Chapter 218: The Photo on the Dining Table, a Fully Armed Priest with a Cigar

Alzheimer’s?

This news made Lin Tian furrow his brows, and he couldn’t help but feel a sense of helplessness.

It had taken so much effort to uncover Priest’s true identity, preparing to break through from his closest relatives to obtain critical information, and possibly use it to track down K.

But now… he received the news that Priest’s mother had been suffering from Alzheimer’s for two years and couldn’t remember anything.

The hope that had just risen was instantly extinguished, and Lin Tian felt an overwhelming sense of helplessness as if his efforts were in vain.

…

Seeing the change in Lin Tian’s expression.

Wang Qi, standing beside him, awkwardly smiled and quickly explained.

“Chief Lin, please don’t misunderstand.”

“I only just found out about this news recently, I didn’t intentionally withhold it and make you come all the way here for nothing.”

“With the influence of this drug trafficking organization, I certainly wouldn’t dare to waste the precious time of your Special Task Force, nor would I…”

Before Wang Qi could finish.

Lin Tian quickly waved his hand to interrupt his words, shaking his head with a sigh.

“Chief Wang, no need to explain, I’m not blaming you.”

“Even if we had known in advance that Priest’s mother had Alzheimer’s and couldn’t remember anything, we would still have come to Jinling.”

“Regardless of whether there is a breakthrough, we had to see it with our own eyes to be certain.”

“Not to mention… besides Priest’s mother, there’s also his older sister. Maybe she can provide some clues, so there’s still a bit of hope.”

At this point.

No one said anything further, and they quickly walked to the stairway of Building 1 at Tianhe Huacheng.

But, in tacit agreement, they didn’t rush upstairs to knock on the door. Instead, they carefully observed the surrounding area to check for the presence of any surveillance.

Through their previous encounters, everyone in the Special Task Force knew…

K, who loved to spy on police activities, would use various methods to keep track of the latest developments in their cases.

After carefully observing the surroundings.

After confirming there were no cameras on the stairway and that no messages would be transmitted to K, Lin Tian and the others finally arrived at the door of room 101.

Of course, even if there were surveillance, none of them were in police uniforms, and with K’s common methods of script-based surveillance, they probably wouldn’t be able to make a timely report.

At the door of room 101.

Lin Tian glanced at the people beside him, nodded to signal, and then, without hesitation, extended his right hand in a slightly relaxed fist and gently knocked on the old-fashioned security door in front of him.

“Knock—knock—knock—”

…

Lin Tian’s knocking wasn’t loud; he chose not to knock forcefully or urgently.

After all.

Based on the current information, Priest’s mother was already 70 years old and had severe Alzheimer’s.

Even if she were to cooperate with the police, they couldn’t be too rough with her.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

…

They waited a full seven or eight seconds.

When no one opened the door and there was still no response, Lin Tian’s expression quickly became more serious.

A special worry and thought surged in his mind.

Could it be… that in order to completely cut off any potentially exposed leads, K has already taken care of Priest’s mother in advance?

But how did K know about their progress and plans?

Thinking of this.

Lin Tian’s mood grew heavier, and the force with which he knocked on the door also increased.

“Bang—”

“Bang—bang—”

“Bang—bang—bang—”

…

Just as Lin Tian was about to break down the door.

A hurried, anxious voice of a middle-aged woman came from inside the house.

“Ah, I’m coming, I’m coming, why are you knocking like that…”

She hadn’t finished speaking.

When the nanny opened the front door and saw several strangers at the doorstep, she immediately froze, even stopping her words mid-sentence.

To avoid any unnecessary misunderstandings,

Wang Qi quickly took out his police badge from his pocket and spoke without room for doubt.

“Zhang Lifang, right? This is my police badge.”

“We are officers from the Jinling Fengze Criminal Investigation Brigade, and we need your employer, Yu Ruyi, to cooperate with our work.”

“If it’s convenient now, we need to come in and ask a few questions.”

As soon as his words fell,

Zhang Lifang, wearing an apron, glanced at the police badge in Wang Qi’s hand and hurriedly opened the outer security door, immediately replying,

“Oh, okay.”

“Officer, please come in, come in.”

“Please sit on the sofa and wait for a moment. Yu Jie is a little inconvenient right now, I need to take care of something urgently for her.”

Upon hearing this,

Lin Tian, eager to uncover the truth, furrowed his brows and asked,

“Not convenient?”

“Did something happen? Or is it a physical issue?”

Clearly,

Zhang Lifang had opened the door too slowly, which made Lin Tian suspicious. Could it be that this breakthrough had been urgently patched by K?

After all, there had been several instances before where, due to a few seconds of delay, key leads were cut off right before their eyes.

In response to Lin Tian’s question,

Zhang Lifang showed an awkward expression, her hands nervously clutching the side of her apron, unsure of how to explain.

Suddenly, a loud wailing sound came from the bedroom.

Zhang Lifang quickly waved her hand, disregarding Bai Yu’s question, and immediately said,

“Ah, officer, just come in, no need to change shoes.”

“I’ll hurry and take care of Yu Jie, then I’ll bring her to see you. It won’t take long, I’ll be right back.”

After saying this,

Zhang Lifang quickly walked towards the bedroom, no longer paying attention to the people at the door.

In this special situation, Lin Tian had initially wanted to say something more, even planning to follow and check the bedroom.

But the next second,

He suddenly remembered something and looked up at Lan Jing beside him, signaling,

“Dr. Lan.”

“You’re more convenient, go check what’s going on in the bedroom.”

Lan Jing nodded lightly, adjusted his black-framed glasses, then sidestepped through the crowd and walked to the bedroom door to check the situation.

Five seconds later,

Lan Jing returned to the entrance, again adjusting his glasses with a hint of helplessness, and said,

“She’s changing her pants.”

“Zhang Lifang was helping her change, she must have been halfway through when she heard the knock and rushed out to see.”

This sentence

caused the mood of everyone present to immediately darken.

Because the symptom of incontinence was enough to prove that Yu Ruyi’s Alzheimer’s had already progressed to a very severe stage.

If it were only early-stage Alzheimer’s, it wouldn’t have reached the level of incontinence.

After a few seconds of silence,

Lin Tian raised his hand, signaling for everyone to enter the house, and said softly,

“Let’s go in.”

“Look carefully, besides the bedroom, are there any suspicious items elsewhere?”

As his words fell,

Lin Tian, upon entering the living room, immediately noticed an extremely clean and dust-free photo frame placed on the nearby dining table.

Inside the frame was a photo of a fully armed foreign soldier, carrying a heavy sniper rifle, leaning against a rubble-filled battlefield with bullet holes, a cigar hanging from his mouth, a post-war finishing photo…