1294 Worried Sick 6
Now, Xi Xiaye felt assured.
Something flashed in Xi Xiaye’s mind, so she asked again, “Right, Father, there’s something I’ve been wanting to ask you about.”
“What is it?” Mu Tangchuan casually put his arms behind him as he said calmly.
Xi Xiaye paused while she roughly sorted out her thoughts before asking, “Wang Qin’s matter has passed for a long time now. I want to know if the police had no updates at all. It was clear that someone tried to frame us for that incident. Was there still no outcome to the investigation?”
“The suspect has been locked in, but they ran off abroad. You know as well that it’s quite hard to catch a criminal abroad. Besides, he’s consciously evading our capture. I’m sure someone’s helping him out abroad too. However, I did hear that he’s recently appeared at Los Angeles.”
When Mu Tangchuan revealed that, a ray of hope flashed in Xi Xiaye’s heart. She thought about it for a moment. “Mmm, then we’ll have to keep troubling you on this matter, Father.”
“Don’t worry, this matter isn’t quite straightforward. I know about it very well since Ah Chen’s mentioned about this to me too. I know that you’re all anxious for an explanation for your friend, Qi Lei. I promise that I won’t let this drag on for too long.”
“If you’ve said so, Father, then I won’t worry about it.” Xi Xiaye smiled. “Alright, thank you, Father. If there’s nothing else, I’ll go home first. I will leave Ah Shi’s matter into yours and Mother’s hands.”
“Alright, go home then. Be careful on the road.”
…
In the windy and rainy City B, inside an abandoned factory kilometers away from the highway.
When Mu Yuchen went over, the sky had darkened. After Su Chen made a police report, right now, there were many policemen around the factory and a police cordon had been put up too.
Su Chen was talking about something with a policeman.
Suddenly, there was the sound of a car honking. Secretary He, who stood beside them, immediately turned to look. When he saw the car, he said to Su Chen, “Chief Su, it’s Master Mu!”
Su Chen looked up and followed the sound. Indeed, a car had slowly stopped at the car on the vacant space in front. The car door opened quickly, and Mu Yuchen got down to walk straight to Su Chen. In the blink of an eye, he reached Su Chen.
“You’re here!” Su Chen greeted Mu Yuchen, and then looked to the policeman beside him as he continued, “Come, let me introduce you. This is Officer Xu who’s in charge of the case this time. Officer Xu, this is Master Mu!”
“Hello, I’m Mu Yuchen,” Mu Yuchen greeted humbly.
“Ah, it’s Master Mu. What an honor!” Officer Xu smiled humbly too.
Mu Yuchen nodded slightly and turned to look at Su Chen. “Any new findings?”
“We found Ah Mo and Qi Lei’s car inside. There’re some traces of blood on it too. Early examination shows that it’s not from Ah Mo, Qi Lei, or Yang Sheng because coincidentally, the three of them have the same blood type as you, which is O. Meanwhile, the samples show that it’s type A, so it should be someone else’s blood.”
Su Chen’s lowered voice was quickly heard. “Next up, it’s best if I let Officer Xu explain it to you.”
When Officer Xu heard that, he nodded and continued, “Based on the situation, there were signs of struggle in the car. The two bottles of mineral water in Qi Lei’s car contain roofie[1]. Early speculations show that it might be Qi Lei and Yang Sheng’s, but we’ll only know for sure after examining it. So far, it looks like the three of them were captured by seven to eight rogues who used a long and sharp metal rod as a weapon. We could tell from the scratches on the car that there must have been quite a fight here! There’s a mess of footprints at the scene, so it will be a little hard to pick them up.
“Also, this factory area is a repair shop that’s been abandoned for quite a while now. Rarely anyone passes by. There are quite a few roads that lead outside too. They’re all flat cemented paths. After such a long and heavy downpour, many traces have been washed away by the rain, so we can’t find anything relevant for now. Also, this part leads to the deep mountains. I just checked and noticed that there were a few signs that look like the trail marks a car, so we won’t rule out that they’ve escaped into the mountains. One more thing. Come here to look—
“It’s obvious that this place was a car repair shop. There are burnt traces here but look at the new paint over there. It should be quite fresh, so my guess is that the murderer might have painted the car again, and then ran off to evade the CCTVs. And in order not to be noticed, they burnt it all here, We can guess from the plastic tanks of gasoline on the ground.”
…
Officer Xu explained the general situation to Mu Yuchen. As Mu Yuchen listened, his expression turned solemn too.
“That means that Qi Lei, Yang Sheng, and Ah Mo might be together right now. They were probably kidnapped by a bunch of rogues, and someone among these rogues was hurt,” Su Chen said.
Officer Xu nodded. “You can say that!”
“Can we find out the direction in which they escaped?” Mu Yuchen fell silent for a moment, then asked in a lowered voice.
Officer Xu paused, thought about it for a moment, then responded, “I can’t answer that for now, Master Mu! But I think that as long as we bring these things back to test and survey the scene again, we should be able to get an answer. Actually, through my conversation with Chief Su earlier, I can boldly speculate that they might have left City B by now. Two days is enough to do many things. These two roads pass through 30 kilometers of highway towards a place beyond the provinces where traffic is busy. The checkpoint inspections might not be so strict either, so it wouldn’t have been too hard for them to escape.”
“Can we pick up any DNA from the location? Perhaps, we can compare it to our database and find out the rogue’s identity.”
“Don’t worry, Mr. Mu. We found a few cigarette butts at the scene. We’ll bring them back for tests, and hopefully we’ll find something useful.”
Mu Yuchen sighed as he stood there for quite a while, then walked towards his car. The traces at the scene were clearly very chaotic. Mu Yuchen’s thoughts were leaning more towards the possibility that Ah Mo must have exchanged blows with those people!
Ah Mo was really alert, so perhaps he found out something. After all, even the usual seven to eight people were no match for him!
[1] Also known as Rohypnol, a sedative that was made in the early 1970s in hospitals only for deep sedation. It is now a fairly infamous date-rape drug. Has also been known to be used recreationally