Chapter 303 - Finding the Flaws (2/2)

“Back again, Nianzhi? Are you looking for a good thrashi+ng?” Zhao Liangze rolled up his sleeves and walked over with his best impression of an “evil s on her “oh no I’’s office, quick as lightning, and locked the door She shook a triu before it

Zhao Liangzeup

He was just teasing Gu Nianzhi, anyway

Gu Nianzhi turned and saw Huo Shaoheng seated behind his desk The bright ceiling light shone upon hi out the shadows on his handsome face He was as perfect and beautiful as a Greek statue

Huo Shaoheng’s eyes were glued to his coers flew over his keyboard as he typed confidently and quickly There was a pair of closed headphones over his ears, and he appeared to be talking to soh his reeted her without looking up from his computer screen “Sit down”

Gu Nianzhi sat in the sofa area in the ’s office

She placed her laptop on the coffee table As she did so, she made funny faces in the direction of the transparent wall in the office

But the people outside could not see her, or anything else inside the office It was a one-way ation room

Gu Nianzhi had realized this when she was outside the office, which hy she was now boldly pulling funny faces at the one-wayfinally ended his call and closed the co shadow animal puppets on the opposite ith her porcelain-white hands and the light shi+ning fros that ran excitedly about, proud giraffes, barking puppies—she was obviously enjoying herself

Huo Shaoheng got up from behind his desk and sat beside her He asked, “Have you spoken tothe shadow puppets and rubbed her hands before opening up the web page on graphene She showed it to Huo Shaoheng “I asked about that aet hoorks now”

Huo Shaoheng quickly read the contents of the web page He shook his head “I don’t think Luo Xinxue was killed because of the battery”

“But what does the ure it out “If the phone wentwhen Luo Xinxue died, that would have been six years after the laboratory accident involving Huo Guanyuan and Auntie Song”

“Well, there’s another possibility Maybe the phone was alreadybefore Luo Xinxue’s death, but no one realized it,” Huo Shaoheng pointed out “Don’t think too much about it We don’t need to knohy the murderer took the phone We only have to prove that Luo Xinxue’s killer stole it froet it now I shouldn’t get ahead of ht strategy if they focused on one simple question: where was the phone now?

…

The next day, the telecommunications company sent them the communications record for Huo Guanyuan’s private mobile number

Under normal circumstances, most telcos would turn down requests to see records fro up old records

But there was a court order, and pressure from the military on top of that The company was left with no choice; they had to hand over the records

The telco printed out the full communications record for Huo Guanyuan’s private phone It spanned over two decades

Unfortunately, the records showed that the phone had rarely been in use

Gu Nianzhi saw froistered under Huo Guanyuan’s nao beyond 10 pages The nues, but all the es proved to be irrelevant

The records cao—the day of the laboratory accident

From that day on, the phone waited in vain for its owner

The records also showed that Luo Xinxue had not used the phone—not even once—after the phone was handed over to her as part of her deceased husband’s belongings

The phone had remained silent for 6 years when Luo Xinxue met her untimely death What was so special about it, for soet their hands on it?

Gu Nianzhi spent virtually everyabout it She lost all her appetite, and spent her nights restlessly tossing and turning in bed—but she could not coze saw the agony Gu Nianzhi was going through Finally, he could stand it no longer He pulled her out fro’s office, and seated her before his own cora If we can’t get our act together by then, Bai Jinyi’s lawyerBai Jinyi off the hook, especially if they’ve found flaws in Huo Jialan’s story”

Gu Nianzhi gave a cold, mirthless chuckle “Bai Jinyi, proven innocent in Luo Xinxue’s case? Over ’s case!”