Chapter 422: 154, today’s humiliation, I will repay Chen Shanhe a thousand times over in the future!_1
Wang Jianming’s mind raced through countless possibilities, his expression growing increasingly serious as he asked, “Where did they find you?”
The janitor, unaware of what had happened and faced with questioning from a police officer, did not dare to hide anything and answered truthfully, “The janitor’s room on the third floor of the T1 terminal, right next to the sightseeing elevator.”
Born and bred in Northern Sea, Wang Jianming was fairly familiar with the international airport and quickly realized where the janitor was talking about.
He glanced back at his colleague, who was still inspecting passengers, wondering whether he should report this incident.
If the killer responsible for the dismemberment case was indeed in the airport, there was no doubt he would report any clue he found to his superiors.
But the key issue was that Wang Jianming felt what they were looking for might not be the real killer.
Or rather…
What they were looking for might be the kind-hearted person who saved his daughter’s life and was very likely to be Lin Mo, who had exposed Chen Shanhe’s crimes in the live broadcast last night.
The whole dismemberment case seemed suspicious, and Wang Jianming, as an experienced detective, was not entirely clueless.
“First, let’s confirm it. If it really is the dismemberment case’s killer, there’s still time to report it to the higher-ups,” he declared.
Making his decision, Wang Jianming wasted no time and ran at top speed toward the utility room indicated by the janitor. A distance that might take a normal person 20 minutes to cover, he reached in less than 10, already standing at the entrance of the utility room.
There were far fewer passengers around, most of them inside the police cordon, undergoing checks.
Wang Jianming drew the sleek black Type 92 pistol from his back waist, expertly disengaged the safety, and prepared for every eventuality before forcefully pushing open the door.
In the cramped space, only a clutter of cleaning tools lay scattered on the floor, with no sign of any persons.
Not here?
Wang Jianming hadn’t expected to find the suspect here; what he couldn’t understand was why the suspect would have the janitor look for a gold ring.
There must be some trick.
He crouched down, carefully examining the vague footprints on the floor, and determined that a group of people, both men and women, had been in here before.
Could it have been them?
But…
What were they doing here?
As he racked his brain without coming to a conclusion, Wang Jianming inadvertently caught sight of the ventilation duct above his head, and instantly understood everything that had happened before.
A decoy.
The suspects had fooled the janitor into leaving by asking for a gold ring and then entered the ventilation duct, hoping to escape along that route.
Realizing this, Wang Jianming quickly took out his cell phone and called his wife.
Buzz… buzz buzz…
This time, the call connected quickly: “Hello, what’s up, hubby?”
Wang Jianming had no time for lengthy explanations and said bluntly, “Send me the ventilation duct design of the T1 terminal of the airport, quickly.”
His wife was always on duty at the international airport and was relatively more familiar with it.
Although the woman did not understand what her husband was up to, she could tell from his tone that there was urgency, so without asking further questions, she just responded, “Okay, I’ll send it to your police communication device right away…”
Wang Jianming interrupted her: “Not on the police communication device, send it to my cell phone.”
Hmm?
The woman on duty frowned in confusion, not understanding the reason, but out of trust for her husband, she agreed anyway.
Shortly after the call ended, Wang Jianming’s phone received a fire duct design plan. First, he located his position within the plan, then putting himself in the suspect’s shoes, he searched for possible escape routes.
Finally, he pinpointed the escape point in the back kitchen of the employee cafeteria on the first floor.
The sewer there was the safest channel to leave the airport.
“Found it!”
“Are you the criminal suspect of the dismemberment case, or are you Lin Mo?”
Wang Jianming didn’t waste time. Once he determined the location, he took action, hurrying toward the airport restaurant’s back kitchen on the first floor.
….
First floor, restaurant back kitchen.
Lin Mo peered through the gaps in the ventilation duct and counted carefully, Two cooks responsible for frying and five other staff cutting vegetables and making pastries—a total of seven people.
It was the busy time for preparing lunch; he figured unless there was a special reason, they would not leave.
What to do?
Zhang Li spoke in a low voice, “Bro, how about I go down and distract them while you guys escape? That might be safer.”
“It would be better if I went. I’m older, and being with you guys is just holding you back,” Lin Changshui volunteered.
One person to distract the kitchen staff?
This was undeniably a good plan, but whoever went to distract the chefs would likely not end up well.
Lin Mo wasn’t willing to let any family member go, no matter who it was.
At a loss, Lin Mo spoke in a lower voice into the headset, “Dark, can you figure out a way to draw them away?”
Dark had also been considering the problem and quickly came up with a solution: “I can create a false fire and smoke alarm to cause chaos throughout the airport. This might temporarily draw them out of the kitchen, but you’ll only get one shot. If we’re unlucky enough to be targeted, escaping afterward would be ten times harder.”
This…
There was a way, albeit an extremely risky one.
Once Lin Mo and the others entered the kitchen, they would still need some time to escape through the sewer. If the police discovered them during this interval, they would be trapped in the sewers with no possibility of escape.
