Chapter 1: Sniping

  Jiupin Literature welcomes you, any search engine searches for "Jiupin Literature" to quickly enter this site, this site permanently free of pop-up windows provides high-quality and txt format download service! Three people in a row were depressed and went down to the first floor of the apartment.

  Gu Hanhao had originally wanted to enter room 1114, the deceased Cai Weiqi's room, to investigate, but the stubborn Yan Lixing did not allow it. On the surface, he was polite, but his refusal, accompanied by a gun and a dagger, once again confirmed his jealousy towards Gu Hanhao, simply because Gu Hanhao was younger than him, more famous than him, and had a deeper relationship with the director of the hall.

  "Wait until you have solid evidence that this case is related to your so-called arch-nemesis, then go and apply to the higher-ups for formal permission. Without orders from above, I'm already being extremely generous by letting you question those two neighbors." With that, Yan Lixing said one final sentence before waving his hand in a gesture of dismissal.

  "What should I do?" Yuan Jun asked Gu Hanhao reluctantly.

  Gu Hanhao glanced at him, his tone somewhat soft, "Yan Lixing is right, we don't have any evidence to prove that this case is related to Qiu Feng, and the three words heard by the neighbor alone can't explain anything."

  Ling Lan muttered to herself, "I think Yan Lixing is deliberately letting us know about the 'vampire' lead, and then not allowing us to investigate further, is he intentionally teasing us?"

  Yuan Jun was amused by Ling Lan's childish words, "One mouthful of 'we' after another, do you really think you're a detective? And, Yan Lixing may be petty, but he's still the captain of the criminal police team. He's not like you college students, playing these little tricks."

  Ling Lan rolled her eyes and turned to look at Gu Hanhao, but unexpectedly, Gu Hanhao stood on Yuan Jun's side, "Yuan Jun is right."

  "Yes, yes, yes, it was all because of my narrow-mindedness." Ling Lan said as she got into the car.

  "Get on the bus, Yuen Jun," Gu Hanhao said while boarding the bus. "It's late, you should go back and rest too. Stick to the original plan, take another day off tomorrow, and we'll discuss further plans the day after tomorrow."

  Yuan Jun nodded and watched as the car caught fire. He then leaned in to the front passenger window and made an apologetic gesture towards Ling Lan.

  Ling Lan smiled and waved goodbye.

  The car had just driven out for a while when Ling Lan curiously asked: "I just saw you secretly talking to the security guard downstairs, what's going on?"

  Gu Hanhao smiled confidently, "Since we can't openly investigate this case, we'll have to do it secretly. I just lied to the security guard, saying I was the police officer in charge of the case and a subordinate of Yan Lixing, and that I needed tonight's surveillance video files from the building. The security guard asked me why I wanted them again, so I told him that maybe Captain Yan is getting old and forgetful, and had forgotten that he already requested them once. To cover my tracks, I got the security guard to make another copy for me."

  Ling Lan burst out laughing, "If he knew a junior was talking about him like that, he'd probably be so angry that smoke would come out of his seven orifices."

  "I'm afraid if he knew I was secretly investigating his case, he would be furious. " Gu Hanhao said with a nonchalant tone, as if he didn't take Yan Lixing seriously at all.

  "So you're going to study this surveillance video tonight?" Ling Lan had a eager and impatient attitude, she only then realized that she had actually developed an interest in the case and reasoning, if she were to let her go back to her room to sleep tonight, she would definitely be unable to fall asleep.

  Gu Hanhao could also see Ling Lan's thoughts, and he only realized a very serious problem - he had actually let Ling Lan, this little girl, develop an interest in the case. Did this mean that he would not be able to shake off this shadow in his future work? It was obvious that if Gu Hanhao refused Ling Lan's request to participate in the case, she would definitely use her refusal to cooperate with the investigation as leverage. For Gu Hanhao, investigating the case had become an important part of his life. Moreover, they had already discovered some unbelievable clues through photos, and he had a premonition that they would find more leads next, and the truth would be revealed layer by layer. If he lost Ling Lan's cooperation at this time, he would have to go back to the previous state, like a headless fly, and could only start investigating from the missing old man, but that line had already been cut off.

