Chapter 37

When they reached the old agency building, Agent Fang came towards them with an angry look and a bright red face. He grumbled to himself: "I can't believe it! My own daughter!" It was only when he was just a few meters away from Zhan and Yibo that the red veil of anger in his eyes lifted and he saw them. "Sorry, I know I'm late." He said.

"It's okay sir, um, there's something you need to know." Said Yibo and Zhan nodded.

"And that would be?" Asked Agent Fang.

"Well, we were just in the new building and wanted to see you. But after knocking three times and getting no response, we were about to leave until we heard something rumbling in your office. We went in and found your office in a mess. Someone had obviously broken in and trashed the place." Yibo explained calmly.

"Yes. But it wasn't someone. That was my own daughter!" Replied Agent Fang, clenching his fists angrily.

"Your daughter?" Zhan asked in astonishment.

"Yes, the little bitch is angry with me because I took her credit card! But what was I supposed to do? She only got it for emergencies and never used it for anything else. But recently she's gone completely crazy. I'm sure it's because of her new boyfriend. This punk! She's charged 80,000 yuan on her credit card for various expensive purchases! And as if that wasn't bad enough, she also stole money from her mother's wallet! So we took away her credit card and grounded her. After all, she's only 17 years old and as long as she's still living with us, she has to do what we say! But she's not only clever, she's also talented. She ran off and climbed up the building's pipes to my office, somehow pried open the window and went looking for her credit card. And she only trashed the office to screw with me! I have two cameras in my office that immediately send an alarm to my cell phone as soon as there is movement in the office when no one is supposed to be there. And guess what, the alarm pointed to a break-in by my own daughter, who left my office the same way she came in. Man, I should never have let her do the prep courses and training camps for future agents! Now I see what I get out of it." Agent Fang explained, slowly calming down again.

"That's really tough. And she's only 17 years old?" Zhan asked in astonishment.

"Yes, she is. And she has this boyfriend. He's a punk, with colorful hair, piercings in his nose, lip, eyebrows and ears. He wears tattered clothes with rivets, holes and chains attached to them. Just a real punk. He drinks, smokes and smokes pot. And my daughter is head over heels in love with him and would do anything for him. Which she obviously proves to him by giving him lots of presents. My wife and I have tried to talk to her about it calmly. We explained to her why we were worried. But she shot it all down. She said we were narrow-minded people who had no idea about real life. Her boyfriend would have told her that and she would have finally realized it through him!"

"Mhhh, my cousin Yanli had a phase like that once. When she rebelled and was about to commit a crime, my uncle put her in a prison cell for a whole weekend with a few criminals her age. She even spent 12 hours of those 48 hours in a tiny single cell. Well, after the weekend she was like a new person and didn't cause any more trouble. She went back to school, studied hard, went to university and is now a criminal psychologist." Zhan explained with a smile. He loves his cousin Yanli very much. And her little brother Cheng. Unfortunately, he only saw them both very rarely.

"That's a good idea. Maybe I should do that too." Agent Fang said and then asked Yibo and Zhan to follow him. They walked back to the new building and entered his trashed office. He rummaged through the chaos of loose papers and files for a certain file, finally found it and then took Yibo and Zhan to one of the offices that was still available.

They sat down at the desk, Agent Fang opened the file and immediately turned over the gruesome pictures of the corpses so Zhan wouldn't have to see them. Zhan was grateful to him for that, but would have dared to at least take a look at the corpses. But it was probably better if he didn't see them. "And what does it say in them now? How did they die?" Zhan asked impatiently. He was so curious that he would have liked to grab the file and read everything himself.

"The bodies were almost all killed in the same way." Agent Fang began, but was cut short when Yibo asked if they died from a gunshot to the stomach. Agent Fang nodded. "Yes, they died from a shot to the stomach. All the bodies, except for Pete Kapajewski's, also indicate violence, if not torture. The women, there were a total of 7 women and 5 men buried there, also showed signs of rape. Pete Kapajewski died from a gunshot to the head. Which in our opinion points to a different perpetrator. Because he hardly shot himself in the head and then buried himself. Agent Lee also showed signs of torture and was shot in the stomach. In fact, he and Pete Kapajewski were probably killed just hours apart." Agent Fang explained what he read in the coroner's document.

"Could that possibly be this Kira Bell and the two guys that are with her?" Yibo asked.

"Did Agent Nax tell you about them?" Yibo nodded. "So yes, we assume that Kira Bell and the two brothers Joe and Terry Brice. The problem is, we know they've been seen with Pete Kapajewski on and off for the last six months, but we can't prove anything. Apart from some official information, we don't know much about the three of them."

"What kind of official information is that?" Zhan wanted to know and got ready to write everything down.

"Where do I start? Well, Kira Bell. She is now 24 years old and was called Mirabelle Ashton until a year ago. She came to the orphanage at the age of 7 after her parents died in an accident and her relatives refused to take her in. She is said to have displayed abnormal behavior from the very beginning, which was later diagnosed as sociopathy."

"And that means?" Zhan asked.

"According to the psychological definition of a sociopath, it is a person who has an abnormal relationship with society. That's why sociopathy is also referred to as a dissocial or antisocial personality disorder. A few characteristics are the inability to maintain long-term relationships, but no problems with establishing new relationships, low frustration tolerance, tendency to aggressive and violent behavior, lack of awareness of guilt, inability to learn from social experiences."

