I Play Dungeons in the Police Station-Chapter 348 - 219: The Terrifying Elevator
"What are you doing here? No parking is allowed."
The gatekeeper security guard happened to be at the door, and upon seeing Li Xiang’s car, came over to inquire.
"Police. We want to ask you something. Has Ding Xiang come by recently?"
"Captain Ding? He was here. Just went in two minutes ago."
Ding Xiang used to be the head of security here, so the guard knew him. Now, he’s working for the Zhao Family, and the ordinary guards all try to curry favor with him.
"Let’s go inside."
Upon hearing that Ding Xiang had indeed gone inside, Li Xiang felt excited and quickly called Jiang Fei to go in and catch him.
They showed their badges, and the security guard didn’t dare stop them. Moreover, since Ding Xiang hadn’t come out yet, the door wasn’t locked, so Li Xiang and the others smoothly entered the Group building.
"We don’t know which floor he went to." Jiang Fei, upon entering, didn’t know what to do next, as the Zhao Group headquarters is very large, with 61 floors, and they currently don’t know exactly which floor Ding Xiang went to.
"Check the elevators, see which floor they’re stopping at."
"Right."
The two came to the elevator area and just in time to see one of the elevators in operation.
They watched the floor display, and at that moment, the elevator had reached the top floor.
"The 61st floor is the chairman’s office. What’s Ding Xiang doing in the chairman’s office in the middle of the night? Captain Li, should we go up too?"
"Wait a moment~"
Just then, an unbelievable scene unfolded as the floor display of the elevator started rapidly descending:
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Jiang Fei stared in disbelief at the floor display, his mouth agape in tension.
The elevator kept descending at an incredible speed, far beyond that of a high-speed elevator, as if it were in free fall:
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Boom〜
In just a few seconds, the elevator had reached the first floor with a thundering sound.
Something’s gone wrong〜
Li Xiang knew immediately that there had been an elevator accident.
Right then, the elevator door chimed open with a "ding".
Inside, Ding Xiang was lying twisted in the elevator, his eyes wide open, blood streaming from his seven orifices, unable to rest in peace.
Blood slowly seeped from the floor, flowing outside the elevator, meeting the shaft’s door gap, trickling down with a "drip-drip~" sound.
None flowed outside the elevator.
The two at the elevator door were rendered speechless in shock.
"Captain Li, what...what do we do?"
What to do?
Ding Xiang had been murdered to silence him.
His first thought was to replay the game and catch Ding Xiang before he was killed.
But he immediately abandoned the idea.
In games, there might be shortcuts, but in reality, there aren’t any. In reality, when someone dies, they’re truly dead.
Would they not investigate such a case if it occurred in reality?
Investigate, it must be investigated.
"Call the task force and have them handle this, and merge it with the investigation of Zhao Lao’s case."
In just one day, another person had died.
If you count controlling the remote in the car, that’s three times.
The cunning and brutality of the killer is evident.
Jiang Fei quickly took out his phone to call the task force colleagues.
"There’s been a murder. Come to Zhao Group headquarters. Bring the medical examiner too."
The task force members, still working overtime, sprang into action upon receiving Jiang Fei’s call.
Already off-duty, the medical examiner was pulled from his wife’s embrace, causing her to grumble.
Police cars, flashing neon lights, parked at the Zhao Group headquarters, leaving the gate guard dumbfounded.
"What... what’s going on? Two police officers weren’t enough; now a whole group has come?"
At this moment, the task force members got out of their cars and asked the guard, "Did two police officers just go inside?"
"Yes, they went inside."
After confirming the location was correct, they strode confidently inside.
Sensing trouble, the guard immediately called his supervisor to report level by level.
"Captain Li, what’s happening? Who is he?"
"We were investigating him as a suspect, but it’s clear now he was silenced. The killer took advantage of the employees leaving work, had him come over to retrieve something, and then tampered with the elevator, making it rise to the top floor and then drop freely."
"Gasp〜"
Everyone who came took a sharp breath, the magnetic levitation artificial heart murder, elevator murder, the killer uses external forces and remote control for murder; the killer’s meticulous thinking indicates they are a formidable opponent.
"Captain Li, let me handle this here."
"Alright."
The scene was gruesome, so Li Xiang stepped aside and handed it over to the tech investigators to gather evidence.
Soon, they discovered a remote control in the elevator’s control cabinet, similar to what Li Xiang and the others had found in the car before.
"Captain Li, Zhao Wanting has arrived."
Just as Li Xiang was examining the controller, Jiang Fei spoke softly in his ear.
Upon hearing this, Li Xiang looked over to see Zhao Wanting at the entrance, having changed her clothes to reveal a powerful aura, commanding presence that made people unconsciously make way for her, walking towards Li Xiang.
"Hello, Captain Li, what’s going on here?"
Zhao Wanting’s tone carried a slight questioning edge, which Li Xiang found irritating:
"Don’t you know better than I do? Stop pretending."
"You..."
Zhao Wanting didn’t expect Li Xiang to be so aggressive. She only wanted to understand the situation, yet he accused her of pretending. What was she pretending about?
Long accustomed to her high position, she had no awareness of any problem with her tone just now.
Normally, whether it was her subordinates, other business elites, or government officials, they would tread carefully around her, afraid of displeasing her.
But today, she was twice rebuffed by a mere police officer.
Although Li Xiang was the team leader of the task force, he was still just a regular officer.
"What do you mean? Ding Xiang was acting on your orders to retrieve something from the office, yet he died here. Do you have anything to say?"
"What do you imply? Are you accusing me of killing Ding Xiang?"
"I didn’t say that, but the police have reason to suspect your involvement in the murder. Please come with us to the station for questioning."
Hearing Li Xiang actually wanted to arrest her, Zhao Wanting was extremely angry internally, but forced herself to remain calm: "Alright, I’ll go with you, but I’ll call my lawyer. If there’s any misconduct, I’ll sue you."
"Suit yourself."
Li Xiang wasn’t worried about Zhao Wanting suing him. He wanted the truth.
Taking Zhao Wanting to the station, her private lawyer, dedicated even late at night, came quickly after a single call, connecting with Li Xiang, whom he directly ignored.
In the interrogation room, Zhao Wanting sat confidently, exuding the aura of a dominating CEO even at the police station.
"Ms. Zhao, regarding your father’s death and Ding Xiang’s death, we have some questions we’d like you to answer truthfully."
Despite feeling slight displeasure at Li Xiang’s attitude, Zhao Wanting decided to cooperate now that she was there.
"Ask away. I’ll tell you what I know."
"You know Zhou Xiaofeng and Ding Xiang, right?"
"Isn’t that obvious? I recruited them myself, how could I not know them?"
"Why did you have Ding Xiang go to the office headquarter tonight?"
"There’s a project; the client suddenly wants to get started urgently, requiring a meeting on-site tomorrow. It was unexpected, and the project’s relevant documents are in the office, so I asked Ding Xiang to get them for me. It’s not the first time; he often helps retrieve things for me, but I didn’t expect this to happen this time."
"What project? Who’s the client?"
"Sorry, that’s commercial confidentiality, I can’t tell you."
Zhao Wanting used commercial confidentiality to end that topic.
Although Li Xiang believed Zhao Wanting was highly suspicious, key evidence was now cut off with Ding Xiang’s death, making it difficult to find proof against Zhao Wanting.
