Chapter 127 Playing me for fools?
"Being loyal requires humanity. Don't lie, you just know Scarface wants to kill you to silence you, and you want to use us to get rid of him and take revenge." Shen Zhenzhu didn't believe the lies of the perverted killer.
Feng Dahuan knew he was doomed for committing murder right under the noses of the police, so he smiled calmly and didn't refute: "I really like you. Zhou Qiushi always tells me you solved a big case, and he's very proud of you."
"Take him to interrogation room number 5." Gu Yanzheng arranged for people to clean up the scene, and frowned when he heard Feng Dahuan's words.
"You're coming too," Feng Dahuan said to Shen Zhenzhu, as if inviting her to come home as a guest.
Inside the interrogation room, Shen Zhenzhu and Gu Yanzheng sat side by side. Outside, there were more than ten people, including Director Tu and Director Liu, observing.
In addition, a camera and two court clerks, Zhou Qingbai and Chen Junsheng, were added to the interrogation room.
The others listened outside the door, each with a notebook in hand.
Shen Zhenzhu's first words surprised everyone: "Was Zhou Qishan also your target?"
Feng Dahuan chuckled softly, and after he had finished laughing, he said calmly, "I knew I couldn't hide it from you. I was thinking that I could get a higher price after she graduated from teachers' college, but I didn't expect her to die on the eve of graduation."
Shen Zhenzhu lowered her eyes expressionlessly, not wanting to reveal her emotions and make herself a laughing stock for Feng Dahuan.
"What's the name of your organization? Who's the founder? Where is it located?" Gu Yanzheng asked directly.
"It's called the 'Eternal Association,' a copy from abroad. The leaders are a scarred man and a disabled mixed-race man. To be honest, they're just using the 'Eternal Association' as a front to make money; they're really just shills."
Feng Dahuan leaned back lazily, his fists clenched as if he were being interviewed by the media: "The country is just starting to develop, there are only about a dozen people, but they are all armed. Before I was arrested, the location was at the city boiler factory, but they change the address every now and then, so I don't know where I am now."
The moment the address of the "municipal boiler factory" appeared, Park Heung-sung, Jeon Young-bong, and others outside the interrogation room were already prepared to go over. Even the most cunning rabbit will always leave some clues behind.
If they didn't leave, then we've hit the jackpot.
“Tell me the information you know about the participants.” Shen Zhenzhu glanced at Xiaobai, who then took out a piece of paper and a pen and handed them to Feng Dahuan: “Name, characteristics, and contact information.”
Feng Dahuan flicked the pen away with his fingers, and said with a half-smile, "I'm too lazy to write. Since we're all going to die anyway, wouldn't it be better for me to write and you to write?"
Xiao Bai picked up the fallen pen, glanced at Chen Zhenzhu, and returned to her seat.
Shen Zhenzhu said, "Then you go ahead and talk about 'dog' and the others first."
"You know quite a lot, don't you?" Feng Dahuan licked his lips, organizing his thoughts as he slowly said, "Besides Scarface and the half-blood who are the bosses, the rest are all temporary personnel. There are those who arrange auctions called 'Crows,' those who transport goods called 'Pigeons,' and those who keep watch called 'Dogs.' My nickname is 'The Butcher,' which, as the name suggests, is for disposing of corpses. There are also those who buy entire corpses called 'Collectors.' They claim their items are works of art, but unfortunately, I don't understand them. I only enjoy the thrill of being splattered with blood."
There are also some "puzzle collectors" with a little money who, due to the unfavorable environment in China, want to hide entire corpses. They'll buy parts they like and take them out. Usually at auctions, they'll choose whichever part they want, and I'll cut it off, then the mixed-race person will do the embalming. Last time, the foreign woman you detained was 'Angela,' whom they bought at a high price. Because you detained 'Angela,' the mixed-race person and Scarface were particularly angry, and chose to take the risk and target Section Chief Shen.”
Gu Yanzheng asked, "Who contacted the overseas suppliers?"
“Mixed-race.” Feng Dahuan said disdainfully, “Scarface only did this because he knew there was such a shady business abroad. He doesn’t actually like corpses; he just wants to make a lot of money.”
