Swallowing the Seas

Snapped!A few photos were thrown on the iron table in the interrogation room. Meng Zhao pulled a chair and sat down, teasing, "How about Manager Li? Do you feel like you should go to the gym more?"

The interrogation room of the Public Security Bureau is no better than the procuratorate. The only light source in the room is the desk lamp fixed on the iron table. Li Hongxi's suddenly pale face was in stark contrast.

Meng Zhao admired his expression almost with interest, then moved closer, and asked word by word mysteriously and slowly:

"Or you are more used to being respected by your Christian name of Secondary School, isn't it, 'Flood Herald'?"

These four words seemed to be a verdict. Li Hongxi fell back in his chair, his mouth was trembling like an electric shock, and it took him a while to say: "I am... I was tempted! I am not the principal offender, I was tempted of!"

"Pfft," Liao Gang sat beside Meng Zhao and flipped through his notebook, snorting, "Nine out of ten people who entered our 'torture room' said they were not the main criminal, but if you are not the main criminal, it will not be your turn in the end." Make up your own mind. Come on, Herald of the Flood, and tell us how you met 'Teacher Ba'?"

This is the interrogation method that Bu Chonghua taught him in advance. He first revealed the fact that Mr. Ba came into the police's sight, and seized the opportunity in a more active way, so that Li Hongxi subconsciously felt that he was not the only source of information for the police.

This has a certain positive effect on accelerating the disintegration of his last line of defense.

Sure enough, Li Hongxi shuddered when he heard Teacher Ba's three words: "You guys! How did you—"

Liao Gang stared at him expressionlessly, without any intention of speaking.

The pressure accelerated and accumulated in the quiet air, forming an unimaginable terrifying load. Li Hongxi collapsed overwhelmed, and finally spoke incoherently: "...I met this person in a bathing city."

Judging from the virtues of this group of people, it is not surprising at all.

"Probably after May [-]st last year, at first he was just a little girl. We who are in the wolf circle will keep in touch, where newcomers are recruited, where girls are doing well, and we can take videos to communicate with each other, so that we can be in the same place. I got information at the first time, and sometimes I would go out with a group in private. This Ba guy not only has a lot of videos, but also is very enthusiastic to see people, so I went out with him a few times in a group, and gradually got to know him."

Li Hongxi gasped for breath, swallowed hard through his dry throat, and said hoarsely: "I don't know what his name is, I only know his surname is Ba - this is also normal, wolf friends basically don't use their real names, so I didn't ask too much He probably saw that I was well-off financially and generous, so he gradually became more willing to treat me as a friend, and introduced me to believe in this—this teaching, saying that the girls in it are fresh and clean.”

Even a man like Liao Gang felt a little nauseous. At this time, Bu Chonghua's steady and short reminder came from the Bluetooth headset: "Pay attention to your expression."

"Ahem!" Liao Gang cleared his throat and said coldly, "You don't just go to Fengyuan Village, do you?"

"Yes, yes, at the beginning they had several meeting places, and the one in Jinhai City was more convenient for me. But at the end of last year, the state concentrated on cracking down on this religion, and many 'hosts' were arrested. There is only one fixed base left in Fengyuan Village. The surnamed Ba said that the people there are honest and hidden, and the police never thought of going to such a remote countryside to arrest... That's when I met Gao Linlin. Her parents are from Fengyuan Village' Platoon leader', her house is the 'host house' in that area."

There was a glint of expectation in Li Hongxi's cloudy eyes, as if he wanted to find out the excitement or importance of this clue from the faces of Liao Gang and Meng Zhao - but he was disappointed.

Outside the single-sided glass of the interrogation room, Bu Chonghua said into the Bluetooth headset in a deep voice, "Just take a gamble and ask him directly about the bone helmet."

Meng Zhao raised his eyes and stared at Li Hongxi: "When did Gao Ling run away with that helmet on?"

