The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 98 - 95: The dead are dead, and the living must go on living.

Chapter 98: Chapter 95: The dead are dead, and the living must go on living.

Before long, Huo Xun arrived with his team.

When he saw Qin Zhao, he couldn’t help but joke, "Ever since I met you, I’ve completed my caseload for the year, and I might even get a bonus at the end of it."

"Then shouldn’t you be thanking me?"

"If I really get a bonus, I’ll treat you and Chu Yan to a meal."

After saying this, Huo Xun stepped forward and knocked on the construction site’s gate.

Bang, bang, bang!

He knocked powerfully, and the noise quickly drew someone’s attention.

"What are you doing so late at night?"

The watchman came over to open the gate, looking displeased at the group outside,

but as soon as he realized they were all in police uniforms, his demeanor immediately changed.

"Officers, what can I do for you?"

"We’ve had a report of a death here, and we’re here to investigate."

"That’s impossible; we haven’t had any accidents on our site recently."

"Whether there has been or not isn’t up to you to decide, we’ll find out after investigating. Open the gate!"

The watchman, quivering with fear, opened the gate and then called the contractor.

The contractor became instantly flustered when he heard the police had arrived, and he took a long time to show up.

"Where’s the person in charge here?"

"I’ve already called him; he’ll be here soon."

Impatient, Huo Xun said, "Take us to where he stays!"

The watchman had no choice but to lead them there.

They were building a new upscale residential community here, so the construction was lengthy, meaning the person in charge and the workers all lived on site for extended periods. They wouldn’t leave until the community was completed along with the construction crew.

After a short walk, they saw a row of blue, low-rise shacks.

The workers were housed here, and the noise from earlier had awakened some, so there were people looking out from their doorways.

The contractor lived in a better-constructed white shack with his door firmly closed.

The watchman went up and knocked, "Lao Wu, the cops are here, why haven’t you come out yet?"

"I’m coming, I’m coming."

The contractor, named Wu Rong, opened the door, and a gust of cold air passed through, making the temperature drop further.

This was because the Ghost, seeing its enemy, became too emotionally agitated, which made the yin energy heavier.

Initially, the Ghost couldn’t do much to Wu Rong, but after being nourished by the arrangements in Wei Mingna’s house, it had become stronger and its presence could affect others.

If it continued to grow more powerful and no one avenged it, it would likely become an Evil Ghost and harm others.

"Do you know someone named He Shengzhi?"

"I do," Wu Rong said nervously, glancing at the police as he answered, "He Shengzhi used to work here, but then he had some family issues and he left."

"But someone reported that you didn’t settle the wages with your workers, and when He Shengzhi asked for his salary, you had someone beat him to death. He never went home!"

Wu Rong looked momentarily guilty and then quickly shouted, "Officer comrade, I’m being framed! You can ask the other workers on the site; see if I’ve owed them any wages!

I paid them just a few days ago, and it’s after he got the money that He Shengzhi went home!"

Huo Xun signaled the other officers with a glance to go and ask the workers.

The soul of He Shengzhi stared at Wu Rong with anger, "He’s lying! It was only after I died that he worried the incident would be exposed, so he settled the wages. He also paid those who beat me a large sum of money!"

After his death, his soul lingered there and saw everything.

After the police questioned the workers, all of them were consistent in saying that Wu Rong did not owe any wages.

A few people also said they were friends of He Shengzhi and had taken him to the train station to go home.

From her position in the corner, Qin Zhao saw He Shengzhi’s soul beside her.

She whispered to him, "Did they beat you to death with their bare hands? Was there any weapon involved? Also, the specific location where the body was buried, which building’s foundation was it?"

He Shengzhi tried to recall, "In the end, Wu Rong hit my head with a shovel, and I bled a lot, then gradually lost consciousness.

The burial place should be that building over there."

He pointed in a direction, the foundation there had already been built.

Wu Rong, realizing that the police had not found any useful clues, breathed a sigh of relief.

Angry, he said to the police, "See, I told you I didn’t do those things. I don’t know who reported me, framing me like this!"

He had barely finished speaking when Qin Zhao walked up, pushed him aside, and entered his room.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Wu Rong tried to stop her but was restrained by the police.

Qin Zhao found the shovel in his room, but there were no bloodstains on it; it had obviously been cleaned.

"Captain Huo, this is the weapon. He not only had people beat up He Shengzhi but also used this shovel to strike his head, causing He Shengzhi’s death."

"How can you just pick up things like that? You say I used this to kill him, did you see it happen? If you didn’t see it, don’t talk nonsense, be careful I’ll sue you for defamation!"

Wu Rong rushed over, trying to snatch the shovel from Qin Zhao’s hand.

Qin Zhao effortlessly pushed him away and handed the shovel to the police.

"Take it back for testing."

Speaking slowly, Huo Xun said, "Our detection technology is very advanced now, even if you’ve washed blood off, we can still find out. I advise you to confess honestly, stop this charade!"

Hearing this, Wu Rong visibly changed his expression but still argued, "I didn’t do it, why should I confess?

Even if you find something wrong with this shovel, can you prove that I used it to kill him?

There are so many people at the construction site, during the daytime when work starts, many people use this shovel."

Qin Zhao told Captain Huo about the hiding place of the body, and Huo Xun, not bothering with him further, immediately led people to the building where the body was hidden, instructing them to dig open the first layer that had been built.

Wu Rong hadn’t expected Huo Xun to actually go and dig for the body; he suddenly panicked.

He could barely maintain his composure, but the workers who had helped him beat the man were not calm.

These people not only conspired to kill He Shengzhi but also buried him together in the foundation!

Seeing the police going to dig for the body, they felt that things were about to be exposed and tried to escape under the cover of night.

Just as they were running through another door, they found the police waiting for them.

"Captain Huo, those guys who killed the man are trying to run; we caught them."

Huo Xun had just found the deceased’s clothes when he received good news.

"Those guys were so panicked, they confessed to everything."

Wu Rong was standing nearby, and upon hearing this, his legs went weak and he fell to the ground.

The police came forward, handcuffed him, and after unearthing He Shengzhi’s body, they took these people back to the police station.

The matter was now in the hands of the police, Qin Zhao was no longer needed.

However, she had a message for Captain Huo from He Shengzhi: to take the money Wu Rong owed and deliver it to He Shengzhi’s family.

The dead were already gone, but the living had to go on.

His child was still young and in need of money.

The owed money naturally had to be repaid, and the police even managed to get a large compensation from the construction developer for He Shengzhi—nearly two million yuan.

All this money was given to his wife and child, to make their future life a little easier.

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