Shen Zhenzhu asked, "You really don't know where the mixed-race man and Scarface are hiding?"
Feng Dahuan chuckled and said, "I definitely wouldn't tell anyone else, but if you ask, I'll tell you. Nobody knows where the mixed-race guy lives except Scarface, but I do know Scarface's address. If he wants to recruit me, he has to show sincerity and let me go to his hideout. You'd better arrest him now if you want to. I guess he's still waiting for Qian Changda's news. If you wait any longer, he'll definitely run away."
After Feng Dahuan wrote down the addresses where Scarface frequented, Shen Zhenzhu, seeing that Gu Yanzheng wanted to make the arrests himself, instructed, "We don't have enough manpower, why don't we call Liu's men as well?"
“Of course we have to call them; we can’t let them come all this way for nothing.” Gu Yanzheng opened the door, called Liu Yiyang over, and gave him an address: “Let’s split up and see who’s lucky enough to run into Scarface.”
Liu Yiyang saw the address in Gu Yanzheng's hand and held out his hand: "I want that."
Gu Yanzheng had no choice but to give him the address of the "Summer Resort": "You'll have to give way to me next time."
“Sure, we’ll leave in ten minutes.” Liu Yiyang said, glancing at Xiaobai who was engrossed in taking notes in the interrogation room, before clutching the address and leaving.
Gu Yanzheng whispered a few words of advice in Shen Zhenzhu's ear. Their eyes met, and Shen Zhenzhu nodded: "Leave this to me for now, you can go with peace of mind."
Gu Yanzheng strode out of the interrogation room, glanced at the address Liu Yiyang didn't want, smiled, and began to mobilize his men outside.
Now that Feng Dahuan was willing to start writing, Shen Zhenzhu urged him to write down the list of people in the "Eternal Association" and explain each one.
This took quite a bit of time.
However, to Shen Zhenzhu's delight, Feng Dahuan, as the "chief" in charge of disposing of the corpses and also the owner of the transportation company, knew clearly that the goods from Southern Russia came from a man named "Morich." This matched what Shen Zhenzhu had seen in the "Sky Eye Retrospective." Now, "Yulia," who had traveled across the ocean, could rest in peace.
"Unfortunately, all I know is that Scarface arranged for three 'procurement agents' to target you, but he didn't tell me who they were or when," Feng Dahuan said regretfully. "I hope I can see you one last time before I'm executed."
Towards the end of the interrogation, Wu Zhongguo sat next to Shen Zhenzhu. He was hearing about the "three purchasing agents" for the first time and asked Feng Dahuan, "Isn't Qian Changda one of them?"
Feng Dahuan said, "Qian Changda is a 'dog.' He's responsible for keeping an eye on me and Section Chief Shen. He won't take any action unless absolutely necessary."
Shen Zhenzhu had also made this guess, but she didn't expect that the three purchasing agents were actually someone else.
“Scarface definitely knows,” Feng Dahuan said at the end of the interrogation. “He boasted to me that the cost of purchasing ‘Oriental Michael’ alone was as high as 1 million US dollars. Shen Zhenzhu, don’t die before me.”
"One million US dollars?"
"Did you hear that right?"
Xiao Bai and Chen Junsheng, who were taking notes, both stopped writing, unable to hide their astonishment.
Wu Zhongguo closed his eyes, suppressing his anger. Shen Zhenzhu took a sip of water, put down her cup, and said with a smile, "Thank you for the reminder. I'll definitely let you walk hand in hand on the road to the underworld."
***
The two addresses Feng Dahuan provided were somewhat vague, and Scarface remained wary of everyone from beginning to end.
Liu Yiyang and Song Xinchen traveled all the way to Zhuanghe County only to find it empty. There was a summer resort there, and after a thorough search, they found Scarface's belongings but did not see him.
Liu Yiyang knew he had been tricked by Gu Yanzheng again, so he drove back, completely exasperated.
Gu Yanzheng arrived at the residence behind the railway station in Hesha District, where Scarface lived.
Scarface was cunning and resourceful; he chose an old Khrushchev-style building as his residence.
