Animal Detective

Chapter 79 Shi Yanhua

The discussion ended without any progress.

Ding Yuwei's idea was to first visit the victim's family, namely Shi Yanhua.

Shen Xin thought so too.

However, when Ding Yuwei suggested leaving now, Shen Xin stopped her.

"You definitely won't find anyone if you go now; you'll have to go at night."

Ding Yuwei was stunned and didn't react.

Shen Xin asked, "Have you seen the girls at the bathhouse? What time do they start work in the afternoon?"

They only start working when night falls.

Ding Yuwei's eyes held a hint of ambiguity: "You seem to know a lot about this."

They had been in contact for more than ten days, and Ding Yuwei would occasionally joke with Shen Xinkai.

"Don't talk nonsense, I don't know anything about it." Shen Xin quickly shook his head.

That's as if you go there often.

But there was still an afternoon left, so the two of them couldn't really slack off and started sorting out the relationships between the people in the case file.

Write it on the whiteboard.

Liu Laibin's company is small, especially after business went badly, leaving only a few people.

Fan Huizhen, the company's finance officer.

There weren't many salespeople left, and after layoffs, only one remained, which was Li Weiqin.

He was originally a business manager, but later he became a lone commander.

Technician Cao Shaopeng.

My main job is to maintain the company's official website and gold trading platform.

Then there was a receptionist named Liang Ying.

Finally, there's Sun Min, the company's cleaning staff.

There are only 5 employees in total, which is extremely streamlined.

"The business was brought in by Li Weiqin. The case file records that he said he contacted us through a message on the official website and by phone." Ding Yuwei flipped through the case file.

Sun Kai has been to the company several times.

"The receptionist Liang Ying's original words were that he was an ordinary man who was almost forty years old."

Ding Yuwei took out a composite sketch and pasted it on the whiteboard.

This is a composite sketch based on descriptions from company employees.

He has a side-parted hairstyle, small eyes with droopy corners, and is fairly average-looking.

All the company's employees have met Sun Kai, and their descriptions are basically consistent.

Unfortunately, the other party intentionally damaged the surveillance footage. The computer host that stored the surveillance footage was smashed to pieces. Qin Chuanwang contacted the branch office's technicians to try to recover the data from the hard drive, but to no avail.

Ironically, the surveillance system in Jin Hui Building had experienced a circuit failure due to aging circuitry before the incident, and the building management took the opportunity to upgrade all the circuits.

The monitoring system was also upgraded, and a new host was purchased.

The old host has been disposed of.

Therefore, the surveillance footage from a week prior to the incident is no longer available.

The surveillance footage from that week coincided with the period after Sun Kai visited the company several times to discuss bridge-crossing business.

Therefore, the building's surveillance cameras did not capture any footage of Sun Kai coming to the company to discuss business.

Therefore, the only valid information about Sun Kai is this composite sketch and the false identity information he registered with the company.

At the time, Qin Chuanwang speculated that even if the building's surveillance system hadn't been upgraded at the right time, given Sun Kai's counter-surveillance capabilities, he would have intentionally avoided the surveillance.

He continued to focus his investigation on Sun Kai.

For example, the company information he forged.

Sun Kai fabricated a company called Meikes Network Technology Co., Ltd., whose main business was one-stop website construction.

At that time, Liu Laibin and Li Weiqin went to Sun Kai's company for inspection.

The company is said to be quite large, with about twenty employees, and its business is quite substantial.

But it's clear that everything was fake.

Sun Kai rented an office on the first floor of the Mashanqiao Entrepreneurship Park using a false identity, purchased office equipment such as computers, and hired more than twenty ordinary people to play the role of employees, staging a grand show for Liu Laibin.

All of this information has been investigated and verified, but no useful information was found.

Qin Chuanwang concluded that the perpetrators had planned this all along and were a professional fraud ring. The only problem was that it was unclear why a group primarily focused on swindling money would ultimately choose to commit murder.

