Chapter 94 94 It all started with a joke from a relative

What's even more amazing is yet to come. Captain Yu arrived with Zhou Yiyang, the suspect in the 814 case 11 years ago, at around 6:00 p.m. Two hours before that, Zhou Yiyang's girlfriend and parents had already arrived at the Daqu County Police Station.

Guan Xia and Pang Le were sitting next to Wang Yu when they heard some noise. She was talking about some bizarre cases she had handled over the years. One of them left a deep impression on Guan Xia because the murderer's motive was extremely unexpected.

The deceased was a young man. When his body was discovered, it was already skeletonized and dismembered. The forensic doctor in charge of the case spent a long time piecing the remains together. Xu Nian and his colleagues, as criminal police officers assigned to the special task force, followed the experts from the provincial department and spent nearly two months unraveling the case before confirming the identity of the deceased. Later, during the investigation and visits, they relatively easily identified the criminal suspect who was suspected of committing a major crime.

After the man was arrested, the suspect confessed very freely. The case happened more than five years ago. The suspect is now 24 years old and has just graduated from college. According to her confession, she did not intend to kill anyone, but the deceased kept pestering her and repeatedly said that she wanted to break up with him unless she killed him.

After careful consideration, she decided to escape from this life that seemed to be becoming more and more stagnant, so she respected the choice of the deceased and chose a very appropriate time to kill him.

When Wang Yu talked about this case, his expression was filled with sadness. "That girl was very young and very smart. It's just a pity..."

Before he could finish his sentence, several people heard the sound of quarreling downstairs through the open door. There were men and women, with sharp voices, shouting that they wanted to see some leader.

Guan Xia and Pang Le looked at each other, both a little curious. After all, this was the Daqu County Police Station, not a police substation, and they handled more complicated cases. How could someone come to such a place to cause trouble?

So everyone stopped what they were doing, and led by Xu Nian, they filed out of the office and walked downstairs.

It wasn't just Guan Xia and the others who were attracted. Daqu County had three cases to deal with in a row, and everyone who stayed in the office building was extremely busy, so they just hurried to the stairs, looked down a few times, and left in a hurry.

Guan Xia and the others were just curious and didn't want to get into trouble, so they didn't go down to the first floor directly. Instead, they walked to a place on the stairs where they could see what was happening on the first floor and stopped.

Even Xu Nian seemed to be a little curious. Guan Xia looked at Pang Le beside him, and then at Xu Nian behind him. For some reason, he suddenly wanted to laugh, but he forced himself to hold it back, controlling his expression and looking downstairs.

Surprisingly, the people who came to cause trouble were two women and one man. Judging from their ages, they should be a couple and their daughter. The couple was filled with righteous indignation, but the daughter had a calm expression, even a little numb. The couple shouted in a loud voice that they wanted to see the leader. When they randomly arrested people in broad daylight, they never said a word and even lowered their heads as if they felt a little embarrassed.

The couple continued to yell, repeating the same few sentences over and over again. After several minutes, Captain Tan finally came back in a hurry. No one knew where he had been. There was some dust on his trouser legs and shoes, and he looked quite exhausted.

However, even so, their height of nearly 1.9 meters gave people a great sense of oppression. The couple dared to be arrogant towards the two young policemen, but when they saw Captain Tan, their expressions suddenly became uneasy and their voices immediately became lowered.

"It turns out that if a person looks fierce, he can avoid a lot of trouble." Pang Le said quietly on the side.

The more Guan Xia listened, the more she missed her appearance before she traveled through time.

Although Captain Tan came back, in the end, the few of them did not finish looking at the whole cause and effect. Captain Tan did not even say a few words, and the three of them obediently followed him into the inquiry room. However, an hour later, they still knew the whole story.

The person who came to share the news was an office worker from Daqu County who had previously delivered information to Xu Nian. He must have received instructions from Captain Tan, and he introduced the situation very clearly.

"That girl is the girlfriend of criminal suspect Zhou Yiyang," said the Daqu County clerk. "When Captain Yu and his men successfully apprehended Zhou Yiyang, his girlfriend was present. The girl is fine, but the couple refuses to believe Zhou Yiyang committed any crime. That's why they came all the way to our county to seek justice for him."

The clerk of Daqu County also felt that the matter was a bit absurd and smiled sarcastically.

Guan Xia and Pang Le were both surprised. Pang Le couldn't help but say, "No...it's already 2024. How can anyone still believe that the police will arbitrarily arrest people without any evidence? And if I'm right, Zhou Yiyang is just their daughter's girlfriend, not their son. Why are they so concerned about this?"

Guan Xia also didn't understand.

