Overly Intense [Criminal Investigation] 128

Chapter 128: Where’s the Person? Disappeared?

“A recording pen?”

Qin Luo hadn’t expected Liu Jia’s defensive mentality to be so strong that she would even use a recording pen.

She recognized the voice in the recording pen.

The man who was speaking was in charge of the team of scholars at Logos. Qin Luo remembered that Liu Jia had complained about the reading group before. She must have been under pressure in her decision-making. But Qin Luo was not clear about the personnel changes in the conversation. Who was Liu Jia going to fire?

It was all about handling company matters. Shen Yiyi did not hear anything unusual in the conversation.

She pressed it a couple more times.

The next recording began to play. This time, it was a discussion with the public relations Olivia about the Logos statement, and the process of publishing the revelation post.

…

The conversation was playing in the office. Qin Luo’s heart ached as she listened.

Even though she had already accepted Liu Jia’s public relations methods, listening to it again still made her feel that Liu Jia was cruel, ruthlessly pushing her out to take the fall for Logos. She still couldn’t digest this betrayal.

Even Shen Yiyi didn’t want to play the whole thing. She skipped to the next section halfway through. It wasn’t until Liang Wei’s voice sounded that Qin Luo looked up and her eyes narrowed.

The Liu Jia in the recording sounded very dejected. “Help Logos. You can set the conditions, or I can exchange the shares of the live stream company with you afterward.”

“I can help you, but the condition is that the IP promotion service for Her Kill has to be from me…”

Shen Yiyi pressed the pause button. She frowned and looked at Qin Luo.

“Who is this?”

Qin Luo said frankly, “Liang Wei.”

Shen Yiyi asked, “Is Liu Jia going to help Liang Wei launder money?”

“… ”

Qin Luo knew that she couldn’t hide it anymore and told Shen Yiyi about the deal between Liu Jia and Liang Wei.

Shen Yiyi was silent after she had heard it.

She understood Qin Luo’s practice of concealing the deal between Liu Jia and Liang Wei. Whether it was as a friend or a partner, Qin Luo would never send Liu Jia to the police station. But instead of saying that Qin Luo had passively accepted all this, it was better to say that Qin Luo was no longer suitable to be the boss of Logos. Shen Yiyi couldn’t comment, so she pressed the recording pen in her hand and played the next two sections.

There were many recordings, and they were very fragmented. Everything was recorded. It all sounded like Logos’s business decisions, with no particularly confidential topics, and no focus on a particular person or matter. Qin Luo also found it very strange after she had listened to it. Why had Liu Jia even recorded her conversation with Olivia about Ranmei?

Shen Yiyi did not find any effective information. She put down the recording pen, flipped through the documents on the desk, and compared the signing dates one by one.

As she was flipping, she asked, “Why is the front desk of Logos the same as the front desk of your reading group?”

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Shen Yiyi even knew this?

“Yes, the reading group project is going to be suspended. It’s a normal personnel change.” Qin Luo was puzzled. “How do you know about this?”

Shen Yiyi had finished scanning the desk and looked up at Qin Luo’s eyes.

“I’ve seen her at the reading group.”

“You remembered her after just one meeting?” Qin Luo didn’t believe it. She felt that it wasn’t that Shen Yiyi had a good memory, but that she just liked to look at beautiful women. “Our front desk is indeed very good-looking. She’s a great beauty.”

Shen Yiyi was too lazy to reply. She didn’t find anything unusual in the documents and arranged them neatly for her. “Let’s go and take a look at your office.”

Wang Xi was still on the phone with Little Sun. Shen Yiyi observed her a few more times as she passed by, and then followed Qin Luo to her office.

The work atmosphere at Logos could be said to be very free. More than half of the people had only arrived after ten. Those who were already at their desks were wearing headphones, drinking coffee, and flipping through magazines on their phones. Qin Luo would even wave and say hello when she passed by.

Qin Luo helped Shen Yiyi push open the door. Compared to the smell of smoke in Liu Jia’s room, Qin Luo’s office had a faint scent of jasmine.

