what's in the depths

"Name." The detective stared at him, his voice sounded emotionless.

"Li Zhen."

"date of birth."

"March [-]."

Standing outside the interrogation room, Fu Huaiyu folded his arms and stared coldly at the hunched-backed, gray-haired middle-aged man in the single-sided glass, who was swollen into a pig's head due to unrecovered plastic surgery.

Zhu Yuhan came over at some point: "Thanks for your hard work."

Fu Huaiyu looked at him contemptuously: "It's not as hard as you."

Just as he was about to refute, Chu Rong came in carrying a toolbox.

"Is the trial still in progress?"

"Well, it's basically certain that this is another criminal partner in Luo Ziyi's murder case."

"What is this guy's motive?"

"I live in the same village as Gao Yongmin's hometown, farming for a living. The harvest has not been good in the past few years, and the family is utterly destitute. His daughter is studying in graduate school this year, and her health is not very good. In addition, his daughter borrowed a lot of money when she was in college. Watching Gao Yongmin work in the city to earn money After paying a small amount of money, he went to join Gao Yongmin, intending to pay for his daughter's medical expenses. He listened to Gao Yongmin's slander and kidnapped Luo Ziyi together, and he also admitted to participating in sex. Invading Luo Ziyi... Now that the medical expenses were not earned, he put himself in it gone."

Zhu Yuhan said "tsk tsk" twice: "He also has a daughter himself, and he dared to fight for his daughter's life. How could he do this to someone else's daughter?"

"In this day and age, illiteracy is not to be feared, but legal illiteracy is to be feared."

"Purchasing guns privately, did you explain it?"

Fu Huaiyu looked at the swollen face of the man who hadn't fully recovered from the operation, and shook his head: "I won't say anything, I'll do both soft and hard, but I won't say anything related to Gao Yongmin."

The interrogation went on for two hours, but Li Zhen didn't say a word about Gao Yongmin dismembering the physician assistant's body or where the gun came from.

Fu Huaiyu knocked on the door, walked in, patted the interrogator on the shoulder, and signaled him to rest for a while and let him do the interrogation.

The man on the opposite side lowered his head, as if he thought he could escape everything without speaking.

Fu Huaiyu sat down and placed his hands gracefully on the table.

Seeing Li Zhen constantly swallowing to relieve his tension, he sneered:

"I heard that you have a daughter who is very promising? Did you get a postgraduate degree in the Department of Political Science and Law of Capital University?"

The word "daughter" made Li Zhen tremble all over. He raised his head and looked at Fu Huaiyu, with a hint of begging in his eyes.

"Then do you know the specific content of your daughter's major?"

Li Zhen was a little confused, then shook his head.

Fu Huaiyu chuckled lightly: "It is used to restrain and punish you criminals."

Li Zhen opened his mouth wide, his eyes were red, and then he lowered his head in frustration.

"Then do you know what career your daughter will pursue after this major?"

Li Zhen still didn't say a word, just lowered his head as before.

"Lawyers, judges, and maybe even enter the police station to become a policeman." Fu Huaiyu tilted his head, seeming to enjoy the feeling of the criminals being overwhelmed.

"And because you have a murderer father like you, she may be expelled from school. After all, the case you committed has caused serious social panic and is of an extremely bad nature. Your wife and daughter will be poked on the back for the rest of their lives. Let's start." Fu Huaiyu paused: "I heard that she is the only child in your village who went to graduate school after going to university?"

Li Zhen nodded slightly, and said slowly: "She is a sensible child, I am sorry for her..." As he spoke, he raised his handcuffed hands and covered his cloudy eyes.

The sobbing sound came intermittently.

As for Fu Huaiyu, he just watched coldly.

He didn't feel sympathy.

"Then, tell the truth about everything you know, so that we can keep it secret from the outside world for you, so as to ensure that your daughter's graduate studies can be successfully completed, and it will not cause any trouble to her future work."

When Li Zhen heard this, he suddenly put down his hands, stood up excitedly, and nodded repeatedly:

"I said, I said, I said everything!"

The police officer on the side held down Li Zhen and motioned him to sit down.

Later, Li Zhen explained all the crimes.

After I and Gao Yongmin kidnapped Luo Ziyi, I planned to release him as soon as I received the money, but I couldn't control it for a while, and was ridiculed by Gao Yongmin as "old and useless", and participated in the sexual assault in a fit of anger.

Later, afraid of being recognized by the police, he went to plastic surgery with Gao Yongmin. After the operation, Gao Yongmin tied up three medical staff and raped the youngest assistant among them.assaulted, then shot and killed the male doctor and another assistant, and then assaulted the young assistant a second time.

The two men in the middle went to tidy up the room and cleaned it up, only to find that the rope of the young assistant was loose, and they got up and ran away. Gao Yongmin caught him back at the door and beat him and kept hitting the wall with his head, causing the assistant to faint.

Li Zhen said that Gao Yongmin bought the gun from "Brothers on the Road", and he didn't know how to use it, and he never fired a single shot before sneaking into the ICU.

Then Gao Yongmin killed the older assistant. When he came back, he found that the ID card that the young assistant had carried in his breast pocket was missing. When he pressed her, the assistant said that he lost it at some point.

They didn't care about it either. Gao Yongmin said that the young assistant was very beautiful, and he didn't want to leave a bullet hole in her head, so he covered her mouth to suffocate her and cut off her little finger.

Gao Yongmin said that his little finger was cut off by his mother because of a trivial matter.

So with revenge, he cut off the little fingers of all the victims in this case.

Li Zhen said that after Gao Yongmin knew that Luo Hui had called the police, a large number of media reporters rushed to report, and the situation became heated, so he planned to kill Luo Ziyi.

