The subsequent morning, earlier than eight, Wang Chao got here to report.

With the intention of scaring them, {the teenager} burst in with out even knocking on the door.

However the scene inside wasn’t as unhealthy as he had imagined.

As Wang Chao snuck in like a thief, Lin Chen was studying an uninteresting journal with the bedside lamp on. He seemed up on the quietly approaching teenager and noticed him petrified in entrance of the couch.

“What’s incorrect?” Lin Chen requested softly.

The younger man recovered from his shock and disappointedly pointed on the dismantled couch mattress.

On the couch mattress, Xing Conglian had coated himself with a skinny blanket and slept along with his garments on. He was sleeping deeply and didn’t even get up when Wang Chao pushed the door open.

Lin Chen defined, “He went again to the police station for time beyond regulation yesterday and didn’t return till 5 within the morning.”

Listening to this, Wang Chao snapped out of his shock.

{The teenager} sat down on the bedside desk with a breakfast bag, feeling hesitant to talk. However the mischievous glint in his eyes gave him away. “A’Chen Gege, I didn’t imply it like that. The Boss really slept on the couch?”

Lin Chen put down the journal and began to look into immediately’s breakfast supply. He requested Wang Chao, “Is there an issue?”

Wang Chao whispered into his ear and seemed on the sleeping gentleman on the mattress, “A’Chen Gege, is there one thing incorrect with Sister* Xing? You may quietly inform me.”

*The time period he’s utilizing is (大嫂) which is sister-in-law (Lin Chen’s spouse).

Lin Chen calmly grabbed the disposable bamboo chopstick, opened the field of preserved egg and lean meat porridge from the perfect Xu Ji porridge store close by, after which replied, “I don’t suppose so.”

Wang Chao grinned and requested, “How are you aware?”

Lin Chen didn’t know when this little comrade had develop into so gossipy. He took a sip of porridge and stated leisurely, “Wang Chao…”

“Yeah!”

“Cease asking.”

“Why?”

“I’m afraid it is going to shock you,” Lin Chen replied as he opened a bowl of porridge for Wang Chao and handed him a pair of chopsticks.

Wang Chao opened his mouth in shock and seemed disapproving. He had a confused expression on his face as if he was questioning life. Ultimately, he had no alternative however to obediently begin consuming the porridge.

The perfume of breakfast porridge wafted over, and Lin Chen took a lightweight sniff. He felt that one thing was off within the air. He checked out Wang Chao, solely to understand that the younger man was nonetheless carrying the identical black punk burnout cotton T-shirt with a couple of patches from yesterday, and he had a faint odor of smoke throughout him.

So Lin Chen requested suspiciously, “You didn’t go house final evening?”

“No, I went to an web café final evening,” Wang Chao replied fortunately.

Lin Chen frowned. “Wasn’t anybody cleansing the home?”

“Most likely, however I didn’t return to test. The web café serves meals, has a spot to sleep, and even has League of Legends. What’s not good about it?” Wang Chao stated whereas taking out three parts of crispy beef truffles from the breakfast bag. “Moreover, the web café I went to even has a rest room. Hehehe, it’s wonderful.”

“Don’t sleep on the web café sooner or later. A minimum of get a resort room…”

“Ah, A’chen Gege, don’t fear. I primarily went to the web café to look at surveillance movies. I can open ten computer systems to look at concurrently. It’s superior,” he stated excitedly, patting his thighs. “And A’Chen Gege, you have been proper. There actually is such a mysterious man in a hoodie!”

Lin Chen seemed up and requested, “What’s the story with the mysterious man in a hoodie?”

“Through the incident, a suspicious-looking man in a hoodie lingered across the European Citadel space of the Hongjing Amusement Park. Afterward, he went to the scene of the crime and rapidly left!”

Wang Chao jumped off the bed, biting his chopsticks, saying one factor and doing one other, and rapidly linked the pc and TV once more.

Lin Chen held his chopsticks and stared on the monitor.

Certainly, there seemed to be a wierd determine sitting on a bench outdoors the European Citadel of the Hongjing Amusement Park, seemingly taking part in along with his cellphone. The individual wore a hoodie and stored his head down, by no means wanting up at anybody else. He appeared deeply absorbed within the content material on his cellphone. At a sure cut-off date, the person immediately stood up and left the bench with out hesitation.

Lin Chen seen the time displayed on the backside of the display, which was precisely 10:15, eight minutes after Tan Kang was stabbed to demise.

It appeared that this was the appointed time. Lin Chen thought to himself.

However…how ought to he put it? Lin Chen seemed on the determine of the person within the hoodie that Wang Chao had simply talked about and couldn’t clarify the unusual feeling in his coronary heart.

Though the case did seem to be Tan Kang had come to the park to secretly meet with somebody, as soon as they discovered the proof to help the inference, the inference itself gave folks a way of inexplicable absurdity.

In fashionable society, there have been numerous methods to convey data. Why did Tan Kang select probably the most primitive approach of assembly?

Seeing that he had been silent for a very long time, Wang Chao immediately requested, “What’s incorrect, A’chen Gege?”

Lin Chen held his bowl of porridge and stated, “That is too easy.”

“Ah, the place is it easy?” Wang Chao didn’t perceive.

“Our technique of discovering this middleman individual is just too easy,” Lin Chen stated.

“However, but when it weren’t in your evaluation of his falling movement, I won’t have been capable of finding this ‘mysterious man in a hoodie’!”

Wang Chao was very persistent in giving the mysterious determine a nickname.

Lin Chen nodded and requested, “However have you ever ever thought of why they selected this mysterious spy-style technique of assembly?”

