Chapter 473 Intentional Homicide
The hour before dawn is darkest.
In another interrogation room in Yunshan County, Ding Fei was handcuffed to a chair, looking like a drowned dog.
Wu Yongcheng had just sat down and hadn't started asking any questions.
Ding Fei couldn't wait to yell, "Comrade police, it wasn't me who did it. It was Li Yanan. It was all Li Yanan who did it. Liang Bin beat her, so she holds a grudge against him. She was the one who cut the rope!"
Wu Yongcheng knew that Ding Fei was easy to deal with. After all, he wet his pants when he was caught.
But he didn't expect that he would be so easy to deal with. He started to confess before he even asked anything.
At this level, it will probably take less than ten minutes to finish.
Wu Yongcheng was about to ask a question when the cell phone in his pocket rang.
…
From the very beginning, Wu Yongcheng's original intention was to ask several students involved to find out the specific coordinates of where Liang Bin and Zhou Yi fell off the cliff.
Especially after discovering that there was something fishy going on, he became even more certain that the three students were deliberately concealing the truth.
Li Yanan did confess everything, but he was also too frightened to remember the exact location.
So we have to ask Ding Fei and Tang Mengjie.
However, from Li Yanan's description, Tang Mengjie should not have been involved in the crime.
That’s right, she and Ding Fei committed intentional homicide.
Because they cut Zhou Yi's rope.
Li Yanan explained that her screams were meant for Ding Fei and Tang Mengjie, who were hiding from the rain nearby. Just as Ding Fei had said, Tang Mengjie lost control of her emotions and was frightened.
She wanted to attract the two people with this scream and then prove to them that Liang Bin fell suddenly.
But soon after Ding Fei and Tang Mengjie rushed over after hearing the noise, Zhou Yi was also attracted over.
Li Yanan felt both happy and scared about Zhou Yi, the sudden uninvited guest, because Zhou Yi's appearance really caught her off guard.
Ding Fei and Tang Mengjie were very happy and shouted for the police to save them.
Li Yanan said that Zhou Yi asked about their situation and asked who was screaming and what happened.
Because Li Yanan had already told Ding Fei and the others the news that Liang Bin fell off the cliff, she could not hide it from Zhou Yi, so she repeated the lie she had told Ding Fei and the others.
Zhou Yi did not have any doubts, because from his perspective at the time, there were four of them together, and one of them fell off the cliff. His first reaction could not be that the three of them conspired to murder. It was normal logic to treat it as an accident.
So Zhou Yi walked to the edge of the cliff, first shone the flashlight down, then shouted a few times, and finally found a stone, avoiding the place where Liang Bin fell off the cliff and threw it down.
The purpose of doing this is obviously to judge the height of the cliff through the feedback of the stone falling to the ground.
Wu Yongcheng felt mixed emotions after hearing this. He knew that Zhou Yi was making a difficult decision at that time.
Should he take Li Yanan and the other two away first, or should he first confirm whether Liang Bin is still alive?
Although Liang Bin fell off a cliff, we cannot conclude that he is dead until his body is seen.
On the contrary, Li Yanan and others are not in danger of life in the short term.
In addition, Zhou Yi probably judged that the height of the cliff was within the controllable range of the rope, so he chose to go down.
Of course, from the perspective of Li Yanan and others, they don’t know and will not guess the motives behind Zhou Yi’s actions.
Li Yanan said that after Zhou Yi tied the rope to the tree, he climbed down along the rope and reminded them to pay attention to safety and not to go close to the cliff to avoid another accident.
Li Yanan said that Ding Fei took Tang Mengjie and hid far away, while he was guarding at the edge of the cliff.
She said she was very scared at the time because she was not sure whether Liang Bin was dead or not.
If he didn't die and was saved in the end, then after he recovered, she would be finished.
She said that she was not thinking about whether she would bear legal responsibility, but that Liang Bin would definitely beat her to death.
Just when she was so nervous that her heart was about to jump out, she said Ding Fei suddenly appeared beside her.
Then she heard Ding Fei say in her ear: If Liang Bin was not dead, he would never let you go because you didn't save him!
Li Yanan said that he was so scared that he almost lost his soul, because Ding Fei's words meant that he knew everything that happened before Liang Bin fell.
It is very likely that while he was retreating and Liang Bin was struggling to death, Ding Fei was hiding in the dark nearby, watching everything.
This made her feel creepy and terrified.
