Chapter 1314
: Not moving at all
However, he felt as if he had been pushed against a steel wall cast into the ground. Luo Fei did not move at all, but he himself was staggered by the force of the recoil.
A hint of undisguised astonishment flashed across the bodyguard's face, but his professionalism made him immediately steady himself, forcibly concealing the shock in his heart, though his eyes became even more vigilant.
Luo Fei continued to look at Jiang Qinqin, his tone becoming more forceful.
"Miss Jiang, I understand how you feel."
But if you don't have time right now, we can arrange another place. I just want to find out the truth as soon as possible and catch the murderer who killed your father!
Upon hearing the word "murderer," Jiang Qinqin's body trembled slightly, but she suddenly raised her head, her eyes instantly filled with intense hostility and resistance, and her voice became shrill.
"I don't need it! I don't need your police help! Please leave! Don't bother us anymore!"
Her words seemed to be a signal, and the other bodyguards immediately surrounded Luo Fei, glaring at him and hurling insults at him.
"Get out of here! Did you hear me?!"
"Don't push your luck!"
"Don't blame us for being impolite if you don't leave now!"
Two of them even reached out and grabbed Luo Fei's shoulders and arms, trying to forcibly pull him away.
At this tense moment—
"boom!!"
A crisp and abrupt gunshot shattered the oppressive atmosphere outside the funeral home!
With the help of his "superhuman reaction," Luo Fei's dynamic vision captured everything! A high-speed spinning sniper bullet, accompanied by a death shriek, shot from the ridge hundreds of meters away, its target aimed directly at Jiang Qinqin's heart, just meters away!
In the blink of an eye, Luo Fei had no time to think!
He suddenly reached out, not to pull Jiang Qinqin who was far away, but to grab the shoulder of the bodyguard in front of him who was pushing him. With a burst of strength from his waist, he pulled the bodyguard to the side like a shield!
"puff--!"
Blood exploded!
"what--!!"
A piercing scream rang out.
The sniper bullet struck the unfortunate bodyguard precisely on the shoulder near his arm. The immense kinetic energy instantly blasted a horrific hole in his arm, sending bone fragments and flesh flying everywhere!
He screamed and fell to the ground, writhing in agony.
"Sniper!!"
"Protect the young lady!!"
The other bodyguards were terrified by the sudden attack, instinctively shrinking their necks and crouching down to find cover, creating chaos.
The instant Luo Fei pulled his bodyguard to shield him from the bullet, his gaze, sharp as a hawk's, locked onto the source of the bullet—the canopy of a large, dense tree on the opposite ridge! A blurry black shadow flashed by!
Without the slightest hesitation, Luo Fei had already drawn his sidearm with his other hand. With his god-like perception and calculation abilities, he didn't need to aim carefully at all; he simply raised his hand and fired!
"boom!"
Another gunshot rang out!
In the distance, the dark figure fell from the treetops, plummeting into the forest below.
"go!"
Luo Fei let out a low shout, ignoring the fallen bodyguard. He lunged forward like a cheetah, grabbed Jiang Qinqin, who was frozen in fear, and shielded her with most of his body as he rushed toward the Rolls-Royce Phantom that was right in front of him!
"boom!"
Almost at the same moment they started, a second sniper shot rang out! Bullets whistled through the air again, the target still Jiang Qinqin!
Luo Fei grabbed Jiang Qinqin and lunged forward, pressing her head down with his right hand.
"Whoosh-!"
The bullet grazed Jiang Qinqin's hair and hit the window of a car next to them.
"Crack-!"
The car window shattered instantly!
Taking advantage of the momentum of their forward rush, Luo Fei had already led Jiang Qinqin to the Rolls-Royce.
He yanked open the car door, practically shoving her inside, and then quickly climbed into the car himself.
The car door slammed shut with a bang.
Almost the instant the car door closed, a third bullet followed.
With a sharp clang, the glass of the Rolls-Royce was struck!
However, this sniper bullet, which was powerful enough to penetrate ordinary steel plates, only left a shallow white dent and spiderweb-like cracks on the car window, and failed to penetrate it!
"They really did replace it with bulletproof glass!" Luo Fei thought to himself, having expected this.
