Swallowing the Seas

"Fuck! Awesome!" Zhang Xiaoli punched his palm and said excitedly, "He can't run away now!"

Everyone outside the single-sided glass was in high spirits, and the criminal policemen who had endured for a few days were all beaming with joy, and all their fatigue was swept away in an instant—but when Zhang Xiaoli turned his head inadvertently, he saw Wu Yu sitting quietly in the corner with an expression on his face. Cold and gloomy.

"Little Angkor?" Zhang Xiaoli couldn't help wondering.

"..." Wu Yu shook his head slightly, but said nothing.

"How about it, let's talk." Bu Chonghua sat on the chair vacated by the clerk, and casually rolled up the cuffs of his shirt to his elbows: "How does it feel to be a father for the first time, Mr. Li?"

If Li Hongxi's face was only pale when facing Meng Zhao just now, now his face is ashen.The hair soaked in cold sweat was sticking to the forehead, and the eyeballs were like two black plastic beads soaked in blood. Although the mouth seemed to be frozen and could not be opened, the teeth chattered uncontrollably, making high-frequency noises. cluck.

"I..." He squeezed out a word between his teeth, "I..."

"When did you meet her?"

Li Hongxi stared straight at Bu Chonghua, and nervously scratched the scar on the tiger's mouth on his left hand. In addition, his whole body was visibly shaking, and the handcuffs kept making rattling noises.He couldn't speak at all like this, Bu Chonghua waved to the clerk for a glass of water, got up and put it in front of him, and looked back at those eyes that seemed not to be alive at a short distance: "Let's be honest, Li Hongxi. You With a higher education, you should know that you can't escape, and there is a difference between actively cooperating and resolutely denying the written statement presented in the final case file-you don't want to make your life more difficult in the future, do you?"

"..." Li Hongxi tremblingly picked up the glass of water, pinched the plastic glass out of shape with five fingers, and splashed half of the glass on his body. The coldness made him shiver violently, as if he had been awakened instantly.

"Okay...okay," he said incoherently: "I said, I said, I told you, I didn't want to kill her, I didn't want to kill her, I didn't..."

"You didn't want to kill her?" Bu Chonghua repeated.

"Yes, yes." Li Hongxi seemed to grasp at straws: "She blackmailed me, she blackmailed me!"

--blackmail.

When Liu Li's drug addiction broke out, she said inconsequentially again: "...That bitch Gao Ling couldn't see the reality, and dreamed that she had a 'big business', as long as she finished the big business, she could get rich..."

Everyone couldn't hide their unbearable eyes: it turned out that this was the "big business" she dreamed of.

How did that young girl get pregnant, how did she dream of getting rich, and how did she get stoned to death in that damp and cold spillway?

Bu Chonghua's light-colored pupils showed no emotion at all, just quietly staring at the deformed face opposite him.His impeccable calmness made it hard to understand the depth of it. After a long while, he finally sat back on the chair, stared at the collapsed criminal suspect opposite him, and said two words briefly: "Speak."

"I met her in Bathing City." Li Hongxi swallowed heavily his bloody saliva, and started with this sentence.

"She said that she is from Jiarui County under Jinhai. I have been there before on a business trip, and we have a few common topics with her, and we gradually got to know each other. That was about four or five months...or five or six months In the past, I paid for her a few times, purely because of my fascination... She disappeared not long after, and I didn't take it to heart. It's too common for little girls like them to come and go. It's just how I I never thought of it, I never thought of it... More than a month ago, she suddenly contacted me again, telling me that she was pregnant, and the child must be mine..."

"How did she contact you?" Bu Chonghua interrupted.

"She, she guards me in front of my house."

"She said the child was yours, so you believed it?"

"I can't help but believe it, I can't help it." Li Hongxi's throat slipped up and down, and he said dryly: "I have a job and a family, no matter whether it is mine or not, this pot of dirty water has been poured down, and people know that I am still alive." How should I behave? So I had no choice but to perfunctory her while thinking of a way, I said that I would not divorce and marry you if you were not old enough, but she said she didn't want to marry, she only wanted money, and she wanted to blackmail me..."

"How much is it?" Bu Chonghua asked.

Li Hongxi took a breath and said, "100 million."

"Where do I go to find this 100 million? Do you think there are money on the road and I just pick it up?!"

"I don't care! Aren't you boasting that you have a house and a car and have a high salary? You can't afford 100 million if you have a house and a car?!"

"You, you might as well kill me!"

"Anyway, if you can't bear the money, just wait for the exposure. When the time comes, the leaflets will be sent to your company's community to see if your future is important, or this mere 100 million is important!"

Gao Ling turned her head fiercely, turned around and rushed away, leaving only Li Hongxi who was staring strangely at the passers-by standing by the side of the road, slowly squatting down and hugging her head.

"Then you became murderous?" Meng Zhao asked in disgust.

Meng Zhao seldom reveals personal emotions other than words during the interrogation. She is a very experienced criminal policeman and knows that any unnecessary stimulation may have a bad influence on the suspect—but at this time Li Hongxi was too emotional to listen to anything. Come out: "No, no, I really don't! I don't dare to kill people if I have the guts! I want to give her some money first to ask for a grace period, but she wants nothing but 100 million. If I want to ruin my reputation, I will kill her?! I just want to kill myself!"

