At the seaside of Hump Island.
Xia Fan and Chu Yan sat on the beach, dripping wet, enjoying the warm afternoon sun of autumn. They had returned to the world from underground, where they had never seen the light of day. Both of them felt like they had just survived a disaster.
Chu Yan looked at the text message on her wrist communication terminal and said with a bitter smile, "The earthquake bureau showed that there was a 3.2 magnitude earthquake 70 kilometers away from Hump Island in the deep sea. It should be caused by the self-destruction of the trial field."
Xia Fan did not say anything. He took out some things from his spatial ring and arranged them neatly. Among them was the key-shaped sapphire pendant called the Ocean Code.
Xia Fan and Chu Yan now knew that the Ocean Code was a key that Cang Long Yue Yin gave to those who wanted to join their team. It was the key to enter the trial field. Xia Fan and Chu Yan were able to leave the trial field through the emergency escape route because they found this thing on Liao Jia.
Xia Fan said faintly, "Can you take me to the filing office of the Lawyer Association?"
Chu Yan was slightly stunned. "Hasn't the case been solved? We already know who killed Jiang Xiaohan. Why do we still need to go to the Lawyer Association? "
Xia Fan smiled and looked at the clear blue sky. "I don't want to think too badly of human nature. Unfortunately, the truth cannot be avoided. No matter what, I want to figure out a theory."
.....
At the Lawyer Association on Bregnia.
After revealing their identities, Wang Tianmin, the director of the Records Department, came to greet Xia Fan and Chu Yan. Wang Tianmin looked troubled by Xia Fan's request, but Chu Yan gently knocked her Special Task Force badge on his desk a few times. Wang Tianmin sighed helplessly and did as Xia Fan asked.
"Please wait for a moment. I'll go to the filing office."
After saying that, Wang Tianmin stood up and left the room.
Xia Fan smiled. "The Special Task Force is really useful. There is a confidentiality agreement between the lawyer and the client, and Director Wang is willing to hand over the filing documents in private."
Chu Yan said nonchalantly, "You'll slowly come to know just how much power the Agency of Special Affairs has. To be honest, you being able to become a probationary investigator in the Agency of Special Affairs without any qualifications is definitely an exception. Of course, while our power is almost limitless, we shouldn't abuse it easily. Over the years, the Alliance has had many complaints about the Agency of Special Affairs having too much power."
Xia Fan nodded slightly, wondering if it would be easier for him to find the Skywing Token that would allow him to see his family if he used the Special Task Force's authority. He was still a probationary investigator at the moment and had no official authority. Xia Fan was also a little worried about letting Chu Yan help him investigate the Skywing Clan.
After all, the secret of Heaven's Wings was too big. The scourges on the God's Mausoleum had told Xia Fan more than once that there was always a loophole in every secret. The real secret could not be told to anyone. Any secret that could be made known to others was not a secret.
After a while, Director Wang returned to the office with a stack of files. He placed the sealed file bag in front of Xia Fan and Chu Yan.
"This is Jiang Chunwen's will. According to the requirements of the association, a lawyer signs a will for a client. There are two copies. One is kept by the lawyer, and the other is kept in the archives to ensure fairness," Director Wang explained.
Xia Fan nodded, picked up the file, opened it, and took out the documents inside. He quickly flipped through them.
Phew!
Xia Fan suddenly let out a long sigh, then shook his head helplessly. He said to himself, "So it was like this."
Chu Yan was curious and quickly asked, "So it was like this? What did you find out? "
Xia Fan did not answer. He returned the file to Wang Tianmin and said with a smile, "Thank you for your help, Director Wang. This is a business card. If you need any help in the future, please don't hesitate."
Wang Tianmin was overjoyed. He held Chu Yan's business card as if he had received a precious treasure. He bowed repeatedly and expressed his gratitude.
Walking out of the Lawyer's Association, Chu Yan said with dissatisfaction, "Why did you give my business card to someone else? My private phone number is on it. "
Xia Fan shrugged and said, "Grandpa fisherman once said that the most important thing in Taming Beasts is mutual benefit. If small animals help you, you must give them something in return. I think it should be the same for humans. The core of Taming Beasts is not to control animals, but to help each other and put yourself in their shoes."
"Don't worry, Director Wang is just a commoner. The chances of him needing help from the Special Task Force in this lifetime are slim. Even if there is a small problem, he would not dare to trouble you. You used a thin business card in exchange for the long-term trust and respect of others. This is a good deal. Didn't you see how excited Director Wang was when he received your business card?"
Chu Yan was stunned. "He used the same method to deal with small animals to deal with Wang Tianmin?"
Xia Fan nodded. "Although the species is different, the principle is the same."
