Genius Detective

Chapter 966: Shooting The Suspect Dead

After reading this, Tao Yueyue put down the notebook. "Uncle Chen, it seems that there is a mastermind behind Lu Dahai. He’s the real lunatic. I think he must be a highly educated person or he wouldn’t have created these incomprehensible ‘Life Functions’."

"Read the diary slowly and collect as many clues as possible."

Tao Yueyue saluted and put away the diary separately.

Chen Shi\'s cell phone rang. He put the cell phone on the shelf in the car and turned on speaker mode. A policeman said over the phone, "Captain, we have located the suspect\'s cell phone signal!"

"Where?"

"Near China World Trade Center. It’s moving slowly."

"Send some people over right away!"

Chen Shi hung up the phone and muttered to himself, "He should already know that we were there, so why didn\'t he escape? Yueyue, look at those photos!"

Tao Yueyue pulled out the photos from the bag, looked at the information behind them one by one, and said, "There is a taxi driver, and he sets off near China World Trade Center every afternoon."

"I see. He intends to kill another person before he is caught. This person is already beyond cure and thinks that killing people is a legitimate job... Is that taxi driver driving for an online ride-hailing service?"

"Yes, his name is Zhang Xu."

"I am in a chat group for drivers on my mobile phone. Let’s see if I can contact Zhang Xu through them!"

Tao Yueyue took his cellphone and sent a voice message. A bunch of idlers in the group teased, "Old Chen, is that your daughter? Her voice is so nice!"

Tao Yueyue roared impatiently, "Hurry up! It’s a matter of life and death!"

More and more people in the chat group came to watch the fuss, and finally one said, "Zhang Xu\'s number is..."

Tao Yueyue dialed the number and placed it in front of Chen Shi. After the call was connected, Chen Shi said, "Are you Zhang Xu?"

"Who are you?"

"I..." Chen Shi paused slightly, and said, "I also drive for an online ride-hailing service. My name is Chen Shi. I have something I need to talk to you about. Can you come to Jian\'an Road?"

"No, I have a passenger with me right now. I will contact you on the way back."

The phone was hung up, and Chen Shi said, "Locate this number!"

Tao Yueyue did what he said, and when the feedback from the bureau came, she told Chen Shi anxiously, "Uncle Chen, it\'s too late. The signals belonging to the two of them are together. Lu Dahai is sitting in the car!"

Chen Shi\'s heart dropped. "It\'s not too late. Lu Dahai won’t attack while on the way. We will have to try to find a way to catch up with that car!"

He made a U-turn directly on the road and took a shortcut to the targeted location. Tao Yueyue kept receiving information from the bureau along the way. Finally, Zhang Xu\'s car appeared in their field of vision. It was a black Volkswagen and there was a person sitting in the back seat.

Chen Shi speeded up in order to catch up, thinking of stopping the car. At this time, the bureau called again and said, "Captain, someone is talking to Lu Dahai."

"Play it!"

A voice disguised using a voice changer came from the phone. "...The police have already targeted you. See the car behind you? There isn’t much time, so hurry up."

"Thank you for giving me a new life!"

"It\'s an honor to have known you. You are an excellent mission executor. Goodbye friend!"

The car suddenly swerved wildly on the road and Tao Yueyue shouted, "It\'s not good, the man behind is strangling the driver with a rope!"

"He wants to die!"

The out-of-control Volkswagen swayed around drunkenly and was about to drive through a red light. Chen Shi ordered Tao Yueyue to fasten her seat belt properly and floored the gas pedal, slamming the other car into an electric pole at the side of the road. The pole was also knocked askew and a high-voltage wire broke, twisted around like a snake, and finally landed on the top of that car, emitting sparks.

Inside the car, Lu Dahai was still strangling the driver\'s neck tightly with a rope. The driver\'s head was flushed red. He desperately grasped at the rope with his hands. Lu Dahai himself was covered with fresh blood.

Tao Yueyue was about to push the car door open, and Chen Shi shouted, "Don\'t get out of the car, the ground is electrified!"

He propped himself up on his seat, kicked out the windshield with his legs, took out his pistol and fired a shot. Lu Dahai was startled by the sound. He turned his head, and said sinisterly, "Don\'t try to stop me, this man is not a good person!"

"Let him go!" Chen Shi roared.

"Impossible!" Lu Dahai pulled even harder and even braced his knees against the driver\'s seat. The driver had no strength left to struggle. His neck tilted backwards, and the rope made a deep bloody groove on his neck.

Since it had already come to this, he had no choice but to shoot the suspect dead!

Chen Shi held the gun with both hands, and the front sight of the pistol moved up and down with his breathing. He pulled the trigger suddenly, Lu Dahai’s body tilted to the side as if his head had been punched, and blood spattered on the glass.

The driver slumped in his seat and Chen Shi was a little worried, but the high-voltage wire was on the roof of the car, and the current flowed to the ground through the car body. As long as you stepped on it, the voltage would instantly kill you.

Tao Yueyue said, "Just hop over it step by step and it will be fine."

"Don\'t take this risk. You will be electrocuted if you touch the metal car body by any chance."

Chen Shi shouted towards the onlookers, "I am a policeman. Call the power plant and cut off the electric circuit on this street first!"

Some people picked up their mobile phones. When he saw that the wire was no longer sparking, Chen Shi took a metal object from the car and threw it on the ground. He got out of the car after confirming that it was okay, and went over to check properly.

Lu Dahai had been shot in the temple. The driver was unconscious, but was still breathing weakly. Chen Shi quickly contacted 120.

The police arrived and dealt with the scene quickly. Half an hour later the wounded man was taken away by an ambulance, the traffic and electricity were restored, and the two cars that had collided were towed away.

Chen Shi sat wearily on the flowerbed by the roadside. Tao Yueyue bought two cups of drinks and handed one of them to Chen Shi. Chen Shi took a sip and smiled as he complained, "Drinking such a sweet thing after an adrenaline-filled incident, my blood pressure will rise."

"Then you can drink mine. My cup is coffee." Tao Yueyue exchanged her cup with the one in Chen Shi\'s hand. "It was really dangerous just then. Fortunately, we saved him."

Looking at Lu Dahai’s body being carried into the vehicle, Chen Shi said regretfully, "But the suspect is dead and the lead has also been lost."

Chen Shi saw that Tao Yueyue was still using his mobile phone to send messages, and asked, "Who are you chatting with?"

"Zhang Xu\'s driver friend, the one who provided the number just now. I asked him about Zhang Xu\'s situation."

"What did he say?"

"He’s a very ordinary driver with a wife and children at home. He has been married for seven years and doesn’t have any bad habits. He just often sneaks out to look for prostitutes... I don\'t understand why he is a \'bad person\'. If the victim\'s level is considered to be a \'bad person\', do I count as one?"

"The key lies in these ‘Life Functions’. Solving them will solve the mystery."

Tao Yueyue took out a few photos and fanned them out like playing cards, "These few people, including me, have not been killed yet! Do you think there are other people like Lu Dahai? What did the Big Boss call him again? Oh, that’s right, ‘Mission Executor’!"

At this moment, a policeman ran up. "Captain, the phone rang!"

"Whose phone?"

"The suspect’s!"