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The two walked forward and came to the street less than 100 meters away from the Shengyi Building.

Because Shen Yunxi was not Lin Heng's colleague, he had no right to investigate, so he was left in a cafe upstairs across the street, gave Lin Heng a slight glance, Shen Yunxi hummed and went upstairs .

Lin Heng smiled awkwardly, turned around, made a phone call to the special case team, filed his investigation work in advance, and then walked towards the Shengyi Building without hesitation.

After going to the cafe and sitting on a seat by the window, Shen Yunxi looked at Lin Heng who was walking into the Shengyi Building, sighed softly, and the dissatisfaction on his face disappeared:

"The job of a policeman is no easier than that of a doctor."

Drinking coffee, she didn't know that the seat she was sitting at was exactly where Yang Luo was sitting when he watched Wang Ruo walk out of the lobby under the Shengyi Building a few months ago.

...

Lin Heng entered the Shengyi Building.

It was seven o'clock in the evening, and according to the working hours of 996, an Internet company like Shengyi, most people were not off work.

And when Lin Heng came to the front desk, informed his identity and purpose of coming, and showed his work card, the latter immediately made a phone call with a little anxiety, but said to Lin Heng:

"Please go to the reception room on the fifth floor and sit down for a while. Mr. Cai will come to see you in about twenty minutes."

President Cai?

Lin Heng nodded, indicating that he understood, and a man who came out of the nearby work room skillfully brought him into the elevator. Go straight up to the fifth floor.

From the workshops separated by glass windows on the fifth floor, many people can be seen working diligently nearby. There are dual-screen monitors on each table, and the heads and eyes of the employees move back and forth in front of the two screens, enjoying the full baptism of radiation.

On the way the man led Lin Heng forward, the sound of the two people's footsteps stepping through the corridor was not loud, but it didn't attract anyone's attention. The eyes of the employees kept going back and forth on the computer screen, as if Like a cormorant used as a fishing tool, its slender beak can only clamp the body of the river fish forever, and it is absolutely impossible to swallow, which has formed a Pavlovian reflex.

Bringing Lin Heng to the reception room, the man opened the door and gave way. Not vulgar by any means, but not very softly said to him:

"Mr. Cai will arrive in a while, please wait here for a while."

Lin Heng nodded, sat down in the reception room, and watched the man's back leave.

Looking back on the process when he just walked in, Lin Heng found that Shengyi handled the whole set of procedures for police visits very naturally and neatly. It seems that in the past few months, Shengyi has received too many police officers from the special case team who came to investigate like himself.

...However, even if they didn't get any clues in the end, could they get anything useful just by coming here on their own whims and asking?

Regarding this point, Lin Heng is not very confident.

When the police officers of the previous special case team entered into the good faith investigation, they all had complete double certificates, and they came to the scene to search and inspect with the authorization letter approved by the provincial department, but they still found nothing; I have no coercive power today. It's more like a temporary inquiry, but what can I get?

Lin Heng confirmed that his worries were justified.

Twenty minutes later, when the weather-stained woman who looked about forty years old and who couldn't hide her exhaustion even in Chanel sat down in front of him, the other party's unceremonious tone really set the stage for the meeting. After adjusting, she pointed to the law enforcement recorder Lin Heng put on the table.

"This is closed."

Lin Heng bowed his head.

"Sorry, we police investigation, we need to turn on the recording - this is the procedure."

"Program? Huh—"

There was an undisguised indifferent smile on Cai Xin's face.

The woman's name was Cai Xin, and she was the "Mr. Cai" whom the front desk called. She is Wang Changming's wife, with an extraordinary family background, and she has a good eye for pearls. She fell in love with Wang Changming, who was still in a shallow family and had no assets at that time, and provided Wang Changming with the first capital to start a business.

When "Sheng Yi" started her business in the early days, she and Wang Changming also supported each other and made the company bigger together. But soon, as "Shengyi" skyrocketed, after several manipulations by Wang Changming, Cai Xin and the Cai family behind him were ruthlessly kicked out of the game, leaving only 3% of "Sinyi" shares without any decision-making power. Xin also divorced Wang Changming.

After that, Wang Changming did not remarry, and he flourished alone, but after his death, because Cai Xin and Wang Changming had a daughter, who was Wang Changming's legal heir, and Cai Xin himself held 5% of the shares, so "Shengyi" is now going around, and it is considered to be back in Cai Xin's hands, but after all, "Shengyi" is already a giant now. After Wang Changming's death, the company was in turmoil, and Cai Xin was unable to take full advantage of it. "Ceded a lot of business, she is very busy every day, but compared to the meager shares before, she has already made a lot of money.

