Chapter 2 Car Accident 02

  Qin Fei slightly tilted his head, looking at the man who was only three steps away from him. He hesitated for a moment before finally opening his mouth to ask: "I'm saying... haven't we met somewhere before?"

  The man tilted his head, and Qin Fei's gaze met his dark eyes. For a moment, his mind went blank, then he heard the man let out a sneering laugh, his low voice saying, "Hitting on me? Don't you think this approach is too outdated?"

  This person's words are not as pleasant as his appearance...

  "No, I just thought you looked a bit familiar..." Qin Fei explained patiently, but in his heart he had already begun to regret opening his mouth and talking to this man.

  The man put the change he had found into his windbreaker pocket, slightly turned sideways, and looked Qin Fei up and down with a scrutinizing gaze. "You look okay, but still far from being my type. Besides... we haven't met before."

  After finishing speaking, the man didn't wait for Qin Fei to say another word and turned around to leave. The wind chime at the door made a ringing sound, indicating that the man had already walked out of the book bar.

  "What...what kind of person?" Shen Wei stared blankly in the direction the man had left, still reeling from his words and unable to react for a long time.

  That man looked good, with the temperament of a noble, but when he opened his mouth, what came out made people want to throw something at him. Is this really the true portrayal of "no one is perfect"? Shen Wei withdrew her gaze and turned to look at Qin Fei. Indeed, someone like their boss was her ideal male god - handsome, gentle in nature, and rarely got angry. His short black hair looked soft and nice to touch... In short, that man just now couldn't compare!

  Shen Wei silently solidified Qin Fei's position as her male god in her heart, then diligently helped Qin Fei pour a cup of boiling water, and pushed the cup and the cold medicine on the bar together to Qin Fei.

  "Boss, why aren't you angry? That man just said that...!" Shen Wei thought back to what had just happened and suddenly felt that her boss had been bullied, and hadn't even fought back!

  Qin Fei held his water cup with both hands, absorbing the heat from the cup wall, and said casually: "Why get angry? Just because he looks down on me?"

  Shen Wei: "Uh..."

  Qin Fei: "I don't like men anyway, it's even worse if he takes a liking to me?"

  Shen Wei was stunned for a moment before nodding in agreement: "Indeed..."

  People who can't remember are often not important, or they're just mistaken. The stranger who seemed familiar to Qin Fei was eventually dismissed as an unexpected interlude and thrown out of his mind.

  The staff of Weicheng Book Bar, apart from cashier Xiao Mei Shen Wei, also includes two waiters. The full-time one is called Xie Zhe, who is about the same age as Qin Fei and works shifts with Shen Wei during weekdays and overtime on weekends; the part-time one is called He Shidong, a freshman at a nearby university, who only comes to help out at the book bar on weekends and holidays.

  It's not the weekend, so there are fewer people coming to the book bar. After Xie Zhe took over Shen Wei's shift in the afternoon, it was basically idle time. Qin Fei is reading a book at his own exclusive seat, and Xie Zhe has nothing to do but tidy up the counter.

  The bell above the door to the book bar rang out, and Xie Zhe looked up just in time to greet him, but seeing that it was a familiar boss, he turned back to Qin Fei and said, "Boss, Officer Gu has arrived."

  Qin Fei put down the book in his hand and looked up to see that Officer Gu, who was mentioned by Xie Zhe, had already walked up to him with big strides. After sitting down, he shouted at Xie Zhe without any politeness: "Zhe, get me a cup of coffee."

  "Can't you go to a coffee shop for coffee?" Qin Fei glared at the man in police uniform sitting across from him.

  Officer Gu's name is Gu Wenkai, and he is Qin Fei's best friend. They met in the first year of junior high school, and coincidentally, they were classmates from high school to university. Until Gu Wenkai became a detective, Qin Fei was thrown into a bookstore by his elder cousin to be a small boss. Although they are still in the same city, they finally don't have to see each other every day.

