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Nobody had seen the cat.
Where did this cat come from?
Xiang Wan felt thrilled at the sight of the cat. She walked slowly towards it in fear of scaring it away.
The cat was on high alert as its fur was standing up as it eyed Xiang Wan defensively.
“Meow!”
“Meow, meow…” Xiang Wan mimicked the cat’s meowing.
In order to bond with the cat, Xiang Wan thought she needed to start by sounding like one.
This might seem childish, but it was a very effective method most of the time.
She managed to attract the cat’s attention successfully.
The cat now arched its back warily, but it didn’t run away.
It looked like this might work!
“Don’t be afraid! Meow… don’t be afraid…”
Xiang Wan squat down as she cautiously reached out her hand to stroke the black cat’s fur.
“Meow—” The black cat felt alarmed at her action. It turned around and leaped away.
The cat landed on a pile of construction waste. Although the cat did not use much strength, the pile of waste started crumbling down like dominos…
The waste fell onto the floor as the cat leaped onto them, causing the dust to fly about which clogged their noses.
That cat mewled before it descended down a hole.
Xiang Wan’s eyesight was not 20/20 anymore due to her habit of facing computer screens in a long period of time being a web novelist. Nevertheless, since the cat’s eyes glinted brightly from within the darkness, she managed to catch a glimpse of it.
“You still want to run?”
Xiang Wan chuckled and continue tip-toeing forward.
“It’s okay if you want to run, but you have to let me know where do you come from. Why didn’t we see you earlier?”
She spoke softly as though she was chatting with the cat.
Afterward, she moved closer, one step at a time.
Cheng Zheng and Quan Shaoteng followed behind her.
“Xiang Wan, what are you doing?”
Ah!
Xiang Wan suddenly let out a scream.
“What happened?” Quan Shaoteng was the first to rush beside her.
“Blood—” Xiang Wan said in a low but loud tone.
Hearing that word in such a cold night sent chills down the spine of those unfortunate enough to hear it.
Cheng Zheng got ahead of Quan Shaoteng and took Xiang Wan’s arms.
His line of sight shifted to her hands.
Her fair palm was stained with fresh blood.
At this moment, they realized that the shivering cat was in fact, injured… The spot the cat was hiding from underneath the collapsed construction rubbish was a sinister, narrow hole.
“Flashlight!”
It was actually a basement.
…
Xiang Wan never raised a cat before but Fang Yuanyuan did.
Thanks to Fang Yuanyuan, Xiang Wan was also considered a cat lover.
For cat lovers, they couldn’t stand the sight of an injured cat…
Thus, Cheng Zheng, the Forensics Captain, took the role of a vet for the meantime.
He took about half an hour to sew up the wounds on the cat.
“It doesn’t look like a gunshot wound.”
“It got hurt by a crashing object.”
“I wonder who is cruel enough to do that to a cat.”
“Maybe it was an accident…”
Xiang Wan sighed as she looked at the cat.
“It’s a pity that it’s just a cat. It couldn’t tell us where Bai Muchuan and the rest are…”
They had checked out the collapsed basement earlier.
However, the basement was empty.
Not a single soul was seen.
There weren’t any hidden passageways in the basement which they had theorized about earlier.
In other words, their only reward that night was that they saved a cat.
The atmosphere started to become weird.
It felt like a big stone weighing on everybody’s heart.
The missing Bai Muchuan and the group of people—
They couldn’t find him and the rest, but they couldn’t stop searching either.
Xiang Wan was having some difficulty breathing. As she stood in front of the ‘operating table’ and looked at the still shivering cat, she suddenly let out a cold sneer.
“That person will definitely know the things a cat wouldn’t know.”
That person?
Which person?
They even found rats underneath Vulture’s Mouth, but there was no living person there.
Cheng Zheng and Quan Shaoteng looked at Xiang Wan.