But at this time, she was completely confused and asked Ding Fei what to do as if she was desperate.
Ding Fei told her that the policeman must not be allowed to come up!
Li Yanan said that Ding Fei's words made her mind go blank in an instant, but her reason made her immediately reject Ding Fei's proposal because she knew that doing so would be murder.
But what she didn't expect was that when she didn't do it, Ding Fei actually did it himself.
Ding Fei asked her for a pair of scissors.
Several of the boys actually brought some tools with them, but Liang Bin was used to sending Yao Li to get things for him, so Ding Fei took advantage of his power and threw the things to Yao Li.
Then when Yao Li fell, he not only cut his thigh, but also dropped the bag containing his tools.
So after it rained heavily, Liang Bin and Ding Fei cursed Yao Li as a burden, just to vent their anger.
In the end, the two of them left Yao Li behind.
As for the two girls, they don't have much say.
Therefore, when bandaging Yao Li, Li Yanan used the small scissors in her bag to cut her own clothes.
Li Yanan handed the scissors to Ding Fei, and then Ding Fei used the scissors to cut the rope tied to the tree.
Hearing this, Wu Yongcheng's breathing couldn't help but stagnate, and he quickly asked her if she heard any screams.
Li Yanan shook his head and said no, he only heard a muffled sound, as if someone fell.
Wu Yongcheng's heart tightened, because when the rope broke, Zhou Yi was still on it.
He quickly asked again, how long did it take from the time the policeman went down to the time the rope was cut?
Li Yanan thought for a while and replied, “A little while.”
This made Wu Yongcheng feel very strange. In theory, the rope that a person carries for emergency rescue is at most 20 to 30 meters long.
If the cliff was longer than the length of the rope, Zhou Yi probably wouldn't choose to go down.
Could it be that Zhou Yi was in such a bad condition at the time that it took him a long time to climb down?
That shouldn't be the case. Generally speaking, it's easy to go down, but the hard part is climbing up.
But when asked about the subsequent situation, Li Yanan didn't know.
Because she said that after Ding Fei cut the rope, they were too scared, so they immediately ran away from there and left in the direction Zhou Yi came from, because Zhou Yi said that they had rescued Yao Li before.
After that, we walked for a long time and met the follow-up rescue team that arrived.
Then, Li Yanan lied. She meant that Ding Fei wanted her to lie that Liang Bin and Zhou Yi fell off the cliff accidentally.
Because he was helping Li Yanan, and there would be no evidence anyway.
Ding Fei also warned her not to tell the police the exact location where she fell off the cliff. Yunxia Mountain is so big that the police will not be able to find the two bodies.
If the police discovered anything unusual, she would be the main culprit and she would be an accomplice at best, because she couldn't stand Liang Bin treating her badly and did this for her own good.
Although no one doubted them from the time they met the rescue team to the time they were sent to the hospital, Li Yanan was always very nervous.
Because she remembered the policeman who had kindly warned them to be careful a few days ago.
She said she didn't want to kill the policeman, but if he really rescued Liang Bin, she would be finished.
Liang Bin will kill her one day.
So she had no choice.
This reason made Wu Yongcheng extremely angry.
He wanted to curse, but held back. No matter how harsh the curse was, it was meaningless because they were worse than animals. They were two beasts in human skin with no moral bottom line, no humanity and conscience.
Only by accepting the punishment of the law, falling from the high clouds into prison, and only being able to look at the cold iron bars day and night, can they be tortured.
So after getting the truth from Li Yanan, Wu Yongcheng took Wang Tao to capture Ding Fei immediately.
Ding Fei wanted to interrogate him immediately, firstly because he wanted to find the specific coordinates where Zhou Yi fell so as to rescue him; secondly because he couldn't figure out what Ding Fei's motive was.
It's impossible that he couldn't stand Liang Bin's actions, so he stood up for Li Yanan.
From Li Yanan's explanation, we can know that Ding Fei is Liang Bin's little follower in the society, flattering Liang Bin and thus getting some benefits.
It is impossible for such a petty person to be so stubborn as to stand up for others.
Could it be that Ding Fei liked Li Yanan? But Li Yanan denied this possibility, saying she had never noticed Ding Fei was interested in her. Furthermore, Ding Fei himself had a girlfriend, who was also a member of the club.
So we have to find out his motive for committing the crime before we can close the case.
Just when Ding Fei surrendered without trial, the phone in Wu Yongcheng's pocket rang.
