Chapter 78
Zheng Yi came to Ningcheng this time, ostensibly to attend a meeting of the Ministry of Public Security.
In fact, she received the news that the Xie couple had left Bincheng and immediately set out to chase them.
Reopening an old case is a multi-pronged process, and she is pursuing more than just this one case.
Experts from the Ministry of Public Security are often invited to go on business trips when local or even provincial departments are helpless, including criminal psychology experts, top experts in a certain field of trace detection, forensic anthropology experts, etc.
But Zheng Yi is different. In the internal system, there is only one sentence to introduce her.
Zheng Yi, case expert.
Relying on the good and evil radar detection of his own "Justice System", Zheng Yi single-handedly discovered the drug dealer gang and led the team to complete the summit investigation. Some people even called him a professional spy criminal.
Wherever Zheng Yi appears, no matter if it's the 500,000 walking people or the wanted criminal on the run, no one can escape.
Apart from cases where local authorities specifically requested Zheng Yi to go, she was mostly handling old cases that had been difficult to solve in different cities.
In the criminal cases that happened nearly 20 years ago, the immaturity of various conditions at that time, the lack of clues and evidence, and the long time since then have created many old cases.
Nowadays, under the requirement that murder cases must be solved, as long as the police are willing to spend money, send out a large number of detectives, close off the mountains and search the streets, and the detectives stay up all night and use their iron feet to run out witnesses and clues, coupled with increasingly advanced technology, current cases can be solved quickly.
Old cases are really difficult. Because it has been a long time since the incident happened, when investigating old cases again, the memory of the people has been covered by many layers over the years. They can’t even remember what testimony they have given, which leads to all kinds of confusion.
Xie Jin's case was not long, but was more difficult to handle.
In fact, it was only half a year since Zheng Yi accidentally touched upon this old case, but a large amount of time was spent on the preliminary review of materials.
Because the location was in Bincheng and the Xie family was very powerful in Bincheng, Zheng Yi did not go looking for witnesses from that year on his own to avoid alerting the enemy.
As a very special expert, Zheng Yi can go wherever he wants and work on whatever case he wants when he has no assignment request.
Therefore, she first went to Bincheng to meet the Xie couple who were now visiting.
When she entered a banquet in disguise and saw the black on Xie's mother and Xie Zhen's heads, Zheng Yi knew the answer this time.
The answer is already known, and all that remains is to deduce the case and fill in the gaps.
However, because he was called away by other cases in the middle, the progress of this old case has been intermittent. Zheng Yi dared not to delegate this case to others, so he could only lead his own top-secret team to carry out the case. He also found new evidence from that year and was just waiting to arrest someone.
However, due to the progress bar displayed by the system, Zheng Yi determined that there was still hidden evidence and continued to investigate secretly.
Because of an international forum in December, she was asked by the National Security Bureau to help. When she came back less than a month later, Zheng Yi discovered something was wrong.
She never saw Xie's mother again, but this time the black spot on Xie Zhen's head disappeared.
It wasn't just a change of color, it was completely gone. This was the first time Zheng Yi encountered such a situation.
After she asked the system several times to confirm that there was nothing wrong, Zheng Yi could only start to investigate what happened during this period.
According to the records of the team that stayed behind to observe, during this period of time, for some unknown reason, the Xie couple prayed to gods and Buddhas everywhere, including Taoism, Buddhism, and Western religions. They went to churches, temples, Taoist temples, and small temples, donated large sums of money for merit and lamp oil, and secretly sought out masters of metaphysics.
After seeing these detailed records, Zheng Yi fell into deep thought.
In the cases I have handled in the past, it can be said that a large proportion of criminals are superstitious.
There are criminals who offer tablets for the dead in temples, and there are also some who become monks to atone for their sins and recite sutras every day.
So, the moment he saw these records, an idea came to Zheng Yi's mind.
Could it be that Xie Zhen is trying to use metaphysical means to atone for his sins, or to cover up his own crimes?
Especially during this period, Xie Er, who used to go to luxury clubs or meet beautiful women at night, would go in and out together with his wife through a special passage every day, and Zheng Yi could hardly catch any glimpse of the two of them outside.
The subsequent auction news and the "I can't do it" message made Zheng Yi confirm it in his heart.
Xie Zhen is definitely not crazy. He must have some purpose in doing this.
Just like a bad person who has done many evil things, when he suddenly falls ill or has frequent nightmares, he will suspect that it is retribution for his past sins, and he will start doing good deeds and donating large sums of money to change his luck.
