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Chapter 172 Surrender
The messenger did not give Shi Hongfang a friendly look.

"You shouldn't apologize to me; you should apologize to the victims."

Shi Hongfang remained silent and did not respond.

In any case, he is inextricably linked to this case that occurred in Chika City.

The deed is done; any explanation is futile, and that is his dereliction of duty.

The messenger stared at Shi Hongfang for a few seconds, then suddenly asked, "Are you and Hu Yingshao in cahoots?"

There were no beating around the bush, no probing; the questions were very direct.

Shi Hongfang shook his head: "No."

Did you know what he did?

Shi Hongfang sat on the sofa with a helpless, bitter smile on his face, motionless like a compassionate bodhisattva statue, including his mouth.

Seeing this, the messenger asked no further questions and left directly.

After a long while, Shi Hongfang stopped smiling bitterly and took out his spare phone with a blank expression.

Open the file manager, and the first and only folder is named after Hu Yingshao.

The content inside was precisely those damaging videos that Tao Jun had previously deleted.

"It's still not enough..."

Shi Hongfang sighed, put away his phone, and left the office.

As soon as he stepped outside, he heard Liu Yuan reprimanding his subordinates in the corridor, with Jin Ping'an and Cheng Lejia watching helplessly.

“I told you to keep an eye on someone, but Wang Youcai ran away, and Hu Yingshao ran away too! Wang Youcai ran away as soon as he came out of the community, and you didn’t even bother to check who he met in the community?”

Have you forgotten everything you learned at the police academy? You graduated first in the investigation department? Even your stray dog ​​would be better than you!

Liu Yuan pointed at the heads of the two police officers and began to curse.

"Old Liu, what's wrong? Why are you so angry?"

Shi Hongfang patted Liu Yuan on the shoulder, interrupting the spellcasting.

Liu Yuan was very good at choosing training locations, almost blocking the entrance to Shi Hongfang's office.

He couldn't ignore it even if he wanted to.

"Team Leader Shi, don't even mention it! I sent those two to keep an eye on Wang Youcai, and as soon as he went into a residential area and came out through a different gate, they lost him. I must have been blind to have hired those two idiots!"

Liu Yuan was so angry that his face turned red and his neck bulged, just like Guan Yu.

The two unlucky guys kept their heads down, not daring to look at Liu Yuan.

The main concern is getting sprayed with spittle.

"You two go back first. Submit a self-criticism of more than 4,000 words before midnight tonight."

After sending the two police officers away, Shi Hongfang said to Liu Yuan, "Don't blame them. Hu Yingshao's neighborhood is full of retired leaders; they can't get in."

"I know we can't get in, but if we can't get in, we have to find another way. That's not an excuse for their dereliction of duty!"

Liu Yuan shouted loudly.

"Forget it, they're still young. If everyone could apply the theoretical knowledge they learned in police academy, wouldn't there be great detectives everywhere?"

"How can we let this go? The Wang brothers are gone, and now even Hu Yingshao is missing. We finally caught Tao Jun, this big fish, but they all got away. Isn't this a case of catching them for nothing!"

Liu Yuan paced back and forth in the corridor, looking very anxious.

"...If they want to escape, they definitely won't go through the proper channels. Just have the informant keep an eye on them. I'll contact the traffic police and have them block off the main roads."

Shi Hongfang offered a few perfunctory words of comfort, then glanced out the window: "It's already past midnight, everyone should go and rest. It's not easy to find someone in the middle of the night, let's wait until dawn."

“But…” Liu Yuan still wanted to dissuade him.

“There’s no ‘buts’ about it. This is an order. You can’t expect them to stay up all night with you.” Shi Hongfang pointed to Cheng Lejia and Jin Ping’an standing to the side.

"I haven't bought all the things for my home yet, so I'll just have to make do in the team's rest room for the next couple of days... Please, Le Jia, bring me two pieces of clothing tomorrow."

Jin Ping'an declined the order to go home and sleep, mainly because he hadn't bought any new furniture since his house was vandalized.

He has been staying at Cheng Lejia's apartment recently.

"Okay, I'll send you some daily necessities later."

Shi Hongfang did not make things difficult for Jin Ping'an. After comforting him for a few words, he left the detachment.

Jin Ping'an watched through the glass as Shi Hongfang's car drove through the gate and disappeared from sight, muttering, "Captain Shi... does he really know nothing about all this?"

No one answered him, or rather, no one was willing to answer the question.

Liu Yuan sighed and led Cheng Lejia to the parking lot.

He originally intended to personally escort the young master home, but upon seeing the extended luxury limousine and burly bodyguards parked at the entrance of the branch office, he naturally abandoned the idea.

…………

The next morning, just as dawn broke, two or three people were pacing back and forth in the criminal investigation team.

Tian Hao and Jiang Kaiji walked into the gym, yawning, ready to wash their faces.