"Freak!" Chu Yan rolled her eyes at Xia Fan.
.....
Before going to the Jiang family, Xia Fan asked Chu Yan to make a few calls in advance. When the hover car stopped in front of the Jiang family's villa, Xia Fan saw two police hover cars. The people from the local Key Case Investigation Unit had already arrived.
When Jiang Chunwen learned that the case had been solved, he was so excited that he asked Butler Feng to push him into the yard. When he saw Xia Fan and Chu Yan, he was so excited that he almost stood up from the hover wheelchair.
Everyone sat down in the Jiang family's living room. Jiang Chunwen could not wait to ask about the details, but Xia Fan shook his head gently. He said to the two policemen in trench coats who were sitting next to him, "Arrest Butler Feng and his wife."
The policemen were stunned, Jiang Chunwen was shocked, and the faces of Butler Feng and his wife turned pale.
The policemen were skeptical and held Feng Mao and his wife down. They were old men in their seventies and had kind faces. There was no need to control them. The policemen just put on a show and pressed their shoulders.
"What are you doing?" Jiang Chunwen was shocked. "Old Feng has been with me all my life. He has never made a mistake in the temperature of the water when I bathe. What happened to Xiaohan could not have been done by him!"
Xia Fan smiled. "I didn't say that he killed Xiaohan."
"But there is one thing that I still don't understand. Feng Mao, you and your wife lived on the first floor, in a cubicle next to the kitchen. You said that it was raining heavily that night, and there was thunder and lightning, so you didn't hear anything from the basement, right?"
Feng Mao nodded.
"You're lying." Xia Fan said to the police, "Send two people. One of them will go to the basement to talk, and the other will lie down on Feng Mao's bed. There is a sewer pipe next to his bed. See if they can hear anything from the basement."
Not long after, the police returned. Their faces were filled with shock.
"Standing in the room, you can't hear anything from the basement. But when you lie down and put your ear close to the sewer pipe, you can hear people talking in the basement. The voices are low," the policeman said to the people in the living room.
Xia Fan continued, "The thing that I don't understand is that the murderer has a strong ability. They can't be heard by anyone, but when dozens of children gather together, they must be very energetic. They must be very noisy. Can't they hear the noise?"
"There is a sewer pipe in Feng Mao and his wife's room that connects to the basement. It is close to the left side of the bed. As far as I know, that is where Feng Mao's wife is used to sleeping.
"From there, you can hear the children in the basement. Maybe Feng Mao's wife even complained to her husband that the children were too noisy and affected her rest.
"But after midnight, the noise suddenly stopped. Feng Mao's wife got worried and asked Feng Mao to go down to take a look.
"In the end, Feng Mao went there and saw the tragic scene through the crack of the door."
"Don't tell me there was no light in the basement. In fact, there was a bay window. According to the weather records, there were as many as 7,639 lightning strikes in the area that night. It lasted for the whole night.
Whenever the lightning flashed across the sky, there would be a brief flash of light in the basement. With the help of the weak light, Feng Mao could clearly see the blood stains on the floor and even the murderer's knife. "
Xia Fan explained his theory, and everyone was stunned.
Chu Yan did not doubt that the murderer would not make a sound when he committed the crime. They were all experienced killers with superpowers.
However, including the police investigating the case, they only paid attention to the murderer's voice and neglected the fact that there were so many children gathered together. It would definitely be noisy. The reason why they closed the basement door was so that they could play to their heart's content and not be disturbed by adults. Wasn't everyone's child the same?
However, since they could hear the noise of the children, how could they not be suspicious when the noise suddenly stopped?
Although the angle of the murder case was unique, Xia Fan's theory was undoubtedly convincing.
Xia Fan noticed that beads of sweat had formed on the foreheads of Feng Mao and his wife. They seemed to be in a panic. This was normal. As an ordinary person without professional training, although Feng Mao had committed a grave mistake, his conscience must have been uneasy over the past four years. He must have accumulated a lot of pressure. Once the truth was exposed, Feng Mao and his wife would definitely break down.
After a pause, Xia Fan said, "We went to the Lawyer's Association to check. According to Mr. Jiang Chunwen's will, his granddaughter, Jiang Xiaohan, is the only heir. Mr. Jiang is very strict in this regard. He did not leave anything to the old servant who had taken care of him all his life."
Then, Xia Fan looked up at Jiang Chunwen and saw him rubbing his hands with an ugly expression.
Xia Fan said, "Just as you said, Feng Mao and his wife have been here since they were in their twenties. They have taken care of you all your life. Even their three children were born in this villa for almost 50 years."
"How much do you pay them every month?"
Jiang Chunwen lowered his head and said in a very small voice, "1,800 Alliance dollars every month."
