Overly Intense [Criminal Investigation] 129

Chapter 129: Who Placed the Photo Frame?

“So President Liu is missing?”

Wang Xi only reacted after she had hung up the phone. Their other big boss was missing.

“She sent me a message yesterday saying she had landed.” Qin Luo took out her phone and found the chat history. In the chat box, Liu Jia had said that she had landed and had gone home. Now Sun Yuan was telling her that Liu Jia had not returned to Shanghai at all.

Wang Xi said, “Let’s call the police.”

Qin Luo was flustered. “Right, right, right. Let’s call the police first.”

“Let’s gather the information first. It’ll be faster to call the police then.” Shen Yiyi was calmer, but she did not stop her. “Logos is already at the center of the storm. It’s not good for the police to be coming in and out during work hours.”

How could she care about the impact?

Qin Luo’s hand was faster than her brain. The number had already been dialed, but she was stopped by Wang Xi.

“Yes, yes.” Wang Xi turned off Qin Luo’s screen and said cautiously, “Let’s wait for Sister Sun to come to the company and confirm the information. That way, the police can handle it faster.”

If she couldn’t call the police, then she had to keep looking. Qin Luo had the security guard get the surveillance footage of the building to see when Liu Jia had last appeared at Logos, and at the same time, she had Wang Xi find the heads of the various departments to confirm the time of Liu Jia’s disappearance.

How could she have disappeared into thin air?

Disappeared…

This word was spinning in Qin Luo’s head. She refused to believe that Liu Jia would disappear at this critical juncture. Qin Luo’s hands and feet were cold. She stood at the office door, looking at the calm Shen Yiyi, who was looking around.

Afraid.

Qin Luo thought of the dead Shang Yi, the Qi Yingjun who had been bleeding from his seven orifices in the live stream, and the tragic death of Xin Wuzheng that Wang Xi had talked about. She did not want to put Liu Jia’s disappearance on the death list, but she could not suppress her wild suspicions. Qin Luo could not think of where Liu Jia would have gone out of thin air.

Death is a boundary situation, like a thin rope around one’s neck, slowly being pulled up, making it difficult to breathe. The sense of security on her was disappearing. Even though Shen Yiyi was standing opposite her at this moment, she still felt that death was very close.

“Could something have happened to Liu Jia?”

Qin Luo couldn’t help but ask, “It’s highly likely that nothing has happened to Liu Jia, right?”

Shen Yiyi was scanning the assistant’s office and did not answer.

“The police tip-off post online said that the killer is a woman and only kills men.” Qin Luo was anxious. She now wanted a safe word to pull her out of the swamp. “Is that true?”

“It is indeed a female criminal profile, but that’s just based on the crime scene traces.”

“So is Liu Jia in danger?”

Shen Yiyi could not guarantee it to Qin Luo. “Let’s wait for Liu Jia’s assistant to come and then we’ll talk.”

The calm Shen Yiyi made Qin Luo feel surprised. Liu Jia was also one of the few friends she had had in high school. Why was she so calm when Liu Jia had disappeared? It was as if death had cut a cold and indifferent boundary line between them.

Qin Luo asked back, “Are you still talking about principles at a time like this?”

“I’m not talking about principles. It’s just that the situation is not yet clear. How can I give you an accurate answer?” Shen Yiyi was flipping through a drawer, and a mess of miscellaneous items came into view.

Hand cream, business cards, a stapler, and a few bottles of health supplements.

Shen Yiyi blinked, took out a tissue, and placed the health supplements on the table. Before she could think, Qin Luo’s anxious questioning sounded in her ear again.

“Do you have a suspect?”
“Otherwise, why did you remind me to read the script back then?” Qin Luo crossed her arms, her mentality anxious. “Did you notice something? Or is there a lead in the case? Director Shen, can you give me a hint so I can help you analyze it?”

