Forged Evidence

Shao Yuan was Bai Ge's best brother. If his younger sister came first in importance, then Shao Yuan came second.

Bai Ge still had no idea what had happened later last night, but he had no interest in asking. He only needed to know that Wang Qian deserved to die.

"I'll take care of this for you," Bai Ge said.

"How are you going to deal with this car and this barrel..." Shao Yuan asked.

Bai Ge asked with a smile, "How were you planning to deal with them?"

Shao Yuan said, "First, I bought nitric acid and hydrochloric acid. Then I bought a PTFE barrel, put him inside it, and brought him up here. After that, I made my own aqua regia and used it to dissolve him. I also used a large amount of air freshener and disinfectant to cover up the smell of the aqua regia. Even if someone smelled it, they'd think it was just household disinfectant."

"I couldn't implicate you, after all. I didn't know you'd come back. I was just about to take this barrel and drive his car out of Xiangfan, straight to another province."

"On the way, I would have scattered the liquid along the roadside in the countryside, dumped the car in some remote wilderness, and then left on foot."

Bai Ge smiled. "Dumping it in the wilderness is a pretty good idea, but you'd be caught on surveillance cameras the whole way. In this day and age, there are electronic eyes everywhere. If they wanted to find the car, no matter how many enemies Wang Qian had, they'd look for you first."

Shao Yuan smiled bitterly. "Then what else can I do? But don't worry. You have nothing to do with this whole matter. Even if I'm caught, I won't implicate you."

Bai Ge shook his head. "The best way is to make people completely uninterested in this guy's disappearance."

Shao Yuan frowned. "How could that work? His father is the boss of that company and the leader of the entire criminal organization. His son has gone missing. Even if he doesn't report it to the police, he'll use his connections to investigate where the car went, and then they'll trace it back to me."

Bai Ge said, "But what if he sees his son again? And then his son gathers evidence of his crimes and exposes him personally? At that point, no one will know or care about what happened during this insignificant period around noon today..."

"How is that possible? Wang Qian has already been dissolved by me..." Shao Yuan said in shock.

Bai Ge said, "I can disguise myself. I'll impersonate Wang Qian. Even his own father won't be able to tell the difference!"

"Disguise? You mean makeup?" Shao Yuan was unlike Zhuang Ze. As a medical student, he didn't believe in perfect disguises. Plastic surgery, perhaps, but not that.

Bai Ge smiled. "No, a real disguise. See if you can find a recent video of Wang Qian on his phone. I've only seen him once, and that was from a distance. I need to know exactly what he looks like."

Shao Yuan quickly found a short video on Wang Qian's own phone. It showed him with two beautiful women, holding them in his arms at a nightclub. His voice could be heard as well.

Bai Ge only glanced at it twice before saying, "That's enough. I remember."

Shao Yuan asked doubtfully, "What's going on? You really plan to turn yourself into Wang Qian? How is that possible?"

"Brother, remember this: everything is possible. You'll understand slowly in the future..." Bai Ge patted Shao Yuan on the shoulder, then walked into his bedroom.

Shao Yuan was somewhat bewildered, but he didn't follow him in.

He thought to himself that his brother seemed to have quite a few secrets, but he didn't care in the slightest.

He knew that Bai Ge's work had never been entirely aboveboard. There were some secrets he would never ask about.

If Wang Qian's people hadn't been watching both his home and clinic this time, he wouldn't have come to Bai Ge's house at all. He would have quietly handled everything himself. Even if he failed to cover up the crime and was arrested, Bai Ge probably wouldn't have found out until much later.

But Bai Ge had happened to return and run into him. The thought that he had killed someone and now had to rely on Bai Ge to clean up afterward filled Shao Yuan with guilt.

That meant Bai Ge was directly involved. If everything still failed in the end, Bai Ge would instead be treated as an accomplice.