In the driver's seat, the driver was terrified by the continuous gunfire and flying bullets, his face pale, his hands gripping the steering wheel tightly, his body stiff.
"Drive! Drive now!!"
Luo Fei shouted at the driver.
The driver then seemed to wake up from a dream and slammed on the gas pedal!
The Rolls-Royce Phantom sped through the streets of the city, leaving the funeral parlor, a place rife with the threat of death, far behind.
Inside the car, the atmosphere remained heavy and tense.
Jiang Qinqin huddled in the large, comfortable leather seat, her face as pale as paper, her hands tightly gripping the hem of her clothes, her body still trembling slightly uncontrollably.
The lightning-fast sniping, the splattering blood, the deafening gunshots, the shattered car windows... all of this was like a nightmare, assaulting her already fragile nerves, which were already weakened by her father's death.
She was still panting, shaken. After a while, she seemed to regain some strength and slowly turned her head to look at the man beside her who had just saved her in an almost domineering way.
He looked no older than me, with a stern face and sharp yet calm eyes, as if what I had just experienced was not a life-or-death sniper encounter, but merely a trivial disturbance.
"You...you're really a police officer?"
Jiang Qinqin's voice was hoarse with the shock of surviving a disaster and a hint of uncertainty.
She had previously been repulsed by Luo Fei's identity, but now, this identity had become the only safety rope she could hold onto.
"National Security Special Case Team, Luo Fei. You've already seen my credentials."
Luo Fei's voice was steady, revealing little emotion.
Having confirmed her identity, Jiang Qinqin's tense nerves seemed to relax a little. She lowered her head, her voice soft yet clear.
"Just now... thank you for saving me. Also... I was rude at the funeral home entrance, I'm sorry... Today is my father's funeral day, I..."
Her words were somewhat disjointed, tinged with apology and lingering fear.
"Protecting the public is our responsibility, no need for thanks. As for your attitude, I understand your feelings."
Luo Fei interrupted her, his tone still calm, yet carrying a reassuring power.
"Now, can we talk? Do you have any leads on who wanted to kill you?"
"The one who killed me?"
Jiang Qinqin raised her head blankly, her eyes filled with fear and confusion.
"I don't know... How would I know who wants to kill me? I rarely offend anyone..."
“You might not be the target,” Luo Fei said, looking at her and emphasizing each word.
"It is your father, Mr. Jiang Tiansheng."
He paused, then dropped an even more startling piece of information.
"Furthermore, based on the evidence we currently have, your father's death was not an accident. Flight Xuanyuan 816 was hijacked and deliberately crashed into the Cloud Mist Mountain villa where your father lived." "What?!?"
Jiang Qinqin sat up abruptly, her eyes widening instantly, her face filled with extreme shock and disbelief.
"Man-made?! Hijacking of a plane?! Crashing into my father's villa?!"
"How...how is this possible?!"
She couldn't accept this fact! Her father had been murdered in such an extreme and cruel way! And more than a hundred innocent passengers were also implicated!
"That's just the way it is."
Luo Fei's voice was calm to the point of being cold.
"What we need to do now is to find out who is behind this."
Ms. Jiang, please think carefully: did your father offend anyone before his death? Or did he exhibit any unusual behavior? Anything that seems amiss could be a crucial clue.
Jiang Qinqin was shocked by this earth-shattering news. She leaned back in her seat, staring blankly at the street scene rushing past the car window, and remained silent for a long time.
The only sounds inside the car were the low rumble of the engine and the faint whirring of the air conditioner.
After a long pause, she slowly spoke, her voice carrying a weariness and detachment that seemed out of place for her age.
"I... don't really know my dad very well."
She began to speak, her tone calm, as if she were telling a story unrelated to herself.
"When I was born, he was already very busy in the venture capital world. He couldn't even go to the hospital when my mother gave birth to me. I was raised by my maternal grandmother."
To me, he was more like an "uncle" who would appear once or twice a year. On the surface, we were father and daughter, but in reality... we were complete strangers.
Luo Fei listened quietly without interrupting.
“My mother… although she’s nominally his confidante, you know, men like my father, once they get rich, inevitably…”
A bitter smile appeared on Jiang Qinqin's lips.
