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"Five hours? Are you sure?"

"Huh? What do you mean? I don't understand. I really slept with him in the lounge at the back of his shop, which he used..."

"Okay, okay, I get it... What information did you give him?"

"Um... a while ago, Sister Cai'er received a set of blue and white porcelain tea sets from a young man."

"How much did he promise to give you?"

"10. This is the information fee he owes me."

"Okay, if Feng Cai'er knew you were willing to sell her out for 10 yuan, she would probably tear you apart.

Where did the money on your coffee table come from? That's nearly 40 yuan, and I heard you said it was originally 50 yuan."

"Um... there's other news. That's the money I saved in the second half of the year."

"...I heard Feng Cai'er was kidnapped. Does this have anything to do with you?"

"No, that group of people was hired by Boss Huang. He's the owner of Boguzhai, Huang Zhiwen."

"What did you hide in the drawers and under the bed? Where else in the house did you hide anything?"

Hearing that Liao Fan had finally asked these questions, Xu Qi immediately said in horror, "I can't tell you. If I do, I'll be killed! Please!"

Seeing this, Liao Fan pulled the bolt with an impatient look on his face, threw the ejected bullet in Xu Qi's face and said, "If you don't tell me, you will die now. You can choose for yourself. Actually, I can also watch it myself."

After saying that, Liao Fan squatted down without waiting for the other party to speak, crawled under the bed, and took out an envelope from the gap under the bed board. He walked to the desk, violently knocked open the bottom of the drawer, and randomly took out a USB flash drive from it.

Walking back to the sofa, looking at Xu Qi who was struggling with his thoughts with his head down, Liao Fan did not urge her, but opened the envelope and read the contents inside.

There were several photos in the envelope.

There are color ones and black and white ones, and the contents are also varied.

Some of them were eating in a restaurant, some were in the wild, and some were in a hotel or similar places. The picture of the hotel was also very simple, just two little people, but one of them was really small.

The strangest thing is that there is a photo that is completely dark, but the high-performance camera clearly presents the people at the scene in the photo one by one. However, Liao Fan doesn’t understand why the shooting environment of this photo is so dark.

Since Liao Fan was not from their circle, he did not recognize the people in these photos. However, if Feng Caier or Huang Zhiwen, the old people in the circle, saw them, they would definitely be stunned.

Xu Qi didn't know all this at the time. From the very beginning, she regarded Liao Fan as a "cleaner" who did dirty work for a big boss in the circle. Therefore, when she saw Liao Fan opening the envelope under the bed, her face immediately turned pale. At this time, she looked even more scared than when Liao Fan pointed a gun at her.

Seeing the other party's expression, Liao Fan knew that he couldn't ask anything.

He casually put the photos and USB drive into the inside pocket of his clothes, and then walked straight to the kitchen without paying any attention to Xu Qi who looked like she had lost all hope in life.

When he came to the kitchen, Liao Fan first closed all the windows, and then took out a plastic bag from the kitchen cabinet.

Then, Liao Fan turned on the gas stove, but did not light it. Instead, he let the natural gas spray out continuously. Then Liao Fan emptied the air in the plastic bag and covered the stove eye with it.

As natural gas was injected, the plastic bag slowly expanded like a balloon.

When the plastic bag was fully inflated, Liao Fan held the mouth of the plastic bag tightly with one hand, turned off the gas stove with the other hand, and walked back to the bedroom.

At this time, Xu Qi obviously had not come back to his senses. There was no light in his eyes, but there was no trace of fear either. He looked like a body without a soul.

Liao Fan didn't care about these. He just squatted down and covered Xu Qi's mouth and nose while he was breathing.

Suddenly, his mouth and nose were covered, and Xu Qi instinctively began to struggle, but as his brain was deprived of oxygen, he gradually became weak.

However, before Xu Qi fainted, Liao Fan let go of her hand.

Xu Qi, who was nearly suffocated to death, suddenly felt her mouth and nose loosened their restraints. She instinctively began to inhale the air, and then immediately passed out without knowing anything. However, in a daze, she seemed to hear someone whispering something in her ear.

"Shh~ Don't be nervous, relax. It's normal to feel a little dizzy. It will be fine soon."

