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Chapter 171 Inquire
As the interrogation progressed, the details of the case became increasingly clear.

Liu Yuan has already begun mobilizing manpower to arrest Hu Yingshao the moment the interrogation ends.

"How many victims were there, and what were their names?"

"I wasn't involved in the kidnapping, so I don't remember exactly... maybe twenty to thirty people?"

Tao Jun tried hard to recall the exact number of people, but the kidnapping was all done by the fake Wang Sheng, and he hadn't personally overseen it, so he didn't know exactly how many people there were.

We can only estimate the approximate number of people based on the number of times the fake Wang Sheng reports the situation.

Tao Jun was troubled and confused, but he had no regrets, looking at his casual expression, which showed no concern for the victims.

Tian Hao's blood pressure rose again. If Liu Yuan hadn't been holding him back, Jin Ping'an would have rushed in and beaten Tao Jun to death long ago.

Whether we can win or not is another matter.

"Did you lead people to vandalize Jin Ping'an's house?"

Tian Hao then asked.

"It was me... This was also Hu Yingshao's idea. Wang Youcai has always warned us not to cause trouble. If it weren't for Hu Yingshao's orders, I wouldn't have..."

Tao Jun had followed Hu Yingshao for many years and had long since learned the essence of the old man's teachings.

No matter what it is, as long as it can be related, the first thing to do is to shift the blame.

"We'll talk about whose orders they gave us later. If I didn't tell you, shut up!"

Tian Hao hates these old foxes who talk nonsense during interrogations and start shirking responsibility and playing the victim within three sentences.

Why don't you think things through before you start?
It's like you're just doing what someone else tells you to do, and that's it.

"You were the one who hired people to maliciously surround and beat Jin Ping'an over the past month, weren't you?"

"what?"

Tao Jun was dumbfounded: "I'm innocent! Apart from smashing up his house and writing two letters at the beginning, I haven't done anything else!"

"You're accusing me of something! Do you think those thugs are so bored that they go and ambush him every day?"

Tian Hao didn't care about Tao Jun's explanation at all.

He's caught red-handed in a major incident, with witnesses and physical evidence to prove it, so he can't hide it anymore. But he'll definitely deny these minor issues that lack evidence, no matter what.

Tian Hao began to expand the interrogation questions to other cases: "Did you plan the bank robbery?"

You son of a bitch, you're the one who's Hu Yingshao's lackey!

Tao Jun was so angry that his face contorted in anger, but he still had to perform well in front of Gao Bin to try and get a reduced sentence, so he could only forcibly suppress the urge to swear.

"Officer Tian, ​​aren't you going a bit too far? Do I look like someone who's so desperate for money that he'd rob a bank?"

Tao Jun patiently explained, "I know how serious a crime robbing a bank is in Asia Union."

"Is it really necessary for me to do something like this for a mere few hundred thousand yuan in cash from a small bank?"

"That's impossible to say."

Tian Hao's gaze was very sharp.

"On the day of the incident, Jin Ping'an happened to be at the bank conducting business. Instead of arresting the elderly and children, the robbers specifically targeted two students who were capable of resisting."

Who knows if you're using a bank robbery as a pretext to silence Jin Ping'an, who's investigating the kidnapping?

Damn it!

Do I need to explain to you which is easier, taking down a kid or robbing a bank?

With that equipment and time, I could just find an opportunity and shoot that kid dead!

Damn it! If you're so angry about being suspended, go find Hu Yingshao!
You bully the weak and fear the strong, huh!

Tao Jun was so angry he was itching to fight back. He strongly suspected that Tian Hao was using this opportunity to sow discord between him and others.

"Tian Hao, you've passed."

Liu Yuan reminded them from outside the interrogation room.

This behavior can already be considered leading questioning.

Tian Hao then stopped the topic and turned to ask Tao Jun about some minor details of the kidnapping case.

Where was he when he was kidnapped, and what was he doing?

If Tao Jun says he is eating, then continue to ask what he is eating, where he is eating, whether it is takeout or a hotel.

Then, verify the findings against the actual circumstances to determine if he was lying.

The flaws in a lie often lie in these small things.

Tao Jun can't even remember how many times he's kidnapped, so it's impossible for him to prepare a complete alibi for every single kidnapping.

In Tao Jun's confession, Hu Yingshao ordered him to kidnap someone, and he simply found a beggar to relay Hu Yingshao's orders.

In this way, he is neither the initiator nor the perpetrator of the crime, thus minimizing the severity of the offense.

But you think you can absolve yourself of all responsibility with just a few words? No way.

