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Chapter 87 The Murderer Who Disappeared

At night, in the corridor of Sullivan's apartment, Qin Xiaoman hurried out of Wang Susu's room, holding a plate full of steaming dumplings in his hand.At this time, footsteps suddenly came out on the stairs, Xiaoman looked up, and saw Luo Fei and Wei Feng coming down facing each other.

Xiaoman said to the two expectantly: "I'm about to bring you a plate of dumplings, I made them with Sister Su Su."

"Let's go see that friend of Wei Feng." Luo Fei said as he walked closer to Xiaoman, sniffed the fragrant dumplings, and looked at Xiaoman in surprise, "It's stuffed with beef and mushrooms! The dumplings are left alone. Come back to eat in a while."

Xiaoman was taken aback: "Didn't you say we two would go and Wei Feng was not allowed to go?"

Wei Feng immediately said to Xiaoman: "I called, and that brother only wanted to see me alone, not strangers."

Xiaoman and Luo Fei looked at each other, and felt that the brother Wei Feng mentioned was a bit strange, and Luo Fei's expression at the moment also looked a little worried.

"Stop reasoning wildly in your head. A good detective must dare to let go of the 'temptation' in his hand and concentrate on investigating the case." After Luo Fei finished speaking, he turned and walked downstairs with Wei Feng.

Xiaoman pouted her nose at Luo Fei's back, immediately brought the dumplings into Luo Fei's room, and then rushed downstairs.

Luo Fei, who was waiting in the taxi, saw Xiaoman sitting next to him with puffy cheeks, and immediately cast an indignant look at Xiaoman, "You owe me two dumplings, no!" Luo Fei said and stretched out his hand Grabbing Xiaoman's cheeks, he looked at them carefully, "It's one and a half, each of the dumplings made by Sister Susu is round and equal in size, but your left cheek is slightly sunken, and there is mushroom foam at the corner of your mouth. So what you have on your left cheek is the dumpling you made yourself."

Xiaoman pushed Luo Fei's hand away, her face turned blue and red.

"Forget it, I don't want to eat yours anyway, so you should owe me a dumpling." Luo Fei said, he immediately came to his senses, then paused, then turned his head and said to the driver in front, "You can go."

Next to a street in Shikumen stands a small five-story apartment building.Under the dim street lamps, thin rain curtains were reflected, while the surrounding darkness only echoed with the sound of pattering raindrops.At this time, the taxi the three of them were sitting in slowly stopped on the side of the street, Luo Fei, Wei Feng and Xiao Man got out of the car one after another, each held up a black umbrella, and walked towards a small black building.

"It's the five-story building in front of you. You can wait for me at the coffee shop here." Wei Feng suddenly stopped and pointed to the small building in front of him.

Luo Fei nodded grimly: "I've made an appointment with the inspector, Ye Changqing and the others. We'll all be waiting for you at the coffee shop downstairs. If you have any problems, we'll go up to support you at any time."

"Okay." Wei Feng agreed, then turned up his collar, lowered his head and hurried into the building first.

Seeing Wei Feng walk in, Luo Fei and Xiaoman looked at each other, then walked towards the coffee shop,

There were few customers in the coffee shop at night, and at a table near the door, Javert and Ye Changqing were yawning while drinking coffee.At this time, Luo Fei and Xiaoman opened the door and walked in. The sound of rain and coolness outside the store was mixed in for a moment, which made the sleepy Ye Changqing tremble.Luo Fei and Xiaoman put away their umbrellas, and when they were about to look around, Javert immediately greeted them behind them: "Here!"

"Luo Fei, you are too careful with Wei Feng, don't you want to move the entire police station to him?" Ye Changqing complained impatiently to Luo Fei.

Luo Fei has a serious face: "Jin Bubai will use all means to get rid of Wei Feng, I have to guard against it."

Javert: "Don't worry, there are so many people in the patrol room here, nothing can happen..."

Before Javert finished speaking, he heard a muffled sound of "Bang!" from upstairs.

Xiaoman stood up immediately in shock: "Is it gunfire?"

