Chapter 96: Good Will Prevail Over Evil
Shen Zhenzhu and Gu Yanzheng arrived at Li Mancang's house, with Xiaobai jogging behind. Despite it being May, Xiaobai was already covered in sweat.
Along the way, we encountered many villagers coming down from Peach Blossom Mountain. Faced with more than a dozen fully armed criminal police officers, they only dared to stand and watch from a distance.
"Zhao Qiqi!" Shen Zhenzhu pushed open the door and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Brother Qi, are you alright?"
Zhao Qiqi, half-dead inside, responded, "I won't die."
Liu Jinzhong was still on the mountain when his wife said, "My husband said he wouldn't hurt the police officers. He's just inviting you to his home for a good meal and drinks. Please don't slander him."
Shen Zhenzhu noticed an old refrigerator on top of several piles of garbage. She went inside and saw Zhao Qiqi holding a hammer in his left hand and his right wrist handcuffed to Li Mancang. They were sitting opposite Old Lady Zhao, who was still hurling insults at her daughter-in-law. This time, Zhao Qiqi was also being targeted.
He endured a whole night of Zhao's wife's cursing, his face was ashen, he felt utterly hopeless, and he was barely clinging to life.
"I don't know how Hao Chunzhi lives. I can't stand it for even a day. It's more stimulating than Tang Sanzang chanting sutras. I'm going crazy." Zhao Qiqi raised his wrist, and Shen Zhenzhu took out a key from her back pocket and unlocked the handcuffs.
Li Mancang remained silent after they came in.
Of the three family members, only Hao Chunzhi was busy at the stove, cooking.
"You slutty old hag, you spendthrift jinx! How many times have I warned you, you shameless, good-for-nothing slut? Your man got arrested and you still have the heart to eat? Gouge your heart out and feed it to the dogs!"
Gu Yanzheng stood inside the house, watching Shen Zhenzhu conduct a preliminary investigation. More than ten minutes later, Shen Zhenzhu pointed to the stains splattered under the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) and said, "This is probably splattered brain matter. This room should be the crime scene. The weapon used in the crime is the iron hammer that Zhao Qiqi found, which matches the hammer wound on the corpse's head."
"Conduct bloodstain analysis at the scene, and take the hammer back for fingerprint identification." Gu Yanzheng had a question he wanted to ask, but it wasn't the right time, so he instructed, "Seal off the murder scene and take all the suspects and their families back for questioning."
Zhao Qiqi breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Shen Zhenzhu was safe and sound, but then became worried about Lu Ye.
Lu Ye couldn't run fast carrying the sack, and his direction was Peach Blossom Mountain. He didn't want to risk being dismantled and having his body destroyed.
“He’ll be alright. Brother Ye has a gun; he’ll definitely shoot if he’s in danger.” Shen Zhenzhu comforted Zhao Qiqi, saying, “Since we didn’t hear any gunshots, at least he’s still safe.”
Xiao Bai stared at Chen Zhenzhu with red eyes, not having a chance to speak. As she reached for a tissue, a handkerchief appeared in front of her. She looked up and saw Chen Zhenzhu smiling brightly.
"Sister Pearl..." Xiaobai took the handkerchief and felt relieved.
"Don't worry." Shen Zhenzhu stood outside and saw the agents controlling Li Mancang and Hao Chunzhi, and then pushing Old Lady Zhao out.
Only Old Lady Zhao finished her tirade with great fervor, while Li Mancang and Hao Chunzhi remained silent.
Outside the courtyard, many villagers watched silently. They witnessed Peach Blossom Mountain being sealed off, years of hard work destroyed in an instant, and saw the honest and simple Li Mancang and his family being escorted away in police cars. Once the reputation of Tuanjie Village spreads, who in the surrounding villages will dare to hold their heads high?
Liu Jinzhong's wife and several other wives and mothers whispered among themselves, their eyes constantly glancing at Chen Zhenzhu. Every now and then, whispers like "We've complained about her" or "It's her" could be heard.
