The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#468 - Off-site helpline

As the investigation progressed, the mysteries surrounding Jiang Lei only deepened, with many speculations contradicting each other. Lu Jing found it difficult to find a reasonable explanation to connect all the clues he had.

So he simply took a different approach, focusing his attention on Jin Duoduo.

Assuming Jin Duoduo was not the murderer of Jiang Lei, then compared to the complex situation on Jiang Lei's side, Jin Duoduo's side was very simple and clear. He was obviously framed.

The killer killed Jiang Lei, and then used the affair between Jin Duoduo and Wen Lun to lure Jin Duoduo into Jiang Lei's room, so that Jin Duoduo became the prime suspect in Jiang Lei's murder.

And then the question came, what was the murderer's motive for framing Jin Duoduo? Revenge?

Indeed, Jin Duoduo's current situation is very embarrassing. If the murderer cannot be found tomorrow, then Jin Duoduo will probably have to bear the blame. But what then?

Say a thousand words and ten thousand words, everyone does not have substantial evidence of Jin Duoduo's murder. Originally, according to Li Bufan's speculation, there should be very important clues on the lost murder weapon, but the result was surprising.

Tonight, the murder weapon was discovered in an almost absurd way, and no connection with Jin Duoduo could be found on it.

In addition, given Jin Duoduo's own identity, it is almost impossible for him to pay for his life.

According to Lu Jing's estimation, Jin Duoduo would probably use his money power to spend a lot of money in exchange for the understanding of Lei Huotang and Jiang Lei's widow, Wen Lun.

This money is likely to be an astronomical figure, and afterwards, Jin Duoduo and his Duobaoge will also suffer a great loss of reputation in the Jianghu, and the income lost as a result is currently difficult to estimate, but it will definitely be more than he compensated.

But for Jin Duoduo, who is not short of money, such "revenge" would at most make him feel pain for a while, and it cannot be considered very powerful.

And if it is not revenge, then the other party's plan is to seek money.

In fact, almost everyone who is eyeing Jin Duoduo is for this purpose, but in this case, how can the planner get Jin Duoduo's money?

After forcing Jin Duoduo into a desperate situation, use the opportunity to clear his grievances as a bargaining chip to threaten him and negotiate with him?

Thinking of this, Lu Jing's heart suddenly moved. He remembered what Jin Duoduo said when he asked everyone to give him another day, which sounded a little strange at the time. Jin Duoduo specially emphasized the six words "at all costs" when he said "find evidence that can prove that he is not the murderer at all costs".

Of course, this can be understood as Jin Duoduo expressing his determination, but if he really wants to overturn the case for himself, why didn't he stand up earlier?

Judging from his previous performance, it was obvious that he was not prepared for the direction of the matter. Even if he had another day, how could he guarantee that he could definitely exonerate himself?

Unless the focus of his sentence was not on the second half from the beginning, but on the six words "at all costs" before, and these six words were not said to Lu Jing and others, but to tell the coercer that he was ready to compromise.

So tonight's seemingly absurd attack happened, but Lu Jing still couldn't figure it out. If it was to help Jin Duoduo overturn the case, why didn't the coercer simply kill the maid? Could it be that he softened at the last moment?

But how could a person who could even kill Jiang Lei not be able to kill a maid?

Okay, Lu Jing decided to carry forward the fine tradition, and put aside the questions he couldn't figure out, and first solve the problems that could be solved.

After sorting out his thoughts, Lu Jing can now be sure of one thing, that is, the coercer is by his side!

That's right, when Jin Duoduo said that sentence, the voice was not too loud, so not many people heard it. In addition to the Wen family children who went into the water to salvage the heads and murder weapons, there were Li Bufan, Lu Qinghou, Duke of England, Yu Wenyu and their respective wives, plus Wen Danian, Wen Xiaochuan and Lu Jing himself.

And according to the maid's description, the shadow that attacked her was a man, so the scope was narrowed down a lot.

Lu Jing's spirit was shaken. He felt that he was very close to the answer, but Li Bufan and the others had perfect alibis when Jiang Lei was killed.

Lu Jing also failed to come up with a reasonable explanation for this, but it was still the same sentence, put aside what he couldn't figure out for now, the focus now is to find out who among these people is more short of money recently.

In this case, the person who coerced Jin Duoduo is probably him.

Lu Jing found the next direction of investigation. The Wen family children were easier to deal with. Since they were all Wenjiazhuang people, their economic situation could be found out by asking someone.

Lu Jing handed over this glorious and arduous task to Wen Liran, not because he liked to boss people around, but mainly because compared to him, an outsider, Wen Liran, a member of the Wen family, would definitely get twice the result with half the effort when inquiring about this kind of thing.

As for Li Bufan and the others... this is a bit troublesome. If you try to get information from them one by one, it will probably take a lot of effort, and with the vigilance of the four of them, you will accidentally startle the snake.

Not to mention that Lu Jing is not very good at getting information in the first place, so he thought about it and decided to dial the off-site assistance hotline.

After returning to his residence, Lu Jing called Gu Jing a few times in his heart, and then found a piece of paper and wrote the names of Li Bufan and the others on the paper. After thinking about it, since he had already called for foreign aid, he simply wrote Jin Duoduo and the dead Jiang Lei on it.

The Sitianjian is actually a very large organization. The most core and most important part of it is of course the inspectors who treat and deal with strange objects, but the Sitianjian cannot operate normally by relying on inspectors of all levels alone.

In addition to the inspectors, the Sitianjian has a set of civil servant systems specially used to make appearances and prevaricate the court, such as the famous Dumb Supervisor, there are people who are responsible for dealing with various government offices and cooperating with the inspectors in local actions, such as Chengguan, and there are also people who are in charge of aftermath and pacifying the riots caused by strange objects...

Of course, there are also people who collect and analyze information, um, it should be said that they are the most indispensable link to maintain the daily operation of the Sitianjian, such as the hyacinth that Lu Jing encountered in Wujiang City before.

There are many, many people like him in the Sitianjian. They perform their duties and jointly form a huge intelligence network, covering the entire Kyushu, and are collecting and processing massive amounts of information and intelligence every day.

Because only in this way can they find the strange objects in time when they first appear and avoid them causing greater casualties and dangers.

And Lu Jing is now hitting on the idea of this intelligence network. Presumably, they should have a lot of information about Li Bufan and others in their hands.