"Oh great! Another lunatic!" Said Yibo.

"Mhm. But the background of the two brothers is also interesting. Their parents are brother and sister! Marc Brice committed sexual assault on his sister Mandy Brice, who was four years younger, when she was 8 years old. He let her satisfy him orally and by hand. When she was 11 years old, he is said to have started sexually abusing her. Proof of this is that she gave birth to her first son at the age of 12. Joe Brice, now 25 years old. Marc and Mandy's parents even helped with the difficult birth, which took place at home. Terry was born just under a year and a half later. Also at home. The family managed to hide the children from the neighbors and authorities. When Mandy Brice turned 15, she ran away from home and left the children with her family. Marc Brice was so angry that he took his rage out on his parents. But they didn't put up with it for long and kicked him and his sons out. He moved in with a woman he had met and claimed that the boys were his brothers, but that they were mentally handicapped and therefore called him Daddy because they didn't understand that he was their brother and not their dad. The woman believed him, took the three of them in and looked after them like a mother. They were fine with this woman for three years, but then Marc started drinking more and more and taking drugs. He beat up his girlfriend, repeatedly and brutally attacked and raped her. And when she told him to move out, he killed her and simply disposed of her body in a junkyard. Furious that she was dead and no one was cooking, cleaning or earning money, he took his anger out on his sons more and more often. One day he really lost it and tried to drown Terry in cold water in the bathtub. Joe wanted to save his brother. He plunged a knife into his father's upper arm. Marc Brice then grabbed Joe, beat him up and threw him down the stairs in the house. That's why he has a dent on his forehead. Neighbors who heard the commotion called the police and the boys were rescued. Marc Brice immediately confessed everything. From the abuse of his sister to the murder of his girlfriend and where he disposed of the body. The police searched for Mandy Brice. They found her. But she was also addicted to alcohol and drugs and had had two more children in the meantime, which the youth welfare office had taken away from her. So they put the two brothers in the orphanage too, where they met Mirabelle and accepted her as their leader. Both brothers are mentally retarded. Terry more than Joe. Terry is supposed to have the mind of a 5 year old and does whatever Joe and Mirabelle tell him to."

"Oh damn." Murmured Zhan. More people with a past that is cruel. Like Isla Isari, whose past was also characterized by violence.

"And those three are our new targets now?" Yibo asked.

"I'm afraid so. But as I said, we have nothing on them. They are even here legally with a visa that they only recently had extended. They haven't officially done anything wrong."

"And where do they live? How do they finance their life here? After all, a visa doesn't mean they can work here." Said Yibo.

"That's what we want to find out. Of course, it could be that they have the money from Agent Lee, which he took from Xiao Zhan."

"If that's the case, then they have a lot of money and can live carefree." Zhan replied, shaking his head at the memory of how Agent Lee kidnapped him and took half of the money that Zhan inherited from Isla Isari and hasn't touched yet. And, of course, how cold-bloodedly he killed the lawyer.

"Could the three of them be a threat to Zhan?" Yibo asked cautiously.

"We don't know that. We don't know what they know. If Agent Lee told them where he got the money, maybe. If they want to get more money. But right now we can't say for sure. We're also still trying to figure out how and when Agent Lee came back. He had left the country. We know that. But we still have to find out what happened next. And also why Pete Kapajewski was killed, when he was obviously working with Kira Bell and the two brothers beforehand."

"What a load of crap! One crazy woman is dead and now comes the next crazy woman, who is probably even worse than the first! And if she's after me, it's certainly not for the same reason as Isla Isari. And what did the conversation with Isko actually reveal? Was he able to say whether Isla Isari hired the private detective and this woman?" Zhan replied.

"Isko Isari said that Isla Isari hired the private detective exclusively. His wife worked for him. So now we know that the two bodies that had the picture of you are the private detective and his wife. But that's all we know so far. But we are also at the very beginning of our investigation. We are working together with all the authorities and hope to achieve results quickly. Of course, the search for witnesses is the most time-consuming part. Without witnesses, everything takes longer. When do you have an appointment with the other lawyer?"

"I have an appointment there tomorrow. Yibo will accompany me. Afterwards, I'd like to spend the weekend with Yibo at my parents' house. If Yibo agrees." Zhan replied and looked at Yibo.

"Well, I don't mind." Yibo said and smiled.

"All right, all right. You call me tomorrow after the appointment with the lawyer and then make your way to Xiao Zhan's parents. I think it's a good idea if you take a few days off."

"Maybe we'll turn two days into a whole week. But if we do, we'll call and let you know, of course." Yibo said with a grin, looking at Zhan. Zhan nodded in agreement, but was a little surprised that Yibo wanted to stay there with him for a week.

"Good, then that's it for today from my side. If we find out anything, we'll let you know. Now I'm going to clean up the mess in my office and then I'm going hunting down my daughter!" Agent Fang said, picked up his file and left the office. Yibo and Zhan also left the office and made their way to the parking lot.

When they arrived at the parking lot, they got into Yibo's car and made their way to Yibo's apartment. Yibo was excited to see how Zhan would react when he told him that they were going upstairs to Yibo's apartment and that Zhan could look around everywhere. And who knows, maybe they would spend the night there.

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