Shen Zhenzhu's focus was on Lu Ye, and she didn't care what others were saying behind her back. She followed Gu Yanzheng and Zhao Qiqi to search near Peach Blossom Mountain.
"Wait, turn off the siren." Chen Zhenzhu rolled down the window and listened for a moment.
Xiao Bai stayed close to her, then hesitantly asked, "Was someone whistling?"
Shen Zhenzhu heard it too and ordered her brother Zheng, "Honestow the horn a few times to the left front."
"I'm here!" Lu Ye carried the heavy corpse up the mountain to find the Santana. Gu Yanzheng took out a yellow bag from the trunk, put it in the trunk along with the burlap sack, and stuffed it into the trunk.
Xiao Bai was secretly shocked and whispered to Chen Zhenzhu, "Is Captain Gu's approach to solving cases this rough?"
Chen Zhenzhu gave Zheng Ge face and said in a low voice, "The conditions are not good, so be flexible and learn from this."
"Yes." Xiaobai believed her Pearl Sister's nonsense.
It seems that besides the spirit of bravery and fearlessness, there's something else passed down from generation to generation.
On the way back to the "Grand Competition" venue, Zhao Qiqi, Shen Zhenzhu, and Lu Ye were in the back row. Gu Yanzheng found it strange that the two of them were holding Shen Zhenzhu with one arm and controlling her with the other. Shen Zhenzhu was lying on her back, and the three of them were fast asleep.
Those who don't know the situation might think the criminals they're catching day and night are like Shen Zhenzhu (a famous Chinese actress).
Xiao Bai sat in the passenger seat, dozing off with his eyes half-closed, also feeling drowsy.
Among this group, the highest-ranking person, Deputy Director Gu Yanzheng, worked diligently as a driver, driving steadily and smoothly.
Occasionally, while waiting at a traffic light, I would glance back at them and reflect on what kind of bunch I had brought with me.
On the second floor of the "Grand Competition" venue, there are small meeting rooms, interrogation rooms, and solitary confinement rooms.
The third floor houses the examination room and forensic room, which are responsible for examining the physical evidence from various clues in the "Grand Competition".
“Peach Blossom Mountain and Li Mancang’s house have been sealed off. We’ll deal with Liu Jinzhong’s matter later. First, we need to identify the victims and interrogate Li Mancang.” Shen Zhenzhu sat with them for a small meeting. Unlike other groups that prohibited trainees from participating to prevent them from making mistakes due to clumsiness, she also had Xiaobai by her side.
Gu Yanzheng was not a member of Task Force No. 1 and did not participate in the meeting. He sat on the small sofa in the meeting room and flipped through the Legal Daily.
Other task forces were also busy in the outer corridor, some going up to the third floor to examine physical evidence and clues, and others finding some of the victim's "parts" and handing them over to the forensic room.
Every time he comes here, he feels as if he has entered a city that never sleeps.
After the interrogation meeting, Lu Ye stood up and said, "I'll go and wear down Li Mancang's spirits first."
Lu Ye's interrogation style was fierce and menacing, making it impossible for anyone not to concentrate. It was more effective to have him go through a round of interrogations first, followed by Chen Zhenzhu.
But this time, Chen Zhenzhu shook her head and said, "I'll go with you, and Xiaobai will listen in. Brother Aqi, you wait here for me to receive the forensic examination photos of the victim's face."
She glanced at Gu Yanzheng, thought for a moment, and said, "How many days will Brother Zheng stay?"
Gu Yanzheng raised his eyelids and said, "I have a case to follow up on in half a month."
The fact that Gu Yanzheng was able to travel all the way from Liancheng to the provincial government must mean this was no ordinary case. Shen Zhenzhu didn't ask any more questions, just nodded and smiled gently, "I'll try to go home with Brother Zheng."
Gu Yanzheng was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "That would be great."
Upon entering the interrogation room, Lu Ye sat down and immediately asked, "Who was the deceased? What was your relationship with him?"