"...!"

Everyone knew almost immediately that they had made the right bet.Li Hongxi's pupils constricted, his face changed drastically, and the handcuffs slammed through the interrogation room. He looked at Meng Zhao in disbelief: "How do you even know this? How do you know?"

Meng Zhao raised his eyebrows and gave him a regretful expression.

"...that helmet has nothing to do with me, that helmet has nothing to do with me at all." Li Hongxi was confused and said incoherently: "That's a thing named Ba, he took that little girl out and let the little girl see it... ...has nothing to do with me!"

Even though he knew it shouldn't be, Meng Zhao and Liao Gang couldn't help but looked at each other, and there was some hard-to-disguise surprise in each other's eyes.

"So that helmet," Meng Zhao was the first to react, and asked, "Did the surname Ba say how much it is worth?"

"I don't know, I don't know, I don't even know if it's fake or not." Li Hongxi rubbed his hands tremblingly, and said hoarsely: "The person surnamed Ba said that the helmet has a lot of history, it's made from the skull of a great lama of the Bon sect." I don’t know how it fell into his hands. He showed me the auction record of another similar human bone helmet after it was handed down to Europe, saying that the helmet was lined with soft cloth, Only a little bronze is used to inlay the links on the outside, and the supporting frame and inlaid decoration on the outside of the skeleton in his hand are all made of silver and turquoise, which should be more valuable. He usually hides it very tightly, and he is reluctant to show it to others. See, it was only shown to me once when I was drunk and bragging."

"The surname Ba came to you and said that Gao Ling took away the 'big business'. Does that mean he plans to sell this helmet?" Meng Zhao asked.

Li Hongxi swallowed, and shook his head: "He always said he was going to sell it, and he always thought that I knew a lot of bosses and asked me to help find buyers, but I felt that he didn't really want to sell this thing, that's all. It's just a word."

"why?"

"He thinks it can appreciate in value." Li Hongxi showed a hint of helpless sarcasm, "And it's not that easy to sell. Although there are more and more people collecting these things in China, they are all small things like human bone rosaries and long bone flutes. Boy, the demand market for 'big stuff' is quite limited, so it's better to save it for later."

Bu Chonghua stared at his disgraced side face through the one-sided glass, with a noncommittal expression, without saying a word.

Liao Gang looked through a few pieces of case materials, and was a little suspicious: "He kept this thing so tightly, can Gao Ling steal it?"

"Officer, you are also a man, and you still don't know anything about men?" Li Hongxi laughed miserably: "—Let's put it this way, let me use myself as an example: if you know that the surname Ba came to me, it must be my wife That bitch heard something and came here to tell you. Isn’t this a vivid and bloody example? There is a knife on the head of Sezi, why has it been said that women delay things since ancient times, isn’t this the truth? "

Liao Gang sneered, but didn't say anything. Meng Zhaoshun said mockingly: "Your wife shouldn't have married you, a phoenix man who is so poor and white that he can't even afford a wedding ring. I don’t need to mention this now.” She changed the subject and asked, “The surname Ba found out that Gao Ling ran away and the human bone helmet disappeared, how do you plan to solve this matter?”

Li Hongxi was obviously more resistant to Meng Zhao, but he didn't refute, just sneered: "You even know the existence of Gao Baokang, but you still can't think of how he plans to solve this matter? Of course it's completely 'solved'. Can the surname Ba To get to that position in that sect, you can't do it without a little bit of blood, don't you think that little girl was killed in the end?"

Liao Gang threw out a photo of the assisted investigation notice, tapped his knuckles: "What is the relationship between Gao Baokang and you?"

"It doesn't matter, how could I have anything to do with that kind of low-level congregation." Li Hongxi sneered more obviously: "This person has no money, no ability, and no use value. He doesn't even have the qualifications to pass the funeral bed. They set fire to booing. That's the kind of hanging silk that would kill someone for a little money, otherwise who would be willing?"

