Chapter 216: Ji Peng

"These people are all over the country. We have sent letters of assistance to various places, asking them to assist in visiting and investigating these web writers." Wu Shanqiu handed a list with a long list of names to Qi Fei, "Fortunately, basically everyone who had a conflict with Hao Weiwei on the internet is a web writer who has published works on internet platforms like him.

To publish works, one must perform real-name authentication in the background, so we can get this list."

On the list, in the second column of strange screen names, were ordinary names, living in every corner of the country.

"There are a few here who are locals of Nancheng." Qi Fei said looking at the list.

"Yes, we have to talk to these few."

"However, if the murderer is among them, he must have been in Nancheng before and after Hao Weiwei was murdered. We have to take this list and compare it with the check-ins of various hotels in Nancheng."

"Hehe, I'm already doing it, and there should be results soon! We can go find this person to chat first." Wu Shanqiu said, pointing to a name on it, "Ji Peng," with the pen name "Undying Bird," and said, "This person and Hao Weiwei had a scolding war that lasted for more than a month, accusing each other of plagiarism, making a mess. On the internet, Ji Peng used the screen name 'Undying Bird' to threaten to find Hao Weiwei and kill him. However, after finishing the harsh words, he suddenly stopped scolding. Doesn't this look very suspicious?"

"Hehe, then let us go and see if he has put his harsh words into action." Qi Fei tapped the list in his hand and said.

When approaching the Ying River, the wind is always much stronger than in the city.

There are many towering residential buildings on the south bank of the river, which were developed in Nancheng twenty years ago.

In recent years, the economy has been sluggish, and no new high-rise buildings have been built. These river-view rooms, which were called luxury at that time, eroded by the river wind day and night, depreciated faster than ordinary buildings. The originally bright facades were dull and covered with dust and rain marks.

The elevator creaked and brought Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu to the 33rd floor. Passing through the small elevator hall, they found the apartment where Ji Peng lived.

The reddish-brown apartment door was knocked on. Qi Fei knocked several times before hearing the sound of the door lock opening. Soon, a young man who looked to be in his early twenties came to open the door.

"Hello, we are from the Nancheng Criminal Police Brigade. Is Ji Peng here?" Qi Fei asked.

"Uh, I am Ji Peng." The young man wore glasses and a cultural T-shirt, looking like he had an expression more raw than his age, "What do you want with me?" Unlike many people who see the police, he didn't seem surprised, and his tone carried numbness, which invisibly increased Qi Fei's suspicion.

Qi Fei got straight to the point: "We are here to learn about Hao Weiwei's situation."

Ji Peng seemed to be prepared and didn't rush to answer: "Oh, then come in." He was quite polite, saying as he opened the door completely, "No need to change shoes, the house is a bit messy, sorry."

Ji Peng was right. He lived in a single apartment of about fifty square meters. In the small room, books were piled everywhere, and clothes were thrown around, so messy that there was almost no place to step.

Ji Peng walked in front, collecting clothes scattered everywhere along the way, stuffing them messily into the bedroom wardrobe, and let Qi Fei and the others sit on a small sofa in the living room, feeling a bit at a loss: "The Hao Weiwei you mentioned is Supreme, right?"

"Yes, his pen name on the internet is Supreme Himself. I presume you are very familiar with him." Qi Fei emphasized the word "familiar" when he said it.

Ji Peng heard this and gave a faint, bitter smile: "Heh, can I not be familiar? Thanks to him, I still have black fans leaving messages to this day, scolding me as a plagiarism dog."

"I've seen the trouble between you two on the internet." Wu Shanqiu said, "He was the one who hung your name first, saying your novel was plagiarized, and then you quarreled. You must hate him to death, right?"

"Wait." Ji Peng looked dull, but his reaction was actually not slow. He sized up the two police officers in front of him and revealed a helpless, shallow smile, "You wouldn't suspect that I killed him, would you?"

"Hmm? We never said Hao Weiwei was dead." A trace of alertness flashed in Qi Fei's eyes.

Ji Peng immediately defended himself: "No, the two chapters recently updated in his novel, didn't they just say he was retaliated against and killed offline?"

"You are so sure?" Qi Fei asked immediately, "It never directly wrote that Hao Weiwei was killed."

"Ha, Hao Weisuo is Hao Weiwei, right? Our circle has known for a long time. They said he had an accident. The name Hao Weiwei was only dug up by someone in the past two days as the original name of Supreme Himself. Before, I only knew his pen name. Look, it seems what everyone said on the internet is true, right?" Ji Peng asked tentatively.

"That's right, Hao Weiwei was killed. We are investigating this case. At the end of last year, you once threatened on the internet to find him and kill him. Did that happen?" Qi Fei asked with a cold face.

Ji Peng's hands waved like a flower-hand dance: "That was because I was angry and said it randomly. I didn't do anything. You shouldn't be so sloppy as to think I killed him because of such words, right?

Then there would be a few more people you want to catch.

To be honest, if it weren't for someone digging into Supreme Himself's situation on the internet, I wouldn't even know he was in Nancheng."

"Where were you from 8 PM to 12 PM on April 14th?" Qi Fei asked.

"Ah, is this the time he was killed?" Ji Peng couldn't hide his curiosity.

"Answer the question first!"

"Oh oh... you suddenly ask me, I have to think..." Ji Peng's eyes glanced at the desk calendar on the coffee table, "I didn't do anything, just stayed at home writing. I usually don't go out, except for writing, eating, and sleeping."

"Alone?"

"Yes, I live alone."

"That means no one can provide you with an alibi?" Qi Fei asked like a machine gun.

"Ah, I said I didn't kill that guy." Ji Peng became anxious when he heard this, scratching his head and thinking of a way to prove it. Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration and clapped his hands, "Oh! I can prove I was at home!

I am used to writing with Word documents, saving one chapter per document.

You can check the save time of my file that day, right? I can't kill someone while typing." Ji Peng said quite proudly, clearly thinking he had found a very smart way.

"It could also be that someone else edited your document. How can you prove that the save record was left by you?" Unfortunately, Qi Fei clearly didn't believe it, "We saw your scolding war with Hao Weiwei. You stopped responding to him after you said you wanted to kill him. Why?" ===== CHAPTER 217 =====