Chapter 473 - 281: The Mysterious Man Surfaces
Chapter 473 - 281: The Mysterious Man Surfaces
Fuhui City, Celestial Water Garden, Building 7, Room 703.
Lan Huina checked the address in her hand, somewhat surprised, and said, "That’s right, it’s this place. Could it be that Li Xiaofang has come back?"
It’s not out of the realm of possibility.
"Let’s go and take a look."
If she really has come back, it would just be a false alarm, and they’d be able to directly understand the situation from her.
"Who are you?"
Li Xiang and his group entered Room 703, only to see people moving in the house, with two or three women tidying up the place. Upon seeing Li Xiang and his team in uniform, they appeared a bit surprised.
"Hello, we are from the Public Security Bureau. May I ask if this is Li Xiaofang’s home?"
"Well, she has already sold this house to me."
"What?"
Upon hearing this news, everyone was somewhat taken aback.
The new homeowner, seeing the skeptical looks from the police, hurriedly took out her newly issued property deed, pointing to the name on it and said, "Look, my name is on the property title. Here’s my ID card, how could this be fake?"
Yan Xindong took the ID card and property deed, glanced at it, and confirmed, "It’s indeed real."
"Did Li Xiaofang really sell the house? Did something happen to her?"
"Try giving Li Xiaofang’s phone a call and see if you can reach her."
Lan Huina quickly took out her phone and called Li Xiaofang’s number: "Sorry, the number you have dialed is unavailable, sorry..."
"It’s still turned off!"
"Excuse me, was the person who sold you the house her? Can you contact her now? We have an urgent matter with her."
Li Xiang pulled out a photo of Li Xiaofang from his phone and showed it to the other party.
"It should be her, right?"
The new homeowner glanced at the photo provided by Li Xiang, frowned, and said, with an expression indicating uncertainty: "Should be?"
"When we went for the transaction, she wore a mask the whole time, only taking it off once. She looked like her, but I’m not too sure. Let me call her first."
But the new homeowner couldn’t reach her by phone either: "The phone is off again."
"Is her phone often turned off?"
"Yes, it’s often off and hard to reach them. Most of the time, they contact me."
"They?"
"Yes, there was a man with her, should be her boyfriend."
"Is it this person?"
Li Xiang showed them a snapshot from the hospital’s surveillance footage. After seeing the photo of the masked man, the new homeowner confidently said, "Yes, yes, it’s him. Both wore masks when processing the property deed."
"Alright, thank you for your cooperation."
After enough questions were asked, Li Xiang walked out, with Lan Huina following, still puzzled, "What’s Li Xiaofang up to? Intentionally disappearing and then selling her house?"
"We can’t be sure if it’s really Li Xiaofang. Let’s go to the property management and pull up the recent surveillance footage from the community."
Li Xiang felt something wasn’t right; the whole situation was very bizarre.
In their judgment, Li Xiaofang should have already been harmed, but now she suddenly reappears and even manages to sell her house; it just doesn’t make sense.
"Are you saying the person selling the house isn’t actually her? Then how did the property transfer?"
Yan Xindong was also puzzled. Without the owner’s signature, can a property be transferred?
"It’s all still uncertain. Let’s get the surveillance footage first and then head to the stock housing transaction center."
After copying the surveillance from the lobby and elevators of Building 7, Li Xiang and his team went to the stock housing transaction center. At the transfer window, they presented their credentials and stated their purpose.
"You’re looking for the related transfer paperwork for Li Xiaofang?"
"Yes."
"Hold on, let me check. Their records have all been sealed and sent to the archives. I can’t access them here; you’ll have to go to the archives."
After a wasted trip, Li Xiang headed to the archives, where they found Li Xiaofang’s housing transaction information.
Just after they finished checking, Qi Liyan called.
"Captain Li, we found a recent transaction of money to Li Xiaofang’s account, and it quickly transferred to a foreign account. We can’t track that account at the moment."
"Understood."
Li Xiang hung up the phone. Yan Xindong, hearing it was from home, curiously asked, "What happened?"
"The money from Li Xiaofang’s house sale has been transferred to an overseas account."
"Seems like you were right; this Li Xiaofang might not actually be her."
Such a strange operation clearly doesn’t seem like something the real person would do. Now, it seems the situation is getting increasingly complex.
"Let’s go back."
The group quickly returned to the hotel and shared their investigation findings with everyone: "It’s highly likely that Li Xiaofang has already met with foul play, and the person who went to sell the house wasn’t her. I looked at the signature on the house transfer documents, and the handwriting is different."
Li Xiang pulled out the signature from the house transfer paperwork, and then showed her signature from a statement made three years ago. The two were clearly different.
"Can someone else really sell your house just like that?"
Faced with this result, everyone was quite surprised.
"Why not? Just find someone who slightly resembles Li Xiaofang, take her ID card, bank card, and property deed, and there’s no issue with the transfer."
The supervision team encountered such a situation for the first time and was clearly impressed by this kind of operation.
"The criminals we’re facing this time have professional methods and don’t seem to be committing their first crime."
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