Chapter 89: The Second Cup of Hush-Money Coffee

"Do you want me to provide you with some underworld clues?" Zhong Kui raised the corners of her mouth and blinked at Qi Fei.

"Investigating a case is investigating a case, what underworld or human world, speak quickly..." Qi Fei took a deep breath. Zhong Kui looked so cute like this, he could only deliberately retort to cover up his fascination.

"First of all, this ghost has been seen by more than one person. The forms seen are different, but the only consistency is that the gender is female. Also, the location is the backyard. Everyone says it's floating in mid-air, flashing by," Zhong Kui said.

"This is about the same as what Wang Defa saw..." Qi Fei muttered. If one person saw it, it could be considered a hallucination, but so many people saw it.

"If it were a hallucination..." Zhong Kui seemed to hear the doubt in Qi Fei's heart and said, "So many people seeing similar phenomena, it's probably really haunted."

"You know there are no ghosts in this world," Qi Fei said.

"I'm saying there's a ghost in this," Zhong Kui deliberately emphasized the last two words. She was still focused on the analysis of the case, but Qi Fei was watching her at this moment and couldn't focus on the case.

He dragged Zhong Kui back to the interrogation room and closed the door with a "bang".

"What are you doing? Are you going to interrogate me?" Zhong Kui was still the same, dragging and arguing with Qi Fei.

Qi Fei stood with his hands on his hips, looking at Zhong Kui, wanting to speak but stopping.

Zhong Kui, who was always extremely smart, looked at Qi Fei with some ignorance at this moment.

The interrogation room was terribly quiet. Qi Fei paced back and forth irritably, looking at Zhong Kui from time to time.

"Strange, even I can't understand what you're doing," Zhong Kui observed Qi Fei like a cat and said.

After hearing this, Qi Fei became even more irritable. Finally, he took a deep breath, walked to Zhong Kui, and took out a small transparent evidence bag. Looking closely, there was a scarlet fiber inside.

"Hmm? What does this mean?" Zhong Kui pursed her lips. "Does it have anything to do with Hong Mei's case?"

"This is what I found on myself when I woke up in the wooden house at Zizai Shan that day. I've been carrying it with me. Zhong Kui, I want to know, what are we? Colleagues? Friends? But, you are clearly so special to me..." After Qi Fei finished speaking, he defended himself, "I don't have delusions, I'm not being sentimental. I'm very sure you are very special to me. You told me so many secrets you don't share with others. You always tease me with that indifferent attitude, pretending you don't care. But Zhong Kui, I'm not you. I've said it, I will fall into it. You don't know how charming you are. Your mystery, your wisdom, your independence, your... no, actually it doesn't matter, because it's you, I love you..."

Zhong Kui stared at Qi Fei. These words were completely beyond her expectations and beyond her understanding. She could control everything with a super-strong brain, but everything Qi Fei said was not within her personality setting.

"I..." For the first time, the sharp-tongued Zhong Kui didn't know what to say.

And she indeed had no chance to say anything else, because the moment she opened her mouth, Qi Fei's powerful hand wrapped around her slender waist and kissed her without explanation.

Zhong Kui's hands hovered in mid-air, as if a child who had suddenly lost their way didn't know where to go for a moment. Qi Fei's lips were so warm and soft, making her body, which had always been tense against the whole world, relax for the first time. Finally, her hands wrapped around Qi Fei's back, and her fingertips fell lightly on his back.

Suddenly, a screeching sound came from the microphone in the observation room next door, and there was a small exclamation. Clearly, someone behind the one-way glass of the interrogation room had seen this scene.

This sound woke Qi Fei from his infatuation. When his hand wanted to let go, it was Zhong Kui who hugged him tightly and kissed him deeper...

When Qi Fei returned to the office, the look in Wu Shanqiu's eyes betrayed her.

"Cough, cough." Qi Fei cleared his throat awkwardly, guessing that the exclamation in the observation room just now was Wu Shanqiu. He leaned over to her and "bribed" her: "I'll treat you to coffee, this matter must be kept secret."

"Ha, I saw that you two had something going on a long time ago. Just now, Brother Fei, you were quite handsome." Wu Shanqiu's words made Qi Fei's whole face turn red, and the next words made him want to die of embarrassment. "This hush-money coffee of yours, you have to buy one more cup..."

"Eh? Who else?" Qi Fei felt bad as soon as he heard it.

Wu Shanqiu stuck out her tongue and pointed to Liu Tong, who was walking toward them.

"Captain Liu?!" Qi Fei held his forehead in annoyance. Why did he impulsively go to the interrogation room just now? Didn't he know it was easy to be "observed" in the next room?

Liu Tong was still smiling as usual, but today this smile had a bit more teasing in it.

Sure enough, as soon as he saw Qi Fei, he stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, pretending to be serious: "Well done." Then he changed the subject, "I hope you can show the same passion when working."

Qi Fei really wanted to die. He was looking for a crack in the ground to crawl into when Xiao Tao's phone call appeared in time to save him.

The other end of the phone said that Hong Mei's body was ready for autopsy.

The cold autopsy room calmed everyone's minds, and they immediately entered a professional working state.

Xiao Tao performed the autopsy on Hong Mei under everyone's gaze.

The cold instruments collided with each other, and the sharp blades pierced into Hong Mei's already broken body mercilessly, searching for possible evidence.

When Xiao Tao opened the abdominal cavity, Hong Mei's stomach was empty, with almost no food at all.

Everyone knew this wasn't a good sign. The digestion of food in the stomach is an important basis for forensic doctors to judge the time of death. Now this important basis was gone.

"Even if it was midnight, she finished dinner after 7:00 in the evening and drank red wine before she died. It's impossible for her stomach to be empty, right?" Wu Shanqiu immediately raised a question.

"The esophagus, throat, and tongue root have obvious congestion symptoms. It seems the deceased vomited before death," Xiao Tao said while checking.

"Could it be that she drank too much and vomited it all out?" Qi Fei guessed.

"Or... the female celebrity vomited everything she ate for dinner to maintain her figure?" Wu Shanqiu guessed further.

Hong Mei's thin body lay flat on the autopsy table. At 1.68 meters tall, she weighed less than 90 kilograms. It was no exaggeration to say she was skin and bones, not at all as sexy as she looked on screen.

"Indeed, the deceased has severe malnutrition, which should be caused by excessive dieting," Xiao Tao said, continuing to check the abdominal cavity. "Wait..." He seemed to have discovered an incredible phenomenon. ===== CHAPTER 90 =====