Li Mancang remained silent, like a gourd with its mouth sawed off.
Lu Ye kept asking, but Li Mancang remained tight-lipped. Even when Shen Zhenzhu started to set a trap by asking questions to observe his expression, he still kept a straight face.
Two hours of questioning yielded no results. After leaving the interrogation room, Shen Zhenzhu went into the interrogation rooms of Hao Chunzhi and Old Lady Zhao. It seemed that the family of three had been instructed by a master beforehand, and all of them had their mouths cut off.
When Shen Zhenzhu came out of the interrogation room again, she was not discouraged. Xiaobai could even see a surge of energy in the back of her head.
“If they’re innocent, they’ll answer any question they’re asked, for fear of being misunderstood.” Lu Ye said to Xiao Bai while biting into his bread, “The three of them behaved unusually, maybe it’s as we suspected.”
As speculated?
Xiao Bai looked in astonishment toward Li Mancang's interrogation room and murmured, "They could be the serial disappearance killer? It's unbelievable."
Lu Ye laughed and said, "After working in this line of work for a long time, you get used to unbelievable things and often encounter murderers who are good at disguising themselves."
"They're out!" Zhao Qiqi said, holding a stack of reports. "The fingerprints on the hammer have been confirmed to be Li Mancang's. The lab also found traces of blood on the hammer, matching the victim's blood type. Additionally, fibrous tissue was found in the victim's mouth, matching the fibrous tissue found in the pillow in Li Mancang's home! Oh, and that drop of dirt under the edge of the kang (heated brick bed) has been confirmed to be brain matter."
"The deceased has been found. His surname is Chen. Witnesses saw him and Li Mancang pushing a refrigerator away." Gu Yanzheng hung up the mobile phone and said, "That's enough."
“Yes.” Shen Zhenzhu turned back to the interrogation room, pushed open the door, and sat down in front of Li Mancang. They didn’t speak to each other. Li Mancang’s bloodshot eyes watched Shen Zhenzhu’s movements quietly.
"The evidence is conclusive; you are the murderer of Chen Qiuwang." Chen Zhenzhu sat opposite Li Mancang and said with a half-smile, "It's no use if you don't cooperate. We value evidence over confessions. You have both witnesses and physical evidence here. The more silent you are, the closer the ion bomb will be. You might as well confess to the murders of others."
Li Mancang finally looked up at Chen Zhenzhu, the honest middle-aged man sobbing with tears in his eyes, "Leader, I confess, I confess everything."
Lu Ye, who was standing to the side, perked up and was about to take notes. Shen Zhenzhu pressed his hand down, raised her chin, and said, "Li Mancang, don't try to play games with me. If you're going to confess, you have to tell the truth!"
Li Mancang cried and said, "I killed him by accident. He came to sell refrigerators and saw that my wife was pretty, so he raped her. I was so angry that I hit him and killed him! I'm innocent! How could I, a man, watch another man rape my wife in front of me! By the time I found out, he was already dead."
Shen Zhenzhu gritted her teeth, making a grinding sound. Li Mancang had no idea that she had already seen the crime scene in the "Sky Eye Retrospective." She was wailing and crying on the other side, expressing her pitifulness.
On the other side, Hao Chunzhi, with tears streaming down her face, cried to Zhao Qiqi, "While Mancang was working in the yard, he pinned me down on the kang (a heated brick bed) and raped me. He covered my mouth so I wouldn't scream, and said he just liked excitement and wanted my mother-in-law to hear his noises... I can't bring myself to say those dirty words. Mancang killed him because of me. I hit him with a pillow, and Mancang hit him with a hammer. I was terrified. Later, I wanted to die several times, but I couldn't abandon my paralyzed mother-in-law. I still had to take care of her until she passed away, so I barely managed to stay alive."
Zhao Qiqi never expected the case to develop in the direction of excessive self-defense. Shouldn't this be a series of disappearances?
