Chapter 92 Mandala 12
The police officers then began to call the families of other victims for questioning.
With Zhou Bingcheng's confession, others also began to confess.
After a day and night of interrogation, the police finally pried open everyone's mouths.
It was their beloved family members who helped them sign up for this journey of death.
The second person to break down and tell the truth was the plastic surgery woman’s sister, Zhong Ziling.
Guo Zhengyao and Huo Cunsheng interrogated the girl together. They both used the same good cop/bad cop tactic. Guo Zhengyao asked questions with a stern face, and the girl trembled with fear, while Huo Cunsheng tried to smooth things over.
Under their continuous pressure, Zhong Ziling finally revealed the truth.
"My sister...she's been having plastic surgery non-stop since I was eight. She's never been confident about her looks, and after one procedure, she wants more."
"I tried to persuade her, but she wouldn't stop. She even ran away from home, and after a while she came back a different person. She had made herself look like a ghost, with implants all over her nose. I couldn't even look at her face."
Zhong Ziling lowered her head, and the thin girl looked pitiful. She wiped her tears as she spoke.
"It would be fine if my family was rich, but we're just an ordinary family. My parents both work, so how could they afford her to spend so much?"
"She initially asked her parents for money for plastic surgery. When her family ran out of money, she started borrowing from relatives and friends. Later, she turned to online loans. She became addicted to plastic surgery, and she kept going on until her entire face was deformed."
"Her own credit history was in jeopardy, and she later started borrowing money in my parents' names. Debt collectors came to our house and threw paint all over it, but she kept doing what she did."
"My dad went out to work to help her pay off her debts, and my mom also worked several jobs every day. My dinner was often steamed buns with pickled mustard greens. But that wasn't the worst. What I feared most was someone coming to collect the debt. Every time I did, I was terrified."
"The last time my sister came home, she told me she was going to find a job. I thought she was going to stop having plastic surgery and work hard to make money. But she actually told me that she would only have her lip done again if she found a job and got paid."
"She is too vain and values her appearance above all else. She values her appearance above all else, including us, her family."
"I felt she was beyond saving. She was a selfish person who only cared about herself. If she lived, she would drag our whole family into hell. At that moment, I decided I had to solve this problem. So I signed up for the family removal program on the Whispering app."
Guo Zhengyao asked: "How long have you been using that app?"
Zhong Ziling said, "It was about two years ago. I was brought in by a classmate. I completed the game according to the requirements and received some money to supplement my family's income."
"Which game room are you in? What level have you reached?"
"Game Room 32. There aren't many people in my game room anymore. I'm at level 15."
Luo Siwei recorded it.
It looked like she had been playing games for a long time. Luo Siwei had never expected that this young-looking girl could reach such a high level.
"There are regular private message announcements, and the family's clearance plan is also sent to us via private messages."
Guo Zhengyao asked seriously, "What was written in that private message?"
Zhong Ziling recalled: "I only remember the introduction, which roughly means..."
The girl cleared her throat, sat up straight, and recited in a childish voice.
"Do you have a family member you hate? Does their existence keep you bogged down and unable to sleep at night? Have you been living under their shadow for a long time? Do you feel extremely painful and depressed whenever you think of them? Do you want to abandon them, get rid of them, or even think of killing them? Do you want your life to return to peace and for them to disappear completely? Just fill out this form. From now on, your life will never be affected again."
After she finished speaking, she returned to her timid expression: "That's probably it."
Huo Cunsheng asked, "What do you think after you see this?"
"I want... I want my sister to disappear." Zhong Ziling said, looking up again.
Luo Siwei looked at her from the observation window, and some emotion flashed in the girl's eyes.
Luo Siwei found it difficult to describe this feeling. It was like when you encounter a problem in life and suddenly find a way to solve it, you feel full of hope and excitement.
"I filled out all my sister's information as requested. Later, my sister told me there was a popular coffee shop on Lake Heart Island that needed a waiter and had seen her photo... and asked her to meet up. She was going for an interview. The people who asked her out were probably those people. But I didn't tell her that."
Guo Zhengyao and Huo Cunsheng on the opposite side were stunned when they heard this. This girl killed her sister as if it were a child's play.
Huo Cunsheng asked: "Do you know what the consequences will be?"
Zhong Ziling nodded: "I know."
Luo Si frowned slightly. The girl knew what she had done, but she seemed to have no regrets.
Guo Zhengyao asked: "Do your parents know that you arranged this?"
Zhong Ziling shook her head slightly, then lowered her head and said, "I did this, it has nothing to do with them. My mother cried for a long time when she heard the news of my sister's death. I told her that they still have me, and I will respect them."
Guo Zhengyao took this information to interrogate Zhong Ziling's mother Wang Guifan, and the situation basically matched.
Zhong Zining did undergo plastic surgery many times, and the whole family was heavily in debt because of it.
Things were also progressing in several other interrogation rooms.
After learning that Zhou Bingcheng had confessed his motive for the crime, Zhou Bingcheng's parents also confirmed what he said and showed the police officers the scars left on them by Zhou Han's beatings.
The old couple began to cry and plead for Zhou Bingcheng.
Zhou Shuo said, "Zhou Han...even though he's our biological son, he beats us and threatens us with a knife. He forces us to use our retirement savings to buy him a house."
He described some of the times when Zhou Han bullied them, then sighed and said, "Bingcheng is a good kid, it's us who are holding him back."
