248: Chapter 248 Lawlessness

"Is there no trace at all of the whereabouts of these three people's bodies?"

Someone raised the question. So much time had passed that no one believed these three were still alive; perhaps only bone fragments remained.

Xiao Ping shook his head and said, "No. Another large-scale search was organized recently, but still nothing was found."

"Then there's simply no way to start on this case..."

Inside the meeting room, the police officers wore expressions of deep thought.

"This is the second case related to the target. Next is the third..."

There's more?!

All the officers were startled.

Xiao Ping clicked open the next set of case files. The case name displayed was the July 12th Falling Case.

"This case happened the year before last at the Eclipse Bar in Binhai City. After the target returned from abroad, he stayed at his company and residence. However, on the day of the incident, after leaving the company, the target did not return home as usual but instead came to the seventh floor of this bar and ordered only a glass of lemonade..."

Ordering lemonade at a bar... Seeing the young man scrolling through his phone in a booth, many people's expressions turned strange.

Xiao Ping continued, "The deceased in this case was a woman named Lia. She also came here after the target entered the bar and likewise went up to the seventh floor. There is a high probability she was tailing the target, and our subsequent findings proved this point."

The surveillance footage on the screen began to play, showing the woman named Lia sitting in a secluded spot, leisurely sipping red wine. She only occasionally glanced toward the window, her movements very natural and subtle.

"This woman's identity isn't ordinary. An intelligence worker?"

An experienced police officer said.

"Brother Li is right," Xiao Ping looked at her with admiration. "After the falling case occurred, the police found that there was a problem with this woman's identity. A deep investigation revealed that she actually came from an overseas mercenary organization."

"How did she die? Is there surveillance footage?"

"Of course, here it is."

Xiao Ping clicked on the video on the screen. Immediately, the scene on the seventh floor of the bar at that time was played.

On the screen was the scene of the seventh floor. There weren't many guests on this floor, but there were about a dozen. The young man originally at the window seat seemed to see someone of interest; he stood up and walked straight to the woman's side, even asking the waiter to bring a bottle of red wine.

After a few words of conversation, the subsequent footage showed the two of them huddled together looking at a phone—it was the phone belonging to the woman named Lia. Like a couple, their behavior and conversation were quite intimate.

"What were they looking at then?" someone asked curiously.

Xiao Ping rolled his eyes. "How would I know? Just keep watching."

Everyone turned their attention back to the recording.

In the footage, the two looked at the phone for over ten minutes. Then, the young man finished the last sip of red wine in his glass and left.

Everything up to this point was normal.

But shortly after the young man left, the woman named Lia seemed to lose her mind. Without any warning, she walked toward the railing and, without the slightest hesitation, flipped over and jumped down.

The entire movement was fluid, so fast that the surrounding guests didn't even have time to react. Only after the sound of her hitting the ground was heard did screams erupt.

The footage ended there.

A collective gasp sounded in the meeting room again. This time, even the most experienced old police officer's face became exceptionally solemn.

Xiao Ping sighed.

"That's the entire course of the case. It's very clear and straightforward. This woman named Lia jumped to her death on her own; it didn't happen by the target's hand."

Brother Li pondered, "Did you take statements from the guests on the seventh floor at the time? Ask them what happened? Did they notice anything unusual? Hear anything? These are all suspicious points that can be investigated."

"That's for certain," Xiao Ping continued, nodding.

"Unfortunately, there weren't any useful clues. After the case occurred, people were sent to summon Lin Fang, but he ignored them. Even when they went to his door, only some proxy lawyers dealt with them. Afterward, the target went abroad again."

Another person said, "Could it be hypnosis?"

"But we didn't see the target make any hypnotic movements. It's not like he could just stare her down..."

"Truly lawless, treating life like a game. This Lin Fang has no respect for the law at all!" Officer Luo breathed heavily, seemingly enraged.

"Luo Xiao, no conclusion has been reached yet. Don't go pinning crimes on him randomly,"

the Major Crimes Unit Leader said hurriedly:

"There is currently no evidence to show that Lin Fang did it. Moreover, Lin Fang is now an extremely important figure in our Binhai City and even the entire Central Continent. The higher-ups' intention for this emergency meeting is mainly to comb through everything and see if there are any suspicious points."

These words made one person speak up in surprise, "Leader, do the higher-ups want to take action against him?"

Good grief, that would be a massive move. The middle-aged man's hand holding a cigarette trembled, nearly letting it fall to the floor.

The Leader frowned and shouted sternly with his eyes.

"Mind the discipline! Don't talk nonsense!"

After the conversation among Xiao Ping and the others in front of the screen died down slightly, he continued, "Next is the fourth case, which is also the one with the highest number of deaths..."

Another one?

The dozen or so police officers in the meeting room felt their throats go dry and couldn't help but swallow hard.

Xiao Ping clicked on the files. "But this case didn't happen in Coastal Sea; it was in Tiangang City, on the same day as the July 12th Falling Case."

On the screen was the wreckage of a car and five corpses in various states.

"This case in Tiangang City was a case of violent infighting and theft by an overseas gang. According to the Tiangang City police report, this group of mercenaries had five members. They infiltrated from the east, stole the core pharmaceutical data of the Third-Party Technology industrial park, and fled via the Ring Road. However, shortly after leaving, they encountered another group of unknown strength and a firefight broke out. According to the informant, the situation was extremely intense at the time..."

After Xiao Ping finished describing the case, he looked at everyone and said, "The result was that these five well-equipped, well-trained mercenaries all died here. The other group vanished without a trace, and there has never been a result."

"Analyzing it again now, it's certain that Lia was with these five people. Her target was to monitor or assassinate Lin Fang. This is also the last case; no more cases related to the target occurred after this."

Xiao Ping said with a sense of relief. At the same time, he felt a deep chill toward this young man who, in just a few years, had grown from a youth whose father went bankrupt and who was himself shrouded in suspicion into a super-wealthy tycoon whom they all found difficult and unpredictable.

Would such a person behave? Xiao Ping didn't believe it himself. The most likely possibility was that he no longer needed to take action personally.