Hao Chunzhi's face was burning red. She pleaded with the female police officer who was accompanying her during the interrogation, "He put it inside me, and his underwear is still on. You, you can see if what I'm saying is true!"
Shen Zhenzhu was in the meeting room with a very heavy expression.
Zhao Qiqi sat on the small sofa, arms propped on her knees, head in her hands. The atmosphere was unusually heavy.
“The deceased Chen Qiuwang’s semen was indeed found on her underwear.” Lu Ye disregarded the presence of both men and women in the meeting room and said in a low voice, “You can’t have had sex with Hao Chunzhi before killing her, can you? That would be too perverted.”
Shen Zhenzhu watched helplessly as the "truth" revealed in the "Sky Eye Retrospective" remained unspoken. Her mind raced, desperately trying to find clues related to the serial disappearances.
"It was a lucky break, but it's all good. At least we can go back saying we solved a case. We can salvage a little bit of face." Song Xinchen's voice came from the corridor, then faded into the distance. Unlike before, when he would stand at the door with his head held high.
Xiao Bai walked to the door to close it when she saw Song Xinchen waving at her. She inwardly scoffed, but walked over and rudely asked, "What is it?"
"What can you learn by following Shen Zhenzhu around? If you want to stay in the provincial and municipal bureaus, wouldn't it be better to work alongside Captain Liu?" Song Xinchen was surprisingly kind to Xiaobai, especially compared to his attitude towards Shen Zhenzhu, it was like heaven and earth.
"Sister Pearl is my idol. Many female students want to learn from her, and many people envy me." Xiao Bai looked at him warily and asked, "What do you want to do?"
Song Xinchen laughed and said, "I advise you to work with Captain Liu to solve the case. We're close to solving this case; we've found new clues. If you come in later, you'll have a part in solving it too."
"If there's nothing else, I'll head over now." Little White's round face had become as thin as a watermelon seed. She said dismissively, "Sister Pearl is still waiting to drink Milo."
"Tch, Gao Le Gao, she really has a good mood." Song Xinchen, having failed to recruit Xiao Bai, only dared to talk about Chen Zhenzhu behind her back.
Shen Zhenzhu has been in the small meeting room on the second floor of the venue for the past two days, and she really doesn't want to face the small red flag with "-1 point" hanging high.
Xiao Bai didn't know how he managed to move the materials and landline to the small meeting room on the second floor, and when asked, he said, "My classmate helped me."
“I’m certain it’s related to the serial disappearances, but I haven’t found any leads yet,” Chen Zhenzhu told the organizers of the interview. “I refuse to transfer the case.”
After hanging up the phone, Shen Zhenzhu looked at Gu Yanzheng, who was eating instant noodles across from her, with a wronged expression.
Captain Gu silently put down his instant noodles: "I heard you."
Shen Zhenzhu said, "I don't want to transfer the case to the city bureau. This case is definitely related to the serial disappearances."
Gu Yanzheng asked, "What makes you so sure?"
From the "Heavenly Eye Retrospection," Shen Zhenzhu could tell that this was definitely not the first time they had cooperated in murder. Moreover, she still didn't understand the phrase "it's full outside."
Shen Zhenzhu said, "It's intuition."
“I speak with evidence, I don’t trust anyone’s intuition.” Gu Yanzheng and Shen Zhenzhu looked at each other, and seeing her face fall instantly, he smiled and said, “But I believe you.”
"Brother Zheng! You're so kind!" Shen Zhenzhu's slumped shoulders immediately straightened up, and she smiled as brightly as a flower.
Gu Yanzheng observed that even under immense pressure, she still showed her dimples, indicating that his approval was very important to her.
“I, in my capacity as a member of the Liancheng City Public Security Bureau, negotiated with the organizers and refused their request to transfer the case. You continue to follow up on the case and don’t pay attention to outside voices,” Gu Yanzheng said. “When facing a cunning criminal, you must remain calm and composed.”
"Hmm." Shen Zhenzhu stared at Gu Yanzheng with her bright eyes, wishing she could solve the case on the spot.
