Chapter 56: Wen Keke Gets a Blind Date

After lunch, Lin Feng lay back in the conference room chair and took a nap.

Many other team members were also lying here, with both feet on the table.

Detachment Captain Liu suddenly walked in and said, "Everyone, today is the same, but this case hasn't been solved yet, the suspect hasn't been found, so everyone will work overtime this weekend…"

The team members didn't react much, because they were already used to it.

Detachment Captain was about to leave when Lin Feng raised his hand, "Captain, I have something this weekend; could I… take two days off!"

Detachment Captain Liu first opened his eyes wide, then laughed, "Comrade Xiaolin, you need to have a spirit of dedication, understand? Look, all our teammates are working overtime; as one of them, you shouldn't feel embarrassed, right?"

"I... am embarrassed!"

Before Lin Feng could finish the sentence, Team Captain Liu had already left.

At 1 p. m., back in the playback hall, Lin Feng sat down to organize his thoughts and said to the technician, "Wei, could you pull up the full‑day surveillance around the case?"

Technician Zhao Xiaowei was startled, then reminded, "There are seven surveillance cameras in total, and the surrounding foot traffic is heavy; can your eyesight keep up?"

Lin Feng laughed, "Don't worry! If it doesn't work, I'll give up; just give it a try!"

Zhao Xiaowei nodded and consolidated the footage from the seven cameras onto the monitor in front of Lin Feng.

"Why the full day?"

A team member beside him asked.

Lin Feng frowned and said, "I'm wondering whether the killer could have infiltrated during the day. Although the victim's time of death was at night, the murderer might have slipped in during daylight, then waited until sunrise when the crowd outside increased before leaving."

"How could that be? The whole house is filled with gas…"

Before the team member could finish, Lin Feng shook his head, "Not necessarily!"

After speaking, Lin Feng lifted his head and focused his attention on the surveillance footage.

The time on the screen quickly reached 06:06, the moment of the incident.

"Snap!"

Lin Feng suddenly reached for the keyboard, laughed, and said, "Everyone, you can rest this weekend. I've found the person!"

As soon as the words left his mouth, several team members watching the monitor gathered around.

Lin Feng raised his hand and pointed at a woman on the screen who was carrying a black Backpack, wearing a duck‑bill cap and black casual clothes, saying, "This woman appeared around 4 p. m. before the incident and showed up again at 06:06 the next morning, still carrying a large black Backpack…"

After Lin Feng finished, technician Zhao Xiaowei clipped the footage of the specified time period and played it on the Large Screen.

Sure enough, the woman's movements were very suspicious!

Zhao Xiaowei immediately inserted the woman's appearance into other surveillance footage for comparison.

Around the crime scene, the surveillance showed her appearing in three locations; the other two spots presumably weren't captured.

This is definitely not a coincidence!

Soon someone informed Detachment Captain Liu.

Detachment Captain Liu rushed over, ordering the technician to input the woman's facial features into the police's major database for identification.

That will take some time.

Lin Feng glanced at the clock; it was already 3 p. m.

He rubbed his swollen eyes, ran to the sixth‑floor balcony, smoked, and gazed into the distance.

Just a day or two; if he kept looking like this for long, he thought he might develop nearsightedness.

Detachment Captain Liu suddenly walked over.

Lin Feng quickly handed Detachment Captain Liu a cigarette.

After lighting it, Lin Feng laughed and asked, "Captain Liu, I heard there's a shooting range in the bureau; may I go fire a few rounds?"

Detachment Captain Liu laughed, "Of course! You're now a member of our detachment. However, bullets are allocated, so if you want to practice shooting, you can go to the range. You're not short on money."

"By the way, shooting is shooting; even if you're a sharpshooter, you can't keep weapons privately—that's illegal, understand?"

Lin Feng nodded, "I know, I'm just interested in shooting."

"Alright! Come with me!"

Detachment Captain Liu patted Lin Feng's shoulder.

The two went down to the basement.

In the basement there was a small shooting range, and next to it was the weapons management room.

Captain Liu took a *** handgun.

Then he taught Lin Feng how to load ammunition, disengage the safety, grip the gun, and so on.

After the explanation, Detachment Captain Liu fired two shots.

The target was about twenty‑plus meters away, but the target was very small.

Both of Captain Liu's shots scored an eight‑ring.

"Haven't fired a gun in a long time; my hands feel a bit rusty."

After putting the gun down, Detachment Captain Liu laughed, shook his head, and said.

Then he loaded the remaining thirteen bullets into Lin Feng's gun.

Lin Feng raised his hand and aimed at the bullseye.

"Bang~"

The gun fired.

The first shot missed the target.

Detachment Captain Liu laughed, "When you pull the trigger, keep your hand steady..."

After thirteen shots, finally it hit the target.

Lin Feng also found his feel, but unfortunately Detachment Captain Liu pulled him away.