The clerk who was recording next to him couldn't help but interrupt, but was interrupted by Bu Chonghua's plain question: "You were forced to this level by her, besides the fetus, she must have some other handles in her hands, right?"

Li Hongxi swallowed hard and nodded, "Yes... yes."

"what?"

"A condom. A condom that I've used, and she turned it over and hid it at some point."

Li Hongxi hugged his head, and the frosted handcuffs rattled under the light of the interrogation room, reflecting light slightly.

"Where were you between 11pm and 30:[-]pm on May [-]nd?" Bu Chonghua asked indifferently.

"That day my company was on vacation and I was alone at home. I wanted to go out and relax because of the pressure during this time, but it was raining outside, so I stayed at home and watched TV. I would be dumbfounded, and no one could prove it for me. I wanted to order takeaway at night, but there was still a lot left over from the order I ordered the day before, so I ate it casually. I called my wife at night, and it was about eight or nine o'clock."

"Nobody can do an alibi?"

Li Hongxi nodded: "My mental pressure is really too great, I dare not go out with people, I dare not talk to people, even my colleagues in the company whisper to me, I wonder if they have found something behind... It was a rare vacation, I'm sure I'm going to make a drinking appointment, but after this incident, I just want to be alone..."

Meng Zhao glanced at Bu Chonghua, and Li Hongxi shouted in a hurry: "Don't doubt me, you can check the monitoring records! The elevators, stairs, corridors, and safe passages in our building are not monitored, so go check the gate of the community! I didn't go out that day , Surveillance must be able to be investigated! Isn’t it written in the law that there is no doubt?!”

Bu Chonghua was noncommittal: "And then? You went back to work on May [-]rd?"

"Yes, I went back to work, and I posted on the Internet that day that there was a skeleton murder case in Silihe. A teenage girl died. I wondered in my heart why she wasn't the one who died? If it was her, I wouldn't Are you free?" Li Hongxi wiped her red eyes: "At that time, this thought was just in my head, but I didn't expect that she didn't come to me for a few days, and I disguised myself and went to her place of work secretly. After observing, I found that she didn't even go to work... My mood gradually changed from rejoicing to doubting, could it be that she was the one who died? But it can't be such a coincidence, can it?"

"I didn't dare to kill her, but I wanted her to die. This idea was tormented in my mind every minute and every second, so I started to pay attention to the Silihe murder case. I saw everything on the Internet. Some people said that the murderer was A rotten skeleton, some people say that the murderer just put on a scary mask, and some people say that the murderer committed suicide by jumping into the river after killing someone... Until today, on the way to work, I suddenly found a trending search, and another girl died in Silihe , and sent out a picture of the corpse.”

Li Hongxi raised his head and took a deep breath, then said hoarsely, "I recognized the raincoat and red rain boots that the corpse was wearing."

In the interrogation room, only the sound of the clerk typing away could be heard. Bu Chonghua waited for the sound to stop, and said calmly, "So you sneaked into the victim's house and wanted to kill her roommate?"

"I didn't want to kill anyone! No!" Li Hongxi almost jumped into a rage: "I just went to find that condom!!"

"After seeing the trending search, I feel that I have survived the catastrophe, but I am afraid that once the police find out the identity of the corpse, find her home, find the condom from her home, and follow the clues to touch me, then this stuff I still can’t hide it! So I desperately wanted to find out that condom and take it away. I bought a skull mask. If it was caught by surveillance, maybe the police would think I was the murderer of the Silihe murder case. At that time, the police can be confused..."

"Do you need wires and black plastic bags to find condoms?" Meng Zhao raised his eyebrows and mocked, "Then who are the large amounts of bleach and detergent prepared for? Why don't you tell me?"

The way Li Hongxi stared at Meng Zhao could almost be called hatred, but he still clenched his teeth and clenched his fists: "I don't care what you think, officer, the fact is that I didn't kill the three Accompanying daughter. You can say that if the policeman doesn't break in, the next step is to kill someone, but what didn't happen just didn't happen. If your speculation has no evidence, you can't close the case with zero confession. At most, you can only sentence me Attempted burglary and wounding, right?"

"..."

"There is no jury system in the laws of our country, and the emphasis is on never being guilty. You have no way to prove that I just wanted to kill the escort girl tonight, let alone because that little bitch blackmailed me, you can't judge that I have a motive for killing. ! If I killed the person, why did I stay in Jinhai and not run away? If I was really a perverted murderer, why would I sneak into the victim's house after the crime and continue to commit murder? Am I not afraid of bumping into a group of policemen? !"

The frantic roar echoed in the headset for a long time, and everyone inside and outside the interrogation room showed doubts.

A suffocating silence filled the listening room.

"I just happened to be involved in this murder case, I am innocent..." Li Hongxi's crying gradually leaked out from the frozen air: "I still have a job, a future, and a wife... I just want to get that condom back, I'm just fascinated..."