The crime of murder is clearly greater.

This doesn't make sense.

But the prerequisite is to find Sun Kai in order to find out all of this.

I've reviewed the case information.

Shen Xin felt that everything he could think of, Qin Chuanwang and the others had thought of and investigated back then.

Therefore, this case will most likely be just a formality, as Zhao Tianxing said, and will ultimately come to nothing.

Seeing Ding Yuwei lost in thought, Shen Xin said, "Don't think about it too much. Let's go through the case file first."

Ding Yuwei nodded; she didn't have many thoughts on the matter at the moment.

I had originally planned to go with Zhao Tianxing.

However, the temporary branch office had an arrest mission, and Zhao Tianxing had to go along.

Chen Chao figured this was just a field investigation and there was no danger, so he let Shen Xin and Ding Yuwei go by themselves.

The two, dressed casually, drove Shen Xin's car to their destination.

According to Zhao Tianxing, Shi Yanhua now works at a bathhouse called Lido.

It happens to be located in Yunlin Street.

When he arrived at the location, Shen Xin suddenly remembered that he seemed to have participated in the sweep of this house during the previous security team's raid.

At 7 p.m., the colorful lights above the entrance of the bathhouse flashed.

It is located near a shopping mall called Dream City.

Go up the stairs to the second floor.

Unexpectedly, the front desk manager recognized Shen Xin.

"Officer, we've already rectified things, and it's perfectly legitimate now." This guy was in his thirties, a bit effeminate, and immediately raised his hand to swear after recognizing Shen Xin.

But his eyes seemed a little unfocused.

Therefore, his use of the word "formal" should be put in quotation marks.

However, Shen Xin wasn't here to raid prostitution. He said, "I'm here to find someone. Do you have a lady here named Shi Yanhua?"

The front desk manager chuckled twice and said, "Look at what you're saying. We don't have any girls here. We only have licensed massage therapists."

Shen Xin frowned, his voice becoming more serious: "Think it over before you speak. I'm only here to find someone, but I don't have to."

A single phone call to Dong Yueming could launch a surprise raid against him.

His expression changed, and he immediately dared not dodge the question any longer. He said, "Sister Hua, right? Yes, I just saw her. Officer, wait here, I'll go get her for you right away."

He quickly ran backstage.

Not long after, he appeared with a woman.

The woman exuded a strong air of prostitution, wearing a low-cut top and a very short skirt.

With that kind of attire, she couldn't possibly be a legitimate massage therapist.

She had long, wavy brown hair and wore heavy makeup.

Judging from her facial features, she must have been quite beautiful when she was young.

Now that I'm older, the excess fat around my waist is quite noticeable.

But with her impressive cleavage, she should still have a market.

She looked reluctant, muttering that she was currently on duty and that the customer was a regular; if the customer wasn't satisfied, the front desk manager would be held responsible.

The front desk manager looked embarrassed and kept giving her meaningful glances.

Shen Xin stepped forward and showed his identification.

"You're Shi Yanhua, right? If it's convenient, could we chat for a bit about Liu Laibin's case?" Shen Xin explained his purpose.

Shi Yanhua's expression changed slightly, and she immediately perked up, shouting, "What's there to talk about? How many times have you asked me? And where's the murderer? Has he been caught? No, then what's the point of talking? If you're going to waste your time talking to me, go and catch the culprit!"

Her tone was sharp. She reached for the cigarette case at the front desk, skillfully pulled out a cigarette, lit it, crossed her arms, exhaled a puff of smoke, and said, "Officer, really, I know you guys are annoyed, and I'm annoyed too. If you don't want me to cause any more trouble, fine, just pay me back."

"We can discuss the exact amount of compensation if necessary. If we don't have two million, I'll give you a discount. One million should be fine, right?"

Shen Xin sighed silently.

Shen Xin believed Zhao Tianxing's words.

(End of this chapter)