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! Gu Hanhao still asked after finishing his self-introduction, "Li Zhen is it? Do you know this person?"

  Li Zhen shrank his neck and lowered his head to look at the photo pushed by Gu Hanhao, answering without hesitation: "I know him, he asked me to call him Ain, actually I knew he was Shao Hui, I saw him in the newspaper."

  "How did you meet?"

  It was about two months ago, one evening, I drove past his house and he hailed my taxi. No, Mr. Shao was very generous, he gave me 5,000 yuan and asked me to come to the bottom of his building every night at this time. He told me to pay attention to his window, if there was a potted plant on the windowsill, I would wait for him downstairs, but if there was nothing on the windowsill, I could leave. He wanted me to do this every day without fail, or it would mess up his big deal. As payment, he paid me 5,000 yuan per month. On the evening of the 8th of this month, just a few hours before something happened to him, he gave me my pay for the second month."

  "Where did Shaohui let you take him?"

  "I remember that within two months, I took him to Jingjiang Park a total of 21 times. Each time, he had me wait at the west gate of Jingjiang Park, and after getting out of the car, he would head south, turning around the corner of the park, and then I wouldn't know what happened next. There were also three times when I took him to T University, parking at the east gate to wait for him." Lei Zhen had a very sharp look on his face, and indeed, he remembered all these details clearly.

  When Li Zhen mentioned T University, Ling Lan's body shook slightly. He was actually living in the teacher's dormitory on the campus of T University. Could it be that he really had some kind of relationship with Shao Hui?

  "Tell me what happened that night when he got into trouble, and why you resigned at this time." Gu Hanhao's tone was full of friendly trust, and for now, he was very satisfied with his cooperation with Li Zhen.

  Li Zhenqing cleared his throat, leaned forward and became more serious. "That night, when Shao Hui got in the car, he asked me to take him to the ruins of the old industrial base. He was solemn that evening, not like before when we would chat on the road, so I didn't ask anything else. When we arrived at the place, it was exactly 12:05. He told me to park the car a bit further away and said he would be out in half an hour at most."

  "How long have you been waiting for him?"

  I did as he said, turning off the car lights and hiding in the darkness, not even allowing the glow of my phone to escape. The longer I waited, the more frightened I became. I had heard that this place was haunted by vampires, although I knew it was nonsense, but when a person is in absolute darkness, they can't help but have wild thoughts. I forced myself to calm down and carefully thought back to Shao Hui's mysterious actions over the past two months. I felt that he might be doing something illegal, with secrets that couldn't be seen by others. I had heard that before the vampire rumors, this place was a hub for drug dealers and smugglers to make transactions. I thought, he might be making illicit deals here, and I had become his accomplice just for a mere 10,000 yuan. The more I thought about it, the more uneasy I felt. Later, I don't know if it was just my imagination, but I seemed to have heard the sound of police sirens. So, I didn't bother waiting for Shao Hui anymore and decided to escape on my own. I didn't take the same route back, as the siren sounds seemed to be coming from that direction, so I took a detour. Li Zhen spoke with a dry mouth, his whole body shaking with excitement, "I didn't even go home, I went straight to the company and quit my job, then went to a friend's place to borrow money, planning to hide out in another city. But when I got home to pack my bags, that's when you guys caught me."

  Gu Hanhao smiled, "It wasn't a hallucination, there really were police cars at that time. We received the alarm and found Shaohui dead in an underground room."

  "Is he dead?" Lei was shocked, his eyes wide with fear. "This...this...you didn't bring me here to suspect me, did you? Heaven and earth are my witnesses, I didn't kill him! I've told you everything I know. I don't want the 10,000 yuan anymore, I just want to clear my name."

  "Don't worry, that 10,000 yuan is yours, clean and clear. If my guess isn't wrong, it's also yours." Gu Hanhao stood up, "You can go now, but before the case is solved, you cannot leave the city, you must guarantee to be available at any time."

  Li Zhen nodded repeatedly like pounding garlic, saying "no problem" as he opened the door and left.

