Chapter 125 Chapter 125 Perhaps, this is just the beginning...

"—I was the one who killed and buried the body."

Under the glaring midsummer sun, the middle-aged man, who should have been wealthy and powerful, actually offered his wrist in a docile manner. "My name is Kuai Xingguo, and I'm the owner of this real estate project. I killed someone. Arrest me now."

The policemen surrounding the Audi A6 were shocked, but Ji Yinhe was stunned for less than half a second before he regained his senses.

With a "click", the silver handcuffs were hung on Kuai Xingguo's wrists.

Cheng Mo and several policemen reacted quickly, surrounded Kuai Xingguo, twisted his arm, and took him into the police car.

Ji Yinhe got on the McLaren and suddenly heard a cheer. The police officer at the police station said in surprise and joy, "Oh my god, the case is solved already?! Following Team Leader Ji, it's so fast!"

“…” She gripped the steering wheel and gave a helpless smile.

There must be something wrong when things are abnormal. She vaguely felt that this case was not as simple as it seemed!

*

The ceiling fan in the interrogation room was whirring. Ji Yinhe stared at Kuai Xingguo opposite him, remaining silent in a rare moment.

This time she let Cheng Mo be the presiding judge, while she sat in the corner the whole time, observing his every move.

She had seen all kinds of criminals, and Kuai Xingguo's performance was different from every previous one.

"—Officer, I can confess anything. I won't lie," he said in a low voice. "Just after the interrogation, before I'm taken to the detention center, can you let me call my wife and children?"

Cheng Mo said nothing and looked to the side for advice.

Ji Yinhe nodded calmly.

"Okay, as long as you tell the truth, we can let you have a five-minute phone call with your family." Cheng Mo said.

"Okay, thank you, police comrade!" A hint of joy finally appeared in Kuai Xingguo's calmness.

Cheng Mo opened the confession book and crossed his fingers. "Age, place of origin, where do you work?"

"Forty-two, a native of Jingzhou, general manager of Tianma Trading Co., Ltd." Kuai Xingguo answered calmly and took a deep breath. "I have cancer and probably won't live to see the 21st century."

“……?!”

Cheng Mo was stunned for a moment, and the pen in his hand did not hold firmly, and it fell to the ground with a thud.

Ji Yinhe narrowed his eyes calmly and observed the other person's expression carefully.

Kuai Xingguo looked calm and composed when he said this, but there was a sickly tinge in his eyes, and he spoke weakly, and it didn't look like... he was lying.

He pointed to the pocket of his trousers and said, "The diagnosis report is in my wallet. You can take it to the hospital. I have nothing to hide."

Cheng Mo immediately walked over and took out the report according to his instructions.

This could very well be one of the motives for the murder. Ji Yinhe quickly glanced at it and whispered, "Let Qiu Peng call... No, let me go to the hospital myself to verify it."

Cheng Mo nodded, returned to the interrogation table and sat down, saying sternly: "Murder is murder. We won't sympathize with you just because you have cancer... Who was the deceased? Why did you kill her? You can't just kill someone for fun just because they're dying, right?"

"Ahem." Kuai Xingguo smiled weakly. "The deceased was Kuai Xinglan, my...sister."

"Are you still human?" Cheng Mo widened his eyes and stood up suddenly.

Kuai Xingguo just sneered, "Officer, imagine this: if your sister is uneducated and runs off with a man before graduating from junior high school, and makes your father so angry that he suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and becomes a vegetable?"

"..." Cheng Mo put his hands on the table and slowly sat down.

"My sister lived away from home with a man for five years and returned home with no official status or education. My mother made her do odd jobs in my company's office. She barely works a single day a month, and she's only busy stealing money to eat, drink, have fun, and support her gigolo..." Kuai Xingguo clenched his fists, a trace of resentment appearing on his calm face. "My pregnant wife advised her to live a good life, but she kicked my wife in the stomach—she kicked the seven-month-old baby and caused a miscarriage. My wife is driven crazy... Can you tolerate this?"

