Chapter 73 Chapter 73 The Revenge of the Cat Fairy
Chapter 73
"My son is the best kid! The best!"
Tang Jun was so excited that he stood up suddenly, and the movement was so big that he fell heavily to the ground along with the interrogation chair.
Qin Ye walked forward, squatted beside Tang Jun, and looked down at him quietly: "So... you would rather bear the crime of killing your own son, but also want to maintain Tang Xiaohua's good image in the eyes of outsiders?"
She took out a photo of Tang Xiaohua from her pocket and handed it to Tang Jun: "You should know better than anyone how tragic Tang Xiaohua's death was. Are you really willing to let the murderer who killed him escape justice just to protect the child's image?"
Tang Jun stared blankly at the photo in Qin Ye's hand.
He remembered very clearly that this photo was taken by him personally after Xiaohua won the Mathematical Olympiad for the first time.
Xiaohua also said at the time... that he admired his parents the most, and he must study hard to get into a good university, and become a good teacher like his parents in the future.
But, since when did his Xiaohua change?
When Tang Jun thought of this, a 1.80-meter-tall man suddenly started to cry like a child: "It's our fault... It's our fault, wuwuwuwu..."
Since childhood, Tang Xiaohua has always been the most popular genius child in the entire county's staff compound.
He has been obedient and sensible since childhood, and he can always complete the tasks assigned to him by Tang Jun and his wife perfectly. While other children were rebellious during adolescence and had a lot of trouble with their parents, Tang Xiaohua was always kind and polite to others and his grades were among the best.
Everyone envied Tang Jun and his wife for being able to raise such a good child. Before that incident happened, Tang Jun always thought that his son Tang Xiaohua was the best child.
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"I first noticed Xiaohua's abnormality half a year ago. I returned home early because I had no work at school that day."
Tang Jun stroked Tang Xiaohua's photo and said softly, "When I got home, I saw him washing clothes in the bathroom. The clothes were all covered in blood. I was scared at the time and thought Xiaohua was bullied at school."
He wanted to contact Tang Xiaohua's class teacher, but was stopped by Tang Xiaohua: "Dad, no one bullied me, it's just that the weather has been too hot recently, and I got a nosebleed due to inflammation."
Tang Jun seemed to believe what Tang Xiaohua said, but he was still somewhat skeptical in his heart, worried that someone would bully his child.
From that day on, he began to secretly pay attention to Tang Xiaohua's every move, fearing that Tang Xiaohua would be bullied.
Until one evening, Tang Xiaohua asked Tang Jun for ten yuan, saying that he wanted to go to Xinhua Bookstore to buy teaching materials. Tang Xiaohua walked out of the door, but headed in the completely opposite direction of Xinhua Bookstore.
Tang Jun instantly became alert and followed secretly, but he saw a scene that still makes his spine shudder when he thinks about it now.
"Xiaohua...abuses cats..."
Tang Jun's voice was trembling as he told Qin Ye the secret he had concealed for so long, and he also tore off the fig leaf he had covered Tang Xiaohua with, "I have never seen Xiaohua like that... That cat didn't even look like it was a full month old... but he broke its neck."
Tang Xiaohua, who is usually sunny and sensible, at that moment, exudes the viciousness from hell.
Tang Jun collapsed at that moment, rushed forward and slapped Tang Xiaohua hard several times.
Tang Xiaohua didn't expect that his father would find out about his cat abuse. He knelt down and cried, "Dad, I'm sorry. I've just been under too much pressure from studying lately. I promise I won't do this again."
Tang Jun believed Tang Xiaohua's assurance, but later he discovered that Tang Xiaohua seemed to still be abusing cats, but his behavior had become more covert than at the beginning.
He beat Tang Xiaohua many times for this, and the most serious time was when he almost broke Tang Xiaohua's ribs.
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"I didn't dare let his mother know about Xiaohua's cat abuse. More than half a month ago, he was scratched by a cat, and his mother and I took him to the hospital..."
Tang Jun forced a wry smile at Qin Ye. "It was the day you, the police officer, met me by chance... I knew at that time that Xiaohua must have abused cats again. After giving him the injection, I questioned him for a long time behind my wife's back, and he finally told me that he stole the key to the sports equipment warehouse that I kept, and often went to the warehouse to abuse cats."
From that day on, except for class time, Tang Jun followed Tang Xiaohua closely to prevent him from doing such vicious things again.
"I didn't expect... I really didn't expect... The night before yesterday, I was on duty at school, and my wife went back to her parents' home. Xiaohua was alone at home and something unexpected happened..."
When Tang Jun thought of Tang Xiaohua's tragic death, he finally dared to cry out loud for the first time.
Qin Ye frowned: "So - what on earth were you thinking that made you admit that you were the murderer? And what did you burn in the warehouse?"
Tang Jun took off his glasses, wiped away his tears with his sleeve, and quickly regained his sanity: "The dead cannot be resurrected. The only thing I can do is to help Xiaohua conceal his evil deeds of abusing cats when he was alive. Only in this way, people will not scold him. I don't want Xiaohua to be loved by everyone when he is alive, but to be scolded by everyone after he dies."
There was a lot of evidence of Tang Xiaohua's cat abuse in the sports equipment warehouse, and it was those evidences that Tang Jun burned that day.
Qin Ye couldn't understand Tang Jun's idea at all: "What else did you burn besides the cat skin?"