Shen Yiyi scanned the room. It turned out that the jasmine flowers by the floor-to-ceiling window had bloomed.

“Can I look at your desk?” Shen Yiyi was afraid of overstepping her bounds. Not everyone could accept being scrutinized. “I won’t touch anything.”

Qin Luo waved her hand generously. “As you wish.”

First, she looked at the documents on the desk. The content was stagnant from before the Logos incident. There were also some gaps in the meeting minutes. In contrast, the documents on Liu Jia’s desk were in order, and the documents from the same department were even classified by progress with sticky notes.

“Did Wang Xi organize all this for you?”

Qin Luo walked to the desk and flipped through them casually. “Most of them were organized by Wang Xi. After she resigned, I organized them myself. Usually, the processed documents are shredded and handled on a weekly basis.”

But Qin Luo had not been to Logos much recently, so they could only be piled up here.

“The reading group.” Shen Yiyi spread out the few documents on top. She counted them. There were five. “The reading group’s artist liaison, the reading group’s Q3 team-building activity plan… Isn’t the reading group going to be completely wrapped up after it’s broadcast in a few days?”

“Hmm? There’s still a team-building activity?” Qin Luo had not even heard of this team-building activity. She walked over and flipped through the documents. It seemed that the Logos content department’s team-building had also pulled in the reading group.

Shen Yiyi closed the file. “Call Wang Xi in.”

Qin Luo obediently made a voice call to Wang Xi. Two minutes later, Wang Xi came into the office with a tea tray. “Director Qin, Sister Sun still hasn’t returned my call.”

Shen Yiyi opened her mouth. “Were you at the company before you went to Beijing?”

Wang Xi looked at Qin Luo, not knowing if she should answer. She saw Qin Luo say, “Just say what you know.”

She thought back carefully. “I went back to Logos twice after the production incident, but Director Qin’s current affairs…” Wang Xi felt that it was not good to reveal her itinerary. She hesitated and looked at her love-struck boss again. “This… can I say it, boss?”

Qin Luo said, “Say it.”

“I’ve also just come back to work. I’ve been to Logos a few times to coordinate work with Zhan Luo. Later, I’ve been running to the production to coordinate matters there.” Wang Xi said bluntly, “I went back once after the production incident, and I was also at the company yesterday.”

Shen Yiyi grasped the main point. “You were at the scene when the production incident happened.”

Wang Xi nodded. “I was.”

“What happened at that time? Tell me again.” Shen Yiyi took out her phone and opened her notepad. “Did you see the victim?”

The boss’s girlfriend’s solemn aura and her somewhat overly official wording.

Wang Xi’s memory of giving a statement at the police station was still vivid, and it made her a little stressed. “I glanced at him from a distance, but the scene was controlled very quickly, and I didn’t see him very clearly.”

Shen Yiyi changed the subject. “Why were you nearby at that time?”

“Because there was a small conflict in the production the day before. Director Qin had a fight with someone at the police station—”

Qin Luo interrupted her. “There was no fight.”

Wang Xi quickly corrected herself. “Ah, right, right. Director Qin just had a small friction with the production staff. Director Qin was afraid that the production staff’s mentality would be affected, so she asked me to confirm the situation with the production team and to visit them on the way.”

A fight? A friction?

Shen Yiyi turned around, her brow furrowed. “Did you get into a fight?”

Qin Luo smiled guiltily. “It wasn’t a fight.”

It really wasn’t a fight. It was just hitting someone.

But Wang Xi did not dare to reply and silently changed the subject. “But I saw Lawyer Xin at the production the day before the incident. But at that time, he was not in the studio. He was smoking in the parking lot, and he looked like he was waiting for someone.”

Shen Yiyi asked again, “Do you still remember the scene?”

Wang Xi said with a stiff upper lip, “I’ve tried so hard to forget. Now that you’ve asked, I have to remember.”

