Overly Intense [Criminal Investigation] 120

Chapter 120: 

A two-meter bed, sleeping on one pillow. Qin Luo held her all night and didn’t let go.

The high-speed train was at seven in the morning. At six, Wang Xi had arrived at the entrance of Cloud Top and had called Qin Luo to urge her to leave, but Qin Luo had hung up on her.

It had rained last night, and the river was covered in a thin mist in the early morning. There was not much light in the room. The blanket was on Qin Luo, and their hands were entangled between their bodies.

It was time to go.

Qin Luo turned over in a daze, her hand subconsciously reaching out and just happening to touch that section of warm waistline. Her nose brushed against her, and before she could put on her glasses, her lips had already moved closer.

A light touch, like a probe.

“What time is it?”

Shen Yiyi was caught as soon as she turned over. Qin Luo wouldn’t let her kiss her on the lips, so she chose other places to kiss, traveling along her chin to her collarbone.

Her nasal voice was tinged with sleepiness. She was being kissed by Qin Luo with her neck tilted back, a warm breath in the crook of her neck, not a single drop left, and it fell into her earlobe. Shen Yiyi frowned.

The testosterone level in a woman’s body will naturally rise in the morning. A morning sexual response is very common. This is not a man’s privilege. In fact, women also have the factor of a rise in hormones before and after ovulation, so it is easy to be disturbed.

Shen Yiyi forced her uncontrollable reaction onto her sexual knowledge.

She was a normal person, and a normal person would not be able to stand it.

“…Here we go again… it’s very itchy.”

Qin Luo did not speak, just continued to kiss, rubbing against her softly, again and again. There was no urgency, no desire, until she heard Shen Yiyi’s breathing become rapid, and then she stopped.

“I’m leaving. The car keys are at the door. You can drive back.”

October in Beijing was still mild. There were no willow catkins, no sandstorms. It was a rare transition from restlessness to quiet.

The high-speed rail station was decorated with national flags everywhere, and the slogans had not yet been changed.

Wang Xi had already arranged for a driver to wait. They got in the car and drove to the hotel. There were many people on the road, and the driver was not familiar with the area. The two of them kept their mouths shut and did not discuss Xin Wuzheng’s matter.

Qin Luo asked a few questions about Logos. She had not been to the company for the past two days and did not know how Liu Jia was doing.

“Is President Liu okay?”

Wang Xi was drinking her second cup of coffee and yawned. “The pressure is quite high. Some of the businesses are watching the public opinion, and the top few live stream rooms have been suspended again.”

Qin Luo nodded and suddenly thought of Li Peipei again.

She asked, “Do you know President Shang’s assistant?”

Wang Xi knew what Qin Luo wanted to ask. “I do. Peipei’s business skills are very good, and her personality is also very nice. We’ve had a few work meals together.”

She glanced at the rearview mirror and, seeing that the driver was driving seriously, added, “I feel that she quite admires you.”

Admires her?

Qin Luo asked, “What do you mean?”

“From my contact with her, I feel that she really likes Logos’s corporate culture. Every time we finish a meeting, we’ll chat for a while, talk about work, talk about development. She’s very dedicated to Logos. I never have to rush her for any work. I don’t think it’s because of Shang Yi.”

Wang Xi remembered that she had once run into Li Peipei in the restroom and had seen her taking a picture of the sanitary pad box in the women’s restroom. She had also said that if only she had been born a few years later, she could have come to work at Logos.

Wang Xi had just thought that she was flattering her. After all, as an assistant under Shang Yi, she definitely earned more than her.

Wang Xi couldn’t imagine it. She made a throat-slitting gesture with her hand on her neck. “Could it have been her?”

“I don’t think so.” After she had finished speaking, she shook her head. “I feel that Peipei was just wronged at work. It’s not to the point of killing someone for her career.”

Qin Luo was curious. “What do you mean by being wronged at work?”

Qin Luo had been busy with her new book for the past two years. Liu Jia was in charge of all the big and small matters at Logos, and Wang Xi was also in charge of the content review. Qin Luo basically did not participate in coordination meetings and would only look at the meeting minutes every time, so she naturally did not have much contact.

Wang Xi did not want to go into it further. “I just feel that Shang Yi didn’t give Peipei much of a chance. He’s been marginalizing her all these years.”

From this point of view, Qin Luo, as a boss, had absolute trust in her.

