Rebirth
Cheng Xiaoxiang leaned against the police car and lit a cigarette. Bai Shuo had just helped to set up the cordon, and when he returned to him, he put out the cigarette for him.
Cheng Xiaoxiang glared at him, "What are you doing?"
Bai Shuo said, "The boss said not to smoke on the scene."
"It's outside, outside." Cheng Xiaoxiang pointed to the crime scene on the fourth floor a few dozen meters away.
Bai Shuo ignored him and found the grocery store owner and copied the surveillance records of the past three days.
As time went on, many people on their way to work or school gathered outside, many of them looking in. Cheng Xiaoxiang caught a sneaky child. Unlike the pedestrians who just passed by to join in the fun, he used his height advantage to hide in the crowd. After the crowd dispersed, he crouched in the corner and looked in cautiously.
When the child saw him coming, he ran away. Cheng Xiaoxiang grabbed his collar and lifted him up.
"Let me go!" The kid was very strong and Cheng Xiaoxiang almost couldn't catch him.
"Kid, what are you doing sneaking around here?"
The child turned around and glared at him fiercely without answering.
"Hmph." Cheng Xiaoxiang didn't believe it. He couldn't teach a kid a lesson. "If you don't answer honestly, I'll tell your class teacher!"
Aren’t children at this stage afraid of their parents and teachers?
He hesitated, and after a moment he said, "Then let me go first."
Cheng Xiaoxiang let go. He regained his freedom and straightened his clothes before saying, "I'm not sneaking around."
Cheng Xiaoxiang crossed his arms, "Then what are you looking at?"
The child has a shaved head, and when he frowns, he gives the illusion of being mature beyond his years.
"Okay, then I'll call your head teacher." Then he pretended to take out his cell phone to make a call.
"Hey!" The child stopped him, "I'm checking to see if he's here."
"Him?" Cheng Xiaoxiang squatted down and looked him in the eye. "Who is he?"
"I don't know who he is, but he lives here, and we agreed that every day if I come here he will give me a candy."
Cheng Xiaoxiang said, "You don't even know who he is, how can you accept something from him? Didn't your parents teach you not to accept things from strangers? You are too careless, aren't you?"
The little flat-headed boy lowered his head, twisted his dirty fingers together, and said sullenly, "I don't have a father."
Cheng Xiaoxiang didn't realize he had touched someone's sore spot and was stunned for a moment.
"I haven't seen him since I was born. They all say I'm a bastard from nowhere and they don't want to play with me."
Cheng Xiaoxiang touched his prickly hair and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't know."
The next second, the child raised his head, smiled innocently, and said generously, "It's okay, I forgive you."
"But you still shouldn't accept things from strangers, okay?"
"He's not a stranger." The crew-haired man thought for a moment, "He's my friend."
"But you don't even know your friend's name."
The guy with the flat head lowered his head again, looking unhappy.
He just said that his friend lives in this building. Cheng Xiaoxiang took out a photo of Peng Yue from his phone and showed it to him, "Look, is this your friend?"
The crew cut looked at him carefully for a while, shook his head and said, "No, my friend is much better looking than him."
Cheng Xiaoxiang laughed at him, "How good-looking is he? Is he more handsome than me?"
The crew-haired man pouted, raised his head, and gestured with his hands and feet, "Of course! He's so tall, I can only reach his knees. He has a super long windbreaker, and when he walks, the clothes fly with him, like a warrior walking in the dark. He has super big eyes and speaks very gently. He also gives me candy and plays with me, but I haven't seen him in the past few days. I don't know where he went."
Cheng Xiaoxiang paid more attention to the friend he was talking about.
"He didn't even tell you his name? No way."
The crew cut thought carefully and said, "I called him Xiao Ji."
"Which one?"
Cheng Xiaoxiang stretched out his hand, and the man with the flat head wrote something on his palm. "I think it's written like this. I don't know many characters. He said it's pronounced ji."
Although he didn't recognize the word, Cheng Xiaoxiang could feel it was the "悸" (throbbing) character. What a strange name.
Chen An and his men came out and prepared to drive back to the Municipal Bureau. Cheng Xiaoxiang had to follow them. Before leaving, he repeatedly reminded the bald man not to associate with people of unknown origin and not to accept the kindness of strangers.
As one crisis arose, Chen An kept pondering the significance of Peng Yue's death. From the setup in the secret room to the actual execution of the murder, all in just two weeks, there must have been someone behind the scenes. Peng Yue's motive for killing Zheng Tong was established, but he lacked evidence. His hasty action could only mean that Peng Yue had something that exposed his true identity. He knew Peng Yue knew too much, and he knew he would be exposed under torture, so he simply killed him to eliminate any future trouble.