  As the sky darkened, Gu Hanhao invited Liu Fan and Ling Lan to a restaurant near the Public Security Bureau for dinner when Yuan Jun's call came over. He reported on the investigation results of Jimmy on the phone.

  Gu Hanhao ate while listening to the phone, not saying a word, which made Ling Lan very nervous. Ling Lan silently prayed in her heart, hoping that Jimmy had sufficient alibis.

  Next is computer expert Xiao Zheng, Zheng Bo's phone call, it seems that the investigation of Shao Rui's computer has yielded results. This time Ling Lan overheard some content, it seems that there are certain files in Shao Rui's computer that have been thoroughly deleted and cannot be restored. These files are very large, seemingly video files, and the way they were deleted is very unique, each one was deleted separately, and only one was deleted per day.

  Ling Lan was very curious about the investigation results of Shao Wei's computer, just as she wanted to ask, Liu Fan shook his head at her and said, "Don't disturb Captain Gu from thinking about the case."

  Gu Hanhao indeed looked like he was deep in thought, eating his meal absent-mindedly. Before long, without even lifting his head, he invited the two ladies, "After dinner, let's take a stroll around Jingjiang Park."

  It was just past 7 o'clock in the evening, and Jingjiang Park was at its busiest. Many middle-aged and elderly people were moving their arms and bodies in unison to the rhythm of the music. Children were playing and chasing each other, while their parents watched them with one eye and chatted idly with each other.

  Only three people were unmoved by this peaceful atmosphere, their faces expressionless. As soon as they got off the car, they headed south. The way these three walked was quite strange, with a man in front and two women walking side by side behind him.

  Gu Hanhao didn't care whether the two women behind him could keep up, he strode forward with big steps, and after turning a corner, his eyes quickly scanned the left and right sides of this street.

  "What are you looking for? Welcome to Jiu Pin Literature, search 'Jiu Pin Literature' on any search engine and quickly enter the site. This site permanently provides free high-quality and txt format download services without pop-up windows! Isn't it better if we look together?" Ling Lan asked discontentedly from behind Gu Han.

  "I don't know." Gu Hanhao replied.

  Ling Lan took this answer as an evasion and asked unhappily: "If you don't know what to look for, how can you find it?"

  Before Gu Hanhao could answer, Liu Fan immediately made a silencing gesture to Ling Lan, afraid that she would disturb Gu Hanhao's train of thought.

  Ling Lan pouted, secretly resenting Gu Hanhao for ignoring their existence. Alas, perhaps he and the great detectives on TV and in movies all had the same problem - they liked to make a mystery out of nothing.

  "Found it." Gu Hanhao stopped under a strange sign on his right side.

  Ling Lan Liu Fan hurried over, this was a half-buried wooden door, very ancient, like a prop from a fairy tale, only to see the wooden sign above with three crooked letters "zoo".

  "Is this the place where Shao Hui often secretly visits at night? What makes you certain it's here?" asked Liu Fan.

  Ling Lan suddenly remembered the white paper hidden in Shao Hui's desk drawer, which had written on it "white rabbit", "rooster" and so on. So that's how it was, "zoo" referred to a zoo, and it was likely related to the animals Shao Hui had written about. Perhaps Gu Hanhao's previous sentence "I don't know" wasn't just an excuse, he too had made an educated guess after seeing "zoo" that the target location was here.

  "Just based on the few account books found in Shao Hui's desk, let's go take a look." With that, Gu Hanhao pressed the doorbell on the side of the door, which was covered by a withered branch, fortunately Gu Hanhao had good eyesight.

  While waiting for the door to open, Ling Lan noticed that Gu Han Hao took out his phone and sent a text message, but after finishing typing, he hesitated and didn't press the send button.

  After waiting for half a minute, the wooden door creaked open and a bald head poked out from the gap. It was a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes. He cautiously scanned the three people before saying in an unfriendly tone: "Sorry, this is a private club, members only."

  Gu Hanhao stretched one hand into the door gap, preventing the man from closing the door. One hand was behind his back pressing down on the phone's send button, and then he lightly spat out a number, "Twelve thousand."