—— Li Hongxi's bad nature is really deep in his bones. He has reached the end of the road, and he is still trying his best to maintain a sense of superiority over the "low-level congregants".

However, this sense of superiority did not last long. Meng Zhao raised his brows and leaned slightly closer, as if he felt a little amused:

"Since it doesn't matter, why did you go to the victim's house after Gao Ling's death and kill her roommate?"

This is the reason why Li Hongxi was arrested, and it is also his inevitable death spot.Almost at the same time Meng Zhao's words fell to the ground, Li Hongxi's hands and arms trembled, and the trembling quickly spread throughout his body. Then, as if the last inch of his spine had been crushed, he suddenly went out and collapsed in the chair, desperate staring at the ceiling.

"I don't want to silence it, I'm just afraid that the escort girl will know something, but the surname Ba has already planned to stop meddling in this matter."

After a pause, he said weakly, "Because after May 5, Gao Baokang never came back."

Bu Chonghua exhaled lightly, leaving a fleeting mist on the glass.

——Sure enough, exactly as he expected, it was not only his parents who lost contact with Gao Baokang after May [-]nd, but also Mr. Ba Li Hongxi and others who bought the murderer.

"Didn't come back?" Liao Gang asked emphatically.

"Yes, Gao Baokang had been in contact with the person surnamed Ba before the attack. He followed Gao Linlin for a while, and found out where she works and her current address, but what I heard from the surname Ba meant that he had never found a chance. There was nothing I could do. It wasn’t until the end of April that the surname Ba said that the opportunity might have come recently. Since then, Gao Baokang has not sent any news back. Until the news of the skeleton murder spread on the Internet on May [-], the surname Ba was shocked. , and began to fidget."

"why?"

"Officer, why do you think?" Li Hongxi sneered feebly, "People all over the world say they saw skeletons. What if the police are inspired to search for skulls? Besides, the released details of the victim are completely inconsistent with the little girl surnamed Gao. Who knows what happened to Gao Baokang?"

——He mentioned that the details of the victim were inconsistent with Gao Linlin. Meng Zhao immediately realized something keenly. He dug out Nian Xiaoping's photo and showed it in front of Li Hongxi: "You don't know who she is?"

"I don't know, at least I haven't seen it." Li Hongxi observed for a while, then shook his head: "But at this age, it seems that those people like it, maybe it's a little girl who is used to 'pass the funeral bed' .”

Impossible, the autopsy results showed that Nian Xiaoping's hymen was intact, and she was not a victim of the coffin.

So why on earth was she killed?

Both Meng Zhao and Liao Gang were very surprised, but neither of them showed it.Meng Zhao asked: "Then what? Ba thinks that Gao Baokang might run away with the head?"

"He really guessed this way, but he was not sure. He was afraid that Gao Linlin was not dead, and he was afraid that the search for the human bone helmet at this time would attract the attention of the police, so he didn't dare to make any further moves for several days. Until May [-]th He confirmed that Gao Linlin was dead when the pictures of the second body surfaced on the No. [-] website, and he felt that Gao Baokang must have run away wearing a human bone helmet."

"If the murder of the skeleton hadn't spread all over the city, the surname Ba wouldn't have been scared like that, but now that the human bone helmet has probably entered the sight of the police, he wouldn't dare to attack Gao Linlin's escort female roommate anymore, and even hoped Gao Baokang ran with the head as far as possible, and it would be best not to be caught by the police." Li Hongxi looked at the dark and stagnant air in the interrogation room, and said, "But the problem is that if he stops now, it means putting me in prison." In a very dangerous situation, after all, no one knows if Gao Linlin has ever said anything to the escort—she knows my name and company, if the secret is leaked out, I will be finished? I have no other choice but to... ...I can only take the risk to go out in person..."