She could attend important meetings on her behalf, and even among the many assistants at Logos, she was the only one with the right to pre-review contracts. For a period of time before she had resigned, the content operations had even created a small group for her, and the content would be passed by her first before being sent to Qin Luo.

Being trusted by the boss was the source of an assistant’s sense of achievement. Wang Xi could not see this at all in Li Peipei.

“Even President Shang would publicly scold her in the group for a small mistake, and his words were quite harsh.” Wang Xi took another sip of her coffee and waved her hand. “But if a superior and a subordinate have had an affair, it’s easy for there to be a situation of a power cut.”

Qin Luo frowned. “How do you know about her and Shang Yi?”

“Can you believe it? I ran into President Shang kissing her in the underground garage.” Wang Xi sighed. “At that time, I wanted to poke my own eyes out, but I didn’t dare to gossip with you, and I didn’t dare to ask Li Peipei.”

Qin Luo had to digest this information and did not speak for a long time.

The car arrived at the hotel entrance, and a surveillance notification popped up on her phone’s message bar.

She looked at her watch. It was already eleven in the morning. Why had Shen Yiyi only just left?

She clicked on the camera.

She saw Shen Yiyi holding a basin, wearing gloves, and holding her favorite cleaning spray, disinfecting the entryway doormat.

Was she cleaning?

Wang Xi and the driver dragged the luggage into the hotel. The driver went to find a parking space to wait, and Wang Xi went to check in. Qin Luo had nothing to do and sat in the hotel lobby, watching the surveillance, her eyes fixed on the person on the screen.

After watching for a while, she even laughed out loud.

When Wang Xi walked toward Qin Luo with the room key, the light refracted from the hotel’s glass window. Self-possession and relaxation were intertwined. Their boss’s black formal wear today was really charming. What should be exposed was exposed, and what should be covered was covered. There was a feeling of unfinished ink, of an unfinished thought.

It was just that the boss’s smile was very cheap, which was quite inconsistent with the two words “mature woman.”

Wang Xi approached. She had originally wanted to ask what Qin Luo was looking at, but her attention was suddenly drawn by a faint mark on the back of her ear.

“Sister Qin, were you scratched?”

“Huh?”

Qin Luo locked her phone screen and looked up. “What injury? Where?”

Wang Xi handed over the room key and then pointed to her own neck. “Your neck?”

“Really?” Qin Luo opened her front-facing camera and took a look. There was indeed a faint, fine mark, a narrow, light pink mark. Maybe her hair had been covering it last night, and she hadn’t noticed. “Oh, I must have been scratched.”

“Huh? Did you get into a fight again?”

Wang Xi was amazed. She had heard from President Liu’s assistant at the company yesterday that the two bosses had had a big fight in the office. Thinking of the matter of hitting someone at the entrance of the police station last time, she lamented that Director Qin’s mid-life rebellion was out of control!!

Qin Luo smiled. “A cat scratched me.”

Wang Xi was confused again. “Huh? You got a cat?”

“Yes.”

Qin Luo stood up, in a good mood, and began to talk nonsense. “Cats are not easy to raise. They’re cold and fierce.”

Wang Xi also had a cat. Looking at the wound, it didn’t look much like a cat scratch.

She followed behind her, sharing her experience. “Some cats don’t like to be cuddled. They’ll scratch people when they’re stressed. You have to trim their nails and arrange for a physical examination.”

“Alright, I’ll arrange it when I get back to Shanghai.”

Wang Xi still couldn’t believe it. Their single boss had said before that she didn’t want to serve a pet. How had she changed her mind? “What kind of cat did you get?”

Qin Luo pressed the elevator button. “You’re talking too much.”

“It’s just that my cat hasn’t been neutered yet. If you bought—”

What neutering?

Qin Luo’s face was cold. “Shh!!!!!”

—

“Shh!!”

At the corner of the eleventh floor, Lu Shimao grabbed Shen Yiyi’s arm.

She was carrying a large bag of tools and was preparing to climb to the twelfth floor.

But Shen Yiyi was too nervous. She had been analyzing with her non-stop since the first floor, and had even brought a lot of technical interference to her thinking, which made her more and more confused.

But anyone would be flustered in this situation.

Especially recently, besides the murder case, Her Kill was also causing a stir online. A pinhole camera had suddenly been found at Qin Luo’s door. She didn’t dare to think. If a camera had been placed at Xue Tong’s door, she would probably have exploded on the spot.

“Sister Shen, you should calm down first.”