Tian Hao didn't hold back at all with Tao Jun, linking all his past misdeeds, big and small, to this kidnapping case, practically stripping Tao Jun bare.

At that moment, Liu Yuan received a phone call.

"Hey……"

"Captain Liu, Wang Youcai has disappeared. His villa is empty, and the door isn't even locked."

Has Wang Youcai absconded?

Just as Liu Yuan put the phone to her ear, she heard some shocking news.

"Didn't I tell you to keep an eye on him? How could you not keep an eye on such a big, living person?"

"There's nothing we can do."

The police officer in charge of the surveillance said helplessly, "He just went to a residential area. You need an invitation code to get in there, so we can't get in at all."

"Don't you know to stand guard at the door?"

"The community has three entrances and exits... but we obtained information about Wang Youcai's safe house from our informant."

Liu Yuan's expression softened slightly. He rubbed his temples with one hand and urged, "Stop talking nonsense and send it over quickly."

After receiving the document, Liu Yuan immediately forwarded it to Tian Hao.

Tian Hao calmly ended the current question: "Regarding the victims who haven't been sent to the club by Hu Yingshao yet, do you have any clue where they're being held?"

"do not know."

Exhausted, Tao Jun breathed a sigh of relief and answered very actively.

Finally, the other party stopped asking him those personal questions.

If you keep asking, even if he's not involved in the kidnapping case, his fate will definitely not be good.

"Where are the kidnapped victims usually taken?"

“An abandoned warehouse in a suburban industrial park.”

How much do you know about Hu Yingshao's safe house?

"do not know."

Where did he store those special "works"?

"do not know."

"Think about it carefully." Tian Hao freed one hand and cracked his knuckles.

Tao Jun's eyes twitched as he read this: "Although I work for Hu Yingshao, he is very cautious and never talks to us about any private matters."

"How much do you know about Wang Youcai?"

Tian Hao began to reveal his true intentions.

"I know almost everything, after all, I've been following him since before he became successful."

“Tell me all his hiding places first.”

Tian Hao picked up the tablet and began the long comparison process.

Jin Ping'an, who was waiting outside the interrogation room, was getting impatient and wanted to urge Liu Yuan to send out the police as soon as possible.

But then they suddenly realized that the messenger had disappeared sometime during the night.

"Captain Liu, when did the messenger leave?"

Liu Yuan was somewhat surprised: "He was called away by Captain Shi before he came in, didn't you see?"

The messenger didn't come in?
Jin Ping'an was also stunned. For most of the day, he hadn't even noticed that someone was missing from his side.

…………

Jin Ping'an waited anxiously for the interrogation to end.

The messenger followed Shi Hongfang, the captain of the Qianhua City Criminal Police Team, to the captain's office.

Shi Hongfang gestured to the sofa, "Please sit down, don't be shy."

The messenger didn't stand on ceremony and sat down directly in the center of the sofa.

Shi Hongfang went to the locker and took out two disposable cups: "Do you prefer tea or coffee? If you want coffee, we only have instant coffee here."

"No need, you didn't come here just for casual conversation, did you?"

The messenger squinted at Shi Hongfang: "Just say what you want to say, that way we can all save a lot of time."

"That's certainly a clean and efficient way of doing things."

Shi Hongfang smiled and put the cup back.

The messenger carefully examined the criminal police captain of Qianhua City.

His neat short hair, clean police uniform, and standard, proper sitting posture exuded a peaceful aura, making him seem out of place with everything around him.

how to say.

More like a young nobleman than a criminal police officer.

A person like him should be in a music restaurant or a cruise ship, not in a solemn police force.

Standing together with Shi Hongfang and the other police officers, it was like a steamed lobster more than half a meter long suddenly appearing in a table of fried rice and instant noodles.

Under the messenger's watchful eye, Shi Hongfang gently pushed a document towards him, gesturing for the messenger to open it.

The messenger picked up the document, quickly flipped through a few pages, and then closed it.

"What do you mean?"

The messenger asked with a cold face.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to provoke you."

Shi Hongfang took back the folder, removed the section about the messenger's experience, and handed it back: "I just want to ask if this intelligence is accurate."

The contents of this document are none other than all the intelligence information related to the hermit.

Even things that are only remotely related to hermits are recorded in it.

The book provides detailed analysis on every page, including the hermit's personality traits, character profile, psychological assessment, killing habits, and behavioral characteristics.

Even the hermit's life as an information broker before he became a throat-slitting maniac was documented.

