Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 33 Ghost Hotline - Serial Murder Case 13
Once the interview was published, the online buzz exploded.

Within two minutes, Zheng Yan received a call from his superiors, instructing them to expedite the case.

The person who gave the interview must be taken to the police station for questioning immediately.

That's fine. Once their faces are revealed, it will be easier to investigate.

The Bian they had been tracking was actually named Bian Qingyu. She was a sophomore at the same university as Xue Jingnian, majoring in law.

When she was taken to the police station interrogation room, she showed no signs of panic, but rather a calmness as if she had accomplished a mission.

Before going in, he even stood at the door for a while and looked at Jiang Zhixin in the interrogation room across the way, as well as several acquaintances in the waiting room.

He then sat quietly in his chair, lost in thought, refusing to speak to anyone who came near.

Her refusal to cooperate was not the stubbornness or passivity of a criminal, but rather complete calmness. She calmly looked at the interrogation team members and at the policewoman with sympathy in her eyes.

After two hours of waiting, she only said one sentence.

"Haven't you found out yet?"

Wu Yang, who was imprisoned, felt ashamed, as if closing the case without thoroughly investigating what happened back then was a dereliction of duty on their part.

Anyone who knows the blood and tears behind this case will find it difficult to remain unbiased when facing the eyes of the person involved.

Zheng Yan listened from outside, sighed, and directed Wu Yang to ask one last question.

"We share your urgency to find out what happened back then, but no more young lives should be lost. Please tell us, will anyone else sacrifice their lives?"

Sacrifice is a word that is different from death, passing away, and suicide.

Bian Qingyu's calm eyes flickered, and she slowly shook her head.

The criminal investigation team breathed a sigh of relief.

Zheng Yan called Wu Yang out, touched his short hair which was streaked with gray, and said, "Let her rest here for a while. Let's investigate Jiang Zhixin and the others first. She'll only be willing to talk if we find out enough information."

The investigation into that group mainly relied on two directions.

First, there are the deleted chat logs on Xue Jing's phone.

Since Xue Jing and Qu Li were able to unite and kill the perpetrators from back then, and even with the help of others, it means that they shared information. It's highly likely that they had discussed those people's names on a mutual aid radio station, realized that those people were in cahoots, and that's why they joined forces to take action.

Secondly, when investigating the network of Peng Siyan and others, several suspicious individuals were identified, such as Peng Siyan's younger brother Peng Shuai and Jiang Zhixin. Their confessions led to the uncovering of a whole string of people.

It took some time to recover the chat history, but the results were significant; the records submitted by the technical team contained many clues.

"It all started when Chen Yingying's remarks revealed her thoughts of jumping off a building to commit suicide. Xue Jing sent her many messages over the next few days to persuade her, and Qu Li also tried to persuade her. Qu Li's persuasive remarks were even more positive and uplifting than Xue Jing's."

This is very different from what they learned about Qu Li during their investigation.

"Then one day, Chen Yingying mentioned two names, Feng Yang and Wan Lei. Then Xue Jing and Qu Li started pressing her about what happened back then."

"In order to get the truth, Xue Jing initially recounted her experiences, mainly involving stalking, threats, and psychological manipulation. Then... then half of the people in the group said they had also been treated the same way. It's possible that two murderers in the world using the same method might not know each other, but they mentioned names, realizing that these murderers not only knew each other but had also developed into a criminal gang." "Among them, Peng Siyan was probably the first person to establish this gang, then Wan Lei, then Peng Shuai, and Peng Shuai's cronies."

"After this chat, none of them went online for several days. In terms of timeline, during this period, Qu Li met Peng Siyan again, and then Chen Yingying self-harmed several times, and Xue Jing started going online every day to persuade them to live well."

“Until Wei Ting started speaking, she said that her grandmother was dead and that she was going to kill those people and then commit suicide. If there were any people they hated, she could help them because she had the obedience drug that those people had hidden.”

"At this moment, Qu Li said something: 'You are only eighteen or nineteen years old. After you get into university and leave those people, you will still have the opportunity to live a peaceful life. Unlike us.'"

Wei Ting said: "As long as they are still alive, I will never have a peaceful day."

"Xue Jing...she said something very crucial: In the two years I've been a member of this mutual support radio station, as many as twenty-one girls have suffered from depression and breakdown due to being harassed by soft violence."

Victims keep coming, while perpetrators go unpunished.

So they tacitly started a private call and began to plan this series of murders to cover up the truth.

It is hard for people who have not experienced the same treatment to imagine why their emotions change so drastically, why the pain would return as soon as they see the face of the abuser or hear the name of the abuser, and even drive them to extremes, such as murder and suicide.

For example, Xiao Chen said: "If you have the determination to kill and the courage to commit suicide, why can't you live a good life and take revenge on those people? You called the police and made us file a case for investigation, and you watched as those people were uprooted, sentenced, and imprisoned, but the result is the same as now. It's such a pity that several lives were lost."

“If you were gang-raped, your photos were posted nationwide, your parents were murdered, and you also developed a serious mental illness, you probably wouldn’t have lived as long as Chen Yingying,” Tan Jia frowned. “Moreover, as we stand on the side of the powerful group, it is indeed difficult for us to understand how terrifying the soft violence and harassment described by the vulnerable group is. If you don’t understand, you can’t just assume it.”

Xiao Chen should shut up.

Indeed, those who are not victims cannot understand how terrifying soft violence and harassment can be. Is it even more unbearable than sexual assault and abuse? Why did Xue Jing decide to kill someone for revenge just because she was being followed?
They couldn't wait to see what Peng Siyan's gang did.

Currently, only two gang members are known to be still alive: Peng Shuai and Jiang Zhixin.

Jiang Zhixin's parents, true to their reputation as wealthy people who have been domineering for over a decade, showed no fear even when entering the police station. They even hired a lawyer to request a postponement of the trial, arguing that Jiang Zhixin had been drugged and stabbed by the murderer.

"That stab wound is the least serious one in this case. What's with the delay?" Xiao Chen rolled his eyes from outside.

Unfortunately, the eye-rolling attack was useless; this request was normal, and they had no choice but to accept it.

Therefore, we had no choice but to interrogate Peng Shuai first.

Before entering the interrogation room, the police officers brought a somewhat belated clue.

"Didn't we suspect the murderer was someone from the bus stop area? We found out that neither Bian Qingyu nor Xue Jing are from there. On the contrary, Wei Ting lived in that area for ten years."

But Wei Ting has been attending classes at school for the past two months.

“They were working together,” the clue came a little late, and the criminal investigation team had already guessed that. “They are very clever, and perhaps in the end, the only survivor, Bian Qingyu, will not be charged with any murder.”

If only that intelligence had been used to save one's life.

Zheng Yan took a deep drag on his cigarette, stubbed it out, and said, "Let's go, let's give Commander Peng a proper welcome."

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