Chapter 347 - 347 314

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347: Chapter 314 347: Chapter 314 Miao Liyuan came back with the suspect. The suspect, Wang Hong, was a tall and heavy man, standing over 1.8 meters tall and weighing around 200 pounds. He looked like the kind who could easily pick up an ordinary person and pin them down beneath him. The members of the special case team watched as the suspect was escorted into the investigation center, and thinking back to the details of the case, they all felt a chill down their spines. “Acquaintances, and drunk too. When you come across someone like that, shouting to heaven won’t help, nor will calling to the earth,” Wang Chuanxing said with furrowed brows. He had a fair complexion and a sturdy build, the type that would grow on a mother-in-law the more she looked at him. But to be fair, even if you’re a police officer, if you run into such an acquaintance who’s also drunk... Now familiar with the case, Miao Liyuan’s expression grew even more serious as he said, “When I was a kid, the teacher always told us not to hang out with bad people and to choose friends wisely. The teacher should have given examples. If we bring this case into schools, oh boy, I’d like to see how many still want to mix with society.” Tang Jia whispered, “How could you bring such a case into schools? The schools themselves would be corrupted.” She said this with an air of shyness. Miao Liyuan laughed a couple of chuckles and said, “That’s because you don’t know about the students in schools these days...” Tang Jia still maintained a shy demeanor, “Do tell in more detail.” Miao Liyuan deliberately lit a cigarette and said, “The most impressive I’ve seen involved three guys and two girls. That was really a dire situation...” Tang Jia smiled coyly. Miao Liyuan was shocked, “You understood?” Tang Jia said, “I’ve seen a group of five too. They were called the Five-Star Chain at that time.” Miao Liyuan was dumbfounded, “How did you... Why have you seen it?” Tang Jia flipped her hair with flair and said, “I saw it while responding to a police call. Before that, they used to play the Seven-Star Chain. That day, two people decided not to participate, so they ended up with the Five-Star Chain. They formed a circle, and it got kind of tough; one of them got a cramp and called 120.” Miao Liyuan stared at Tang Jia with wide eyes. Tang Jia continued, “The emergency responders who came for the 120 call found a minor among the participants and kindly called the police. That’s how I heard the story when I got there.” “Did you make any arrests?” Wang Chuanxing also showed curiosity. Tang Jia shook her head slightly, “He was only 17, joined voluntarily, and besides, they were all men. Not sure how to deal with it, they just got a warning and education.” Wang Chuanxing nodded slowly, as if he had acquired some new knowledge, “So the Five-Star Chain can end up with a twist...” “Only if standing.” Tang Jia corrected, “They were in a hotel at the time. Someone disliked the dirty floor and didn’t want to lie down to circulate. Otherwise, if they had been lying down, they wouldn’t have got twisted... that’s their own analysis.” Wang Chuanxing gestured, and it really did seem so. Miao Liyuan summarized, “So, it’s quite necessary for men to learn some yoga or something like that.” Wang Chuanxing couldn’t listen anymore, “Brother Miao, you’ve made an arrest, and even learned some skills? Suddenly so contemplative.” “The world is like this, am I wrong?” Miao Liyuan countered. ... “Has the suspect confessed?” Shen Yaowei rushed into the office, panting. Then, Shen Yaowei saw the looks from several big shots. The commander of the Public Security Brigade, Shen Yaoguo, rebuked, “Don’t you know to greet first when entering a door? What’s all the hustle about?” “I...” Shen Yaowei had no choice but to, passing by Yu Wenshu and others, greet everyone along the way. Yu Wenshu smiled, waiting for Shen Yaowei to finish his greetings. “We are all waiting for the results too. Is Meng Chengbiao conducting the interrogation?” He looked around. The suspect was brought in by Miao Liyuan, who hastily said, “It is Team Meng conducting the interrogation.” Yu Wenshu nodded, then turned to the others to introduce, “Meng Chengbiao used to do pre-trial work. Being put into Jiang Yuan’s Cold Case Squad this time is also meant to provide a steady influence on the younger group. Now he’s proving his worth with fast progress, faster than I expected, ha ha ha ha...” He was genuinely thrilled. For such a big case to be broken like this was unexpected under normal circumstances. Most importantly, in solving such a significant accumulated murder case, the Criminal Police Brigade barely had to exert themselves. In past years, handling such murder cold cases would have been impossible without deploying two or three large teams—it was a matter of respecting the life of the suspect. Now, although he had made several phone calls and borrowed help from the Public Security and Graphic Investigation Brigade, all that was nothing out of the ordinary. Common active cases, even robbery cases, might have the same configuration. Yu Wenshu had never felt so exhilarated when he was alone; now, with a few fellow brigade leaders of the same rank standing beside him, his happiness couldn’t help but spread uncontrollably. “Even if he confesses quickly, I guess we’ll still need to interrogate him for a while. Everyone, sit down and have some tea,” Yu Wenshu said, like a diligent host, starting the tea discussion with two plump, round kumquats. “Let’s wait a bit,” Shen Yaoguo also wanted to see the case here and incidentally, get familiar with his cousin. “Let’s have tea,” Captain Changsun of the Graphic Investigation Brigade, with the compound surname Changsun, came to brush up his presence and nip a look at the situation too. Miao Liyuan, the officer who had pushed the case forward and arrested the suspect, was in high spirits and even had time to look