"Captain Liu, if I fire a few more rounds, I'm sure I can become a sharpshooter."

Lin Feng said with an unwilling expression.

Detachment Captain Liu patted Lin Feng's shoulder again and said, "If you want to play with guns, go to the shooting range; that's all for today."

"Then... if the case is solved, can the 20,000‑yuan reward be exchanged for bullets?" Lin Feng suggested.

Lin Feng expected Detachment Captain Liu to be difficult, but was surprised by the cheerful agreement: "Sure! That's great! At market price, 20 yuan per round—how about that? Twenty thousand yuan gets you 1,000 rounds; you can fire them all in a day without problem."

"Uh~"

Lin Feng felt it was so dark!

At the outdoor range, a single bullet costs only a few dozen yuan.

Later, the result came out.

Detachment Captain Liu set off with the whole squad.

Around six‑thirty that evening, he brought the suspect back.

He could have left work, but Lin Feng stayed out of curiosity.

He wanted to watch the interrogation.

The young woman's surname is Bian; her name is Bian Rong, twenty‑two years old, from Yunsheng.

Under the baseball cap she wore was a bald head.

Bian Rong confessed her criminal facts without hesitation.

The course of the crime matched what everyone had inferred.

After the interrogation ended, Lin Feng drove home with Qi Yao, feeling a bit down.

While eating steak, Qi Yao unusually spoke up: "Although she said the motive was that the people she killed had insulted her sister, causing her sister to hang herself, she also unintentionally killed two innocents in the course of seeking revenge..."

In Lin Feng's mind flashed a previous day: four strangers traveling to Yunsheng.

One of the men was accompanied by a woman.

The four men and one woman stayed overnight in a village; that night they assaulted a woman... absurdly, the woman beside the man actually helped ventilate the room.

Early the next morning, the group left.

They didn't know that the victim's younger sister, who had returned home for the holidays, saw the scene.

After Qi Yao finished, Lin Feng shook his head and said, "I feel like I've become an accomplice."

Qi Yao shook her head and said, "Don't think that way; we're just law enforcers, leave judgment to the law."

"Think about it—if everyone took personal revenge, the world would fall into chaos. Moreover, among the dead, two women were innocent."

"That monkey was innocent too."

Lin Feng added.

He expected Qi Yao to laugh, but she paused, then said seriously, "Yes! The monkey was only trained to help open doors, becoming a tool that was exploited."

Lin Feng sighed again, "That girl is bold enough to sneak into someone's room during the day; if she were caught it'd be over. Yet few people, after returning home, would crouch under the bed to peek."

According to Bian Rong's confession, after using the monkey to open the door she hid under the bedroom's bed, waited until the victim fell asleep, then crawled out and used a herb she carried to drug the victim.

She then cut the room's power, turned on the gas, sealed the doors and windows, and used a portable small oxygen tank to breathe herself.

Within half an hour the victim would die of gas poisoning...

The whole process left not a single trace!

Bian Rong also said that after the crime she stayed in Yanjing, planning to wait for half a year.

If within half a year the police didn't catch her, she would return home to continue her life.

If the police caught her, she would honestly confess everything.

Soon, Lin Feng composed himself and teased Qi Yao: "Yao Yao, when August comes, what gift should we buy?"

Qi Yao whispered, "It's still early."

She didn't object to Lin Feng's intimate nickname "Yao Yao".

"I think I'll have nightmares tonight; you might as well sleep with me."

Lin Feng smiled again.

This time Qi Yao shook her head decisively: "No, you sleep on the sofa."

After speaking, a faint blush appeared on her beautiful face.

The 21st, Saturday.

At eight o'clock, Wen Keke was still sleeping in, when a phone suddenly woke her.

When she saw the caller ID, she snapped awake.

"Mom~"

Wen Keke called into the phone.

A middle‑aged woman's voice came from the phone, "Keke, I'll be flying over this afternoon."

"Okay! I'll drive to the airport to pick you up."

Wen Keke said happily.

Wen Keke's mother added, "I'm not alone; there's Aunt Peng and Aunt Peng's son Cao Ming, the boy you used to play with when you were kids, remember?"

Wen Keke frowned, "It's been over ten years, how could I remember! Mom, why are you coming with them?"

"You know, you'll be twenty‑six later this year, right? Cao Ming is twenty‑eight, two years older than you. He's good‑looking and works as a bank clerk, a stable job…"

"Mom!"

Wen Keke interrupted, "I'm currently in a career upswing, I have to work! I'm not thinking about marriage now. Also, it's rude you bring people over without telling me first, understand?"

"I'm your mother; I don't care about you, who does? Let me tell you, Cao Ming is a great guy, you'll regret missing him."

"I won't say more now; when you meet, we'll talk! The plane should arrive around 3:30 pm; remember to pick us up at the airport!"

After that, she hung up.