Chapter 132: Surrender
Tu Lanxun noticed Li Ao's frown tighten, and immediately headed outside the village to reunite with the other police officers. He then said, "Yard 301 might be the suspect's residence. Send some people to check it out."
"Yes, Captain Li."
The shadows rushing from the other side and the helicopters flying in the sky made the end of this dark night seem a little scary.
Tu Lanxun got on the speedboat with Li Ao and others, speeding away from the coastline. The waves behind them were divided into two pieces of black and white.
After driving for about ten minutes, Tu Lanxun saw a ship appear on the sea in the distance.
The ship was neither a small, narrow wooden fishing boat nor a large ship bound for the bloody and black world in the movies. It was neither big nor small and had been surrounded by several speedboats. There was also a large ship of the same size lying in front of it. A helicopter was hovering in the air and the barrel of a sniper rifle was vaguely visible.
A voice came from the loudspeaker: "Stop the boat immediately, stop the boat immediately."
After the speedboat passed by, Tu Lanxun could see clearly that there was a person standing in the middle of the boat. He seemed eager to jump off the edge of the boat, but he didn't dare to do so because he was afraid to die.
Another man was already crouching at the stern, his head in his hands, a pistol tossed beside him, barefoot. Four others were squatting nearby, though their positions weren't particularly uniform. They kept turning back to look at the law enforcement officers boarding the ship, giving off a somewhat shambolic air.
That was Dong Tianlong and the bachelor from the fishing village who built the boat. The remaining four were likely the boats that had come to pick him up. Tu Lanxun saw a new, smaller fishing boat towing behind the medium-sized boat. The bachelor and he had probably towed the small fishing boat out from the rocky beach, sailed away from shore under cover of darkness, and then rendezvoused with the medium-sized boat in a location less visible to drones and patrol boats.
Unexpectedly, the ship encountered the coast guard on normal duty.
As soon as the coast guard sent out the signal, their tracks became as clear as if written on a white paper under the radar, and were immediately locked onto by the helicopter.
Dong Tianlong was about to jump off the boat when he saw several more boats gathering below and he was surrounded from behind. Dong Tianlong turned around suddenly and pulled out a pistol from his waist. He did not point it at anyone else, but pointed it directly at his solar plexus.
"Get out! Get out! Back off!" Dong Tianlong roared. His hands were shaking, his face was pale and bloodless, and he was extremely excited.
The armed law enforcement officers did not act rashly. They lowered the muzzles of their guns slightly. Li Ao walked out from the middle. Before appearing, she stuffed the blue-colored Xun under the ladder to prevent the bodyguards from taking other tasks, or Dong Tianlong suddenly felt filial and shot her, the public enemy of the Kingdom of Heaven Group.
"Tianlong." Li Ao smiled slightly and said, "Put down your gun. You didn't do anything about the Tianguo Group. I know that. I just hope you will cooperate with the investigation."
Dong Tianlong's face became even paler, but a thin, unnatural red appeared on it in an instant, like a white steamed bun smeared with rouge - he was fatter than in the old photos a few years ago, "Don't lie to me!" But his voice and expression still sounded like an impulsive teenager.
"I'm not lying to you." Li Ao raised his hand. "Look at all the guns coming. If you're really guilty of such a heinous crime, why don't they just shoot you? I want to bring you back to Lucheng safely."
Dong Tianlong was still deadlocked. He was naive, but not stupid. Money and the hidden hatred of being treated indifferently flowed in his blood, which brewed madness. That madness implied an unrevealed pride and the narrow-mindedness of a sparrow who wanted to die on the spot just to breathe a sigh of relief.
"Don't move!" Dong Tianlong still pointed the gun at himself and stared at Li Ao.
Tu Lanxun saw from the side of the boat that the muzzle of the sniper rifle in the helicopter was pointing motionlessly at Dong Tianlong's back. The target might be his wrist or elbow, but Dong Tianlong was completely unaware of it, or he was too busy to care.
It seemed as if special police were climbing the hull. They leaned half of their bodies out of the portholes, their hands and feet wearing suction cups that could automatically release pressure, and approached Dong Tianlong...
However, Dong Tianlong instantly discovered that there were two ghosts guarding him. Both of them were as powerful as Nanlu and the two evil spirits. One had huge ears and a clever shrew-like appearance. It was obvious that he was the one who noticed the slightest movement just now; the other was as strong as a sumo wrestler, but even fatter. Circles of white flesh hung down from his barrel-shaped torso and limbs, and a pair of dark, bright and stern eyes were squeezed out of his mouth.
Dong Tianlong hid between the two ghosts, but his expression was even more disgusted than when he faced Li Ao.
"Tianlong, I know you're not that bad. They won't come over now." Li Ao said in a heavy voice. He raised his hand to stop the SWAT officers and drew Dong Tianlong's attention back to himself. "Look at you. Even in this situation, you still want to hurt yourself. You didn't point the gun at us. Brother, come back with us. Let's have a good talk."
"What are you talking about!" Dong Tianlong's face twisted. "I've killed people! Talk about being shot?"
Li Ao's expression remained unchanged. "Oh? I don't believe it. How many people have you killed?"
A trace of pain appeared on Dong Tianlong's face. "One! One is not enough! I also kidnapped another person."
Li Ao's voice slowed down, "Perhaps you would like to meet him?"
Dong Tianlong's hand holding the gun was shaking, but his knuckles were clenched white. He said painfully, "Who?"
