Chapter 224 224 More like a slogan, a fig leaf...

Strike while the iron is hot. After the task force successfully captured Wu Yang and Lin Jinnan, they did not transfer them back to Jianyang City immediately. Instead, they simply borrowed a place in Linchang City and interrogated them as quickly as possible.

Perhaps it was no longer important whether to speak up at this point, so Wu Yang spoke out very readily, contrary to everyone's expectations. However, he had one request, which was to see Guan Xia.

Coincidentally, Guan Xia had always wanted to meet him, so when Director Gao asked, Guan Xia agreed without even hesitation.

The countless mysteries that had piled up for so many days and nights were finally about to be solved. Not only was Guan Xia excited and filled with mixed emotions, but even Ji An, who usually kept his emotions to himself, came over and patted Guan Xia's shoulder firmly. Thousands of words finally came together in a few words: "We'll wait for you outside."

Pang Le also said, "Yes, we are all watching you from outside. Try your best to interrogate him and try to get a complete confession in one try."

Guan Xia knew that it was impossible to list all the crimes Wu Yang had committed at once, but she didn't argue. She just nodded seriously and said, "Okay."

Xu Nian stood nearby and offered soothing words. "Don't stress yourself out. The task force is packed with interrogation experts, each of them battle-hardened and highly experienced. It's their job to regularly help the lower-level bureaus identify and address gaps. The most important thing is that we've apprehended the suspect and have solid evidence. Even if the suspect resists, it's only a matter of time before we get him to confess."

Xu Nian's words were very tactful, but Guan Xia immediately understood them. He was hinting to her not to be nervous. Even if the results of the interrogation were not ideal, there were many experts who could brainstorm and provide advice. She should just let go and conduct the interrogation boldly.

To be honest, Guan Xia was a little nervous about being the first to interrogate Wu Yang in front of a large group of experts and leaders. However, because he had so many questions to ask, Guan Xia kept pondering them in his mind and didn't have much time to think about anything else. Now with Xu Nian's words, Guan Xia was even less nervous. He even smiled at the others and said confidently, "Wait for my good news."

Guan Xia has always been curious about Wu Yang. She was not sure before, but after the eye contact with Wu Yang at noon, Guan Xia believed that Wu Yang was also curious about her.

As expected, Guan Xia followed Captain Zhang into the interrogation room. As soon as she stepped through the door, she felt Wu Yang's focused and inquiring gaze on her. That gaze was so persistent that it followed Guan Xia until she sat down on the chair and never left. Before Captain Zhang and Guan Xia could even speak, Wu Yang said with a hint of a smile, "Are you Guan Xia? I never thought our orphanage would produce such an outstanding talent like you."

Captain Zhang may have been warned by his superiors, so he just frowned slightly when he saw this, but did not scold Guan Xia out loud, allowing him to express himself freely.

Guan Xia was not sure what Wu Yang meant for a moment, so she did not interrupt him and let him continue.

Wu Yang seemed to have a lot to say to Guan Xia. Without waiting for Guan Xia's reply, he continued, "You're injured. Judging from the location of the injury, you must have discovered the tunnel that Anan dug. No wonder you were able to catch me so quickly. I see."

Guan Xia looked at Wu Yang numbly with a calm gaze without a trace of hatred, but in fact, the system interface kept jumping with data that the intensity of the halo was decreasing.

In such a serious and suffocating atmosphere, Guan Xia actually felt a little fortunate. Fortunately, with the arrest of Wu Yang, her halo had received another wave of sudden wealth recharge half an hour ago. Even if she interrogated Wu Yang in the interrogation room for a whole day today, it would not affect her retirement life after the case was over.

After his thoughts wandered for a moment, Guan Xia immediately came back to his senses and continued to look at Wu Yang with a serious expression.

Wu Yang was still talking to himself, and with the gentle gaze of an elder appreciating an outstanding junior, he said, "Anan prepared so many smokescreens, you must have suffered a lot. Speaking of which, you both came from the same orphanage and are both so outstanding. You could have had the opportunity to get to know each other, and even possibly become friends. What a pity."

Wu Yang murmured a few times, sighed regretfully, and then said, "I know you must have a lot of questions to ask me. At this point, there is nothing I can't tell you, so ask whatever you want. After all, you and I came from the same orphanage, and this can be regarded as the last bit of care I, a senior, can give you, a junior."

Guan Xia hadn't reacted to the previous words, but the last part made her feel nauseous. "Take care of her?" How? Was he almost recruiting her into the organization, or was he almost murdering her to silence her? Guan Xia now truly understood the meaning of hypocrisy and a beastly heart. Even after things had progressed to this point, with Wu Yang already in the interrogation room and the evidence irrefutable, he still acted like he was thinking about her.

Even Captain Zhang felt a little uncomfortable and frowned even more tightly.

Guan Xia took a deep breath to suppress the nausea welling up in her heart, and asked calmly, "Since there's nothing you can't say, then start from the beginning. Tell me about the crime you committed in high school. Why did you kill Sun Yanghui?"

Wu Yang seemed to be unfamiliar with the name Sun Yanghui. A momentary confusion crossed his face. Then he tried to recall it, and after several minutes, he suddenly realized and said, "Sun Yanghui? Oh, I remember now. He was the father of my high school classmate Sun Xiuxiu. Why did I kill him? I killed him if I wanted to. What reason do I need? If you insist on a reason, let me think about why I wanted to kill him."

