"If this is true, then this Xiaoyu you mentioned is really not an ordinary person." Liu Shuyuan thought about it carefully: "This person is currently on probation and has to contact the Justice Bureau regularly. We can find a way to call her to the Justice Bureau and then arrest her."

"Don't catch her." Bai Song shook his head. "She can't get away. Why not monitor and supervise her? Maybe we can lure out a big fish."

"Well, this is not difficult." Liu Shuyuan said: "But, are these things you said really connected? Why do they sound a little suspicious to me? The evidence doesn't seem to be enough."

"You may not know about the '12.11' case. Although the case was solved, it was not that simple," Bai Song said. "Almost everyone attributed the credit to themselves and the police. But in fact, I spent some time in the village where the base was located in Southern Guizhou Province, and I deeply felt the strength of this criminal group.

Even though we coordinated with multiple provinces and went abroad to make arrests, and made so many preparations in advance, some people were still injured when we came back. Can you say these people are ordinary? Especially this Deng Wenxi, don’t look at him being arrested now, this person has been a powerful figure for more than ten or even twenty years. It is really our high level and good luck to catch him. "

Then, Bai Song slowed down and continued, "This Xiaoyu has not been in this criminal organization for long, but she actually knows some things about Deng Wenxi, and later proved that the information she provided was true. Is this possible that she could just hear it? Even his superior, the so-called 'Brother Feng', didn't point out any clues about Deng Wenxi? Why can Xiaoyu do this?"

"That being said, there really is a big problem." Liu Shuyuan said, "Why hasn't anyone thought of such an obvious loophole before?"

"No one noticed it was a loophole, including me." Bai Song sighed, "Weakness and ignorance have never been obstacles to survival, but arrogance is." (Note 1)

"Sigh..." Liu Shuyuan sighed. He couldn't blame anyone for this.

In fact, even among the many readers who are outside the case and have a comprehensive understanding of the situation, how many of them would discover this problem?

"Besides, do you really think Deng Wenxi doesn't know who betrayed him?" Bai Song asked back, "Deng Wenxi actually asked me back, do you know why?"

"I don't know." Elder Liu Shuyuan said honestly. He really didn't know and couldn't keep up with Bai Song's imagination at all.

"How could Deng Wenxi be a fool? The lawyer he hired is not an ordinary person, so even if he is dumb, he should know that in this case, only one person was sentenced to probation, and only one person was released on bail from the beginning. Therefore, even if Deng Wenxi is a pig, he should know who betrayed him.

So, look at the methods used by Feng Yiling, and then think about Deng Wenxi. When their status is so close, can Deng Wenxi spare Xiaoyu?

Therefore, he must have launched a revenge against Xiaoyu, so he asked me who had betrayed him, in order to try to prove that he was unaware of this matter and that if Xiaoyu died, it had nothing to do with him.

After all, he was already on a suspended death sentence, and if there was a possible murder case on top of that, he would basically be dead.

You know, Deng Wenxi is now on death row, and he can hardly see a lawyer, and he doesn't know what's going on outside. So, if we go find him, he might still think Xiaoyu is dead, and we go and ask him if he did it.

This can explain why Deng Wenxi spoke to us like that and why he was so wary.

As a convicted criminal (a prisoner who has been sentenced) who has confessed, he should have been on friendly terms with us, but he didn't.

But, on the other hand, Xiaoyu is still fine now, which just proves that Xiaoyu is not a simple person. She is an important figure in Feng Yiling's team, and is far from being as simple as the college student she appears to be. "

"..." Liu Shuyuan was silent for a while, and comforted himself: "It must be because I was not involved in these two cases, so I couldn't understand and remember..."

…

"Then how do you connect those two murders?" Liu Shuyuan paused and continued to ask.

"Because these two criminal organizations are really closely connected." Bai Song said: "Some of the high-tech equipment we sometimes see are relatively rare in daily crimes, but I have seen some high-tech signal jammers and transmitters here at Feng Yiling, and I have also seen them at Deng Wenxi's place, and the models are similar.

At the time, I thought it was the work of an organization, but after a while, I found out that it was not. Both criminal organizations have a history of more than ten years. And Deng Wenxi, I followed the two masters to interrogate him for three days. He is a real tyrant. It is impossible for him to have any partners, and there is no need for him to rely on others.

Based on my understanding of them, there is no other possibility except that they become enemies.

Although they are all our enemies, they still cannot be our friends."

"So, it's useless." Liu Shuyuan said: "Aren't the two people you mentioned who were suspected to be traitors in Feng Yiling Group dead? Although this silencing is a bit too cruel, it is also very effective. We can't find any evidence now.

Even if the second person who took action was sentenced to suspended death penalty, there would probably be no value in interrogating him. It is basically impossible to get anything out of this idiot who was brainwashed by Feng Yiling.

Moreover, I feel that Feng Yiling is even more powerful than Deng Wenxi. I don’t think that we can find Feng Yiling’s whereabouts from Deng Wenxi.”

"Don't we have Xiaoyu to check?" Bai Song smiled slightly, "Also, we need another important person, Wang Antai."

Bai Song then told Liu Shuyuan about Wang Antai.

After listening, Liu Shuyuan said: "According to what you said, Wang Antai is still alive now. He probably doesn't know anything, right?"

"I thought so before." Bai Song thought for a moment, "But, that's not right. Wang Antai is a car mechanic who has only been working there for a short time, but he has the money to modify an off-road vehicle for fun? This is not normal, unless they are also living an uneasy life and are ready to run away at any time."

"Can you see the problem with this..." Liu Shuyuan's head was buzzing, and he asked the last question: "They will probably tell Wang Antai a lot of things. Will Wang Antai be in danger? Should we protect him?"

"Don't worry." Bai Song looked at the deep night sky: "He has a name."

Note 1: Excerpted from Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem