The Case of Love

Chapter 48: The Man Who Climbed the Wall
"Where are you, Xiaohan? Let's have dinner together tonight. Everyone in the team should come." Zhou Yifeng invited.

Su Xiaohan guessed that Li Zhisong probably didn't tell Zhou Yifeng that he wasn't going, otherwise he wouldn't have called her again to ask.

"My senior brother asked me before, and I said I wouldn't go. Captain Zhou, thank you, I'll treat everyone next time!" Su Xiaohan still refused.

"What are you doing? Why does your voice sound weird?" Even through the phone, Zhou Yifeng could sense her abnormality, as if she was deliberately suppressing her nervousness.

"I... work in a garment factory." After thinking about it, Su Xiaohan told the truth.

"Garment factory? Which garment factory?" Thinking of what Su Xiaohan had said to him before, Zhou Yifeng suddenly felt something was wrong.

"My clothing factory caught fire, and Brother Nanfeng helped me find Zhang Yong, a former worker at the factory. Zhang Yong said that the night before the fire, he saw a man climbing over the wall into the factory, but he didn't take it seriously at the time, thinking he was seeing things. I think there must be something wrong with this man! I want to come to the factory and see if there are any clues." She didn't want to hide anything from Zhou Yifeng.

"Did you go alone?" Zhou Yifeng was anxious.

"Well, I have nothing to do at home, so I came over to take a look." Su Xiaohan said.

"Send me your location and I'll come to find you! Listen to me, don't walk around, wait for me here!" Zhou Yifeng's tone was stern, but more of it was worry.

"Captain Zhou, aren't you guys going to have a dinner party? Don't come!" Subconsciously, Su Xiaohan really wanted Zhou Yifeng to come, but she couldn't say it out loud.

"Send the location!" Zhou Yifeng insisted.

Impressed by his imposing manner without anger, Su Xiaohan hung up the phone and immediately sent him her location information. She searched nearby and found a small supermarket a few hundred meters away from the factory ruins. She planned to go there to wait for Zhou Yifeng and calm her nervous mood.

Arriving at the supermarket, Su Xiaohan bought a bottle of juice and said she wanted to stay in the supermarket for a while. The boss was very enthusiastic and found a chair for her.

The owner of the supermarket is a middle-aged woman. According to her, her small supermarket has been open for more than ten years, and most of the people who come to buy things are workers from nearby factories. When talking about the most popular clothing factory in the past, the owner sighed subconsciously: "When the Jun'an Garment Factory was there, the business of my small store was much better than it is now. It's a pity that a fire burned down the factory."

"Sister, you are close to the factory and come into contact with many people. Do you remember if anything special happened before the fire in the garment factory, or did anyone say anything?" Su Xiaohan didn't want to miss even a clue, so she asked tentatively.

"There was nothing special, but I can't remember which night it was, I was about to close the door and go home, I saw someone coming out of the factory, but he didn't go out through the main gate, it seemed like he climbed over the wall. I saw that he was wearing the work clothes of the factory workers, so I didn't pay much attention to it." The boss recalled carefully.

Su Xiaohan was shocked. Zhang Yong, a factory worker, and the supermarket owner both saw a man climbing over the wall of the factory. There must be something wrong! And this person is the key to finding the truth!

"Sister, did you see what that person looked like at that time?" Su Xiaohan asked hurriedly.

"I can't see clearly, it's too far away." The boss shook his head.

"Then can you tell whether that person is a man or a woman? How tall is he or she?" Su Xiaohan asked.

"It should be a man. He looks quite tall and thin..."

The boss was thinking and talking, and suddenly he became curious and asked, "Girl, why are you so concerned about the garment factory?"

After being asked by her, Su Xiaohan recovered and said with a smile: "Nothing, I just asked casually. It feels strange that this garment factory suddenly caught fire!"

"That's right! Not to mention you, I also think the fire is strange. Maybe someone set it!" The supermarket owner agreed. "Sister, do you think so too? Did you hear someone say something?" Su Xiaohan's mind brightened and she asked.

"Our neighbor is a worker in the factory. I heard him say that the fire was caused by a short circuit in the factory. But the electrician in the factory is an old veteran who has worked there for many years and he guaranteed that there was no problem with the circuit. So where did the fire come from?" The supermarket owner became more and more excited.

Recalling what happened at the beginning, and considering Zhu Nanfeng's investigation and the supermarket owner's words, Su Xiaohan became more and more certain that the fire was man-made and was by no means an accident.

As she was talking, she suddenly remembered that she had not yet told Zhou Yifeng that she was waiting for him in the supermarket, so she sent him a message.

More than half an hour later, Zhou Yifeng called and said he was almost there. Su Xiaohan said goodbye to the supermarket owner and left the supermarket. She met Zhou Yifeng at the factory gate and entered the garment factory together.

Seeing the broken glass in the security room, Zhou Yifeng guessed that it was Su Xiaohan who broke it, and asked with a smile: "Xiaohan, if I hadn't called, would you have planned to go in through the window?"

Su Xiaohan looked at him and smiled sheepishly, "Captain Zhou, I don't have anything that can open the lock, so I can only get in this way."

Zhou Yifeng smiled at her, took out a piece of wire from his bag, and quickly pried open the door lock.

Su Xiaohan looked at him with admiration and went into the security room with him.

On one wall of the security room is the factory's surveillance TV, which is now covered with a thick layer of dust.

Zhou Yifeng looked at the surveillance TV and asked, "Xiao Han, when you were investigating, didn't you check the factory surveillance?"

"I checked, but didn't find anything." Su Xiaohan replied.

"Didn't you see the person Zhang Yong mentioned?" Zhou Yifeng asked.

"No. I suspect that this person knew the location of the surveillance camera and deliberately avoided it. From the surveillance camera the night before the fire, no one was found entering the factory area at night."

"If this person is deliberately avoiding surveillance, that would be even more problematic. However, we cannot rule out another possibility..." Zhou Yifeng did not say it directly, but looked at Su Xiaohan.

"You mean, someone might have replaced the surveillance camera?" Su Xiaohan quickly understood.

Zhou Yifeng nodded and gave her a thumbs up.

"The police checked at the time and said there should be no problem with the surveillance." Su Xiaohan said uncertainly.

She told Zhou Yifeng what she had learned from the supermarket owner. Zhou Yifeng said seriously, "We can look for more clues. If there is enough evidence, we can apply for another investigation. However, you have to tell Zhu Nanfeng not to investigate privately. This is our police's job."

"what?"

When Su Xiaohan heard Zhou Yifeng suddenly mention Zhu Nanfeng, she didn't know how to answer for a moment. Because she knew that Zhu Nanfeng always had a way to find out something that she couldn't find. However, she couldn't tell Zhou Yifeng directly. Fortunately, Zhou Yifeng didn't continue the topic, otherwise, she would have said something that disobeyed her boss.

"Xiao Han, contact Zhang Yong and ask him to come to the bureau to cooperate with the investigation. I think he should know more!" Looking at the surveillance TV, Zhou Yifeng seemed to be thinking about something.

(End of this chapter)