Chapter 141 Rescuing Hostages
Zhou Yi was left in a state of confusion by the other party's question.
"It's flawless, you're quite good at flattering yourself."
Sun Kun's face turned red and white.
"Sun Kun, I'm telling you, don't think you can just rely on your little cleverness to commit crimes with impunity. Everything you do will leave a trace. The law will catch up with you, haven't you heard those four words?"
Sun Kun looked at the young policeman in front of him who was less than half his age. He felt aggrieved when he was scolded by the other party and couldn't help but sigh.
"Comrade police officer, please stop talking. I'll confess. I was the one who kidnapped Qian Lailai."
"Where is Qian Lailai now? Is it related to your cousin from the countryside?"
Sun Kun was stunned when he heard this: "You...you even know this."
"So I told you, don't get your hopes up. We already have the facts of your crime. But by letting you speak, we're giving you a chance to reduce your sentence and make meritorious contributions. Do you understand?"
This is a common interrogation tactic. First, it deceives the suspect's psychology. Second, it requires the suspect to confess the crime himself to avoid the possibility of induced confession during the trial.
Sun Kun nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at rice: "I understand."
"First tell me where the money is."
This is what Zhou Yi is most concerned about right now. Rescuing the hostages as soon as possible is the most important thing in the kidnapping case.
"In the third team of Qijia Village, Liyang County, there was an abandoned fish pond with a small tin hut inside. I locked Qian Lailai there."
"Is the person still alive?" Zhou Yi asked.
Sun Kun quickly said, "Alive, alive. I didn't hurt him. I just added some sleeping pills to the water he drank."
"Does this fish pond belong to your cousin from the countryside?"
"Yes, I went fishing there when he built this fish pond, but it was not well managed and was abandoned."
Sun Kun paused, then immediately said, "But he has nothing to do with this matter. His fish pond was abandoned last year, and the hut doesn't need a key. I just thought that place was safe enough since no one goes there."
Zhou Yi asked, "Are there any features near that fish pond?"
"Features? Let me think... Oh, there's a big loudspeaker in the village, hung on a telephone pole. There's a small dirt road below the loudspeaker. Follow this road north for about 200 meters and you'll see the fish pond."
After Sun Kun finished speaking, he asked tentatively, "Police... Police comrade, does this count as meritorious service?"
Zhou Yi ignored him and opened the door and went out, because he wanted to notify Wu Yongcheng immediately to rescue people.
Wu Yongcheng, who was driving back to the Municipal Bureau, received Zhou Yi's message on the radio, swerved the steering wheel and made a sharp turn, heading straight towards Liyang County.
"Zhou Yi is a good kid." Wu Yongcheng smiled.
The Santana from the Third Brigade was speeding along the deserted road late at night at a speed of 100 yards per hour.
There was no navigation in those days, and driving relied entirely on memory and maps. Jiang Biao searched for a long time with the map before he found the location Zhou Yi mentioned, but it was only an approximate coordinate.
After arriving at Qijia Village, the two realized how difficult it would be to search in the second half of the night.
Although there are headlights, people can only see within the range illuminated by the headlights. The rest of the area is pitch black and nothing can be seen clearly.
Moreover, most of the roads in rural areas are small dirt roads, which makes driving inconvenient. In the end, the two had to get out of the car with flashlights and search on foot.
After a lot of effort, I saw a house in front of me with the lights on, so I quickly ran over and knocked on the door.
The man who opened the door saw two policemen standing there, his face filled with fear. "Who...who are you looking for?"
Wu Yongcheng peeked inside and saw that the light was still on in the late night because there was a noodle making machine in the room. In addition to the middle-aged man who opened the door, there was also a fat middle-aged woman who was operating the machine skillfully.
"Fellow villagers, are you up working so early?" Wu Yongcheng asked with a smile.
The man patted the flour on his body and said, "Oh, it's like this every day. After I finish making it, I have to send it to the town to sell."
"That's tough work. I want to ask you something. Is there an abandoned fish pond near you, about two hundred meters away from your village loudspeaker?"
"Fish pond? We have quite a few fish ponds here."
At this time, the middle-aged woman in the house spoke up: "Are you asking about Fan Haiqing's fish pond? His fish pond is just north of the loudspeaker."
Wu Yongcheng quickly said, "Can you point us in a direction?"
The woman asked her husband to take over and continue rolling the noodles, then walked over and showed the two of them the way, telling them how to get there.
After Wu Yongcheng figured out the route, he thanked the driver and left.
Inside, the couple continued to work. The woman muttered, "Why are the police looking for this fish pond in the middle of the night?"
Wu Yongcheng and Jiang Biao followed the direction the woman pointed and quickly found the big loudspeaker hanging on the electric pole. After walking about two hundred meters north, they saw a fish pond.
The flashlight has a limited range, so I can't tell how big the fish pond is, but it has obviously been abandoned for a long time, and the water surface is covered with moss.
"Captain Wu, look." Jiang Biao said while pointing the flashlight at the ground. There were some clear footprints on the ground.
Following the direction of the footprints, I could vaguely see the shadow of a house not far away.
"Quick, ahead."
Wu Yongcheng and Jiang Biao hurried over. The hut was only three or four square meters and was built next to the fish pond. The walls and roof were made of welded iron sheets.
The iron door was not locked, but ajar. The two pushed the door open and took a look, revealing the entire layout of the house.
There was a dog cage in the corner with a child inside.
"Damn it, they actually locked me in a dog cage." Jiang Biao cursed angrily.
He tried to open the cage, but found it was locked.
Jiang Biao grabbed the lock and pulled it hard. The lock didn't break, but the iron net hanging on the lock broke immediately.
The two of them quickly carried the unconscious child out, and Wu Yongcheng checked his breath.
"He's still breathing, rush to the hospital."
At the Municipal Bureau, after Zhou Yi notified Wu Yongcheng, he returned to the interrogation room to continue interrogating Sun Kun.
Sun Kun confessed everything. He was not a man with a strong mental state, so he basically confessed everything in that environment.
The reason why he chose to kidnap Qian Lailai was because he knew that Qian Lailai's father was the famous entrepreneur Qian Hongxing.
But it was not because Qian Hongxing signed his name on the test paper that the matter was exposed. In fact, there were many teachers and staff members of Qingshan No. 2 Primary School who knew that Qian Lailai's father was Qian Hongxing. Just as Zhou Yi said, someone discovered it when the enrollment registration information was being filed.
The idea of kidnapping and extortion came up simply because he owed high-interest loans from gambling and was left with no other options.
As for the risk of committing a crime, before he was caught, he always felt that he had watched countless films and his plans were flawless.
But he would never have thought that someone like Zhou Yi would appear.
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