Chapter 89 The mole confessed!
"Technician Wang was arrested? Wasn't he impeccable?" Wen Xue steadied herself by holding onto the table, her voice shrill and distorted. She couldn't believe her ears.
That seemingly honest, kind-hearted, greedy, and cowardly technician, Wang, was the most crucial yet weakest link in their entire plan. She and Li Weiguo both believed that with no one to testify, the sea would cover up all the crimes. As long as Qin Lie didn't return, technician Wang's little schemes would remain unknown forever.
But who could have imagined that Qin Lie would not only return, but also return in a heroic manner?
"How should I know!" Li Weiguo paced back and forth in his cramped dormitory, his forehead covered in cold sweat, his heart filled with frustration. "I went to find him, but his house was already surrounded! I heard it was the investigation team, they took him directly from his house! And they found a large sum of money in his house!"
"Money?" Wenxue's heart sank. "The money you gave him?"
"What else could it be!" Li Weiguo roared. "I told him to hide the money first! Use it when things calm down! That idiot! He's good for nothing but ruining things!"
He's now kicking himself. He shouldn't have chosen such a greedy and foolish teammate.
"Then... will he betray us?" Wenxue's voice trembled. This was her biggest concern.
"It's hard to say." Li Weiguo's face was so gloomy it could drip water. "That spineless technician Wang, he usually looks like a coward, but when it comes to life and death, he'll do anything to save his own life! You know how the investigation team operates! Once you get in there, even the toughest man will be skinned alive!"
Wenxue swayed. She could already see herself being handcuffed, locked in a dark cell, and cursed by thousands.
No! She didn't want that! She had just seen a glimmer of hope for climbing up the ladder! She couldn't let it all be ruined like this!
"Then... what do we do now?" She grabbed Li Weiguo's arm, completely at a loss.
"How would I know what to do!" Li Weiguo flung her hand away, his eyes filled with disgust and contempt.
He felt disgusted just looking at this woman. If she hadn't been whispering sweet nothings in his ear, if she hadn't been seducing him with her beauty, how could he have been so bewitched as to do something so stupid that could cost him his head?
"Brother Li! You can't abandon me!" Wenxue cried and tried to hug his leg. "We're in this together now! If something happens to me, you won't be able to escape either!"
"Get out of my way!" Li Weiguo kicked her away, his eyes filled with viciousness.
"Now, the only way is to shut him up forever before he can open his mouth!"
"Shut him up?" Wen Xue was stunned for a moment, then realized what was happening, her face turning deathly pale. "You...you're crazy! That's a military cell! Heavily guarded! How could we possibly..."
“Just because we can’t do it doesn’t mean others can’t.” Li Weiguo’s eyes gleamed with a crazed light. “I remember that Technician Wang has a serious history of heart disease. But in order to get into the army, he asked someone to hide his medical records during the physical examination.”
"You're saying that a person with a serious heart condition might suffer a heart attack and die during interrogation due to excessive tension and fear... Isn't that a normal thing?"
Wen Xue looked at Li Weiguo with terror in her heart. She felt that the man in front of her was no longer human, but a devil.
...
The atmosphere was heavy in the base's makeshift interrogation room.
A glaring incandescent light shone down from the ceiling, illuminating Technician Wang's bloodless face. He was dressed in prison clothes, his hands cuffed to a chair, and his body trembled violently.
Opposite him sat two members of the investigation team with serious expressions.
"Wang Weiguo, we're asking you one last time." The presiding officer slammed the envelope containing five hundred yuan and the unmailed letter onto the table. "Where did this money come from?!"
"I...I'm telling the truth, comrade! This money, I really...I saved it up little by little!" Technician Wang's voice trembled with tears. "I usually live frugally, I don't smoke or drink, just so I can save more money to build a house back in my hometown..."
"Saved?" The presiding officer sneered. "We've checked your salary account. With your monthly salary of thirty-eight and fifty yuan, after sending ten yuan back to your hometown and covering your own daily expenses, you can only save a maximum of fifteen yuan each month."
“You’d have to save up 500 yuan for almost three years without eating or drinking! But we’ve investigated, and you only just paid off the debts you incurred for your father’s medical treatment three years ago! Tell us, how did you ‘save’ this money in just a few months?!”
"I...I..." Technician Wang was speechless, cold sweat streaming down his forehead.
Just then, the door to the interrogation room was pushed open.
Qin Lie, dressed in a crisp military uniform, walked in from outside. Political Commissar Wang followed behind him.
The moment Technician Wang saw Qin Lie, his pupils contracted to the size of pinpoints, and his whole body trembled violently.
"Qin...Qin...Chief of Staff Qin?!" His face was filled with extreme fear and disbelief.
"You...you're not...you're not already..."
"He's dead, isn't he?" Qin Lie slowly walked up to him, looking down at him. His face was expressionless.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you. I'm lucky; even the King of Hell won't take me."
Qin Lie pulled up a chair and sat down opposite him. He didn't say anything interrogative, he just quietly looked at him.
Time ticked by. The interrogation room was so quiet that only Technician Wang's increasingly heavy and rapid breathing could be heard.
The pressure emanating from Qin Lie's silent gaze was a hundred times more terrifying than the harsh interrogation by the two investigators earlier.
Technician Wang felt like he was going crazy. He was like a prisoner stripped naked and thrown into the snow. Qin Lie's gaze was like the piercing cold wind, freezing his blood bit by bit and destroying his will.
Finally, he broke down.
"I'll talk! I'll talk! I'll tell you everything!" He gasped for breath, tears streaming down his face.
"It wasn't me who wanted to harm you! It really wasn't me! It was... it was Deputy Commander Li! It was Li Weiguo! He forced me to do it!"
"He gave me five hundred yuan! He made me replace the oil pipeline on 'Explorer One' and loosen the communication antenna! It was him! It was all his fault!"
Technician Wang's psychological defenses completely crumbled the moment he saw Qin Lie. He confessed everything.
However, Qin Lie's face remained expressionless after hearing this. He simply stood up slowly.
"Take him back to the solitary confinement cell. Keep him under strict guard. No one is allowed to visit him without my order." He gave the order to the investigator beside him.
"yes!"
Technician Wang was dragged out by two soldiers. Only Qin Lie and Political Commissar Wang remained in the interrogation room.
"That Li Weiguo! He's a beast!" Political Commissar Wang slammed his fist on the table in anger. "I'll apply for an arrest warrant right now! Arrest him!"
"No rush," Qin Lie shook his head.
"Arresting him like this is too lenient on him."
“A small fish has already taken the bait. It’s time to let that more venomous snake, which was hiding in the back and fanning the flames, come out and bask in the sun.” He glanced out the window toward the direction of the cultural troupe’s dormitory.
"Political Commissar, do me a favor. Make a copy of Technician Wang's confession. Then, find a way to 'accidentally' let Wen Xue from the cultural troupe see it."
Political Commissar Wang was taken aback, but then he understood. He looked at Qin Lie, a hint of approval flashing in his eyes.
"You little rascal, you're trying to... stir up trouble and lure the snake out of its hole!"
Qin Lie didn't say anything, but walked to the window and lit a cigarette.
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