She opened her bag and checked the switches of the instruments she had brought. They were all off. It shouldn’t directly interfere with the signal when she went in. Then she handed the bag to Shen Yiyi and arranged the tactics.

“Are you sure there are no surveillance cameras at home?”

Shen Yiyi whispered, “Didn’t I just come to your house after I found the first one?”

The camera had been discovered by Shen Yiyi when she was cleaning before she had left. It was in the deepest part of a narrow gap formed by the side of the shoe cabinet and the wall, hidden in the position of the sensor light, facing the door. The position was hidden, and the scanning field of view was very low.

If it weren’t for the fact that her mysophobia had made her sweep the dust even in the gaps, she would probably only have noticed it when Qin Luo had moved out and had dismantled the cabinet.

The first moment she had looked at the camera, Shen Yiyi had not even reacted. She had looked down and had wiped it a few times before she had gradually reacted.

—How could there be a flashing red light spot in the wall?

She did not dare to act rashly. Using the posture of cleaning, she had slowly stood up and had approached, and had checked from the bottom up from the side. After confirming that it was a pinhole camera, she had immediately finished her cleaning work.

How long had Qin Luo’s house been under surveillance?
Was it the killer who had done it?
Cloud Top was very unsafe.
Qin Luo was in Beijing and was going to be in trouble.

The crisis was like a landmine under her feet. Half of her foot was already on it.

She had to find someone to remove this landmine.

Shen Yiyi did not dare to talk on the phone at home, and at the same time, she did not want to call the police directly. She took her phone and went straight to Lu Shimao’s place. At her house, she had called Qin Luo.

Fortunately, Qin Luo had answered in a second, which had made Shen Yiyi relieved.

Qin Luo was a little surprised. Shen Yiyi had actually taken the initiative to call. Not only that, but she had also asked about what to eat for lunch and dinner, which hotel she was staying at, and had reminded her to be careful, not to eat anything casually, and to watch others drink before she did at a dinner party.

Qin Luo was alone in the hotel suite, so her tone was naturally cloying. But Shen Yiyi had warned her to remember her words and had even had her repeat them.

In the end, Shen Yiyi was still not at ease and had had her send a message every hour to report her safety.

My god! This was completely a post-marital life!

Qin Luo had happily agreed.

Qin Luo had still wanted to be cloying for a couple more sentences, but Shen Yiyi had ruthlessly hung up the phone.

She couldn’t say too much and let Qin Luo know, nor could she show that she was very nervous. The rash appearance of Qin Luo in the rental apartment would definitely alert the enemy. She had to find a smart person to think of a solution with her.

The Lu Shimao in front of her was the most suitable person.

Little Lu usually liked to do some small handicrafts. Repairing electrical appliances in the rental apartment was her specialty, and her graduate studies were also in the direction of digital forensics.

Lu Shimao had also been terrified when she had heard about it. To be able to install a camera in Cloud Top, the other must have a key card and be able to bypass the security, or be able to directly contact Qin Luo.

If the person who had installed the camera was a fanatical fan of Qin Luo, a simple pervert, then all they had to do was to remove it and call the police. But Sister Shen had said that she did not want to call the police. After calling the police, the local police would definitely come to the door. At that time, the commotion would be too great and would also be exposed in advance.

What they were most afraid of was that this person would be the killer of the murder case.

Assuming that it was the killer, then this person should have been watching Qin Luo for a long time. The camera could not have been placed on the first day, and he had not yet made a move on Qin Luo.

Little Lu had analyzed it for a long time and had not come to a conclusion.

In the end, she had decided to go to the door in person, to use some technological means to remove it herself, and then to trace the purchase of the equipment and the cloud service to trace it back. This way, they would have more room to handle it, and could even use the camera to guide the layout.

The two first climbed to the eleventh floor and rehearsed the specific location at the neighbor’s house downstairs. But Shen Yiyi could not distinguish the type of camera well, so she could not provide accurate information. Lu Shimao could only ask step by step in a guiding way, and in the end, both of them were confused.

“You can throw the headphones at the camera’s position in a bit.”

Lu Shimao was holding her phone in her left hand and a small spray in her right. She was hesitating about what to use for detection.

Shen Yiyi said with concern, “Are you sure you can do it?”

“It will indeed take time to confirm its network and power supply at once, but as long as we complete the steps well, it should be very fast.”

Lu Shimao handed her own headphone case to Shen Yiyi.

“Just throw it at the camera and talk to me normally.”