Chapter 34: Someone Outside the Window

Cao Ying nodded, agreeing with Hong Qifeng's words, and then said, "However, this kind of person usually won't do it himself. โ€

"Buy homicide?" The muscles at the corner of Hong Qifeng's mouth twitched.

"yes, that's what I started looking into." Cao Ying admits this.

"There's one thing I don't quite understand." Hong Qifeng said: "A few years after your lover died, I can understand why you checked these things for a long time, and then after 15 years, you started to check again, why is this?" โ€

"Quite simply, in the beginning, I found nothing, like a headless fly, and couldn't find any useful clues at all. It wasn't until the beginning of 2007 that Tongyue inadvertently gave me a very useful clue. โ€

"Did she give you the clue?"

"Yes, but she didn't realize it at the time."

"Oh, what's going on?"

"Do you remember that I told you that Han Sui joined the Xinghai Society?"

"Yes." Hong Qifeng nodded and said.

"Tongyue was angry and anxious at that time, because Han Sui joined the Xinghai Club and was caught by his colleagues in a crackdown."

"Well, you said you were going to bail him out."

"Yes, it's me, but I'm conditional!"

Cao Ying continued: "At that time, Xinghai would be severely beaten by us, and there was chaos inside, and Han Sui probably realized that it would be difficult for Xinghai to sustain itself. So when I went to bail him out, I asked him to tell me everything he knew. In his confession, he mentioned the details of Qiu Feng's murder. โ€

"What's the minutiae?"

"Han Sui said that once when he was at a party in the Xinghai Society, he heard those old gangsters drink too much Kan Dashan, and there was a small leader of the Xinghai Club at that time, named Ji Xiaofei, who said some very important clues."

"What clues?" Hong Qifeng knew that it must be a key piece of information.

"This Ji Xiaofei came out to mix relatively early, and followed the boss of the Xinghai Club very early, and when I heard him say that they had not officially established the Xinghai Club, he was already with the boss."

"Then he must have some say in the gang." Hong Qifeng guessed.

"No, this is where he is dissatisfied, although he joined the club early and belongs to the 'veteran' level member, but probably because of his ability, he has not been reused by the boss of the Xinghai Society."

"No wonder he drinks with a gangster like Han Sui who just joined the club."

"Yes, he should have a lot of dissatisfaction in his heart, just after drinking too much, he said that the boss is actually nothing great, if he hadn't accompanied the boss to kill an accountant surnamed Ye back then, the boss would not have been able to get the help of nobles, and he would not have established the Xinghai Society, let alone become the largest underworld group in Xinghai."

After listening to this, Hong Qifeng carefully analyzed this passage and said: "His passage does have several important information. โ€

"Yes, the first one is the accountant surnamed Ye. It is very likely that it refers to Qiu Feng. โ€

Hong Qifeng took his words and continued: "The second piece of information is that after they killed this accountant, they got the help of the nobles. This is very much in line with your previous inference of buying a murderer. โ€

Cao Ying nodded and said, "There is a third piece of information, this so-called noble person must have both financial resources and some power to help them finally establish the Xinghai Society." โ€

"Can you say that," Hong Qifeng continued to reason: "If what Ji Xiaofei said is true, then the death of your lover is the executioner of the Xinghai Society, and the real mastermind behind the scenes is the noble person in Ji Xiaofei's mouth?" โ€

"That's what I thought." Cao Ying was a little excited at this time.

Hong Qifeng understood when he heard this, Cao Ying has been investigating and secretly visiting this matter all these years, in order to get the truth, from the initial formal channels to the final all-encompassing, he may have used some shady means during the period.

"Then did you follow this clue later?" Hong Qifeng asked Cao Ying.

"I finally got this clue, of course follow the clue." When Cao Ying said this, he sighed deeply and said, "It's a pity that the heavens don't fulfill people's wishes." โ€

"You didn't find this Ji Xiaofei?"

"Found it, but only his body was found." Cao Ying said in a deep voice.

"Huh?" Hong Qifeng didn't expect this to be the case, and asked, "Was it extinguished?" โ€

"I don't know, but when I found him, he was in a rental house. I didn't open the door for a long time, and when I approached the door, I smelled a faint smell of blood. My colleague and I immediately broke down the door, and as soon as we kicked it open, we saw ยทยทยทยทยทยท"

"See what?" Hong Qifeng saw him stop, and couldn't help but urge.

Cao Ying took a deep breath before continuing: "I saw a person hanging upside down on the beam of the house, stripped naked. His body was covered with wounds cut by sharp objects. โ€

"The depth of these wounds is very even, just enough for the blood in his body to keep flowing out, down his skin, and long red lines of blood before dripping onto the ground."

"Apparently tortured to death." Hong Qifeng said in shock.

"And even bloodier, his tongue, cut out alive and thrown aside like a piece of water."

"It's a trick to kill people!" Hong Qifeng asserted based on his own experience.

"Indeed. However, it is unbelievable that even after such a painstaking and slow process of committing the crime, there is not a trace left by the murderer at the scene. โ€

"Nothing left?" Hong Qifeng didn't believe it.

"We've surveyed the scene again and again, and all we can say is that it's a professional killer, or an elaborate murder scene."

"And then?"

"Later? Later, I thought that I had finally come to work, and after so many years, I finally found a clue to continue the investigation, but who knows, overnight, the clue was completely broken again. โ€

"That's not right," Hong Qifeng said, "can't you continue to track down the boss of the Xinghai Society?" โ€

Cao Ying smiled bitterly and said, "This is the most maddening part, the boss of Xinghaihui rarely shows up, and there are almost no clues to check." Even in the era when Xinghai would run rampant on the coast, no one outside had seen what he looked like. โ€

"So mysterious?" Hong Qifeng was a little confused.

Cao Ying nodded and continued: "Later, as you know, due to our strike hard operation, the Xinghai Society was basically destroyed, and the boss of Xinghai also disappeared. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find a clue. โ€

When Hong Qifeng heard him say this, he also felt that he was a little more than enough to do it.

When Cao Ying said this, she suddenly seemed to remember something and said: "However, I heard Tongyue talk about it when she came to me a few days ago, and it seems that she has some other clues." โ€

"Oh?" Hong Qifeng thought for a moment and said, "But we have searched for her house several times, but we haven't found anything." โ€

"Well, I think that a cautious person like Tongyue will definitely not put these important pieces of evidence casually." Cao Ying said: "You didn't find it, maybe you don't know her." โ€

"And what do you mean?"

"I can help you take a look tomorrow, with my knowledge of Tongyue for so many years, I will definitely be able to find some clues!"

Hong Qifeng thought for a while and said, "Okay, just do it!" โ€

Click!

A faint sound suddenly came from the window!

"Who!" Hong Qifeng was startled, and his hand naturally pressed on the holster.

Cao Ying was also taken aback, standing up and looking out.

"There!" Cao Ying pointed forward, and sure enough, there was a black shadow, running into the distance in the night.

Hong Qifeng immediately chased out, and the black shadow had already run out of a distance.

Hong Qifeng pulled out his matching gun and quickly chased after it, shouting: "Don't run!" โ€ใ€‚

But the black shadow headlines ran out of the gate without looking back, and turned right!

Hong Qifeng followed out of the gate, and after turning to the right, Hong Qifeng had to stop.

Not far in front is the bustling street, which is crowded with people.

That black shadow just disappeared into the brightly lit crowd!