Chapter 382: Tracking the Unsolved Case (7)
Wen Chenglang lowered his eyes slightly and glanced lightly at the pile of evidence that was enough to sentence him to death.
His eyes were calm, neither panic nor anger.
He listened to every accusation from Commander Gu, and the vague smile on his face didn't even change.
Then, Wen Chenglang slowly raised his head and met Gu Zhihui's sharp gaze, the curve of his mouth remaining unchanged.
Under everyone's gaze, he made an extremely simple, yet extremely provocative and contemptuous gesture.
He shook his head gently, almost without any emotion.
Then, he closed his eyes completely, like an old monk in meditation.
No matter what Commander Gu asked, whether it was a harsh scolding or a policy attack, he did not respond.
No words, no excuses, no admissions, and even no longer opening his eyes.
In the interrogation room, for a moment, the only sounds were Commander Gu's questioning and a suffocating silence.
This silence is more troublesome than Sun Lang's collapse and confession.
Xia Lili quietly clenched her fists at her side.
She had not been working in the criminal investigation industry for long, and this was the first time she encountered an opponent with arrogance and coldness ingrained in his bones.
It is a hundred times more difficult to pry open Wen Chenglang's mouth than Sun Lang's.
In the observation room, Li Qihan stared at Wen Chenglang's figure. "Wen Chenglang is a man of great arrogance. Conventional interrogation methods are ineffective against him."
Xia Lili immediately understood his intention: "You mean to put the news of the destruction of the foundation he cares about most directly in front of him?"
Li Qihan nodded. "What he truly fears isn't failure itself, but the fact that the foundation of his faith and ceremonial guards will be proven vulnerable."
He turned to Commander Gu, his tone calm but powerful, "We must change our perspective and directly destroy the basis for his arrogance."
Commander Gu smiled with a hint of pride upon hearing this. He patted Xia Lili's shoulder and said in a resounding voice, "You're absolutely right! When it comes to the confidence to destroy these bastards, who can compare to our Xiao Xia?"
"Didn't she single-handedly penetrate the impenetrable headquarters of the Black Gold Labyrinth by going deep into the Tiger Caverns and piercing it through?"
"In front of our Xiao Xia, the black and gold maze is nothing but a paper tiger!"
This high praise made Xia Lili's ears warm slightly. She immediately straightened her expression and said in a serious yet humble tone, "Commander Gu, I was just fulfilling my duties as an undercover agent and completed the mission."
"The ultimate success in shutting down the den was due to everyone's coordinated efforts and collective efforts."
Li Qihan looked at this scene, a soft look flashing in his eyes.
He nodded slightly: "Okay, the strategy is set, we will act according to the plan."
The three of them looked at each other, no words needed to be said.
A general attack on Wen Chenglang's psychological defenses is about to begin.
A moment later, Commander Gu returned to the interrogation room.
He didn't continue to ask about the details of the case. Instead, he took a sip of tea leisurely and asked a seemingly irrelevant question as if chatting:
"Wen Chenglang, you're sitting here as still as a mountain, are you still hoping that the Black Gold Maze will mobilize its resources to get you out like they did in the past?"
Wen Chenglang still had his eyes closed, motionless, as if he didn't hear anything.
"Now we have irrefutable evidence." Commander Gu didn't care. He calmly continued to drop a bombshell: "Do you think you have an iron wall behind you? Let me tell you, the reason your Black Gold Labyrinth's network in Dragon Country was so thoroughly exposed is because of your headquarters itself."
This sentence was like a stone dropped into stagnant water, and Wen Chenglang's eyelids twitched almost imperceptibly.
Commander Gu leaned forward slightly, lowering his voice with a knowing, mocking tone, "Are you curious about how your leader in Dragon Country, Zhang Nuo, was captured?"
"And why was it that right after he was apprehended, your mysterious headquarters was destroyed by a joint operation by the Los Angeles police? And the remaining criminals fled in panic."
"You're also at a loss, right, since you can't contact your superiors?"
At this moment, the curves of the skin conductance meter and heart rate monitor connected to Wen Chenglang's lie detector changed drastically!
Inside the observation room, the technician responsible for real-time physiological data monitoring immediately whispered, "Commander Gu, the target's physiological reaction was extremely significant when he heard the connection between Zhang Nuo and 'the headquarters was destroyed'!"
"Skin conductance readings skyrocketed, and his heart rate increased by over 25 percent! He's trying desperately to hide his panic!"
In the interrogation room, Wen Chenglang still maintained a posture of closing his eyes and resting on the surface.
But his fingers, which had been placed steadily on his legs, had turned white at the tips due to the force, and were pressed tightly against his thighs.
Commander Gu looked at the wildly fluctuating curve on the monitor and knew that he had hit the vital point.
He didn't give Wen Chenglang any chance to breathe, and with a voice as steady as a mountain, he hammered home the cruel truth: "Let me tell you the truth."
"As early as a year ago, we arrested Zhang Nuo, who had fled in panic, in a joint operation with Interpol and the Los Angeles police."
"It was from him that we were able to trace the precise location and operation mode of your headquarters."
The informant cannot reveal that Commander Gu will not mention Xia Lili, the key undercover agent.
Otherwise, if Wen Chenglang knew that the towering tree behind him collapsed quickly just because of a little girl, he would definitely be even more upset.
Commander Gu announced word by word, "We've spent a whole year setting up our net. It's not that we can't touch you, but we want to make sure we root you out completely, so not a single fish slips through the net."
"Now, it's time to clean up the remaining evil, so I've touched you."
"Wen Chenglang, the criminal group you rely on is vulnerable."
"The Deep Sea Group, which you have run for many years, no longer has the capital to resist."
The interrogation room fell into a long silence, with only the regular ticking of the monitoring equipment.
Commander Gu leaned forward slightly, folding his hands on the table. "Time is on my side, Wen Chenglang. You can choose to continue this meaningless silence, and I will accompany you to the end. Of course—"
He changed the subject: "You can also give yourself a quick death."
After a long moment, Wen Chenglang spoke hoarsely, uttering his first words since his arrest: "...Give me a cup of tea."
"There's no tea. Drink some hot water." Commander Gu signaled the police officer beside him to pour him a glass of warm water.
Wen Chenglang held the disposable paper cup in both hands. He lowered his head, looked at the swaying water in the cup, and finally began to narrate.
"Li Zhiyuan, Yao Jingshu... they are so ungrateful."
He forced an awkward smile, "Twenty-one years ago, I offered them the best laboratory and funding under the pretext of co-founding 'Yuanhang Precision', and extended an invitation for cooperation."
"They were actually helping me calibrate a batch of high-precision sonars when they discovered our secret of using the channel to conduct seabed mapping for some special clients."
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