It was Ni Jianrong who called.
Wu Yongcheng's heart trembled, and he walked out of the interrogation room and answered the phone.
"Old Wu, this is great news. Zhou Yi has been found, and he's not seriously injured. He's being carried down the mountain on a stretcher. I've put the ambulance on standby. As soon as Zhou Yi arrives, send him to the county hospital immediately!" Ni Jianrong said with almost a smile on his face. No rescue workers died in this incident, especially Zhou Yi. His position as the director of the county bureau, which he hadn't even warmed up to yet, was saved.
If he was demoted again, he would never be able to hold his head up in front of his father-in-law's family for the rest of his life.
When Wu Yongcheng heard this, the huge stone that was pressing on his heart finally disappeared.
He let out a long breath, as if he wanted to let out all the depression in his heart.
He kept saying into the phone, "That's good, that's good. I'll go to the county hospital to see him after I finish dealing with it here."
Ni Jianrong nodded repeatedly. "Okay, okay, Old Wu, you can put your mind at ease now. By the way, what's the situation with that female college student you mentioned earlier?"
"It's okay, I just want to give you some performance." As he said that, Wu Yongcheng reached into his pocket and took out a wrinkled Daqianmen cigarette box, took out a cigarette skillfully, then put the cigarette box away and reached for his lighter.
"Performance?" Ni Jianrong was stunned for a moment, then as if he suddenly remembered something, he quickly said, "Oh, I almost forgot something."
Wu Yongcheng lit a cigarette, frowned, and asked, "What else?"
"Zhou Yi found a skeleton at the place where he fell off the cliff."
Wu Yongcheng was startled: "Skeleton?"
"Yes, I've already arranged for someone to conduct an on-site investigation. It's strange that the skeleton was stuck in a crevice in the mountain, and then covered by vines." Ni Jianrong sighed, "Zhou Yi has really good eyesight. He was able to spot this. Sigh, I don't know if it was an accident or an old case that has gone unsolved for years."
Wu Yongcheng exhaled a puff of smoke, and unexpectedly felt a sense of impending storm, just like in Hongcheng before.
…
Five days later, Zhou Yi was sent back to Hongcheng by a special car and received treatment and recuperation at the Third People's Hospital of Hongcheng.
After Zhou Yi was carried down the mountain that day, he was immediately sent to Yunshan County Hospital for treatment.
After a careful examination, the doctor confirmed that Zhou Yi's overall condition was good and he was not in danger of life.
But he had a moderate concussion, probably caused by the impact of the fall, which was why he was unconscious when he was found.
Therefore, long-term bed rest is required.
I felt a little weak and had some low-grade fever, probably due to hypothermia. I recovered after two days of intravenous drip.
There are no fractures, but there are two fractures in the ribs, so he needs to rest.
There were multiple bruises on the surface of his body, including a severe hematoma on his left shoulder, which was the most serious injury in his entire body.
However, according to Zhou Yi's own account, it was later learned that the injury to his left shoulder was not caused by falling off the cliff.
After all, he was young enough and in good physical condition, so Zhou Yi recovered quickly.
It's just because of the concussion, I still feel a little dizzy and need to continue to rest.
Wu Yongcheng also learned about the situation when he fell off the cliff from Zhou Yi.
The reason why Ding Fei cut the rope was that Zhou Yi was still on the rope after he had climbed down for a while.
This was because when he was halfway up, he stopped and wanted to see what was happening below, so he held the rope with his two feet and one hand, and used the other hand to take out a flashlight to shine it down.
As a result, when the flashlight came on, he was immediately startled.
Because under the thick vines covering the surface of the mountain, less than twenty centimeters away from him, separated only by a layer of vines, there was a skull.
In order to make sure that he was not seeing things, he used the flashlight to carefully look around to see clearly whether it was a partial or complete skeleton.
However, the skeleton was already tightly wrapped in vines, and it was obvious that it had been here for more than a day or two. In addition, the environment was too dark, making it difficult to see clearly.
Zhou Yi tried to pull the vines with his hands, but found that he couldn't move them at all.
So he put away the flashlight and took out the axe tucked behind his waist.
It was the axe that Lu Tiezhu gave him when they parted earlier.
He wanted to use his axe to split the vines a little more and see more.
At this moment, the rope above suddenly broke.
The sudden feeling of falling made him instinctively grab the axe in his hand, just as he had just brought the axe down and had not yet pulled it back.
