Roses in Flames

Qin Feng's back instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

Zou Xu is the son of the richest man in the neighboring city. If he were to be murdered in Yecheng, the pressure on the police would be unimaginable.

Realizing he had arrested the wrong person, Qin Feng gave Cheng Lei a sharp look.

According to the information provided by Cheng Lei, Zou Xu came to Yecheng alone. After Song Che and his team conducted a reconnaissance, they found the location of the hotel where Zou Xu was staying. All he had to do was go there and arrest him.

He never expected that Cheng Lei would give him the wrong information.

When Director Zheng learned that Qin Feng had arrested the wrong person, his expression changed drastically. "We absolutely cannot let Zou Xu get into trouble. Immediately expand the search area and find his whereabouts at all costs."

Director Shao then looked at Xiao Lin, walked up to him, and patted him on the shoulder. "Do you know where Zou Xu is?"

Xiao Lin nodded, "I know. Zou Xu has been taken away by the real killer. A-Che is keeping an eye on him with his men, and I will also be heading there with my men immediately."

Director Shao's eyes lit up with delight. "Have you found the real culprit?"

"The murderer deliberately lured Zou Xu to Yecheng."

Director Shao nodded. "Zou Xu's identity is not simple. We must not let anything happen to him."

"I know."

After obtaining the necessary arrest permits, Xiao Lin prepared to leave with his men.

Ye Yuntang stepped forward. "Captain Xiao, I'll go with you."

Xiao Lin turned to look at Ye Yuntang, "No need, you stay at the police station and wait for us to come back."

Ye Yuntang nodded. "You must be careful."

Xiao Lin nodded, then turned to look at Cheng Lei and said in a low voice, "Lei Zi, what are you still standing there for? Hurry up and come with me."

Upon hearing Xiao Lin's order, Cheng Lei's dim eyes brightened. "Yes, boss!"

Seeing Cheng Lei leave with Xiao Lin and the others, Qin Feng's expression was indescribable.

He thought Cheng Lei had been seduced by him and was now on his side.

Unexpectedly, he actually helped Xiao Lin set him up.

……

Zou Xu came to Yecheng partly to meet his online girlfriend, and partly to inquire about Zhao Jiashu's cause of death from Luo Zilin.

Some time ago, when he was chatting with Luo Zilin, he mentioned that he wanted Zhao Jiashu to die.

Zhao Jiashu has something on him that has been threatening him for the past few years.

He was the young master of the Zou family, who could get whatever he wanted, and had never been threatened like that before.

He told Luo Zilin that if he could find a way to shut Zhao Jiashu up forever, he would give him a sum of money.

He thought Zhao Jiashu was killed by Luo Zilin, but Luo Zilin told him that he had not changed the prop dagger.

He was relieved to learn that Zhao Jiashu was not killed by Luo Zilin.

But to his utter surprise, Luo Zilin also died today.

He became increasingly uneasy.

He thought it over and over, fearing that the police would suspect him, after all, this was Yecheng, not a neighboring city.

Although he really wanted to meet his online girlfriend, he felt it was safer to return to the neighboring city for his own safety.

When he came to Yecheng, he brought along a close friend.

He asked his companion to wait at the hotel, and if his online boyfriend arrived, his companion would send him a video.

He's a voice enthusiast; his online girlfriend has a really nice voice, and they usually chat via voice messages and have never video chatted.

His online girlfriend said she would surprise him offline, and he had been looking forward to seeing her face for a long time.

As a result, instead of meeting her online boyfriend, her companion was greeted by the police ringing the doorbell.

When his companion called him, he was in a taxi and hadn't left Yecheng yet. Fearing that the police would take him to the police station, he asked his companion to impersonate him and stall the group of police officers.

The taxi finally drove out of Yecheng and onto the highway, and Zou Xu breathed a long sigh of relief.

He took out his phone and sent a message to his father, asking him to send someone to pick him up at the highway exit in the neighboring city.

After sending the message, Zou Xu suddenly realized something was wrong.

An inexplicable, eerie chill crept up my spine.

His heart tightened, and he subconsciously looked up, his gaze sweeping across the rearview mirror inside the car.

This sight made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

In the rearview mirror, the driver was wearing a baseball cap and a mask, leaving only his sinister and cold eyes visible.

He saw the intense malice and murderous intent in the driver's eyes.

Zou Xu felt a chill run down his spine.

"Who...who are you?"

As the driver drove, he picked up a small black voice changer and pressed it lightly.

The next second, a sweet, cloyingly sweet voice came from the voice changer, "Tell me... who am I?"

The sound, like a thunderclap, suddenly exploded above Zou Xu's head.

His pupils widened suddenly, and all the color drained from his face.

The man used a voice changer, and his voice was exactly the same as that of "Mengmeng," the woman he had been dating online for three months!

How could the sweet girl who called him "brother" through the screen every day, making him eager to meet her in Yecheng, be this gloomy driver in front of him?

Zou Xu shook his head in fear. He picked up his phone and dialed Mengmeng's WeChat voice call.

The next moment, the driver's phone, which was on the holder, rang.

Zou Xu opened his mouth wide, feeling as if his heart was being squeezed tightly by an invisible black hand.

My mind almost went blank.

"Why did you pretend to be a girl to lure me here? What do you want?"

As Zou Xu spoke, he tried to send a distress message to his father.

The driver glanced at him, then suddenly accelerated, and Zou Xu lost his grip on his phone, which fell to the ground.

Zou Xu reached out to pick it up, but a faint fragrance wafted towards his nose.

His mind grew increasingly foggy, and his consciousness quickly became blurred.

……

When Zou Xu woke up again, he found himself lying in a mountain forest, with three graves with tombstones not far ahead.

Upon seeing the photo on the tombstone, Zou Xu felt as if his blood was about to freeze.

Zou Xu's hands and feet were bound, and he was unable to move.

His face was deathly pale, and his teeth were chattering with fear.

"You probably didn't expect to see them here, did you?" A sinister male voice suddenly rang out from behind him, sounding like a demonic whisper to Zou Xu.

Zou Xu turned around, his pupils contracting as he looked at the man wearing a mask and hat. His legs went weak as he asked, "W-who are you?"

The man lifted Zou Xu's chin, looking at Zou Xu's terrified expression, a cold and cruel smile curling at the corner of his lips, "I won't let you die as easily as Zhao Jiashu and Luo Zilin. You are the worst, I will torture you slowly, making you wish you were dead."

Zou Xu was trembling violently. "My family is very rich. My dad will give you as much as you want. Let me go, and I promise I won't report you to the police..."

Before Zou Xu could finish speaking, a cold laugh escaped the man's throat. "Young Master Zou, do you think money is everything? Do you remember what you did to them? I'm here to uphold justice!"

The man pulled out a syringe he carried with him. "Let's start with bloodletting. We'll draw it slowly, so you can feel the blood slowly draining away. After that, we'll dislocate your finger joints one by one. Do you remember how you pulled her hair back then? Then we'll sever your Achilles tendons. Do you remember how you tripped your nine-month pregnant teacher and made her fall down the stairs?"

The more the man talked, the more frightened Zou Xu became.

Is he going to die here today?