… You haven’t found it yet?” Ma Houde was in contact with Lin Feng, “You guys come back first. There was not enough manpower just now, so I had to ask Zi Ling to help. Now that backup is here, let them start the search.”
This place was temporarily cleared out. It was dedicated as a command room. Of course, this was the small room for the Baiyu crew to use as a meeting room.
Xiao Bao, from the issuance of the certificate, was also sitting here. Of course, he was just sitting in the seating area under the podium, watching Officer Ma and the strange woman in front of him discussing something while quietly slacking and playing a recently popular internet game – “Emerald Fantasy.”
On the floor next to Xiao Bao, there was a man named Fei Ying lying. Xiao Bao glanced at him again… What the hell happened to this man?
In addition, Fei Ying’s mouth was sealed with black tape.
The door of the temporary command room had the sound of knocking. Ma Houde stopped whatever he was doing and made a gesture to Xiao Bao.
Xiao Bao nodded immediately. Ma Houde had instructed beforehand. As soon as Xiao Bao saw this gesture, he would need to hide the man named Fei Ying under the table. Of course, Fei Ying wouldn’t be able to escape the fate of getting stuck by the electroshock baton provided by Mu Zi (Xiao Bao was told that Ah Li’s name was Mu Zi).
Ma Houde opened the door at this time, “Deputy Captain Mu, you’re here?”
Mu Qinghai nodded, walked in, and glanced at this place. He saw a woman beside Ma Houde, and another sitting at the side… He remembered that the person sitting at the side seemed to be an appraisal officer who came by helicopter later on.
Xiao Bao nodded quickly, and then promptly paused the game. After ditching his fellow members participating in a dungeon, he turned on the projector on the table without any pressure and played a video.
“This is…” Mu Qinghai frowned, “This is a surveillance video? Police Officer Ma, why are you showing me this?”
Ma Houde smiled and said, “Don’t worry, you watch first and see what’s wrong.”
Ma Houde looked at Mu Qinghai with a stern look in his eyes, “Someone has deleted the original video material!”
Mu Qinghai looked at Ma Houde in silence for a few seconds before frowning and said, “Police Officer Ma, what are you trying to say? Do you suspect that I changed the video data?”
Ma Houde said calmly, “Deputy Captain, I just asked, but I didn’t say that you replaced it… You seem to be in a hurry to explain something?”
Mu Qinghai said, “Police Officer Ma, the context of questioning like yours will make people think like that, am I wrong?”
Ma Houde squinted at Mu Qinghai for several seconds, nodded abruptly, and pressed a phone button, “Bring him here.”
Ah Li… Ah Li lowered her head to play with her nails.
Ma Houde coughed slightly. At this time, the small meeting room door opened, and a police officer in uniform pushed in, bringing in a crew member.
Mu Qinghai glanced, and his brows furrowed slightly.
Ma Houde pointed to the crew member and said, “Deputy Captain, this crew member should be the one who was on duty in the surveillance room last night? Am I right?”
The crew member looked at everyone nervously and said, “I was on duty last night… Then there was a sudden power outage… Then, the Deputy Captain called me to go to the electric room to take a look. Later…”
“What happened then?” Ma Houde asked in a deep voice.
The crew hurriedly glanced at Mu Qinghai and avoided his gaze, “Later, when we arrived at the electric room, we realize that we didn’t bring the key. The Deputy Captain requested me to stay put while he made his return trip back to the surveillance room.”
“In other words, you didn’t stay together all the time, did you?”
“Yes… yes.”
Mu Qinghai said calmly, “Besides taking the key, what else can I do?”
Ma Houde snorted coldly, “I’ve learned that only you and the Captain have the key to the database storage where the information was stored. After Xiao Bao’s appraisal, this video’s coverage is at least not within these seven days. In other words, this data… was stored seven days ago.”
“It doesn’t prove anything.”
Xiao Bao took out a voice recorder, plugged it into the laptop, and a recording began to play… It was a complete recording.
After the recording was finished, Ma Houde said solemnly, “Mu Qinghai! It’s obvious now! You killed Qian Guoliang and took things from him! Do you still want to quibble!?”
This kind of thunder-like shouting and questioning carried Officer Ma’s righteousness as a police officer for decades, and the momentum was scary. When ordinary people were frightened, they would immediately panic and tremble. They would be shaken at the very least.
Unexpectedly, Mu Qinghai still calmly said at this time, “Sir, this recording of yours was given to you by a man with a straw hat, right? It just so happened that he was the person we were looking for. This guy secretly sneaked into the Captain’s bedroom and used some weird words to attack me with bad intentions.”
After speaking, Mu Qinghai looked at Ma Houde with sharp eyes, “… Someone can prove that this man broke into the Captain’s bedroom. In addition, can this recording still become an effective evidence?”
Mu Qinghai looked at Ma Houde’s gaze that seemed as if he wanted to eat people, and finally said seriously, “Sir, the deceased was found on the deck… At that time, the Captain and I were shooting a documentary, this could at least prove that the captain and I have an alibi, right?”
…
“Fuck! The people I hate the most are such intellectuals!!” Ma Houde angrily hit the table with his fist.
Xiao Bao, who had just started slacking again, was so frightened that he immediately stopped playing again. After scapegoating the team members, he quietly closed the notebook.
Both of them went out, Ah Li leaned against the wall, frowned and said, “Old Ma, usually it is difficult for ordinary people to calm down in this situation… However, isn’t this Mu Qinghai too calm?”
Ma Houde nodded, “Those things he said are actually correct. I was only planning to scare him, and the information sent to the court must not be written like this… but this guy really isn’t falling for it.”
“Mu Enli and Qian Guoliang have had two contacts… but Mu Qinghai is so calm.” Ah Li bit her lip and muttered, “Of these two people, who is the code name King?”
“Ah Li, in this case… Are both of them directly arrested and none of them will be let go?” Ma Houde suddenly asked quietly at this time.
Ah Li sighed and shook her head silently, “I’m not used to this approach… But there is no other way since national interest comes first. But in fact, no matter which one is King, the other one is implicated. Even if they are just father and son through adoption, their relationship is good, but… but at least secretly they have to be like this.”
The phone rang suddenly.
Ma Houde glanced at the caller ID, then suddenly looked up at Ah Li, “It’s Mu Enli!”
“Pick it up.”
Ma Houde nodded and turned on the speakerphone, “Hello, Captain?”
“Police Officer Ma, come over, I’m here in the control room… There’s no need to look anymore. I will explain everything.”
After speaking, the phone call was disconnected.
Ma Houde and Ah Li looked at each other, and both frowned at the same time.