Inside, there are middle-aged and young migrant workers from the surrounding area, young couples with limited funds, restaurant waiters, and so on. Behind the window is the roof of a building, to the left is a freight train track, and to the right rear is the entrance and exit of the national highway ramp.
The area has a high population mobility and is easily accessible from all directions.
“He must be familiar with the surrounding area. He is waiting here for news from Qian Changda today, and he is also prepared for the possibility that he may flee at any time if he does not receive any news.”
“He’s on the 11th floor, room 09. You two follow me up.” Gu Yanzheng said in the taxi. “Aye, take your men up through Gate 1. Aqi, take Gate 2. I’ll enter through the back door’s commercial elevator. Xiao Min, you take your men and guard the railway tracks and the national highway. The rest of you go to the roof of the building next door and evacuate the crowd. Don’t fire unless absolutely necessary.”
As arranged by Gu Yanzheng, many plainclothes police officers appeared around the "Fortune Apartment".
After checking his weapons, Gu Yanzheng put on a jacket and got out of the car. He casually picked up a card with a picture of a beautiful woman on it and entered the apartment building at the address on it, pretending to be looking for fun.
Two heavily made-up women stood in front of the old elevator, glancing frequently at Gu Yanzheng. One of them, the bolder one, noticed the card in Gu Yanzheng's hand and said, "A man like you doesn't need women? How about the two of us? I'll give you a discount."
Gu Yanzheng glanced at her, and the woman quickly looked away. After Gu Yanzheng got on the elevator, the two women didn't go up but waited for the next one.
"Wait a minute." Xiao Min ran over and stepped onto the elevator: "Door number two is broken. I'll take the elevator, and they can take the stairs."
Gu Yanzheng nodded.
As the elevator doors closed, Gu Yanzheng overheard the woman who had spoken to him earlier pulling at her companion and saying, "He's obviously been repressed for too long; he'll do anything. We can't hang out with someone like him."
Gu Yanzheng: "......"
Xiao Min: "..." He dared not keep his ears.
Gu Yanzheng touched his face; it wasn't that he had been suppressing his emotions for too long, but rather that his expression was serious.
Xiao Min got off the elevator early and walked away without looking back. Gu Yanzheng went up another floor, and only slowly got off when the elevator reached the 11th floor.
There are only a few households on the 11th floor. There is a small handicraft workshop with its door open in the corridor. Inside, middle-aged and elderly women are folding gold ingots and binding yellow paper.
Upon seeing Gu Yanzheng pass by, the woman stacking gold ingots near the entrance said, "The man inside left a long time ago. Are you looking for him?"
She wiped her face and pointed in a direction: "If you want to find him, go to the Lovers Hotel near the train station. There he is."
Gu Yanzheng glanced at her, pursed his lips, and continued walking forward without saying a word.
The older woman who was speaking stood at the door, sizing up Gu Yanzheng's back. She couldn't tell whether he was Scarface's new subordinate or someone who had come to cause trouble.
She turned and went into the room, picked up the walkie-talkie, and just as she said "hello," boom—
Gu Yanzheng kicked open the door to room 1109 where Scarface was located!
Oh no!
The eldest sister pulled a machete from a bundle of yellow paper in the inner room, and as she turned around, she bumped her head into the muzzle of a gun: "Don't move."
Gu Yanzheng knew that Scarface was cunning and resourceful, so he made thorough preparations.
As he rushed into the room, the agents behind him raised their weapons and aimed them at Scar, who was still making love on the bed.
Scarface threw the blanket at Gu Yanzheng.
Taking advantage of the moment when Gu Yanzheng moved the gun away, he ran naked to the window and was about to jump up when he saw the police on the roof outside. He immediately flew into a rage: "Who betrayed me!"
Gu Yanzheng shouted, "You're surrounded! Don't resist!"
"You're going to die either way!" Scarface grabbed the half-dead woman from the bed and held her in front of him, yelling, "Shoot! Shoot!"
The hostage, used as a shield, had blank eyes. She opened her mouth to ask for help, but the prolonged violence rendered her unable to make a sound.
