Chapter 22: The Bizarre Murder Case

  Two days later, Liu Fei suddenly received a transfer order. The order clearly stated that Comrade Liu Fei had voluntarily requested to work at the grassroots level. After consideration by the organization, it was decided to satisfy Comrade Liu Fei's wishes and transfer him to the Qiaoxi District Public Security Sub-Bureau, Criminal Investigation Division, as an ordinary criminal police officer.

  Upon receiving the news, Liu Fei was thoroughly enraged. He stormed over to Qin Lianhai's office, only to find the door tightly shut. After knocking for half a day with no response, he dialed Qin Lianhai's phone number and got a recorded message from a woman repeatedly saying that the call could not be connected. It wasn't until he asked someone else that he found out Qin Lianhai had actually gone on a business trip.

  It wasn't until then that Liu Fei finally came to his senses and realized he had been deceived, being played by Qin Lianhai's clever trick of openly repairing the bridge while secretly crossing through Chen Cang!

  Liu Fei held the transfer order in his hand, hesitating in front of Qin Lianhai's office door for a while before finally leaving with a scowl on his face. He was furious and felt humiliated. "Damn it," he thought to himself, "I've been working hard every day, but today I got pecked in the eye by this sly guy Qin Lianhai." Liu Fei really wanted to call his university classmate Liu Jian's father to teach Qin Lianhai a lesson, but he quickly suppressed the idea. After all, he had come to Nanping for a reason - to become an official and make a name for himself in his career as soon as possible, to become a high-ranking official and make his parents proud. For this goal, Liu Fei had to think things through carefully. Although he could call Liu Jianqing, the deputy minister of public security, to take care of Qin Lianhai easily, doing so would likely make Liu Jianqing look down on him, and the outcome would definitely not be worth it. Using such an important connection for something so trivial did feel like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

  When Liu Fei arrived at the Bridge West District Public Security Bureau with his appointment letter, Director Zheng of the bureau warmly welcomed him and personally arranged for him to meet his direct superior, Guo Qiang, captain of the Yu Hua District Criminal Police Brigade, a deputy department-level cadre.

  Guo Qiang seemed to have received special treatment from Director Zheng, and enthusiastically arranged an independent office for Liu Fei. This made Liu Fei feel somewhat surprised and honored. He knew that having an independent office was usually reserved for leaders or at least deputy department heads, but he was just a newly graduated university student and a civil servant, how could he be worthy of enjoying an entire office to himself?

  Liu Fei wanted to decline, but was persuaded by Guo Qiang, "Liu Fei, don't decline, this is Director Zheng's personal arrangement, I'm just following the leader's instructions, don't make it difficult for your brother!"

  The words had been said to this extent, and Liu Fei naturally couldn't decline anymore, so he could only accept this arrangement. However, after Guo Qiang left, when Liu Fei sat alone in the spacious and bright office, he felt that this matter was a bit strange. No matter what, letting a rookie staff member directly move into an independent office that only deputy department-level leaders and above were equipped with was absolutely abnormal.

  After a while, Guo Qiang walked into Liu Fei's office with a thick stack of files and said: "Liu Fei, Director Zheng instructed me to bring these files to you, saying that you were very capable when you were at the provincial hall. He asked me to hand them over to you for handling. I'm really envious of you, I've been in the criminal investigation team for so many years and have never received such treatment!"

  Liu Fei just smiled and didn't say a word, while Guo Qiang put down the file and left.

  Liu Fei picked up the files and roughly browsed through them, only to discover a problem. The cases recorded in these files were all over the place - headless corpse case, car theft case, missing person case, etc., with various types of cases, but they all had one thing in common: since the case was filed, it has been dragging on until now without being solved.

  At this moment, Liu Fei could only smile wryly: "Director Zheng really thinks highly of me, entrusting me with handling all these cases." At the same time, Liu Fei began to vaguely feel that Director Zheng's move might have a deeper meaning, but as for his purpose, it was still unknown.

  Liu Fei has never been afraid of any challenge. Although he doesn't know Director Zheng's purpose, he decides to thoroughly investigate the cases involved in these files and let Director Zheng see his true strength. He believes that no matter where you are, real ability is always what speaks for itself.

  He picked up a volume of documents and began to read it carefully.

  This volume records a bizarre murder case.

  The incident occurred in the Lv Yuan residential area two years ago. The Lv Yuan residential area is located near the train station, was built in the 1970s and has been around for over 30 years, it's already dilapidated. However, due to its extremely superior geographical location, not many residents were willing to move out at that time. Unfortunately, two years ago, a new urban planning project required the demolition of Lv Yuan residential area to build a large commercial center. After the developer's secret operation, most residents moved away. In the end, only three stubborn households remained. The owners of these three households are local bullies who also know some officials on the surface. Because of these three households, the project was delayed for more than half a year and couldn't be started.

  Six months later, one night, all 13 people from the three families died in their homes. According to the on-site records at the time, none of the doors of the three houses were damaged, and there were no injuries on any of the 13 bodies. No footprints or fingerprints were found inside the house either. This case shocked the municipal government, even the provincial government was shocked, and Vice Governor Ma Dinghua, who was in charge of public security, personally instructed that the case must be handled quickly and strictly. However, a month passed, and this case still had no leads, slowly, this case became an unsolved case, and it was put on file.

  After finishing the entire file, Liu Fei leaned back in his comfortable office chair, lit a Red Pagoda Mountain cigarette, and silently took a drag. The Red Pagoda Mountain was Liu Fei's exclusive brand of cigarettes; he couldn't get used to other brands, but he loved the taste of Red Pagoda Mountain - it was rich and full-bodied!

  Smoke was slowly rising, and the whole case kept replaying in Liu Fei's mind. Liu Fei focused his thinking on the interests of the entire case, believing that whoever would benefit most directly from the case would be the most likely to be the murderer, with the strongest motive for murder. However, he couldn't understand why the file only recorded the scene of the crime and the investigation personnel's visits, which were of little reference value for solving the case. Looking at the entire case, the ultimate beneficiary was the developer, but there was no record in the file of any situation related to the Green Source District and the developer after the case occurred?

  Liu Fei stood up and bid farewell to Guo Qiang, saying he had to go out to work on a case. As Liu Fei walked away, a cold smile spread across Guo Qiang's face: "Hmph, with your kind of inexperienced young punk thinking you can crack the case? You're dreaming! Even if the provincial hall's top detectives came, they'd be stumped by the cases I've specially picked out for you. Kid, you're still too green!"

  Liu Fei soon arrived at the location of Lv Yuan Xiaoqu. However, the former Lv Yuan Xiaoqu has now become the Yindu Building, a large commercial center that integrates shopping malls, offices, and leisure entertainment into one comprehensive building. It has now become one of the landmarks of Nanping City.

  Liu Fei visited many people around and gathered a message that the developer of Yinda Building is a businessman named Peng Weiguo, who has a very strong background. He is now a well-known entrepreneur and philanthropist in Nanping City, and also a famous figure on the Hurun Rich List. He himself is also a CPPCC member.

  It was almost time to get off work when Liu Fei received a call from Xu Jiaojiao, asking him to accompany her shopping in the evening.