Snapped! A few photos were thrown on the iron table in the interrogation room. Meng Zhao pulled out the chair and sat down, teasing, "How about Manager Li? Do you feel like you should go to the gym more?"
The public security bureau's interrogation room is no different than the procuratorate. The only light source in the room is the lamp fixed on the iron table. The pale light reflects on the photos, making the naked body entangled even more gray, immersed in intoxication and madness. Li Hongxi's suddenly pale face formed a sharp contrast.
Meng Zhao admired his expression almost with interest, then leaned in slightly and asked mysteriously and slowly, word by word:
"Or maybe you're more used to being called your secondary school name, isn't it, 'Flood Herald'?"
These four words were like a verdict that was slammed on the head. Li Hongxi fell back on the chair, his mouth was shaking like an electric shock, and after a while he said: "I am... I am tempted! I am not the main culprit, I am tempted. !"
"Pfft," Liao Gang sat on Meng Zhao's side, opened his notebook, and hummed into his nose, "Nine out of ten people who entered our 'torture room' said they were not the principal offender, but if they were not the principal offender, it was not your turn in the end. You have the final say. Come on Flood Herald, tell us how you met 'Mr. Ba'?"
This is the way of interrogation that Bu Chonghua taught him in advance, to throw out the fact that Mr. Ba entered the police's sight first, and to seize the opportunity in a more active way, making Li Hongxi subconsciously feel that he is not the only source of information from 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 Mr. Ba's three words: "You guys! How are you—"
Liao Gang stared at him blankly, without any intention to speak.
The pressure accelerated in the quiet air, forming an unimaginable terrifying load. Li Hongxi collapsed overwhelmed and finally opened his mouth incoherently: "...I met this person in a washing-bathing city."
Judging from the virtues of these people, it is not surprising at all.
"Probably after May 1 last year, he was just a little girl at first. We will keep in touch with each other in the wolf circle. Wherever new people are admitted, and where girls live well, we will shoot video exchanges with each other, so that we can communicate with each other through video. I get information in a short time, and sometimes I will go out together in private groups. This surnamed Ba not only has a lot of videos, but he is also very enthusiastic when watching people, so I went out in groups with him a few times, and gradually became familiar with him. "
Li Hongxi gasped for breath, swallowed hard with her dry throat, and said hoarsely, "I don't know his name, only his surname is Ba—this is also normal, and wolf friends basically don't use their real names, so I didn't ask more. He probably saw that I was rich and generous, and gradually he was quite willing to treat me as a friend, and introduced me to this—this religion, saying that the girls inside were fresh and clean.”
Liao Gang, a man felt a little nauseous when Bu Chonghua's steady and brief reminder came from the Bluetooth headset: "Pay attention to your expression."
"Cough cough!" Liao Gang cleared his throat and said coldly, "You didn't just go to Fengyuan Village, did you?"
"Yes, yes, at first 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, and gradually There is only a fixed base in Fengyuan Village. The surnamed Ba said that the people there are honest and secretive, and the police never thought of going to such a remote country to arrest them... That's when I met Gao Linlin, her parents were from Fengyuan Village. Chang', her house is the 'host' in that area."
Li Hongxi's cloudy eyes flashed with anticipation, 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 in the interrogation room, Bu Chonghua said solemnly to the Bluetooth headset: "Just take a gamble and ask the other person's bone helmet directly."
Meng Zhao raised his eyes and stared at Li Hongxi: "When did Gao Ling escape with that helmet?"
"…!"
Everyone knew almost immediately that they had made the right bet. I saw Li Hongxi's pupils shrunk, her face changed drastically, and the handcuffs clattered through the interrogation room. She looked at Meng Zhao in disbelief: "How do you even know this, how did you know?"
Meng Zhao raised his eyebrows and gave him a regretful expression.
"... That helmet has nothing to do with me, and that helmet has nothing to do with me at all." Li Hongxi said in a chaotic manner, "That's the thing with the surname Ba, he took the little girl out and let the little girl see... I don't care!"
Even though he knew it shouldn't be, Meng Zhao and Liao Gang couldn't help but glance at each other, and there was some unconcealed surprise in each other's eyes.