Deep down, Shao Yuan had always felt that this matter had nothing to do with Bai Ge. Although he had initially done it to help Bai Ge make money, the reason he had fallen this far was simply that he himself was twisted.

"If that disguise thing is nothing but a boast, I absolutely can't let him go. Killing someone's son and then impersonating that son to trick his father is just too absurd."

As Shao Yuan was thinking this, Bai Ge walked out of the bedroom. He hurriedly looked over.

The sight instantly scared him into breaking out in a cold sweat. A chill shot straight up his spine to the top of his head.

"Wang Qian!"

The person walking out of the bedroom looked exactly like the dead Wang Qian. Shao Yuan's heart immediately began racing at a hundred and eighty beats per minute.

He had only just dissolved the man with his own hands!

Shao Yuan suddenly pulled a syringe from his pocket and gripped it like a weapon.

That "Wang Qian" hurriedly said, "Don't stab me with sodium cyanide... Shao Yuan, can't you recognize the clothes?"

Shao Yuan saw that "Wang Qian" was wearing Bai Ge's clothes, but the voice... sounded almost exactly like Wang Qian's too.

"Bai Ge? This disguise is incredible! You can even change your voice?"

Bai Ge smiled. "Just a little trick."

Unable to resist, Shao Yuan reached out to touch him and discovered that the skin was real...

"How come I've never heard that you could do this?"

"I haven't been able to do it for long. Ask me after we deal with this matter."

He then went back into the bedroom, chose a set of clothes matching Wang Qian's style, and immediately came back out wearing them.

This time, Shao Yuan spotted the flaw at once. "You're a little thinner than Wang Qian..."

"It's fine. No one will care about details like that."

Shao Yuan clicked his tongue in amazement. He knew this was enough to impersonate Wang Qian. After all, the face and voice were identical. No one would care if he was a little thinner.

A criminal organization like this would eventually be wiped out by the police. It was only a matter of time. Bai Ge was merely pushing that process forward, helping the police obtain direct evidence as quickly as possible.

When the police came to arrest them, Bai Ge would simply change back into himself and create the illusion that he had fled the city.

If the police investigated, they would only look into where Wang Qian had driven on the day he escaped. No one would care about what had happened today.

In the end, Wang Qian would remain a fugitive forever.

"Bai Ge, I'll tell you some things about him. It'll make it easier for you to impersonate him."

Shao Yuan immediately told Bai Ge many things about Wang Qian.

Bai Ge memorized them one by one, then said to Shao Yuan, "I'll destroy all evidence connected to you, and I'll call back the people watching you."

Shao Yuan asked again, "That only means they won't have evidence. But a lot of people have seen me. If they're arrested and questioned by the police, there's no way I'll be able to escape blame."

Bai Ge smiled. "But if there's solid evidence pointing to someone else, then even if they all insist otherwise, it won't matter."

"Remember this: last night, you never went there at all."

That afternoon, Bai Ge carried the barrel downstairs and got into Wang Qian's car.

He also brought along the one and a half million yuan.

After driving away, he put the barrel into the pocket dimension.

"Wang Qian was planning to return to the company at noon, but Shao Yuan took him out halfway. That's why he was so late."

Thinking this, Bai Ge drove straight to the company owned by Wang Qian's father.

The company was in a remote location, occupying a three-story standalone building. Its name sounded quite impressive: "Heavenly King Advertising Planning."

Wang Qian's father, Wang Jiu, ran a company that appeared legal on the surface.

In reality, it was merely a cover.

All of its real business was hidden in the shadows.

When he arrived, he had just carried the suitcase of money inside when he saw quite a few burly men lounging around the desks, lazily passing the time.

When they saw Bai Ge enter, they all stood up to greet him.

Someone shouted, "The money's here!"

Bai Ge casually handed over the money, and someone took it and began distributing it among everyone.

He didn't pay much attention to that. Instead, he wandered around, walking through the entire company.