In another interrogation room, Zheng Shouyan cried and said, "I sensed it a long time ago. Bingcheng had murderous intentions towards his brother. That's why I wanted this to be over as soon as possible. It's because we didn't educate our son well."
The last person to confess was Zhao Si, the rescued woman and the only survivor besides the captain. Luo Siwei personally interrogated her.
"The Whisperer arranged everything. I calculated the time and arrived there, and then I dragged my husband onto the boat. I can swim, and I'm pretty good at it. I swam several kilometers in high school."
Luo Siwei asked, "Why did you murder your husband?"
Chao Si lowered her head, with a few strands of hair covering her forehead. The woman looked gentle and kind, not at all like a murderer who had just killed someone.
"My husband... don't be fooled by his gentle appearance. He's a good earner, always gets a high salary, and seems like a nice guy. But actually, when he kills dogs, he buys them, guts them, and skins them. The process is completely different from how a chef normally butchers chickens and fish; it's all torture. I found similar videos on his computer, and he joined those groups, and the chats were all terrifying."
"I started to notice this and tried to persuade him indirectly because I still loved him. For a while, he really didn't kill dogs anymore, and I thought he had changed."
"Until one day, I made him angry because of a small matter."
"He fell asleep with me on his back, and I thought everything would be fine the next day."
"But unexpectedly, when I woke up the next day, I smelled a bloody smell. I walked into the kitchen and saw blood all over the floor, as well as a lot of dog hair. He was stewing something in the pot, and when he saw me come out, he scooped up a spoonful of soup with a spoon, smiled at me and said, 'Honey, it's delicious, do you want to try it?'"
Zhao Si covered his mouth with a pale face when he said this, and continued: "I was so nauseous that I vomited."
"From that day on, he stopped hiding it. I wanted a divorce, and he threatened me that if I dared to divorce, he would one day kill me and my entire family. If nothing happened to him, he would definitely do something terrible in the future."
"Sleeping next to him, I woke up more than once from dreams of those dogs. I also dreamed that I was bleeding and died under his knife."
“It was one of my schoolmates who recommended this app to me.”
"I met some people on the app who had similar experiences to mine. Some of them, like me, were burdened by their families and were living in hell. Later, I signed up for the family removal program."
"When the boat capsized, I felt a little regretful and called out his name..."
When she said this, tears welled up in her eyes: "I remember when we were dating, we went out to travel together, watched movies together, and he would tie my shoelaces and cook for me."
"At that moment, just as he was about to sink, he seemed to become alert. With red eyes, he said to me, 'Are you doing this on purpose? Are you trying to hurt me? Even if I become a ghost, I won't let you go!'"
"I woke up instantly. This was my last chance to escape from him. I couldn't hesitate. Even if I wanted to save him, I couldn't swim that long while dragging him. I turned around and swam forward desperately, and then I was rescued by your boat."
"You can only know a man's face but not his heart." The woman cried, "Why did I marry such a man..."
Since she and her husband had lost their mobile phones, a lot of information could not be collected.
Shen Qing took people to their residence overnight and searched for evidence. Some dog abuse videos on the man’s computer proved that what the woman said was true.
Everyone revealed the truth, and they all revealed a message.
"I joined the family removal program and filled out the information on the profile according to their registration method."
This was a premeditated murder, but when those people boarded the ship, no one knew that they had embarked on a journey to the underworld.
With these ironclad confessions, the captain finally confessed that someone had transferred one million yuan to his wife's account and asked him to arrive at the small ferry at that time, pick up four people, and sink the boat in the middle of the lake.
After confessing the facts of the crime, those people cried bitterly. In their confessions, they were the poor victims.
But then they raised their faces and wiped away the tears.
"He showed me the evil of the world, and I wasn't so magnanimous as to return his love to him."
"This is a just thing to do. Only when this bastard is eliminated can we live better."
"I have to kill him. I have no other choice."
"The law has no way to punish him, so we, his family, can only sacrifice our own family for the sake of justice."
"I don't regret doing this."
Relatives are originally the closest people in the world, but they are hurt by their loved ones and then hurt back severely.
They completely failed to realize that this was a life-or-death murder, and by doing so, they were also destroying themselves.
They have been deeply brainwashed...
This case was very simple. It took only one day from the time the police were called to the time it was solved. There was no fierce arrest and no desperate struggle.
This case is also difficult. They need to peel back the layers of appearances and explore the dark side of human nature. It is a bottomless malice.
The small interrogation rooms became battlefields for the police officers, and each psychological interrogation was no easier than physical combat.
After almost a sleepless night, Luo Siwei walked through the corridor of the Municipal Bureau and walked out of the office exhausted.
She walked to the sink, wanting to wash her face. She turned on the faucet and bent down slightly. Her vision went dark. For a moment, she even thought the water in her hands was black, like ink.
Those must be hallucinations. She held her breath and poured water on her face. The cold water brought her a sense of clarity.
After washing up, she looked up at herself in the mirror. She looked a little haggard due to staying up late, with water droplets on her hair and eyelashes.
Luo Siwei could feel that this case was like a strange whirlpool, pulling her down.
Just as she was about to go back to work, Chi Li's message came. Luo Siwei picked up the phone and looked at it.
"Take a rest. I bought you breakfast."
That simple sentence was like a hand reaching out, pulling her out of the black vortex and back to the mortal world.
Luo Siwei turned and looked out the window. The city was quiet and silent, but the morning sun had secretly dyed the sky red.
It turned out that it was already daybreak.
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