Chapter 198 Killing a Dozen
"Remove oil?" Jiang Biao didn't understand.
"It's okay. It will calm down after a while." Shi Tao asked, "Is your side healed so quickly?"
Jiang Biao sighed and said, "No way! This bastard won't cooperate at all. No matter what we ask, he just curses. He either wants us to be buried with his brother or curses our ancestors for eighteen generations."
"If I don't come out to breathe, I'm afraid I won't be able to help but beat him up."
Shi Tao laughed and said, "That's unacceptable. With your physique, you can kill Zhen Guanxi with three punches."
Jiang Biao scratched his head and said, "Captain Wu has always told us that we police officers are disciplined and principled, and we can't handle cases with drastic measures. But there's still a fugitive we haven't caught. What are we going to do if we don't get any information from him?"
Shi Tao patted his muscular arm and said, "You guys in the Third Brigade have all been corrupted by Old Wu. He's just too upright. The suspect is difficult to deal with and his attitude is too arrogant, so we have to use some tricks."
Jiang Biao was startled and shook his head, saying, "That won't do. If they really confess under torture, will we still be the people's police?"
"That's why I said you were all led astray by Old Wu. Who told you to hit him? Didn't your teacher teach you that in school? Standing in the corner as punishment for being disobedient is fine, right?"
"Standing in the corner? Does it work?"
Shi Tao waved his hand and said, "Come here, I'll give you some advice."
Jiang Biao bent over and came closer, and Shi Tao whispered in his ear.
After hearing this, Jiang Biao immediately gave a thumbs up and said with a smile: "Captain Shi, you are right. This trick is really mean."
Shi Tao was originally smiling, but when he heard the last word, he curled his lips and said, "You are repaying kindness with enmity."
"I'll buy you a drink later."
Upon hearing this, Shi Tao shook his head repeatedly: "Forget about drinking, my liver is not in good condition."
Jiang Biao turned around and went back to the interrogation room. Shi Tao calculated that it was almost time, so he also turned around and went back to the interrogation room.
Before Shi Tao sat down, he turned to Chen Qili sitting across from him and asked, "Chen Qili, your name is Chen Qili, right?"
Chen Qili was stunned for a moment, "Yes... yes."
"I have a question."
"What?"
"You guys who are into this kind of murderous business, you all use your real identities like you do? Why not a fake ID or something? Criminals are so rampant nowadays?" Shi Tao said, making a gesture, "Just like the outlaws of the past, they don't change their names or surnames?"
Chen Qili was stunned by his question and was about to open his mouth.
Shi Tao's expression suddenly changed, and he said coldly: "Think carefully before you answer me, what is your name?"
"I..." Chen Qili was already sweating profusely.
Shi Tao moved the stool with force, and the sound startled the other person.
"Come on, let's officially start the interrogation."
"Name!"
“…Ponderosa Pine.”
"age."
"Forty-one."
“Place of household registration.”
"Liangcheng...Huangmiao Village, Wabei County..." The other party thought for a long time and looked up and said, "There are no house numbers in our village."
"Why are you impersonating Chen Qili? What is your relationship with him?"
"He's a distant relative of mine, about the same age as me, and we look a bit alike. The key is that he has no one left at home, so I thought of using his identity."
No wonder they dare to use their “real identity”; it turns out this identity is much safer than a fake one.
"What crime have you committed that requires you to hide your identity?"
"I don't know what crime it is..."
Shi Tao glared and said, "Are you still trying the same trick on me?"
"No, no, I don't know how to deal with this matter."
"kill?"
"Well...I guess so."
"How many were killed?" Shi Tao asked casually.
Unexpectedly, when Huang Song opened his mouth, both Shi Tao and Gu Changhai were stunned.
"Probably... a dozen or so."
Shi Tao stood up in an instant, his voice instantly rising an octave as he shouted, "How much?"
Killing more than a dozen people, this must be a shocking case, which will definitely shock the whole country. If I dig up this case, I will be very famous. Not to mention Old Wu, even the man named Ni will have to stand aside. I will definitely be the successor of Director Xie, and Director Shi will be the successor in the future.
Shi Tao was both shocked and excited.
But Huang Song's words immediately poured a bucket of cold water on him.
"I was driving a minibus, picking up passengers. As I was crossing a bridge, I accidentally collided with a dump truck on the other side, and the minibus flipped over into the river. More than a dozen people died."
“…” Shi Tao’s originally high enthusiasm was instantly extinguished.
According to him, this is not called killing a dozen people, but causing the death of a dozen people.
Moreover, if a commercial vehicle causes the death of a passenger due to a major accident, it constitutes a traffic accident crime.
Only a dozen people died, but it was an extremely serious traffic accident. Not only did he face huge compensation, but he also had to be sentenced and bear criminal responsibility.
"So you ran away?"
Huang Song said with a sad face: "What can I do if I don't run away? Even if you sell me, I can't afford to pay so much money."