"Boss! Peng Yue's backup phone logged into a website!"
Bai Shuo found a spare phone in Peng Yue's rental house. The phone was very old. When he turned it over, he could clearly see the fruit logo on the back. He charged the spare phone, hacked into his Internet history, and found a strange URL.
"He should have uploaded something using this URL." Bai said he started deciphering it in the car. His fingers tapped rapidly on the keyboard and he came to a surprising conclusion.
“It actually works!”
Bai Shuo opened the webpage as a visitor and clicked OK. Then, an uncensored bloody video popped up all over the place. The more he pulled down the touchpad, the more horrifying it became. Bai Shuo's face turned pale with fright.
Chen An saw his expression was off, so he took the computer. Even with their many experiences on the scene, the website still shocked him. He frowned and scrolled to the end of the page. It was a completely black interface, with the website title in red letters on a black background: BOJ (Balance of Judgment). It was obvious that this was not a domestic website.
The videos on the site are mostly bloody and violent. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of similar websites abroad, and nothing special. But this one is different: it provides the life stories of the main characters below the videos, helping viewers understand the murder methods and the anger of the perpetrators. Anyone who logs in to the original site can top up their account, leave comments, and higher-level users can even request that the administrators find the stories they want based on their needs.
Among the many videos, Chen An found a familiar figure: the sofa in the corner, the frosted one-way glass, and the woman lying in the bathtub. He recognized it almost instantly as the video of Wu Danyun's death!
"Bai Shuo, check the content of the video uploaded by Peng Yue!"
"Oh!" Bai Shuo tracked down Peng Yue's account from his backup phone. The account was very new and didn't even have a name. There was only one video on his personal homepage.
[A real or fake daughter, exchange lives, push the lever to set the gears of fate right.]
What Peng Yue uploaded was the death video of Zheng Tong!
"The boss has been found!"
Bai Shuo clicked on the screen and said, "This is the video uploaded by Peng Yue. Judging from the angle, it should be a copied surveillance video, but there is a spliced video at the beginning."
The video begins with a single hand, pushing the lever upward, before switching directly to surveillance footage. The DM on the scene explained that Peng Yue wasn't gone for long while playing Four Corners; he went in with the rest of the group, so he didn't stay in the control room for long. However, the person who uploaded the video must prove it was their work, providing Peng Yue with direct evidence of his guilt.
"Can you try to open this video?" Chen An pointed to the video on the left. Its slogan was: mending, stealing, chopping off the hands of sin.
Bai Shuo also reacted, "This is... Wu Danyun!"
After a few minutes, Bai Shuo shook his head and said, "No, this is paid, not for visitors to view. You must be a logged-in user."
Chen An felt a chill on his back. It seemed as if they had touched the tip of a huge criminal iceberg, but even this small part was enough to frighten them and make them retreat.
Because of this website, he couldn't help but think of Cen Yun, the man who murdered Wu Danyun. He remembered that during the last interrogation, Cen Yun also claimed that she had received a sum of money, but the timing was unfortunate, as Cen Yun suddenly fell ill...
He had clearly been rescued at that time, but Cen Yun fell ill and died just a few hours after he left. How could it be such a coincidence?
If Cen Yun and Peng Yue did the same thing and had the same identity, judging from Peng Yue's fate, Cen Yun would definitely die before telling the truth.
So... is it possible that Cen Yun, the people behind Cen Yun, Peng Yue, the people behind Peng Yue, and even the person who killed them, are the same person?
Chen An's expression was solemn, and the car fell into silence.
Bai Shuo studied the website for a while, but was afraid that it would disappear, so he didn't dare to exit the URL.
Ten minutes later, the police car stopped steadily in front of the city bureau. As soon as Bai Shuo got out of the car, he told the information he had gathered.
Bai Shuo trotted after Chen An. "The website's operating mechanism is very clear. Initially, uploaded videos are available for viewing by visitors, but after reaching a certain number of views, they become paid content. At this point, you can only watch them by logging in and topping up your account. Also, only logged-in users can leave comments and feedback. We can only see some of the comments, and I noticed that some comments have replies from administrators. Their ID is... Dark Crosser."
"Trace the website's IP address, search the site to see how many Chinese users are logged in, and thoroughly investigate all of Peng Yue's accounts. Don't miss anything he's logged into or browsed!" After giving these instructions, Chen An went straight to the director's office. "I'll discuss this with Director Shen."
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