Chapter 358: Gold-Rimmed Glasses

"Having You He pretend to be himself and kill Lv Dandan—these actions are completely meaningless." Zhong Kui stood by the window, looking at the pitch-black night before dawn outside, and said, "Xi He is a person who calculates everything. These actions have no benefit other than increasing the risk of exposure. You He has his own crimes to be punished for, but I don't see any reason why Lv Dandan should die."

"That is indeed the case," Qi Fei agreed immediately.

"Xi He is a person even Zhong Xiaoyu cannot change. He wouldn't suddenly become a reckless criminal who kills at will. Therefore, there is only one explanation—there is a reason behind these two deaths that we haven't discovered yet," Zhong Kui said firmly. "Especially with Lv Dandan; he didn't even complete the sense of ritual he insists on. There is no mark related to the monster left here."

"There is another strange thing. Jumping down from this window can enter the third floor of the hotel. But Xi He's figure never appeared in the surveillance on the third floor," Qi Fei muttered, then suddenly rushed to the third floor. Regardless of disturbing the guests, he dragged the clerk to search room by room. In such a short time, he didn't believe Xi He could leave smoothly.

However, to his disappointment, after searching all the rooms, there was simply no sign of Xi He.

He was like a magician, just disappearing from the hotel out of thin air.

Unwilling to give up, he climbed outside the window and searched all the way along the narrow eaves. Strangely, he didn't even see a single footprint.

When he reached the platform of the front hall below Lv Dandan's room, he finally found the jacket and pants Xi He was wearing in the surveillance, and along with them, a pair of men's disposable slippers were discovered.

Looking up, Zhong Kui was still standing at the window of Lv Dandan's room, looking down at him from above.

Where exactly was Xi He?

Ever since You He's body was discovered, the unease in Qi Fei's heart had lingered day and night. He always felt he had overlooked the most important thing, but he just didn't know what it was.

"How could he jump out of the window wearing slippers? Wasn't he afraid of falling to his death?" Wu Shanqiu looked at Qi Fei, who had returned to the fourth floor, and asked in confusion.

"No." Qi Fei looked at these physical evidences, "The clothes, pants, and these slippers are scattered in different places on the platform. If he took off these clothes on the platform to get rid of tracking, there was no need to deliberately scatter them in different places."

"It looks more like they were thrown down from here," Zhong Kui continued Qi Fei's words, then took off her own coat and threw it out the window.

Sure enough, the clothes fluttered in the wind in the air and landed gently near where Qi Fei had discovered Xi He's jacket.

"This footprint, if I'm not mistaken, should match the sole of the disposable slippers. He wants us to think he jumped out of the window and fled. Why?" Qi Fei couldn't help but furrow his brows tightly.

Zhong Kui looked at Lv Dandan's corpse again: "She asked to meet you at 3:00 AM. What exactly did she want to say? What is there that couldn't be said over the phone?" Having said this, her brows sank, "We are missing two people here."

"Right, where did Dr. Jiang and Shanqiu go?" Qi Fei looked around. Only the Baicheng police who arrived after receiving the report were investigating the scene, and Jiang Tianyi and Wu Shanqiu were not there.

"Jiang Tianyi suggested going to the lobby to ask about suspicious persons and asked Shanqiu to go with him. Qi Fei! Find Shanqiu immediately." There was an urgency in Zhong Kui's words that he had never heard before.

Qi Fei didn't understand why she was suddenly nervous, but he knew the matter was of great importance and didn't dare to delay. He hurriedly dialed Wu Shanqiu's phone, but it was already turned off. He hurriedly dialed Jiang Tianyi's phone, and it was also turned off.

"Wh, what's going on?" Qi Fei panicked.

Zhong Kui didn't speak but pulled Qi Fei and rushed to the elevator immediately. When they reached the lobby and asked the front desk clerk, they were told that only one man had left here. Judging by the description, it was Jiang Tianyi.

"Oh, right. That gentleman said if anyone looked for him in a while, let me give this to that person. It seems you are the friend that gentleman mentioned," the clerk said, taking a pair of glasses and a folded note from the drawer.

These were the gold-rimmed glasses Jiang Tianyi wore daily.

Qi Fei took the glasses, not understanding the meaning, and hurriedly opened the note. He saw only one line written on it: "She is in the hotel. I'll give you 2 hours to find her."

Only Zhong Kui seemed to have understood everything and said coldly: "Zhong Xiaoyu, that idiot, has been fooled again."

"Oh right, when that gentleman took off his glasses, he specifically looked at this camera," the clerk pointed to the probe facing the passengers at the front desk.

In the footage, Jiang Tianyi slowly took off his gold-rimmed glasses. Although his hairstyle and face shape were different, those eyes without lenses were full of ambition and madness, staring at the lens. Qi Fei was so familiar with them—these eyes belonged to Xi He.

"Jiang Tianyi is Xi He. We were really played around," Zhong Kui said behind Qi Fei, "He never left Lv Dandan's room at all."

Qi Fei's brain felt like it was overloaded, and he muttered distractedly: "This is impossible, this is impossible. I have known Dr. Jiang for so many years, I have poured out all my pain to him. For me..." He couldn't continue. He couldn't say it out loud; for him, Jiang Tianyi was an existence close to an older brother.

How ironic. Could he really be his brother, Xi He?

"You can think back carefully about Jiang Tianyi and Xi He. Except for that time in Yuanxi, have they ever appeared at the same time?" Zhong Kui said firmly.

"Impossible. Zhong Xiaoyu knows him. She said Jiang Tianyi is a senior fellow apprentice..." Qi Fei was unwilling to admit it.

"Hmph, at this point, haven't you realized it yet? Zhong Xiaoyu is Xi He's ultimate puppet. It's not difficult for him to make Zhong Xiaoyu believe she has such a senior fellow apprentice," Zhong Kui said disdainfully. "And many things can be explained. Why has Xi He always known everything about our side, as if he had opened a heavenly eye?"

"I am his heavenly eye..." Qi Fei said with annoyance, "Jiang Tianyi is the person who can understand the details of the case best, apart from the people in the police station."

"If it weren't for You He's body being accidentally discovered, and that mask exposing that the Xi He in the culvert was fake, he would have continued to lurk. You He was the first to disrupt his rhythm, and Lv Dandan was the second. Lv Dandan was Zhong Xiaoyu's senior fellow apprentice. I think she must have discovered that this Jiang Tianyi, the so-called senior fellow apprentice of Zhong Xiaoyu, didn't exist in their circle of classmates and wanted to find us to ask about this matter clearly. Unfortunately, Xi He saw through her suspicion..." Zhong Kui said. ===== CHAPTER 359 =====