Scarface stood by the window, frequently glancing out of the corner of his eye to see how he could escape. Besides the rooftop opposite, there was a protruding window sill between the two tall buildings; if he climbed down, he might have a chance to escape.
His eyes were bloodshot. Knowing that he would die if caught, he simply moved himself and the woman to the window.
Before coming here, Gu Yanzheng had already planned to extract the identity and action information of the "purchasing agent" from Scarface. This required leaving a survivor so that snipers could not be used.
Scarface stood on the windowsill, racing against time, hanging himself out step by step: "You want to arrest me? Come on, shoot me dead!"
“If you just say ‘purchasing agent,’ I’ll consider it a meritorious service for you to atone for your crime.” Gu Yanzheng negotiated with him, slowly walking to the window and aiming his pistol at Scarface: “Don’t be impulsive. Even if you get caught, you still have a while to live. If you fall, you won’t survive.”
"I'm not afraid of death, what's death anyway?" Scarface, his face full of scars, said menacingly, "Before I die, this mixed-race guy even managed to get me a virgin, I didn't lose out!"
The insulted woman struggled to her feet and stood swaying precariously by the window, appearing emotionally broken.
Seeing that her expression was off, Gu Yanzheng held the gun in one hand and stretched out the other: "Come here, don't be impulsive."
"I'm going to kill you!!" The woman lunged out the window, pushing and biting wildly.
"Ah, you're crazy!" Scarface was caught off guard by the half-dead woman. As she rushed out the window and pounced on him, the old window couldn't support the weight of two adults and instantly broke off from the wall and fell!
Gu Yanzheng rushed over, grabbed the woman's wrist, and lifted her into the air: "Hold on to me! Don't let go!"
"Ah—ah—help me—" Scarface plummeted downwards!
The operators behind rushed forward and reached out to save the woman who was determined to commit suicide.
"Why did you save me? I don't want to live anymore, sob sob sob!" the woman screamed in despair.
"Ah, Scarface isn't dead yet!! Captain Gu, what do we do about Scarface?!" An agent rushed to the window. When everyone thought Scarface was surely dead, he looked down and saw Scarface lying paralyzed on the fourth-floor balcony, where renovations had been suspended for a long time. A steel bar had pierced his abdomen, and he let out a painful howl.
"Because you have to watch him die with your own eyes." Gu Yanzheng pressed down on the woman's head, looked into her eyes and said, "I know this is the most devastating time for you. You can get through it. I believe in you, and please believe that the law will give him the punishment he deserves."
"The law?...I...Waaaaah."
Gu Yanzheng got up, picked up the sheet and draped it over the woman, then called over an agent: "You go down with her."
"yes."
Gu Yanzheng glanced at the stab wound from the frontal stab at the window and said calmly, "Notify the emergency services."
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Emergency building of the Municipal People's Hospital.
"Fortunately, the steel bar pierced the abdominal cavity but avoided the major artery, so the injured person can remain conscious for the time being. However, the extreme pain caused by the ruptured liver will lead to a drop in blood pressure and difficulty breathing. Without surgery, the patient's life would be in danger."
The screams of pain from Scarface echoed from the emergency room. To save him, firefighters had even sawed through steel bars. They brought him to the emergency room along with the steel bars.
He was drenched in sweat, clutching the steel bars in his abdomen, and weakly cried out, "Ha...ha...surgery, operate on me now, I'm fucking in so much pain..."
Outside the emergency room, the doctor told Gu Yanzheng, "That's the situation. I recommend immediate surgery."
“No rush.” Gu Yanzheng said unexpectedly, “If he doesn’t die anytime soon, I have a few questions to ask him.”
The doctor said urgently, "He'll fall into a deep sleep within twenty minutes at most—"
"Okay, I understand." Gu Yanzheng called Lu Ye to guard the door of the emergency room, and went into the inner room himself, where he saw Scarface panting heavily.
"Do you have time to talk about the 'purchasing agent' now?" Gu Yanzheng sat on the doctor's chair, facing the howling Scarface.
"You fucking... taking advantage of the chaos... to rob us."
