Evening.

The rain had eased up a bit, and Liu Wenkai got on the road.

Further investigation was left to the detectives behind him. As the vanguard, he only needed to find a direction and charge forward.

The fine raindrops, driven by the wind, splattered against the windshield like scattered urine, making the view alternately clear and blurry.

Fortunately, there were few cars on the road. Liu Wenkai drove with all his might and arrived at the destination much faster than the navigation predicted.

The destination was a hot pot restaurant with two floors for business. There were also many cars parked in the parking lot downstairs. Even in such windy and rainy weather, many people still came to eat.

Before getting off the car, Liu Wenkai said to the other three people in the car, "Our target is Zhou Lei's girlfriend Wang Na. She is currently the main suspect, but we should focus on questioning her first. Pay attention to any men around her. If Wang Na is the culprit, we should consider whether she has accomplices. It's rare for a female to plan and execute a murder alone. Also, disposing of a body requires physical strength and equipment."

The vice detective Zhang Enze said, "Everyone should also pay attention to the equipment in the kitchen and see if there is anything that can dismember a body. We haven't found the upper half of the body yet."

"Got it. We need to pay attention to slicing and chopping." Liu Wenkai added.

"The second half of your sentence gave me goosebumps." Zhang Enze complained, "Just protect the scene and arrest people decisively. Hey, we are still a bit short of manpower. Why don't we guard both entrances?"

"This is the best we can do today. The headquarters can't send more people, and the highway is blocked. Even if we ask for reinforcements, they won't come." Liu Wenkai could actually wait until tomorrow, as the body had been floating for several days and the culprit had not run away before. There was no reason for them to run away today.

However, after years of handling major cases, Liu Wenkai knew that sometimes, coincidences happen just like that.

Moreover, the weather was unpredictable. The current weather conditions seemed unfavorable, but they could still carry out the operation with their small team. If they waited until tomorrow, who knew if the weather would be even worse? If there was a heavy rainstorm worse than today's, it would be difficult to even make an arrest.

For the same reason, the uncertainty of the weather conditions outside was too great, so he was not willing to stakeout and decided to catch the suspect in the complex situation of the hot pot restaurant.

Of course, the main reason was that today was not a definite arrest operation, but an investigation with questioning as the main focus.

Liu Wenkai was only guarding against the questioning turning into an arrest. In this kind of weather, it would be difficult to catch the suspect if they ran away.

The four of them disguised themselves as customers and sat in the hot pot restaurant. Liu Wenkai did not order any food, only saying that they were waiting for someone. He instructed the waiter to find the manager and arrange a room for them, then call Wang Na over. "Xiao Zhao, come with me," he said in a low voice.

Liu Wenkai and Xiao Zhao went to the lounge in the back corridor, while Zhang Enze and another detective sat at a nearby table with a fake rattan screen separating them from the front desk. They could also see the scene in the kitchen, and their view was quite good.

After waiting for a long time, they saw Wang Na stand up and go to the back corridor.

Zhang Enze and the other detective quickly followed her.Several people smoothly sent Wang Na into the passage, closed the door, and then blocked her in a small material room.

"Tell me, what's your relationship with Zhou Lei?" Liu Wenkai's eyes flickered.

In front of him was a young girl in her twenties. Regardless of how many times she had played room escape or murder mystery games, Liu Wenkai was confident that he could interrogate her clearly and let her see how humans who had faced deep darkness could expose lies.

"Zhou Lei is my ex-boyfriend," Wang Na frowned. "He voluntarily gave me the red envelopes. He reported me to the police after we broke up. He has no class."

Liu Wenkai also frowned. She seemed to be pretending.

Zhang Enze asked, "When was the last time you saw Zhou Lei?"

"What's the matter?"

"If the police ask you a question, answer it properly. If you don't want to say it here, we'll go to the police station," Liu Wenkai regained his senses and continued to press her for answers.

Wang Na looked around, and there was no colleague who could help her, so she said, "It's been more than a week. I can't remember."

"Where did you meet?"

"At the store. He came to find me. I told him to leave if we broke up and not to be nosy."

"Did you have a conflict?"

"No. What's going on?"

Liu Wenkai looked at Wang Na's expression and decided to drop a bombshell. "Zhou Lei is dead. Don't you know?"

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"Dead?" Wang Na looked surprised. "Really dead?"

Liu Wenkai frowned again. "What do you mean by really dead?"

"Just...just..." Wang Na hesitated for a few seconds and said, "It was two days ago. Zhou Lei wrote something, saying that he was going to die. I thought it was disgusting. I felt like he was the kind of person who would cry, make a scene, and commit suicide, so I blocked him..."

"What did he write? Show me," Liu Wenkai urged.

Wang Na hesitated and took out her phone, found the blacklist in WeChat's contact list, selected Zhou Lei's profile picture, which was a squirrel from the Ice Age.

A line of text appeared in front of everyone:

I can't hold on anymore. Life has always been very cruel to me, and now it has become even more colorless. I used to believe that everything would get better. You used to be the rainbow in my life, but now you're not. I'm leaving. No one will know about this. It's like Scrat getting his nut. It's meaningless now.

Liu Wenkai and Zhang Enze looked at each other and fell silent.

This WeChat message could be considered a standard farewell message, and from the perspective of a criminal investigator, Wang Na's behavior did not seem like she was lying.

"What does 'Scrat getting his nut' mean?" Zhang Enze asked.

"It's...Scrat is a squirrel from the Ice Age. The Ice Age is a Hollywood animation. That squirrel has been chasing nuts all the time but never gets them," Wang Na realized the seriousness of the situation and became cautious.

Liu Wenkai was a bit angry and said, "He sent you a farewell message like this, and you still blocked him?"

"I...I didn't expect him to commit suicide. I thought he learned some tricks from somewhere. He usually looked like a cheerful person..." Wang Na whispered, "If I had known earlier, I would have persuaded him."

Liu Wenkai sighed heavily, as if he had revisited the deep darkness. He took out his notebook again and asked slowly, "What was his relationship like with his parents? Have you met them? Does Zhou Lei have any other relatives?"Even if there is a farewell letter, it cannot completely prove that Zhou Lei committed suicide. There is still the problem of dismemberment to be solved.

Wang Na whispered, "I haven't met his parents, but I heard that they divorced a long time ago and remarried separately. Zhou Lei never went back home during holidays. He was raised by his grandmother, who passed away two years ago."

This adds new evidence for suicide. Zhang Enze shook his head secretly and asked, "Have you ever talked about any commemorative places, especially along the Taihe River?"

Wang Na thought for a moment and said, "He quite liked the Traveler's Bridge over there. He used to say he wanted to buy a house there."