So he fell to the ground, but the axe hooked on the vines, providing a certain degree of cushioning.
Then he fell down and felt severe pain all over his body.
He tried to get up, but because of the concussion, he felt dizzy the moment he stood up.
He could only lie on the cold, hard ground, thinking about taking a break before calling Li Yanan and others above for help.
But soon, he fell unconscious and lost consciousness.
After dawn, Ni Jianrong conducted a comprehensive investigation of the accident site.
The place where Liang Bin fell off the cliff was about 25 meters high. If he fell from this height, there would be little chance of survival.
In addition, Liang Bin landed on the back of his head, leaving a large hole behind it. His skull shattered and smashed into his brain. When he was discovered, his brain had already drained out.
It was obvious that he died on the spot.
As for Zhou Yi, the location of the skeleton he found on the mountain was about ten meters above the ground.
It had indeed been covered by vines in the deep mountains and forests, and was stuck in a groove on the mountain. If Zhou Yi hadn't had sharp eyes, he might not have discovered it during the day, let alone in the middle of the night.
Then, judging from the broken vines, when Zhou Yi fell, the axe in his hand broke through a distance of three or four meters, which effectively cushioned the fall.
Considering Zhou Yi's height, the actual height of the fall was about two floors.
Zhou Yi also said that when he fell, he instinctively rolled over to relieve the force.
But even so, it was an extremely dangerous situation, and it was a miracle that he didn't die.
Moreover, the place where they fell off the cliff was just the middle section of a mountain stream in Yunxia Mountain, with cliffs above and cliffs below.
More than two meters ahead of where Zhou Yi finally fainted was another cliff.
It can really be said that it was a life-or-death experience.
After staying in the county hospital for a few days, Ni Jianrong originally insisted on sending Zhou Yi to the municipal hospital, but Wu Yongcheng thought that since the problem was not serious, he might as well be transferred directly back to Hongcheng.
His exact words were: "I don't feel safe leaving Zhou Yi with you!"
During this period, the county leaders of Yunshan County came to visit. After all, the accident happened in Yunshan County, and the person who was injured was actually a policeman from neighboring Hongcheng. The county leaders had to come forward to express their position and make things as good as possible.
Then the leaders of Wuguang Municipal Bureau also came to visit, and the representative who came to visit was Zhou Yi's direct supervisor next month, Cao Anmin, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Wuguang Municipal Bureau.
Captain Cao is in his early fifties and is obviously older than Wu Yongcheng. He has some gray hair on his temples, a very reserved look in his eyes, is a little fat, and his smile is like Maitreya Buddha.
Wu Yongcheng introduced Cao Anmin to Zhou Yi, calling him his predecessor.
Then he smiled and said to Cao Anmin: "Captain Cao, this is Zhou Yi."
Cao Anmin smiled and nodded repeatedly, gave a thumbs-up and said, "Very good, very good. Heroes have always emerged from youth."
Zhou Yi said hello to Captain Cao and wanted to sit up.
Cao Anmin quickly held him down, signaling him to lie down and not get up. "Team Wu has informed me of the situation. You need to rest well now."
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Cao Anmin asked Wu Yongcheng, "Captain Wu, given Zhou Yi's current condition, do you think he should report to Wuguang a month later? Maintaining good health is most important, so give him some time off. I've heard from colleagues at the provincial department that Comrade Zhou Yi has been performing brilliantly in your Hongcheng District. He's been very active in solving many major cases and has made outstanding contributions. As a leader, you can't just push the horse to run fast without giving it a break."
Wu Yongcheng quickly waved his hand: "That's impossible. I still sympathize with them."
At this time, Zhou Yi, who was lying on the hospital bed, said, "Captain Cao, I'm fine. The doctor said I just need to rest for two weeks. I've been feeling uncomfortable all over since I lay here for so long. I will definitely report to Wuguang on time on August 1st."
If Zhou Yi came to Wuguang a month later, he wouldn't be able to wait.
The incident with Hu Dali, the death of Li Chong, the unknown situation of Ding Chunmei in Wuguang, the bastard who cheated Third Uncle of his money, the gang of evil forces that did evil, and the skeleton found on Yunxia Mountain.
There are so many things that have not been resolved. How could he possibly wait another month?
Wu Yongcheng smiled and said, "Captain Cao, you'll know someday. He's got that personality and can't wait."
"He can't sleep well until the case is solved."
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