The two of them worked at the criminal investigation team all night, and only managed to doze off on the sofa around three or four in the morning.

After washing up, I had just returned to the team when I entered the corridor and heard the sound of someone banging on the table coming from Liu Yuan's office.

Tian Hao and Jiang Kaiji exchanged a glance and pushed open Liu Yuan's office door.

"What's wrong, Lao Liu? Why are you sulking here so early in the morning?"

Jiang Kaiji asked while ordering takeout on his phone.

"The fake Wang Sheng is dead."

Liu Yuan said with a dark face.

"The fake Wang Sheng... the one Tao Jun found?" Jiang Kaiji shuddered and instantly became alert.

"How did you die?"

Tian Hao frowned and asked, "Isn't he locked up in the anti-drug squad? How did Hu Yingshao manage to get his hands in there?"

Liu Yuan's expression was indescribable; if you had to describe it, it was like eating shredded potatoes and finding shredded ginger in them.

"The man died during transport. Last night, Captain Shi went to the anti-drug team to ask for the man and was preparing to hand over this witness, but halfway there, the fake Wang Sheng suddenly suffocated."

"So blatant?"

To take action directly during transport is utterly lawless and shows a complete disregard for the criminal investigation team.

Some things are fine to do behind the scenes, but to tear things up like this and bring them out into the open, no matter how powerful you are, will definitely not have a good time.

Tian Hao couldn't understand why Hu Yingshao would go to such lengths to deal with a fake Wang Sheng.

He was trembling with rage: "Who's in charge of escorting us? I'd like to see which guy has the guts!"

Liu Yuan's eyes flickered slightly: "The escort vehicle was changed once. The fake Wang Sheng suddenly had difficulty breathing and suffocated to death when Mei Jianbai was in charge of escorting him."

This time it was Jiang Kaiji's turn to be stunned: "This is impossible! Everyone knows what kind of person Lao Mei is!"

Liu Yuan took a deep breath and said, "That's why I'm so angry. Even with Mei Jianbai watching over him, he still died on the way to be transported."

Since there were people of their own watching over him, the fake Wang Sheng was definitely not suffocated to death by someone else using brute force.

Were there needle marks on the body?

Tian Hao's first thought was that it was a slow-acting poison. The escort vehicle was changed once during the journey, so it is very likely that he had already been injected with the deadly poison before Mei Jianbai received the person.

"The body has been sent for autopsy, but I asked the forensic doctor and they haven't seen any injection holes or needle marks. As for the blood test results, they're not clear yet."

Liu Yuan fiddled with her phone and sent over several autopsy photos.

The fake Wang Sheng was completely exposed; any problems with him were immediately apparent.

Jiang Kaiji leaned closer, pointed at the photo, and asked, "What are these red spots?"

“The forensic doctors have confirmed that it wasn’t a needle mark; he simply scratched himself,” Liu Yuan explained.

"Keep the body under wraps and don't let them send it for cremation. We'll have someone check it again later."

After examining the body for a long time, Tian Hao found that apart from a few red spots and scratch marks, there were no bruises on the body indicating that it had been beaten or bound.

Fake Wang Sheng, an unregistered scavenger, is extremely vigilant. Faced with an overwhelming will to survive, he would never willingly take poison without being forced.

None of the three people present had studied medicine in depth. Although they had some basic medical knowledge, they were definitely not at the level of professional forensic doctors.

Therefore, they had to put this matter aside for the time being, as finding the whereabouts of Hu Yingshao and Wang Youcai was the most important thing at the moment.

"Report!...Report...Report..."

A voice came from outside the corridor, growing louder as it approached the office: "Report, whoosh... Report! Outside..."

"Report, report, report, what the hell are you reporting? This is the criminal investigation team, not a bandit's den. Spit it out!" Jiang Kaiji snapped irritably.

Because the person who came was his apprentice.

"Someone outside wants to turn themselves in!" Jiang Kaiji's apprentice quickly condensed the report.

"You handle it first, we're busy here."

Jiang Kaiji waved his hand impatiently, preparing to send his apprentice away first: "If you feel you can't get the answer yourself, just lock him up for now, and I'll interrogate him later."

He said his name was Hu Yingshao.

Faced with three pairs of sharp eyes, Jiang Kaiji's apprentice trembled in fear.

…………

This interrogation was personally led by Shi Hongfang, with Tian Hao responsible for taking notes, just like yesterday.

Jin Ping'an was getting up after hearing the news. Gao Bin and the messenger did not come to the criminal police team. Outside the interrogation room, only Liu Yuan and Jiang Kaiji were present for the time being.

Tap tap tap, Jin Ping'an, wearing slippers, jogged up to the interrogation room.

The interrogation had just begun.

Hu Yingshao looked haggard, with droopy eyelids and what seemed like tears glistening in his eyes.

"Do you have any rebuttal to Tao Jun's testimony?"

