The End of the Night (18)

July 16, 1994, late at night.

At the Great World Billiard Stadium, when the 30-year-old Liang Ran took off the white mask, Lu He almost suffocated. He couldn't believe that the white-faced man was Liang Ran, and that the murderer of the Red Makeup Serial Murder Case was Liang Ran.

He even had a bad association that the murderer of the Red Lacquer Serial Murder Case was Liang Chenghao. For a moment, the ideals and beliefs in his heart seemed to collapse and shatter.

Meng Siqi already knew the murderer through the pictures in advance, so she was not surprised. Those pictures were also obtained by her investigation thirty years later, which meant that in another world, Zhao Lei Ting had successfully brought Liang Ran to justice.

In both worlds, they successfully revealed the truth of the Hongzhuang serial murder case.

Next, they only need to interrogate Liang Ran to find out everything about her, the Red Lacquer Serial Murder Case, and her father Liang Chenghao. Perhaps the saddest person should be Lu He, who may not be able to accept it. He also has no idea that in her previous four cycles, he was killed by Liang Ran.

Liang Ran smiled bitterly and said, "Lu He, are you surprised that the person you've been looking for is me?"

Lu He sighed and ordered, "Take it away!"

Zhao Leiting had just arrived and rushed forward to pick up the unconscious Zhao Yuting. Meng Siqi went forward to observe Yuting's condition. Yuting was not injured and her clothes were intact, which meant that Liang Ran had no time to hurt her. Fortunately, this scene came in time.

Zhao Leiting sent Zhao Yuting to the hospital, and they escorted Liang Ran back to the police station. Meng Siqi drove Lu He back. On the way, Lu He was in a depressed mood. Meng Siqi also wanted him to digest it slowly. After all, who could accept that the enemy who killed his mother and the person who raised him were the same person, and that the sister who had been with him day and night and admired each other was the real murderer they had been looking for!

After returning to the police station, it was already past midnight. Because of Lu He's relationship with Liang Ran, he could not participate in the interrogation, so the interrogation task was handed over to Feng Shaomin and Luo Xiaoguo.

Originally, the interrogation was to be conducted by Meng Siqi, but she felt too tired. She also did not want to listen to Liang Ran's stories about Lu He's childhood, because Liang Chenghao must have been responsible for the death of Lu He's mother. She decided to look back at the interrogation records.

Glancing at Lu He who was sitting silently in his desk chair, Meng Siqi decided to leave him alone for a while and went back to her office to rest for a while.

Tang Xiaochuan attended the interrogation with Feng Shaomin. Meng Siqi returned to the second team office, alone, and sat in a chair, emptying her mind. The rain was still falling outside.

While resting, a new picture suddenly flashed before her eyes. It was a picture of a man digging the soil in the heavy rain. There was a corpse lying under the man's feet.

This scene finally arrived. Meng Siqi had been waiting for this scene for the fifth time, because the man in this scene was Meng Tingzhe.

She arrested Meng Tingzhe herself thirty years later, so the scene would definitely reappear.

She quickly ran to the first office and shouted, "Lu He, Meng Tingzhe killed someone!"

"What!" Lu He stood up in almost a second, recovering from his depressed state to full health.

Liang Yunfeng and Cai Shuangxi were still in the office. He immediately ordered: "Yunfeng, Shuangxi, call the police immediately!"

"Okay, team."

Soon, four police cars sped in the rain. Lu He returned to work and drove the car himself, with Meng Siqi sitting in the passenger seat.

Lu He asked: "Siqi, how did you know that Meng Tingzhe killed someone tonight and wanted to bury the body?"

In fact, Meng Siqi couldn't explain it at all, but she knew some secrets belonging to Meng Tingzhe and Gao Han.

"Lu He, I can only tell you these words. I had a long dream. In that dream, Meng Tingzhe killed someone and buried the body tonight." She felt that Lu He would definitely not believe it.

