Chapter 5, Poppy 05
Luo Siwei placed Ye Ruxi and Xue Rong in the interrogation room No. 2 opposite, and then let Mu Chengxiao, who was more cooperative, come in first.
The three people who were together just now were separated.
The interrogation room was very quiet, with white lights shining from the ceiling and a blue sign "Public Security Interrogation" on the snow-white wall, making it look solemn and dignified.
Luo Siwei didn't sit in the presiding judge's seat. She pulled a chair over to the side and sat across from Mu Chengxiao, less than two meters away. From this distance, with the help of the overhead lighting in the interrogation room, Luo Siwei could clearly see every detail of Mu Chengxiao's face.
The girl was wearing black today and sitting in the interrogation room, looking a little lonely.
Luo Siwei began to ask Mu Chengxiao questions: "Have you and Yu Wanying known each other for a long time?"
Mu Chengxiao nodded. "We were high school classmates, and our parents knew each other because of work. She was the one my parents always talked about as the "other people's kid." She was pretty and had good grades.
"You two have a good relationship?"
"She's my good friend." Mu Chengxiao paused and said, "When we were in high school, we would go home together after school and talk about almost anything. Later, we both got admitted to Donglan University, but we weren't in the same department. Yu Wanying still often asked me out for dinner."
"What did you just say about her being harassed and stalked?"
"It was probably last spring, more than a year ago, when Yu Wanying suddenly received a private message from an unfamiliar person... I have a screenshot on my phone." Mu Chengxiao said. In order to prove what she said, she opened her phone and clicked on the chat history between her and Yu Wanying to show Luo Siwei.
Luo Siwei looked at the content in the screenshot. It was an account without an avatar and with a name consisting of a string of garbled characters. It would leave a message to Yu Wanying every two or three days.
"Poppy, I'm looking at you."
"Although you usually pretend to be innocent, I know that you are actually seducing men..."
Luo Siwei looked back and saw that the comments were becoming increasingly abnormal.
Mu Chengxiao said, "At first, Yu Wanying thought this was unreasonable. She took screenshots and blocked the account. But later she realized that blocking didn't solve the problem. It was too easy to change accounts, and the other party quickly registered a new one."
Mu Chengxiao showed Luo Siwei more screenshots. After Yu Wanying blocked that person, some new text messages came in one after another.
"That person was talking to himself like a madman, and his words became increasingly disgusting. Yu Wanying took a photo in the park, and someone else took a photo of the same place from a similar angle and sent it to her, threatening her."
"Once, Yu Wanying was crossing the street when she saw a man wearing a hat on the other side of the street, looking at her sinisterly. When she tried to get a closer look, he disappeared. Another time, Yu Wanying was out for dinner when she suddenly received a location from an unfamiliar account. The location was incredibly close to her... Even more seriously, she was followed and photographed in the subway station. The station staff checked the surveillance footage, but the man was wearing a hat and a mask, so they didn't catch him."
Luo Siwei listened to Mu Chengxiao's story while looking through the records.
"I dreamed of you last night..."
"If you look at another man again, I'll dig your eyes out."
"I have your cell phone number, and I know where your parents work. If you call the police, they won't be able to find me, and I will kill you..."
The messages contained vicious curses, insults, threats, and some disgusting obscenities.
Yu Wanying shared some of the screenshots with her friends, and one can only imagine how horrible the others were. She felt as if an invisible hand had grabbed her throat, she lived in fear, dragged into a dark abyss.
In the chat records, Yu Wanying kept confiding in Mu Chengxiao, and the two discussed various ways to deal with the situation.
Yu Wanying didn't struggle. Initially, she repeatedly deleted and blocked the person, then began questioning who the person was and threatened to call the police. She disabled private messaging from strangers, but continued to receive harassing messages. Finally, she considered posting the records online, hoping to leverage the power of others to find the perpetrator. However, she feared that would only lead to further retaliation.
Yu Wanying was desperate, collapsed, and at her wit's end.
Her good mood for the day could be ruined by a sudden message from the other person. She suffered from insomnia, kept asking her friends for help, and even suffered from depression.
Mu Chengxiao said this and continued, "She recently passed the postgraduate entrance exam and is going abroad to study. I saw her last month and she looked much better. In fact, I haven't heard Yu Wanying complain about these things to me for a long time. I thought that those things had been resolved..."
This birthday party was like a farewell party. Yu Wanying would be going abroad soon. By then, the haze that had enveloped her would be completely gone.
No one expected that tragedy would happen at this moment.
Luo Siwei sorted out his thoughts and thought that the murderer was most likely the victim's crazy pursuer.
Tracking, pursuing, and entanglement are all one-sided.
What escalated this stalker's violence?
Was it the long-simmering repression of wanting something but not getting it? Was it the anger of having his confession rejected? Was it because he saw Yu Wanying being intimate with someone else? Or was it because he knew she was going abroad to study?