These are the information of the special case team. The special case team has conducted a detailed investigation on Cai Xin and the Cai family behind him. As the first beneficiary after Wang Changming's death, they are undoubtedly the biggest suspects. However, after several months, they still haven't found any evidence or clues that Cai Xin and Cai's family participated in this crime, so the suspicion is self-defeating.

Lin Heng, who had read the information about Cai Xin in detail, did not think that she was the murderer or had anything to do with the murderer, but Cai Xin who walked into the conference room did not give him a good face.

"Don't you know the truth of 'Melon Field Li Xia'? Every time the police come in and out of our favor, it will bring much damage to the company's reputation and how much impact it will have on me personally. Have you considered this matter?"

Cai Xin spoke to Lin Heng in a milder tone than before, but in a more impolite tone.

Lin Heng lowered his head slightly.

"I'm sorry to disturb you suddenly, but after all, this is a lot of lives, and the matter is very important. I believe you don't want the truth to remain in the fog."

Cai Xin snorted.

"...What should I care about the death of people like Wang Changming?"

Even in front of Lin Heng, she did not hide her disgust, which made Lin Heng slightly surprised. Meeting his gaze, Cai Xin pulled a mocking smile:

"Are you surprised when I say that? Hehe, you police should have investigated all the information related to me, so you naturally know what kind of relationship there will be between him and me. If this is the case, what else should I cover up?"

Lin Heng nodded with a wry smile. Indeed.

He took a deep breath and decided to attack in another way.

"But—I think finding out the truth will not only help clear up the fog surrounding Mr. Wang Changming's death, but it will also be beneficial to you."

"I?"

Cai Xin took out a cigarette case from her bosom, took out a cigarette and lit it, the smell of tobacco gradually permeated. Lin Heng had never smoked, and he didn't like the smell of smoke. His nose twitched slightly, and he forcibly suppressed his disgusted expression.

"What else do I have?"

Cai Xin looked at him coldly.

"Many people now suspect that you are the murderer of Mr. Wang Changming. Although the police have refuted the rumors, various Internet and self-media are still hyping up... If we can find the real murderer, we can cleanse these public opinions."

"I'm tired of hearing this kind of talk, what else?"

"...The murderer's attack on the chairman of Shengyi may have a strong malice against the entire Shengyi company behind him. After you take over Shengyi, this malice is very likely to be transferred to you and your underage daughter. So Catching the murderer is also a protection for you and your family."

"I've heard this from your police no less than ten times."

Cai Xin looked at him with a very strong mocking look on his face.

Are there other words?

Lin Heng stared at Cai Xin, she turned her face slightly, smoking a cigarette, her face gradually became expressionless, as if she was about to lose interest in this conversation.

"I don't have much time, if you have nothing to say, just leave—"

At this moment, Lin Heng suddenly spoke.

"This is the 'Desert Card'."

Cai Xin turned her head, stared at Lin Heng closely, and frowned.

"I remember that in the information, you like to smoke women's cigarettes, and Mr. Wang Changming only smokes this 'Desert Brand' cigarette. I think what you said just now 'don't care about Wang Changming''s death is not true, right? .

"After all, he was once the person you loved, and you didn't remarry after the divorce... In fact, you really want to know why he died and what happened before he died. But your hatred requires you to suppress this curiosity , you want to show that you don’t really care—but this suppressed curiosity is projected into action, so you automatically try the cigarettes he used to smoke.”

Cai Xin stared at him closely, squinted her eyes, and her eyes cast a cold gaze. Lin Heng looked at her without fear.

After a long time, Cai Xin's eyes softened, and she smiled disgustedly:

"Obviously a criminal policeman, he acts like a psychiatrist."

She snuffed out the cigarette butt she just finished smoking, took out another cigarette from the cigarette case, lit it, and said:

"...you were the first to notice this.

"However, you guessed wrong. The reason why I miss his death is because of his death, not because of my love for him, but because of our daughter. I have no feelings for him. But the daughter is different, she still recognizes her father. After knowing the news of his death, she hid in the bedroom and didn't come out for several days, and she still hasn't gone out much until now."

Lin Heng listened quietly.

But Cai Xin seemed to have lost all interest in it, snuffed out the second cigarette in hand, sighed, and looked directly at Lin Heng.

"So, I am indeed interested in the cause of his death. But don't get me wrong, I really don't have any clues about his death. All I know has been told to you in the previous police visit. The information you want , I can't give it at all."

Lin Heng could tell that this was the truth, but before he had time to be disappointed, Cai Xin changed the subject again:

"However, the company's executive director has been following Wang Changming before, and has worked in this company for many years. He was also questioned by the police before, and I reminded him not to talk nonsense to avoid affecting the company's reputation...Since you are doing this now Eager, then I will ask him to come over and talk to you again, this time as long as he knows, you can talk about it, as long as you think it will be related to the case. But—"

She stared at Lin Heng closely, her eyes released the pressure:

"First, I don't want the company's internal information to be leaked; second, if the police get a breakthrough, I hope to know who the murderer is as soon as possible."