In order to divert the attention of the police, he returned to the clinic and dragged the nurse’s body to the place where Luo Ziyi was imprisoned, planning to deal with it first. Luo Ziyi, who was tied aside, was very scared and kept crying. An hour of beating.

Then, Gao Yongmin carried the body to the Xishan Dam and discarded it. Fearing that the identity of the deceased would be revealed, he went back and cut off her head and buried it in the mountains dozens of kilometers away.

In the afternoon of the next day, Luo Ziyi began to convulse all over, and unfortunately died in the early morning.

In order to destroy the evidence, Gao Yongmin asked Li Zhen to find a place to burn Luo Ziyi's body.

Li Zhen found a construction site and found an abandoned well, intending to burn the corpse here.

There is a Catholic church next to it, and the prayers of believers can be heard.

Li Zhen's wife is a Catholic believer. Although he doesn't understand it, he is also aware of it.

At that time, he just felt that the girl was very pitiful, so he felt a sense of guilt from the bottom of his heart, so he put on a prayer pose for the girl, hoping that God would help her.

Then, Li Zhen threw the girl into an abandoned well and poured gasoline on it.

He remembered a Bible verse that his wife often said in prayer:

“Be anxious about nothing, but in all things, with supplications and prayers, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God; so that the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will keep you in Christ Jesus thinking about it.”

After praying, he struck a match and threw it into the abandoned well.

The tongue of fire licked furiously, and the flames were dazzling.

Later, I read the news and learned that Gao Yongmin planned to kill himself by drinking a bullet during the gunfight with the police, but he failed. He also said that he would cooperate with the police to arrest the rest of his accomplices. I was very afraid that he would confess himself, so I ran to the hospital and planned to kill him first. Gao Yongmin.

Fu Huaiyu listened quietly, during which he kept one movement, not moving at all.

"Since you have confessed everything, you didn't kill anyone, but only participated in sex, assault, and cremation. In this way, we will help you hire a better lawyer, reduce your sentence by a few years, and perform well in prison to strive for a reduced sentence." Fu Huaiyu stood up, He took the recorder's notebook, turned around and opened the door.

"No, it's only a few years. I have liver cancer, and I don't have a few years to live. Besides, I don't have the face to see my wife and daughter again..." Li Zhen bent his back, crossed his hands on his forehead, It looks like a confession before execution.

"What you say doesn't count." After Fu Huaiyu finished speaking, he walked out of the interrogation room.

So far, the case of Luo Ziyi has come to an end.

The principal criminal in this case is Gao Yongming; the accessory criminal is Li Zhen.

The number of victims is four, three women and one man. The oldest victim is 45 years old, and the youngest is only 16 years old.

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On the day of Luo Ziyi's burial, tens of thousands of people saw him off on the streets of the city.

They stood in the cold winter rain with solemn expressions and sorrow in their hearts.

In the black and white portrait, the 16-year-old young girl has a sweet smile, and her two canine teeth look very cute.

Luo Hui sat kneeling in front of the tombstone, reaching out to caress her daughter's smiling face in the portrait:

"Ziyi, mom doesn't want you to live or die, mom just hopes that you won't be in pain anymore—"

Luo Hui closed her eyes, in a trance, and seemed to be able to hear her daughter's breathing.

Luo Hui's ex-husband, a Japanese novelist, flew from Ehime to China to mourn her daughter.

In fact, before this, Luo Hui’s ex-husband had never felt much about her birthplace in Ehime County, until Luo Hui told him that in Chinese, “Yuan” means “daughter”;

Aiyuan means "love daughter".

He began to like his hometown, and this love was implanted in his bone marrow.

Zhu Yuhan, dressed in a black suit, stood quietly among the police officers who came to mourn.

He looked at the black and white portrait for a long time, then suddenly smiled:

"Girl, go all the way."

There is nothing wrong with it. In this world, for Luo Ziyi, the life after that is the pain.

Luo Ziyi's former classmates, they came from all over the world, all dressed in neat school uniforms, holding hands and softly singing her favorite song in Chinese.

The singing is soft and moving hovering above the cemetery:

I'll be dazed and then smile;

Then close your eyes tightly;

I thought of your gentle face again;

Before I forget you--

In this cold and biting winter day, it is as warm as light.

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The Intermediate People's Court ruled in the first instance that Li Zhen was sentenced to life imprisonment for committing homicide, sexually assaulting underage girls, illegally holding guns, and destroying evidence, which caused very bad social impact.

Fu Huaiyu sat in the gallery and watched with a solemn expression.

After the adjournment, he took out his mobile phone and received a message from Xue Yuan:

"Boss, the money has already been remitted to that girl named Li Sihe who is studying in the School of Political Science and Law."

Fu Huaiyu smiled, put away his mobile phone, and strode out of the court with two long legs.

Zhu Yuhan and Chu Rong stood up from the auditorium.

Zhu Yuhan stretched his waist: "Come on, the case is closed."

Chu Rong patted him on the shoulder: "I missed my parents' death anniversary, why don't you go and see them today?"

When Zhu Yuhan heard this, she ran out like a girl.

"Why go!" Chu Rong caught up.

"Buy a bunch of flowers."

Holding a large bouquet of carnations and chrysanthemums, the two drove to Dongshan Cemetery.

Zhu Yuhan bowed deeply to the tombstone of Chu Rong's parents: "Uncle, Aunt, it's the first time we meet, my nephew is named Zhu Yuhan, he is Chu Rong's colleague, we came to see you."

Chu Rong knelt down, wiped the ashes from the tombstone, and looked at the photos of his parents on the tombstone, his face relaxed: "Mom and Dad, I recently took over a big case and missed your death day, sorry."

He got up and bowed deeply.

Wait a little longer, don't be impatient, the time is near.