Gu Yanzheng stood up and said, "I'll go talk to the organizers to see what circumstances would allow the case involving the 'Grand Competition' to be moved off-site!"
Xiao Bai, who was guarding the door with a glass of Milo, suddenly realized with a start, "Wow, now I understand, Captain Gu is going to cause trouble."
Remembering that Shen Zhenzhu had said that Captain Gu was a good person, Xiao Bai also sincerely felt that Captain Gu was a good leader who could stand up for his subordinates!
Shen Zhenzhu gulped down her Ovaltine in a few mouthfuls; she was going to get low blood sugar if she didn't drink some sweet water. After resting for half an hour, she went back into Li Mancang's interrogation room.
“Tell me the whole story again, in great detail,” Chen Zhenzhu said with high spirits. “You can’t leave out a single detail.”
For some reason, Li Mancang felt that Shen Zhenzhu was coming with great force. He always remembered Hao Chunzhi's instructions and said, "I was at his door when he said he had refrigerators to sell and offered to come to my house."
"You're lying," Shen Zhenzhu said, her tone subtly authoritative. "You invited him."
Li Mancang suddenly looked up, then immediately looked away guiltily, smiling ingratiatingly as he said, "How could that be? How could I invite him?"
"Don't you want to think about it carefully?" Shen Zhenzhu's eyes were quite meaningful.
“...Maybe it’s because I asked him to take the refrigerator back for me. It was too heavy, and besides, I didn’t bring that much money to take it back.” Li Mancang said pitifully, but he didn’t dare to look Chen Zhenzhu in the eye. He recalled that Boss Chen had met an acquaintance at the market and had said “going to his mother-in-law’s house”.
Did the police find out too? Because of what he said, people with preconceived notions wouldn't go to Tuanjie Village...
You absolutely cannot say that you are going to your mother-in-law's house, otherwise Chen Zhenzhu will definitely press Chen for an explanation as to why he lied!
“Yes, I remember now, I was the one who invited him,” Li Mancang said eagerly.
"You offered to let the deceased help you bring the refrigerator home." Shen Zhenzhu nodded: "Go on."
While recalling the events of the crime, Li Mancang recited Hao Chunzhi's confession: "We pushed a cart from the county town to our home, where my wife prepared the meal—"
"Stop." Chen Zhenzhu interrupted him, noticing his evasive gaze, and used interrogation techniques to magnify the details, asking, "Who went in first?"
Li Mancang's forehead was slightly sweaty; they hadn't discussed such details. He could only fabricate a story while saying, "I...I was the one who went first."
Chen Zhenzhu chuckled briefly, her eyes narrowing slightly: "What did you say when you came in? Did you come in through the front or the back door? Was it your mother or Hao Chunzhi who spoke first?"
"I started by asking...whether my mother was asleep...I don't remember the rest." Li Mancang seemed startled by the series of questions and couldn't speak for a long time.
Chen Zhenzhu asked incoherently, "Why aren't you drinking water?"
Li Mancang subconsciously picked up his water glass, hastily wanting to drink, when he heard Shen Zhenzhu say, "You didn't give Chen Qiuwang water, you made him drink alcohol instead, didn't you?"
Shen Zhenzhu used a combination of interrogation and the truth to provoke Li Mancang's inner turmoil. Outsiders, unaware of the truth, only perceived it as a simple interrogation.
"Huh?!" Li Mancang choked on his water glass. He didn't know whether he was coughing or putting down the glass to continue making up lies. He couldn't remember how many lies he had told or how many he had covered up!
After a long pause, he lowered his head and pretended to cough, continuing his fabrication: "If I didn't drink, why would I drink?"
"You're lying!" Shen Zhenzhu suddenly raised her voice: "Did you give him wine or not?"
Li Mancang looked up in astonishment and said, "I...I didn't give it to him!"
Shen Zhenzhu changed the subject and said with a smile, "That was given to me by your wife."
"Ah! No, it wasn't her!" Li Mancang exclaimed in shock. How did Shen Zhenzhu know?!
