Chapter 92 Golden Mask
When all three people arrived, the director formally introduced the whole picture of the case to them.
It turns out that Lin Xiaoyu was not the only person missing in this incident. Also missing with Lin Xiaoyu was a friend of hers named Su Qing, who was a new friend Lin Xiaoyu made after leaving the Bureau of Supernatural Powers. She was with Lin Xiaoyu at the time of the incident. The reason why there was no special mention was because the other party was considered to be a mortal. The staff of the Bureau of Supernatural Powers speculated that the other party was probably implicated by Lin Xiaoyu. In addition, her life or death is currently unknown, so the staff of the Bureau of Supernatural Powers can only do their best to comfort her family.
Therefore, the main task of this incident is to find out the truth behind Lin Xiaoyu's disappearance, and the secondary task is to determine whether Su Qing is dead or alive. If possible, we must find her alive, or her body if she is dead.
After saying all this, in the quiet office, Director Wang began to tell another story in his old voice.
This story happened ten years ago.
Ten years ago, Chief Wang was still an ordinary policeman. One day, he received a case in which a man named Lin Haotian was missing.
The person who came to report the case was a yellow-haired man, which is what we now call a young man in society.
When he came to the police station, he looked terrified.
You know, in that era, such people were often lawless. When Director Wang saw that person for the first time, he was wondering, what could make this person so scared?
Missing persons are no trivial matter and the case was successfully filed.
But during the investigation they discovered something.
First of all, it is Lin Aotian’s identity.
In today's terms, this guy was a gangster who made a living by lending money at high interest rates.
Almost as soon as they learned this man's identity, many police officers wanted to quit their job.
It's not just because this kind of person is the scum of society and there's no need to save him.
Or it is because loan sharking itself is a job that is very easy to make enemies with people. Compared with other jobs, it is very difficult to investigate.
To put it bluntly, a moneylender who was well-known locally would have a line of people who wanted to kill him from the outskirts of South City to the city center.
This also includes debtors and competitors.
When police investigate cases, this is often what they fear the most.
No matter how sophisticated the method of committing a crime is, there will be flaws.
For the police, the real trouble is never high-IQ crimes, but indiscriminate killings and too large a number of suspects.
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After more than ten days of investigation, the investigation team visited the debtors on the list of debtors in Lin Haotian's hand provided by the yellow-haired informant.
However, after more than ten days, the police comrades found nothing.
Even though a few suspects were arrested along the way, they were released due to lack of evidence.
The incident continued like this. Under normal circumstances, if Lin Haotian or his body could not be found, the police would most likely classify the case as an unsolved case.
Either the murderer is allowed to go unpunished until one day it is restarted by a big shot who cares about the matter, or it completely disappears into the dust of history.
But something unexpected happened at this time, it was another case involving a colleague.
Compared with the not-so-small missing persons case he was handling, his colleague's case was obviously much more serious - gold reselling.
You know, as a universal currency and precious metal, reselling gold is a felony in any era.
What's more, in this case, the amount of gold resale caught was more than ten kilograms, which is a huge amount and should not be underestimated.
One is a missing persons case, the other is a gold reselling case. What is the connection between these two seemingly unrelated cases?
The answer is simple, because the police found a large amount of blood in the dozen kilograms of gold they seized.
Coincidentally, although the DNA testing technology had not yet been fully popularized at that time, it had already begun to be initially applied, and Nanshi happened to have this technology.
After examining the bloodstains on the fist-sized piece of gold, the police officers were able to confirm that the owner of the blood was none other than Lin Haotian, who had been missing for a long time.
Thus, the two cases were combined together and the two police teams began a joint investigation.
Director Wang and his wife met each other during that incident.
Ahem——
But this is not the point. The point is that, relying on advanced modern criminal investigation technology, the suspect was quickly arrested, and he quickly admitted his crimes and will be tried by law.
Unfortunately, if the story ended here, it wouldn’t be worth Director Wang’s long talk about it.
Because even now, the most important question in this story has not been explained, that is, where did the gold he resold come from? There is no record at the customs or border. It is impossible that he just made it out of thin air, right?
And less importantly, where did he take Lin Haotian's body?
That’s right, at this point the police have completely confirmed that he is the murderer of Lin Haotian.
After an urgent investigation, the police found that the suspect, Wang Qiang, was a gambler. He owed Lin Haotian a large amount of foreign debt because of gambling and was determined to take revenge.
This was originally a revenge drama that could not be more ordinary. However, during their investigation, they discovered a suspicious point, that is, Wang Qiang had actually paid back Lin Haotian's money.
Seven months after Wang Qiang owed foreign debt, he suddenly got a large sum of cash from somewhere and paid off his debt. Unfortunately, Lin Haotian was greedy and asked him for interest, which led to his death on the way to Wang Qiang's house for the second time to ask for interest.
Facing the police's interrogation, Wang Qiang became emotional and shouted loudly:
"What's wrong? Did I do something wrong? I've already paid the money back to that son of a bitch, but he still wants interest from me. Beep, beep, shouldn't I kill him?"
Wang Qiang was handcuffed on the interrogation chair, swearing and speaking in an agitated tone, but the policeman interrogating him just picked his ears out of boredom.
To the police, this kind of thing is just a large-scale gang-on-gang situation.
Then the police asked about the source of the gold and Lin Haotian's body, but Wang Qiang refused to talk and said that he had picked up the gold himself.
This was simply ridiculous, so a new round of interrogation began. It lasted another three days and three nights. The police psychologist got to the point, and soon Wang Qiang confessed everything that had happened.
But what Wang Qiang confessed next was so bizarre that Director Wang, who had not had much contact with the group of people with superpowers at the time, exclaimed.
Because in Wang Qiang's story, all his gold came from a mask, a mask made of gold.
It was a magical mask, Wang Qiang reflected.
Because as long as the wearer wears it, he will have the power to turn stone into gold, but the price is blood.
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