In Zheng Yi's opinion, this was clearly the case with Xie Zhen. Otherwise, there was no way to explain his sudden change of character.
Later, when Zheng Yi received the Xie family's urgent request to coordinate a flight route to the capital, she immediately rushed over overnight.
Zheng Yi also had her own channels. She happened to know that there was a not-so-scientific event to be held in the capital recently, and many Taoists would be attending.
She guessed that the Xie family came for this, and she became even more nervous. Xie Zhen left Bincheng, and this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to detain him directly in the capital.
As long as he stayed in the capital, Zheng Yi was confident that he could make him wait for sentencing and would not be able to escape.
On January 20th, Zheng Yi looked at the black color that reappeared above Xie Zhen's head, and she suddenly felt relieved.
No matter how hard you try to cover up the sin, it will not disappear. She was sure that Xie Zhen came to Ningcheng for this very reason, to find someone from the Xuanmen to cover it up.
So, her movements must be very fast!
After confirming that the Xie couple would leave the capital the next night, Zheng Yi held a meeting to arrest them overnight and completed all the procedures.
In the cold winter, the team took turns to follow each other and kill them before they left.
She caught someone.
then--
Ah Yan and Zhu Jue watched helplessly as Xie Zhen was taken away.
Both of them were completely jaw-dropping.
Although when Ah Yan saw Ms. Zhengyi, he was already prepared for what would happen.
But Ayan didn’t expect it to be such a “big” thing!
Ms. Justice's short hair was sharp, and she also saw the other person's appearance.
His eyes were neither big nor small, and he looked as if he had no memory. His face was flat and had no blemishes.
If Ah Yan had not been able to identify the golden halo of "I am Justice" above her head, it would be difficult for people who met her for the first time to remember Officer Zheng Yi's face just by looking at her face.
Yes, Ayan had just seen the police officer’s ID card and she had already remembered the other party’s name clearly.
Zheng Yi means justice, which is really appropriate and the best name.
This was the first time that Ayan saw a "detention certificate".
In particular, she and Jue Jue both heard very clearly what Officer Zheng Yi said to Sister Lan Ruo.
"Criminal case detention order!"
This is a criminal case! They were detained directly. Under normal circumstances, the normal procedure is to summon them first.
Criminal case. Ayan's mind instantly flashed through various crime TV dramas such as hiring a killer to commit murder and arson.
At this moment, A Yan was also feeling fortunate.
Criminal cases definitely have nothing to do with Lan Ruo. Fortunately, the two of them have already regained their bodies today. Otherwise, wouldn't Lan Ruo have to suffer for Xie Er, while the real Xie Er is still at large?
Police officer Zheng Yi led a team of people to escort Xie Zhen away, while A Yan, Jue Jue and Lan Ruo remained where they were.
Ah Yan tilted her head and looked at Jue Jue, signaling with her eyes.
When a criminal suspect is arrested, do these unrelated people not need to follow and take statements?
"It should be confirmed that he is the only target." Zhu Jue said in a low voice at this moment.
No wonder they came out of the private room of the club. The waiters outside were gone. It seemed like they were making room for the police.
A Yan looked at Lan Ruo's expression at this moment. Lan Ruo didn't even act in front of them. Apart from being stunned, there was no sadness at all.
"You two are shocked." Lan Ruo spoke at this moment.
Ah Yan waved his hands and said, "Don't send us off. We can just go on our own."
She looked at the direction where Officer Zheng Yi had just left, and guessed that this courtyard club had a back door or another door. The group was so large, and they would definitely take Xie Zhen to a secluded place to avoid being exposed in the tourist area at the front door.
Lan Ruo nodded at this moment: "Go slowly, we will contact each other later."
Lan Ruo obviously didn't have time to continue chatting with them, so A Yan and Zhu Jue decided to leave this place of trouble immediately.
After Ayan and Zhu Jue left this mysterious club, they did not plan to continue strolling around the nearby hutong tourist area, but took the subway directly home.
At this moment, A Yan was still a little frightened.
"Juejue, do you think we will be contacted suddenly to take a statement?"
A Yan is still a little worried about this.
There would definitely be no problem cooperating with the record. She was mainly worried that the police would come to her house directly. Moreover, this involved the issue of Xie Zhen and Lan Ruo's soul exchange. How to explain this was really a headache.
Zhu Jue thought for a moment and said, "Maybe he won't look for us."
"As for the criminal case, it definitely took more than a month. After all, it was less than a month and a half from the time we first met them."
Ah Yan nodded: "That's right, if a criminal case is directly detained, the evidence may have been confirmed."
