A tall, slender figure sat behind the interrogation table, holding a pack of cigarettes with only a few cigarettes left.
There were only two cigarette butts in the ashtray in front of him; the rest were in the ashtray next to the handcuffed man opposite him.
"Qian Laoyuan, aren't you going to tell us where your three brothers went? Your mother is hoping she can live to see you get out of prison!" Chen Chen asked the person sitting opposite him.
Old Qian, smoking the half-smoked cigarette, kept his head down and remained silent, his hands trembling slightly.
After a long while, he finally raised his eyes, looked at Rong Zhaonan sitting in the shadows, and whispered, "I...I'm...sorry..."
Rong Zhaonan sat in the shadows, his expression unreadable, but he chuckled lightly: "Apologize for what? Apologize for the people you killed ten years ago?"
Qian Laoyuan shuddered, curled up, and stammered, "I...we...she...she's still alive, isn't she? We..."
"Chen Chen, you go out first," Rong Zhaonan suddenly said to Chen Chen beside him.
At this moment, Chen Chen realized that there were some things he couldn't hear, so he immediately nodded and said, "Yes."
Chen Chen left the interrogation room, and the entire room fell silent.
Rong Zhaonan then said to Qian Laoyuan expressionlessly, "She died a long time ago, on the night you all violated her. She was already engaged and could have had a loving husband and a child just like your dog."
He paused, then said softly, "She was just like you, with an old mother waiting for her to come home, but she could never go home. She died long ago by the dirty ditch in the reservoir."
The Ye Qiu sister who survived was nothing more than a walking corpse, a shell living for her loved ones.
Qian Laoyuan trembled all over, his eyes suddenly reddened, he clutched his head, and turbid tears fell down his face.
"Waaah...I...we were just possessed that day...out of our minds...it was an accident...it was an accident..."
"An accident? An accident that you'd kill me to cover it up?!" Rong Zhaonan suddenly stood up.
Old Qian clutched his head, his voice incoherent: "I don't know...we were just afraid she'd call the police...she...she didn't survive...you...you also...everything...everything was an accident!"
“Qian Laoyuan!” Rong Zhaonan suddenly stood up and instinctively raised his hand.
"Bang!" The iron table, which was fixed in place, shook violently from the impact, making a loud noise, and the sound of iron chains clashing could be heard.
"Captain, what's wrong!" The interrogation room door opened quickly, and Chen Chen stood at the door with the young policeman who had helped them clean up the mess that morning.
At this moment, half of Rong Zhaonan's body was already under the interrogation light, his handsome face was distorted, and the corners of his long eyes were bloodshot.
Chen Chen immediately noticed Rong Zhaonan's hand—
The captain was skilled at holding a gun and pen with both hands, but his right hand was stronger. At this moment, he handcuffed his right hand directly to the fixed table, leaving only his left hand to hold the pen and write the statement.
With such a fierce tug, the fixed iron table not only made a loud, ear-piercing clang, but its shape also became somewhat distorted.
The captain's wrist was also scraped, but he was completely unaware of it.
Qian Laoyuan, standing to the side, was trembling with fear, looking like he was about to wet his pants.
Chen Chen's eye twitched. The captain was worried that he might lose control of his emotions and attack Qian Laoyuan, which would break the rules if he went too far.
"It's alright, you can all go out!" Rong Zhaonan took a deep breath and sat down.
Chen Chen and Xiao Liu exchanged a glance and obediently withdrew.
As long as Mr. Qian's life is not in danger, that's fine.
Rong Zhaonan sat back in the shadows, picked up his pen, and said in a cold voice, as if his voice had instantly regained its calmness—
“Qian Laoyuan, tell us the whereabouts of your other three brothers and how you’ve been hiding all these years, and you’ll have a chance to see your mother and son one last time.”
Qian Laoyuan remained silent for a long time, then raised his eyes and stared intently at him: "You swear?"
Rong Zhaonan loosened his grip, the pen falling onto the paper with a "thud," and said coldly, "You can choose not to speak and be shot in their place."
After saying that, he expressionlessly started checking his watch: "I'll give you ten seconds. Now start the countdown—ten, nine, eight, seven..."
Qian Laoyuan was completely engulfed in distress and horror: "You can't do this!"
"Three, two, one..." The man's mechanical, cold voice remained unmoved.
"Wait a minute, I'll talk!" Qian Laoyuan finally shouted.
Rong Zhaonan picked up his pen again and said coldly, "Begin."
Qian Laoyuan closed his eyes, clutched his head, and confessed in a near-collapse state.
...
An hour and a half later, Rong Zhaonan conducted a final inspection of the record containing Qian Laoyuan's red fingerprint.
He looked up at Qian Laoyuan and suddenly asked, "You really didn't see me before that night?"
Qian Laoyuan lowered his head dejectedly: "You've asked me this many times... We really did go hunting that night, but I saw you and that girl together at the reservoir during the day."
"Later that night in the woods, we saw her alone and that's when we got the idea to do something evil..."
"We wanted to silence her because we were scared. We panicked when we did it and only managed to knock her unconscious. Who knew she would still be alive... We were so scared that we all ran away..."
Rong Zhaonan listened expressionlessly, then unlocked his handcuffs from the table, got up, and walked towards the door.
Qian Laoyuan was almost nowhere to be seen, and he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
But the tall figure standing at the door suddenly turned around and looked at Qian Laoyuan: "Qian Laoyuan, you may not have known who I was back then, but this shouldn't be the first time you've seen me that day."
Rong Zhaonan's dark and chilling gaze sent a shiver down Qian Laoyuan's spine, and he instinctively wanted to shake his head.
However, Rong Zhaonan had already disappeared outside the door.
"Captain, how did it go? Did he confess?! If not, I'll take over!" Chen Chen saw his captain come out and immediately got up and rolled up his sleeves!
Rong Zhaonan nodded calmly and took the teacup: "He confessed to half of it, including the whereabouts of his brothers, but not the whole story. However, I'm certain of one thing..."
Chen Chen frowned: "What?"
Rong Zhaonan paused, his eyes cold and sharp: "He and those three hunter friends were most likely after me back then."
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