In the suburbs of the capital in late spring, the complex flowers, trees and green leaves shade the morning sun, making it extremely quiet. A police car drove silently in such a beautiful environment.
Xu Le squinted his eyes, looked at the scenery of the capital outside through the observation window covered with iron mesh, his expression was calm, but he didn't know what he was thinking. His hands and feet are still tightly bound, from a suspect of destroying classified federal data to a suspect of a felony murder. The guard job has been changed from military police to heavily armed police, but the intensity of guarding has not diminished in the slightest.
He knew very well that in the investigation of these two cases, the relevant federal government departments were surprisingly efficient, but in the middle of the night, they actually provided sufficient evidence, and at this time, he was transferred from the military prison to the local prosecutor's office. Naturally, it is the operation of the Li family. With the hidden strength of the seven federal families, it is not difficult to influence the operation speed of the federal judicial department.
The strange relationship between him and Vice Minister Zou Yingxing should have been known in advance, but they have never been able to confirm it. When they knew that the female officer of the Ministry of Defense Justice Department entered the prison overnight, they immediately threw out the second plan, Xu Le was transferred to the local prosecutor's office.
The undersecretary of defense may be able to influence everything in military prisons, but the influence over the federal judiciary is not that strong, at least compared to the Lee family.
"Do you have anything to say?"
Xu Songzi sat beside Xu Le, squinting at his client, a little surprised by the calm of the other party. Logically speaking, she was dealing with the case of Xu Le destroying classified federal data. Regarding the case of the murder of an active-duty officer Park Zhi-ho, without a follow-up order from her superiors, she could completely ignore it and follow Xu Le to the local prosecutor's office.
But for some unknown reason, Xu Songzi always felt that this matter was a bit strange. Why did this young lieutenant, who obviously had Vice Minister Zou as his backer, suddenly suffered from madness, first killed people in cold blood on Hushan Road, and then broke into the research institute like a madman to make a big smash... There is obviously something hidden behind the matter, It's a pity that Xu Le didn't want to reveal any rumors to her.
"Thank you." After Xu Le said these two words, he immediately closed his mouth again. He knew very well that what awaited him in the local prosecutor's office would be the storm of federal justice, and the female officer beside him might be an excellent one. She is a judicial talent, but she has no role in this matter.
Deputy Minister Zou has already taken action, although the force of the action is not strong, and it may even be that Zou Yu secretly helped in her father's name, but at least it is a small warning to that side. Xu Le was just thinking about whether the Tai family would take action after entering the local prosecutor's office.
He was waiting, and he even vaguely guessed that the Tie Suanli family put so much pressure on him, maybe he was waiting to see the real relationship between himself and the Tai family, to see if the lady would care about him. .
A photo enlarged to twelve inches was gently placed on the table and placed under Xu Le's eyes.
The photo is a close-up view. The throat cut by the blade looks very bloody and terrifying, especially the faintly visible white trachea inside. The blood that has coagulated slipped down the cheeks of the corpse, and wet a large piece of golden hair, mixed together , like an ink-like black.
Xu Le quietly looked at the big photo in front of him, his expression remained unmoved, but the corners of his eyes twitched.
Inspector Xiao Wenjing had been silently observing his expression, stepped forward indifferently, and put seven or eight photos in front of Xu Le's eyes. He didn't ask a word, and just used the magnified wounds and corpses in the photos, as well as the silence in the interrogation room, to put pressure on Xu Le.
"Do you know the dead man?"
"Know. Park Ji-ho. We took the Spring Recruitment Exam for Nutshell Motor Company together."
If it was said that when he killed Park Zhiho just last night, Xu Le's heart still had a trace of confusion and sadness, then at this moment, he has been able to maintain absolute peace when looking at these magnified photos. Aside from the initial twitch at the corner of his eye, his expression was calm as usual.
Yet it was this calm that exposed the problem. Xiao Wenjing looked at his face indifferently, knowing that she was right in her judgment. The young lieutenant in front of him was definitely the murderer, but he could not judge his motive for the crime for the time being.
"Where were you at 9:40 last night?" an assistant inspector at the District Prosecutor's Office asked in a mechanical voice.
With a snap, Xiao Wenjing lit a cigarette.
"I can't remember the exact time, but it should probably be on the way back to the apartment."
"You didn't work at the research institute yesterday afternoon, why did you come back to the apartment so late?"
"My... my girlfriend is pregnant. I had a pregnancy checkup last night."
"Girlfriend? Name?"
"Zou Yu."
Xu Songzi, who had been listening in the interrogation room, kept silent in a measured manner. At this time, when he heard the name of Xu Le's girlfriend, he couldn't help frowning. Only then did he realize that this young lieutenant was actually the future son-in-law of Deputy Minister Zou. She couldn't help thinking of the recent rumor in the ministry that the minister's daughter was pregnant out of wedlock.
"Have you passed the Hushan Road Crossing?"
"forgotten."
"Forget? There was an armed fight incident at the Hushan crossing. We have invited the relevant parties back. They have already identified you before. You participated in the armed fight incident and injured eight people. How could you forget such a big event? It doesn't matter if you forget it, the testimony of the witnesses and the surveillance video of the crossing will definitely help you remember."