By the time he quickly realized that Shen Zhenzhu was bluffing him, this emotional outburst had already been seen by Shen Zhenzhu and Lu Ye, as well as by other members of the task force observing the interrogation techniques outside the interrogation room.
Shen Zhenzhu uses the foreign "lying triangle model" technique, which expands the details to make the liar fabricate content, process emotions, and control behavior at the same time while lying. It is difficult to manage these three behaviors simultaneously, making it easy to expose flaws.
Without pausing for a moment, Chen Zhenzhu pressed on, "When you saw Chen Qiuwang that day, he offered to help you bring the refrigerator home, didn't he?"
"Why are you asking again?" Li Mancang's heart was pounding in his chest. He thought Shen Zhenzhu would continue to ask questions, so he quickly reviewed the rest of the story while coughing to ensure there were no mistakes. Who would have thought she would take such a risk and start asking questions from the beginning again!
Caught off guard by the machine-gun-like questions, he blurted out without thinking, "Yes, he said he would help me push the refrigerator back." This was the "truth" he had agreed upon with Hao Chunzhi beforehand.
Hao Chunzhi had previously attended university and taken supplementary law courses. Knowing that interrogation confessions could be problematic, she would write down a new "process" after each interrogation. Li Mancang and Granny Zhao would memorize everything she said, hoping to have a chance to escape if their entire family was caught.
Even though Old Lady Zhao disliked her daughter-in-law, she was afraid of losing her son, so she had no choice but to write it down as requested. Clearly, the fabricated testimony of Hao Chunzhi was actually used by Li Mancang.
"No, you're lying!" Before he could catch his breath, Chen Zhenzhu pressed him urgently, "You just admitted that you invited him, so how did it become that he helped you? Say it again!"
The sweat the size of soybeans instantly dripped onto the back of Li Mancang's hand. He looked at Shen Zhenzhu in fear. She had questioned him no less than ten times. Under her pressure, he could no longer distinguish which statements were agreed upon beforehand, which were made up on the spot, and which were confessed under Shen Zhenzhu's coercion!
His mind went blank; he felt as if he were floating in a fog, unable to think.
Xiao Bai watched the dramatic interrogation from outside the interrogation room, barely daring to breathe. Shen Zhenzhu not only set traps in the questions, but she could also see Shen Zhenzhu meticulously recording Li Mancang's micro-expressions as he repeatedly answered the same questions!
Repeated "No!" "You're lying!" "Say it again!" became weapons that chilled Li Mancang to the bone. His dark face lost its color, and his lips trembled uncontrollably.
"Captain Gu, isn't what your men are doing considered guiding a confession?" Liu Yiyang and several other task force leaders came over to watch the interrogation scene after hearing that Shen Zhenzhu had caught a suspect and was interrogating him.
These words not only reflected Liu Yiyang's sentiments, but also those of the other team leaders.
Yang Mei, having received assistance from the Liancheng City Public Security Bureau to verify the fingerprints, naturally sided with Shen Zhenzhu, saying, "Captain Gu just explained that it's a new type of interrogation technology from abroad."
"Is the moon rounder abroad? Is this kind of relentless, high-intensity interrogation meant to force someone to confess to intentional homicide?" Song Xinchen dared not speak directly to Gu Yanzheng, but questioned Yang Mei instead: "They use lie detectors abroad, how many people have been wrongly killed? Now they're banned from being used as evidence!"
Yang Mei knew that he had been targeting Shen Zhenzhu from the beginning because of his hatred for her, so she said coldly, "If you're not as skilled as her, then shut up. Comrade Shen is famous for her expertise in criminal psychology, and she must be using that to filter the answers. Don't you know that?"
How could Song Xinchen not know that the document on studying the "spirit of Shen Zhenzhu, a first-class meritorious official" specifically emphasized her skillful application of criminal psychology, keeping up with the times, and constantly breaking records for solving cases?