The document is quite long, and the authenticity of the information far surpasses that of Mus's outlandish tales.

It will definitely make those who bought fake information weep.

If the hermit were replaced with a celebrity, the person who wrote this report would definitely be a die-hard fan.

"You ask me, who should I ask?"

The messenger didn't even glance at the documents on the table: "I told you, stop with the pointless probing. I'm not as close to the Hermit as you think."

Moreover, judging from your analysis of this document, I personally feel that you understand him better than I do.

Shi Hongfang shook his head: "But I've never even seen a hermit."

The messenger said coldly, "You mean you want to see the hermit? Yang Xingguo investigated my relationship with the hermit seven years ago. How many times do I have to tell you?"

Shi Hongfang didn't pay attention to the messenger's tone and still exuded a calm and gentle aura.

But the words he spoke didn't sound so gentle.

"Two months ago, a group of people appeared in Nevada, searching for the whereabouts of this hermit in the Black Market."

Shi Hongfang looked at the messenger with a calm gaze: "At first, I didn't take those people to heart, because Yang Xingguo and I had looked for him like this before."

But not long after, the hermit appeared, and in broad daylight, met with a prisoner named Xu Zhihai.

"I wanted to seize the opportunity to find the hermit, but he was like a bubble in the water, only appearing briefly and disappearing without a trace afterward."

After the failed arrest operation at Yuelai Shopping Mall, the assailant vanished again, just like years before, leaving no trace.

The messenger listened quietly, without interrupting Shi Hongfang's narration, wanting to see what Captain Shi was really up to.

“I originally wanted to investigate Xu Zhihai’s background, but I was warned by my superiors. Even my father warned me not to get involved in this case. I was troubled by this for a long time.”

As Shi Hongfang spoke, he still had that squinting, smiling expression on his face, showing no sign that he had ever been troubled by this matter.

"Therefore, I deduced that the hermit's identity was likely not simple, and I even considered giving up the investigation not long ago."

"But your appearance gave me a glimmer of hope again."

"Heh, what does your investigation of the hermit have to do with me?" the messenger said with a sneer.

Shi Hongfang was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "According to my investigation of you, you really have no connection with the Hermit."

The messenger knew there was more to this story, so he waited quietly for him to continue.

"But you are the only one who has successfully hired the Hermit. You should know that the Hermit never accepts any form of commission. He only occasionally goes to the black market bounty board to see if he can exchange the money after killing the person."

"I told you it was a coincidence. The hermit just happened to have his eye on those few scoundrels back then."

The messenger's gaze sharpened, but the other party remained unfazed: "The hiring could be considered a coincidence, but what about this time?"

Shi Hongfang looked directly into the messenger's eyes: "The timing of your appearance and the Hermit's appearance is too coincidental. Since the Hermit disappeared, you have been out of sight most of the time, only occasionally appearing in people's field of vision."

"The Hermit has only been around for a short time, and you, who once cooperated with the Hermit, have also started to become active. This inevitably makes people think."

The messenger scoffed, "Then why don't you suspect Shi Feng? He's been cooperating with the Hermit for much longer than I have."

Shi Hongfang met the messenger's cold gaze and said, "Because the Ministry of Internal Affairs investigated Shi Feng a long time ago, but they haven't investigated you all these years."

"So you want me to give you a report on my life experiences over the past few years?"

The messenger leaned forward, exuding a powerful aura that psychologically pressured Shi Hongfang.

“I do suspect that you have some kind of secret relationship with the hermit, but I have no intention of interrogating you. I called you here simply to ask you about the hermit and, by the way, to ask you for a small favor.”

Shi Hongfang smiled and waved his hand.

The messenger stared intently at him: "I've said it many times, my relationship with the Hermit is simply one of employment and cooperation. I don't know who the Hermit is or where he is."

"……Feel sorry."

Shi Hongfang lowered his head: "I know this might be wishful thinking on my part, but if... if you can contact the Hermit, I'd like to meet him."

“You should say that to Shi Feng. Not long ago, he was catching up with the Hermit at Yuelai Plaza in front of dozens of police officers.”

"I know, but it's too late."

Shi Hongfang's smile was somewhat bitter, as if he were regretting it.

But he quickly composed himself: "I'm sorry to have shown you the unsightly state of Qianhua City. It is my dereliction of duty as the captain of the criminal investigation team that has caused this situation."

Shi Hongfang had already found out why the messenger had come to Qianhua City.

This scene was like a remake of the events of seven years ago.

It's not surprising that the messenger would go to Chika City on his own initiative after learning about it.

(End of this chapter)