Chapter 264: Chapter 76: Complete Victory Chapter 264: Chapter 76: Complete Victory Donghai City outskirts, Linhu Villa.
The living room, filled with the atmosphere of a birthday, hadn’t been tidied up; instead, it was even more disheveled than before.
In the past 24 hours, the police had turned the place upside down in search of evidence.
But of course, they found nothing.
This place had always been very “clean.”
Ji Lin looked at the leftover food on the dining table, the wilted cream cake, the drinks left by Lin Xian, Gao Yang’s wine glass, and the knives, forks, bowls, and plates left by Chu Anqing and the others.
Under the dim moonlight, this scene…
made Ji Lin recall Da Vinci’s famous painting, “The Last Supper.”
In fact, it was much the same.
This birthday banquet, in a way, was their last supper: his, Lin Xian’s, Chu Anqing’s.
He arrived at the corridor on the second floor and took down a framed oil painting from the wall.
He couldn’t recall which publishing house boss had given it to him, but it was likely a famous work by some contemporary artist.
Although it did not have significant value as a collectible, it must hold some value since it was a gift given to him.
Taking the painting downstairs, Ji Lin turned the glass frame over, opened the back panel, pulled out the painting inside, and then casually tossed it onto the sofa.
he carefully picked up the sketch that Lin Xian had given him and unfolded it neatly.
Although the graphite on the creases of the paper was somewhat smudged, overall, it did not detract from the enjoyment of the drawing.
Under the deft strokes, the expression of the three young men and women was lifelike.
Although it was a sketch, in some ways, it looked more real and more flavorful than a photograph.
This is the unique “brain completion” feature of humans, just like how everyone’s brain automatically beautifies them when looking in a mirror.
The reflections in the eyes are processed by the brain, always with some distortion, becoming more like the image in memory.
Ji Lin looked at the sketch drawn by Lin Xian for a while longer, then turned the paper over and pressed it tightly against the glass frame he had just opened.
After smoothing it out, he covered the back and flipped it around.
A brand-new framed picture was now complete.
Ji Lin pulled a chair over and hung this new frame on the wall to the side of the living room; the position of the frame was directly opposite the wooden floor where he liked to sit, allowing him to look up at the drawing anytime.
After hanging it up, Ji Lin got down from the chair, came to his favorite spot on the wooden floor to sit down, propped himself up half way, and looked up at the picture on the living room wall, where a delighted Chu Anqing was smiling broadly, with him and Lin Xian standing behind her.
if it were colored with watercolors, it would look even nicer.”
Ji Lin chuckled to himself, took out his laptop from the drawer, and booted it up to check today’s news.
The biggest headline of the day was about Ji Xinshui, about the resolution of this series of serial killings.
Lin Xian thus became the hero of Donghai City, and Ji Xinshui became the despised criminal.
Scrolling down with his mouse, he read a few other reports.
Ji Lin furrowed his brow.
There was absolutely no information about Zhou Duanyun.
This was unreasonable.
In the interrogation room, Lin Xian had shown him Ji Xinshui’s confession, which clearly and in great detail narrated Zhou Duanyun’s crimes.
Why hadn’t the police released this information?
Ji Lin put down the mouse, resting his chin on his hands as he thought.
He could understand not broadcasting Zheng Chenghe’s information to the public, as Zheng Chenghe was in fact involved in a murder plan for the first time, as a replacement for Gluttony Sam, and his first mission had disappointed Ji Xinshui.
Everyone thought he would be a heartless tyrant, but in the end, faced with Lin Xian, he turned out to be a kind coward.
As for himself and Angelica, Angelica herself had never been involved in any murders, she was clean; as for him…
if the police were willing to let him go, it meant that Ji Xinshui had indeed said nothing.
“Then why did you give up on yourself, Arrogance?”
This point, Ji Lin couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
He couldn’t figure out what purpose Ji Xinshui had for this move, or what kind of trap he had fallen into.
But what puzzled him the most was the matter concerning Zhou Duanyun.
Lin Xian certainly wasn’t kind enough to spare Zhou Duanyun; these two were the kind of people who wished the other dead immediately.
Zhou Duanyun’s twisted psychology aside.
For Lin Xian, Zhou Duanyun was the murderer of Tang Xin who could be confirmed from the beginning, the bait that he deliberately left for him.
In short, Lin Xian would never let Zhou Duanyun go.
Moreover, there was another point.
The usually low-key Lin Xian, why did he choose to accept the honors bestowed by Donghai City officials with such high-profile this time, and even held a commendation ceremony?
This behavior didn’t fit his usual modus operandi.
Could there still be some strategy and trap?
Ji Lin closed his eyes, lay back, resting his head on his arms, and began to sort through the various illogical leads in his mind…
Suddenly high-profile Lin Xian,
Psychologically twisted classmate,
Deliberately erased criminal records,
Zhou Duanyun still at large without a trace,
Himself, released without charge but shackled with an electronic anklet,
Ji Lin opened his eyes.
He chuckled lightly, looking at the ceiling:
Sitting up, Ji Lin picked up his phone and made a call:
“Lawyer Wang, I have a favor to ask of you.”