“It’s alright, I’ll wait until you’re willing to talk.” Gu Yanzheng was surprisingly patient: “I have plenty of time to waste with you.”
Scarface was in excruciating pain; the man who had toyed with human lives trembled all over in agony, and he managed to say with difficulty, "Give me the surgery first... then I'll... then I'll tell you... ha... ha..."
Gu Yanzheng got up and walked to the steel bar, touching it with his finger. Sure enough, Scarface let out a miserable howl: "Ahhh—ha! I'll talk, I'll talk!! Please, don't move."
Gu Yanzheng, standing to the side, said inexplicably, "Sorry, I bumped into you by accident."
Once Scarface fell into Gu Yanzheng's hands, neither soft nor hard tactics worked.
Sweat dripped from his forehead into his eyes, and he gasped for breath like a dying fish: "You...you won...I...I'll talk. But you have to tell me about the surgery...the surgery...will I even have a chance to open my eyes again?"
"Playing mind games? I can wait until you're ready to talk about it." Gu Yanzheng sat back down in his chair and said calmly, "Let's take it slow."
Sweat the size of soybeans rolled down Scarface's face. He had intended to make up a lie to deceive him. But Gu Yanzheng didn't seem easy to fool, and he couldn't bear the pain any longer.
Just then, Scarface's cell phone rang in Gu Yanzheng's hand. Gu Yanzheng asked him, "Who called?"
Scarface said, "This...time is...mixed race, we...will regularly confirm...confirm the other party's safety."
Gu Yanzheng handed it to him: "Take it."
Scarface hesitated for a moment, took a deep breath, and answered the cell phone: "Hello."
A mixed-race voice came from the other end: "Are you alright? I heard the police are looking for you."
Scarface, panting, said, "Can you believe my voice? I'm busy... Thank you for sending me my woman... Ha... Ha."
"You can continue having fun, I won't bother you anymore." The mixed-race man laughed on the other end of the phone and quickly hung up.
Gu Yanzheng took back the phone, glanced at his watch, and said, "Speak, you don't have much time left."
“Ha… 1 million… 1 million US dollars… she…” Scarface gripped the steel bar, worried that if he spoke too slowly, Gu Yanzheng would “accidentally” bump into him again, so he tried to speak as quickly as possible: “They’re all foreigners. There’s no execution in foreign countries, so they just do it and leave… They don’t just listen to me, they listen to the mixed-race people… Tomorrow the mixed-race people are having a wild party… Did you hear that? Why didn’t you write it down?”
Gu Yanzheng said coldly and ruthlessly, "How am I supposed to remember if you don't explain it clearly?"
"...You son of a bitch!" Scarface wished he could stab himself right now.
Fifteen minutes later, Gu Yanzheng came out of the emergency room and said to the doctor, "The surgery is ready. Don't put too much pressure on yourself."
***
The old commercial housing in Xinyi Village, Tiesi District, is only two stops away from Xiner Village, Tiesi District.
“The mixed-race guy is urging us again. He’s already prepared $1 million. All we have to do is drug Shen Zhenzhu and deliver her to tomorrow’s ‘carnival ball,’ and he’ll give it to us on the spot.” Vulture put down his binoculars. He had been guarding Shen Zhenzhu’s route to work for three days.
He had a shaved head, a long face and long eyes, and an unforgettable long, hooked nose.
With him were an old crocodile and a brown bear.
“Those guys don’t want to come and make this money, they’re afraid of being shot. Haha, it’s a good deal for us.” Old Crocodile was a Southeast Asian with bronze skin and a heavy accent. “After this job, I’ll be the richest man in our area. But I think it’s going to be a bit difficult. Those guys are protecting Shen Zhenzhu. She’s rarely seen alone.”
Vulture chuckled maliciously, "It's better to protect her; it proves she's not really capable. I heard her mother is just a steamed bun seller; what kind of policewoman could she possibly raise? Maybe she's some high-ranking official's mistress."
The brown bear, who was furiously punching the sandbag in the room, stopped his storm of blows, wiped his sweat, and said, "Making things so difficult, I'll get her and strangle her once I get my hands on her."
