The police officer turned to look at Shen Jianyi, who was sitting there looking honest and simple. He frowned and took a few steps forward.
"Was there any deal?" The police officer bent down, as if interrogating. "Confession earns leniency, resistance leads to strict punishment."
Facing the intimidating power of the police, Shen Jianyi showed no emotion at all. She sat in the chair leisurely, as if this place was her own home.
She drawled lazily, "No. The stuff he gave me was fake. Why don't you arrest him?"
"Who?"
Shen Jianyi lifted her eyelids and stared at the other person. "The guy lying on the ground."
Hearing this, the police officer waved his hand. Then several others brought over the man in black and forced him to kneel in front of everyone.
"Is this the guy you were talking about?"
Shen Jianyi reached out and took off the man's mask. He was just an ordinary waiter, not Xu Wenji at all.
The police didn't arrest Xu Wenji immediately when they took her away, which meant that Xu Wenji might have already escaped.
But... with so many sharp knives sticking into his body, badly injured as he was, where could Xu Wenji have run to?
Just then, a police officer on the side walked over slowly and whispered something in the ear of the officer who had just questioned Shen Jianyi. The officer who had been questioning waved his hand. "After investigation, it's confirmed that there was no deal here. You can all leave."
As long as there was no large - scale transaction, they were not in a position to interfere. All the waiters and hostesses there had been taken away.
As for who the organizer was, the police still hadn't found out.
After leaving the police station, Shen Jianyi was also lost. What on earth was going on? The real chip was indeed on Xu Wenji.
But she didn't even have a chance to take it before the police showed up, as if someone had deliberately arranged it.
Shen Jianyi's mind was in a complete mess. She turned to look at the indifferent man beside her.
Gun was about to part ways with her. He even deliberately kept his distance when walking. It seemed that he was going to leave this place directly.
"Leaving?" Shen Jianyi stared at the man in front of her. Both of them had failed in this mission. "How are you going to tell your employer?"
Gun replied casually, "You don't need to worry about this, Miss Red Fox. If nothing unexpected happens, we should never meet again."
Although Shen Jianyi didn't know what Gun meant by these words, she didn't really care. It was just a relationship of interests between them.
She watched Gun's back as he walked away, showing no emotion.
Then, she went straight back to the hotel and started packing her things.
Before she had finished packing, she heard a sudden, urgent knock on the door.
She wasn't wearing the mask. The red - fox mask Gun had given her had already been put into the suitcase. At this moment, Shen Jianyi opened the door without any defense.
As soon as the door opened, a dagger stabbed in. If Shen Jianyi hadn't been quick, the dagger would have hit her vital spot.
Shen Jianyi counterattacked and knocked the dagger out of the other person's hand. She grabbed the person's wrist and pulled her in. The woman seemed boneless as she was dragged into the room. Then Shen Jianyi quickly closed the door.
Looking at the person she had pinned against the wall, Shen Jianyi frowned slightly. "Is it you?"
The person she had subdued was an old acquaintance - Hong Xiu.
Shen Jianyi didn't expect that Hong Xiu would come to find her as soon as the drug's effect wore off. She let go of Hong Xiu's hand and then casually sat on the sofa. Her mood didn't change much, as if she was just seeing an ordinary person.
Hong Xiu rubbed her sore wrist that had just been pinched. She took two or three steps and walked up to Shen Jianyi.
The other day, she had just heard from Zhou Sang that Shen Jianyi was a former member of the research institute, but had been kicked out of the organization for stealing the chip.
So did Shen Jianyi sell the chip? Could she be the mysterious person in the legend?
During the time when Hong Xiu was unconscious, she had no idea what had happened. She only heard that the banquet had been raided when she woke up.
She had secretly followed Shen Jianyi up when she saw an acquaintance. Hong Xiu picked up her dagger from the ground and wanted to force Shen Jianyi to hand over the chip.
However, the other person was so calm, as if she had nothing to fear.
Shen Jianyi stared at the dagger in Hong Xiu's hand and casually walked up to her. She whispered in Hong Xiu's ear, "I don't know what you're here for, but if you're here for the chip, it's not with me."
Hong Xiu took two steps back and stared at the woman in front of her in horror. This woman did carry a great aura, giving people an invisible sense of oppression.
She thought that there was no one in this world who could scare her, until she met this woman.
"Shen Jianyi, I'm here on a mission to get the chip. You'd better hand it over obediently." Hong Xiu twirled the dagger in her hand. Although scared, she still tried to look calm.
Hearing this, Shen Jianyi showed no expression. The chill in her eyes made the whole room several degrees colder.
"I'll say it one last time," Shen Jianyi lifted her eyelids, her eyes full of coldness. "The chip is not with me. No matter who sent you here to get it from me, you go back and tell him that I'm also looking for the chip. Instead of wasting time on me, you'd better think about where Xu Wenji is."
Hong Xiu had indeed heard the name Xu Wenji, but since she had just joined the research institute not long ago, she didn't know much about the institute's previous affairs.
Shen Jianyi didn't want to fight now. She had been out for too long and had to hurry back. Otherwise, Lu Jinsheng would surely become suspicious, and it would be hard to explain then.
She picked up her suitcase and turned to leave the room. At this time, Hong Xiu chased after her, tightly gripping the dagger in her hand, as if she was going to strike unexpectedly.
Before she could even raise her arm, Shen Jianyi said casually, "Don't even think about playing tricks on me. I know your every move."
Shen Jianyi turned her head. Her cold eyes showed no emotion when looking at Hong Xiu, as if something even more unpredictable would happen if Hong Xiu took one more step forward.
She thought that Hong Xiu would stop following her like this, but unexpectedly, this woman was so persistent and still chose to follow closely.
Just as Shen Jianyi was about to press the elevator button to go downstairs, Hong Xiu blocked the elevator door with one hand, preventing it from closing.
One standing inside and the other standing outside, Hong Xiu looked up, wearing the clown mask, and met the woman's emotionless eyes. She asked in a shrill voice, "Shen Jianyi, are you Red Fox, the second - ranked person on the bounty list?"