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Chapter 47 Press Conference
In the early morning, Xiaoman helped Luo Fei go down the stairs in a stiff posture.

Luo Fei's whole body was stiff, supporting Xiaoman with one hand and grabbing the handrail of the stairs with the other, grinning and taking small steps, "Take it easy!"

"I'm sorry." Xiaoman hurriedly withdrew her strength, and then sighed and complained, "Who told you to punch so hard, your wrist was bruised, and your ankle was sprained. Fortunately, I learned massage and reset from a classmate from a family of Chinese medicine in the police academy."

"Didn't you tell me to use force?! Besides, the crux of the problem is, what are you hiding from a target? Just hide, why didn't you tell me that there is a bookshelf behind you? And put such a heavy sandbag on the bookshelf? Is it because you are afraid of being hit?" Won't you kill me?" Luo Fei complained confidently.

Just at this moment, the two looked up and saw Wang Susu leading Da Wang back.

"Oh! You two got up so early, hey, I said Luo Fei, young people can't depend on their health, that's all." Wang Susu looked at Luo Fei, then at Xiaoman, and laughed He came out, turned and walked into the room.

"Yeah... Sister Wang?." Xiaoman looked at Wang Susu's strange expression, and suddenly felt a little baffled.

Luo Fei was also stunned at the moment: "What is she laughing at?"

Xiaoman shook her head, then hurriedly pulled Luo Fei and walked out the door: "Hurry up, the press conference of the police station and firefighting club will start in an hour."

"Take it easy, don't use too much force with your arms, have you called a car?" Luo Fei asked with a groan.

"What kind of car is it called? There are only rickshaws."

"Do you feel guilty, I am the injured person, or because of you, how can you abuse me"

"Okay, you're so long-winded!"

In this way, the two of them came to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Noisily along the way.When the two slipped into the conference room, they saw Javert and the president of the Fire Fighting Association answering questions from reporters.

"Have you found out the cause of the fire?" A reporter raised his hand and said.

"Preliminary judgment shows that the fire started on the second floor of Building 18, and the cause of the fire may have been caused by residents' inadvertent smoking." It is already clear to the chest.

"Have you found any traces of arson?" Another reporter stood up.

"We found no trace of artificial arson at the scene of the fire, and no suspicious objects were found in the investigation of witnesses." Javert was very sure of this.

"Inspector Sha, this is already the third fire in this city, do you think there is any connection between these three fires?"

? At this time another reporter asked.

Javert shook his head lightly: "According to the current situation, there is no connection."

"But all three fires happened around [-] o'clock on Sunday night. Is it just a coincidence?" the reporter continued.

Before Javert could answer, the reporter who was sitting right in front of Luo Fei suddenly stood up: "It is rumored that Zhu Rong appeared, what do you think?"

Javert shrugged: "I'm sorry, but Zhu Rong is not under the control of our patrol room."

There was immediate laughter in the audience.

But when the reporter took his seat, the smile on Inspector Javert's face gradually froze, because he saw Luo Fei behind the reporter secretly waving his hand to greet him.Javert immediately winked at Xiaoman who was standing next to Luo Fei. Xiaoman had just grabbed Luo Fei's left hand, but Luo Fei had already raised his right hand.

"I have a question. Just now, Mr. Zhang said that the fire was caused by the smoking of the residents of Building 18. I checked the list of the dead. The resident of No. 18 is Zheng Yuan, a senior translator of the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry. Last Friday, Mr. Zheng Yuan expressed his reaction on the radio Smoking speech, saying that he has quit smoking for more than ten years. The previous fire, you announced that the cause of the fire was the backflow of wind from the chimney of the fireplace and the flames running backwards, but there was no wind on the day of the fire; and the first fire in this city, you It is said that it was caused by a short-circuit of the electric light, but unfortunately that day, the block had a power outage, can Inspector Sha please explain these doubtful points?"

As soon as Luo Fei's words came out, the audience was in an uproar, and the reporters immediately followed suit with questions.

The head of the firefighting club looked at Inspector Javert, but saw Javert covering his face and bowing his head in silence.

"Sorry, this is the end of today's press conference. We are already investigating everyone's questions, and I believe we will be able to give you a satisfactory answer soon." After speaking, the president got up and left.

From the corner of his eye, Javert saw that the firefighting president had left, and he got up immediately, and when he turned around, he gave Luo Fei a hard look.

Luo Fei looked sideways at Javert, smiled lightly, then turned around and squeezed out the reporters surrounding him, and walked towards the door.

"Where are you going?" Xiaoman squeezed out of the crowd and followed.