Lin Heng met her eyes and nodded slowly and earnestly.

...

The kind administrator sat down opposite Lin Heng, with glasses and a formulaic smile on his face, the same as what Lin Heng had seen in the police internal investigation report - the cautious head of the administrative department.

In the investigation file of "Related Persons of Wang Changming", the interrogation transcript of the administrative director named Zong Yuan has three pages in total, but there are no more than five sentences of useful information. It’s too clear”, “That’s the chairman’s private matter” or “Ah, I’m not in charge of this, why don’t you ask others?” to respond.

A slippery figure. That was the impression the investigating officer had of him.

However, because Zong Yuan did not seem to have any deep connection with the case, and as the company's executive director, he had no signs of collusion with competing companies, so the police only interrogated him once and then ended.

However, after sitting in front of Lin Heng now, Zong Yuan's opening remarks did not have that sleek Tai Chi, and after a formulaic smile, he showed a sincere expression to Lin Heng:

"The chairman has already told me that if you want to know anything, as long as it is not the most important secret of the company, I will say everything I can."

Such a sincere attitude pleased Lin Heng. He sat up straight, nodded to Zong Yuan, and opened the law enforcement recorder and notebook:

"Thank you very much for your help, Director Zong Yuan. May I ask how much you know about this case?"

The first is to find out.

Zong Yuan glanced at the recorder, and then said:

"The information I know now is not much different from the information circulating on the Internet: Chairman Wang died in the villa manor, and dozens of security personnel and service personnel died in the manor at the same time. It is said that there was a big explosion at the scene , the whole manor was burned down. However, I have been to that manor."

The sentence at the end of him was new information that did not appear in the previous materials, and Lin Heng was startled:

"Have you been there? When was it?"

"I go every year—Chairman Wang invites his trusted assistants to celebrate in the villa at the end of each year. Of course, it's not a secret party. It's an internal meeting of the company's senior management directly under Chairman Wang."

The top management of the company directly under Wang Changming?

But Wang Changming is dead, Zong Yuan, who is supposed to be a "veteran of the former dynasty", was not dismissed by Cai Xin?

Lin Heng paused, and looked at him curiously, Zong Yuan pushed his glasses, smiled and said:

"When Chairman Wang was still alive, I had a good relationship with Mr. Cai, and we would come to our door with gifts during New Years and holidays."

In just one sentence, it revealed the human spirit after scrambling in the secular oil pan. Lin Heng smiled awkwardly and continued to ask:

"Then what is your impression of that manor?"

"It was a big manor with a small landscape garden inside, so when I learned that the whole manor had been burned down, I felt a little unbelievable."

"—incredible?"

"Yes, because it can be done to that extent, ordinary gasoline or fuel is unlikely."

"So about that villa, do you have any other memorable points?"

"There's nothing else."

"What about Chairman Wang himself?"

"For Chairman Wang, I think he is a very complicated person. He has both bold and cautious qualities at the same time, and knows when to let go and when to take a big step back. He is a business leader. Outstanding person..."

...

The conversation continued downward, and along with the conversation with Zong Yuan, the image of Wang Changming in Lin Heng's heart gradually became full——

A business elite who has both academic qualifications and courage, can use all the resources around him, and at the same time can cast aside any emotions to make the most ruthless and rational judgments. A small company with fewer than 100,000 people has turned into a large Internet company with tens of thousands of people. In this process, it is not only fueled by the tide of the times, but also inseparable from his personal efforts.

Most of the intelligence and information has been learned from the case files before, but with the narration of Zong Yuan, the few people closest to Wang Changming, those details that have never been there are constantly being filled in, which also makes Lin Heng feel that he is getting more and more serious. Getting closer to the image of the central victim of the case, he understands the motives of others who might have committed the crime.

However, these clues are still like clouds hovering around the periphery of the 8.12 case, unable to be connected into a piece, weaving into a sea of ​​clouds, pointing out the way to the blue and sunny sky for those doubtful points.

...However, after two or three hours of entanglement, when Lin Heng asked for the fifth time, "About this big 8.12 case, have you encountered or learned anything that may be related to the case before and after the incident?" Relevant information", this time, a hesitant expression suddenly appeared on Zong Yuan's face.

"Before and after the incident, the information that may be related to the case... If it is the kind of information that is completely irrelevant and people can't see the connection, is it okay?"

"sure."

Lin Heng cheered up all of a sudden, and stared at Zong Yuan expectantly.

"Hmm..." Zong Yuan nodded, and slowly recalled, "In fact, just over a month before the 8.12 incident, three grassroots employees in our company died—of course, not at the workplace. Sudden death, but that kind of accidental death."

