Chapter 97: Locking Down the Real Culprit

They hadn’t wasted a moment of that time, heading down to the underground garage. Everything appeared normal, just rows of parked cars, all empty.

Finally, after Team Leader Shen let loose a string of curses, Logistics delivered the building blueprints. A full hour had already passed.

The blueprints showed the building’s sewer lines ran along the northeast corner.

Knowing the direction was one thing, pinpointing the exact spot was another hurdle.

The head of the operation, whose round face had lost its smile long ago, kept saying he needed to ask Lao Zhang, or that they might have opened something like that last year, always with the caveat that it was “just for reference.”

Time was slipping away, and the unknown risks were dancing on their nerve endings.

The three of them were starting to feel a bit lost in the garage…

They knew the killer spider had to be somewhere beneath the garage, yet they couldn’t find it…

Suddenly, Lin Xiaosu’s eyes lit up.

"What did you find?" Chang Ye was constantly watching him. She knew that this situation was not her strong suit, so she could only place her hope in him.

Lin Xiaosu strode towards a particular parking space.

A car was parked there, a Feidu.

No one was inside.

Lin Xiaosu peered inside through the car window.

His heart gave a subtle jump…

Because a scene he’d caught almost subconsciously had taken him by surprise.

The car had come in this afternoon.

The driver hadn’t left since.

Now, looking closely, he could see that no one was actually in the car.

The driver had vanished into thin air!

Using Reverse time and space, he’d learned that the man inside had pressed a button. The car’s undercarriage had shifted, and the floor beneath had opened. The man had slipped inside a secret basement, as quiet as a whisper.

After he went in, the floor above returned to its original state, and the car seats were back in place, too.

Not only was the underground garage silent, which meant few people would be around, even if someone were standing right next to the car, they wouldn’t be able to see anything.

At this moment, the car was parked in the space, blocking any hint of the secret beneath the floor.

What an ingenious method of concealment.

Even if there were security cameras, they wouldn’t reveal anything.

Lin Xiaosu crouched down, his eyes fixed on the car’s underside.

Shen Yinchuan also crouched, peering from another angle. Their eyes met beneath the car, and Shen Yinchuan wore a look of pure question…

Lin Xiaosu stood up, his hand extended! He shoved the car out of the parking space with brute force.

Chang Ye approached, stepping onto the now-exposed parking space. "What is it?"

Lin Xiaosu brought his hand down, knocking on the floor. The sound resonated, and Chang Ye’s face changed. "Something beneath?"

"Yes! This… this should be the secret entrance!"

Shen Yinchuan was immediately energized. "Let me!"

"No need," Chang Ye said.

She moved her hand, and a Dragon Scale appeared in it. Chih! Four blade marks, forming a square, appeared on the thick steel plate.

She stomped down, and Boom! A hole appeared in the center of the steel plate, dimly revealing a light below. But in an instant, the light went out…

The three of them were shocked.

Light below, and quickly extinguished. What did that mean? Someone was down there!

Shen Yinchuan was the first to jump down.

Chang Ye was the second, Lin Xiaosu last…

Ahead was a passage, shrouded in darkness.

But darkness was no barrier to them.

Shen Yinchuan, a Criminal Investigation Team Leader, was known throughout Jiangcheng for his Night Eyes. Even in complete darkness, he could see.

Lin Xiaosu’s Eye of Heavenly Dao was even more effective.

Chang Ye, who lacked night vision, had the Dragon Eyes.

The passage led to a door. The door slammed open, and suddenly, the light in front of them dimmed as a giant spider loomed. Its sharp claws, a death sentence from hell…

Shen Yinchuan stretched out his hand, grabbing the claw as it lunged. Boom!

He slammed the spider onto the floor.

Two alien spiders appeared from the left and right.

Lin Xiaosu and Chang Ye attacked simultaneously, one on the left, one on the right.

Lin Xiaosu’s fist and a claw met, his strike perfectly connecting with the spider’s body. That attack completely destroyed the spider’s internal organs. The spider staggered a few steps, then collapsed, its legs shuddering in a death tremble…

Chang Ye’s Dragon Scale pierced the spider’s body, followed by a wisp of pale yellow mist. The spider fell. Although spiders were masters of poison, and naturally immune, Chang Ye’s blade, followed by injected venom, ended its fight.

Ahead were four huge steel cages.

Three were empty. In front of the last, a middle-aged man stared at them, as if he’d seen a ghost…

His hand was already on the button to open the cage, but he didn’t seem to have the strength to press it…

Because, in this secret basement, the police had arrived. And these were the kind of police who could single-handedly kill mutated spiders…

Hidden Dragon!

The person arriving had to be Hidden Dragon!

It was over!

Kach!

The joints of his hands were dislocated at the same time.

Although he was a genetically modified human himself, under Shen Yinchuan’s hand, he was still subdued with the tendon splitting hand, and his fighting ability was forcibly eliminated.

Lin Xiaosu stepped in front of him.

With the Dragon Eye Search, this man’s information was already revealed…

He was He Yunfei, from the ChangSheng Group’s Second Research Department…

The Second Research Department was headed by Huang Chengwang.

The First Department was led by Ding Lizhong, the Second by Huang Chengwang.

Chang Ye’s Dragon Eyes glowed slightly, and she activated strong signal shielding.

