Chapter 195: Body Language

"Heh, the so-called 'Heaven rewards diligence' became a death sentence for Chen Hao," Wu Shanqiu couldn't help but sigh, her eyes following the tip of her pen as she read every transaction word by word, making notes from time to time.

"Fortunately, the diamond we found is a pink diamond. This kind of diamond is rarer than ordinary ones. I went to find out; a few years ago, the main production area was in Australia, but that mine has closed in recent years. More than 90% of the new pink diamonds in recent years have come from Angola," Qi Fei said, his head buried in the work.

"Angola? Where is that?"

"Africa, you geography-blind person."

"Oh, oh, so that means we need to focus on passengers flying to Africa?"

"Female passengers," Qi Fei corrected. "Didn't Team Leader Liu say it? Cosmetics, focus on investigating women. If a man carries cosmetics, wouldn't it be very eye-catching when going through customs?"

"Makes sense..."

The office returned to quiet as colleagues left work one after another.

Only Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu remained, like good students, buried in their research.

"Ah, I've been looking for a long time and there's no one flying to Angola..." Wu Shanqiu's words revealed a hint of despair.

"You didn't do your homework properly. Nancheng Airport doesn't even have flights to Angola," Qi Fei said without lifting his head.

"Huh? Then what are we looking for now?" Wu Shanqiu threw the business sheet aside, saying dejectedly.

"If I were a criminal smuggling diamonds, would I choose to go directly to that place? What are you thinking!" Qi Fei said, handing his cheat sheet to Wu Shanqiu.

On it were marked names and several African countries: Congo, Zambia, Namibia.

"I did a crash course in geography. These countries all border Angola. If the other party wants to enter Angola to buy diamonds, they can fly to a neighboring country first and then go."

"Now that you mention it..." Wu Shanqiu looked at it and flipped back through the business sheets she had already read. She quickly found a person's name and circled it with a red pen. "Fei-ge, I also saw this person named Su Jing here. She started booking tickets through Chen Hao three months ago. Adding the ones you found, she has already traveled back and forth to Africa ten times in such a short period!"

"And the destinations are all around Angola," Qi Fei said, taking out Chen Hao's phone and searching through the contact records of the two people according to the phone numbers left on the business sheet. "It's very strange. Look, other regular clients of Chen Hao basically added him on WeChat and have daily chat records. Only this Su Jing always contacts him by phone."

"She doesn't want to leave written content, unless the content of the conversation is something she doesn't want a third person to know."

"It seems we have to flip through the airport surveillance again. On the dates Su Jing traveled back and forth, let's see the movement trajectories of the two at the airport," Qi Fei said with bright eyes.

In the silent footage, Chen Hao was wearing a cheap suit, his left hand tightly clutching a briefcase, with a ticketing company ID badge hanging on his chest. He walked quickly through the crowd in the check-in hall, looking back from time to time. Judging from the current assessment, this behavior was definitely suspicious.

However, the airport is a place with too many people. Everyone is in a hurry, with different expressions. Placed in the crowd, any subtle abnormality is drowned out, and no one cares.

He walked to Gate 1 of the domestic arrivals and waited anxiously. Before long, a slightly plump woman wearing a fisherman's hat pushed a suitcase toward him. Comparing it with the photo in the household registration information, this person was Su Jing.

The atmosphere seemed too serious. There was no enthusiastic waving, nor any pleasantries.

Chen Hao just silently took her suitcase, and the two walked side by side toward Zone F.

Before long, they arrived at the corner familiar to Qi Fei. Further ahead was the baby care room, which was in a surveillance blind spot.

It seemed Su Jing wanted to go to the restroom, and Chen Hao stayed where he was to wait for her.

However, at this moment, an action by the two confirmed their suspicions.

"Does one need to push a suitcase into the restroom? Isn't Chen Hao waiting outside?" Wu Shanqiu said immediately.

In the surveillance video, Su Jing took the suitcase from Chen Hao's hand and turned to walk into the surveillance blind spot.

"Can we watch this part again?" Zhong Kui's voice came.

Wu Shanqiu pulled the progress bar and started playing it again.

Zhong Kui watched every move of the two in the surveillance video without blinking, and finally said: "Interesting. Look closely at the actions of the two. The suitcase was handed to Su Jing by Chen Hao voluntarily; Su Jing didn't go to take it."

"If Su Jing was going to the restroom, as a ticketing manager famous for his thoughtful service, he shouldn't be so lacking in awareness to hand the suitcase to Su Jing at this time, increasing her trouble, right?"

"Heh, unless the two had agreed on it long ago," Qi Fei thought immediately.

"Hmm, did you notice Su Jing's wrist when she took the suitcase? It's clearly unnaturally rotated inward. This is a defensive body language, indicating that she has a strong sense of insecurity about the handover of the suitcase. It's just going to the bathroom, what's there to be nervous about?" Zhong Kui's bright red lips curled slightly, and her ethereal pupils reflected the figures of the two in the picture. "Of course, Chen Hao is just as nervous. In fact, he knows there is no one behind him. This mechanical, constant looking back reaction also shows that at this moment, this person is in a state of high tension."

In the flickering light of the surveillance footage, Su Jing's figure emerged again from the corner of the baby care room.

She held the suitcase handle with one hand, and the brim of her fisherman's hat was pulled even lower.

"The position of the suitcase zipper." Qi Fei grabbed the mouse and pressed pause, the cursor pointing to the inconspicuous white dot on the suitcase in the picture. "The position of the zipper pull. Before, it was locked on the side, but now it's at the top. It seems she opened the suitcase after going into the baby care room."

Zhong Kui's fingertips hovered over Su Jing's shoulders and neck in the surveillance footage: "Her shoulders have clearly relaxed. It seems the task was completed successfully. Is going to the bathroom that stressful?"

Then she pointed to Su Jing's profile, where the woman's jawline and corners of her mouth were clearly visible under the brim of her hat: "Look at this unilateral contraction of the zygomaticus major muscle. A typical micro-expression of stress release."

As the surveillance footage continued, Chen Hao and Su Jing walked in opposite directions in Zone F, not even saying goodbye.

"Huh? I see that Chen Hao treats other clients by sending them to the car pickup point. So he just let Su Jing walk away like this?" Wu Shanqiu couldn't help but say. It seemed she had studied Chen Hao's movement trajectory at the airport quite a bit during this time.

"Hmph, it seems there is something more precious to protect here than a distinguished client," Zhong Kui said with a half-smile. "Chen Hao is really not a person who can disguise himself. All his body language shows that he is scared to death..." ===== CHAPTER 196 =====