She muttered, "I thought he was only on the entertainment gossip news, but I didn't expect him to be on the legal news as well."
Because they were on the subway and everyone was listening, the two of them didn't dare to say too much.
A Yan and Zhu Jue appeared to be indifferent on the surface, but in fact they went home with heavy hearts.
Tan Dabao and Tan Xiaobao had gone out to eat at this time, leaving only two people at home. Ayan and Juejue sat on the sofa, their heads leaning against each other.
The two of them were browsing their phones, searching for real-time Beijing police information and gossip about the Xie family.
It has been almost an hour since they left and now have arrived home, but no related gossip has come out so far, which shows that they have done an extremely good job of keeping the secret.
"By now, Sister Lanruo must have informed the Xie family." A Yan thought.
"What exactly is a criminal case?" She touched her chin.
Because the Xie family is a wealthy family in Bincheng, after meeting each other in Fayan Temple, Ah Yan only dug out some emotional gossip and mother-in-law gossip from Boss Tu.
Ah Yan thought that if Boss Tu did a fortune-telling, he might be able to guess it right. But now, Xie Zhen had just been arrested, and the specific situation was still unclear. As eyewitnesses at the scene, they still sewed their mouths shut and could not leak any information.
The more this happened, the more anxious A Yan became.
Since she couldn't tell anyone, she continued to search for information about the Xie family on the Internet, starting from a few years ago. She also read social news.
Ayan and Juejue were trying hard to find any clues about Xie Jiagua at home. At three o'clock in the afternoon, Dabao and Xiaobao came home with milk tea and snacks.
"Sisters, you're back." Tan Xiaobao yelled.
Ah Yan looked at them and said, "Aren't you going to Dayue City? Why did you take so long to come back?"
"Oh, don't mention it. I encountered a traffic accident on the road and the traffic was already congested. I should have known it would be better to take the subway." Tan Xiaobao complained.
Car accident?
An idea suddenly occurred to Ah Yan, and she and Jue Jue looked at each other.
She remembered that she had read gossip about the Xie family before, in which the original heir of the Xie family, the eldest son Xie, born to the first wife of the Xie family, seemed to have died in a car accident.
Is this the criminal case involving Xie Zhen this time?
Mr. Tse had been in charge of the group for many years at the time. His death in a car accident caused quite a stir. Some media even predicted that the Tse family would have no successor, and the company's stock price plummeted.
Especially when Ah Yan was searching for gossip, he also saw the remains of news from five years ago. There were also Xie employees expressing regret. After President Xie took office, the benefits became better, overtime became less, and the dignified president became more approachable, eating at the same table with the employees in the cafeteria every day.
Because of Mr. Xie's social status, this case attracted a lot of attention at the time and was investigated intensively. After reading the final report, Ah Yan confirmed that it was an accident.
Moreover, when Boss Xie got into the car accident, Second Brother Xie was having a good time in a bar and was photographed hugging a young star.
"Mr. Xie died in a car accident. At the same time, Mr. Xie was kissing two beautiful women passionately. Mr. Xie may lose the confidence of investors!"
"How long can Ming Xie Group last without Xie Jin?"
Even because Boss Xie was in a car accident that night, Second Xie was caught by paparazzi as he hurriedly rushed to the hospital from the hotel the next morning.
At the time, this was all news.
Ayan and Juejue dug up many ancient relics and read the comments under the related news and gossip.
"My dad saw Mr. Xie's car accident tonight. He is now numb. He stared at the stock software and cried all night at home."
"The Xie family seems to have only two sons, right? But besides entertainment gossip, does Xie Er have any other achievements?"
"It seems that the Xie family is going to leave the family business, or will they let Mr. Xie come back to the fold?"
"Could this be a business war?"
"Didn't Xie Er make a public statement? When someone asked him what he thought of the group, he said he had no idea. Anyway, his brother worked and he enjoyed himself, so why should he take the initiative to go to work and suffer?"
Following these ancient relics, Ah Yan looked at the blurry video interviews and gossip account records from a few years ago.
"I think this is even more suspicious." Ah Yan said in a low voice.
Looking at the overwhelming information five years ago, Xie Erye's night meeting with a young celebrity was exposed by paparazzi, which was simply a blatant alibi.
If you dig deeper into these interviews, you will find that Xie Zhen was a playboy who was involved in the entertainment circle and internet celebrity circle a few years ago. He was a group of second-generation rich people who were uneducated, ate, drank and had fun, made all kinds of arrogant and outrageous remarks, and was famous for being supported by his big brother.
