Chapter 77 Chapter 77 I am just a high-sounding executioner
Chapter 77
Qin Ye sat up straight and saw the pure white walls of a single room in the municipal hospital.
Hearing the noise, Yu Cheng, who was sleeping at the foot of the bed, straightened up instantly. For the first time, his carefree face showed nervousness: "Qin Ye, are you awake? Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"
Qin Ye realized it later. He raised his hand to touch his aching neck. He opened his mouth several times before hearing his own hoarse voice: "Where's Wen Qun? Have you caught him?"
Yu Cheng stood up and poured her a glass of water. He carefully inserted a straw into the water and passed it to her mouth. "Brother Guang and his team received a report yesterday that a man with a bullet wound was found downstream of the river. They brought Han Weiqing to identify the body. His clothing, height and appearance match Wen Qun's exactly."
Yesterday at noon, Wen Qun's body was brought back to the police station, and Yu Cheng conducted a detailed inspection of the body.
"The bullet you fired pierced Wen Qun's heart, killing him instantly. His body fell into the river, and when it was found yesterday, it had already rotted to varying degrees due to the erosion of the water."
Qin Ye was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but think of the man in black who appeared by the river that night: "I didn't kill Wen Qun..."
Yu Cheng was also stunned: "It's not you? The bullet taken out of Wen Qun's body was shot from your pistol. Could it be that you lost too much blood and became confused, and don't remember the details of the situation?"
By the time Qian Yaguang and others arrived at the river, Qin Ye had already fainted due to excessive blood loss, and she was still holding her service pistol tightly in her hand.
Qin Ye shook his head and said firmly: "I remember very clearly that it was not me who killed Wen Qun, but a man in a black raincoat."
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Upon learning that Qin Ye had woken up, the members of the Criminal Investigation Team rushed to the ward immediately.
Wen Tingting looked at Qin Ye leaning against the head of the bed, her eyes instantly reddened: "Captain Qin, you scared me to death... I almost thought you would never wake up..."
She couldn't forget the way Qin Ye looked when he was found just now——
Qin Ye's face was as pale as paper, and blood flowed into the river from the two blood holes on his neck, and the water plants by the river were stained with blood.
"Thanks to Forensic Doctor Yu..."
Wen Tingting sniffed and looked at Yu Cheng gratefully, "He donated a lot of blood for you."
Qin Ye looked at Yu Cheng in surprise. From the time she woke up until now, Yu Cheng had never mentioned that he had donated blood to her: "Yu Cheng, thank you."
When Yu Cheng heard her thank you, he stiffened uncomfortably, then cockily lifted his hair and said, "Oh, it's just a small matter, it's all a small matter."
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One month after Wen Qun was confirmed dead, there were no more "Cat Fairy" murders in Wuning City.
On the day Qin Ye was discharged from the hospital, Qian Yaguang brought the two-month-long thick case file to her desk and breathed a sigh of relief: "This case is finally settled! We can finally sleep well!"
The others laughed and agreed with him.
Only Qin Ye was staring at the file in front of her in a daze. She still couldn't help but think of the man in black who appeared by the river that day.
Qian Yaguang saw through her thoughts and said to comfort her: "Captain Qin, maybe you just saw it wrong?"
They surveyed the riverside that day and found no signs of a third person other than Wen Qun and Qin Ye. These days, they have been investigating many people based on Wen Qun as a clue, and arrested a group of followers of the First Immortal, but they have never found the "man in black" that Qin Ye mentioned.
Qin Ye was silent for a while, but still shook his head: "Don't close the case for now, I still think there are doubts in this case."
They still haven't figured out where Wen Qun got the anesthetic from; nor do they know where Wen Qun got the gun from.
She picked up the gun from the evidence bag and looked at it carefully for a long time.
Qian Yaguang said, "I checked Wen Qun's gun. It was a scrapped old gun that was withdrawn from the military region last year. There were too many people who handled the gun. It's hard to find out who Wen Qun got the gun from."
Qin Ye could only put down the evidence bag in his hand, looked around at everyone, and spoke again: "Let's keep an eye on the group of people on the cat abuser list for a while."
Everyone found the red box that Tang Xiaohua used to hold the cat's tails at Wen Qun's house, as well as a large amount of anesthetics, but the contact book of the cat abuse organization's members was nowhere to be found.
"We'll keep an eye on it for another half month. If everything remains calm after half a month, we'll consider closing the case."
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In the evening, Qin Ye sat in front of the dressing table, wearing gloves, applying medicine to the wound on his neck in front of the mirror.
Mother Qin knocked on the door holding a bowl of pig liver soup: "Ye Ye, the pig liver soup is ready, drink it while it's hot."
Qin Ye didn't want to make his mother worry, so he quickly put the gauze on his neck, then opened the door and took the bowl of soup from his mother's hand, and said to her coquettishly, "Mom, when can you stop drinking this bowl of soup? The pig liver soup is too hard to drink."
