Chapter 566: Chapter 566: The Middle-Aged Female Sea King

Book Chapter 566: The Middle-Aged Female Sea King (Update 4)

Du Hui, female, 42 years old, a housewife and currently unemployed… the wife of the victim Yue Jianbai. (Lin)

She and the victim had one son, who is now attending university out of town.

She hasn’t even told her child about Yue Jianbai’s death.

Because even Du Hui herself can’t accept the reality of her husband’s passing…

What sort of reaction can you expect from a woman who has just lost her husband?

In Xiao Yu’s eyes, the middle-aged woman before him appeared entirely normal.

Deeply grieving, as if mourning a parent, tears continuously shimmer in her eyes.

But Du Hui’s response made Xiao Yu frown.

“No,” she said.

Du Hui shook her head, adding, “No one else has been here.”

Something was amiss… Xiao Yu fixed his gaze on the woman’s face.

He paid special attention to her microexpressions and subtle body language.

It led him to one conclusion: she’s lying!

After Yue Jianbai’s ‘suicide’, Xiao Yu rushed to the scene immediately upon being notified by Wang Dong.

Using Wangdie’s Nose, he detected the scents of three individuals.

The first was the victim, Yue Jianbai.

The second was Du Hui’s.

But who was the third?

The crime scene showed no signs of forced entry; doors and windows were intact.

Assuming the third person entered, they almost certainly came through the main door.

Moreover, Xiao Yu had already determined that this wasn’t a suicide—it was murder.

At that moment, Du Hui lied once again.

What did that signify?

It was as foolish as licking a poisoned dagger… Xiao Yu mentally cursed.

He almost felt compelled to save this clueless human.

Alas, she refused to cooperate!

The neighborhood surveillance footage was retrieved.

Through interviews and video analysis, a middle-aged man was soon identified.

That man entered Xiao Yu’s field of vision.

Geng Youcai, male, 40 years old, a worker at a lower-level repair shop of a certain 4S dealership in F City, and married.

The investigation results left Xiao Yu with a throbbing headache.

Geng Youcai appeared to have had an improper relationship with Du Hui!

In plain terms,

someone’s head was already covered in grass by now.

For the esteemed head of National Security to be investigating such matters felt beneath him.

But anyone connected to this case had to be questioned.

When Geng Youcai was brought before Xiao Yu,

Xiao Yu caught a whiff of the man’s body odor.

No… Geng Youcai wasn’t the ‘third person’ who entered the crime scene!

Xiao Yu’s mind reeled.

Under interrogation, Geng Youcai confessed truthfully.

He did indeed have an illicit affair with Du Hui.

But he also revealed another piece of information.

Du Hui… had multiple lovers!

Being amorous—whether referring to a man or a woman—

meant getting involved and ending up in bed together!

On the victim Yue Jianbai’s head, there wasn’t just a patch of green grass… Xiao Yu felt a twinge of pity.

National Security then launched a full-scale investigation into Du Hui’s past.

This probe left everyone dumbfounded.

In the past five years, eight men had been involved in ambiguous relationships with Du Hui!

Holy crap—a married, middle-aged Sea King?

How dare she?

First, it’s important to mention that the victim, Yue Jianbai, worked at an Ordnance Factory.

Due to security classifications and confidentiality, his work was exceptionally special.

He spent nearly twenty days a month at the factory.

This, in turn, provided Du Hui with… convenience!

“Are women these crazy nowadays?” Wang Dong gaped in disbelief.

“Unthinkable,” Zhao Long added, his face equally incredulous.

“There’s more,” Xiao Yu snorted.

He recalled seeing two news stories a few years back.

The first story:

A young man was involved with sixteen girls simultaneously, with four of them bearing his children.

The second story:

A girl juggled affairs with twenty-one men, receiving a monthly allowance that sometimes reached hundreds of thousands.

This was the stuff of legends—the so-called ‘Sea King’ and ‘Sea Queen’.

Yet here was Du Hui, a middle-aged woman, entangled with eight men in muddled affairs.

That was just impressive!

When Xiao Yu laid eight photos on the table in front of Du Hui,

the middle-aged woman’s expression shifted.

One moment she was inconsolably heartbroken; the next, panic took over.

Xiao Yu shook his head.

He remembered how in a past life he’d naively read forum posts about cars and headlights.

Back then, he’d thought people were seriously debating whether to turn on the headlights in a car.

It wasn’t until halfway through the comments that he realized the car tire had run over someone’s face.

Later, upon seeing his own posts, he could only salvage his dignity by saying, ‘Ask me why—I’m not one for cheesy lines, just keep reading…’

But he had to admit, the middle-aged Sea King before him was remarkably talented…

An ordinary middle-aged woman could never pull off what Du Hui did!

“I’m not interested in how many men you’re involved with, nor in how many hats you put on your deceased husband,”

Xiao Yu glared coldly at a trembling Du Hui. “Tell me, before your husband died, who came to your house?”

“I-I swear, no one else came,” she stuttered.

A flustered Du Hui bowed her head and whispered, “They wouldn’t have come to my home.”

That was tantamount to admitting her liaisons with those men.

Yet, her following words weren’t a lie either.

It was just that she hadn’t realized she was deceiving herself… Xiao Yu mused.

The other seven ‘lovers’ of Du Hui were brought in by National Security.

Employing the same method, Xiao Yu sniffed each of their scents.

He was stunned.

None of them… Could it be some sort of ghost?

If neither Du Hui nor these lovers had laid a hand on Yue Jianbai,

then who else would want to kill him?

“We traced the IP address from a delivery app,”

Wang Dong reported as he approached Xiao Yu, “It was from F City’s public Wi-Fi.”

What was being investigated now?

Someone had registered an account using Yue Jianbai’s identity information.

They even used the account to sell bullets to others.

It was now confirmed that the account wasn’t registered by Yue Jianbai.

In fact, it was highly likely that the person behind it was Yue Jianbai’s killer.

Moreover, this person must have been very close to Yue Jianbai.

Not only did he take away the explosive formula from Yue Jianbai’s body, but he was also capable of manufacturing bullets.

So, Xiao Yu instructed Wang Dong to look further into it.

Initially, he only suspected Du Hui or her lovers.

But now, things had become complicated.

With Du Hui and her eight lovers ruled out,

who else could be so intimately connected to Yue Jianbai as to register a delivery app account using his identity and phone number?

Intimately connected?

Family?

Suddenly, a surge of emotion exploded within Xiao Yu.

His heart throbbed painfully.

Could it be… the victim’s own son?

After all, what is more intimate than a father and son?

Yet, murder of one’s own father is something a normal person could hardly commit, right?

Never mind whether it’s possible or not.

As long as there’s a suspect, it must be investigated!

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