Bitcoin Clowns by Vann Chow

Author:Vann Chow [Chow, Vann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-09T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27: Jump

Lieutenant Wu crossed her arms and looked down from the broken window at the mark that indicated the landing location of the dead man. A Max Venture accountant had been pushed off the building the night before, and she was not very happy about it.

“This is what happens when we scare them,” staring at the darkness outside, the sharp wind made her bangs fluttered in the air, she murmured to no one in particular, although I sensed that it was probably directed at me.

I was brought to the scene to assist the investigation as, given that Cao was still missing, I was still the man-in-charge around here, however reluctant I might be.

Lieutenant Wu was very upset when she found out that the Interpol had been alerted during my undercover assignment, and that they had arrested all the major players we were investigating in relations to Philip’s murder.

On the surface, the cause and effects of the cases were clear. Salamander had admitted to killing Philip Zackary, and Cao had run away hiding, out of fear for his life. Their joint ventures with Damon’s Zinger Financials had been acting as a middleman for cross-border illegal drug trafficking, hence all its management were taken into custody. But the question remained. What was the nature of their cryptocurrency fund joint-venture? Lt. Wu was fairly confident there was a case of business fraud in there, and so do I, but the Ministry of Public Security of China in Beijing was now directly in charge of the investigation, framing this as an international drug cartel case. One did not need to be a genius to understand why Lt. Wu was pissed.

“Should we inform Beijing of the murder?” Officer Henry asked the obvious question to his boss.

Lt. Wu’s eyes darted around the sockets, as if she was busy settling the internal debate inside her head, and only after a minute did she finally said, “Yes, but write it off as an unrelated incident.” She turned around to look everyone presented in the eyes, trying to instill in us the importance of believing in the untruth collectively such that it would turn into a truth, for now. She needed this case in her care to continue her investigation in Shanghai. “The killer is out there. He’s the key. We must find him quickly,” then she added, “if it is a ‘him’.”

I swallowed hard. I knew what Lt. Wu was thinking. She had already assumed that Cao was the one who did this, and indeed we needed to find Cao as soon as possible so that he could clear his own name. My wuss of a cousin should not be blamed for life-sentence kind of crimes if someone else deserved all the credit instead.

“I have sent the samples to the lab. Hopefully we would get a match soon,” Officer Henry had found a set of fingerprints not belonging to the victim on the broken shards of glass panes on the ground, as well as some fibers that were likely scrapped off of the perpetrator’s clothing or gloves.

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