Chapter 234: Who is this person?

Damn!

At this moment, Han Fei's expression was as spectacular as could be.

He deliberately set the fire, then called the Fire Brigade, using their fire ladder to escape… This really is something Xu Mo could pull off.

That method is very Xu Mo!

Moreover, from the firefighter's words, Han Fei learned that the fire's scale was tiny, the kind that could be extinguished in an instant.

No wonder the firefighter went up and came down right away.

In fact, it wasn't a fire at all; Xu Mo deliberately left something out to trick the Fire Brigade into coming!

Of course, that's just Han Fei's speculation.

He couldn't be sure what the exact situation was.

To verify his guess.

Han Fei immediately pulled out his phone, found a photo of Xu Mo, then held the photo up to the firefighter in front of him and asked:

"Is the kid you rescued from the fire this one?"

The firefighter shook his head without even looking at the photo.

"I don't know either. I wasn't involved in the rescue; we just came to fight the fire. To know what the rescued person looks like, you'd have to ask my colleague."

Seeing Han Fei's anxious face, he added.

"Are you looking for this person? He should have just been safely brought to the ground; I guess my colleague is giving him safety instructions. Shall I take you over to see?"

"Alright, thanks!" Han Fei furrowed his brows and nodded.

Before leaving, he didn't forget to tell the police officers one thing.

"You stay here and keep watch; I'm going to check."

Immediately after, he followed the firefighter to where the Fire Ladder Vehicle was parked.

But the person who had been rescued was already nowhere to be seen.

Next to the Fire Ladder Vehicle, only a few firefighters who took part in the rescue remained.

The firefighter who had brought Han Fei over asked one of his own colleagues.

"Li Dazui, this is Police Officer, he's here to find the person you just rescued. Hey… where's the person you just rescued?"

Li Dazui shrugged.

"He left. I was going to give him a word of warning about staying safe, but the rescue platform on the ladder hadn't fully steadied when he jumped down and ran. That guy… ran like a rabbit, super fast."

"He ran!?" Han Fei, hearing this, furrowed his brows even deeper, and his voice rose a few notches: "Where did he run? Did you see clearly what that person looks like?"

"He ran that way, I think… as for his looks…" Li Dazui scratched his head: "I can't recall right now…"

At that moment, Han Fei once again pulled out his phone, retrieved Xu Mo's photo, handed it to the firefighter nicknamed Li Dazui, and asked: "Is this him?"

Even after looking at the photo, Li Dazui was still uncertain.

"I'm not too sure either. When we were rescuing, the fire scene was filled with black smoke, the rescued person's face was blackened, hard to see his features… Moreover, the situation was critical; we were focused on rescuing, I didn't have time to look at his appearance."

He did want to help Han Fei.

But unfortunately, it truly was an emergency, and he hadn't the chance to look at the rescued person's looks at all.

Now, being asked out of the blue to recall that person's appearance, he really couldn't remember.

Moreover, the person's face was blackened by smoke; even if he tried to look, he couldn't retain any facial features.

Seeing Li Dazui give such an ambiguous answer, the firefighter who had brought Han Fei over reminded him from the side.

"Hey, can you be more precise? Look again carefully, give a definite answer. Police Officer Han is asking you for details; this is important!"

"Alright, I'll take another look…" Li Dazui said, then examined the photo on Han Fei's phone very carefully.

About ten seconds later, he shook his head with confidence.

"It's not him. The person in the photo looks younger; the one I rescued didn't look that young, probably older… Oh right, the rescued person had half‑white hair, I'd guess at least fifty, maybe even sixty."

As soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to recall something and scratched his head, still uncertain.

"Also not right. I recall that person's limbs were very agile, jumping from the balcony straight onto the ladder's rescue platform. Those legs don't seem like a fifty‑ or sixty‑year‑old's… I might have mixed up his appearance."

Hearing this, Han Fei's expression instantly froze.

It might indeed be as the firefighter said; various factors caused him to misremember the person's looks.

Of course, there's another possibility—he didn't misremember!

But a half‑white‑haired person, roughly fifty or sixty, with very agile limbs, is rather abnormal.

Unless…

This person is Xu Mo in disguise!

Moreover, speaking of a half‑white‑haired, fifty‑ or sixty‑year‑old, Han Fei actually saw one not long ago.

It was the old bull grazing on tender grass in Room 2010.

Now that I think about it… that damn guy might actually be Xu Mo.

At that moment, Han Fei's phone rang.

The call was from Chen Ke.

Han Fei answered, and Chen Ke on the other end hurriedly said.

"Han Team, I have a lead. Do you remember the man and woman in Room 2010? The woman ran down and told me the old man who just appeared in the room wasn't her Dry Father; she was forced to act. Do you know who that old man is? He is…"

"It's Xu Mo, right?" Han Fei interrupted Chen Ke.

Chen Ke on the other end was slightly startled: "Han Team, how did you know?"

Han Fei thought to himself that his guess was indeed correct.

That old man really was Xu Mo in disguise!

Putting all known clues together, Han Fei could even reconstruct Xu Mo's trail of actions.

Xu Mo apparently reached Room 2011 before the Investigation Team, noticed the room's layout was off, and then lit smoke inside, trying to use the airflow‑shaped smoke trail to gauge the hidden door's position.

He may have found the hidden door but didn't have time to open it, or he may not have found it at all; the Investigation Team arrived immediately afterward, and Xu Mo also heard Han Fei and the others moving outside the door.

To evade them, Xu Mo climbed over the balcony into the adjacent Room 2010, Disguised himself as a half‑gray‑haired old man, threatened the room's female owner to act with him, and fooled the officers.

Later, to escape while the first‑floor main door was guarded by officers, Xu Mo staged an "Accidental Fire", called the Fire Brigade for help, and used the Fire Brigade's Fire Ladder to leave the building.

This Lao Liu!

Honestly, Han Fei even considered that Xu Mo might risk using Fast Descent to go down and leave.

But he never expected that Xu Mo would actually start a small fire, using the fire as a pretext to lure the Fire Brigade to help him escape!

What the hell is this person!?