A trace of anger flashed in Cheng Mo's eyes, but he still said in a deep voice, "That, that doesn't mean you can't kill people!"

Kuai Xingguo exhaled a breath of foul air and continued to talk to himself, "...Actually, it's not that I have to have her. She can only blame herself for running into my trap."

"So you're going to kill someone anyway." Ji Yinhe narrowed his eyes sharply, "Why?"

Kuai Xingguo was silent for a moment before he whispered, "Because I need a body to bury at the construction site across the street."

"They're both on the same street, started construction at the same time, and are both real estate projects. Competition is bound to arise in the future," Ji Yinhe reasoned slowly. "You want to cause a murder to ruin their project?"

"Yeah, even if they didn't kill the person, but there were corpses buried there... Who would want to live in a haunted house!" Kuai Xingguo said softly, "I'm going to die anyway, so I'd risk my life to get rid of my troublemaker sister and get rid of bad reputation for the rival project. Isn't that killing two birds with one stone?"

There was silence in the interrogation room for a moment. Even Cheng Mo, who was still angry just now, didn't know what to say.

Ji Yinhe flipped through his confession book and said, "I have a question—your Tianma real estate project is obviously larger than the construction site where the body was buried, and it's also closer to the main road. Even if your two projects are competitors, you clearly have the advantage. Why do you have to ruin the other one?"

"Officer, you've hit the nail on the head," Kuai Xingguo said sincerely. "This is because this piece of land will become the new city center of Jingzhou City. The government building and municipal park will be built next to their property. In five years, the best high schools and hospitals in the province will relocate to their new locations. They'll make a fortune from this, while the Tianma project, just a kilometer away, missed the mark by a hair's breadth. Not only did they not make any money, they even suffered heavy losses. My wife and children will have to sell their property and become destitute... Officer, as the saying goes, fate comes first, luck comes second, and feng shui comes third. I have a bad fate and bad luck, so I can only ruin their feng shui."

Cheng Mo raised his eyebrows. "How do you know about the future? The city government's new plan hasn't been released yet, right?"

"Of course, I haven't read the plan. It was told to me by a hermit master. He's very powerful. He..."

Kuai Xingguo frowned and opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but after trying several times, he couldn't say anything.

"What's wrong with you? What do you want to say?"

"Ah, ah..." The handcuffs made a chaotic noise, and Kuai Xingguo grabbed his throat in panic, "Why can't I say that sentence!"

Cheng Mo was stunned for two seconds, then turned around and said, "Team Leader Ji, is he having a hysterical attack?"

"..." Ji Yinhe didn't say anything. He picked up the paper and pen on the table, stood up and handed it to Kuai Xingguo, "Write it down."

Kuai Xingguo quickly picked up the pen, but in full view of everyone, his fingers bent at a strange angle. With a "click", his index finger was broken without anyone touching it!

“Ahhhhhh!”

Kuai Xingguo screamed in pain and threw down his pen in panic. Cheng Mo rushed over in shock, pulled his hand and looked at it again and again, asking loudly, "What's going on?"

"How should I know?!"

Ji Yinhe's expression became more and more solemn. The scene before him was beyond the laws of nature, just like... just like Ji Jianguo and Lian Qiao traveling through a book!

During this period, due to the fusion of the two worlds, many related characters have undergone changes.

Could it be that... Kuai Xingguo is also one of them?

The door of the interrogation room was pushed open, and Ye Qing hurried in with a medicine box and bandaged the suspect's broken index finger.

Ji Yinhe stood by and saw Kuai Xingguo leaning back in his chair and slowly exhaling.

In fact, all the questions that could be asked have been asked, and the remaining question that the other party wanted to know the most was obviously something that the other party couldn't say.

She picked up her cell phone and handed it over, "Call your wife and kids."

Kuai Xingguo, with a pale face, smiled and dialed the number.

