Chapter 429: The Metropolis Mystery (Part 10)

The night grew deeper. Looking out from the wooden window lattice, one could see the end of the pitch-black night, revealing a faint deep blue.

Initially, there was no light in the corridor, but as clean snowflakes drifted past the window, the snow color bloomed like moonlight on the windowsill and the wooden floor of the corridor.

A breeze surged in from the cracks in the corridor window, blowing down the paper stuck on the guest room door. When the paper fell to the ground, a few words were written on it—"Please Do Not Disturb."

Passing through the door, a figure sat by the bed. He had changed into pajamas, turned off the ceiling lamp and wall lamp in the guest room, leaving only a desk lamp on the bedside table still on.

When the desk lamp was on, it would project a cone-shaped halo on the wall and corner it was close to. In other places outside this halo, there were thick shadows.

The dim yellow light and the reflection of the fluttering snowflakes intertwined. Just looking at it, one could feel the cold outside the house and the warmth inside, making one even more sleepy.

Yin Wensi put his glasses into the glasses case. He raised his head and looked at the snow falling heavier and heavier outside the window. He took out an umbrella from the shadow under the bed.

He let the handle of the umbrella lean against the bedside table. A ray of light from the desk lamp poured down along the umbrella tube. When it shone on the umbrella surface, it reflected the strange and mysterious patterns on it. That looked a bit like snake skin patterns, but the curvature of the winding curves was larger. Under the reflection of the light, it seemed to be changing slowly.

Putting the umbrella away, Yin Wensi lay on the bed, reached out to pull the quilt over, and gradually adjusted his breathing, letting the frequency become lower. Just when his consciousness was about to sink into that vast white space, suddenly, a series of urgent noises came from the ground, and the sound of heels stepping on the wooden floor rang out one after another.

"Dong, dong, dong..."

The knocking sound came from Yin Wensi's dream, but it failed to wake him up immediately.

"Dong dong dong dong! Dong dong!"

The knocking sound became more and more urgent. Yin Wensi, who had just fallen asleep, slowly opened his eyes. He sat up from the bed with slow movements, picked up the glasses case unhurriedly, took out the glasses from inside, and put them on again. At this time, he heard Kai La's voice coming from outside the door.

"Professor Yin Wensi! Are you there? Professor Yin Wensi! Please wake up! Another murder case has occurred!"

"My Healing Game"

Yin Wensi sat by the bed. He turned his head and looked at the wall clock. It showed that it was 3 o'clock in the morning, only an hour and a half had passed since Kai La came to notify Yin Wensi that Mrs. Dai Weisi died.

Yin Wensi stood up. He didn't intend to change into a formal suit, but turned around and reached out to pick up that umbrella.

He opened the door. Kai La's hair was let down. It looked like she also intended to sleep, but was suddenly called up. Kai La looked into Yin Wensi's eyes and said:

"Luo De Luo De is dead."

Yin Wensi took a step forward, seemingly wanting to go out like this, but Kai La didn't move away, so Yin Wensi didn't go out. Kai La looked Yin Wensi up and down and said, "Sorry, but do you intend to go out like this?"

As she spoke, her gaze fell on the umbrella in Yin Wensi's hand.

Kai La turned her head and looked at the snowflakes drifting heavier and heavier outside the corridor window. She sighed, still gave way, and followed behind Yin Wensi, saying, "Our luck is not very good. If the blizzard continues, I'm afraid no one can leave this manor."

"Isn't this exactly what you want? You gathered everyone here and then cut off the signal, isn't it just to find out the spy among us?"

"If the heavy snow continues for a month, you will have a month to complete these tasks. Don't tell me your investigation efficiency is not as good as the FBI. Even if the FBI comes here, a month should be enough."

Kai La was choked, but she still said, "Four murder cases occurred in a few hours. This spy's means are too cruel."

"Or rather, now even old Luo De is dead, you can't afford this responsibility anymore. If it weren't for this heavy snow, you might have already lifted the blockade and let everyone leave."

"This heavy snow trapped not us, but you." Yin Wensi summarized.

Yin Wensi was right. The energy of all the celebrities on the East Coast combined was still very large. Although the Central Intelligence Agency, as a spy agency, had great power overseas, it also had to face domestic pressure. Now that so many people had died, even the person in charge of the Luo De Group had been murdered. The storm raised was no less than the incident where the mayoral candidate was assassinated before.

Kai La sighed in her heart. Those conversation-guiding techniques she had once learned were completely useless here with Yin Wensi. She seemed to never be able to win the initiative of the topic. During the time she worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, she had never encountered such an opponent.

The two crossed the corridor, walked down the stairs, and came to the reception room of the Mayor's mansion. Yin Wensi looked around at the scene in the reception room and opened his mouth: "You are all here. It seems I am the last one."

At this time, there were quite a few people in the reception hall. On the left stood the agent in charge, Ben Jie Ming. On the right were Bruce and Pan Ni. Standing slightly to the right in front was the red-haired Ma Te Luo De. And lying in the center of the reception room was a corpse. That was Luo De Luo De.

Luo De Luo De's condition was very miserable. His face was full of bloodstains, there was a deep bruise on his chin, his forehead seemed to have been hit hard by a blunt object, the place where his head touched the ground was also full of bloodstains, and some vase fragments were scattered around his head.