around. Colleagues were all busy; many here aspired to break new ground, but the only one who truly had was Miao Liyuan. Images of being commended for his achievements and a string of five stars unexpectedly gave Miao Liyuan a jolt. Shen Yaowei was quite annoyed and couldn’t help but mutter quietly, “How can someone go out to buy cigarettes and end up following others to fish, and not even make a phone call? His brain must have been hooked.” Yu Wenshu chuckled and said, “If he had called home, his wife would definitely have asked him to come back, then what? If he did, it would mean going out was in vain, gaining nothing and still getting an earful upon returning. Since he was out fishing anyway, and was going to be scolded upon return, why bother calling? He might as well wait until he needs to go back; it’ll still be the same scolding. Maybe if his wife gets worried enough waiting, he might get a bit less of an earful.” “Captain Yu knows about life,” Changsun Lie raised his thumb in praise. Yu Wenshu took it lightly, a serene smile on his face, and said, “Life is such that if you gain something on one side, you lose something on the other. Actually, as long as the wife is willing to wait for you to come home and can take good care of the kids and elderly, that’s enough. Besides, we go out for work, not for fishing; the two are incomparable.” Changsun Lie coughed twice and said, “Actually, fishing isn’t purely a bad thing; it can give you time to think...” Shen Yaowei bowed his head in silence. He had not at all thought of investigating along the victim’s hobbies. He had even considered whether there had been some accident, or if the victim and the killer had played too wildly, to the point that the cell phone had become decorative. But now, it seemed the likelihood of an accident was indeed higher. In the interrogation room, suspect Wang Hong had recounted the events in much the same way: “I was the one who called Wang Jun (the victim) to go fishing. Wang Jun suggested buying some beer to drink while fishing. I agreed, and when we arrived at the fishing lodge, I asked the owner to deliver some beer and snacks.” “The weather was nice that day, and the beer was enjoyable. Later, Wang Jun used beer as bait, and after catching several carp in a row, he was overjoyed. We ended up fishing all night. Mainly to save money; by fishing all night, we wouldn’t need to pay for accommodation.” “The next day, we drank and fished again, and by evening we were both worn out, so we rented a room. Initially, we were talking about taking turns sleeping, one keeping an eye on the float, the other resting, trying to make enough to cover the room cost.” “Wang Jun drank a lot, so I let him sleep first. Late into the night, I couldn’t stay awake any longer, and I couldn’t wake him when I called, so I just slept next to him. Honestly, I didn’t intend to do anything, but then, half-asleep, I got the urge, thinking that since we were so familiar, I might as well have my way with him.” “I slept till dawn and saw Wang Jun still hadn’t woken up, didn’t know what to do, so I just went to fish. When I called him to eat at noon, I found he had vomited on the bed and... had drowned himself... I had no choice, I had just been with him, and if I called the police, they wouldn’t believe me, so all I could do was carry him and dump him outside the village...” Meng Chengbiao, in charge of the interrogation, barely had to say a few words before suspect Wang Hong had confessed almost everything. His psychological defenses collapsed when he saw the video stills Miao Liyuan had found. And these defenses, they had taken him more than a year to build up. In terms of cost-effectiveness, they might not have been as sturdy as the Maginot Line, but his will to resist had already surpassed that of the French army. Meng Chengbiao added a few crucial questions, particularly about the details of where the body was dumped, then finished the first interrogation after ensuring there were no issues. When he came up to report, Jiang Yuan and Yu Wenshu, among others, had already seen the interrogation process through the office’s projector. The hardware at the provincial capital was just that good; whether a case could be solved was one thing, but equipment was certainly complete and available. And the group who listened to the interrogation on-site fell into a long silence. Only when Meng Chengbiao entered did Yu Wenshu nondescriptly arrange, “Do the crime scene identification as quickly as possible. Once the evidence is compiled, rush to send it for examination, striving to prosecute the case before the year’s end.” “Yes,” Meng Chengbiao glanced at Jiang Yuan before agreeing. Yu Wenshu chuckled and asked Jiang Yuan, “Now the case is cracked, what do you have to say for our team?” Jiang Yuan was not intimidated; standing in front of several brigade leaders, he said, “This case, as our special case team’s first for getting to know each other, has been smoothly solved, and that’s good.” “After many days of work, everyone should have some understanding of each other by now. Next... I suggest we take a few days off. Everyone can take some annual leave or comp time to rest up, and in a few days, we will start on the next case.” Listening to Jiang Yuan’s first half, especially about the annual leave and comp time, Yu Wenshu and others felt a bit awkward, but as they listened on and heard about starting the next case, their expressions changed. Yu Wenshu couldn’t help but laugh showing his back teeth, while the others showed their surprise by revealing their own. “This time, let each person pick a case. When we’re back at work, everyone submit a case, and if there’s a suitable one, we’ll work on it,” Jiang Yuandao’s following words were even more surprising. Jiang Yuan’s Accumulated Case Team looked at each other, each feeling a slight excitement. There was suddenly a sense of power and a mission to decide the fate of others.

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