Vulture glanced through the binoculars a few more times, then drew the curtains and said, "There's no time to lose. We have to make our move today. If she doesn't show up on her own, we'll go and wait for her."
Old Crocodile said, "How can we wait? She's surrounded by police."
“She doesn’t have a motorcycle, so she’ll probably have to go through two alleys to get home. We’ll hide in the car and then corner her and the people protecting her in the alleys.”
Vulture lifted the bed board, revealing several round detonators inside. He picked them out one by one and handed them to them, saying, "Tie them to your bodies. Those cops won't dare to shoot for fear of hurting others. People like us can't be outmatched by her, right? When you drag her into the car, be gentle. Don't kill her. They want her alive to make a videotape of her slaughter."
"Damn, that's insane, I like it." Old Crocodile took the detonator, intending to strap it to his body, but after weighing it in his hand, he realized the weight was off: "Damn it, it's empty!"
"But they don't know," the vulture said.
The brown bear took the detonator and said, "If I go crazy, remember to stop me."
Brown bears have a bloodlust and often destroy merchandise in their violent outbursts. Sometimes they'll even twist off arms or chop off legs. Since no one else wanted to join, and given his high strength, Scar and the hybrid decided to let him join.
After lying low for many days, they were finally able to start working, and all three of them were extremely excited.
When it was time to leave work, they waited for a long time outside the alley that Shen Zhenzhu always passed through. Old Crocodile saw that the brown bear's eyes were full of bloodlust.
"Having not come out for so long, could it be that they're too scared to leave and are simply staying at the Criminal Investigation Team?" Vulture drove slowly along the road, passing by the Criminal Investigation Team, and found that no one had come out yet.
He drove around again, found a secluded spot, and stopped: "What do we do now?"
The brown bear said, "Just in case, drive over and wait."
“They’re very wary. What if we get discovered?” the vulture asked.
Old Crocodile, eager to get his hands on the million dollars, patted the bomb on his chest and said, "We'll just rob them and leave. They'll never know where the party is. Once we get there and have the money, I'll go back to Southeast Asia and buy land to have kids."
Vulture smoked two cigarettes on the spot, then received a call from the mixed-race man urging him on. He threw away the cigarettes and restarted the car: "Let's go, kidnap her according to plan. Try to get her in the car within half a minute."
They were incredibly audacious. They parked their car in the alley diagonally opposite the criminal investigation team and used binoculars to observe.
After another half hour, police officers gradually left work.
But from beginning to end, there was no sign of Chen Zhenzhu.
"Damn it, where is she?!" Brown Bear couldn't wait any longer, slamming his fist into his palm: "I'm going to crush her throat and knock out all her teeth."
"That pink-haired one is her! She's wearing makeup!" Vulture suddenly sat up straight, flipping through the photos in his hand and finding a picture of Chen Zhenzhu with a pink wig: "Look, this is definitely her!"
"She's mine!" the brown bear roared as he pushed open the car door.
Seeing that the brown bear was about to get out of the car, the vulture quickly opened the car door and walked to the side of the brown bear's car to block the door: "Let the old crocodile go first. Listen to me, this is the entrance of the criminal investigation team. Don't be impulsive."
The brown bear's teeth ground together, and he struggled to suppress his excited trembling: "...Okay."
Old Crocodile, disguised as a migrant worker, followed Pink Hair Pearl as she emerged from the Criminal Investigation Team's entrance.
As he was about to leave his accomplices' sight, he waved to them, telling them to follow him in their car.
As soon as Vulture started the car, his gaze shifted to the entrance of the Criminal Investigation Team, and he could hardly believe his eyes.
Two pink-haired men of similar height appeared at the entrance of the Criminal Investigation Team. After hugging and patting each other, they actually ran to either side in front of their car!
The brown bear's hand, which was about to open the car door, froze: "Who the hell am I chasing?"
"Damn it, they all look the same! You've messed with me, I'll kill you!" Vulture threw down the photo, jumped out of the car, and said, "One of them must be real. Split up and chase them! Let's finish this quickly!"
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Author's Note: Section Chief Shen: Come on over! [winking emoji]
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See you tomorrow, there's a red envelope coming! [Let me see]
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