"So that helmet," Meng Zhao was the first to react, and asked, "Did the surnamed 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 surnamed Ba said that the helmet has a lot of history and is made of the skull of a great Bon sect lama. 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 spread to Europe. He said that the helmet was padded with soft cloth. Only a little bronze is used for the inlaid links on the outside, and the frame supported by the skeleton in his hand and the decorations inlaid on the outside are made of silver and turquoise, which should be more valuable. He usually hides it very tightly, and he is reluctant to give it to others. Look, it was only shown to me once when I was drunk and bragged."
"The surnamed Ba came to you and said that Gao Ling took away the 'big business', does that mean he planned to sell this helmet?" Meng Zhao asked.
Li Hongxi swallowed and shook his head: "He always said that he planned to sell it, and he always felt that I knew many bosses and asked me to help inquire about the buyer, but I felt that he didn't really want to sell this thing, that's all. Just say it."
"why?"
"He thinks it can increase 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 gadgets such as human bone rosary beads and long bone flutes. Son, the demand market for 'big things' is quite limited, so it's better to save it and talk about it later."
Bu Chonghua stared at his gray face through the single-sided glass, his expression was noncommittal, and he said nothing.
Liao Gang turned over a few case materials and was a little suspicious: "He kept this thing so tightly that Gao Ling could 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 analogy: if you know the surname Ba who came to me, it must be my wife. The slut heard something and came to tell you on the initiative, isn't this a bloody example? There is a knife on the head of the color, why has it been said that women delay things since ancient times, isn't that the truth?"
Liao Gang sneered, but didn't say anything, Meng Zhao sneered: "Your wife shouldn't have married you back then, a poor and white phoenix man who can't even afford a wedding ring and can only sweetly say 'good to her', but I don't need to mention this now." She changed her tone and asked, "The surnamed Ba found out that Gao Ling had run away, and the human bone helmet was gone. How are you going to solve this?"
Li Hongxi was obviously more resistant to Meng Zhao, but he didn't refute, he just sneered: "You know about the existence of Gao Baokang, but you can't think of how he plans to solve this matter? Of course, it's completely 'solved'. That cleric can get to that position, he can't do it with a little blood, don't you think that little girl will be killed in the end?"
Liao Gang threw out a photo of the notice of assistance in the investigation and tapped his knuckles: "What's the relationship between Gao Baokang and you?"
"It doesn't matter, how could I have anything to do with that kind of low-level clergy." Li Hongxi sneered even more clearly: "This person has no money, no skills, and no use value, and he doesn't even have the qualifications to 'pass the death bed', he is just a bystander. It's a fire. That's the kind of hanging silk that kills people for a little money, otherwise who would be willing?"
- Li Hongxi's inferiority is really deep in his bones. He has reached the point where he is at the end of the road, and he still tries his best to maintain a sense of superiority to the "low-level clergy".
However, this sense of superiority did not last long, Meng Zhao raised his eyebrows, leaned slightly closer, and seemed to feel a little funny:
"Since it doesn't matter, why did you go to the victim's house after Gao Ling's death to kill her roommate?"
This is the reason why Li Hongxi was arrested, and it is also his inevitable death point. Almost at the same time as Meng Zhao's voice landed, Li Hongxi's hands and arms trembled, and the trembling quickly extended to the whole body, and then he suddenly went out and collapsed into the chair in despair, as if the last inch of his spine had been crushed. looking at the ceiling.
"I don't want to silence, I'm just afraid that the escort girl knows something, but the surnamed Ba has already planned to stop and stop worrying about it."
After a pause, he said weakly: "Because after May 2, Gao Baokang never came back."
Bu Chonghua exhaled lightly, leaving a fleeting mist on the glass.
—It was exactly as he expected. After May 2nd, it was not only his parents who lost contact with Gao Baokang, but also Li Hongxi, a teacher from Ba, who had bought the murder.
"Didn't come back?" Liao Gang asked in a serious tone.
"Yes, Gao Baokang has been in contact with the surnamed Ba before he started. He has been with Gao Linlin for a while, and found out where she works and her current address, but I heard the meaning of the surnamed Ba, and probably never found a chance. I There is nothing to do. Until the end of April, the surnamed Ba said that the time might come soon. Since then, Gao Baokang has not sent back any news. Until the news of the murder of the skeleton spread on the Internet on May 3, the surnamed Ba was taken aback. , and started fidgeting."
"why?"
"Police officer, why do you think?" Li Hongxi sneered weakly, "People all over the world say they have seen skeletons, what if the police are inspired to start searching for skeletons? Besides, the details of the victims released 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's. Meng Zhao immediately realized something sharply, and pulled out Nian Xiaoping's photo and showed it to Li Hongxi: "You don't know who she is?"
