Chapter 1175: Connecting with the UK
Based on these investigations, the police first confirmed that Shi Lei did not lie. In addition to him and the three dead, there were indeed three other people in the villa that night.
At this time, all kinds of information were also summarized.
The Real Estate Bureau, the intermediary, and the original owner all confirmed that Shi Lei had never appeared at any transaction site related to this property. The person in charge of the transaction of this property was an employee of Qixuan headquarters.
However, this employee has now disappeared. The police are trying their best to find this person. Although they cannot prove anything about this murder case, they can at least prove whether this property belongs to Shi Lei.
However, during the investigation, clues about the purchase money of this house were found.
From the bank's transfer records, it can be proved that the source of funds for purchasing this house was remitted from the UK, not from Shi Lei.
In any case, from this point, at least it can be said that the ownership of this property is in doubt.
As for the three white people, they are obviously still in China. The police have retrieved the surveillance of each intersection entering and leaving Wu Dong. After investigation, it is basically certain that these three people have not left Wu Dong. Unless, they were transported out in the form of corpses in a car.
The provincial department ordered that even if Wu Dongcheng had to dig three feet into the ground, the three people must be found.
They must be found alive or dead.
In the process of investigation, clues surfaced one by one, and in the eyes of the police, Shi Lei's suspicion was indeed getting smaller and smaller.
The most critical thing is that the conflict between Shi Lei and Dai Zhenxing is limited to the helm of Qixuan, and from the summary of all investigations, Shi Lei has undoubtedly completely mastered the situation. In other words, in the fight between Dai Zhenxing and Shi Lei, Shi Lei has completely defeated Dai Zhenxing, and the police can't find Shi Lei's motive for murdering Dai Zhenxing.
However, there is only less than a day left before the Australian side, but all the clues that surfaced seem to be broken after a certain extent. Now it seems that only by finding those three people can a real breakthrough be formed. Even if those three people are dead, this can also prove Shi Lei's innocence to some extent.
The police even suspected that the deaths of Dai Zhenxing and the two female victims were directly related to these three people.
The investigation of the case seemed to be at a stalemate.
At Shi Lei's request, Yu Banzhi personally communicated with the provincial department, and the Bai family and the Yu family put pressure on the provincial department, Shi Lei was not kept in the police station. The police allowed him to return to his villa in Jiudachu.
However, the police naturally conducted 24-hour uninterrupted all-round monitoring of the villa to ensure that Shi Lei could not leave.
After Shi Lei returned to the villa, he called Wei Bodhi. Wei Bodhi told him that since this incident was more or less related to the Dark Night Eye, Beibeila also said that she would provide Shi Lei with free services to find the real murderer to ensure that Shi Lei was cleared of suspicion.
After sending the portraits of the three people to Wei Bodhi, Wei Bodhi promised to find the whereabouts of the three people within 24 hours.
The reason for 24 hours is that no one can be sure that the three people are still alive.
If they were alive, with the power of the Dark Night Eye, these three people would be found quickly, and it would take no more than three hours.
But if these three people were dead, their bodies must have been processed, and it would take some effort to find them.
Shi Lei was actually very dissatisfied with this time, but he had no choice but to wait patiently for Wei Puti to give him confirmed news.
Outside the villa, the police who were responsible for monitoring Shi Lei were exhausted physically and mentally. In the past few days, they had been working almost non-stop, and they didn't even have time to drink water or eat.
After Shi Lei dealt with the contact with Wei Puti, he also invited them into the villa to save them from being too tired outside, and provided them with enough meals.
In Wudong Police Station and Jiangdong Provincial Department, the investigation of this case was in a stalemate, and all aspects of the investigation seemed to have been suspended, which made the high-level command of the provincial department at a loss.
Shi Lei himself was not particularly down-to-earth. He could almost conclude that Dai Zhenxing's death was related to the ferryman, which made it impossible for him to tell this information to anyone except Wei Puti.
Seeing that there were only six hours left before the time given by the Australian side, the provincial department was a little impatient. They sent experts again to confirm with Shi Lei everything that happened that night, trying to find other breakthroughs from it.
During the communication with the people from the provincial department, Shi Lei suddenly realized a problem.
The financial backer behind Dai Zhenxing is the European consortium, and the European consortium has not made any moves until now, which is obviously an extremely abnormal thing.
Unless they knew about Dai Zhenxing's death earlier than the police, or Dai Zhenxing's death was directly related to them.
Shi Lei informed the police of this discovery, but the police were at a loss.
Not to mention that the other party is a huge consortium with deep connections, they can't start an investigation at all.
The fact that the other party is a foreign consortium alone makes it difficult for the police to start an investigation.
What's more, there are less than four hours left before the time given by the Australian side. It is obviously unrealistic to find a breakthrough from a consortium of such a scale in such a short time.
Shi Lei stood up and said to the deputy director of the provincial department: "Let me make a call. This consortium is related to the British royal family, right? I'll find someone and maybe he can help."
The deputy director was not happy after hearing this. He said: "It's too late. The time is too short. Unless we can find those three guys, Australia will definitely unilaterally release information about this case."
Shi Lei insisted: "I'd better contact them. What if it's useful?"
The deputy director had no reason to stop him. Shi Lei went upstairs and made two calls.
The first call was to tell Wei Bodhi about his suspicion of the consortium. This might greatly shorten Wei Bodhi's investigation of the three people, because from the clues found by the police, the three people were not Australians, but British. This further confirmed Shi Lei's guess that the three people were likely to be the executors of the killing of Dai Zhenxing and the two stars. They were by Dai Zhenxing's side, first to protect his safety, and second, to monitor him more.
The second call Shi Lei made was to Crawford, who was now working at the London City Hall at Duke Scola's home.
Although Crawford was in the UK, he also heard about Shi Lei's affairs, which surprised Shi Lei greatly.
"Mr. Scola, how do you know about me?"
Crawford laughed and said, "A good friend of mine just left me, and he has a very good relationship with you."
Shi Lei frowned, thought for a while and said, "Song Ziyan?"
"It seems that Song's concern is not in vain. He has been running to me almost all the time these days, and his efforts have also paid off. I just called the Australian President's Office in front of him. Although it was very difficult, I finally got them to agree to give the Chinese police some more time and not to announce the murder case for the time being. Oh, by the way, you have to thank an Australian friend for this matter, his name is Stone."
Shi Lei really didn't expect that his matter would not only involve Song Ziyan, but also Huo Chengdong.
And they bought the most needed time for the domestic police.
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