Chapter 18

Although the nineteen containers of high grade textiles were expensive, it was a drop in the bucket for Yue Zhi’s 20,000 equivalent, oversized ship that could theoretically hold over 10,000 40 ton standard containers.

In order not to affect the delivery time of other goods as well as the cargo ship’s scheduling, the cargo ship had already departed, but it had already replaced the captain and all the sailors as well as the security team, and called for another crew to top it up.

All the people on the ship were to be investigated, and as a result, before the investigation even started, a person had already died, and it was now 100% certain that there was definitely something fishy about this.

Xiji asked someone to call the police.

“Do we need to call the police for this,” Qing Li asked.

Xiji glanced at her and laughed breathlessly, “What are you thinking about, this is a murder, of course we need to call the police, although we can’t expect the police to investigate the truth, but let them help with a blood test, fingerprints, ah, look at the surveillance ah and what not, it’s still possible, we’re a serious businessman.”

Qing Li raised her eyebrows and chose to remain silent.

She had always thought that she had joined the biggest evil force in Southeast Asia, but today she was suddenly told that she was a proper businessman, she felt the cut in her identity, remembering what she had done before, it was indeed very immodest, luckily the rainforest could bury all the evil.

The police came over and photographed the scene, moved out the body, and then had the captain, who was in charge at the time, come and identify the body.

West pole has done countless cargo ship escort missions, and Yue’s shipping company almost every captain know, this captain named Gordon, forty-eight years old this year, experienced and capable, is the best batch of captains, specializing in 20,000 equivalent ultra-large container ships.

Gordon saw the body on the ground, his body quickly shook, his face turned gray, even the Caucasian’s trademark big nose seemed to hang down, “Karami, how could it be him?”

“What is he?” West Pole asked.

“It’s the head sailor of this shift, we’ve been asked to wait here for the investigation, we were drinking together last night, we were all very drunk, I don’t know when he disappeared, I thought he went back to his room.” Gordon looked guilty, “I should have looked for him last night.”

“I can’t believe it was the Bosun.” West Pole muttered.

“What’s a Sailor-Master?” Aonashi asked.

“A head sailor is the head of the sailors, responsible for the daily maintenance of the ship and the deck and the loading and unloading of cargo and such.” Nishiji crouched down next to the body and watched as the coroner conducted a preliminary examination of the body.

Aonashi followed suit and squatted down next to him, “So that means he’s the most likely person to do something with the cargo if it’s going to be done?”

“Uh-huh.”

Camilla was a typical white man, tall and stocky, but his years of seafaring had left him very tanned, the forensic scientist lifted Karami’s shirt, the muscles of his abdomen were also square and eight-packed, only now they were stained with blood and covered with horizontal wounds.

“The initial conclusion is that it’s a stab wound, at least eight of them.” The coroner said, “As for any stacked wounds we’ll have to wait until we get back to the lab to double check, time of death has been at least ten hours, probably between one and three in the morning.”

Saiji suddenly reached for the tweezers in the coroner’s hand and peeled back one of the wounds to take a closer look.

None of the others knew what he was going to do, and watched as he put on one glove, stood up, put his hand into the gaping hole in the cotton gauze where the blood had dried, fumbled twice, and pulled out a knife.

He looked at it for a moment letting Green Pear take a picture of it before tossing it to the coroner, “Murder weapon.”

“How did you see it?” Qing Li couldn’t help but admire Xiji a few more points.

“Look at that look in your eyes, now you know how powerful your big brother Xiji is, right?” Xiji immediately got proud, “I know when I’ve seen a lot, that wound obviously has traces of being cut open again after death, the murderer couldn’t have waited here for him to be dead through and then mended the dagger, coupled with this particular environment, it’s probably that just now when the body was moved out, the dagger was hanging on the cotton gauze, and it was pulled out.”

After saying that he lowered his voice and added another sentence in Chinese, “Tell you that the police over here are unreliable, they usually move the cotton gauze before moving the body, and they just yanked it raw, maybe there are still some traces that have already been destroyed.”

“Wouldn’t that be detrimental to our investigation?” Qing Li frowned, this was her first assignment, Yue Zhi sympathized with her injury before letting her participate in this investigation case, of course she wanted to finish it properly, to salvage Yue’s soon-to-be-damaged reputation and the seventy million dollars that had been offered as compensation.

“Don’t worry, we are not police, the investigation basically doesn’t need to be on site, let’s go, there is nothing for us here anymore.” Xiji greeted Qingli and Piz, “Go eat, I’m starving.”

“Right, Captain Gordon.” Having already walked out a few meters, Aonashi suddenly thought of something and called back.

Gordon had been lost in thought, suddenly called, startled for a moment, slowly raised his head to look at Qing Li, the girl in front of him was very beautiful, but more than the stunning appearance, what was unique was the kind of cool and calm temperament she had, especially those eyes, too transparent, as if they could see through people’s hearts, he reluctantly smiled for a moment, “What is it Ms. Qing Li?”

“We need the inspection video from the loading, cargo manifest, inspection records, sailor duty records, route records and a series of other information, are you ready?” Aonashi asked.