She had even called her “Director Shen”…

Shen Yiyi held the health supplement with a tissue, unscrewed the cap, and poured out a pill, crushing it, and then sniffing it.

She said quietly, “Because the police were already watching you at that time.”

“Every case has a node that can be connected to Logos. The police are monitoring Logos’s movements.”

Shen Yiyi put the health supplement aside and happened to see a cardboard box under the table. It was a box of packed office supplies. She bent down and picked up the box. “The two cases are both poisonings, and the cause of death is similar.”

Besides Shen Yiyi, what the police did not know was that the glass cup and the rat poison left at the scene were key props in the script. Shen Yiyi could not confirm whether these two items were a symbol of the killer or had happened by chance.

Shen Yiyi was still rummaging through the box. “Shang Yi’s heart had no structural lesions, nor was it an acute poisoning injury. But the later toxicology identification proved that he had taken an overdose of a certain drug before his death. And the occurrence of this kind of death condition requires the short-term intake of a drug with a cumulative toxic effect in the context of a previous heart disease, and an indirect touch on the trigger condition, which would easily lead to death.”

It must be someone close to him.

“If he usually exercises, or is a person who pays great attention to his health, then he will definitely take supplements or health products.” Shen Yiyi pushed the Q10 from Wang Xi’s drawer in front of Qin Luo. “There are many ways to tamper with his medicine, but the range of people who can do it is very small.”

Shen Yiyi had performed the autopsy on the body. She could be one hundred percent sure that the person who had killed Shang Yi was definitely someone close to him. It was the same as the plot in Her Kill. The possibility of the assistant killing the boss was the greatest, especially since Li Peipei had a motive. But Lin Puping had called her a few days ago and had said that the chain of evidence did not match. When the interrogation time was up, the police could only let Li Peipei go.

Shen Yiyi poured out a pill from the health supplement bottle, held it in her palm, and held it up to Qin Luo.

“If someone close to you wants to kill you, it’s a very easy thing to do.”

…

Qin Luo’s back went cold. She put her hands on her hips and did not speak.

Shen Yiyi threw the pill into the trash and then rummaged through the trash. “Telling you this is what’s against the principles.”

Bang—

The office door was pushed open.

“Director Qin!!” Sun Yuan was panting, her hand on the doorframe, as if she were half-dead. “I’m here. I just called the airline on the way! President Liu didn’t board the plane.”

Didn’t board the plane?!

Qin Luo said in a deep voice, “Tell me in detail. What do you mean, she didn’t board the plane? Where did you find out?!”

Sun Yuan looked at the woman standing next to Director Qin. She had been too anxious just now and had not observed the situation well. “Director Qin, why don’t we go to your office and talk?”

Qin Luo was too lazy to introduce Shen Yiyi and said simply, “This is my girlfriend. You can just say it.”

Huh?!

The three words “girlfriend” were too shocking. Director Qin was the iron tree princess of their company. Sun Yuan had often heard some gossip when she was with Liu Jia and had also heard a little about Director Qin being a sycophant. For a moment, she was a little confused by the heavy information.

“Speak?!”

“Oh, oh.” Sun Yuan was startled. “I just called the airline to ask if President Liu’s return ticket had been booked, and I also asked about the consumption of her platinum card. President Liu usually has the habit of having a drink in the lounge, especially since her flight was in the afternoon. She’s used to having something to drink and then sleeping on the plane. The airline said that there were no new consumption points on her card.”

“… ”

Sun Yuan’s voice grew smaller and smaller. “Then I had them check, and they found that President Liu had not boarded the plane at all.”

The curse was on the tip of her tongue. Qin Luo held it back.

“When was the last time you saw her?”

Sun Yuan tried hard to remember. “After you and President Liu had a big fight, President Liu didn’t come to the company much… The last time was before you flew to Beijing. She went to the production to discuss the subsequent funding with President Li.”

“Did you take her there?”

