Chapter 34 Eyewitnesses
Zhang Hai was a little distressed. "She came and said she had killed someone, but she didn't say who the victim was, and she didn't know her name. She just sat there doing nothing."
Lu Bai looked at the woman and felt that she looked familiar, but he couldn't tell where he had seen her before.
Li Ziyu was drinking honey water. She drank beer yesterday and her head was really painful the next day.
Lu Bai instructed Zhang Hai and a police officer, "You two go and interrogate her first."
When the woman saw someone walk in, her eyes lit up for a moment, but then seemed that she didn't see the person she wanted to see, and her gaze dimmed again.
Zhang Hai knocked on the table, trying to attract the woman's attention, "Name, age, address."
He followed the procedure and asked these questions again.
The woman turned her head to look at the glass beside her. Her voice was hoarse, like a rusted wheel. "Lu Bai, I know you are in there."
The deer behind the glass felt a chill on her back. The woman turned her head and only then could she see the man's face clearly.
This is an eyewitness in the Chen Fei case and a person who has been missing for ten years.
Compared to the photos in the archives ten years ago, she looked much more haggard and gaunt, and her body was just skin and bones. It seemed that she had not had a good life in the past ten years.
Lu Bai was about to turn around and go into the interrogation room, but Li Ziyu stopped her with a firm gaze.
[He has not appeared in public for ten years. Is he showing up now because he has a change of heart, or is he plotting something else? ]
Li Ziyu's cold eyes were fixed on the woman.
Lu Bai was confused. She was eager to get to the bottom of the case, but what Li Ziyu said at this moment did make sense.
Li Ziyu moved his fingers down along her forearm little by little and held Lu Bai's warm palm.
She shook Lu Bai's hand, and her voice was no longer as cold as before, but a little more gentle, "Wait a minute and see what she wants to do."
[At least don't rush into the interrogation room right now, or she will think that Lu Bai is eager to know what happened back then.]
[The fact that she came to find Lu Bai means that she at least knew that Lu Bai was the child of the police officer back then, and she also knew that Lu Bai would definitely recognize her.]
[So I can’t reveal my inner thoughts right now.]
Li Ziyu spoke softly, but had an ideal analysis in his heart.
The two complemented each other, and Lu Bai calmed down at this moment, and he listened to Li Ziyu's analysis just now.
She held Li Ziyu's hand, their fingers interlocked, and she nodded at Li Ziyu.
The woman felt a little annoyed when she saw that Lu Bai hadn't come for such a long time.
She faced the glass, her hoarse voice tinged with a roar, "Lu Bai! Don't you want to know the truth of what happened back then? I'm here to turn myself in. I was the one who killed your father! It's all my fault!"
Lu Bai's other hand was tightly gripping the edge of the table, his fingertips turning white.
[Is she threatened?]
Li Ziyu's thoughts entered Lu Bai's mind.
Lu Bai glanced sideways, "She said she was the one who killed the person because she was threatened?"
Li Ziyu always felt that Lu Bai's words were not doubts to her, but rather she was asking herself questions.
But she didn't think much about it and just thought that everyone spoke differently.
Li Ziyu touched the tip of his nose and said, "You heard what she said. She killed your father."
Lu Bai nodded, "What's wrong?"
Li Ziyu pondered, "When Zhang Hai called you, she said she had killed two people, right?"
"right."
"She said that everything was her fault. Did she kill Chen Fei as well? Two lives, one is your father, the other is Chen Fei."
Lu Bai's mind was in a mess, and he didn't want to think about it. "What do you want to say?"
Through the glass, Li Ziyu met the woman's empty eyes.
She spoke slowly, "In that case, only two people died? I don't remember that."
These words opened up Lu Baichen's memory. She had heard about this case when she was in high school.
His father came home very disappointed that day, and it was the first time that she didn't see the little brother who followed his father.
At that time, her father told her that her brother would never come again because too many people died in this case.
So until now, this case has been a shame for the police station and no one is willing to mention it.
In those days when information technology was not well developed, many things were not recorded.
Therefore, the files on this case do not actually record how many people died.
After all, no one wanted to touch it, nor did anyone want to offend the leaders above.
Lu Bai's memory was awakened, and she took a deep breath, "How did you know?"
Since this incident is not recorded in the archives, how did Li Ziyu know about it?
Li Ziyu avoided her gaze a little, "I have also studied this case."
She had investigated all cases involving the word "organization" like crazy.
The reason why I came to Wuzhou was because I heard that the leader of that organization had returned to his country and was stationed in Wuzhou.
When she was investigating this case, it was the first time she encountered such a big obstacle, so she felt that Wuzhou must have some unknown secrets.
But she felt it was too early to tell Lu Bai all this.
This is an unknown danger, and Li Ziyu's selfishness makes her unwilling to put Lu Bai in danger.
The woman in the interrogation room became increasingly irritable.
Zhang Hai returned to the small room somewhat helplessly, "Captain Lu, do you want to go and take a look? I feel like she has some mental problems."
Lu Bai checked the time. "How long has she been here?"
Zhang Hai's eyes moved to his captain and consultant Li's interlocking hands. His eyebrows twitched slightly, "About an hour."
[Wait a little longer. If she is really threatened, the longer the time goes, the more panicked she will become.]
Li Ziyu was betting that this woman would not be able to bear the passage of time and would eventually reveal the plan of the mastermind behind it.
[If she wasn't threatened, she would just have to wait a little longer.]
Lu Bai nodded and said, "Zhang Hai, go to the archives first and get the files from that year."
As time passed, the woman became more and more restless.
She probably couldn't understand why Lu Bai was not in a hurry at all, which was different from the plan.
It was not until almost noon that the woman spoke to the young police officer in the interrogation room, "In one hour, there will be an explosion at a middle school in Chin Mu District. My daughter is there."
The door of the interrogation room was pushed open.
Lu Bai was holding a file in her hand, and Li Ziyu followed behind her.
Lu Bai signaled the young police officer to go out and said, "Go and ask the chief to send someone to the place she mentioned."
The young policeman nodded without delay.
Lu Bai sat down and looked straight at the woman, "Hu Taoqing, it's been ten years. You must have a lot to say to me."
Hu Taoqing was the woman's name, and she was also recorded in the files as an eyewitness in the Chen Fei case.
The woman raised her eyes helplessly. "I have been imprisoned for ten years. Please help me."
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