Mother Qin smiled good-naturedly and poked her head with her hand: "You...you lost so much blood, it's impossible to make up for it in a short time."
After saying that, Mother Qin's eyes unconsciously fell on the gauze on her neck. Her eyes turned red again, and she couldn't help but curse: "That damn cat fairy..."
During the half month that Qin Ye was in the hospital, Qin's mother cried every day out of heartache.
She was most afraid of seeing Qin's mother's tears, so she quickly picked up the pig liver soup and drank it all. After putting the bowl on the table, she surrendered to Qin's mother with both hands: "Okay, mother, please don't cry. I'm already alive and kicking, right?"
After she finished speaking, she realized that she was still wearing the gloves with medicine on them. Just as she reached out to take off the glove on her left hand, in a flash, she finally remembered where she had seen the man in black take off his gloves.
She was stunned, staring at the white gloves in her hands for a long time.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
Qin Ze opened the door and saw who was coming. He stretched his neck and shouted to the room: "Sister! Brother Yu Cheng is here to bring the soup bowl!"
Because Yu Cheng donated a lot of blood to Qin Ye, Qin's mother would make two servings of pig liver soup every day, and let Qin Ze deliver one of them to Yu Cheng who lived next door.
Qin Ye picked up the coat on the hanger, without having time to put it on, he hurried to the door and pulled Yu Cheng to the yard: "Hurry, let's go find Li Bai!"
Yu Cheng stumbled and was confused, but he followed him obediently: "It's so late, it's not good to disturb Li Bai."
Qin Ye said nothing, frowning as he covered his neck with the gauze that had just been wrapped. After hesitating for a moment, he lied temporarily and said, "My wound still hurts a little. I want to go see Li Bai."
When Yu Cheng heard her words, he didn't hesitate at all. He stepped on the accelerator to the bottom and the car sped away from the yard.
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On the outskirts of the city, only a dim light was on in Xu Libai's clinic.
Xu Libai sat on the bed, unwrapped a piece of compressed biscuit, put it into his mouth mechanically, and swallowed the dry biscuit with cold water.
He originally wanted to get rid of another person on the cat abuse organization's list tonight, but when chatting with Qian Yaguang, he learned that Qin Ye planned to let the police secretly protect these beasts for another half a month.
Is it time to stop?
Thinking this, Xu Libai ate the last bite of the biscuit.
He stood up and threw away the wrapping paper, and the next second, the sound of a car engine hummed outside the window.
In the car, Qin Ye and Yu Cheng jumped out one after the other. Before Yu Cheng even entered the door, he yelled at him at the top of his voice: "Li Bai! Li Bai! Qin Ye and I are here to see you!"
Xu Libai hid the obscurity in his eyes, put on a smile, opened the door and walked out to greet the two people: "It's so late, why are you two here at this time?"
Qin Ye covered the gauze around his neck, looked at Xu Libai and hesitated for a moment, then lied, "My wound hurts a little, maybe my dressing method is wrong, can you help me take a look?"
The moment she decided to test Xu Libai, she realized that her friendship with Xu Libai might be over...
Xu Libai keenly noticed Qin Ye's hesitation. He smiled, his expression unchanged, and turned sideways to invite the two of them in: "Of course, please come in."
He put on gloves skillfully and removed the gauze from Qin Ye's neck.
It was the first time since they had arrived at the river that he had gotten so close to observe Qin Ye's wound - Wen Qun had killed her with a fatal blow, with the entire metal beast tooth almost completely embedded in her carotid artery, so even after more than half a month, the wound still showed no signs of healing.
Xu Libai lowered his eyelids to hide the trace of regret in his eyes.
He never thought of hurting Qin Ye in this "Cat Fairy Murder Case". He had always been confident that he had control over Wen Qun, but it was not until that day that he realized that he did not have control over Wen Qun, and even - he could not control his own heart.
"The wound was treated well, there is no problem."
Xu Libai reapplied medicine to Qin Ye's neck, bandaged it carefully, and spoke again, "It's just that the wound is too deep, and pain is inevitable. If you really feel uncomfortable, I can prescribe some painkillers that are harmless to your body."
Qin Ye thanked him and pretended to casually look at Xu Wenzu's hands wearing white gloves.
Xu Wenzu noticed her staring at him and slightly raised the corner of his lip.
He raised his hand and grabbed the thumb part of the glove, glancing at Qin Ye out of the corner of his eye.
In just a moment, he loosened his hand and pulled the middle finger of the glove again. He did as he did every time, and in front of Qin Ye, he carefully repeated the action of taking off his gloves by the river that night.
Qin Ye's breathing stagnated and he raised his head.
The two people's gazes collided in the air, and for a moment, it seemed as if all the breath was frozen at this moment.
It was unknown how long it had been before Qin Ye heard Xu Libai's voice: "I did it."