Shi Hongfang briefly summarized the evidence Tao Jun had confessed to yesterday and then asked Hu Yingshao.

"I did help Wang Youcai pull some strings."

Hu Yingshao wiped away her tears: "But I never asked Tao Jun to do that kind of thing! This is all slander!"

Seeing Hu Yingshao with snot and tears streaming down his face, Tian Hao didn't react at all, while Shi Hongfang pushed a pack of tissues over to him.

"Can you tell me your reasons for turning yourself in?" Tian Hao asked expressionlessly.

Hu Yingshao pulled out a tissue to wipe away his tears and snot, and looked directly at the two people in front of him: "Actually, I have been suffering from inner torment all these years, but I have never had the courage to turn myself in until yesterday."

"Last night, the Wang brothers came to my house, hoping to use my connections to smooth things over."

I initially thought it would be the same as before, just requiring me to use my connections to organize the dinner, but they said it involved a murder case.

Hu Yingshao's expression was sorrowful, and his tone revealed regret: "I never imagined that they would be so audacious. That was a human life!"

Tian Hao nodded.

As expected of Tao Jun's master, he's quite adept at throwing mud at people.

It's like an old sow wearing a bra, one set after another, all woven together to look real.

Regardless of what Tian Hao was thinking, Hu Yingshao's speech continued.

“Wang Youcai said that three months ago, a dispute broke out among them. Tao Jun accidentally killed Wang Sheng from the security department and a young lady. Now the police have started investigating the disappearance of the two and want me to step in and settle the matter.”

“I refused outright. They then threatened me with my indecent videos and knocked over my tea set. If my caregiver hadn’t heard the noise, they might have used violence against me.”

Tian Hao turned his face away from the surveillance camera, unable to help but roll his eyes: "What evidence do you have to prove it?"

“Yes! My caregiver and the community's surveillance cameras can prove that they came last night, and I didn't put away the tea set, so there must still be Wang Youcai's fingerprints on it.”

Nonsense! They would definitely leave fingerprints when they went to your house. Who knows if you knocked over the tea set after Wang Youcai left?
Tian Hao didn't say these words aloud.

Because it's useless to say it out loud; on the contrary, the other party will seize on it and accuse him of deliberately targeting someone during the interrogation.

Shi Hongfang asked, "Why did you help Wang Youcai expand his network before?"

When this issue was brought up, Hu Yingshao's tears welled up again: "Hongfang, I was forced into this situation."

Wang Youde helped me catch a thief who stole my wallet, and to repay him, I hired him as my personal assistant.

Not long after, Wang Youcai heard about this and thanked me for giving his idle younger brother a proper job. He insisted on treating me to a meal, and I went because I couldn't refuse his hospitality.

As a result, I was set up at the hotel and filmed indecently, which left me with incriminating evidence. I cherished my innocence and reputation, and had no choice but to do his bidding...

"Then why are you turning yourself in now?" Tian Hao couldn't help but interrupt Hu Yingshao's tearful performance.

Do they cherish their innocence and reputation?

I bother!

This person is even more shameless than shameless.

He finally understood why Tao Jun would help Hu Yingshao; the two were like durian appreciating stinky tofu—birds of a feather flock together.

“Originally, he just wanted to use my connections to expand his network. Anyway, it didn’t harm social order and it wasn’t a big deal, so I tolerated it repeatedly.”

The veteran actor blew his nose and said, "But it involves human life, and my conscience makes me unable to continue to endure their coercion, so I decided to turn myself in and expose everything!"

Shi Hongfang asked calmly, "Why couldn't we contact you at all last night? Why did you have to wait until today to turn yourself in?"

Hu Yingshao kept shaking his head and sighing.

After a long pause, he finally spoke, "Last night I asked a friend from the calligraphy association to book a room for me at a self-service hotel so I could calm down by myself."

I initially wanted to escape the truth and pretend they had never been there, but the thought of a life being taken tormented my conscience. I couldn't sleep all night, and only at dawn did I finally make up my mind to turn myself in.

"About what happened at Wang Youcai's club..."

Before Shi Hongfang could finish speaking, Hu Yingshao jumped up from his chair, agitated: "I'm so old! How could I possibly still be capable of doing that kind of thing? This is all slander!"

"As far as I know, medical technology is quite advanced these days," Tian Hao added casually from the side.

"Cough cough, you... cough, whew, you... you're spouting nonsense... cough cough cough..."

Hu Yingshao's face turned red, and he kept panting and coughing, looking like he was having difficulty breathing.

"Tian Hao".

Shi Hongfang gestured to Tian Hao not to say anything unrelated to the interrogation.

After catching his breath for two or three minutes, Hu Yingshao slowly sat down in the chair: "Do I look like an old man who can eat anything?"

Tian Hao remained silent, only silently wishing him a speedy ascension to heaven.

(End of this chapter)