Chapter 523 - Any Woman Who Tries To Court Me Will Not Give Me A Good Impression (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Since Jiang Yuecheng explained the situation very clearly, Yang Shaoqun could not possibly reject the collaboration with his team any further.
In fact, it sounded rather serious.
Yang Shaoqun made a phone call during the journey and asked his subordinates to wait at the restaurant directly.
They chose to have lunch at a small restaurant that served home-cooked meals just beside the police station. As they would usually order food deliveries from this restaurant whenever they were busy, they became familiar with the restaurant’s staff members over time.
Zhang Shanfei and the rest were already waiting in the private dining room when Jiang Yuecheng and his team arrived. The private dining room was decently sized that could only fit ten people at most, so it was the perfect size for them to dine in.
Yang Shaoqun made an introduction between these two teams but mainly introduced Jiang Yuecheng and Zhao Yiyang to the team as they had already familiarized themselves with both Qi Youxuan and Wei Muran.
Feng Songwei was on the scene as well, yet she seemed calm and showed no sign of awkwardness as though the incident at the airport had never happened before. Wei Muran was actually quite impressed with Feng Songwei’s psychological endurance.
All of them then sat down around the table. After placing the orders, they started chatting for a while before the discussion of the main topic.
Jiang Yuecheng explained the situation from the very beginning while Zhao Yiyang passed the novel for them to have a look.
“I know it sounds ridiculous, but there are too many coincidences and we’re forced to believe it too. When Dong Zhengfeng—the murderer on our first case—committed suicide in the psychiatric hospital, we knew something was definitely wrong. The psychiatric hospital has stern management and takes care of the patients well, so they wouldn’t allow Dong Zhengfeng to move freely if his mental condition wasn’t under control. Dong Zhengfeng was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, so he stayed alone in the sick room with all of his limbs restrained when he was initially transferred to the hospital.”
“After that, his mental condition improved and the second personality didn’t resurface again. Only then did the doctors allow him to leave the sickroom periodically but on close monitoring. Besides, the psychiatric hospital is a special place where you won’t be able to find anything that may injure the patients or inflict self-harm, and yet Dong Zhengfeng was dead. The hospital management couldn’t even explain his death.”
“Doubt persisted in our minds but we were out of ideas, until yesterday when Muran took this novel for us to read. First of all, the first case was the exact same as how the novel described it—how the victim died and the murderer’s final moment—except that the motive was different. Besides, the murderer in the novel mentioned the existence of a psychologist as well. When we were dealing with the first case initially, we had no idea about this novel and thus failed to make further connections or even relate this case to the psychologist,” said Jiang Yuecheng.
Yang Shaoqun nodded, unsure if he was merely assuring Jiang Yuecheng. “This is normal. We won’t be able to make such relations too if we’re in your position. Besides, Dong Zhengfeng was diagnosed with a mental disease, so it’s reasonable for him to consult a psychologist.”
“We’ve finally related the case with the novel yesterday, so we rushed to the prison immediately to look for the second murderer, but he was dead the day before yesterday. Argument with inmates and died accidentally; just as the novel described. Now, about the third case, we can’t get any hint about the motive for murder from the novel but coincidentally, the first victim was found dead at the bottom of a spa in a resort.”
“Meanwhile, the second victim—” Jiang Yuecheng continued the explanation.
“—Died the exact same way as how the novel described,” Yang Shaoqun finished the sentence.
Yang Shaoqun scanned through the table of contents, eager to find the third case and searched for the second victim’s death description in haste. The blood was drained from his face after reading through the contents in the novel.
“That’s unbelievable,” said the overwhelmed Yang Shaoqun after lifting his head.
Wei Muran and the team relaxed immediately after Yang Shaoqun believed in their story.
“That was the reason why we requested to come here and asked for your assistance. We hope that we can locate the mastermind through this case,” said Jiang Yuecheng.
“No problem! Don’t regard yourselves as outsiders. Our very existence is to punish every evil force, right? There’s no discrimination here and everything will be fine as long as we can catch the bad guy!” announced Yang Shaoqun enthusiastically.
Doubt rose in Qi Youxuan’s mind again. How did Yang Shaoqun give his blood, sweat and tears to become a sergeant with his innocent but enthusiastic personality?
The sergeant and corporal in Wei Muran’s team—Jiang Yuecheng and Zhang Ming—were reputed individuals with strong family backgrounds!
The atmosphere in the private dining room became relaxed and peaceful instantly after the situation was explained clearly. Yang Shaoqun and his team were friendly and natural socializers, so they were able to chat happily with Zhao Yiyang after a while.
Jiang Yuecheng was an exception as he was a sergeant and they dared not to be too friendly with him.
Meanwhile, Qi Youxuan, who had eyes only for Wei Muran at all times, was busy transferring food into her bowl.
Although B City was more developed with fresh seafood airlifted on the same day, T City still had the freshest seafood of various choices as it was situated along the coast.