Chapter 1519: Exposure and Shadow War
Ye Fan believes that the murderer of Liu Anping must have left clues behind, they just haven’t been found yet.
Regarding the murderer’s whereabouts, it’s definitely in the surveillance; since the surveillance is intact and hasn’t been tampered with, there must still be significant value within the footage.
The murderer cannot kill out of thin air and can only use sophisticated methods.
"The alcohol and sleeping pills in Liu Anping’s system were enough to make Liu Anping completely unaware of external matters, with no sensory perception even upon death. So, here’s the question: how could Liu Anping write an impassioned and expressive suicide note under such circumstances? It’s impossible; there must be another motive?"
This question lingered in Ye Fan’s mind, but there was still no clear thread to explain it.
"The murderer doing this is undoubtedly a superfluous act, are they misleading us or hiding something?" Ye Fan considered deeply and raised the question.
"Surveillance, closely searching through it, there must be other significant clues." Once Ye Fan realized this, he focused all his energy on the surveillance footage.
Ye Fan, Zhang Lu, and Li Tong concentrated all their attention on the surveillance footage.
Originally hoping to get some useful clues from Hao Min, but since Hao Min was emotionally out of control, no clear answer could be extracted, so they could only rely on the surveillance footage.
Half an hour later, Zhang Lu made a discovery, pointing at the screen: "This woman in the red dress is very suspicious. I’ve only found footage of her leaving Liu Anping’s apartment; there’s nothing showing how she went in?"
This discovery drew everyone’s close attention.
"Could it be that the woman in the red dress was hiding in the apartment the whole time?" Li Tong pondered.
"The timing doesn’t allow for it; she must have used another method to bypass the surveillance and enter the apartment." Ye Fan asserted confidently, "The murderer only killed Liu Anping after we arrived at the apartment, which must be premeditated. That is, after Liu Anping was exposed, they decided to kill to silence him; it was a temporary decision, definitely not a long-planned murder."
After Ye Fan and the others retrieved all the surveillance footage from the institute, the hidden perpetrator only became alert.
That is to say, it was only then that the order to kill Liu Anping was given.
So, considering it this way, the murderer couldn’t have hidden in the apartment for a long time; only after the institute’s surveillance footage was taken away, the hidden perpetrator knew Liu Anping would be exposed, did the intention to kill arise suddenly.
Therefore, upon closer investigation, the woman in the red dress hadn’t been in the apartment for long.
After an anxious yet thorough search, the surveillance footage froze on a frame.
A scene of a mover carrying a refrigerator into the apartment caught everyone’s attention again.
Beside the mover, half of a red shadow flashed by.
With this, everything became clear.
The woman in the red dress took advantage of the mover carrying the refrigerator to slip by unnoticed.
"According to the time, the woman in the red dress entered the apartment two hours before Liu Anping’s incident, arriving earlier than Hao Min to Liu Anping’s room," Zhang Lu calculated the time, saying: "But if the woman in the red dress is the murderer, where did she hide when Hao Min went to find Liu Anping?"
"In a large room, hiding one person isn’t difficult." Ye Fan wasn’t concerned with this question but gave instructions: "Find all footage related to the woman in the red dress, see if you can get a clear picture to identify her."
After everyone’s busy efforts, there wasn’t much result; the woman in the red dress only had half a back view entering the apartment, and a complete back view leaving, with no clear images of her front.
"Focus the investigation on that mover, arriving at that exact time to deliver a refrigerator is too coincidental, it might be premeditated." Ye Fan instructed.
Soon, a frontal picture of the mover emerged, it was captured by surveillance when he left the apartment.
Even though the mover wore a hat to hide his forehead, when everyone saw the picture, they immediately recognized the mover.
"Wu Dayong." Li Tong gritted her teeth and said the name.
No need to further introduce Wu Dayong.
He was connected to Zhang Rui, the woman in the blue dress. The death of Li Tong’s partner Song Ziya was at the hands of these two.
Wu Dayong has always been like this, except for Zhang Rui transforming from a blue dress woman to a red dress woman named Zhao Xinyu, which means she was the woman in the red dress who entered the apartment with Wu Dayong.
Ye Fan and the others only recognized Wu Dayong and did not recognize Zhang Rui, the blue dress woman. From the surveillance, it was impossible to identify the woman in the red dress, so the murderer right under their noses slipped through their grasp.
During Ye Fan’s pursuit, Zhang Rui once escaped, based on the current subtle circumstances, it’s impossible to recognize Zhang Rui’s identity, even Ye Fan couldn’t identify her, so on the suspect list of the action team, another enemy, the woman in the red dress, was added.
None in the action team knew that Zhang Rui, the woman in the blue dress, and Zhao Xinyu, the woman in the red dress, were actually the same person.
Even the undercover code-named Field Mouse in the action team didn’t know this.
"Clearly, Liu Anping was murdered rather than a suicide, the culprits are Wu Dayong and the woman in the red dress conspiring together." Ye Fan said to the crowd: "Although we haven’t uncovered the truth of Liu Anping’s murder, we already have enough evidence proving Liu Anping’s murder as a fact."
Given this, the enemy is laid bare before everyone in the action team.
"Li Tong, take your team and follow through the movers’ company to arrest Wu Dayong." Ye Fan ordered.
"Yes." Li Tong, long unable to suppress the urge, immediately took action.
"We’ll go to Liu Anping’s room, there must be major clues we haven’t discovered yet." Ye Fan and Zhang Lu headed to Liu Anping’s room.
Time was tight, so they had to act separately.
At the same time, within the action team, Field Mouse acted again, sending Zhao Xinyu a message: Wu Dayong has been exposed, Li Tong is leading the team to arrest him.
As the mole within the action team, Field Mouse’s existence is a deadly threat, always exposing the action team’s movements; Field Mouse acts whenever there’s an important event.
"There really is a problem." Not far from the action team, Shen Yaqing and Qiu Wen exchanged knowing smiles.
As a renowned hacker in the Underworld, Shen Yaqing once worked for Sky Net, her skills are undoubtedly advanced.
Within the action team, it’s prohibited to contact the outside world during operations, just now, Shen Yaqing intercepted their external contact, proving her efforts weren’t in vain.