  Gu Hanhao let out a sigh, looking at Ling Lan, "Aren't you tired? You've been running around with us for a while now. Why don't you get some rest tonight? I'll show you the video tomorrow morning."

  Ling Lan was like a fully charged battery, shaking her head with great vigor, "Not tired, not tired. If you don't let me watch with you tonight, I won't be able to sleep either."

  It was already 12 o'clock when they returned home. The two of them only discovered that the computer was still on when they entered Gu Hanhao's study, and on the screen was a thirty-year-old Ling Lan.

  Gu Hanhao sat down and quickly inserted a small USB drive. "Go get two cups of coffee, less sugar."

  Ling Lan did not resist Gu Hanyu's order, and as soon as she entered the study door, she turned around and went out again. She brought in two cups of coffee and placed them on one side of the desk, then pulled over a chair and sat down beside Gu Hanyu.

  "How is it?" Ling Lan leaned her head against Gu Han's ear, feeling nothing wrong with this.

  Gu Hanhao obviously dodged for a moment, "Don't blame me for not reminding you in advance, this is the surveillance video of the whole day, it's very long and boring. If you stay now, you must accompany me to finish watching it. If you want to escape halfway, it's better to go back now."

  Ling Lan gave Gu Han a glance, "Drink your coffee, in Ling Lan's dictionary of idioms, there is no such word as giving up halfway."

  Gu Hanhao opened the video while taking a sip of coffee and immediately complained: "I wanted less sugar, not no sugar!"

  Ten minutes after midnight, Gu Hanhao and Ling Lan's yawns were already coming one after another. The blurry surveillance video in front of them was playing at three times the speed, but so far, they hadn't seen any suspicious people entering or leaving that building.

  "Wait a minute, this woman..." Gu Hanhao pressed the pause button. The screen displayed that this woman had entered the building at 10:33 and got into the elevator at 10:35, pressing the button for the 11th floor.

  "What's wrong? She's just a beautiful woman, I didn't think that even the great Gu Hanhao would be immune to beauties!" Ling Lan said with a sarcastic tone, her eyes fixed on this heavily made-up, fiery figure, and voluptuous young woman, as a thread of jealousy quietly spread.

  "Go take a look at the pocket of that dark green coat hanging on the door, see if there's anything inside." Gu Hanhao zoomed in and out of the woman's face again.

  Ling Lan was not willing to be ordered around by Gu Huanhao like this, but the aura emanating from his body seemed to make it impossible for her to refuse. She unconsciously followed his instructions and did as he said.

  Half a minute later, Ling Lan was shaking a pink note in her hand, her voice acidly teasing, "Really worthy of being Captain Gu, always having evidence of romantic encounters in his pocket, who is Tian Tian?"

  Gu Hanhao didn't even lift his head, using his chin to point at the computer screen. "It's this woman, your school's female student."

  Ling Lan put the sticky note with the name, phone number and a pink lipstick print on the desk, listening to Gu Hanhao talk about how he met this girl at T University.

  Ling Lan took out her phone, "Since we're classmates, I'll give Tian Tian a call."

  Gu Hanhao didn't object and was instead very curious about what Ling Lan would say to Tian Qin over the phone.

  Ling Lan received Gu Hanhao's tacit consent and dialed the number on the pink sticky note. A sweet and cloying ringtone came from the phone, and the other party answered, "Who are you looking for?"

  "Are you Tian Tian?" Ling Lan didn't notice her own tone, like a jealous and resentful girlfriend confronting her boyfriend's ambiguous object.

  "How did you know my phone number?" The other party's attitude was also unfriendly, and the noise on the other end of the line sounded like it was in a bar.

  Ling Lan picked up the note with two fingers and held it in front of her eyes, staring intently at the meaningful pink lip print. "I have your 'calling card'."