Everyone frowned. 900 Alliance dollars per person per month was the minimum wage set by the law of the Alliance. No one would have thought that as a billionaire, Jiang Chunwen would pay his old servants such a low wage.
Perhaps sensing everyone's gaze, Jiang Chunwen added, "Food and accommodation are all free here."
Hmph!
Xia Fan sneered and said mercilessly, "Businessmen are greedy. They have taken care of you all their life, but they live in a small, dark cubicle next to the kitchen, earning the minimum wage in the Alliance. And you have the nerve to say that food and accommodation are free? Let me ask you, in this world, is there a servant who does not provide food and accommodation? "
"As far as I know, Feng Mao and his wife have three children and eleven grandchildren. All of them live in poverty. Feng Mao and his wife see it, but they can't help their children in any way."
"Their only hope is that you will give them a little bit of your property in your will out of consideration for taking care of you for a lifetime."
"It's a pity that you left all your assets to your seven-year-old granddaughter. You didn't leave a single cent for them."
"When you signed the will with your lawyer, Feng Mao saw it. This has been confirmed by your lawyer. At that time, Feng Mao was with you and served you tea, so Feng Mao knew the contents of the will very well."
"He felt disheartened, but they were old and couldn't afford to leave you. Walking out of this deserted villa, they couldn't even afford to eat."
"So, they were forced to stay and live a hopeless life."
"So, that night, when Feng Mao realized that there was no sound in the basement and saw the bloodstains on the ground, he didn't call the police because he knew that once Jiang Xiaohan died, he would inherit your huge inheritance. Even if he couldn't inherit it completely, at least he would get a share of it."
Xia Fan turned to look at Feng Mao and his wife. His gaze was as sharp as a knife. He stared into their eyes and said, "Greed has blinded your conscience. Although Jiang Chunwen was not kind to you and he was wrong, the seven-year-old Jiang Xiaohan is innocent!"
"In order to get a share of the assets, you allowed the tragedy to happen. You made false statements to the police, causing the case to go unsolved. Little Jiang Xiaohan died without a complete body. Although you are pitiful, you are also hateful."
Xia Fan's heartless words made Feng Mao's wife break down.
She knelt on the floor and wailed, pulling out strands of her hair as if she had gone mad.
"Take her away," Xia Fan said to the police officers beside him, waving his hand.
The police officers dragged Feng Mao's wife away. The living room was filled with a suffocating atmosphere.
No one had expected the truth to be so cruel. The light of life in Jiang Chunwen's eyes gradually faded. He was like a walking corpse, paralyzed in his wheelchair.
Chu Yan was shocked. She asked in shock, "When did you find out that there was something wrong with Feng Mao and his wife?"
Xia Fan sighed. "When we first came, Jiang Chunwen was disheartened, but Feng Mao and his wife were hale and hearty. They kept the villa spotless. It was a huge contrast to the yard outside, which was covered with dead leaves.
"The reason was because they knew that the villa would soon be their home. The yard was for others to look at. If they kept it too tidy, it would arouse suspicion.
"I found out, but I couldn't believe it. After all, I grew up in an isolated environment. My grandfathers told me that the world was dangerous, but I still had my doubts.
"It wasn't until we met those three that I realized that humans could be so evil. After I came back, I began to face the problem. My grandfathers were right. There is a lot of cruelty in this world."
Chu Yan was speechless. She knew what Xia Fan had been through. He had seen the problem long ago, but out of kindness, he did not want to speculate in the most evil direction.
The experience in the training field had changed Xia Fan. He seemed to have matured overnight. Of course, this could also be because he had accidentally learned about his family. Tianyi was undoubtedly brave, and Xia Fan hoped that he could face everything bravely.
Nodding, Xia Fan looked at the pale Feng Mao and said to the police, "Take him away. Follow the trail of events and it won't be hard for you to find out the truth.
"But I hope that you can treat him well. He could have killed Jiang Chunwen. He had plenty of opportunities to get the wealth he wanted as soon as possible.
"But he didn't do that. He continued to take care of Jiang Chunwen and waited for him to die of old age."
The police nodded and thanked Xia Fan many times before leaving. After all, the cold case had been solved, and the police were relieved.
Xia Fan stood up and walked over to Jiang Chunwen. He handed him the ocean password and Chu Yan's bank account number. "What's mine is mine. I don't want a cent less or more. Ten million yuan, please transfer it to me as soon as possible."
Jiang Chunwen was stunned, but he nodded weakly.
Xia Fan's voice and gaze were clearly cold. Although he sympathized with Jiang Xiaohan and the other innocent children, he did not like Jiang Chunwen.
Chu Yan and Xia Fan walked out of the villa and to the hover car. The autumn sun hung in the clear sky.
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