"Honey, don't worry... Well, that project has become a haunted house, it won't affect us anymore. Don't cry, don't cry... I already prepared the money for you and our son this morning. I'm sorry, just forget me and live your life well!"

As the criminal wept, Cheng Mo quietly asked Ji Yinhe, "This is too unscientific. Is there any other hidden story?"

Ji Yinhe shook his head.

After a while, her calm voice sounded, "Perhaps, this is just the beginning."

*

Two more pages were torn off the calendar on the office wall.

The nights are getting longer, and the scorching earth is welcoming the cool autumn breeze.

The special criminal case investigation team handled more than ten cases. Just as Ji Yinhe expected, some situations that could not be explained by common sense occurred more and more frequently, causing Zu Yongxin and Tan Li a lot of headaches.

With a "hissing" sound, white steam rose from the chimney, spreading the rich smell of cooking to the world full of fireworks.

A few orange leaves fluttered in front of the glass window. In a small restaurant with an "authentic" sign, Ji Yinhe and Lu Zheng, who had just returned from interrogation in the detention center, were sitting at the dining table, eating beef fried rice noodles and discussing the recent case.

"A vicious, nine-month-long series of burglaries occurred in Liaozhou. Eight households were robbed, and the stolen item was... a wind chime?"

Ji Yinhe stared at the faxed report and shook his head. "The prisoner, like Kuai Xingguo, claimed that someone asked him to steal the wind chime, but he couldn't explain why."

"And this, Che Xiaozhen and Yu Yexiang, do you remember?" Lu Zheng gestured to Ji Yinhe to look at the folded file in his hand. "Che Xiaozhen was the one who kidnapped Wu Sijia, and Yu Yexiang was Su Yiyun's mother, a human trafficker. They had some conflicts back then, and they met each other in the Provincial Women's Prison and were assigned to the same cell."

Ji Yinhe pricked up his ears, having a bad feeling.

"—They were fighting each other during their exercise break. Che Xiaozhen bit Yu Yexiang's trachea, and Yu Yexiang kicked Che Xiaozhen's spleen." Lu Zheng sighed. "Both died after being sent to the hospital."

Ji Yinhe put down his chopsticks and thought for two seconds. "So, there's a suspicious point in the Ziteng Lane massacre. I've never been able to figure it out. How could the Yao sisters' mother, Lin Fang, who had been a coward for so many years, suddenly turn into a fierce woman who killed her husband with a knife?"

"Yes, and there's also Zhang San, who exudes weirdness from head to toe." Lu Zheng exhaled hoarsely.

Ji Yinhe tapped his brows repeatedly with the knuckles of his index finger.

She felt it was time to tell Lu Zheng the secret of Lian Qiao and Ji Jianguo. With the wisdom and talent of Lu Da's experts, perhaps they could provide some new ideas for solving the anomaly.

"that……"

“Beep beep beep—”

Just as he opened his mouth, the cell phone on his waist started ringing.

Ji Yinhe had no choice but to answer the phone first.

"Congratulations, Xiao Ji!" Tan Li's voice was unusually cheerful and relaxed. "The approval we submitted to the Ministry has come through. You've been awarded a first-class collective merit! You've been awarded a first-class collective merit!"

"Great! I'll call Guan Ye and Gao Ge right now, and we'll have dinner together tonight to celebrate. Director Tan, you have to come too!"

Joy instantly broke through the confusion and bewilderment, and Comrade Xiao Ji's eyes sparkled.

But no one noticed that just outside the glass window of the small restaurant, behind the sycamore tree on the sidewalk, there was a pair of eyes that were always watching Ji Yinhe and Lu Zheng's every move.

The man was wearing an inconspicuous gray-blue plaid shirt and a low-bill baseball cap on his head, covering most of his face.

At this moment, several passers-by passed by, blocking his view. He reached out and gently lifted the brim of his hat, revealing a sinister and familiar face. It was -

Zhang San!