"I don't want to take a rickshaw to go back to the arrest house in the detective's car." Luo Fei said as he limped.

When Javert's car stopped at the gate of the police house, before the driver opened the door, Javert pushed the door angrily and walked quickly into the building.

"Help me." Luo Fei grabbed the driver's hand and got out of the car.

In the corridor of the patrol room, Xiaoman walked towards the inspector's office with Luo Fei, and met Ye Changqing head-on.Ye Changqing immediately teased: "Hey! I used to be a servant, but now I'm a maid?"

"Ye Changqing!"

Just as Xiaoman was about to explode, Ye Changqing ran away in a stride, and shouted again: "I was wrong! Detective Qin, calm down! You go ahead."

"It's important." Luo Fei hurriedly pulled Xiaoman forward.

"We just went to find out the news. You made the inspector so embarrassing in public! How could he hand over the case to us?" Xiaoman complained.

"They were just trying to confuse the public, and they also changed their direction to discredit the police station! Am I helping him?" Luo Fei shook his head helplessly.

"At that moment, you can explain to the inspector yourself, I won't accompany you to be scolded." Xiaoman said and ran away.

Luo Fei stood in front of the inspector's room, looked at Xiaoman's back with a faint smile, and then pushed the door and walked in.

As Xiaoman expected, Javert had already lost his temper in the office.However, Luo Fei saw Javert angrily pacing, and just waved his hand lightly: "Inspector, if you walk back and forth like this, it is easy to cause appendicitis."

"Luo Fei! Why do you follow me wherever I go? Do I owe you money? Why do you always disrupt the situation?" Javert slapped the table and shouted.

"No, you owe me a case." Luo Fei raised his face and stared at Javert.

Javert took a step forward and approached Luo Fei's face: "If you want to take the case, you can't go to the press conference to mess around. Do you know how those reporters will write about our police house, and what will happen to the citizens inside and outside the concession?" Looking at our patrol room, they will think that the patrol room is a bunch of incompetent waste!"

"That's why I need this special consultant." Luo Fei stood up with a smile, and helped Javert onto the sofa, "My Inspector Sha, I know you are under a lot of pressure. There are more than ten casualties in three fires. Rumors in the concession Four fires, the higher-ups hope you will come forward to appease the people, and you are also ordered to do so, but do you really believe that there is no connection between these three fires?"

Javert was silent after hearing this.

"Have you ever thought about a more immediate question, if there is a fire on the same day this Sunday as in the previous three weeks, wouldn't you be the one who reneges on your own words?"

Javert sighed sadly: "If I ask you to investigate this case, can you guarantee that there will be no more fires this Sunday?"

Luo Fei saw that Javert was shaken, and his expression immediately became serious: "I can't, but I will do my best. Now there are only three days left until Sunday. I need authorization to start an investigation in the name of the police station."

Javert thought for a while, and finally nodded emphatically: "Okay, I hope you can find out the ins and outs of the whole thing."

Luo Fei nodded: "I need all the information on the victims of the three fires, the site investigation report, and eyewitness testimony. That's right! The scene of the last fire is still there, right?"

"Yes, you can go to the scene to see it, what else do you want?" Javert asked again.

Luo Fei glanced outside the door, and said with a dry smile, "Also, time is so tight and manpower is not enough."

"Got it, I'll lend you Qin Xiaoman." Javert nodded.

Luo Fei left the inspector's office, came to the office hall excitedly, and sat down on Qin Xiaoman's seat.When Xiaoman came back with the coffee, she saw that Luo Fei had come out, so she couldn't wait to walk over quickly.

"How is it?" Xiaoman looked at Luo Fei expectantly.

Luo Fei smiled slightly, took the coffee in Xiaoman's hand, sniffed it, "It's too far from my brewing, but you have developed a good habit of drinking coffee."

"Now he spends more time sitting here than you do," joked the detective passing by.

Seeing her colleague walk away, Xiaoman took the coffee back and put it on the table: "Have you got the case yet?"

Luo Fei nodded: "I even borrowed you from the inspector, it's interesting."

"Can't you say good things well? I'm a person, not a thing. Not an object. Can you stop talking about borrowing and borrowing?"

After Luo Fei listened, looking at Xiaoman's staring eyes and tight lips, the more he watched, the more he felt a kind of familiarity from the bottom of his heart.

"Hey? What are you thinking? We have to rush to the scene of the fire." Xiaoman stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Luo Fei.

"Oh." Luo Fei came back to his senses, got up and walked out with Xiaoman.

The police detective who just passed by looked at the figures of the two and couldn't help shaking his head.

(End of this chapter)