Immediately afterwards, the four people in front of the table rushed to the stairwell almost simultaneously, and ran upstairs!
When they rushed to the corridor outside the apartment, they saw Wei Feng standing at the door of a room not far away, in a daze.

Seeing this, Luo Fei shouted at Wei Feng while running: "Wei Feng!"

But Wei Feng didn't look back, he just stared blankly at a certain place in the room.When the four of them ran behind him and followed Wei Feng's gaze, they saw a middle-aged man lying on the ground with a puddle of blood on his chest that was fainted and soaked by a bullet hole.When the four passed Wei Feng and rushed into the room, Wei Feng still stood there motionless.Seeing this, Xiaoman hurried forward and put a hand on the man's carotid artery, then looked up at the other three in disappointment: "He's already dead."

Ye Changqing looked around the room: "There was no sign of a fight at the scene, and the living room window is closed, but not locked."

Javert checked the door and said with certainty: "The door was kicked open."

"The door... was kicked by me." Wei Feng said suddenly.

Luo Fei quickly walked up to Wei Feng: "After you kicked open the door, what did you see?"

Wei Feng raised his head slowly, and looked at Luo Fei in a daze: "I only saw Tian Baichuan lying here, and no one else."

Luo Fei then pointed to the opposite window and asked, "Is the window closed as it is now?"

Wei Feng nodded, "Yes."

Luo Fei said as he walked over and carefully observed the balcony: "Is there anything unusual outside the window, especially on the outer window sill?"

"I know what you're going to ask, but I can assure you that there is nothing unusual on the outer window sill." Wei Feng said, shaking his head with a dark expression, "The more I look at it, the more strange it becomes. I remembered what you said during the day, this It might be a trap set by Jin Bubai, so I just stood outside the door and didn't go in."

After Javert listened, he asked Wei Feng, "Why did you kick the door?"

"I heard gunshots, so I ran upstairs in a hurry, but found that the door was locked. I was afraid that something would happen to my friend, so I kicked the door." Wei Feng explained.

At this time, Javert also walked in front of Wei Feng, with doubts in his eyes: "You see your friend lying in there, can you resist going in and taking a look?"

At this time, Wei Feng's sanity finally recovered a bit. Seeing that Javert doubted himself a little, he immediately explained: "I remembered Luo Fei's warning during the day. Besides, I saw it outside. Tian Baichuan was shot critically, and he couldn't save him." of."

"This is the fifth floor. On which floor did you hear the gunshot?" Luo Fei asked suddenly.

Wei Feng thought for a while and replied, "About the middle of the third and fourth floors, I heard gunshots."

"How long did it take you to run up to the fifth floor from there?" Luo Fei immediately asked again.

"Soon, five seconds." Wei Feng said with certainty.

"Including the time to kick the door?" Luo Fei asked again.

"About eight or nine seconds, ten seconds at most." Wei Feng replied without thinking.

Luo Fei frowned: "In other words, from hearing the gunshot to finding the body, it was only less than ten seconds?"

At this time, Xiaoman came out of the bedroom: "I have seen several rooms, only the window of the living room is closed but not locked."

After Ye Changqing heard it, he looked like he had a flash of inspiration: "The door is locked, so the only way for the murderer to come in and out is this unlocked window?"

Luo Fei looked at the window, thinking: "But it's only less than ten seconds."

"What?" Ye Changqing didn't understand Luo Fei's words for a while.

Luo Fei pursed his lips, and then explained while making movements: "First shoot and kill, then walk to the window, turn over and jump out of the window, and then close both windows with one hand."

Javert was taken aback after hearing this: "One-handed?"

Luo Fei patted the marble window sill and said, "There is still one hand he needs to hold on to the window sill to prevent himself from falling."

Javert nodded: "It makes sense."

"Then the murderer has to escape from the windowsill on the fifth floor, so many things have to be done in less than ten seconds." Luo Fei reasoned here, and suddenly shook his head again, "It's too difficult!"

At this time, Ye Changqing, who was searching the bedroom, suddenly exclaimed: "Detective, we found the murder weapon!"