Sun Yuan said, “It was the driver who took her there.”

Qin Luo asked, “How was her condition the last time you saw her? Did you notice anything unusual?”

Sun Yuan shook her head. “She looked very normal, but after you had a fight, she looked a little dejected.”

Liu Jia rarely showed any dejection in running Logos. Qin Luo did not dare to think about Liu Jia’s expression, let alone where she was, what would happen to her, and how she would be treated.

Qin Luo looked at Shen Yiyi. She could only think of these two words in her heart. “Save her.”

“What should we do? Hmm? Let’s call the police now.”

Shen Yiyi saw the helplessness on Qin Luo’s face. She was going through a disaster, falling into a branch of assumptions. The pain brought on by her imagination was far greater than reality, especially since Qin Luo’s empathy was too strong. The only way to calm her down now was to find Liu Jia.

“I’ll call the police.” Shen Yiyi did not want to just comfort her verbally. “You and your assistant can gather some information now. Recall the last place, time, and people Liu Jia was with. You can call the production and ask if she really went to the production, to confirm the time period.”

Doing something was more practical than just guessing here.

Qin Luo did not want to delay and immediately took out her phone to start making calls.

Seeing that Sun Yuan was also about to leave, Shen Yiyi called her and pointed to the cardboard box on the desk. “Whose things are these?”

The woman was so calm, more like a boss than their boss. Sun Yuan obediently walked over and looked through them.

“These are Little Zhan’s things.”

Shen Yiyi said, “Zhan Luo?”

“Yes.” Sun Yuan did not have to explain, but seeing Shen Yiyi frown slightly, she subconsciously explained, “Isn’t it because Little Wang is back? Zhan Luo has been transferred to the agricultural aid live stream department. He hasn’t taken his things away after he packed them.”

Shen Yiyi frowned and asked, “He’s left his things here for so long and hasn’t come to get them?”

Sun Yuan said, “He said he’s too lazy to move them.”

Shen Yiyi always felt that something was strange. She took out the photo frame she had just found from the bottom of the box and looked at it again. She took out the photo inside. It was an office group photo.

A group photo…

“Come with me.” Shen Yiyi did not have time to wipe her hands and turned to walk toward Liu Jia’s office.

Damn it. Director Qin’s girlfriend’s legs were not long, but she walked really fast.

Sun Yuan trotted behind her. Qin Luo was on the phone and saw the two of them running. She also strode after them. On the phone, Li Wenping said that she had seen Liu Jia before she had flown to Beijing, and the two had even talked in the office for a while. Li Wenping was so worried that she asked Qin Luo what had happened. Qin Luo’s breathing was unsteady as she walked, and she stammered and was perfunctory, asking whose car Liu Jia had taken when she had left. But the answer Li Wenping had given was the same as Sun Yuan’s—Liu Jia had left in her own car.

Shen Yiyi entered Qin Luo’s office first.

She walked to the desk, picked up the photo frame on the left of the file, and then walked to Liu Jia’s office. She pushed open the door and went straight to the bookshelf behind the chair. On the black bookshelf were all kinds of trophies, and in the middle was also a photo frame.

Shen Yiyi pointed to the photo frame and asked, “Was this thing originally placed here?”

Sun Yuan was stumped by the question…

Huh? Was the photo frame placed here? Huh? What was originally placed here?

“I think… no.”

Sun Yuan remembered what President Liu had said to her after the incident.

“I believe that we will still be the gold award winner at Norshaw this year. Just put it here.”

President Liu was holding a cup of coffee at that time, standing behind the boss’s chair, and pointing to the reserved empty space with confidence.

“At that time, we’ll piss off Ranmei.”

“She said she wanted to reserve it for the Norshaw gold trophy.”

Qin Luo stood at the door and hung up the phone. She looked at the photo frame in Shen Yiyi’s hand, and her heart skipped a beat.

“Right. Who placed this photo frame on my desk?”