Chapter 44: Xu Mo Escapes Again

Seeing that Han Fei and the others' complexion was off, the waiter still thought the police hadn't gotten the answer they wanted from her.

He then added.

"Comrade, I can be sure I didn't misremember."

"It's him." The waiter pointed at the photo of Xu Mo on Han Fei's phone.

"I have a particularly strong impression of him; not only did he bring two beauties to book a room, but it was a Presidential Suite."

Hearing the waiter's words, Han Fei's complexion turned completely dark.

Bringing two beauties to book a room.

Even a Presidential Suite?

To know, in order to catch Xu Mo, the Investigation Team members have hardly had a good night's sleep these two days.

To prevent Xu Mo from slipping away while they sleep.

They can only take turns on night watch, with severely insufficient sleep.

They can only sleep in the car, which also makes their sleep quality very poor.

After two days, the Investigation Team members all have dark circles, and each one is listless.

While they suffer, Xu Mo is staying in a Presidential Suite, surrounded by companions, reveling night after night!

If it were anyone else, they probably couldn't stand it.

"This Xu Mo!" Han Fei snarled.

At this moment, Chen Ke glanced toward the elevator.

"This farce should end."

Immediately after, he turned his head to look at the waiter.

"Which room is that man staying in? Please take us there."

"No trouble, no trouble, it's what should be done." The waiter said: "I'll take you there now."

Before leaving, they also took a universal key card.

Under normal circumstances, a hotel, to protect guests' privacy, would never disclose a guest's room number.

But now the situation is different, because the ones looking for Xu Mo are not ordinary people but police officers.

The hotel also has an obligation to cooperate with the police's operation.

In this hotel, there is now only one Presidential Suite that has been rented out.

So the waiter doesn't even need to check the room number.

They can directly take the Investigation Team members over.

Taking the elevator, they arrived at the door of one of the Presidential Suites on the top floor.

At this moment, the waiter felt a bit excited and also uneasy.

She had seen such a scene many times in TV dramas.

She didn't expect that, in this Law-abiding Society, she could encounter a situation cooperating with the police to catch someone.

Exciting!

She exhaled deeply, reached out to knock, but Han Fei stopped her.

"No need to knock; just open the door."

The waiter's hand, suspended in midair, halted.

He pulled out the universal key card from his pocket and swiped it to open the Presidential Suite door.

"Xu Mo, the game is over, you lost, don't let us take action, come out yourself."

There was no response inside the room…

In Han Fei's mind, a bad premonition suddenly rose.

He quickly advanced and opened every door inside the suite to check.

The result was that inside this Presidential Suite, it was completely empty.

Did Xu Mo run away again?

Even though she already had an answer in her mind, Han Fei was still somewhat unwilling to give up.

She looked at the waiter: "Are you sure this is the room?"

"Sure, in the hotel these two days only this one Presidential Suite has been rented out."

Hearing this, Li Chen, Chen Ke, and Shen Manni all furrowed their brows.

It seems this time they hit a dead end again.

At that moment, the walkie‑talkie the waiter carried rang.

The remaining waiter downstairs shouted over the walkie‑talkie to hotel housekeeping: "Auntie, guest 8888 checking out."

The housekeeper replied: "Copy."

Hearing the conversation over the walkie‑talkie, Han Fei suddenly felt a sudden turn for the better.

The room number of the Presidential Suite they were in happened to be 8888.

They had just confirmed with the waiter.

This room is the one Xu Mo was staying in.

The person checking out, Sheer Cliff, is Xu Mo!

She glanced at the waiter and said.

"Use your walkie‑talkie to have security stop the person checking out, and the Investigation Team follow me downstairs to catch them!"

…

Without pausing, they rode the elevator down to the first floor.

In the Da Ting, four hulking security guards were pressing a young man's face down onto the floor.

Seeing Han Fei arrive, they immediately spoke.

"Comrade police, the guy who just checked out is this kid; we helped you restrain him."

"Thanks," Han Fei nodded toward the four.

From their method of grabbing and the calluses on their hands, Han Fei judged that the four security guards were likely retired soldiers hired by this upscale hotel.

Earlier, when he took the elevator down, he had worried that the hotel's security might, following a "better not to have more trouble" principle, let Xu Mo escape.

Now it seems his worry was unfounded, because the four veterans pinned Xu Mo to the ground tightly.

Seeing that Xu Mo had already been pinned by the hotel security, the Water Friends in the Live Broadcast Room began firing Danmaku.

"That gave me a start; I saw the room empty just now and thought Xu Mo had run off again."

"How could that be? The sky net is sparse yet never misses; it'd be strange for Xu Mo to get away."

"That's the net of heaven—broad and unerring, you illiterate."

"Although Xu Mo is somewhat formidable, he still couldn't slip out of the Investigation Team's grasp."

"Having been exhausted for so long, comrades of the Investigation Team, thank you for your hard work!"

……

At that moment, the young man pinned by the four security guards spoke, his voice trembling.

"Damn? How did I end up tangled with the police again? I'll confess, I'll tell everything! I understand the principle that honesty gets leniency and resistance gets harshness!"

When he heard that voice, Han Fei's eye corner involuntarily twitched.

That voice wasn't Xu Mo's!

Wrong person captured!?

The young man pinned on the ground, however, had no idea of Han Fei's thoughts at all.

He began to recount, on his own, every crime he had committed from childhood to now.

"When I was seven, I smashed a neighbor kid's egg; at nine, I often touched female classmates' butts; at twelve, I peeked at a widow's bath… and since I started working, I visit a hair salon once a week…"

"Comrade, I've confessed everything I should; now that you cooperate, can you handle me leniently?"

The four security guards holding him exchanged a glance.

Once a week? This guy probably spent his entire salary on that.

He wondered if this was the legendary case where a person in Guangdong has already vanished without a trace.

At the same time, they read from the other three's eyes a thought: never dare go to the hair salon again!

Otherwise, the outcome would likely be like this guy's, captured by dozens of police officers.

After hearing the pinned young man's words, Han Fei's face turned dreadfully sullen.

This Xu Mo has fooled them again!

The meticulous Han Fei had now figured it out.

He estimated that this young man was someone Xu Mo had summoned on the spot to draw attention.

Or perhaps he was simply a person Xu Mo recruited to mock the Investigation Team.

Clenching his teeth, Han Fei waved his hand.

"Take him away!"

Putting aside everything else, just the fact that he frequents the hair salon is enough to have him detained for a while.

Han Fei was fuming inside.

This capture operation was a mess!

They didn't catch the main target Xu Mo, but they did capture a bunch of the vanished!

What kind of thing is this?