"Just because of this?" Meng Zhao narrowed his eyes, "Gao Linlin is already dead, and you haven't come into the police's sight yet, and you dare to kill someone just because you are worried about this?"

"I didn't intend to kill anyone!" Li Hongxi denied sharply as if being stabbed by a needle.

Both Liao Gang and Meng Zhao stared at him without saying a word, and the interrogation room was dead silent.

After a long while, Li Hongxi closed her eyes tightly, lowered her head in a collapsed state, and sobs gradually leaked out: "I just feel like an escort girl...even if something happens, no one will care about it, and no one will find out..."

His body was hunched, his shoulders were constantly shrugging, and the 1.8-meter man seemed to be a bit shorter than Meng Zhao.However, no one felt the slightest pity. Meng Zhao flipped through the case files and said calmly, "How much personal information about 'Teacher Ba' can you provide? Photos, addresses, bank account numbers, and social network names all count, and meritorious service can be considered. "

"I... I don't know, their experienced people keep their personal information very tightly." Li Hongxi sniffed hard and said vaguely: "I had a photo with him before, but After that day... after Gao Linlin's body was found, I was afraid of getting burned, so I burned them all."

All burned?

Meng Zhao and Liao Gang frowned at the same time.

"I also want to strive for meritorious service, but that's all I can know. You can investigate the rest yourself. Can't you police find out everything?" Li Hongxi looked at them, and sneered in his chest. Every time I laughed, I shook my whole body, and the handcuffs made a vibrating sound, a kind of madness at the end of the road: "My biggest mistake is that I shouldn't be calm, I shouldn't go to that escort girl, and I shouldn't be caught by you!" The policeman who sent the escort girl home in the middle of the night found that... I have no criminal record, and I have never left DNA. Even if you test the species in the girl's stomach, it is impossible to compare it with me. If I am not too scared You can't catch me at all."

He lowered his head and pressed his fist against his wrinkled brows that had grown old in just a few days, as if swearing or hypnotizing himself, biting his teeth so that his face was distorted:

"I didn't lose to the police, I didn't lose to the police ... I just lost to myself."

The interrogation room was as quiet as a tomb, and the darkness in the void was getting darker and darker, gradually swallowing his stiff figure.

Knock knock, two taps from Bu Chonghua came from the bluetooth headset, and then ordered: "Come out."

Liao Gang nodded to Meng Zhao almost invisible, and signaled her to go first with his eyes, and deal with the rest of the paperwork by himself.

Meng Zhao got up knowingly and left, closing the door behind his back.Liao Gang sat at his original position and sorted out the transcripts. He took a pen and asked Li Hongxi to sign each page.

"I can't understand what you said about 'men's things'," Liao Gang said suddenly and plainly.

Li Hongxi was signing mechanically, and it took several seconds for his chaotic brain to realize what he was talking about.

"Even if I like a woman, I will still be in heat, stop at ceremony, be radiant and upright, neither deceive my heart nor cause trouble to others. You said that there is a knife on the head of Sezi, It's better to say that there are often owes on the side of the word desire, the valley is difficult to fill, and the owe is often dissatisfied. Sooner or later, I will bury my life in it, and it has nothing to do with those women who were harmed by you."

Liao Gang stared at Li Hongxi's bloodshot eyes, and smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I don't think you will have the chance to harm any woman again for the rest of your life."

Meng Zhao pushed open the door of the monitoring room outside: "Team!"

Bu Chonghua sat in the listening room outside the single-sided glass, with the cuffs of his white shirt stacked on his elbows, exposing his muscular white arms, and a dark blue thin coat was put on his shoulders due to the injury.He leaned back in the chair, with his long legs stretched and folded, his fingers crossed in front of his nose, thinking for a moment, not knowing what was going on in his mind, and suddenly asked: "What do you think?"