The Daqu County clerk said, "According to the information we've gathered, Zhou Yiyang worked part-time at the store his girlfriend's father opened while in college. After graduation, he worked there for a year before switching to his current company. He's always presented himself as honest, hardworking, and capable. Team Yu reported back that during their visits, Zhou Yiyang's college roommates and later colleagues praised him highly, saying he appeared quiet but was actually very enthusiastic."

Pang Le curled his lips when he heard this. "No matter how well he behaves, it can't cover up the fact that he killed someone. This just proves how cunning he is. He's been disguising himself for so many years."

"So," Wang Yu said, "his girlfriend's parents must have been fooled by his disguise."

Guan Xia couldn't help but think to herself that this person was terrifying. She recalled the numb look of the young girl on the first floor just now and said, "The way I saw that young girl just now was completely different from her parents. She didn't seem to care much and looked very numb. Does she know something?"

The clerk in Daqu County frowned and said, "Team Yu has reported that Zhou Yiyang's girlfriend is several years older than him. They met through a blind date, and although they've reached the stage of discussing marriage, Zhou Yiyang's girlfriend isn't interested in him at all. However, because Zhou Yiyang is very popular with her parents, the two of them have been getting along in this lukewarm relationship."

Guan Xia and Pang Le also frowned as they listened, finding it increasingly difficult to understand and somewhat ironic. This couple of parents really had good taste. They could pick anyone but chose a murderer for their daughter.

Wang Yu asked, "Didn't Zhou Yiyang work part-time at his girlfriend's family store when he was in college? How did he meet his girlfriend through a blind date?"

The clerk in Daqu County replied, "His girlfriend worked locally after graduating from university. She didn't return to Linshan City until 2002, and then she went on a blind date with Zhou Yiyang."

Guan Xia understood. She herself did not like Zhou Yiyang, but her parents liked him very much, so they forced her to go on a blind date and then talk about marriage. Fortunately, before the two got married, the case that Zhou Yiyang had concealed for 11 years was reopened, otherwise this girl's life would have been ruined.

Another hour passed, when the evening sunset dyed the entire sky red, Captain Yu led the criminal suspect Zhou Yiyang back to the Daqu County Police Station.

Guan Xia and his group were standing in front of the second-floor window, watching a young man with a deathly pale face being carried down from a car by the Daqu County police. He was really carried down. Maybe he had expected his own ending, but Zhou Yiyang was completely limp, staggering as he walked. He only relied on the two policemen who were controlling him to not collapse to the ground.

Naturally, Guan Xia saw the blind couple. Almost as soon as Zhou Yiyang was brought down, the two ran out of the office building crying, but were quickly stopped by the police from Daqu County.

The two tried to say something to Zhou Yiyang, but Captain Yu didn't give them any chance. He just glanced at them indifferently and walked into the office building with his men at a brisk pace, apparently to start the interrogation immediately.

The successful solution of an unsolved case from 11 years ago was big news in Daqu County, which had a population of only a few hundred thousand. Everyone who was still in the police station couldn't help but run over to watch. Guan Xia and the others were concerned about the identity of the deceased and the murderer's motive, and they also found Captain Tan as soon as possible to see if there was a chance to attend the interrogation.

Before Xu Nian could finish his words, Captain Tan said, "You've arrived just in time. I was just looking for you. Captain Yu just got back, and the interrogation expert from Qu Ming City hasn't left yet. Captain Yu plans to interrogate with this expert. Do you want to sit in?"

Almost as soon as Captain Tan finished speaking, Xu Nian replied, "Thank you, Captain Tan."

Compared with Yongquan City, the conditions in Daqu County are worse, and Guan Xia and her friends filled the small house.

When they entered, Captain Yu, whom they had met before, and a middle-aged female police officer in police uniform with an heroic appearance were already sitting in the interrogation room. Zhou Yiyang was handcuffed to the interrogation chair, and he was completely uneasy. His expression was filled with panic and fear. Guan Xia felt that there was no need for any interrogation, as Zhou Yiyang would confess on his own.

Sure enough, the middle-aged female police officer who should be an interrogation expert in Quming City simply put a photo in front of Zhou Yiyang and asked him if he knew this person. Zhou Yiyang seemed to have his psychological defenses broken, and he completely collapsed. Almost as a conditioned reflex, he immediately knocked the photo out of the middle-aged female police officer's hand, and then covered his face and cried bitterly.

After crying for more than ten minutes, Zhou Yiyang finally calmed down a little, but he still didn't dare to look up. His hands kept moving as if he was a little nervous, sometimes pulling his fingers roughly, and sometimes rubbing the table.