After hearing this, the other four people in the room immediately walked into the bedroom.Then several people saw Ye Changqing squatting beside the bed, fiddling with a pistol.

"Found it under the bed, the barrel was still hot."

Luo Fei looked at the pistol and couldn't help frowning: "Before the murderer left, he made another move? He walked into the bedroom and threw the gun under the bed. How could it be possible in less than ten seconds?"

Listening to Luo Fei's analysis, Xiaoman also shook her head: "How can it be possible to do so many things in less than ten seconds?"

Ye Changqing glanced at Wei Feng, and said casually: "What if the murderer is the surname Wei? He threw the gun under the bed after the murder, and then retreated to the door. There is enough time."

"Chang Qing, go back to the arresting room tomorrow and check the origin of this gun." After Javert finished speaking, he winked at Ye Changqing to stop him from jumping to conclusions in front of Luo Fei. After all, Wei Feng is Luo Fei's friend. .

"No need to check, this gun is mine, I have registered it."

As soon as Wei Feng's words came out, everyone present except Luo Fei looked at Wei Feng in amazement!Xiaoman was even more at a loss.

"Don't look at Wei Feng like this, he is definitely not the murderer." Luo Fei still said firmly.

Javert nodded lightly: "Oh, have you found new evidence?"

Luo Fei shook his head: "No, but... hey, Jin Bubai wants us to think like this, and wants to frame Wei Feng like this, do you understand?"

Looking at Luo Fei's serious expression, Javert said in a calm tone as much as possible: "I understand, but now Wei Feng's suspicion is too great."

Wei Feng looked at Luo Fei peacefully, and then said to Javert and the others: "Actually, your suspicions are very reasonable. It took less than ten seconds from the time the gun went off to when I kicked the door open, but there were only me and the deceased at the scene. , there is no third person, the murder weapon was found under the bed in the bedroom, the possibility of the deceased’s suicide can be ruled out, so judging from the existing evidence, I am the most suspect, oh no, it should be said, I am the only suspect .”

Luo Fei glared at Wei Feng angrily: "Wei Feng, do you really want to add fuel to the fire?"

Wei Feng smiled indifferently at Luo Fei: "Brother Luo, they don't know about Jin Bubai's way of doing things, don't you and I know? Jin Bubai will either not make a move, or if he does, it will definitely kill the opponent. So, apart from this pistol, There must be a lot of evidence against me in this room. When I came in just now, I saw that there were many messy footprints in the kitchen, with muddy footprints, and I guess there were my shoe prints among them."

Ye Changqing became interested at this time, and said to Wei Feng curiously: "Really, lift your foot up and let me have a look."

Wei Feng shook his head helplessly and raised his feet.

Ye Changqing smiled: "There is really muddy water."

At this time, Xiaoman said faintly: "It's raining lightly outside."

Ye Changqing immediately walked away feeling bored.

"Inspector, can we not arrest Wei Feng for the time being?"

It was the first time that Javert heard Luo Fei speak to him in a very earnest tone, he was stunned for a moment, and then said seriously: "What do you mean, the murderer is someone else? Then tell me, how can he kill you in ten seconds? Disappeared without a trace?"

Luo Fei shook his head: "I don't know how he did it, but there must be a way to do it, but I don't know it yet, so it must be a secret room, but the murderer is definitely not Wei Feng."

At this time, Ye Changqing, who ran to the kitchen, began to greet Javert again: "Inspector, you have to come and take a look, the shoe prints in the kitchen belong to two people, one is the deceased, and the other seems to be exactly the same as Wei Feng's shoe prints. "

Sha Wei just wanted to go, but was stopped by Luo Fei: "Inspector, you can't put Wei Feng in prison, Jin Bubai definitely wants us to do this, this is what he planned, Wei Feng went to prison, Jin Bubai and I Unbeaten games are lost."

Javert sighed: "This is not a game. Unless you can find evidence, I can only do business."

Luo Fei thought for a while, then slowly lowered his arms: "Then can we arrange a prison for isolation?"

Javert thought for a moment, then nodded to Luo Fei: "Well, I'll figure it out."

(End of this chapter)