when the moon whispers

Chapter 448: Accomplice - First Appointment (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Eighty-nine First Appointment (Part 2)
"The evidence collection results for Chen Rui's missing location are out."

"Take it easy..." Gu Xing raised his hand to catch the folder that almost hit his nose. Before he could put it on the table, he quickly grabbed Zhu Silai's shoulder, who was about to fall to the ground with his eyes wide open, and carried him gently to the chair next to him. "You didn't eat again? Can your small body handle it? Old Liu in the cafeteria should not have any work at this time, so ask him to cook for you. After eating, take a nap. I'll urge you if there's anything... Jiang Mo, where's your candy?"

"How can you have the time to eat? Old Chen's life is at stake. You still think he is the same as he was four years ago, able to chase a suspect for a day and two nights with a gunshot wound. With his current physique, if he continues to struggle for more than a day with a minor injury, it might be fatal. This candy must have been put into your pocket by Shao Jie..." Zhu Silai raised his hand to catch the toffee that Jiang Mo had thrown to him after searching in his pocket for a long time. He lowered his eyes and twisted the wrinkled packaging, then turned his head and squinted at Gu Xing, who was obviously confused. "The report of the physical examination organized by the unit was just brought back at noon. Chen Rui's follow-up examination result is not good."

"……relapse?"

Gu Xing had just concisely called Lin Yu and Huang Xingjun to investigate the location of the vehicle that had left the surveillance area. The phone was still next to his ear. He paused to pick up the folder again. He was stunned for a long time, his brows slowly knitted together, and he was silent for a long time before he sighed. He held the report for a long time without reading a few lines clearly, so he simply raised his hand and pushed the file to Jiang Mo's hand, rubbed his face twice, and leaned his head on Zhu Silai's shoulder: "I can't read it, just say it directly."

"The on-site report is not much different from the oral account. It mainly talks about the dispute and fight between Chen Rui and Song Yike..." Zhu Silai chewed the candy and squinted his eyes because of the sweetness. He put his arm around Gu Xing's shoulder and kneaded it twice, then got straight to the point: "We had a preconceived notion before, thinking that Chen Rui was knocked unconscious and dragged away, but after we reconstructed the situation at the scene, Chen Rui was injured, probably after the two people had a dispute and a fight."

"We can decide on Song Yike right away, right?" Gu Xing forced himself to sit up straight, slowly pinched his frowning brows, and took a breath of cold air with a hissing voice: "What's wrong with Chen Rui? He didn't take the initiative and he was carrying a gun... or did he fall by himself?"

"Almost. He tried to control Song Yike but failed. During the fight, they were mostly pulling and tugging. Song Yike probably didn't hold him. I don't know what caused him to fall headfirst onto the rocks—"

Zhu Silai chewed a piece of candy and took out the USB flash drive from his pocket and threw it to Xiaomi Lu, then instructed the policeman to pull out a few photos of the fight scene and project them on the screen: "The stone that is suspected to be the murder weapon should have been picked up by Song Yike after the failed murder attempt and thrown on the ground. When Lao Chen rolled down from the big stone, the back of his head hit him twice. However, no traces of gunpowder were found at the fight scene from beginning to end. The situation is probably not serious enough to require a gun. Now we can only hope that the suspect will not be searched... I found a small spot of blood on the stone that is suspected to be the murder weapon. It does not belong to Chen Rui. After comparison, it is confirmed that it is Song Yike without a doubt."

Zhu Silai frowned and looked at Gu Xing's gradually gloomy expression, "Old Chen is carrying a gun. Both the man and the gun are very dangerous. Why don't you issue a wanted warrant?"

"... Chen Rui is putting so much effort into following Song Yike, I... tsk, I'm afraid it might cause trouble..."

Gu Xing ragged his hair with a look of deep resentment, picked up his phone again, and was about to throw all his troubles to Director Gao, who was in one online meeting after another offline meeting. His fingertips had just lit up the phone screen when Hu Xu, who had been in charge of protecting the witness Yuan Lanyin with the two female police officers in charge these days, called Gu Xing's phone.

Hu Xu spoke in a very low voice, almost breathlessly into the microphone. Gu Xing could hardly hear the few words of the routine report. Instead, the unfriendly and vaguely scolding voice of Yuan Lanyin on the other end of the phone made Gu Xing have a little tinnitus even from a long distance away.

"What on earth do you want to do?!" "What is Yuan Lanyin doing? Is she... quarreling with Wang Hao again? Are you angry?" Gu Xing moved his phone away in anger, covered his ears for two seconds before putting it back, "I didn't hear what you just said clearly, I only heard the reporter Yuan shouting over there, what did you say? What's the point of reporting?"

"Song Yike, it seems like it was Song Yike who called."

Hu Xu was so nervous that his voice was hoarse. He raised his voice a little and said in a trembling voice, "Song Yike called Yuan Lanyin twice. Yuan Lanyin thought the first call was a harassment call and hung up directly. This is the second call... She is cursing."

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"No, this murderer tortured me so much that I couldn't eat or sleep well and was worried that I would die if I wasn't careful. Now he dares to call me and threaten me. Can't I just say a few words of criticism?"

Yuan Lanyin sat on the sofa in the living room of her top floor duplex, crossed her legs, put her arms in her folds, raised her chin and squinted at Captain Gu who came over to direct the installation of the monitoring equipment. She also squinted at Officer Jiang at the entrance of the hallway, who she had ordered not to wear shoes inside the house because there were no guest slippers. She saw her with her hands on her hips and her feet on tiptoe, looking at the various trophy ornaments on the cabinet in the hallway, and sneered contemptuously, "Just look at them, don't touch them. They were bought from the art gallery at a high price. You can't afford to pay for them if you break them."

"Do you think that with witness protection, it doesn't matter to you whether other people live or die?"

"...Or does Reporter Yuan think that the crime of 'obstructing public service' is too light?" Gu Xing didn't turn around, still looking down at Yuan Lanyin's expression of self-confidence and fearlessness, and poked her with a sharp point that made her choke uncomfortably, staring at her guilty and evasive eyes, "I'll ask you again, what did the suspect say to you on the phone?"

"What else can I say?! About the anonymous emails I received several times before!" Yuan Lanyin crossed her legs and shook the tip of her slippers impatiently. Finally, she straightened her sitting posture and retorted sarcastically: "The confession was recorded several times. Why do you insist on asking... Isn't it just to make public the truth that Song Wanwan was falsely accused of online violence and killed? He asked me to publish the cause and effect of this matter on the Internet. As long as the post and the message can last for more than two hours on the Internet, he is willing to let one of the hostages go, and then-then..."

Gu Xing took a step closer: "And then what?"

Yuan Lanyin clenched her back teeth in disgust, paused for a moment, and snorted angrily and resisted.

"Then let me start a live broadcast to publicly apologize and, by the way, mourn the tragic death of Song Wanwan."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"Only by being careful with your words can you be at ease."