Stuck in a Chinese novel

Chapter 246: Crime scene

"How did you know it would be here?" Li Wei asked Wei Jun as they walked through Yi Rang's pharmaceutical building at night. Wei Jun had just returned from killing Yi Rand and her security team. Getting rid of the building security was much easier.

They made their way to Yi Rang's office and turned on her computer. After this, Li Wei connected a scanner and connected the computer to Yi Rang's account overseas.

"She can't go outside the country every time she needs access. Otherwise, there would have been a lot of logs indicating her travel. There was nothing." Wei Jun said calmly as Li Wei completed the connection to the account.

"The only other method left is the verification method. A connection to the virtual account of the overseas bank would allow her to deposit or withdraw with a simple verification." Wei Jun said.

Li Wei stopped at that. She turned to Wei Jun and asked, "Then wouldn't we require her to make the connection?"

"It's not a live verification. A simple fingerprint and retinal scan would suffice," Wei Jun said.

"Wow. How do you know that even when I was the one who hacked into her accounts?" Li Wei had totally missed that which surprised her more how Wei Jun knew of Yi Rang's moves.

"You think like a hacker. I think like a businessman." Wei Jun replied as the connection was completed. He stepped forward and turned to Li Wei, "Turn around."

"And bend over?" Li Wei hurriedly asked.

"Turn around if you don't want to have nightmares for weeks." Wei Jun replied without getting flustered.

His bland reaction depressed Li Wei who turned around. Wei Jun pulled Yi Rang's headless body out of the inventory and placed her hands on the scanner.

Once they were scanned, the retinal scan was next. Wei Jun did so by pulling her eyes from the inventory next. Once he was done and he was inside the account, Wei Jun stored the body parts in the inventory and said, "Now get to work."

Li Wei turned around, trying to pick up what Wei Jun did but not seeing anything out of the ordinary, she simply got to work and did what she was there for.

She transferred all the black funds to several accounts, beginning a circulation process, and transferring them through thousands of accounts.

"The process would take about twelve hours. After that, the money would be transferred and all our traces would be gone." Li Wei informed.

"Does the team know?" Wei Jun asked.

"Yes, they were the ones who created those accounts." Li Wei replied.

"Then we should make sure those accounts belong to dead people." Wei Jun said and left. Li Wei knew what that meant but she didn't do anything about it.

Wei Jun was harsh and to the point. He only kept some people close while the rest were expendables. She wasn't lucky enough to be important while the rest of the intelligence team wasn't.

Their fates were set in fate since day one.

"Make sure they're not hiding anything to connect them to you." Wei Jun said before he and Li Wei left the building. He knew how careful these hackers could be. No doubt even Li Wei would have some evidence against Wei Jun to use against him if he were to ever threaten her.

"I will see to it." Li Wei replied without any hesitation.

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"That's… new." Zhao Hui couldn't help but admit that even he, who had seen many crime scenes, some of them very bizarre, none of them were as ruthless as this one.

"What do you think he decorated the head for?" A detective asked.

"Maybe he was trying to send a message." The M.E speculated. Zhao Hui, however, disagreed. There was no hidden message in there. It was simple ruthlessness.

"The killer had no mercy for her." Zhao Hui said as he looked into the hollowed eyes of the head.

"Do we know who she is?" Zhao Hui asked.

"Yi Rang." The detective replied.

"You mean the director of the big-shot pharmaceutical company?" Zhao Hui asked.

"Yes, sir," The detective replied before he gave an overview of the situation, "We don't know what she was doing here and those look like the only ones who would know. Unfortunately, with them dead, we can't do that either. Whatever it was, it was sketchy and private."

He then pointed at a location and said, "She was killed over there. There's blood on the ground that is suspected to be hers and the cause of it is her… face." Even the detective couldn't find the right words.

"Then, the killer stepped on her neck and separated both parts with just his foot." The M.E added.

"He was a cultivator?" Zhao Hui asked.

"No idea." The detective replied.

"He definitely was." Zhao Hui heard a voice, a female's voice and as he turned around, he saw a woman along with a few men making her way to him.

Her tall figure, coupled with her black hair, black eyes, and snow-white skin attracted everyone on the scene. It was as if she was the reincarnation of the word beautiful itself.

"What's the CSF doing here?" Zhao Hui asked, barely able to deny how beautiful she was.

"Because this is a cultivator murder." The girl replied before she added, "Hence why we're here."

"How do you know it is one?" The infatuated detective asked, trying to be smart but it didn't work for him. In fact, it did the opposite as she replied, "Are you an idiot? Do you know anyone who can kill this many cultivators?"

"Ahem." The detective coughed, embarrassed by that.

Zhao Hui looked at her and asked, "Even then, it was a civilian who was murdered. I have all the right to be involved."

"Cultivators harming civilians is why we exist, Sergeant." The girl replied.

"Very well," Zhao Hui said before he added, "But I still cannot just hand it over to you guys without proper orders."

"Oh, we have that." One of the handsome men beside the girl said and handed Zhao Hui a paper.

Zhao Hui read it and said, "All right. We're clearing the scene."

The police didn't think for a second and started complying with the order when the girl said, "We're going to need your support."

"That's a no. It's not my first time dealing with the CSF and any screw-ups during your cases are my screw-ups. I'm not gonna let that happen. I was told to hand over the scene to you, not be your puppy." Zhao Hui replied, his tone wasn't respectful at all.

There was a reason there was bad blood between the police and the CSF. Whenever they worked on a case jointly, the CSF was the one to take all the credit and the police were the ones who were blamed for the mistakes. They were treated as nothing but slaves, doing the scut work while the CSF took the lead on everything.

"You don't understand; we don't have the manpower to handle this case." The girl said, a little frown on her face.

"I know. That's why I said no." Zhao Hui said.

"Don't you want to find the killer of this woman?" One of the men beside the girl said.

"When were you born? Are you really trying to use guilt against me?" Zhao Hui wasn't one to lose an argument.

Seeing their attempts fail, the man who handed Zhao Hui the order papers said, "The CSF will hear about this."

"And they can bend me on one knee and spank me. I'm still not letting my workforce be abused." Zhao Hui replied.

"We know how the CSF officers treat you and we're not like that. We promise you credit will be given where it is due." The girl said, her intentions pure to anyone.

"Like I haven't heard that one before." Unfortunately, that didn't work. Zhao Hui had learned from his experience. There was a reason he hated CSF even when his own brother was in it and had offered him a pretty high position many times.

"No matter how sincere you are, the one sitting on the top would never let go of their glory. Not to mortals like us especially." Zhao Hui said before he yelled to his workforce, "Why isn't it clear yet?"

"We're almost done, sergeant." One of the medical officers replied.

"Good. Make sure to hand over all the files." Zhao Hui said before he turned to the girl and said, "You can try your luck with some other precinct. I'm sure they would love to have you."

"That was… something." Once the police cleared the scene, one of the men said.

"That's on the CSF itself. They do abuse the local police." The girl replied, not taking her own organization's side.

She then turned to the head of the car and said, "Forget about that. Focus on this. This brutality wasn't something amateur. Whoever we're looking for is well familiar with killing."

She then turned to the man next to her and said, "Reach down to the police department. Have them pull out all cases with this manner of brutality. Take all the files, that's our first lead. And someone search this woman's apartment and office. We need more detail about what went on here."

"Yes, captain." The men said and all of them got to their work while the girl turned to look at the head and said, "I will find whoever did this to you. Justice will be delivered."