Li Ao said, "If we are referring to the same person, then you did not kill him. It was Qianniuhuang He Jiang who killed him."
Dong Tianlong's face turned pale again. His desire to attack was not as strong as before, but his urge to self-destruct was still there. "How did you know? No, I killed him. If it wasn't me..."
Before Dong Tianlong's emotions washed away his last bit of rationality, Li Ao gestured towards the last speedboat that had arrived five minutes ago, and an illusory figure floated up.
Wu Qingchu still looked gentle and refined, his spirit body glowing in the darkness, and the first moment Dong Tianlong saw him, he felt as if he had been punched in the face.
"Dong Tianlong, put down the gun." Wu Qingchu stared at him.
Dong Tianlong's face was almost twisted, "Brother...?"
He suddenly looked at Li Ao, "Why is he here!?"
Li Ao did not answer this question. "He clarified to us long ago that the last knife was not done by you. You injured him seriously, there is no doubt about that, but it was Qianniu who slit his throat."
"What's the difference? The difference between the principal offender and the accomplice?" Dong Tianlong didn't dare look at Wu Qingchu. "I'm done! From the day I injured him, from the day I was reborn into the Dong family, I'm done!"
There was a kind of indifferent sadness in Wu Qingchu's eyes, "Tianlong, if you shoot yourself or anyone else here now, you will be really finished."
"What do you mean?" Dong Tianlong roared.
"The law enforcement and trial procedures for ghosts have been established," Li Ao explained promptly. "Death cannot absolve you of your guilt."
Dong Tianlong looked like he was about to cry. His lips were shaking so much that he couldn't speak clearly. He was hysterical: "Why are you all forcing me... What gives you the right to force me like this..."
Wu Qingchu then stepped past Li Ao and walked towards Dong Tianlong. The shrew ghost and sumo ghost cast intimidating glances at him. Wen Chong and the others on the speedboat had already set up their soul-capturing devices. With a flash of light, Wu Qingchu's figure briefly faded, and the other two evil ghosts froze for a moment.
Several other figures appeared behind the two evil ghosts. N grabbed the shrew ghost's arm, and Chen Ou restrained him; the sumo ghost was suppressed by Xianyu Qingyun and Mikhail.
The extra ghosts around scared Dong Tianlong. He obviously didn't like ghosts and showed disgust on his face, but he didn't help anyone.
"Do you hate me too?" Wu Qingchu stood five steps away from Dong Tianlong and stretched out his hand. "Give me the gun. I know you went to Badapan Mountain to see me but came up empty-handed. What do you want to say to me?"
Dong Tianlong was extremely impatient. "It's none of your business. I can't commit suicide at Badapan Mountain. Why do you, a dead man, care about my business?"
Wu Qingchu glanced at Li Ao briefly before speaking meaningfully to Dong Tianlong, "Do you also want to turn yourself into a dead person? You have to know that death is not the end. It is neither the end of despair nor the end of hope. It cannot change anything."
"Stop giving me chicken soup!" Dong Tianlong was still cursing, but his confidence was much weaker.
Li Ao said, "Put down your gun, Tianlong. You know your brother is right. He's going to be buried soon. If you don't want to go to the funeral, I can go with you."
Just when Dong Tianlong was stunned, Wu Qingchu jumped forward, and Lu Jiasui behind him supported him. The two ghosts restrained Dong Tianlong together and pressed his wrist down from the side of his head.
Dong Tianlong's muscles were tense, but he didn't pull the trigger in the end.
The special police surrounded Dong Tianlong, and Li Ao handcuffed him personally. The moment Dong Tianlong was arrested, Wu Qingchu retreated to the outside of the crowd, keeping a distance indifferently. Only Dong Tianlong glanced at him out of the corner of his eye.
As he was escorted past Tu Lanxun, Dong Tianlong was startled a second time and murmured, "It's you..."
I don’t know who he is referring to, the number one enemy of the Tianguo Group, or the hot potato of Chairman Tu’s family who was kidnapped by him that year?
Beyond the sea, the red glow has emerged from the other side of the earth, and the dark blue sky has turned into green and yellow, like an unhealed bruise.
But finally daybreak came.
Tu Lanxun followed him off the boat. After returning to the speedboat, Xianyu Qingyun and Lu Jiasui were chatting. She suddenly asked, "What do you think? If Dong Tianlong died one day and accepted all the punishments, would his ghost still be brothers with Wu Qingchu's ghost?"
Xianyu Qingyun said, "That depends on what Wu Qingchu thinks."
Lu Jiasui smiled and said, "No, I think it depends on what Dong Tianlong thinks."
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Dong Tianlong was taken directly back to Lucheng. Qianniuhuang and He Jiang will also be sent back to Lucheng by Bapan Town police.
On the way, Li Ao had been on the phone with the case team leader, Li. After a long call, Xiao Zhang hurriedly asked, "How is the interrogation of Dong Yijian going?"
There were only the two of them, Tu Lanxun, and a bunch of ghosts in the car. Li Ao said cautiously, "If he still refuses to talk, let's wait until Wen Chong gets back and try possessing him."
It’s better not to do this. Dong Yijian is not Qianniu or Wan Amei. For a core criminal in such a shocking case, the effectiveness of his confession during possession interrogation will be reduced by 20% in the eyes of the procuratorate.
There's no way around it. Concepts and experience haven't been fully aligned, and the means to verify authenticity haven't been fully implemented.
"There's one more thing." Li Ao said in confusion, "I don't think Dong Yijian really cares about Dong Tianlong's life or death."
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