Beauty and the Bodyguard

Chapter 1253 – A Clue!

“Okay!” Lingshan nodded. “Yang Bro, I feel like these cases look very normal, but there are too many coincidences, and they form a very unnatural structure. I feel that the possibility that these are all connected is very high, and so I compiled them all together! Up until now, I still don’t know the motives of whoever or whatever organization is behind this. What is it they want? Even if these people have all been captured by them, what was the point?

“Not bad- if you can think that far it means you’ve seriously analyzed this before.” Huaijun nodded. “But didn’t you realize that there’s a common point between these missing people.”

“What common point? Their jobs and ages are all different? They don’t know each other, too…” Lingshan paused.

“They’re all of the bottom of the social pyramid. Not one of these people has good financial conditions!” Huaijun pointed at the files. “Their families aren’t rich at all, and if this is the case, we can make some bold conjectures!”

“But why did these people all run after beating someone up? With the records, all of the victims had minor injuries, not even minor injuries. They were really small! They just needed to pay a bit of money as compensation, and if they had some money, it wouldn’t resort to the point of running!” Huaijun said. “Of course, this is only an illusion! From a deeper level, these people’s crimes and running away are all the same, and so we can’t use a surface level to look at this! With a bold guess, if I were the mastermind, and I wanted some people to come work for me to achieve some purpose, these people might very well be killed after the deed is done. And so, before they disappear after I’ve sorted them out, there needs to be an illusion, turning the police and the citizens’ eyes away, letting them think that these people ran on their own!”

“Hm… So this means that these missing persons’ disappearances are planned- or maybe they’re even working with the mastermind to put on this performance?” Lingshan jumped- she felt that something was wrong before, but she couldn’t point out exactly what! She just realized what he said now.

“Yes!” Huaijun nodded. “If these people weren’t cooperating, it would be hard to fake a disappearance with just the mastermind. How many people would run away just because they hurt some people? Even if some did that, it’s a rare case. No way that so many would do the exact same thing like this.”

“Then… Why would they cooperate? Is it a monetary thing?” Lingshan wasn’t dumb. She guessed the connection.

“This goes back to the common point between them I mentioned. None of these people are wealthy, and people like this would usually jump with more force at an opportunity to earn money. Maybe even fifty percent of people would bite the bait!” Huaijun nodded. “And so, I feel that you shouldn’t put your energy into looking for these missing persons. If I’m not wrong, they’re already dead or locked up- there’s little hope of you finding them! You should be putting effort into going to their level of the social ladder and investigate, see if there are people enticing people to do certain things. I’m sure that some must’ve rejected the offers the mastermind put out, not all of them would’ve accepted. You should look for clues from those who said no!”

“Ah! Yes… Yang Bro, I feel so enlightened now that you’ve said all this!” Huaijun said.

“Haha, after spending a long time, most of these are all just simple questions. I’ve only interacted with them more, that’s all.” Huaijun smiled. “I was thinking that you should be pretty close to solving the case if you go in this direction when you get back.”

“Yeah, thanks for the tips, Yang Bro!” Lingshan said genuinely.

“Alright, enough about that- let’s talk about you and House Yu. If the engagement has already been made, then Lin Yi…” Huaijun was more concerned about Lin Yi- House Yu was big, after all, and conflict would hurt. “House Yu’s behavior is really tyrannical. I’m worried they’d do something to Lin Yi if they knew?”

“Do something to him,” Lingshan looked odd. She smiled bitterly. “Yang Bro, you’re from a noble house too- you haven’t’ heard about what happened in Songshan a while back?”

“What?” Huaijun paused. “I was busy this past while. I could barely sleep- I didn’t pay attention to the news of the noble house at all. Our House Yang only holds a small noble house position in the meetings anyway, as long as the elder of our family is here, we wouldn’t be affected much, and so I didn’t pay much attention…”

“Lin Yi and House Yu are now grave enemies! Lin Yi had crippled Yu Kun and killed his father, Yu Bife… His war with House Yu is not just a normal fight…” Lingshan smiled bitterly. “Even without all this stuff, do you think it’s possible that Lin Yi and House Yu would be at peace ever again?”

“No?” Huaijun jumped up from the bed! He didn’t think Lin Yi would be this aggressive, after coming to Songshan for just a few days, he killed two masters from the leader of the nine common world noble houses- wasn’t this too much?

He was still worried that Lin Yi might get into a fight with House Yu, but who would’ve thought that it was House Yu who was suffering the losses! He sighed. “That’s my captain for you- someone else would be dead already if they’d messed up two Yu’s, but boss is still alive and well. He’s very strong indeed!”

“Yeah!” Lingshan couldn’t believe it as well- but only a man like this was fit for her tastes! A coward who hid when things went wrong really didn’t fit her appetite.

“Fine, I won’t meddle with this then, you guys’ stuff is way too complicated…” Huaijun smiled bitterly. “You staying here tonight? I’ll buy you food?”

“It’s alright- I’m already really enthusiastic about continuing this case!” Lingshan was feeling quite rushed now that she had a direction.

“Alright, next time then- I’m quite busy over here as well!” Huaijun sighed. “Next time it’d be best if you could bring Lin Yi, we could talk about it properly… I have something to ask him to- well, I’ll call him privately and talk about it!”

“Alright!” Lingshan didn’t know what he wanted to talk to Lin Yi about, but she didn’t ask any questions. She left the hotel.