"When did this happen?"
"May 1992."
Shi Tao turned around and reminded Gu Changhai to check it later.
Then he continued, "After you fled for fear of being convicted, did you think of using Chen Qili's identity?"
Huang Song nodded.
"Aren't you afraid of being exposed?" Shi Tao's question was very reasonable. After all, Chen Qili was a living person, and impersonating his identity would be exposed sooner or later, even if they looked similar.
Huang Song said: "He... was in the car at the time, and he also drowned."
So that's how it is. It seems there's no evidence after death. Furthermore, with such a large accident and so many fatalities, the rescue operation would likely take a long time. Even if the bodies were recovered after being submerged in the water for so long, they would be impossible to identify. Furthermore, Chen Qili's family was gone, making it impossible for the local police to verify his identity.
"Then how did you escape? Didn't the local police catch you?"
"I was lucky. I was washed downstream and climbed ashore by myself. I wanted to go back to take a look, but on the way I heard someone say that more than ten people had died. I was so scared that I ran away overnight."
"So you don't even know how many people died, you just heard it from a passerby?"
Shi Tao's heart kept sinking. He originally thought it was a shocking case, but it turned out to be a traffic accident; but at least it was a major traffic accident. He didn't expect that this guy didn't even know whether people were really dead or how many people were dead. He just ran away after hearing what a passerby said. He was so fucking stupid.
The contribution and value of uncovering this case have plummeted.
Huang Song nodded.
"That's not right. You didn't even go back to confirm, how do you know that Chen Qili also drowned?" Shi Tao suddenly stared at him and asked.
Huang Song was stunned for a moment, then realized that he had said the wrong thing. "I...I heard it."
"Who told you that? How could a passerby know that there was a person named Chen Qili among the drowned people?" Shi Tao asked sternly.
Shi Tao confirmed that this guy was a habitual liar and was now telling both truth and lies to deliberately confuse the public.
"What did you do to Chen Qili when you fell into the water?"
"I...I climbed ashore by stepping on his head."
Shi Tao thought about it and felt that this was most likely true, because it was difficult to determine whether it was manslaughter in this situation, and the most important thing was that there was no evidence unless there were witnesses at the time.
But the accident happened five or six years ago and the victim was washed downstream in the river, so the possibility of there being witnesses is basically very low.
"We will verify everything you said with the Liangcheng police. If there are any problems found, I remind you that you will bear the consequences at your own risk."
Huang Song nodded repeatedly: "I understand."
"Tell me something useful. When and under what circumstances did you join this criminal gang?"
"I had fled to another place, but I couldn't make it in the unfamiliar area, so I used the name Chen Qili and started doing some small business... well, stealing things. Then, while I was in detention, I met a fellow Liangcheng native named Zhang Erhei. Around the end of 1993, Zhang Erhei came to me and said he needed help in a business and asked if I would like to join."
"Zhang Erhei? Which one? Didn't you say that your boss who ran away was called Brother Long?" Shi Tao asked.
"The boss is called Brother Long, Scarface's name is Meng Dahai, and the one you shot to death is his younger brother, Meng Xiaohai. The Zhang Erhei I was talking about is already dead, stabbed to death by Brother Long."
"Why?"
"It was that deal. We were in Lijiakou City at the time. After I joined, I realized they were actually kidnapping. They said they needed a good driver. I figured I'd just be driving, so my crime wouldn't be that serious. Besides, it wouldn't matter if I took the money and released the person. After all, those rich people are so rich."
"But I didn't expect them to be so cruel. After taking the money, they killed the child. I was so scared that I almost peed my pants. I don't know what happened later, but Zhang Erhei, who was responsible for collecting the ransom, was spotted by the police and shot while escaping."
Huang Song said with horror, "Then Brother Long suddenly stabbed him in the neck, saying that taking him with him would be a burden and would get everyone arrested. If we kept him, the police would know everyone else's secrets from him, so they had to send him on his way. It would be better for everyone."
Shi Tao frowned. How could he be so cruel to his own people? He thought to himself, "Old Wu, you have to find that person quickly."
"Then why didn't Brother Long kill you? Didn't you just join the gang?"
"Of course not. I was so scared at the time that I stepped on the accelerator as hard as I could. Luckily, I've been driving for half my life, so I finally escaped. But as soon as I was out of danger, Brother Long put the knife to my neck and said, "Brother, I'm sorry, I have to let you go on the road with Erhei."
"So you begged him for mercy?" Shi Tao thought that such a cruel and ruthless madman would not let the fat man go easily.
"Begging for mercy is useless."
Shi Tao glared and said, "Watch your words."
Huang Song apologized immediately.
"continue!"
"Yes, yes, yes. I was quick-witted at the time and said to Brother Long: You're the one sending me off? I've been responsible for more than a dozen deaths in Liangcheng. If I'm going to die in this life, the only way is to be shot!"
This fat guy probably never dreamed that his long-cherished wish would finally come true.
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