when the moon whispers

Chapter 460: Accomplice - Abandonment (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Ninety-five Abandoned (Part 2)
"…Why are you holding it so tightly? I'm not bleeding anymore…I'm not saying that I can run away when all of you are staring at me? Tsk—but it's true. You guys have been busy for so long, first you lost a policeman, and then a skinny little Tu Siyao ran away…Now the guy named Song has run right under your noses, and none of you noticed his whereabouts…Now that Song Zhiwen is really missing, you know you're so anxious, why didn't you care about it before—"

Yuan Lanyin was held at a long table by Hu Xu and Wang Hao, one on each side. She first stared at the handcuffs that were tightly clamped around her wrists for a long time, slowly rubbing the skin on her wrists that had left deep marks. She raised her chin and made a few sarcastic remarks when her eyes met those of Gu Xing, who was standing opposite her with a sullen face and his arms folded. Yuan Lanyin paused, and was startled by Captain Gu's sharp eyes. She quickly dodged her gaze, swallowed, and then reluctantly picked up the words she had thrown aside, frowning and coughing lightly.

"... Ahem... Ahem... Comrade police officers, I'm telling the truth. I was threatened! You want to catch the murderer, but I want to live! Song Yike was in jail for three years and he killed someone right after he came out. Now we know he has an accomplice... You are all busy with witness protection, but once the person is arrested, who knows if someone named Xue Erlian or Xue Sanlian will show up and stab me in the stomach with a knife... Besides, you didn't keep an eye on this one and didn't protect that one either. What's wrong with me worrying about my own safety?"

Yuan Lanyin was still unwilling to be controlled by others. She muttered a few words first, then looked at Gu Xing who suddenly stood up to get her a paper cup of warm water. She shrank suddenly, turned her head away and continued in a low voice: "When Song Yike first contacted me, he actually asked me to cooperate with him...posting the video is one aspect, and also... asking me to persuade Song Zhiwen to disclose the fact that Song Wanwan fell from the building."

"Song Wanwan was pushed down by someone." Gu Xing nodded firmly and asked in return, "By whom?"

"I was definitely not there at the time. I don't think you would believe me even if I told you the truth... Anyway, I'll tell you what Song Zhiwen told me in private. She said that day, Chen Zuohui and Chen Zuoyi went to the publishing house to discuss business. I don't know why they bumped into Song Wanwan who had found the publishing house. In order to calm things down, Chai Qing took Song Wanwan to the rooftop."

Yuan Lanyin frowned with regret, which was rare. "When Song Wanwan fell from the building, Song Zhiwen was with me. She was suspected of plagiarism and was angry with me in the small conference room because of a public relations case. Song Zhiwen was spoiled and had a temper. She was unforgiving, but she didn't dare to do anything murderous or arson in the end. So I was lucky. I thought that since Song Yike wanted to know the truth, as long as Song Zhiwen was willing to take the initiative to explain all the truth, Song Yike might not insist on taking her life. Who would have thought that before I could persuade her enough, Song Yike would contact her personally, and then there was the matter of losing the phone card. How could I have known that you guys really didn't notice such a big person..."

Gu Xing had always been skeptical about Yuan Lanyin's "leniency for confession". He didn't rush to talk to her. He turned around and glanced at the still silent Director Gao on the screen. He sighed silently, asked Yuan Lanyin a few times about the key time points, turned around and snapped his fingers, vaguely pointing at Liu Hui and Han Chengyi on the screen with a stern face and a deep hatred: "Do you know that Song Zhiwen has contacted Yuan Lanyin privately several times?"

The bumps and bruises on Han Chengyi's head were messily fixed by Liu Hui, and he probably still felt a little confused. He dragged his chair and put his erect head close to the camera. After listening to the question that was delayed for two seconds, he shook his head, took a breath, raised his eyes to look at Liu Hui, and nodded with a bit of hesitation.