“He was lying on the ground, and there was blood everywhere in the power distribution room. Oh right, there was also blood on the wall.” But Wang Xi added, “But that day, when we came out of the police station, I heard the props department and the producer gossiping. They said that they were missing a lot of blood plasma bags. They thought that the bloodstains on the wall looked a bit like prop blood plasma—too bright red, too fake, and not sticky.”

Shen Yiyi asked specifically, “Were his clothes on?”

“They were.” Wang Xi tried hard to remember.

Because of the renovation in the studio, the power distribution room was under construction. There were many electrical tracks and wiring scattered on the ground, which made the room look small and crowded. And there was no air conditioning in the power distribution room. The air in the studio was not circulating, which caused the blood that had been sitting there all night to have a scorching, fishy smell. You couldn’t smell it if you didn’t get close, but if you did, it was pungent.

Wang Xi couldn’t help but shiver. “I remember that his black suit was stained with blood, and you couldn’t even tell the color of his tie. His eyes were wide open, and he looked like he had died with a grievance.”

Ugh, Wang Xi felt like she was going to vomit just thinking about it.

“Was the blood on the wall a large area, or was it spattered?” Shen Yiyi, afraid that Wang Xi couldn’t describe it clearly, specially took out a blood spatter diagram from her phone’s photo album. “Find the one that looks the most similar among these four pictures.”

My god, why are there all kinds of bloodstain patterns in Director Qin’s girlfriend’s photo album?

The more Wang Xi looked, the more disgusted she became. She casually pointed. “This one.”

Shen Yiyi asked Qin Luo again, “Do you know what the wall is like? Is it a waterproof wall?”

Qin Luo shook her head. She had never been to the power distribution room.

“It’s just a white wall.” Wang Xi said with certainty, “Because it’s a white wall, everyone was attracted by the bloodstains on the wall, and the props department looked at it so carefully.”

Shen Yiyi stared at Wang Xi and chose the third type of bloodstain, a large area of wiped bloodstains. If Wang Xi’s memory was not wrong, then it could be confirmed that it had been splashed on later.

“Did you organize the documents on Qin Luo’s desk?”

Wang Xi nodded. “Yes, I have a habit of helping her organize her desk and make coffee first thing in the morning.”

Shen Yiyi frowned slightly. “Is it convenient for me to go and take a look at your assistant’s office?”

How could Wang Xi refuse the boss’s wife’s routine inspection? This Logos was her family’s. What was wrong with looking at a desk? “Of course you can.”

The three of them stood up and walked next door. Shen Yiyi was asking Wang Xi about what had happened at the production that day, but just as she was halfway through, Wang Xi’s phone rang.

Wang Xi looked at her phone. It was a WeChat call from Liu Jia’s assistant.

“It’s Little Sun.”

“Answer the phone. Put it on speaker.” Qin Luo stopped and requested, “Ask her where Liu Jia is.”

Seeing that Qin Luo’s anxiety was spreading again, Wang Xi immediately answered the phone.

“What happened?” The other was clearly just waking up and asked cautiously, “I saw that Director Qin also called several times. It’s so scary to see so many calls in the morning.”

Wang Xi glanced at the dark-faced Qin Luo. “Where’s President Liu? We can’t find her. Have you contacted her?”

The other end of the line said, “I contacted her last night. She said she’s in Xiamen and won’t be back for a while. The company’s affairs will be handled when she gets back.”

Qin Luo was shocked. “She called you and said she’s not coming back for a while?”

Sun Yuan had not expected Qin Luo to be beside her and was so scared she jumped. “Director Qin… you’re also here… I’m so sorry I didn’t answer your call this morning. I stayed up a little late last night and just woke up.”

“Get to the point.” Qin Luo said in a deep voice, “Did she call you?”

“No, she sent me a WeChat message.” Sun Yuan heard that Qin Luo’s tone was too serious and was also a little confused. “She also said that we’ve been working too hard these two weeks and haven’t had a break, so she specially gave me two days off.”

…

A chill ran down Qin Luo’s spine. She looked at Shen Yiyi in a panic and ordered the assistant on the phone,

“Come back to the company! Immediately!”