Cheng Xin, who also came to watch them save the cat, as well as Mei Xin, who was assisting Cheng Zheng in the ‘cat operation’, turned their heads to look at Xiang Wan too.
“You have a plan?” Mei Xin asked Xiang Wan with anticipation.
She knew Xiang Wan well enough that she was not someone who would say something if she wasn’t sure enough.
As for Cheng Xin, she let out a soft mocking laugh.
She did not think there was anything special about Bai Muchuan’s so-called ‘wifey’.
As a postgraduate from Criminal Studies, she was very contemptuous of a web novelist like Xiang Wan.
“What other plans can you have? We’ve already searched all we could!”
Cheng Xin’s disdain was written all over her face.
Xiang Wan gave her a glance but didn’t attempt to retort her.
At that moment, there were lots of thoughts inside her brain, all entangled together. All of them were giving her a hard time.
She felt a little confused and anxious…
It was just that she didn’t want to show these emotions to them.
Bai Muchuan had told her before.
No matter what the situation was, being flustered would only result in undesirable outcomes and wouldn’t help in the matter at all.
“That Yu Bo… is hiding something!”
Yu Bo was their first eye witness for the case in the Vulture’s Mouth.
He stayed 10 miles away from Vulture’s Mouth, yet he was the first person to show up when he heard gunshots…
“Captain Cheng’s right, there’s something strange about him. Furthermore…”
Xiang Wan contemplated a little and pointed at the injured cat.
“This cat belonged to him.”
…
Everyone was dumbstruck.
Yu Bo owned this cat?
How did she make that relation?
Xiang Wan was currently unable to answer their doubts.
“Let’s go and see him. We’ll know the truth very soon.”
Quan Shaoteng thought for a moment before nodding his head. “Okay!”
Xiang Wan had criticized him earlier that he lacked the detective’s spirit—that he lacked the basic curiosity a detective should have. Hence, even if Xiang Wan said there was a problem with the moonlight, Quan Shaoteng would most probably do his utmost to have that checked too…
However, not everyone agreed with that suggestion.
“Why are we doing all these?!” Cheng Xin raised her objections.
She stopped Quan Shaoteng from leaving and took a glance at Cheng Zheng. A hint of dissatisfaction was written on her face.
“Everyone, listen to me. We shouldn’t be focusing our energies on that guy.”
Quan Shaoteng raised an eyebrow.
Just like how he handled Xiang Wan earlier, he also waited for Cheng Xin to finish her sentence.
However, what Cheng Xin said was totally unrelated to the case.
She let out a sneer and looked at Xiang Wan.
“We are the police while she is not. Why are we letting ourselves be led by her on the nose? What we need to do now is to find Captain Bai. We should not let her control us and run around in circles!”
That’s a good question.
However, nobody bothered with her.
Cheng Zheng was the first to diss her. “Xiang Wan was the advisor Captain Bai specially recruited back in Jin City. She’s very strong in her analytical ability. Moreover, I feel that we should verify anything as long as it’s related to the case.”
“Brother—”
“I’m not your brother.”
“Elder cousin…” Cheng Xin’s voice sounded softer.
“I’m Cheng Zheng and I’m your superior.”
“Fine, you guys are taken in by her already! Go ahead and believe her! I’ll have a good look at what kind of result she could show all of you—”
She was gritting her teeth when she said these.
In actual fact, Xiang Wan did not feel that she had an amazing capability in analyzing cases.
Perhaps her main advantage was that she was more sensitive than most people, especially her sixth sense.
Since Cheng Zheng had already said that, she should brace herself and walk with confidence.
Xiang Wan glanced at Cheng Xin with a blank expression.
“I can give you an answer very soon.”
That statement was proof of her confidence.
As Cheng Xin failed to convince the rest, she looked at Xiang Wan coldly. She had no choice but to follow along.
The sky now was darker than earlier.
The guy named Yu Bo was still resting on the sofa in the lounge.
There was a blank look in his eyes.