Through Zhou Yiyang's confession, Guan Xia finally figured out the cause and effect of the case, and finally learned the identity information of the deceased whose face was smashed into a bloody mess and whose original appearance could not be seen.

According to Zhou Yiyang, the deceased's surname was Chen, and he always called him Uncle Chen. Later, he was the one who killed someone. When processing his identity documents, it was discovered that his name was Chen Mingguang, born in 1963. He was exactly 50 years old when he was killed in 2013.

The middle-aged female police officer asked him, "Why did you kill someone? He appeared in Songxiang Village with you, didn't he send you home?"

These two sentences once again deeply shocked Zhou Yiyang. He broke down and cried for a while before answering, "I know he was sending me home, but I didn't want to go home. At that time, I felt that I couldn't go home. If I went home, my life would be ruined."

Zhou Yiyang's last words confused everyone. Captain Yu asked bluntly, "Why would sending you home ruin your life?"

This time, Zhou Yiyang broke down and cried for a long time. He looked extremely miserable and only then could he explain what happened in fragments.

In fact, Zhou Yiyang's running away from home was caused by a joke played by a relative. Although the joke had been played since he was a child, somehow, perhaps it was adolescence, or perhaps he had read too much social news during that time, he took it seriously. He really thought that he was not his biological child, but was thrown into the trash can, or was abducted. He was fed up with the poverty at home, so he decided to run away from home to find his biological parents.

He made an elaborate plan for this. He picked the time when his mother had been selling vegetables for a while and planned to go to the bank to deposit money in two days, when his mother had the most money on hand. He took advantage of the night when his parents were asleep, stole the money, put on the backpack he had prepared long ago and ran away.

He had a good idea. He was born in Linshan City. Before returning to his hometown, his parents worked in Linshan City for a long time. If he was really adopted or abducted, Linshan City was the most likely place.

He also asked his parents about the factory where they worked and the place where they rented a house.

But things in the world are much crueler than one might imagine. He spent all the more than 900 yuan he stole from his mother before he even arrived in Linshan City. He had no place to live and no money to eat, so he slept under bridges and in parks. Sometimes when he met kind-looking people, he would go up to them and beg for some money. He had a good eye and could always succeed five or six times out of ten. Occasionally, when some overly kind-hearted people wanted to send him to the police station, he would run away without looking back, and would cleverly change places to avoid being found by the police. He would never go back until he found his biological parents.

After wandering for several days while looking for news, he met a strange man.

The man lived near where his parents rented at the time. He looked very old and always kept to himself. He had no friends, no relatives or children, and he looked very fierce. He was caught by him twice and he turned and ran away in fear.

He changed to another park to sleep in. He thought it was safe, but one night when he was sleeping soundly, he felt as if there was someone in front of him. He woke up suddenly with fright and saw that it was the man who looked like a bad guy.

He thought he was going to die and was so scared that his mind went blank. Who knew that the bad guy gave him a box of dumplings and asked him if he was lost.

He hadn't eaten meat for a long time, and his eyes were only on the box of dumplings. He didn't listen carefully to the bad guy's words. In order to eat the dumplings, he nodded randomly.

Later, the bad guy always came to see him, gave him delicious food and new clothes, but always asked him questions. He didn't want to answer, but he didn't want to go hungry either, so even though he was reluctant, he told him everything.

After a few days, when the two got to know each other better, the bad guy suddenly told him that he wanted to take him home. If he didn't want to, he would call the police and have them take him home. He didn't want him to call the police, nor did he want to go home, so he could only try to get rid of him as before.

But after changing places several times without any success, he could only reluctantly follow him to the station, but he kept thinking about how to find a chance to escape on the way.

Unfortunately, he didn't find a chance until he was almost home. In order to delay time, he tried every means to get the man to walk back with him. The man was reluctant at first, until he said that no one had ever been so nice to him, he was a little reluctant to leave him and wanted to stay with him a little longer, then he agreed.

He said words to coax him, but in his heart he was despising him and laughing at him for having such a fierce appearance, but actually being a fool.

Later, when they were almost home, he was really at his wit's end and could only find an excuse of a stomachache to trick him into the woods. When he was looking for something and was off guard, he picked up a stone and hit him on the back of the head. At that time, he only thought that he must not go home, absolutely not go home. When he calmed down, the man was already dead.

He was extremely scared, and suddenly realized that he was over 14 years old. If he was found by the police, he would go to jail. He didn't want to go to jail, so he recalled the TV dramas he had watched, smashed the man's face with a stone, and searched through all the bags to find the man's money and identification documents that could prove his identity. Then he left his hometown without looking back and embarked on the journey to find his biological parents again.