1PIAADITSB Chapter 53

The meeting room door was suddenly opened, and the members of the task force sitting inside stared at the doorway in confusion.

“Who’s playing a prank?” Zhou Ling frowned and asked.

Wei Zheng Rong got up, glanced at the corridor outside the door, and saw no one.

He closed the door again and then shook his head at everyone, “I didn’t see anyone, probably just the wind.”

Although he said so, he glanced almost imperceptibly at the corner behind Zeng Ping.

At this moment, the quartet was hiding here, watching the case progress projected onto the screen.

Noticing Wei Zheng Rong’s subtle gaze, Liu Xin looked at him for a second before turning to the others.

Even so, Wei Zheng Rong glanced at Liu Xin again, staring at him for several seconds before nonchalantly withdrawing his gaze.

During this time, Zeng Ping frequently looked at Wei Zheng Rong, but said nothing.

“What wind could make such a small sound? Looks like the door needs fixing,” Officer Yu said with a smile.

“We should get someone to fix it!” Wei Zheng Rong replied.

“Let’s sit down!” Zhou Ling said, and Wei Zheng Rong sat down.

“Where were we?” he asked again.

“Discussing the sacrifice of several colleagues!”

Zhao Digang frowned, “Several new bodies suddenly appeared in Three Sages Lake. The forensic doctor’s initial assessment is that they all drowned.”

“Drowned? Does that mean they’re the same as the 299 people?” Zhou Ling stared at him and asked.

Zhao Digang shook his head, “No. They were drowned elsewhere and then dumped in Three Sages Lake. In other words, the murderer who killed them wants us to think it was the 299 case’s killer.”

“Zeng Ping, you remember I said that if Liu Xin was unfortunately killed, I would expose a lie. Now, can I talk about the lie Liu Xin told me?”

Wei Zheng Rong suddenly changed the subject, staring at Zeng Ping as he asked.

“Of course!” After a moment of surprise, Zeng Ping suddenly answered with a smile.

Everyone shifted their gaze, focusing on him, waiting for his explanation.

“Where did you get to?” Zeng Ping said: “Oh, I remember. Liu Xin, because his mother was killed, went all the way to Kang County to track down the murderer. As a result, Wang Jie also ‘committed suicide’ here. Therefore, in order to connect several cases, he insisted on dragging in ghosts and gods, using the 299 case as an opportunity to connect several cases together.”

“He once called me and said that while investigating Wang Jie’s identity, he inadvertently discovered something about his biological father, Chen Feng.”

“What is it?” Wei Zheng Rong pressed.

Zeng Ping spoke slowly. Although his mental state was better than when he first arrived, he hadn’t fully recovered.

He paused, then explained, “His father, Professor Chen Feng, has been conducting some kind of experiment!”

“Experiment? What experiment?” Zhao Digang asked.

The others stared at him intently, including the investigators from the provincial office who had come with Zeng Ping.

“Communicating with the underworld!”

The moment they heard “underworld,” everyone’s faces showed varying degrees of confusion, like a bunch of question mark emojis.

“The underworld? What underworld?” Chen Guoping stared at him in astonishment and asked, “Zeng Ping, explain yourself clearly.”

The latter nodded and continued, “The so-called underworld, we don’t believe it, but in scientific terms, it’s a space in a different dimension within the same world.”

“In other words, in our world, there is another world that we can’t detect. This world is called—the underworld.”

“The underworld is the world of the dead, the ultimate destination for the deceased. Liu Xin told me that his father has been working to find the underworld, and the purpose is to find his mother’s whereabouts.”

“Are you saying—” He Wei continued his line of thought, “After the professor learned that Liu Xin’s mother, his ex-wife, was killed, he has been doing experiments, trying to open the underworld, find his mother, and then communicate with her? Communicate about what? About who killed her?”

“Correct answer!” Zeng Ping praised. “Now it seems, I suspect that Liu Xin personally came to confront Chen Feng, so he knew so much, and he insisted that his father told him all this.”

“If they hadn’t talked face-to-face in depth, he wouldn’t have told me all that with such certainty and conviction.”

“In addition to this, the professor also said that for so many years, the professor has been secretly observing him and his mother, and secretly providing them with certain material assistance.”

“If that’s the case, then what was the reason for their divorce back then?” Huang Wanlun asked naively.

“That’s what we need to find the answer to,” Zeng Ping said, smiling at her. “I also asked Liu Xin this question, and he said he didn’t know.”

Qin Yu Chen and Huang Wanlun were mainly responsible for “clerical” work. They didn’t go out on field missions or personally arrest criminals, but provided support in terms of text and technology.

Finding the “reason” naturally fell to them.

Huang Wanlun stuck out her tongue, not saying anything in response to Zeng Ping’s words.

“Presumably, he also asked the professor this question. He should not have gotten the answer he wanted.”

Zeng Ping turned his gaze to Wei Zheng Rong and said, “Team Leader Wei, how is it? Any more questions?”

“Hehe, isn’t that the question I should be asking you?” Wei Zheng Rong said expressionlessly. “So this is the so-called lie?”

Zeng Ping nodded, staring at him with an expression of “I’m all ears.”

The latter said disdainfully, “First of all, the so-called underworld is too far-fetched. Investigator Zeng, have you been reading too many novels? Even moving out the world of the dead? I now suspect whether Liu Xin ever told you these ‘lies’ you speak of. After all, the dead can’t testify, he can say whatever he wants. Moreover, I also suspect that he deliberately brought up ghosts and gods in order to connect the several cases together and make a new investigation.”

“Actually, isn’t he trying to achieve his own goals, so he’s slandering Liu Xin? After all, the dead can’t speak.”

“Secondly, I have a question that I’ve been wanting to ask Investigator Zeng from the very beginning. In your background checks, Professor Chen Feng only has one daughter, named Feng Zhizhi, and this daughter was granted to her mother, that is, this woman named Feng Qingtian.”

Zeng Ping didn’t panic, and after Wei Zheng Rong finished speaking, he even took the initiative to ask, “Team Leader Wei, are you finished?”

After noticing the other party nodded.

Zeng Ping continued his own argument, “From the report materials provided by your investigation bureau, I noticed a huge loophole.”

“From the beginning, we claimed that Feng Zhizhi was Chen Feng’s daughter, and then we said that Feng Zhizhi had been living with the professor. I didn’t say anything wrong, right? It’s written very clearly in black and white in our report materials.”

“I didn’t say anything wrong, did I? Director Zhou? Team Leader Wei?”

His gaze swept back and forth across their faces, trying to detect something, but the two remained expressionless, and Zeng Ping could only give up.

He continued, “May I ask, why would a child who was granted to the mother by the court go back to Tongjia Town every day to live with their biological father? Isn’t there a problem here? Does it make sense? Is it logically sound?”

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