The first floor looked normal enough, but once he reached the second floor, he saw quite a few people handing over money. One look told him they were betting on outside gambling lines.

Several computers displayed odds, while a crowd stood around watching. If someone liked a bet, they simply went over, paid, and collected a ticket.

Bai Ge wandered around, making sure everyone saw him.

He deliberately blurred the details of Wang Qian's whereabouts that day. That way, Shao Yuan's killing of Wang Qian would seem like nothing more than an insignificant little incident in Wang Qian's day.

As for the evidence of their crimes, there was no need to search for it himself. He could simply order someone else to bring it over—things like the account books and surveillance footage.

"What footage? Brother Qian, didn't you forbid us from recording anything?" someone asked in surprise.

"You know about that young doctor from yesterday, right?" Bai Ge asked.

"Of course. Didn't you say we absolutely couldn't record the surgeries?"

Bai Ge nodded, confirming that these people really hadn't recorded Shao Yuan's surgeries one after another. After all, Shao Yuan was just a minor figure in their eyes. Threatening him directly was enough. Recording anything would only create trouble for themselves.

"Yeah. I was worried you might record things secretly. Forget about that young doctor. Call everyone back."

"Call them back? What if he runs?" someone asked blankly.

Bai Ge said disdainfully, "Then let him run. Can't we function without him?"

At his insistence, by dinnertime, everyone watching Shao Yuan had been called back.

One of them said, "He didn't go home this morning. He went straight to some medical university. They wouldn't let me in, and I lost track of him. Fortunately, he came back on his own that afternoon. Brother Qian, do you think he secretly reported us to the police?"

Bai Ge said, "I knew you'd make a mistake, which is why I told you to come back. Listen carefully. No one is to mention this doctor again. Don't have any further contact with him."

"Got it!"

Bai Ge then asked, "Who was present in the operating room last night?"

Two people stepped forward. "Brother Qian, don't you remember? It was always the two of us."

Bai Ge smiled. "Right... Come on, I'm treating everyone tonight. Let's go out for drinks!"

"Roar!"

That night, Bai Ge took a large group of people out drinking and having fun.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, he learned quite a lot. They had engaged in illegal gambling, organ trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, and even murder.

Yet none of these people left behind any evidence of their crimes. The only thing in the entire company that could barely count as evidence was the account book.

Many weapons and records of crimes were destroyed the same day.

"Not bad... Evidence doesn't matter. I'll make some for you."

He secretly collected every cup and aluminum can they had used. He put them into the pocket dimension and directly extracted their fingerprints, which Bell recorded.

Late at night, he replaced his own fingerprints with those of the two men who accompanied Wang Qian to watch Shao Yuan's surgeries every day.

Then he infiltrated a secret operating room somewhere. First, he thoroughly cleaned the entire room, including the floor and everything on it. Then he touched every object once with his bare hands.

He even left fingerprints on the surgical knives with his bare hands.

He memorized the layout and every detail of the place. Carrying a video camera, he entered the pocket dimension.

In an instant, he created a separate space inside the pocket dimension, perfectly imitating the operating room, including the exterior and even the surrounding streets.

At the same time, he began creating people—a group of pocket-dimension creatures with no consciousness of their own, completely at his mercy.

The only difficult part was that the light inside the pocket dimension couldn't leave images on the camera.

So Bai Ge had to specially obtain real-world lamps to illuminate the scene inside the pocket dimension.

Fortunately, although the pocket-dimension creatures were weak, ordinary light couldn't kill them. At least, they would be fine for a short while.

If necessary, he could also use real-world materials to construct the scene, including human beings. After all, they didn't need minds.

"It really works." Bai Ge adjusted the camera and discovered that the footage looked almost the same as reality, just as lifelike.

"You recorded everything I did in the operating room before, right, Bell?"

"Come on, have them follow the steps. After that, you can improvise a little."

"If I shout 'cut,' start over."