"I don't know, at least I haven't seen it before." 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 death bed'. ."
Impossible, the autopsy results show that Nian Xiaoping's hymen is intact, she is not the victim of the coffin.
Then why was she killed
Meng Zhao and Liao Gang were both very surprised, but no one showed it. Meng Zhao asked, "Then what? The surnamed Ba thinks that Gao Baokang may have run away with a human head?"
"He did guess so, but he wasn't sure. He was afraid that Gao Linlin was not dead, and that the search for the human bone helmet would attract the attention of the police, so he didn't dare to take any action for several days. Until May 9 Only after the picture of the second corpse broke on the website did he confirm that Gao Linlin was dead, and he felt that Gao Baokang must have run away with a human bone helmet."
"If the murder of skeletons hadn't been full of wind and rain, the surnamed Ba wouldn't have been frightened like that, but now the human bone helmet is likely to have entered the police's sight, he would not dare to attack Gao Linlin's escort female roommate, and even hoped Gao Baokang runs as far as possible with the head, and it is best not to be caught by the police for the rest of his life." Li Hongxi looked at the dim and stagnant air in the interrogation room and said, "But the problem is that if he stops at this time, he will put me on the ground. In a very dangerous situation, after all, no one knows whether Gao Linlin has said anything to the escort girl - she knows my name and company, if the secret is leaked, will I be finished? I have no other choice but to... To be able to take the risk and go out in person…”
"Just because of this?" Meng Zhao narrowed his eyes, "Gao Linlin is already dead, and you haven't entered the police's sight for a while. You dare to kill someone just because you're worried about this?"
"I didn't want to kill!" Li Hongxi denied it in a shrill conditioned reflex as if he had been pricked by a needle.
Liao Gang and Meng Zhao both stared at him without speaking, and the interrogation room was dead silent.
After a long while, Li Hongxi closed her eyes tightly, lowered her head in collapse, and the whimper gradually leaked out: "I just feel that a escort girl... Even if something happens, no one will care, and no one will find out... "
His body was hunched, his shoulders shrugged constantly, and the man about 1.8 meters looked as if he was a little shorter than Meng Zhao. However, no one could feel the slightest sympathy. Meng Zhao turned over the file and said indifferently: "How much personal information can you provide about 'Mr. Ba'? Photos, addresses, bank accounts, and social network names are all considered, and meritorious performance can be considered. "
"I... I don't know, the experienced people like them cover up their personal information very tightly." Li Hongxi snorted forcefully and said vaguely: "I had a photo with him before, but that day After that... after Gao Linlin's body was found, I was afraid of getting burned, so I burned it all."
All burned
Meng Zhao and Liao Gang frowned at the same time.
"I also want to strive for meritorious performance, but there is only so much I can know. You can check the rest yourself. Can't your police find out everything?" Li Hongxi looked at them, and a sneer broke out in his chest. , every time he laughed, his whole body shook, 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 lose my breath, I shouldn't go to the escort girl, I shouldn't be caught by you The policeman who sent the escort girl home in the middle of the night found out... I have no criminal record, and I have not left any DNA. Even if you find out the seed in that girl's belly, it is impossible to match me. If it weren't for me, I would be too scared. , you can't catch me at all."
He lowered his head and used his fists to press hard against his wrinkled eyebrows in just a few days, as if swearing and hypnotizing himself, his face twisted with his teeth clenched:
"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, Bu Chonghua tapped twice from the bluetooth headset, and then ordered: "Come out."
Liao Gang nodded to Meng Zhaoji invisibly, and motioned her to go first with his eyes, and handle the rest of the paperwork by himself.
Meng Zhao got up knowingly and left, closing the door behind him. Liao Gang sat in the same position and sorted out the transcripts. He took a pen and asked Li Hongxi to stare at him and sign page by page.
"I can't understand what you mean by 'the little thing about men'," Liao Gang said suddenly and indifferently.
Li Hongxi was signing mechanically, and it took a few seconds for his chaotic brain to realize what he was talking about.
"Even if I like a woman, I will still be affectionate, only polite, dignified and upright, neither deceiving myself nor causing trouble to others. You say that there is a knife on the head of sex, It is better to say that there is always debt on the side of the word desire, the valley is difficult to fill, and you are often dissatisfied, and sooner or later you will bury your life in it, and it has nothing to do with those women who have been 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 for the rest of your life."
