But it must be said, the current Qiu Tu indeed has become more charming and easily attracts people to want to continue the conversation....
So, even though alarm bells were sounding in her head, Liu Fuping still, as if possessed by a ghost or god, asked, "What plan have you thought of?"
Qiu Tu's gaze flickered twice, and he asked with a smile, "Tang Feifei doesn't know your identity, right?"
Liu Fuping hesitated for a moment but finally nodded slightly and explained, "She only told me the secret beforehand because I was involved in the interrogation and was worried about me being influenced."
Qiu Tu nodded and wasn't surprised.
After all, Tang Feifei was a high-ranking official of the Investigation Bureau, if she knowingly leaked secrets to Liu Fuping, aware that she was a spy. Then... it would be Qiu Tu's turn to get promoted and make a fortune.
Thinking this, Qiu Tu looked at Liu Fuping and made a "pulling down" gesture with a smile, "Drag her down."
"Tell her about the trickery in this case and let her investigate it."
Liu Fuping frowned slightly and looked at Qiu Tu, "Is it that simple?"
Qiu Tu shook his head with a smile, "Of course not."
"Besides that, you must crazily steal intelligence, tell her the clues and details I've uncovered, and then... using her trust, extract all kinds of secret intel from the Investigation Bureau."
Liu Fuping clearly didn't understand, "Why is that?"
Qiu Tu gazed at her deeply, his smile very sunny, "This is to prove that to bring down Yan Chen, she's willing to betray the Investigation Bureau's secrets and exchange information with you, the spy."
Hearing Qiu Tu's words, Liu Fuping's back instantly turned cold.
She looked at Qiu Tu in surprise, "You're really insane!"
"You are framing and setting up a high-ranking official!"
Upon hearing this, Qiu Tu walked over to her, embraced her gently, and then whispered in her ear, "I'm just adding a layer of insurance."
"If she proceeds as planned, then this insurance will never need to be used."
"But if she regrets it and decides to reconcile with Yan Chen, making a deal, then at least we have a chip that prevents her from backing out."
Being embraced by Qiu Tu once again, Liu Fuping visibly trembled. But after realizing that Qiu Tu wasn't as rough as before, her body gradually softened.
Listening to Qiu Tu's words, Liu Fuping's expression kept changing.
After a moment, she bitterly said, "You really are no good!"
Qiu Tu laughed upon hearing this, looked out the window, and said softly, "Actually, I wasn't always ."
"I used to be very kind and naive."
"Believing in kindness to others, believing that only through enduring the greatest hardships can one become a superior person."
"I lived in a daze for many years. Until one day, I injured my foot, someone brought me a bowl of pig's feet, telling me 'the ancestors said eat what you want to complement'. At that moment, I finally came to a realization."
"Enduring hardship won't make you a superior person; no matter how much hardship you eat, it only makes you suffer more, only by "eating" people... can you become a superior person!"
He held Liu Fuping in his arms. The beautiful woman's soft body was like water in his embrace, her gaze a bit unfocused, somewhat carried away.
The two embraced each other as they looked out the window.
After a while, Liu Fuping slowly came back to her senses, and this time, her mood seemed much calmer, no longer so "unprofessional."
She leaned into Qiu Tu's arms, then asked softly, "What if she doesn't fall for it, doesn't take the bait?"
Qiu Tu replied softly, "Some things are not done only when there is no chance of failure but are done in the hope of seeing a chance for success."
"How can you know for sure that it won't work if you don't try?"
Hearing Qiu Tu's words, Liu Fuping fell silent for a while, then suddenly her face lit up with a smile, "Alright~ I got it, boss."
At that moment, she seemed to become somewhat unfamiliar.
Qiu Tu looked down at her.
But she suddenly turned around, trapping Qiu Tu's arms with her own.
Seeing this, Qiu Tu reflexively tried to exert force.
At that moment, Liu Fuping suddenly reached out and patted his handsome face, saying coyly, "Good little brother, wouldn't all that strength be wasted if used now? Come over to your sister's house tonight."
Qiu Tu paused, and Liu Fuping took the opportunity to step out of his embrace with a smile.
After leaving Qiu Tu's embrace, Liu Fuping pulled down her neckline, revealing her snow-white cleavage.
Then she glanced at Qiu Tu, her eyebrows arching slightly before she strode out of the empty conference room.
With her lips curled up and her ample bosom bouncing, she walked with the air of a seductress, full of allure.
This woman seemed to have undergone a transformation within minutes.
Qiu Tu watched the beautiful woman in surprise.
Compared to her previous half-baked state, she now truly looked a bit like a female spy....
In the past, although Qiu Tu occasionally took liberties with her, he really wasn't that interested in her.
But now... if something were to happen between them, Qiu Tu would be willing to be the Bureau Chief of the Investigation Bureau, live in a garden villa, surrounded by beauties, driving luxury cars!
After silently musing to himself, Qiu Tu walked to the door, closed the door to the empty conference room, and locked it.
Although Liu Fuping seemed to have truly had an epiphany, whether this plan could be executed still depended on her subsequent actions.
Ability is related to attitude, but it also needs to be improved step by step.
So, what Qiu Tu needed to do now was to add a few layers of insurance for himself, to avoid being left without alternatives if the plan failed.
And his insurance was simple.
One was that he needed to continue investigating this case. To see if the truth matched what he had guessed.
Two was that he needed to pull more factions into the fray, to guarantee his safety...
With that in mind, Qiu Tu took out Chen Feng's communicator and made a call to Lin Zuo.
"Beep... beep... beep..."
The phone was answered after just a couple of rings.
This time, before Lin Zuo could speak, Qiu Tu directly said, "416."
Lin Zuo's speech cut off, and after a second's silence, he asked, "What's the matter?"