Xu Le slowly raised his head, the exhaustion of the night made him feel a little anxious at this time, and he retorted a mean remark very unusually: "I can never remember the time when I was chased by a dog."
The Second District Prosecutor's Office in the capital was extremely efficient in handling the case, and had fully grasped Xu Le's whereabouts in the first half of the night yesterday, and had already obtained the confessions of those federal sons and buddies. The most important thing is that those people proved that Xu Le grabbed a knife after slaughtering eight of his own and rushed directly to the mountain at the entrance of Hushan Road.
Four hours later, the body of the active duty officer Park Zhiho was found on the cliff there.
"The conclusion of the forensic department has come out. The knife model provided according to the testimony of the witnesses is just enough to cause fatal wounds on the neck of the deceased."
Xu Le lowered his head. He did not expect that the young masters and bodyguards who had been driven away by him would actually provide such crucial testimony. After all, he wasn't a professionally trained killer, nor was he a professional criminal, and he really didn't care about that at the time.
However, he had already threw the knife into the creek in the Qingteng Garden. Presumably the seventh young master of the Li family had no intention of betraying himself. You must know that Park Zhihao's body was found several hours late, and there was quite a lot of instant evidence. It was eliminated, all due to the delay of the Seventh Young Master of the Li family.
"You grabbed a knife, rushed up the cliff, and brutally killed a young and excellent federal officer in cold blood." The assistant inspector saw Xu Le fell into silence, and continued without rushing: "The evidence The chain is very complete, I advise you to plead guilty in time, and we will intercede with the judge on your behalf."
Xu Le remained silent, but after hearing the words "confession", he subconsciously glanced at the female officer Xu Song who was sitting quietly not far away, and smiled.
Inspector Xiao shook his head slightly, knowing that it was impossible for this cold-blooded second lieutenant officer to speak without actual evidence. He gestured to the assistant prosecutor, patted Xu Le on the shoulder, and led him to the interrogation room, where Xu Songzi also stood up.
I don't know if it was a coincidence or a deliberate arrangement by the District Prosecutor's Office. Two groups of people who should never have met each other met. Xu Le, whose hands and feet were tied, squinted at the mother and daughter who were hugging and crying beside the corridor, and the middle-aged man who was smoking desperately beside him, his movements subconsciously slowed down.
The mother who was crying bitterly had blonde hair, and the middle-aged man looked like Park Ji-ho, and he looked like he had an extraordinary family background.
"You're the killer?" The middle-aged man's eyes were bloodshot, and his only son died like this. He couldn't figure it out. He looked at Xu Le viciously, as if he wanted to swallow him up.
The mother and daughter who hugged and cried were Park Zhiho's mother and younger sister. The mother who had just lost her child frantically rushed towards Xu Le like a wounded beast, digging her fingers desperately into his face. , accompanied by piercing cries.
The sharp nails were only an inch away from Xu Le's eyes. The inspectors of the District Attorney's Office tried desperately to stop the angry families of the victims, and finally calmed down the chaos in the corridor.
Bah, Park Zhiho's younger sister was about thirteen or fourteen years old. She stared at Xu Le's face with a look of extreme cold and anger, and spit saliva on his face.
"You'd better be locked in prison forever." Park Zhiho's father hugged his wife, looked at Xu Le who was wiping his saliva with his head down, and said with a trembling voice: "Otherwise I will definitely kill you... kill you... "
While making such personal threats in front of the inspectors, those inspectors didn't mean to dissuade them at all, they just pushed Xu Le away indifferently.
Outside the iron gate of the temporary detention center, Inspector Xiao Wenjing looked at Xu Le and said, "If I were you, I would have pleaded guilty earlier, otherwise there will be many hard times."
"You don't have direct evidence, you don't have witnesses, you don't have knives, you don't have anything." Xu Songzi said quickly behind Inspector Xiao.
"Use your own professionalism to judge whether he is the murderer!" Inspector Xiao suddenly turned around, stared at Xu Songzi, and said in a low voice and anger: "If the person did not kill him, I will cut off my head and give it to you. "
"What is the motive for committing the crime? And the most important thing is that we are professionals, we must believe, and we can only believe the evidence."
Xiao Wenjing threw the finished cigarette under his feet. He had also stayed up in the middle of the night, his eyes were a little deep, and he said with a faint sarcasm: "I will find evidence, but I didn't expect that the researchers of the Nutshell Research Institute would also So cold-blooded."
Xu Songzi was silent. She knew that the magnified bloody photos and the chance encounter with the victim's family in the corridor were the psychological offensive that Inspector Xiao was best at using, but looking at Xu Le's calm expression, she didn't seem to be touched at all. To say that the young lieutenant was cold-blooded might have some truth to it.
"The girlfriend he mentioned earlier is the daughter of Vice Minister Zou of our ministry."
"I know, but I don't care about that." Inspector Xiao put out the cigarette butt at his feet.
Looking at his expression, Xu Songzi suddenly had an ominous thought, looked at him and said, "What are you going to do?"
"As a judicial officer, I won't do things like torture to extract a confession. You can rest assured." Xiao Wenjing walked back to the interrogation room and said gloomily, "But what he should feel, he should feel it."