Even in the interview about the accident of Mr. Xie, a reporter asked whether Mr. Xie's death was possibly an accident. Xie Zhen publicly stated that if his eldest brother's car accident was related to human factors, he would fight to the death with the other party.
It was precisely because Xie Zhen's image of a "second-generation tycoon who loves to eat, drink and have fun" was too deeply rooted in people's minds, and he had obvious alibis and had made many statements to prove it, that except for those who speculated that he was a "vested interest", many people ruled out Xie Er at the first opportunity.
A Yan and Zhu Jue were looking for gossip along the way, and watched a big drama of the Xie family across five years of time and space.
"It actually lasted so long." Ah Yan clicked his tongue.
From the death of Mr. Xie in a car accident to the subsequent turmoil in the company, where Mr. Xie's father had to step out of retirement to stabilize the stock price, to Xie Zhen, who was forcibly taken to the Xie family's office building by the Xie family's bodyguards to go to work every day for two months, these were all hot topics among netizens at the time.
Netizens at the time talked about it with great relish, and even made bets on how long Xie Zhen could last after being forced to work. Internal employees also reported every day how Xie Er had a big fight with Mr. Xie and other senior executives.
This excitement lasted only a few days, but netizens got tired of paying attention. The Xie family gradually stabilized, and three years after the death of Mr. Xie, who had retired and returned to the post, announced that he would step back behind the scenes, and Xie Zhen officially took over.
The old melon was so exciting that Ah Yan lowered his head and watched it intently. He stared at it for so long that his head felt dizzy.
"We were only in junior high school at the time and we actually missed this opportunity." A Yan said to Jue Jue.
"I feel like I have some impression of it. After all, it happened in Bincheng, which is quite far away from us," said Zhu Jue.
The two of them caught up on the Xie family's past and felt that the amount of information they received today was a bit too much.
Ah Yan slowly bit the beef jerky that Xiao Bao bought. As he had been addicted to his phone for too long, he was now lying on Jue Rue's legs.
Zhu Jue touched her forehead and head with his warm fingers and massaged them slowly.
"Sister, what are we going to eat for lunch tomorrow when we buy clothes? There shouldn't be many people here tomorrow, right? Let me talk to the SA first?" Xiaobao asked from the side.
"Just don't eat hot pot." said A Yan.
After returning home, she had already eaten three hot pots. Although eating hot pot in winter is very comfortable, she didn't want to continue eating it for the time being.
Tan Dabao was sitting on the floor holding a laptop, while A Yan was sitting on the sofa, looking at the codes flashing rapidly on the computer, and immediately closed his eyes.
The code flashed so fast that she was dizzy.
"Barbecue? No, eating barbecue will make your body smell bad, and it will be inconvenient to try on clothes. Let me see..."
After massaging himself for a while, Ah Yan felt his head felt much more comfortable.
She immediately stretched out her hands and grasped Juejue's hand that was pressing on her temple, and they kept swinging their hands back and forth and playing with each other.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, the parents came back one after another. Ayan and Juejue carefully observed their parents' expressions and everything was normal.
As soon as Ms. Yu entered the room, she saw the lady occupying the sofa and immediately shouted, "Lazy bug, you haven't been lying at home all day, have you?"
"No." Ah Yan immediately retorted.
She stuck out her tongue at her mother, and was helped up by Juejue's arm, and sat on the ground with Dabao and Xiaobao.
That night, until before going to bed, Ayan was still searching for keywords in several apps, but still no news was revealed.
...
Ding Ling received a call late at night from the team leader.
Her physique didn't require much sleep, so she just closed her eyes and rested on her bed in the hotel.
When the team leader asked her if it was convenient for her to come to the room to talk, Ding Ling knew that something must have happened.
"Lingdang, the Xie couple whose bodies and souls you reported have been transformed. Our people have already arrived at the Bincheng front line and have indeed discovered something."
The team leader looked serious, but there was obvious shock in his eyes as he looked at her.
"Oh." Ding Ling was not surprised by this.
It is normal for something to exist, otherwise it is impossible to explain why the body and soul would suddenly be exchanged for no reason.
However, this alone was not enough for the team leader to come to her at this time in the early morning.
She didn't say anything, just waited quietly for the team leader's next words.
"Xie Zhen was taken away by the police in Ningcheng today. It's a criminal case. Our people ran into their people at Xie's villa in Bincheng." The team leader explained quickly.
Ding Ling's pupils shrank suddenly. "Criminal case?"
"You should know about the murder case." The team leader said, looking at her with increasingly strange eyes.
She hurriedly asked again: "When was it caught?"