Wu Yang pondered for a while before he suddenly realized something and said, "Oh, I remember now. Actually, I didn't want to kill him at first. After all, I had never seen him. Whether he was alive or dead had nothing to do with me, and it couldn't affect me. But it's a pity that he is Sun Xiuxiu's father, and he is not good to Sun Xiuxiu. My deskmate at the time was Sun Xiuxiu's good friend. He kept nagging me every day, saying that she was beaten by her father yesterday. She was in her third year of high school, and her father didn't let her go to school. Two days later, he said that her father chased her to school today and beat her in front of the teacher, saying that she was a naughty boy at a young age and learned to seduce people and even seduced his friends. I felt dizzy listening to it every day and wanted her to shut up, but I also felt that Sun Xiuxiu was really pitiful, so I endured it, and in the end I couldn't bear it anymore, so I had to kill Sun Xiuxiu's father once and for all."

Wu Yang smiled with relief as he spoke. "Sure enough, as soon as Sun Xiuxiu's father died, I felt completely at peace. No more mosquito-like buzzing complaints. No one disturbed me, and my grades became more stable. The day after the college entrance exam, I knew I had secured the university I wanted to attend."

Wu Yang said it calmly, but Guan Xia was surprised and shocked.

She had imagined countless motives before. Perhaps Wu Yang had heard about Sun Xiuxiu's situation and felt sympathy for her, so he killed Sun Yanghui. Or maybe Sun Xiuxiu was also very outstanding, and he admired her but it was a pity that she could not take the college entrance examination, so he killed Sun Yanghui. But she never thought that the reason Wu Yang killed people was just because someone kept complaining in his ear and disturbed his study, so he killed people in order to have a quiet environment to study.

Guan Xia looked at Wu Yang, and suddenly a word popped up in her mind for no reason: congenital antisocial personality. She had never studied psychology and didn't know what the broad meaning of this word was, but after hearing Wu Yang's motive for murder, she felt that Wu Yang must be a congenital antisocial personality.

After trying to calm down, Guan Xia continued to ask, "You killed Sun Yanghui in your senior year of high school because you wanted a quiet study environment. What about Qiu Zijin, whom you killed in college? Why?"

Compared with Sun Yanghui, Qiu Zijin was equally unfamiliar to Wu Yang, and he fell into a new round of deep thought.

Guan Xia took the opportunity to recall the case. Although he had only glanced through the case files when speculating about Wu Yang's first case, because it was not long ago, Guan Xia still remembered the general details of the case.

This case happened when Wu Yang was a sophomore. The deceased was the husband of a female professor in his university. He was murdered late one night in a rental house in an urban village. The cause of death was that he was stabbed in the heart with a dagger after being drunk. Perhaps because the killing technique was not proficient enough, the deceased was not killed in one blow. However, due to serious injuries and drunkenness, he was unable to call for help. When he was found, his body was stiff.

Although there was no direct evidence to show that this case was related to Wu Yang, and even the deceased's wife, the female professor, was not in the computer department where Wu Yang worked, Guan Xia and her colleagues still screened him out because of his modus operandi. Now that they knew Wu Yang's motive for killing Sun Yanghui, Guan Xia recalled it again and was very sure that this murder was indeed the work of Wu Yang.

Facts proved that Guan Xia and the others' speculation was not wrong. After a few minutes, Wu Yang finally remembered and said in a calm tone, "Oh, I remember too. That scumbag who cheated on his wife when he was young and wanted to get back together in his old age, threatening to kill Professor Hong's entire family. He's actually similar to Sun Yanghui. I didn't want to kill him at first, but he was so arrogant. He was famous for his arrogance in our school. I could hear his name wherever I went. Even when I was hiding in the woods in the school reading, I could hear a young couple scolding him. I really couldn't find a quiet place to read, so I had no choice but to kill him."

After the experience with Sun Yanghui, Guan Xia was not so shocked this time, but she still couldn't help but feel a little unbelievable. At the same time, she had a new guess.

She used to think that the reason Wu Yang established such a criminal organization and used the image of the Judgment Angel, which has a clear tendency, as a badge or symbol in the organization was to punish evil and promote good, and uphold justice. But now it seems more like a slogan, a fig leaf, and a tool he used to achieve his own goals.

Guan Xia then asked Wu Yang about his motive for killing Li Song.

This time, Wu Yang finally stopped looking bewildered, and he wasn't even surprised. He glanced at Guan Xia calmly, as if he had expected it. He chuckled and said, "You're really good. You even found out about Li Song. But you guessed wrong this time. I didn't kill Li Song."

Guan Xia's expression remained unchanged from beginning to end. She looked at him seriously and said, "I know you weren't the one who actually did it, but his death is inextricably linked to you. It was you who gave the final order to kill him, right? What happened between you? Did you have a disagreement that led to an internal conflict? So much so that you parted ways after just a few years? And you still remember Lü Xiangmei, right? You asked your brother Li Feng, the wife of your childhood friend, to have her killed, right? Did you know that Li Feng has always felt guilty about his wife's death and even hated you for it?"

Mentioning the brothers he grew up with, Wu Yang's expression finally brightened up a bit. He sneered sarcastically and said casually, "Brothers? My last name is Wu, and their last name is Li. If we really talk about brothers, only Wu Xingxian is my brother. But unfortunately, even brothers who grew up together will eventually change. Time is really terrible, it changes everyone beyond recognition. I know you were at the scene when Wu Xingxian died. Did you see his body? Was his death painful? He must be in disbelief. He was my only relative, and one day he would die indirectly at my hands."

Guan Xia didn't say anything. She looked at Wu Yang who seemed to be lost in memories. Her expression became complicated, sometimes sneering, sometimes self-deprecating, and sometimes full of nostalgia.

Although Wu Yang did not say it explicitly, he implicitly admitted that the deaths of Wu Xingxian, Li Song and Lu Xiangmei were all related to him.