Qiu Tu spoke concisely, "I'm looking for her."
The sounds of Lin Zuo getting up came through the receiver.
After a while, there was a knock at the door, followed by the sound of opening the door, and then the conversation between the reticent Lin Zuo and Qin Shuman, "Is there something you need?"
"It's a call from Qiu Tu."
Shortly after, the somewhat unfamiliar yet familiar voice of Qin Shuman rang in Qiu Tu's ear, "Hello? Is that you?"
Qiu Tu couldn't tell if it was an illusion, but he felt that Qin Shuman's voice seemed tired and low.
Qiu Tu hummed a confirmation, "It's me."
Then he added, "I've run into some issues here."
"I might need your help."
Qin Shuman didn't even ask what the issue was before agreeing, "All right, tonight, I'll come to you."
A smile crept onto Qiu Tu's lips.
See, it's always comfortable to cooperate with smart people.
With just one sentence, the other party could roughly guess what was happening and knew where to find him.
With such an excellent partner, how could he worry about not overcoming the crisis at hand?
Thinking this, Qiu Tu hung up the phone and silently deleted the call record from his communicator.
—This wasn't to guard against Jia Shu but to protect Chen Feng.
After completing these tasks, Qiu Tu returned to the conference room next door.
At this moment, several investigators were still having a heated discussion about the case in the conference room. However, Liu Fuping was nowhere to be seen.
Qiu Tu looked around, didn't see her, and guessed that she had probably gone to find Tang Feifei.
Qiu Tu paid it no mind, sat in his chair, and continued to review Yin Caimei's dossier while patiently waiting.
Soon, Li Feng and Wang Xi returned, saying the forensic doctor was in place and they could proceed with the autopsy.
At that news, Qiu Tu stopped waiting for Liu Fuping and went with the team to the autopsy room to prepare for the examination.
Upon arrival, Qiu Tu saw the forensic doctor: a young man in his late twenties, quite handsome, but slightly less so than Qiu Tu himself.
After a brief chat, Qiu Tu learned some basic information about the forensic doctor.
The doctor's surname was Qin, from a collateral branch of the Qin family.
Before the establishment of Xinjie City, he was a family physician for the Qin Family. Later, when Xinjie City was founded, he was sent to the Investigation Bureau to learn about autopsy and medical investigation skills, ultimately becoming a forensic doctor.
This kind of identity shift was not uncommon in Xinjie City over the past two years.
Or to put it another way, the major families and powers of Xinjie City were gradually infiltrating the three great authorities through this method, affecting the entire Xinjie City.
At first, when he learned of the forensic doctor's identity, Qiu Tu was somewhat hesitant: after all, he had quite a few conflicts with the Qin family, and he wasn't sure if this doctor might cheat or deliberately slack off.
What surprised Qiu Tu was that, although the forensic doctor was from the collateral Qin family, he didn't seem to harbor any animosity towards him.
In fact, while examining Yin Caimei's body, the doctor even casually chatted with him about the recent series of disturbances within the Qin family.
According to the doctor, after Master Qin Si absconded, the Qin family's black and gray industries were swept clean and confiscated, affecting many of the Qin family's collateral branches in the Fourth House, who gathered and caused trouble within the family.
If it weren't for Commissioner Qin stepping in to suppress the situation and providing them with new means to make a living, it would likely have turned into a major chaos.
The arrangement of these people was also not hard to guess — they were all stuffed into the legitimate businesses of Qin Shu, the Third Brother, as only his enterprises could accommodate so many people.
However, as most of these people were formerly in gangs, they brought their Jianghu habits with them into formal industries, causing trouble every few days, which brought great dissatisfaction to Qin Shu.
As a result, Qin Shu and Commissioner Qin had argued more than once over this matter, causing even more unrest within the Qin family.
Qiu Tu silently watched the entire process of the autopsy while also listening quietly to the forensic doctor's report.
As he listened, he sensed something was amiss.
Looking at the forensic doctor, he tentatively asked, "Which branch of the Qin family are you from?"
The forensic doctor, with his hands full of fresh blood, looked up at Qiu Tu and showed a toothy smile, "The Fifth House."
Qiu Tu instantly understood.
The Qin family's Fifth House was the one with a younger half-brother from the same father, a playboy without serious pursuits.
Since he was born of the legitimate wife, and being much younger than the four brothers, he had been excluded from the Qin family's core of power early on.
No wonder the forensic doctor from the Fifth House seemed to take such schadenfreude in the battles between the four Qin brothers.
So, under Qiu Tu's complete observation, the forensic doctor quickly finished the entire set of autopsies.
After cleaning the tools and washing his hands, the forensic doctor spoke as he walked out, with Qiu Tu following beside him, "Although many samples still need to be tested, and everything should be based on the final autopsy report,"
"From my experience, there were no other injuries on her body, no damage to the internal organs, and no signs of poisoning."
"Can we almost rule out foul play?"
"So, could it just be an accident?"
On hearing this, Qiu Tu paused, and let out a heavy internal sigh.
The forensic doctor was unaware of the Cataclysm Prop, but Qiu Tu knew about it.
So, these entirely normal autopsy results, in fact, strongly suggested the possibility of "murder."
After all, if there truly was no fatal injury, and it wasn't murder or suicide, then maybe... only a Cataclysmic ability or a Cataclysm Prop could secretly cause a person's death.
Contemplating this, Qiu Tu couldn't help but hesitate.
If Yin Caimei was indeed killed by a Cataclysmic ability or Cataclysm Prop,
Then... who could have done it?
Keep in mind... even within the Investigation Bureau, there aren't many Cataclysmics – probably only a dozen or so division chiefs and four Bureau Chiefs and Deputy Directors.
This range is too small, too frightening...