It turned out that the moment Liao Fan released his left hand that was covering the other person's mouth and nose, he blocked the other person's mouth with the plastic bag in his right hand. What Xu Qi inhaled into his lungs was not air, but high-purity natural gas.

He passed out in an instant from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Looking at Xu Qi who had fallen into a coma, Liao Fan first took off her clothes one by one, and then arranged them one by one and hung them on the clothes hook behind the door. He even thoughtfully put the taken-off underwear into a plastic basin in the bathroom and added some water in it.

After doing all this, Liao Fan returned to the house, tidied up the desk and sofa that Xu Qi had messed up at the beginning, and carefully swept the room with a broom.

Finally, Liao Fan took the handcuffs off Xu Qi's hands and put them back in the closet.

It's just that he didn't notice it when he was taking off his clothes just now. Only now did he realize that there were many bruises on Xu Qi's thighs, buttocks, and back, and there were also some less obvious marks on her body such as her wrists and chest.

Thinking of the little gadgets in the closet, Liao Fan's eyes immediately showed a look of "I see", but the corners of his mouth curled up a little obscenely.

After finishing all the details, Liao Fan got up and went to the kitchen. He first loosened a gas pipe under the gas stove, then took out an essential oil candle he had seen in the desk before, lit it and placed it on the bedside.

After finally confirming that there were no omissions or loopholes, Liao Fan left Xu Qi's house. Before leaving, she thoughtfully locked her door again with the key.

After walking out of the apartment building, Liao Fan had already taken off all her gloves, shoe covers and headgear and put them in her pockets. However, before she could get into the car, she heard a loud explosion suddenly coming from the community behind her.

The explosion happened at noon, alarming everyone in the community.

When people arrived at the site of the explosion, all they saw was a balcony with billowing smoke and flames.

Since the community is an old-style apartment building located in the old city, both the infrastructure and road accessibility are very poor.

When the explosion just happened, someone called the fire department, but the fire truck, which was supposed to be less than 5 minutes away, was stuck outside the community for more than 20 minutes. By the time the firefighters put out the raging fire, the entire house had been burned beyond recognition.

Looking at the explosion site where all hidden dangers had been eliminated, Yang Jianguo felt for some reason that the fire was very strange.

According to the results of the on-site investigation by firefighters, the fire was caused by a leak in the gas pipeline.

The natural gas leaked from the gas pipeline gathered to a certain concentration in the nearly closed room, was ignited by the burning candle, and exploded.

A woman in the house died on the spot. Preliminary judgment was that the woman must have inhaled a certain amount of methane and carbon monoxide before the explosion, which prevented her from taking immediate remedial measures when the incident occurred.

As to whether this is the case, the forensic doctor has taken the body away for autopsy.

Through the cooperation of the police station's trace department and firefighters in the second investigation of the scene, it was found that there were no signs of a fight in the house. Even the clothes on the deceased were hanging intact behind the door before the incident. A pair of unburned underwear was even found in the toilet. Judging from the traces, it should have been soaked in water at the time.

No matter from which perspective, this fire was a real accident, but Yang Jianguo just felt that something was wrong.

Just as he lowered his head, wondering if he had overlooked any clues, one of his officers came over with an evidence bag. "Director Yang, please take a look at this."

Hearing his men calling him, Yang Jianguo raised his head, and as soon as he looked up, he saw an evidence bag containing half a burnt 100-yuan banknote.

I couldn't help but frown, thinking, these young people nowadays are really... Nonsense!

But before he could lose his temper, he heard the police officer say, "Director Yang, the firefighters just found a large amount of cash that wasn't completely burned at the scene. It's estimated to be around 40 yuan, and the cash was hidden inside the coffee table."

"How do you know it's hidden inside the coffee table?" After hearing what his men said, Yang Jianguo immediately realized the unreasonableness in it.

"Because according to the firefighters and the comrades in the trace evidence department, if the money wasn't hidden in a relatively sealed environment, it would have been burned to ashes in the explosion and subsequent fire."

After listening to his subordinates' reports, Yang Jianguo reaffirmed his initial thoughts in his heart that there was something wrong with the fire.

However, there were no clues at the scene, which made it difficult for him to determine the direction of the investigation.

Before he could figure out his next line of investigation, he heard another colleague shout, "Director Yang, a deceased person has been found in Room 501, Building 6."

"What? Another one dead?"