"His motive for committing the crime is too ridiculous." Meng Zhao didn't hide anything, and said bluntly: "Even if Gao Ling had said something to Liu Li before his death, a girl who was addicted to drugs ran to expose him as a well-dressed and socially well-known person. It’s useless without evidence. I don’t believe he went to Liu Li to silence her because he was afraid of her nonsense, there must be other motives behind it.”

"Yes." Bu Chonghua let out a long breath, and said slowly, "Gao Ling's body was found on the morning of May [-]th, and he sneaked into Liu Li's house in the evening, during which he burned all the photos he took with 'Teacher Ba' The photo...he is not afraid of getting burned, he is protecting 'Teacher Ba', and there is a deeper connection behind these people."

Meng Zhao's face darkened slightly.

"Let the technical team try to restore Li Hongxi's computer and mobile phone photo album, and screen the surveillance video near his residential area at 18:[-] a.m. on March [-] to see if there is anyone who matches the characteristic sketch." Bu Chonghua stood up and thought for a while He also ordered: "Send a few detective teams to the bathing city that Li Hongxi often visits, see if you can find escort girls to let them identify the sketch of 'Teacher Ba', and tell those escort girls who participated in the identification, in exchange for cooperating with the police , in case they are caught in an anti-pornography campaign next time, they won’t be fined.”

"Yes!"

"Go back to rest early after work, I will go home first."

Meng Zhao was immersed in thinking about the case, and he hummed absently. Five seconds later, he was suddenly shocked—who went home first?

The door was closed with a click, and Bu Chonghua's tall and straight figure disappeared behind the door panel.

"..." Meng Zhao was dumbfounded, and muttered for a while, "Is he impaled by the soul?"

At nine o'clock in the evening, night fell, and the lanterns under the city sky were lit up one by one.

In the bright and spacious corridor of Building 3A in Tianlu Community, which is half a station away from Heyun Road in Jinhai City, the elevator door opened slowly. Bu Chonghua stopped in front of the house, took out the key, and paused for some reason Second.

He stared at the anti-theft door, and finally cleared his throat in a short while, unlocked and opened the door to enter:

"I am back!"

The huge living room was empty, and the lights were not turned on on the upper and lower floors, and the whole house was submerged in the night that poured in from the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Fell asleep?Bu Chonghua thought to himself.

He took off his shoes, put on his coat, and put the takeaway box on the coffee table in the living room. He went straight upstairs to the door of the guest bedroom. He was about to gently open the door, but suddenly his hands stopped again.

—There was no light peeking through the crack in the door.

"..." Bu Chonghua didn't know what he was thinking, so he stood motionless in front of the guest bedroom door for a while, then turned around slowly.

The well-decorated huge duplex did not turn on the lights, and the radiance of the city center in the distance passed through the night, reflected in his pupils, flickering indistinctly.There was no expression in Bu Chonghua's eyes. He stepped down the glass handrail of the stairs and stepped on the floor tiles in the living room. He was about to hang up his coat in the hallway when he turned his head and saw the study, and was suddenly stunned.

The door of the study room was ajar, shrouded in darkness, but there was an inconspicuous light in the room.

In an instant, a certain premonition surged, and Bu Chonghua's expression changed slightly.He quickly pushed open the door of the study, and when he came to the door of the piano practice room, he stopped abruptly——

The warm yellow wall lamp poured over the delicate velvet cover of the grand piano. Wu Yu sat cross-legged on the piano stool, with one side of his face resting on the key cover, and was already asleep. The "Introduction to Cybercrime and Electronic Forensics Research" at hand had just turned to the third page. one-third.

Bu Chonghua looked at him for a long time, with an unclear look in his eyes, and after a long time, he walked into the room without making a sound, and gently put his coat on his shoulders.

"...Huh?" Wu Yu woke up almost immediately, raised his eyes dimly, then closed them tightly again, and said vaguely: "Are you back?"

Bu Chonghua was silent for a moment, then turned his face to look at the delicate patterns on the carpet: "Yeah. I'm back."