"Three employees died accidentally?"

Lin Heng's eyes suddenly became extremely sharp. Zong Yuan noticed his eyes and smiled kindly:

"Hehe...don't worry, I can confirm that these three employees belong to the grassroots, and the highest-ranking one is the team leader of a game project. It has absolutely nothing to do with the company's internal secrets. And the reasons for their deaths are also different. Not the same - one of them was killed by gangsters with his sister on the street, the other was killed by a burglar, and there was no news of the death of an employee at the time, but we can basically confirm that he died ——He had heart sarcoma, and he was already dying, and he was already lying on the bed at that time..."

It all sounded like an accident. When Lin Heng was thinking about whether there was any meaning behind these three death cases, Zong Yuan took the initiative to reveal the connection behind it for him.

"However, at that time, the three employees were actually somewhat related - the first team leader, named Wang Ruo, and the second employee, named Huang Cheng, who was HR. After hearing that the third employee named Yang Luo After suffering from cardiac sarcoma, in order to reduce the burden on the company, he was fired and the compensation was relatively small. At first, Yang Luo wanted to stir up public opinion on the Internet and wanted to get more money, but Wang Ruo reached an agreement with him on behalf of the company. Agreement, went to visit him lying on the sickbed, and Yang Luo shut up."

This was already a few months ago. If Zong Yuan, as the administrative director, would not have dealt with this aspect, he would not have remembered the names of those small characters.

These words came out of his mouth smoothly, but Lin Heng frowned slightly, and the favor he had for him just now disappeared instantly.

"Did you not follow the labor laws?"

Lin Heng looked at Zong Yuan seriously, and his tone became a little cold.

But Zong Yuan just laughed it off and looked at it calmly.

"The purpose of the company is to make money. For most of the laws except the criminal law, the cost and benefit of breaking the law will be considered and compared - and the cost of violating the labor law is very low. Although the police officer is a civil servant , but you should also understand, right?"

Lin Heng was silent for a while.

He doesn't live in a vacuum, he has heard about the reality of existence outside the establishment. But even so, for a famous company like Shengyi, he thought that there would be at least some human touch, but...

"Of course, as a big factory, our company pays all the five insurances and one housing fund, and fully provides all kinds of benefits. Even the compensation after dismissing employees is definitely not the bottom among Internet companies, but such employees It’s not easy to deal with serious illnesses—big factories are not orphanages, and they don’t have so much money to show their love. More importantly, the probability of illness and sudden death among employees is getting higher and higher. The aspect is too loose, and the company's profits are not easy to guarantee. Therefore, even if an employee may only pay hundreds of thousands more, considering its exemplary role, we will try to keep this expenditure as low as possible.

"—If I dare to say something like this when you are recording the police officer, it means that I know it has nothing to do with it. Our Dragon Kingdom is still in a stage where we need to accumulate wealth continuously. The society encourages efficiency, which is not related to most Compared with the company, we are all the group with the best benefits. I believe the police officer should understand, right?"

Zong Yuan's gentle voice was very harsh to Lin Heng's ears. He wanted to say something, but because he understood that this was a social reality, and he couldn't change it with his own strength, he couldn't even say a word of rebuttal.

Let's go back to the case.

Lin Heng calmed down his turbulent mood, restrained the divergent topic, and brought it back to the question he asked at the beginning:

"Let's go back to the original case—the two employees who were killed by gangsters, and Yang Luo who was hospitalized with a heart tumor. Do you have any more details?"

"Do you want to ask if the deaths of Wang Ruo and Huang Cheng have anything to do with Yang Luo?"

Zong Yuan has always had that calm smile, as if he was always watching the fire from the other side.

"Well, this should be easy to think of - but unfortunately, the ending of these three people should not matter. As far as I know, the murderers who killed Wang Ruo and Huang Cheng have been captured, and they are still in the director's office. Before Chang died. Both of them died in a gang of robbers who went around and committed crimes."

Case closed?

It was like when the willows were dark and the flowers were bright, and suddenly hit a thick wall in front of him, Lin Heng felt a sense of suffocation in his heart.

But the feeling of suffocation was excluded from his chest only a few seconds later.

Even at this moment, he still didn't want to give up. There was only one clue in front of him, even if it seemed illusory, he had to keep pursuing it.

"—Excuse me, where is that gang locked up now?"

"I don't know much about this either."

Zong Yuan shook his head, suddenly, as if he remembered something:

"I remember reading the newspaper at the time...it seems to be at the police station in a neighboring city?"

After coding all night, I finally finished it. In addition, I would like to mention the question about chapter 72. That chapter is blocked and needs to be revised again, but each time the revision is not passed, you need to wait another 48 hours, so it may take some time to meet you again.