Tang Jun: "There was also a diary, which contained all of Xiaohua's thoughts about abusing cats. I read two pages and was so disgusted that I just burned it."
Wen Tingting was almost mad with anger. Maybe the diary contained clues to the real murderer!
Qin Ye had learned almost everything from Tang Jun. He packed up his confession, stood up and left: "Tang Jun, we will investigate you according to the law for disrupting the case and interfering with the police's investigation."
"Comrade police officer."
Before she left, Tang Jun couldn't help himself and called her with his lips stammering, "Can you not make Xiaohua's cat abuse public?"
Just as he finished asking, Murong knocked on the door of the interrogation room and walked in: "Captain Qin, we just took the canned cat food that Tang Xiaohua gave to the female classmates in the class before his death for testing, and found a lethal amount of pesticides in it."
When Tang Jun heard Murong's words, he shuddered all over.
His face was pale, as if his bones had been suddenly pulled out, and he slumped limply in the chair.
He knew that his son's good reputation, which he had risked his life to protect, was completely gone from this moment on.
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After Qin Ye confirmed that Tang Xiaohua had abused cats several times, he thought of Zheng Chaochao, who died in the same way as Tang Xiaohua, and had a vague guess in his mind - these two people must have abused cats more than once in their lifetime.
"Captain Qin, we have a clue!"
Liang Dong and Qian Yaguang came back exhausted and slapped a photo on the table. "These two dead people actually knew each other!"
In the photo, Tang Xiaohua was still wearing the county middle school uniform and was pulled into a corner of the dance hall by Zheng Chaochao. It was unknown what they were talking about.
The two of them pulled out a stool and sat down, gasping for breath from exhaustion.
Seeing this, Qin Ye poured a cup of warm water for each of them. After they calmed down, he asked, "Where did you find this photo?"
Qian Yaguang picked up the water cup, gulped it down in two gulps, and poured himself another cup: "In the Happy Dance Hall in the city center. Dongzi and I found out at the machinery factory that there was a junior high school student who claimed to be the cousin of the deceased Zheng Chaochao, and he often asked Zheng Chaochao out to play on weekends."
As they listened to the descriptions of the people in the machinery factory, they felt more and more that the junior high school student who came to see Zheng Chaochao looked like Tang Xiaohua.
"I took out Tang Xiaohua's photo and showed it to the people at the machinery factory. It was indeed Tang Xiaohua!"
Qian Yaguang had a loud voice, and when he talked about the investigation process in a rhythmic manner, everyone couldn't help but come over to listen. "Zheng Chaochao's roommate said that Zheng Chaochao often went to the Happy Dance Hall to look for her lover, so we thought we would try our luck."
Unexpectedly, Liang Dong was sharp-eyed and found Tang Xiaohua and Zheng Chaochao serving as the background on the photo wall in the dance hall.
Qin Ye picked up the photo and looked at it carefully for a long time. He found that behind Tang Xiaohua and Zheng Chaochao, there was a girl with curly hair and purple eyeshadow.
The girl looked nervous, as if she was on guard.
"Check this girl. I suspect the three of them know each other, and..."
Qin Ye's expression became serious. "She is very likely to be the next victim."
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Everyone underestimated how quickly this serial murder case would spread.
That afternoon, a serialized novel titled "Revenge of the Cat Fairy" was published in the provincial evening newspaper. The novel describes in detail the cat fairy's sorrow for the "people" who were killed while wandering in the mortal world, as well as her determination for revenge.
Every midnight, the Cat Fairy comes to the human world and executes humans who commit crimes of abusing cats. The first target of the cat fairy's revenge was a junior high school boy who seemed to be "excellent in both character and academic performance".
The novel has a tortuous and exciting plot, and describes in detail how the cat fairy punishes cat abusers.
However, in just one night, all readers who read the evening paper were deeply impressed by "Revenge of the Cat Fairy".
The classmates of the deceased Tang Xiaohua, especially the class monitor who witnessed Tang Xiaohua's death, always felt that the target of the cat fairy's revenge in this story was Tang Xiaohua.
The rumor that Tang Xiaohua was a cat abuser spread throughout the school overnight.
The next afternoon, "Revenge of the Cat Fairy" was updated again. This time the target of revenge was a male worker in the machinery factory.
Everyone in the Criminal Investigation Team also saw this article.
Qin Ye closed the newspaper, his expression solemn: "Everyone has read this article, and it is clear how much the description in the article matches the two cases we are facing, so there are only two possibilities-"
Either someone inside the police station leaked the inside story of the case; or, there must be a connection between the person who wrote this article and the murderer!
"Li Quan and I are going to the newspaper office now to see if we can find out who the author of this article is. Brother Guang, the task of finding that girl is now up to you guys. Once you find the girl, make sure you take turns protecting her in secret."
Qin Ye gulped down a cup of coffee, put on his coat, pulled Li Quan and ran out.
Time is running out. They only have limited clues now. The murderer is meticulous and may strike again at any time.
They have to race against time.
Qin Ye knew very well that there was no vengeful "Cat Fairy" in the world, and there must be someone playing tricks behind the "Cat Fairy" killing people.
She looked at the scene outside the window that was constantly receding, and couldn't help but think of someone - Wen Qun.
He packaged himself as the "first immortal" and promoted worship among believers. Could the "Revenge of the Cat Immortal" also be his secret plot?
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