217 Mysteries Unsolved (1/2)

Pet King Jie Po 33550K 2022-07-19

Chapter 217: Mysteries Unsolved

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

”In the underground garage of this building?”

Sheng Ke and Yu Fei were stunned by this news.

After painstakingly searching for the watch-stealing thieves, as it turned out, the thieves were in this building, living right under their noses. A series of thefts happened in several office buildings in this area, so Sheng Ke had just brought Zhang Zian to this building with a faint hope of finding out the truth. Lucky for him, the case had been solved today.

But Yu Fei, who was not informed about the whole truth, was thinking about completely different things. He worried that whether it was an insider job committed by some employees in this building with their partners outside. If that was true, the impact might be severe.

Without making too much explanation, Zhang Zian led them through the emergency exit passageways and entered the underground garage. He opened the door of the storage warehouse in front of them, ”The stolen items are all here. Captain Sheng, if you have a list of all the reportedly stolen items, you can compare and see whether anything else is missing.”

Yu Fei was curious and was about to go inside, but was stopped by Sheng Ke, ”Don't spoil the scene!”

Sheng Ke looked at the warehouse, and his eyes fell on a few ordinary cats, ”Where are the suspects? Did you catch them?”

Zhang Zian was a bit nervous. He knew that was the most critical issue, and he replied with his prepared answer, ”The suspects might have gone already. When my cats brought me here, there was no one. These cats are probably trained by the suspects to steal things.”

He came up with a suggestion, ”Captain Sheng, you can have some of your people guard here. Maybe the suspects will come back again to take these stolen items.”

​​Sheng Ke was also thinking about that possibility. He stood at the door, and looked at the stolen items scattered on the ground, comparing them with the reportedly stolen items on his list. He recognized some items that had obvious features, like the missing TAG Heuer watch of Liu Miao. He was not sure about the rest of the items, so he needed to observe closely to identify them. But right now, the most important thing was to protect the scene and extract footprints and fingerprints, and that's why he stopped Yu Fei from entering the room.

Although the stolen items had been found, there were so many unsolved mysteries of this case. Where were the suspects? Did they escape in advance because they knew about the impending danger? Those watches, handbags and jewelry could be sold out very easily, so why didn't the suspects carry these items with them or sell them?

This series of cases were very unusual from the beginning. Though Sheng Ke had rich experience in handling cases, he couldn't figure out the pattern of this one.

Zhang Zian felt sorry for Sheng Ke. He secretly glanced at Sheng Ke, the leader of the criminal investigation team, who was frowning and had all kinds of expressions on his face. He knew that Sheng Ke was trying hard to figure out all the puzzles in this case. Zhang Zian was very sympathetic to Captain Sheng. This case involved an elfin, which could not be explained or thought about in common sense. If Captain Sheng insisted on applying his previous experience in this case, he would be led into wrong directions and would not be able to find out the truth.

He didn't worry about if Captain Sheng would doubt him, because he had never gone inside the warehouse. He just stood at the door for a while, so none of his fingerprints or footprints were left on the scene.

”Captain,” he said.

”Yes, Mr. Zhang. Do you have any advice?” Sheng Ke was brought back to reality from his pondering.

”In my opinion, if you have been waiting here for a few days, and the suspects never return, perhaps you could close the case.” Zhang Zian said sincerely. Sheng Ke was a very responsible police officer and even worked on weekend to solve the case. Zhang Zian felt really sorry if Captain Sheng and his team would waste their time guarding here because of what he said.

”Captain Sheng, think about that. The suspects know how to use cats to steal things, so maybe they are also using cats to detect the environment. Right now, they probably have known that we have found the scene, and if they are not idiots, they have fled far away. Even if you do guard and patrol here, you might not be able to bring them to justice.”