"We don't really know the details. Song Zhiwen...she was making a lot of noise before, so we usually try not to get too close to her. She's either in the study or the bedroom, and she rarely goes downstairs. There are a few colleagues from the police station on the first floor of her villa. Liu Hui and I are the only ones guarding the second floor, along with a female deputy in charge. We rarely go up to the third floor...Song Zhiwen was annoying and noisy, but she was honest at first. If there's anything wrong with her, it should have started when the video of Tu Siyao being suspected of being kidnapped was posted online."

"First, she walked around in her slippers, then quietly watched us chatting downstairs. After a while, she said she was hungry and wanted to eat—" Liu Hui, still holding the gauze hanging on Han Chengyi's head, staggered half a step forward behind him, "In Song Zhiwen's situation, we really didn't dare to let takeout in. The aunt who worked in her family had to go home, so in the end she asked me to go out to buy it."

"But the villa area is too remote, and there are not many places to eat around. Song Zhiwen got angry after waiting for a while and said he wanted to learn how to cook. As a result, there were flames and smoke. The smoke alarm seemed to be directly connected to the fire alarm. The property management drove the mobile fire station of the villa area over and was busy investigating for a long time outside. It took almost half an hour. Sometimes they said they would check the gas line and sometimes they said they would check the flue. The police station had no way to deal with this group of people who relied on their wealth to boss people around, so they had to call the female leader who was staying with Song Zhiwen on the second floor to communicate..." Han Chengyi laughed speechlessly: "As a result, in just these few minutes, Song Zhiwen swung the burnt frying pan brought up from the kitchen on the first floor and hit me on the back of the head, then jumped out of the window and ran away from the second floor. When the mess on the first floor was resolved, Song Zhiwen took a car and ran away from the villa area."

"Booked a car in advance? Have you contacted the driver?" Gu Xing stared at Han Chengyi yawning on the screen for a while, and raised his eyebrows sleepily, "Can you let her knock you down with your physique?"

"It wasn't an online-hailing car, but a car owned by a friend from the same residential complex. The person was abroad, and the car keys were at Song Zhiwen's house. She found a designated driver, and after climbing out of the house through the window, the car was parked in the garage of a villa two blocks away. She was also afraid of being restricted, so she asked the designated driver to drive her out of the residential complex, and made up an excuse that the owner was going back to China, and asked her to fill up the car with gas and drive it to the airport for a surprise. At the time, Song Zhiwen was hiding in the trunk. At that time, the people at the side gate of the villa complex didn't know about Song Zhiwen's escape, so after releasing the car, Song Zhiwen transferred 500 yuan to the designated driver halfway and drove away by herself..."

"The driver didn't take it seriously at first, but when he was riding back to take another order, he saw the police lights on inside and outside the villa area. He then realized something was wrong and took the initiative to step forward to join in the fun."

Han Chengyi covered his head and sighed, then yawned inexplicably, "...If it was a real fight, it would be fine... The strength is one thing, but mainly no one expected that this elder sister said that we were not allowed to smoke, and she was afraid that there would be smoke in the room, so she gave a bunch of soft candies to us guys who were addicted to smoking. As a result, we just found out what the soft candies were... Melatonin? I think everyone in the room is sleepy..."

Gu Xing felt dizzy from Han Chengyi's two yawns. He took out his cigarette box and knocked it twice, then put a cigarette in his mouth. He turned his head to glance at the expression of reporter Yuan and rubbed his lighter with a "click".

"Mr. Yuan, you finally realized that your cleverness backfired, didn't you? You thought you could sacrifice someone else's life for your own, but you didn't think about it carefully. If Song Yike just wanted to seek the so-called public truth, he could post everything he knew online. As long as the police intervened and published a report, Song Wanwan would be cleared of all charges sooner or later."

"But he didn't. Because his goal was always to disrupt the line of sight, and then drag a coward like you into the water, and then find an opportunity to kill the person he wanted to avenge. He used you as a gun..."

Gu Xing raised his hand to extinguish the flame on the lighter, took out his mobile phone and looked at the "murder notice" that popped up on the screen again, then held it up in front of Yuan Lanyin and snorted coldly.

"Whether it's Tu Siyao or Song Zhiwen, please pray that no one gets killed."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"We met with a smile, in the south and north of the river, in the bamboo house with mountain windows."