No one knew whether He Yunfei had a chip in his brain, but with such a key suspect, she had to activate the shielding at once, to prevent remote control of the man from behind the scenes.

The situation was critical, so the usual procedures didn’t matter. It was time for a field trial.

He Yunfei had already collapsed…

After maintaining his composure for more than ten seconds, he was sweating profusely and began to confess…

He was behind the assassination planned for tonight.

The spider he identified, when tested by Chang Ye, had residual human tissue on its claws, and if it matched Zhou Yibo’s gene, the case was ironclad.

Why did they choose Zhou Yibo? That was a great knowledge, too…

The most crucial question came next: Who was the man behind it? He Yunfei finally gave a name that Lin Xiaosu had already expected: Huang Chengwang! He Yunfei’s immediate boss!

This building itself was the office building of the Second Research Department, and Huang Chengwang was its actual controller.

The three of them left the basement. The support troops were already there, more than twenty police officers waiting outside.

With a command from Shen Yinchuan, the officers took their places, taking the suspect, searching for evidence, and sealing off the scene…

Shen Yinchuan, along with Chang Ye and Lin Xiaosu, rushed to another place…

To capture Huang Chengwang! But, when they arrived at Huang Chengwang’s villa, his wife was frightened: "My husband is out of town, you…"

“Out of town? Where did he go?”

"I really don’t know. My husband has been traveling far and wide these years, and never told me where he was going. Officer, has… has something happened to him?"

Chang Ye’s Dragon Eyes searched, and she soon found the information. Huang Chengwang had booked a flight to Fusang Country at noon. The plane’s takeoff time was 9:45 p.m., two hours after the spider murder.

He left home at nine o’clock sharp.

It was precisely when Lin Xiaosu and the others arrived at the ChangSheng Group factory, requesting blueprints of the building’s structure.

It was now 10:30 p.m.

Huang Chengwang had already boarded, and the plane had already landed at the Fusang Country airport.

Chasing and blocking were already impossible.

These time points landed in Lin Xiaosu’s ears, and all the chains fit perfectly.

Huang Chengwang was behind this matter.

This morning, before lunch, Ding Lizhong acted out a scene in the study, saying he would visit Master Huikong at Chuyuan Temple that night. He had indeed overheard this “secret” and decided to act tonight.

But this person was extremely cautious. After making this decision, he immediately bought a ticket for that night.

To prevent exposure, so he could escape.

As expected, after the murder, the police quickly locked down the building. The unusual target of "finding the sewer exit" pointed to Huang Chengwang’s complete despair.

He knew that things had been exposed, and the worst-case scenario had arrived.

So, he exploited a time difference, escaping before the police could follow the chain and catch him.

Each senior executive of ChangSheng Group had seven or eight passports. He was familiar with the road to Fusang Country. Fusang Country happened to have a deep historical antagonism with the Great Xia Republic, a long-term antagonism. Once he entered Fusang Country, it would be extremely difficult for the Hidden Dragon to find him and arrest him.

"Xiao Su, you should go back first!" Chang Ye exhaled heavily.

"Alright!"

The remaining matters were for the police department, and it wouldn’t be convenient for Lin Xiaosu to get involved.

Shen Yinchuan shook hands with Lin Xiaosu tightly: "Thank you for today!"

A police car was arranged to take Lin Xiaosu back to the South Lake Villa Area.

Although it was late, the three people sitting in the villa’s hall couldn’t feel a moment of sleepiness.

They were all very excited.

After the murder, the Ding family and the small car were taken away by the police. The atmosphere was initially very tense, and the police completely considered them as suspects. But half an hour before, one of the policemen received a call, and after returning, he was very polite to them, and directly let them go home.

Asked what happened?

The police did not answer directly, just said that everything was fine.

Everything was fine! These three words caused Ding Lizhong’s heart, which had not been pounding for half his life, to pound violently for half an hour…

Could it be that this sudden son-in-law was really that amazing?

Did he really guess the beginning and smoothly connect the end? Did he really solve the case through mysterious detective skills, breaking the poison scheme that the other party had customized for him today? All these things, they probably had to wait for Lin Xiaosu himself to give an answer.

In the hall, the tea had been brewed, and Ding’s mother also knew about this matter. She was shocked and her face changed: "Ruoshui, he is actually a detective?"

"Yes, he opened a detective agency in Feng City. I met him in the library when I went to Feng City last time."

"You’re with him, isn’t it just to ask him for help?" Ding’s mother frowned.

"It really wasn’t at first, I just thought that his calmness reading by the window in the bustling city was quite touching. This time, it was a sudden idea to ask him to solve my family’s case. So I asked him to come over."

Ding’s mother exhaled long: "You can’t just use people and then dump them. We people of the Ding family have to be conscientious."

Ding Ruoshui stared blankly at her mother: "Mom, my brother has ten girlfriends a year, and I don’t seem to hear you advising him to be conscientious…"

Ding’s mother glared at her: "Those women he associates with, which one is not for my money? What kind of conscience do you talk about with them? Just give them money!"

"Maybe… maybe Xiao Su is also after my money?" Ding Ruoshui said. God is my witness, this is the truth…

"How is that possible? Xiao Su doesn’t look like that, he is poor, but…"

Her voice stopped abruptly, because a police car was racing towards them…

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