"Just like the emperors of ancient times, my mother might be considered an 'empress,' but she had quite a few 'concubines' in her harem."
He owns villas in several major cities in Daxia, and each villa... probably houses a different "family".
He only goes back to visit occasionally.
Luo Fei understood; this was pretty much what he had guessed.
He sighed.
"Even the rich can't resist lust. It seems your father... has quite a few illegitimate children."
"It's more than just a lot."
Jiang Qinqin's tone carried a hint of sarcasm.
"He'd be in serious trouble if convicted of bigamy. But this is just a moral issue."
She paused, then continued.
“My mother, though she appears to be the legal wife, is not fundamentally different from those other women. The only difference is that I am... the only nominal heir to the Zhiyun Group.”
She looked at Luo Fei with a complicated expression.
"To be honest, I'm not that interested in his money."
But my mother doesn't see it that way. She feels this is compensation for all her years of sacrifice, and she won't let those illegitimate children get away with it so easily. I reckon it won't be long before those illegitimate children are suing over the inheritance.
Luo Fei nodded and analyzed.
"If that's the case, those so-called 'mistresses' and 'mistresses' and their children, although they may fight over the inheritance, directly causing Mr. Jiang's death will not directly benefit them. On the contrary, they will lose their biggest source of income."
Based on their motives, they can be largely ruled out as suspects.
"Yes, I think so too."
Jiang Qinqin expressed her agreement.
Luo Fei continued to press for answers.
"So, putting aside family issues, has your Jiang family, or your father himself, made any irreconcilable enemies outside? Or, do you have any very powerful competitors in the business world?"
Jiang Qinqin frowned, trying hard to recall, but ultimately shook her head.
“I don’t really know much about these things. My mother probably knows more.”
From my own experience, my father is in the venture capital business. Although he occasionally encounters situations where several startups want to invest in him at the same time, most of the time he can find a win-win way to cooperate, and I have rarely heard of things escalating to the point of life and death.
At least in my memory, over the years, I've rarely heard my father mention any enemies or fierce rivals in the industry.
Luo Fei seemed to be deep in thought.
"The venture capital industry is indeed relatively 'cleaner' compared to some traditional real economy industries, and it is more about capital operation and vision competition."
He tapped his knee lightly with his fingers, his eyes sharp.
"However, using superhumans to hijack a commercial airliner to kill people... that's too much, it's not like a simple personal grudge."
If it truly stems from a personal grudge, then the person or force Mr. Jiang offended must possess immense wealth, perhaps even... a hidden tycoon. Otherwise, they simply couldn't afford an assassin of this caliber.
The word "Blueberry" involuntarily popped into his mind; it was a legendary top international assassin organization.
But then he remembered Lei Wanting's words—most of the world's superhumans are controlled or hidden by their own governments, and it is unlikely that they would end up in assassin organizations as mercenaries.
"unless……"
A glint of light flashed in Luo Fei's eyes.
"This superhuman has slipped through the net! He hasn't been discovered or registered by any country's special departments. Or... he comes from some small country."
In smaller countries, individuals with supernatural abilities are less likely to be effectively monitored by the state apparatus, making them far more likely to end up as mercenaries or assassins.
Although this clue is still vague, it points to a possible direction for the investigation—transnational, or, unofficially controlled wild superhumans!
Silence fell again in the car, but this time it was a silence filled with heavy thought and reflection.
Soon, Luo Fei broke the brief silence in the car, continuing to press for details.
"Miss Jiang, when your father asked you and your mother to go abroad urgently, did he tell you the specific reasons? For example, who wanted to harm him?"
Jiang Qinqin shook her head, her eyes filled with reminiscence and a hint of complexity.
"No.
He hurriedly arranged for us to leave, saying that someone wanted to harm him and that we should go out and lay low for a while, without specifying who it was.
At the time, I thought he might be making a mountain out of a molehill, or... he just didn't want us to bother his "other families."
Her tone carried a hint of self-deprecation.
Luo Fei seemed to be deep in thought.
"Perhaps he doesn't want you to know too much; the more you know, the more dangerous it will be for you." (End of Chapter)