However, Lu He looked at her slowly and he believed it because he also had a long dream. In that dream, he and Meng Siqi spent a wonderful time together, but in the end, Meng Siqi was kidnapped and when he went to rescue her, he was ambushed. He died with regrets because he failed to rescue Siqi. He didn't know if Siqi had died in that dream as well. How much he hoped that in that dream, she could live happily forever.

So when he met Meng Siqi for the first time, he remembered the person in his memory. He must never let anything happen to her again in his life.

Police cars quickly surrounded the Meng family residence. The car lights, as bright as daylight, were all aimed at the front yard of the residence, and one after another was reflected on a man's head. In the heavy rain, the man gave up the action due to the sudden change, and he was using his hands to block the strong light.

Meng Tingzhe was wearing a raincoat and holding a shovel. In the dark rainy night, he had already dug a pit more than one meter deep in the front yard in the heavy rain. He had to continue digging. His goal was a three-meter pit, but he never expected that his secret action would be discovered. Anger and despair slowly filled his heart.

Soon he saw several policemen rushing into the sea of ​​rain and surrounding him, among them was his "good sister" Meng Siqi. He knew it must be her, she must have discovered his secret.

From the first day she returned to the Meng family, he was worried about being replaced by her. He tried every means to drive her out of the Meng family, sow discord in her parents' minds, and work day and night to win the trust of Meng Hui and Ye Xiuhui in order to win his absolute position in the Meng family. But it seemed that Cang Tian was against him, and this woman eventually destroyed him at the Meng family's doorstep.

In the heavy rain, "Ah..." the man waved a shovel and howled at the sky, "If I had known, I would have killed you! Kill you!"

He cried and lay down in the deep pit, and curled up in the pit he had dug and cried.

He recalled the day when he was chosen by Meng Hui from the welfare home and brought back to the Meng family. He thought his life would be changed. In fact, the day when Ye Xiuhui put a skirt on him, he knew that he was a substitute. He didn't want to be a substitute, he just wanted to be himself!

However, Gao Han told him personally that if he didn't give him 500,000 yuan, he would tell Meng Hui everything, saying that Meng Hui liked to wear women's clothes and liked to look for men to play sexual abuse games. Gao Han also secretly hid his private photos.

In order to maintain his social status and consolidate his position and wealth, he had to kill Gao Han.

At this time, Gao Han's body was lying beside the deep pit, his face cold and pale, his eyes wide open, looking terrified and desperate. Facing the rain of arrows, he was complaining about the injustice he had suffered.

"Meng Tingzhe, we are criminal police from the Municipal Public Security Bureau. You are involved in murder and we are now formally arresting you!" Lu He's righteous voice rang out amid Meng Tingzhe's crying and the sound of rain.

Meng Siqi saw with her own eyes that Meng Tingzhe was arrested by the criminal police and handcuffed. Her tears slowly slid down the corners of her eyes, tears of relief and also tears of victory.

Five cycles, countless thirty years, she heard the explosion on the top of the Sujiang Tower, she saw the forged will of her father, she and her parents suffered all kinds of persecution from Meng Tingzhe, she endured his bullying and cold violence for thirty years, today, she won everything, everything that belonged to her.

She couldn't wait to tell him again: "Meng Tingzhe, the law is merciless. I said I would arrest you myself!"

Meng Tingzhe was pushed into the police car by the criminal police. He turned his head to look at Meng Siqi and said with a wry smile: "You win. I regret... I regret sending you to the police academy..."

The operation was over and it was already 4 o'clock in the morning when we returned. Almost everyone who participated in the operation was soaking wet. The interrogation of Feng Shaomin was also over, and Lu He asked Meng Siqi to go back and rest first.

Meng Siqi guessed that Lu He would look carefully at the interrogation files because what happened twenty-four years ago, especially his mother's affairs, were what he cared about most.