Yu Cheng was still detached from the situation. He observed the solemn expressions of the two people and vaguely realized something, but did not dare to think about it further: "Li Bai, you..."
Xu Libai smiled at him gently, then looked at Qin Ye, his voice so soft that it was almost invisible: "I don't want to lie to you, you are my only friends, you can ask me any questions."
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There was dead silence in the small clinic; one could vaguely hear the wind whistling outside the window.
The three of them seemed to be stuck in a stalemate. After an unknown amount of time, Xu Libai himself broke the silent stalemate: "Qin Ye, please save some self-respect for me. I don't want to sit in the interrogation room with handcuffs on and accept your questioning."
At least at this moment, in this clinic, they are still close friends.
Qin Ye only felt the pain in the wound on his neck, and even his eyes were slightly moist: "The man in black who killed Wen Qun, was it you?"
Xu Libai nodded gently: "He and I have some differences of opinion. Apart from killing him, I have no other way to resolve this disagreement."
Wen Qun wanted Qin Ye to die, but he couldn't bear to do so.
He had hidden his true feelings for so long that he seemed to have forgotten that he liked Qin Ye as much as Yu Cheng did.
But in the end, Xu Libai just said: "Qin Ye, you are a good policeman. I have never thought of hurting any good person in doing all this. But Wen Qun, he is a paranoid."
Qin Ye had interrogated many people, but at this moment, she was actually a little afraid to continue asking.
She exhaled a breath of foul air, stared at Xu Libai for a long time, and finally spoke again: "So...what role did you play in the Cat Fairy Case?"
Xu Libai said calmly: "I am the Cat Fairy, Wen Qun is just an accomplice."
He secretly "executed" too many criminals, whether it was a pregnant woman who killed her own brother, a villager who sheltered abducted criminals, or a group of underage scum who committed cruel crimes in the prison when he was a prison doctor...
He always knew that what he did was not true justice.
But...other than this, he couldn't think of a better way.
The victims and their families live under the shadow of the past all day long, as if they were covered with a dry quilt. The cold always jumps into their bodies from time to time, and it is a bone-chilling cold.
Those cruel criminals were given a golden medal of immunity from death because they were pregnant, because the law did not punish the masses, because they were minors... As long as they are alive, they are like a sword hanging over the heads of the victims and their families.
He wanted to cut the sword off.
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Xu Libai stood up, took out the list of cat abuse organization members from the compartment at the head of the bed, and handed it to Qin Ye.
"When I was a prison doctor, I treated an underage prisoner. Probably because I looked very friendly, he told me frankly that there were many cat abusers around him."
Xu Libai pointed at Tang Xiaohua on the list of members and laughed sarcastically, "That underage criminal coaxed his seven-year-old half sister to the balcony, sewed up the little girl's mouth, and pushed her down from the building. Before that, he and Tang Xiaohua used this cruel method to torture and kill several cats."
The underage prisoner looked coldly at his sister lying in a pool of blood and twitching. Only after she was completely motionless did he slowly call the police station and surrender himself.
When Xu Libai closed his eyes, he could still recall the other party's smug face at that time: "His mother had already lost her little daughter and didn't want to lose her eldest son, so she issued a letter of understanding."
Because the criminal was a minor and had a letter of forgiveness from the victim's family and surrendered himself, he was not sentenced to death.
So, Xu Libai secretly drugged the other party and watched him decline step by step and then die.
"I can't accept that he can leave prison smoothly before he's 30. He said that he still has a lot of time in the future to do whatever he wants. But...what about the little girl he killed?"
Xu Libai looked at Qin Ye without dodging his gaze. "He told me that in the cat-torturing organization he belongs to, many people have a demon in their hearts. They all have people they want to torture and kill, and even if they don't, they enjoy swinging their knives at the weaker ones."
You won’t be sentenced for abusing a cat.
They are fully aware of this, which is why their methods of abusing cats become more cruel each time, and their ranks are growing day by day.
Qin Ye opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he felt that at this moment, anything he said would seem extremely pale and powerless.
Xu Libai smiled and looked at the names that were crossed out on the list. His tone was cold and arrogant: "Since there is no law that can restrain them, then I will be the law to punish them."
So, with Wen Qun's assistance, he killed those cat abusers again and again.
"Right on the riverbank where Wen Qun was about to kill you, I knocked those people unconscious and used that string of metal animal teeth to drain their blood one by one. All the blood flowed into the river, leaving no trace."
Xu Libai said frankly, "Wen Qun has always known how to stir up public sentiment, so he wrote the article "Revenge of the Cat Fairy". I just didn't expect that my 'punishment' almost destroyed the order of Wuning City."
At this point, he laughed sarcastically: "I originally just wanted to be a defender of order, but in the end, I became the biggest destroyer of order."
He held out his hands to Qin Ye: "Catch me, Officer Qin Ye. I am not your friend now. I am just an executioner trying to find a plausible excuse. I am willing to face any trial that belongs to me."
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