Just as Song Xinchen was about to speak, Liu Yiyang turned around, gave him a cold look, and said, "Go and make copies of the materials."
Song Xinchen stopped what he was doing and looked at Liu Yiyang in disbelief: "You want me to make copies of the materials?"
"Disobeying orders?"
"Go! I'm going right now!" Song Xinchen strode away, nearly bumping into a flustered operator as he exited the door: "Use your eyes!"
The officer ignored him and rushed inside, telling Xiaobai, "Notify your team leader that villagers from the same village as the suspect, led by the village secretary, are staging a sit-in protest in front of the provincial government with banners! They say Comrade Shen is using her position for personal revenge and disrupting people's livelihoods! They demand that the provincial government and the provincial department deal with her seriously!"
Zhao Qiqi was immediately enraged: "That's utter slander!"
Xiao Bai quickly asked Gu Yanzheng, "Should we ask Sister Pearl to come out and tell her what's going on?"
“Even if she finds out, she will continue to investigate.” Gu Yanzheng said expressionlessly, “Under immense pressure, she becomes more and more courageous. I said I believe in her, and I will definitely believe in her.”
He nodded to the comrade's officer as he spoke, then continued to watch Shen Zhenzhu being interrogated.
Time ticked by, and another two hours passed. Zhao Qiqi couldn't stand being outside any longer, so she went inside to watch.
Like a tireless robot, Shen Zhenzhu continued to press Li Mancang for answers. Her mind was crystal clear, while Li Mancang was completely confused.
"No, keep going!" "Wrong!" "Say it again?!" "Still lying!"
More and more people gathered outside the interrogation room, curious as they had never seen such an intense interrogation method before. Gu Yanzheng, however, sat silently in the corner.
At that moment, the officer who had previously notified the protester ran over again, pointing outside and saying, "There are also villagers protesting outside with signs! Many media reporters are reporting on it, and many people on the street have seen it too!"
"How could this happen!" Xiaobai paced anxiously outside, like an ant on a hot pan, wanting to make a phone call several times but restraining herself from doing so.
She knew that solving cases was stressful; she had heard her teachers at the Public Security University talk about it, but she never dreamed it would be this intense!
"Sister Pearl...you have to hold on!" Xiao Bai prayed, clasping her hands together.
Yang Mei clenched her fists, hoping that Shen Zhenzhu would have good luck and not ruin her entire career in a "big competition".
Bang!
The interrogation room door opened, and the colleagues who were still watching the interrogation outside stared at Chen Zhenzhu in disbelief.
Her face was flushed, and she didn't care about anyone else around her. She rushed straight to Gu Yanzheng and said, "Brother Zheng!"
Gu Yanzheng, contrary to his previous indifference, stood up and immediately noticed her excitement: "A breakthrough?"
"Breakthrough?" The onlookers were puzzled. It was no different from what they had been asking before. Why did they suddenly stop asking and come out as if there was a "breakthrough"?
Shen Zhenzhu's voice was hoarse but powerful: "I request permission to excavate Li Mancang's yard! I suspect that several missing persons were murdered and buried in his yard!"
"That place is full" doesn't refer to the mountain, but to the courtyard!
Where could be better than right under your nose, where the stench of garbage masks everything?
He risked transporting the rotting corpses up the mountain because "that place was full"!
"What's your basis for your speculation?" It wasn't Gu Yanzheng who asked the question, but Director Tu!
He didn't know when he had arrived, but chose not to disturb her and quietly waited for Shen Zhenzhu's interrogation to end.
Shen Zhenzhu saluted him and said crisply, "Reporting to Director Tu, I tried interrogating him at several possible burial sites, including Peach Blossom Mountain and the vicinity of the county market. However, when his house was repeatedly mentioned, Li Mancang's pupils contracted several times, his statements contradicted each other, and he tried to shift the focus! There is definitely something wrong with his yard. I request that his yard be thoroughly excavated!"
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Author's Note: Pearl, chest puffed out and head held high: Tell me, isn't Pearl fierce!?
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