Meng Zhao pushed open the door of the monitoring room outside: "Team!"
Bu Chonghua was sitting in the monitoring room outside the single-sided glass, with the cuffs of his white shirt stacked on his elbows, revealing his muscular, fair-skinned arms. Because of the injury, he wore a dark blue thin coat over his shoulders. He leaned back in the chair, his long legs stretched and overlapped, and he crossed his fingers in front of his nose to think for a moment. He didn't know what was going through his mind, and suddenly asked, "What do you think?"
"His motive is too ridiculous." Meng Zhao didn't hide it, and said bluntly: "Even if Gao Ling had said something to Liu Li before his death, a drug-addicted stray girl ran to expose him as a well-dressed person with social status. It's useless without evidence. I don't believe he went to her to silence Liu Li because he was afraid of talking nonsense. There must be other motives behind it."
"Yes." Bu Chonghua let out a long sigh and said slowly: "Gao Ling's body was found in the morning of May 9th, and he sneaked into Liu Li's house at night. In the middle, he burned all the pictures of himself and 'Mr. Ba'. Photo... He is not afraid of getting burned, he is protecting 'Teacher Ba', and there is a deeper connection behind this group of people."
Meng Zhao's expression darkened.
"Let the technical team try to restore Li Hongxi's computer and mobile phone photo albums, and screen the surveillance video near his home at 3:00 a.m. on March 18 to see if anyone who matches the characteristic sketch appears." Bu Chonghua stood up and thought for a while. He also ordered: "Send a few teams to the bathing city that Li Hongxi frequents, and see if they can find a sketch of escort girls for them to identify 'Mr. Ba', and tell those escort girls who participated in the identification, in exchange for cooperating with the police. , in case they are caught in the next pornography sweep, they won't be fined."
"Yes!"
"Go back to rest early after work, I'll go home first."
Meng Zhao was immersed in the contemplation of the case, and he hummed absently. Five seconds later, a sudden jolt—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 stunned, and murmured after a while, "Is he pierced by a soul?"
At nine o'clock in the evening, the night fell, and the lanterns under the urban sky were lit up one by one.
In Tianlu Community, which is half a station away from Heyun Road in Jinhai City, in the bright and spacious corridor of Building 3A, the elevator door slowly opened. Bu Chonghua stopped in front of the house and took out his key. second.
He stared at the security door, and after a while, he finally cleared his throat, unlocked the door, and entered:
"I am back!"
The huge living room was empty, the lights were not turned on up and down the stairs, and the whole house was submerged in the night pouring in from the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Fell asleep? Bu Chonghua thought to himself.
He took off his shoes, put on his coat, put the takeaway box on the coffee table in the living room, and went straight upstairs to the door of the guest bedroom. Just as he was about to gently open the door, he suddenly stopped.
- There was no light coming from the crack of the door.
"..." Bu Chonghua didn't know what he was thinking, he just stood motionless in front of the guest bedroom door for a while, then slowly turned around.
The well-decorated huge duplex did not turn on the lights, and the Ambilight of the city center in the distance passed through the night, reflected in his pupils, and flickered indistinctly. There was no expression in Bu Chonghua's eyes. He climbed down the glass handrail of the stairs step by step, stepped on the floor tiles of the living room, and was about to hang up his coat at the entrance, when he turned his head and caught a glimpse of the study, and was suddenly stunned.
The door of the study was half open, shrouded in darkness, but there was a faint light in the room.
In an instant, a certain premonition roared, and Bu Chonghua's expression changed slightly. He quickly pushed open the door of the study and came to the door of the piano practice room to take a look, and his footsteps stopped abruptly—
The warm yellow wall lamp poured down on the delicate velvet cover of the grand piano. Wu Yu sat cross-legged on the piano bench, with one side of his face resting on the key cover. one part.
Bu Chonghua looked at him for a long time, with an unclear expression in his eyes. After a long time, he walked into the room without making a sound, and put his coat lightly on his shoulders.
"...Huh?" Wu Yu woke up almost immediately, raised his eyes dimly, then closed it tightly, and said vaguely, "Are you back?"
Bu Chonghua was silent for a moment, then turned his face to look at the delicate texture on the carpet: "Well. I'm back."