  "It's more suitable to take a girl to a coffee shop, going alone is meaningless!" Gu Wenkai smiled and said, "Never mind that, I'm here to find Old Zhou. I just saw the door on the corridor upstairs was still locked, isn't Old Zhou in today?"

  Lao Zhou is one of the two partners who opened a detective agency on the floor above Qin Fei's book bar, named Zhou Jun. He was also a criminal police officer, but three years ago, he accidentally injured his leg while on duty and left his job. A year ago, he and Qin Fei's university senior, reasoning enthusiast Song Meng, opened a detective agency on the floor above the book bar. Zhou Jun often comes to Qin Fei's book bar with Song Meng, sometimes running into Gu Wenkai who came looking for him. That's how Officer Gu got to know Zhou Jun, this old predecessor. Whenever he encounters difficulties in handling cases, he often comes to consult with Zhou Jun. However, today Gu Wenkai made a wasted trip, as the agency upstairs was not even open today.

  "Lao Zhou and Song Baozi received a guest at home yesterday, saying they took on a case. Today, they're probably busy with that case." Qin Fei said, "Have you called Lao Zhou?"

  "It's over, it's shut down. Song Pengzi's phone is also unreachable." Gu Wenkai said helplessly with a spread of his hands.

  "Those two guys followed the client out yesterday and haven't come back, I guess their phones on them are probably out of battery." Xie Zhe put the brewed coffee beside Gu Wenkai, standing by and stroking his chin to speculate.

  "Most likely... " Gu Wenkai said, picking up his coffee and taking a sip, then looking at Xie Zhe with dissatisfaction, "Hey! Why is it instant?"

  "Shen Wei got off work and wanted to have a freshly ground coffee, so she went out the door and turned right, all the way to the end of the coffee shop." Xie Zhe said, pausing for a moment before continuing, "What happened to you? If it's convenient, tell me about it. Old Zhou isn't here, but there are still me and the boss, two old craftsmen!"

  "You're a stinker, Qin Xiaofei isn't, I was originally going to talk to Qin Fei about this." Gu Wenkai's expression turned serious, and he said in a deep voice, "A month ago, there was a bank robbery case in the west of the city, three people died and five were injured. This case was reported in the news, you should all be aware of it. At that time, the police did not catch the five bank robbers, but half a month ago, we received a report from the bank's person in charge, saying that he repeatedly watched the video recorded before the surveillance was destroyed at the time of the incident, and felt that one of the five robbers' behavior was very suspicious."

  "What's suspicious about it?" Xie Zhe asked.

  "That person seems to be quite familiar with the surveillance cameras, not just those in plain sight, but also those that are more hidden in dark places. He can find them very quickly, and he also seems to be very familiar with the internal layout of the bank..."

  "Are there any bank insiders involved in the crime or did they provide information?" Qin Fei said.

  "That's right! But most likely, it was an inside job by the bank's personnel. The level of familiarity is not just based on information provided by insiders, but also the speed at which all the surveillance equipment was destroyed.

  Gu Wenkai lowered his voice even further, "According to our investigation, we have already locked down a target suspect, but we haven't found any concrete evidence yet. This morning, he was involved in a car accident in this area, but based on his own account and that of the driver who collided with him, the speed of the cars and the road conditions at the time made it impossible for an accident to occur, let alone one that would cause the car's hood to flip over."

  "What happened with the car accident this morning..." Qin Fei muttered.

  "Did you see it?" Gu Wenkai asked.

  Qin Fei nodded and said: "On the way back from buying medicine, I saw that one of the car owners had a woman and a child in his car, possibly his wife and daughter."

  "The car owner you mentioned is our suspect," said Gu Wenkai, looking at Qin Fei with a puzzled expression. "But he had his wife and four-year-old son in the car, not a daughter. The other car owner was alone. Did you make a mistake?"