“As a result of all of Tan Kang’s digital communications have been being monitored, whether or not it was his cellphone or laptop, he needed to meet this individual in individual?”

“However in any case, since they agreed to fulfill right here, they should have had first contact with one another. How did he contact this individual for the primary time?” Lin Chen requested.

“Huh?” Wang Chao was speechless for a second. “Is smart.”

“Two prospects: First, the middleman individual is an acquaintance of Tan Kang, they usually had face-to-face conversations and agreed to fulfill right here; second, he knew a intermediary who conveyed the message and acquired in contact with this middleman individual via him; third…”

“What’s the third chance?”

“The third chance is that he known as this individual straight with out going via anybody else and agreed to fulfill right here.”

At this second, Xing Conglian’s voice rang out. “The primary chance hardly exists. Hongjing Amusement Park has surveillance cameras and requires tickets. If acquaintances need to meet up, it’s not good to decide on locations with out surveillance cameras, and it’s not as in the event that they’re relationship.”

Lin Chen circled and noticed Xing Conglian getting up from the couch mattress, rubbing his face in a daze.

Xing Conglian seemed on the display and beckoned to Wang Chao whereas talking. Maybe he had simply spoken ailing of Xing Conglian, so this time, Wang Chao very flatteringly served up the meals.

“Why don’t you sleep somewhat longer?” Lin Chen requested.

“I’ve an appointment with Zhourui Pharmaceutical at 9:30,” Xing Conglian stated.

Lin Chen was about to talk, however Xing Conglian added, “You could have a full-body examination at 11 immediately, so behave and keep on the hospital.”

“It’s okay. I can do the full-body examination alone, so don’t rush again,” Lin Chen stated.

Wang Chao interrupted them. “It would essentially be about relationship… In spite of everything, instances are altering. Perhaps the mysterious hoodie man is Dr. Tan Kang’s secret lover!”

Lin Chen helplessly glanced on the younger man. “Didn’t you say that this mysterious hoodie man had been to the Tan Kang homicide scene?”

“Sure!”

“Retrieve the crime scene video.”

Wang Chao nodded. When the individual arrived on the scene, the police and amusement park safety have been already there, and the cordon had been raised, with many of the crowd on the periphery.

The mysterious hoodie man talked about by Wang Chao had certainly been to the cordon, however he solely stayed on the scene for a brief time period, confirmed the scenario, after which left.

“What’s your feeling?” Lin Chen requested Wang Chao.

“Uh…I can’t say for positive,” Wang Chao replied.

“If it’s a lover, when one get together dies, the opposite solely pauses and is shocked for lower than 10 seconds with out the standard grieving gesture like overlaying their mouth with their hand. Is that this affordable?” Lin Chen counted the seconds the hoodie man had checked out Tan Kang’s physique and continued, “And, furthermore, the physique language is just not that of somebody grieving.”

“Uh…” Wang Chao was confused once more. “Is the individual I discovered actually the one Tan Kang needed to fulfill? Why did Dr. Tan Kang have such an obsession till his demise, whereas this individual left so casually?”

“Congratulations, Comrade Xiao Wang. You could have lastly found the issue!” Xing Conglian laughed, “And the video you discovered not solely exhibits that the one that made contact isn’t very involved about Tan Kang’s life and demise, but in addition that this contact individual is just not very skilled.”

“Boss, what do you imply by not being skilled?”

“It implies that spying actions that may be captured by surveillance cameras are usually not skilled.” Xing Conglian took a chunk of beef pancake and requested, “Did you seize his face?”

“He stored his head down and his hoodie coated him, so we didn’t seize it. Isn’t that skilled sufficient?”

Xing Conglian didn’t touch upon this. “It’s most likely as a result of the amusement park’s surveillance is poor. Haven’t you encountered somebody who can keep away from surveillance cameras all the way in which?”

Wang Chao was speechless with the rebuttal. “Then why did Tan Kang come to the amusement park to fulfill this unprofessional individual secretly and even die within the course of?”

“Then we have to examine based mostly on the 2 or three prospects prompt by your A’Chen Gege. First, filter via Tan Kang’s current communication data and see if he made any calls that he had by no means made earlier than. If there aren’t any outcomes, then develop the search space a bit and see if he has used any public telephones or the like…”

“I perceive!” Wang Chao’s blood was boiling as he shouted, then fell again down once more. “But when he used a public cellphone, isn’t that like searching for a needle in a haystack? We must analyze Tan Kang’s each day actions to come back to any conclusion.”

“So my level is that if there isn’t any important progress on this undertaking, we are able to finish it, as a result of if Tan Kang was murdered, then which of the three prospects do you suppose is the almost definitely?”

“The second. There could also be a intermediary who leaked data, resulting in Tan Kang being stabbed to demise,” Wang Chao replied.

“What does Advisor Lin suppose?” Xing Conglian turned to him and requested.

“It’s not completely correct.”

“Oh?”

“Relatively than there being a leaker, it’s doable that this was a loyalty take a look at in and of itself,” Lin Chen stated as he seemed on the dim TV display. “The killer was in a position to calculate Tan Kang’s actions yesterday, intercept him precisely, and be ready sufficient to kill him with one blow after which escape easily. This couldn’t have been accomplished with out ample preparation. And that so-called intermediary is probably going only a lure. Somebody dug a pit, put in some tempting bait, and Tan Kang jumped in with out suspecting something, solely to be stabbed by the blade within the pit.”

Lin Chen’s voice grew colder and colder.

Wang Chao took a pointy breath.

Xing Conglian frivolously ran his index finger throughout his throat, revealing a really cautious and vigilant expression.