Meng Siqi went back home, took a hot bath and fell asleep for a while. She guessed that there might be more things to come tomorrow, and Liang Ran still had some secrets she needed to verify. Regarding the case of Meng Tingzhe murdering Gao Han, Lu He said that he would personally conduct the trial.

The next day, Meng Siqi got up an hour later. When she returned to the office, she found that she was the first one to arrive. There was an interrogation record on her desk. She opened it and found it was Liang Ran's interrogation record. She guessed that Lu He had finished reading the file yesterday and this should be the last one he left for her.

She immediately opened it and read it. Liang Ran confessed the three red makeup murders and the three red paint murders of his father Liang Chenghao. Liang Ran mentioned that when he was six years old, he was molested by Xu Wangtu at Xiwang Primary School, and his father designed the red paint serial murders. Liang Ran designed the red makeup serial murders, and the final plan was to kill Xu Wangtu's granddaughter Xu Yizhou, and finally force Xu Wangtu to commit suicide out of fear of crime.

Liang Ran's account was very simple, but it was basically consistent with Meng Siqi's original speculation. Liang Ran saw the red lacquer makeup on Xu Wangtu's wife Xie Wenjuan, so he imitated her.

Liang Ran did not clearly state her motive for committing the crime, but Meng Siqi quickly inferred that her psychological defects were caused by the huge shadow of her childhood. Perhaps she did not make up for this defect as she grew up, and she has almost always been trapped in a cage of insecurity.

The death of her father should be the last barrier to her sense of security, so it makes sense that she committed the crime after her father's death. In addition, her father's participation in the crime and disguised connivance reduced her sense of guilt.

It should be said that she enjoys the process of committing crimes. She believes that everything she does is to make up for her own shortcomings. Therefore, her targets are mainly women who come from wealthy families, have good personal growth conditions, are loved by others, and most importantly, have never suffered any setbacks.

She is jealous of young women with good fortunes because of her own unfortunate fate, which may be a twisted compensation that she desires psychologically.

In addition to the benefits, she revealed that another reason for her cooperation with Jiang Sheng's Seattle Club was that Jiang Sheng facilitated her criminal activities in Jinyang City. The white masks she and Qiao Shijie wore were made by Jiang Sheng himself. Like Jiang Sheng, she enjoyed the sense of destiny control brought to her by the white mask, and her goal was to destroy those beautiful and flawless destinies.

Once, Jiang Sheng did not give Liang Ran away after being arrested. Liang Ran believed that a large part of the reason was because she took good care of Shen Lele, and she had promised Jiang Sheng that if something happened to him, she would take Lele to his mother's grave to worship every year, because the person Jiang Sheng cared about most was his mother.

In fact, all the events are basically clear, except for one thing: the death of Lu He's mother Qiao Jingyun. Liang Ran did not mention a word. Liang Ran's answer was that he did not know whether his father Liang Chenghao had hurt Qiao Jingyun.

But Meng Siqi believes that since Liang Ran knew about the three cases Liang Chenghao committed, he must also know the cause of death of Lu He's mother. She guessed that Liang Ran wanted to see Lu He, and Lu He must have gone to Liang Ran because of this matter. They must have a face-to-face conversation, and maybe Liang Ran would apologize and confess to Lu He. Maybe the relationship between the two can indeed be called "knowing each other", but only once.

There was another matter about Xu Wangtu. Xu Wangtu's molestation was the internal cause of Liang Ran's crime and the cause of Liang Chenghao's murder. However, Xu Wangtu never mentioned anything about Liang Ran's childhood. Why did he keep it secret? She thought Lu He should have the same question and he should come to her to interrogate Xu Wangtu.

After a while, Lu He walked into the office. "Siqi, are you here? Did you sleep well last night?"

"Team Lu. Not bad. How about you?" Meng Siqi stood up.

"Are you free? Come and interrogate Xu Wangtu with me."

"Okay." Meng Siqi observed Lu He. He had faint dark circles under his eyes, and it was obvious that he had not slept all night.