Chapter 2049

Li Yalin's spirits were instantly lifted, and he hurriedly looked at him and pressed, "What is this about the little Japanese?"

Zhang Hengkai dared not delay and hurriedly said, "I was recruited by the hotel as a temporary worker. There were over a dozen of us temporary workers who came in at the same time, and there were several Japanese people among them, but none of them are in these photos!"

Li Yalin asked, "What did those Japanese people you mentioned look like? Did they have any distinguishing features?"

Zhang Hengkai pondered for a moment and said, "As for their looks, they had very common, average faces. As for features, it was just that their expressions felt quite serious, the type who never cracked a smile. Moreover, they never spoke and only communicated with their eyes. They were sneaky; you could tell at a glance they were no good."

Li Yalin asked in surprise, "If they didn't speak, how did you know they were Japanese?"

Zhang Hengkai said, "On the way here, I inadvertently saw the phone screen of one of them, and his phone was using Japanese."

Li Yalin asked again, "After you arrived at the hotel, did you have any interaction?"

"No more," Zhang Hengkai replied. "After we arrived at the hotel, we were assigned to help in the back kitchen. But immediately after, those few were assigned different work, and then they left the back kitchen together."

Li Yalin continued to press, "Then let me ask you, who was the person who recruited you? Who assigned the work to you? Especially, who assigned the work to those few Japanese people?"

Zhang Hengkai hurriedly said, "The one who recruited us was Manager Chen, but I don't know his specific full name. It was he who assigned us to the back kitchen, and it was also he who assigned other work to those few Japanese people halfway through."

Li Yalin took out the hotel's employee roster, found the page for Chen Fu, handed it to Zhang Hengkai, and asked, "Is it him?"

Zhang Hengkai glanced at the photo in the employee handbook and immediately concluded, "That's right, it's him!"

Li Yalin nodded with satisfaction; in his view, the breakthrough had been found.

Consequently, he said to Zhang Hengkai, "You did very well."

As he spoke, he took his wallet out of his pocket, pulled out 500 dollars in cash, handed it to Zhang Hengkai, and said, "Take this money for now. If there are any questions that need consulting, I will come find you again."

Zhang Hengkai took the cash, feeling flattered, and subconsciously asked, "Detective Li... I... I don't need to go to the police station anymore, right?"

Li Yalin knew what Zhang Hengkai was worried about, so he nodded and said, "Rest assured, after today's matters are finished, you will be allowed to leave. However, before you go, you must leave a contact method for the officers, whether it's a phone number, WhatsApp here in the US, WeChat from back home, or an email address."

Zhang Hengkai was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Don't worry, I will leave my WeChat when the time comes..."

"Good." Li Yalin nodded, then had someone take Zhang Hengkai away, and ordered, "Bring Manager Chen from the hotel banquet hall over."

At this very moment, Chen Fu was standing in the crowd, feeling incredibly nervous.

After learning the news that Fei Haoyang had been kidnapped and gone missing in the banquet hall, he was so terrified that he felt as if his soul had left his body.

He had never dreamed that the true target of those Japanese people was actually his own young master.

Now that the young master was missing, he had become an accomplice.

Moreover, he did not dare to confess these circumstances to the police or to Fei Xuebin.

Because the lives of his wife and children were all in the hands of that group of Japanese people.

It didn't matter if he died, but if he couldn't trade their lives back, what was the point of him living?

Just as he was feeling extremely uneasy, a police officer came up to him and asked, "Are you Chen Fu?"

Chen Fu nodded and said in a panic, "Yes... it's me..."