"According to the information we just received, he was taken away this afternoon. The team investigating the case is the most mysterious in the department, and no one knows their whereabouts."
Ding Ling was completely stunned at this moment. Criminal case, murder case, taken away at noon today, top-secret public security team.
"I know this team was responsible for national security, but I didn't expect them to suddenly come and capture Xie Zhen."
"Lingdang, you expected all this, right?" The team leader's tone was a little sad.
"You, you are worthy of being you."
Hearing the team leader's sigh, Ding Ling immediately wanted to refute that it was not her.
Of course it wasn't her, but Ayan and the others!
At this moment, Ding Ling's eyes were clear, her mind was extremely clear, and she murmured: "So that's it, so that's it."
She had just left the Xie family's courtyard this morning, and in the early morning of today, she completed the return of Xie Zhen and Lan Ruo's body and soul.
Originally, Ding Ling was a little confused as to why Ah Yan and the others had met the two people from the Xie family more than a month ago, but waited until today to take action.
She thought that Ah Yan was observing and testing whether the other person was worthy of help, but she never expected that it was because Ah Yan had anticipated everything.
What a coincidence, why did it have to be today?
The night before yesterday, A Yan contacted me for help. We met unexpectedly in the courtyard yesterday, and he directly confirmed the time for his help with me.
Moreover, A Yan had already brought the two necessary magical instruments with him.
"Everything is for today." Ding Ling said in his heart.
The secret team the team leader mentioned probably has a confidentiality level comparable to that of their special case team. Today's sudden arrest and detention might have been decided at some point.
But Ah Yan had anticipated all of this and knew it all.
Or perhaps, Ayan saw all of this from high up and far away, and then helped Lanruo to extricate herself at the last moment.
Otherwise, it would be the unlucky Lan Ruo who would be in jail now.
I'm afraid that from the moment she first met Ah Yan more than a month ago, she had already seen the ending more than a month later.
A Yan waved his sleeves in a place invisible to ordinary people, which helped the completion of this cause and effect, allowing him to successfully rescue Lan Ruo. A Yan and Zhu Jue seemed to have nothing to do with this matter.
"It's amazing. He has calculated everything." Ding Ling murmured.
Yesterday in the Xie family's courtyard, Ding Ling had already noticed that A Yan and Zhu Jue were obviously cold towards Xie Zhen.
At that time, Ding Ling just thought that they didn't like Xie Zhen, and she was the same.
But now it seems that they are fully aware of it all, and that is the look of looking at a dead person.
"The power of time and space." She said softly.
"Lingdang, what did you say?" asked the team leader.
"Nothing?" Ding Ling immediately shook her head.
She will handle this matter. Ah Yan and the others have not taken any action so far. They just made a move on the chessboard and let everything happen naturally. She will not let the peaceful life of the young couple be disturbed.
"By the way, team leader, do you think there will be some mysterious person at this Shengxuan meeting?" Ding Ling suddenly brought up the matter.
"Yes, but it has to be kept secret now, so I don't know either. I only know that a master has come, but I don't know which family or which person he is." said the team leader.
"I'm here to tell you a piece of news. The team will help you contact and handle it. Don't worry, you've done a great job again this time." The team leader left the room leisurely.
At this moment, Ding Ling's eyelashes fluttered, and she did not deny that the team leader had pushed the blame of this incident onto her.
In order to protect Ah Yan and the others' identities, this is the only way for the time being. Ding Ling plans to make public all the things that happened to her after the two of them finish their training and cultivation.
It was past midnight and Ding Ling was in high spirits. She stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel and looked at the lights outside.
"Has the power of time and space reached the point where it can capture the past and the future?" Ding Ling murmured.
"This is more than just entering the path of Buddhism..."
Ah Yan, ah Ah Yan. Every time she thought she had understood Ah Yan and Zhu Jue well enough, she would suffer another round of mental blow, refreshing her worldview.
Now, Ding Ling can confirm that A Yan and the others have touched the time barrier. They saw today's ending more than a month ago, but they did not take action personally. Instead, they inadvertently manipulated the situation and quietly let everything move towards the predetermined ending.
With such strength and ability, Ding Ling thought, perhaps, Ayan and the others were never the “young people” she imagined.
Even if he was a genius, it was impossible for him to manipulate the cause and effect of time and space before reaching his twenties.
Perhaps, Ayan and the others are just like herself, with a much longer lifespan than her roommates, and they have sealed some of their memories, and are slowly awakening after reincarnation?
Ding Ling's eyes became increasingly solemn. Could it be that...Ayan and the others were the ancestors of which branch of the Xuanmen sect?