's going to run away!

(End of this chapter)