"How can there be an interrogation?" Zhang Xiaoli murmured, "Could it be that Gao Ling really didn't kill him?"

He expressed everyone's aspirations: If [-] was really done by him, and he dared to sneak back to Gao Ling's house to murder Liu Li, then this grandson would be too courageous, and he shouldn't be the one in the interrogation room The coward who cried bitterly at the first trial.

What's more, the way this coward sneaked into the victim's house to murder Liu Li was full of loopholes. He was a textbook criminal novice. How could he make a case as rigorous and cautious as [-], leaving almost no evidence?

"Team," Meng Zhao leaned slightly behind the interrogation table, and said softly, "Look at this..."

Bu Chonghua interrupted her suddenly: "Li Hongxi."

The suspect raised his red eyes full of tears, and his hands trembled from sobbing, but Bu Chonghua didn't notice it, and said in an unusually calm voice: "Do you have anything else to explain?"

"I'm gone, I really..."

"Your attitude towards the police, as well as the degree of active cooperation, will be directly presented in written form in the closing statement of the host policeman, do you know?"

"I know, I know, I..."

"You really have nothing else to say?"

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Li Hongxi almost slipped out of the chair and knelt down on the ground. Every bloody word was full of despair: "Please believe me! I really didn't do it! You just look for evidence, just look for it! !!..."

"it is good."

Bu Chonghua only said this word, got up and walked out of the interrogation room, opened the door of the monitoring room in a short while, and exhaled softly.

"Brother Bu!" "Squad!" Several criminal policemen stood up and went forward one after another: "What should we do now?"

The sky outside the window suddenly broke, and the duck-egg blue morning light penetrated through the window, blending with the dimming light of the incandescent lamp, reflecting on everyone's worried and exhausted faces,

Bu Chonghua didn't say a word, looked around the expectant faces around him, and asked, "What do you think?"

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, all hesitated to speak, Zhang Xiaoli scratched his hair for a while, and murmured: "At first I thought this grandson didn't run away, but now I look...it seems...it seems It's not him..."

"That's right," someone couldn't help hesitating and said, "This man's modus operandi has too many mistakes and omissions, [-] must be a veteran..." "Should we go to the neighborhood where he lives to check the monitoring, maybe there is indirect injustice." Proof of presence?" "Besides, this grandson urinates when he's scared, so he can't handle such a big case. The psychological quality of the murderer who killed Nian Xiaoping will definitely beat him ten blocks!"

The crowd was chattering, but Bu Chonghua's eyes passed through the crowd and glanced at the silent silhouette in the corner.

Wu Yu sat by the door frame, leaning back relaxedly, with his thighs slightly apart, his arms hanging down naturally, his nose and cheeks were hidden in the shadows, the skylight outlined his slender jawline, extending from his slightly protruding Adam's apple all the way to his collar inside.

The black hair on the back of his head was resting on the white wall, so that his gaze looked condescending. Through the single-sided glass, it fell on Li Hongxi who was hoarse and sobbing, without saying a word.

"..." Bu Chonghua withdrew his gaze and asked in a low voice, "Do you think he has been frightened?"

He paused, and raised his finger to point to the interrogation room in the eyes of his surroundings: "Tong, Pian, S, Li."

All of a sudden everyone was stunned.

"Do you recall what is in Gao Ling's schoolbag?"

The criminal policemen looked at each other, and someone began to count in a low voice: "Wallet, keys, lip balm..." "Two old clothes, a chemical fiber cardigan and a cotton pullover..." "A few supermarket and convenience store receipts?"...

"Gao Ling's autopsy results show that her endometrium is very thin." Bu Chonghua waited until the discussion subsided before slowly opening his mouth.

"The endometrium is thinner than normal without trauma and adhesion, indicating that the secretion of estrogen is too low, which means that she only had a period two or three months or even longer before she was born. So after she settled down in the rented house, she I went to a nearby pharmacy and bought a box of painkillers. If you look through her bag carefully, you will find a pharmacy receipt soaked in rainwater in the gap in the inner pocket; this--"

Bu Chonghua opened the photo album of his mobile phone, called up the pictures taken on the spot that day, and zoomed in. On the screen were all the odds and ends found in Gao Ling's black schoolbag, and all the eyes around him were stunned when they touched a very inconspicuous square in the corner Living:

"An unopened sanitary napkin," Bu Chonghua said in a deep voice.

Painkillers, sanitary napkins, she was getting ready for her four month missed period and she had no idea she was pregnant!

"The whole statement of Li Hongxi just now was fabricated on the spot in a very short period of time through the analysis, combination and guesswork of the words and phrases leaked by our police during the interrogation. There will not be only one case, and if the case goes to the worst step, we must be mentally prepared to close the case with zero confession."

There was no sound in the office, and everyone's face was tense. Bu Chonghua pointed to the one-sided glass, and his clear reflection overlapped with Li Hongxi's crooked profile in the interrogation room:

"From now on, we have to dig three feet into the ground and dig out ironclad evidence before he can be crucified at the crime scene in the middle of the night on May [-]."