“Of course, it’s all been given to Manager Pitts.” Gordon said.

“That’s good, please.” Aonashi looked at him expressionlessly and didn’t turn away, just for a few seconds, she suddenly said, “I didn’t introduce myself.”

“What?” Gordon felt a muffled bang in his head, even as his ears tinnitus rose.

“I said ……,” Aonashi stared at him, “I didn’t introduce myself, and this is the first time we’ve met, even Pitts doesn’t know who I am, so how do you know my name? ”

Gordon was a little flustered, as a captain of this rank, he had experienced storms and waves that were unimaginable to the next person, he shouldn’t be flustered by the cross-examination of a twenty year old girl, but he was indeed flustered in the flesh, stammering for half a day before he reluctantly explained, “I heard it from someone else …… ”

“Who?” Greenleaf pressed.

Gordon took a deep breath, gave up struggling, and said brokenly, “I was afraid of implicating myself because of this matter, so I specifically looked for someone to inquire about Mr. Yue’s handling of this matter, and knew that he had sent Mr. West and you over, but I also only knew your name, and didn’t inquire about anything else, and that this matter really had nothing to do with me. ”

It wasn’t hard to have the presence of mind to inquire to know Aonashi’s name, and his explanation made sense.

As if accepting Gordon’s statement, Aonashi turned around and followed West Pole and Pitts away.

Manila, the capital of the Philippines, is a magical world where the world of the rich and the world of the poor are severely divided. The bustling part of the city can be called “Southeast Asia’s Little New York”, while the slums surrounding the outside are called “Southeast Asia’s Little Mumbai” because they are the most densely populated shantytowns in the world. “The slums are the most densely populated shantytowns in the world.

The chaotic and congested traffic could be a lesson to anyone in a hurry, like West Pole.

They had been traveling for an hour and hadn’t even reached the place where they were going to eat, and Xiji was getting impatient.

“Are you too hungry to stand? Do you want me to go down to the street and get you something to eat?” Qing Li looked at his constantly shaking legs and asked, “As long as you don’t get so annoyed.”

“I’m not annoyed, and it’s best not to eat anything on the street, eating a bad stomach is considered good, I don’t care if it’s poisoned.” Xiji took a deep breath and leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes, “That’s all food waste collected from the slop buckets of various restaurants and reprocessed again by the slum people, and I don’t know how many tables it’s been rotated through, it’s simply not something that people eat.”

Qing Li looked out the window at the chaotic scene, this kind of thing that is not human food yet there are a lot of little kids lining up to buy it.

Finally, they drove out of the slum area and entered the bustling business district in the center of the city.

Qing Li looked at the modern skyscrapers outside the window, feeling that the scene she had just seen was almost like an illusion, how else could there be two worlds so distinct in one city.

“Finally, we’re here.” The first thing Xiji did when he got out of the car was to stretch his legs.

Aonashi was still thinking about what had happened on the ship, “Mr. Pitts, where’s all that information Gordon was talking about, I’d like to grab a look at it.”

“The originals are all still on the ship, the ones that were handed to me are copies, in a box in the trunk.” Pitts looked from side to side as he spoke, and suddenly cocked his mustache and smiled, waving his hand at a spot, “Here it is.”

The tenderness of an iron man is always curious, and moving out of the box Green Pear looked that way to see a petite woman approaching with a four or five year old boy.

“This is my wife, our house is in this neighborhood, I asked her to come out and eat with us.” Pitts said.

They went to a very fancy restaurant, after ordering their meals, Saiji and Aonashi started to look at the information in their hands, neither of them really liked this place and wanted to get back early with a quick fix.

Qingli didn’t really know much about this, she just mechanically glanced through it, and soon finished reading it.

When she looked up, she happened to see Pitts wrapping his arms around his wife and giving her a kiss on the mouth, his wife looked annoyed, but her eyes actually contained shyness and smiled happily.

Qing Li looked at this scene as if she was admiring a painting she had never seen before, with some amusement and some relief.

Pitts saw her eyes and laughed out loud, “Isn’t it a bit exciting for you, sorry, I can’t help but hug and kiss my wife when I see her, that’s how it is when you love someone, you can’t help but be close to her all the time.”

West Pole snorted, “It’s a good thing your wife doesn’t hate your big beard.”

Pitts’ wife smiled and said, “You don’t say, from the time I met him until now, my favorite thing about him is this eight-beard, especially like a cartoon character, I think it’s very good-looking, and my eyes always can’t help but be attracted to it.”

Xiji said, “That’s a lover’s eye for you.”

Qing Li listened to their words and suddenly thought of herself.

She felt that Yue Zhi was very good looking, and she had never felt this way about anyone other than Yue Zhi, such as the delicate looking Xiji, so it was evident that her appreciation for Yue Zhi was different.

Moreover, she could not help but be attracted to Yue Zhi’s gaze, just like that night, even though she was drunk and dizzy, she could not help but keep observing Yue Zhi.

Could it be that she liked Yue Zhi?

And what kind of feelings was liking?

For the first time in her life, she felt very confused.