Chapter 213 A Frightened Bird
Du Weifeng suddenly sat up straight: "Now that you put it..."
He slapped his thigh. "There's actually a new guy here, Yi Ming, who's in charge of sending and receiving construction forms. He's very meticulous, maybe..."
Outside the one-way glass, Li Qihan turned to Luo Xiao and said, "Luo Xiao, bring the construction document reviewer Yi Ming in for questioning immediately."
His deep voice was filled with unquestionable authority. "Focus on checking his records with the testing agency."
"The case is becoming increasingly complicated."
Xia Lili frowned and thought, "Why did the murderer want to frame Zhou Yingxing?"
She suddenly thought of something, "Could it be that because they knew Zhou Yingxing was terminally ill, they wanted to use this opportunity to divert the police's attention?"
Li Qihan tilted his head slightly, his hair casting tiny shadows under the light. "It's very likely."
Xia Lili continued to analyze: "They even deliberately arranged for Zhang Ying to give false testimony..."
She suddenly paused. "So risky? Aren't you afraid that Zhang Ying won't be able to withstand the interrogation and will confess the truth?"
These words made Li Qihan's eyes flash, and he fell into deep thought.
His slender fingers unconsciously rubbed the buttons of his windbreaker, and suddenly his eyes were as sharp as a knife: "We disrupted his plan."
He walked quickly to the whiteboard, and placed his bony fingers on the word "suicide note." "This forged suicide note was prepared by the murderer for the aftermath of the explosion. According to his plan—"
"The methane explosion left Zhou Yingxing's body completely destroyed, so this 'suicide note' became perfect evidence."
——"A worker who is terminally ill and in desperate need of money has every motivation to cause an accident."
Xia Lili followed his train of thought, her eyes growing brighter. "But the murderer didn't expect that I could predict the explosion, and their plan was disrupted."
Li Qihan sneered, "In a hurry, he could only ask Zhang Ying to give false testimony."
"He even went so far as to silence the witness... This just reveals his impatience."
Xia Lili stared at the intricate clues on the whiteboard and whispered, "The more panicked he is, the more flaws he'll find. This suicide note has become his most fatal mistake."
Li Qihan listened to Xia Lili's analysis, and when he looked up at Xia Lili, a barely perceptible relaxation flashed across his stern brows.
There was an appreciation in his eyes that he himself didn't even notice.
The next morning.
The gray-white high walls of Yannan Detention Center were faintly visible in the morning mist, and undried dew condensed on the iron fences.
Xia Lili and Li Qihan's black official car rolled over the wet asphalt surface of the parking lot, startling several sparrows that were foraging for food.
It was only after cooperating with the police on many cases that Xia Lili gradually understood the difference between a detention center and a prison.
Detention centers hold unsentenced prisoners and convicted prisoners serving shorter sentences, usually less than three months.
The prison is located in a more remote area and is used to detain people who have been sentenced to serve long-term sentences.
In the monitoring room, the police officer on duty was staring intently at the 16-grid surveillance screen.
Seeing the two people come in, the police officer immediately stood up: "Captain Li, Officer Xia, cell seven is under close surveillance."
He pointed to the upper right corner of the screen and said, "Zhang Ying is currently inside the cell."
Xia Lili followed the instructions and looked at the screen - in the cell of about 15 square meters, six iron beds were placed on both sides, and the light gray bedding was folded with sharp edges.
Xia Lili tilted her head, her eyes wandering curiously over the surveillance footage: "Will there be surveillance cameras installed in the cell's toilet as well?"
The corner of Li Qihan's mouth twitched imperceptibly, and the collar of his black windbreaker swayed slightly as he shook his head. "You seem particularly concerned about such a trivial issue."
He tapped the screen with his slender fingers. "According to regulations, the toilet is located in a semi-enclosed corner area and is not equipped with surveillance cameras."
As Li Qihan turned to adjust the surveillance camera angle, the police badge on his collar flashed a cold light under the light: "Some old detention centers may have design flaws. As for key personnel..."
His voice suddenly dropped. "There will be someone monitoring us 24 hours a day."
At this moment, the surveillance screen suddenly switched.
Zhang Ying was escorted into the seventh cell by two prison guards. His handcuffs shone with a cold metallic luster under the light.
Xia Lili's back straightened instantly, and Li Qihan's eyes became sharp.
"Hey, new guy." A scarred man across from me suddenly said, "What brings you here?"
Zhang Ying didn't even raise his head: "Construction site accident..."
Here it comes, reality and Xia Lili's hallucination overlap.
Before he finished speaking, a roar suddenly broke out from the other end of the cell.
The two big men wrestled with each other, causing the iron bed to clang.
Zhang Ying instinctively shrank back, but saw that one of them was holding something - a sharpened toothbrush handle.
The man ordered another big man to rush forward, but the other big man dodged!
Zhang Ying looked at the thing stabbing towards him and opened his eyes wide in horror.
However, at this moment, the man holding the toothbrush handle was grabbed by plainclothes officers on both sides who were disguised as prisoners in the same cell and pressed to the ground.
Then the prison guards filed in and took control of everyone in the cell!
The two strong men who had just fought had a flash of surprise in their eyes, but they quickly hid their emotions.
But the prison guards had already handcuffed the two strong men and pulled them out of the cell.
Zhang Ying was touching his neck at this time, still in a state of shock.
"Officer, help me! Someone is trying to kill me!"
Zhang Ying hugged the prison guard closest to him tightly, clinging to him like a big octopus.
The prison guard's mouth twitched as he took Zhang Ying to the interrogation room of the detention center.
Zhang Ying's pupils shrank when he saw Li Qihan and Xia Lili sitting in the interrogation room.
"Officer Li, why are you here?"
"Zhou Yingxing's suicide note has been identified as a forgery. Someone deliberately set him up." Li Qi's face was cold. "Zhang Ying, someone wants to kill you to silence you. Why don't you confess to us now?"
Xia Lili said in a clear voice, "This time we discovered the clues and protected you in time."
"But you don't always have such good luck."
Xia Lili clasped his hands together, feeling a little nervous as it was his first time interrogating a prisoner. "Why don't you tell us now who ordered you to slander us? We'll find the real culprit. That way, you can rest easy in prison, and you might even get a reduced sentence if you proactively provide clues."
Li Qihan played the villain: "If you are willing to use your life to protect the real culprit behind this, then I have nothing to say."
Zhang Ying had already become a frightened bird at this time. He confessed obediently without being scolded.
"Yes...it's Du Weifeng's godson, Kuang Cheng."
"He gave me 500,000 yuan and told me to keep telling Lao Zhou every day that the workers' compensation would be a lot of money, and let other workers hear Zhou Yingxing asking me about the workers' compensation."
Xia Lili understood that this would increase the persuasiveness of the statement that "Zhou Yingxing deliberately created the accident in order to obtain compensation for work-related injuries."
Zhang Ying swallowed his saliva and said, "I also made the temporary support frame."
"That's all, really."
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