Seeing Yin Wensi wearing pajamas, Bruce glanced at him and then turned his head away, as if completely not wanting to see this professor. His expression didn't escape Ben Jie Ming's eyes, but it made his eyebrows frown even deeper.

"Thank you, Kai La, please go outside to maintain order and ensure that this news doesn't spread, otherwise it might cause panic." Ben Jie Ming turned his head to say to Kai La. Kai La, who heard this order, appeared a bit surprised, but after being stunned for a moment, she still did it.

After she left, there were five people left in the room, namely Bruce, Ma Te, Ben Jie Ming, Yin Wensi, and Pan Ni. Ben Jie Ming opened his mouth first. He stared into Yin Wensi's eyes and then said: "As far as I know, before Luo De died, he had seen you in this meeting room."

"Officer Ben Jie Ming, your lack of professionalism really surprises me." Yin Wensi was also impolite. He walked to the front of the corpse, leaned the umbrella on the ground, looked at Ben Jie Ming, and said: "What's important is not whether I have seen him, but who saw him last."

Ben Jie Ming turned his head to look at Bruce again. He said: "The one who discovered the crime scene was Mr. Bruce Wei En. Let him talk about it."

Bruce was supported by Pan Ni and looked up. Just standing straight had already cost him a lot of effort. He rubbed his eyes hard and used that kind of thick-tongued accent from excessive drinking: "I drank some wine... only drank a little, felt it was a bit hot in the room, so I wanted to come out for some air..."

"I walked and walked... seemed to have vomited. A waiter wanted to come over to support me, I shook him off... I didn't want him to grab me, he should stay away from me, cough cough..."

"So... so I... I walked forward, walked and walked, seemed to hear a little sound, I heard... there seemed to be movement in this door, so I knocked on the door, but no one responded..."

"I smelled a bit of strange smell, like the smell of blood. Don't ask me why I could smell it, I just drank some wine, but I wasn't very drunk..."

"I pushed the door open, and saw Luo De lying here. At that time, I felt that I might be drunk, and now I am too... hahahahaha... cough cough..."

After finishing, Bruce started retching again. Pan Ni supported his waist and kept patting his back to smooth his breath. Yin Wensi looked at Ben Jie Ming and said: "Before this, the last one who saw Mr. Luo De should be you, right?"

"After Mrs. Dai Weisi's corpse was discovered, Luo De had already admitted everything. He had already admitted that old Pa Ke and Mayor White's cases were all done by him, and you took him away."

Ben Jie Ming was silent and didn't speak. Yin Wensi raised his wrist, looked at his watch, and then tapped the ground with the tip of his umbrella, saying:

"Luo De is not innocent, he is not a good person, and he just killed Mayor White and old Pa Ke just now. He died here, it can only be said that he deserved it. No one needs to pay an extra price for this."

"Now the time is already very late, and this is already the fourth time I have been called up from the bed by you."

"So, let's skip the process of mutual suspicion, evidence, accusation, and exposure, and just say the truth."

Yin Wensi looked around, finding that others were still silent. He put his hands on the handle of the umbrella and then said, "Okay, let's start with me."

"Officer Ben Jie Ming, I don't know what you meant by taking him to a proper place for custody. I only know that your so-called proper measures didn't play any role."

"After I came out of the bathroom and returned to my room, not long after, I received a call from Luo De. He asked me to go to the reception room..."

Accompanied by Yin Wensi's narration, time retreated to about an hour and a half ago.

Yin Wensi's words pointing directly at Luo De's heart had just fallen. Luo De's face was blue, and after a long time, he coughed dully while covering his chest, just like a person whose anger had attacked his heart.

He had completely lost the power of disguise, staring at Yin Wensi with sinister eyes. Yin Wensi was completely unmoved.

Just when Yin Wensi was about to speak, Ben Jie Ming waved his hand toward the door, and two burly agents walked in.

Ben Jie Ming gave them instructions. They walked up and handcuffed Luo De. Luo De just wanted to speak, but Ben Jie Ming said: "Mr. Luo De, it seems that you have already admitted that you committed two murder cases. It is better to cooperate with our investigation."

After Ben Jie Ming turned around, Yin Wensi couldn't see his expression, but facing him, Luo De had been staring at Yin Wensi.

Until Luo De was taken away by the agents, Ben Jie Ming turned around and said to Yin Wensi: "Professor Yin Wensi, thank you for your cooperation, wonderful reasoning and investigation. Now, you can go back to rest."

This sounded like a compliment, but it didn't have any polite tone at all, but appeared stiff and raw. But Yin Wensi didn't care, he just wanted to go upstairs to sleep.

And just when he returned to the bedroom, untied his tie, and prepared to change clothes, the phone in the guest room rang.

The Mayor's mansion was not just the Mayor's private residence. Most guests who visited the Mayor or participated in some activities would live here, so there were many guest rooms, and each guest room was also equipped with an internal service phone.

Yin Wensi picked up the phone, and it was no surprise that he heard Luo De's voice suppressing anger on the other end: "Yin Wensi, I am waiting for you in the reception room..."

Before Yin Wensi could answer, Luo De said in a cold tone: "I know what you did in that mayoral election two years ago. If you don't want to be found by those troubles, you had better come over..."

Yin Wensi, who put down the phone, slowly narrowed his eyes. ===== CHAPTER 430 =====