Thinking of this, Luo Siwei raised his head and asked, "Has Yu Wanying ever had a close male friend? It doesn't have to be a boyfriend, as long as they are close friends."
If it is a murder of passion, the first thing to consider is the opposite sex who has a close relationship with the deceased.
Mu Chengxiao thought for a moment and shook his head. "As far as I know, she's never had a boyfriend. She told me that if she found a boyfriend in China, they would still separate after she went abroad, so it would be better to wait. She usually just likes to play and chat with girls. The only people of the opposite sex she's interacted with...are probably her male classmates, male teachers, and some student union officials."
At this point, Mu Chengxiao said, "By the way, Yu Wanying told me before that she's been chatting with netizens a lot lately. Someone has been very helpful to her and even comforted her overnight, which has improved her mood."
Luo Siwei asked, "Did Yu Wanying tell you what she was going to do on her birthday?"
Mu Chengxiao shook his head, then remembered something: "She said before... a friend was coming to Donglan, and she was going to pick her up..."
"Friend?" Luo Siwei repeated.
Mu Chengxiao nodded: "I guess it might be the netizen she mentioned who helped her."
At this point in the case, it seemed like a new clue had emerged. The police hadn't received any reports from anyone else, so did this online friend actually come to Donglan? Or was it possible that this online friend was the stalker? Was she the real perpetrator who kidnapped and murdered Yu Wanying?
"I don't know who that online friend was, I just know it was a girl. Wanying said someone would go with her to the station to pick her up, so I didn't ask any further questions." Sitting in the interrogation room, Mu Chengxiao suddenly raised his eyes and whispered, "Has Yu Wanying been killed?"
Ni Xiang asked her, "How did you know?"
Mu Chengxiao lowered his head: "When I came in just now, I saw Wanying's parents being taken away by a forensic doctor."
This reason was reasonable, and Mu Chengxiao's expression was very sad, which didn't seem fake. Luo Siwei nodded and admitted that Yu Wanying was murdered.
Luo Siwei asked her some more questions. Now that Yu Wanying's phone was lost, the conversation records on Mu Chengxiao's phone could help the police restore the truth. Luo Siwei asked Ni Xiang to copy the relevant conversations on her phone and prepare for further investigation.
After asking the questions, Luo Siwei asked Mu Chengxiao to leave and told her not to leave the city recently. If she had any new clues, she could call the police at any time.
Afterwards, Luo Siwei brought Ni Xiang to the observation room, printed out the threatening and harassing messages, and arranged them in chronological order.
At the same time, she turned on all the surveillance and monitoring systems, paying attention to the movements of the two girls in interrogation room No. 2.
The female students had been waiting there, initially just sitting quietly, looking at their phones. After a while, they grew impatient. Xue Rong stood up and walked to the door, pushing it, trying to open it. When she found the door to the interrogation room was locked and wouldn't open, she sat back down.
Because they were not suspects yet, the police did not confiscate their mobile phones. Xue Rong was browsing Weibo with her head down, while Ye Ruxi was playing games.
Ni Xiang hesitated for a moment and asked Luo Siwei: "Should I go and call them over?"
Luo Siwei shook her head: "No need." She lowered her head and looked through the screenshots threatening Yu Wanying one by one.
Ni Xiang was puzzled: "What should we do now?"
Luo Siwei lowered his eyes: "Wait."
Ni Xiang could only patiently follow her to sort out the information. After a while, Luo Siwei asked her, "Did you figure out anything?"
Ni Xiang thought for a moment and said, "The further we go, the bolder and more disgusting it becomes."
"There are two distinct stages of development. The first is harassment, and the second is more frantic, bordering on threats. It can be seen that the other party is clearly possessive of her. In addition, the grammar, content, typing habits, and punctuation habits of these harassment and threats often change."
Luo Siwei used the pen in her hand to point and underline a few sentences. Some punctuation marks were in Chinese mode, while others were in English mode. Then she concluded: "There is more than one person harassing Yu Wanying."
As soon as she finished speaking, the girl sitting in the interrogation room moved, and Xue Rong came to Ye Ruxi again.
Luo Siwei saw this scene out of the corner of her eye. She stopped what she was doing, looked up, and watched the video on the monitor intently. Ni Xiang also bent down and looked at the two girls on the monitor.
Xue Rong lowered her voice, but her timid voice still came through the police's high-definition surveillance equipment: "What if... the police knew about those things?"
"Shut up!" Ye Ruxi interrupted her before she could finish.
Xue Rong's body trembled, and she lowered her head out of habit. Her aura was not strong, and now she was completely at a disadvantage, suppressed by Ye Ruxi.
Ye Ruxi grabbed Xue Rong's hand and looked at him directly. Her eyes widened, her tone filled with anger and threats. The girl lowered her voice and said, "They won't find out. Remember, we know nothing and have done nothing!"
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