Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 35 Ghost Hotline - Serial Murder Case 15
Peng Shuai confessed, and this time his statement was completely truthful.

The main content was similar to what he had just said, except that he also mentioned several other names, including his own, who were all underlings that Peng Siyan and Jiang Zhixin had taken in over the years.

Upon seeing the information about those people, Tan Jia recognized one of them as the boy who had approached her at Yinchuan Middle School.

However, he didn't know how the Jiang family bribed the investigators back then, nor did he know about Peng Siyan's actions in driving a girl to her death.

Looking at the three full pages of content, Zheng Yan felt a heavy weight in his heart.

He looked up and glanced outside. His bloodshot eyes were dry and sore. He blinked hard and saw the blue sky outside.

Another all-nighter, dawn is almost here.

He asked, "When can we interrogate Jiang Zhixin?"

Xiao Chen glanced at the time and calculated: "About an hour later. He's very relaxed in the interrogation room, either sleeping or complaining of pain in his wound and asking the doctor to come in for a check-up. He doesn't seem worried at all."

It's unclear whether this confidence comes from his parents outside the marriage, or whether he genuinely believes he left no trace and cannot be convicted.

Regardless of the possibility, it shows that this person is a tough nut to crack.

They gathered all the evidence and planned to focus their efforts on dealing with Jiang Zhixin.

As Zheng Yan walked down the corridor, before even reaching the interrogation room, he witnessed Jiang Zhixin's relaxed and arrogant demeanor.

—At a time like this, he still has the mind to flirt with girls.

The white T-shirt stained with a few drops of blood looked rather good on his slender frame. He sat back in his chair, looking at Tan Jia, who was coldly sculpting dough, with a smirk on his lips.

"Why were you brought here? Or is someone in your family a police officer here? You have nice hair. Do you like American teen movies? Are you in college? You're not from Jiujiang, are you? I've never seen you in Jiujiang."

These were all common, normal topics, but the nightmare that Qu Li and her friends encountered began with these simple questions.

Moreover, from their perspective, the way Jiang Zhixin looked at Tan Jia was chilling, like a murderer eyeing his prey.

As the older brother, Tan Ming really wanted to slap him from afar until he collapsed and vomited blood.

"Jiajia, come here."

Before Tan Jia could make a move, Jiang Zhixin laughed first, lazily getting up to reach for Tan Jia's hand: "Your name is Jia Jia, who is it...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Tan Jia grabbed his wrist the moment it touched his own, twisted it backward, and pressed it against his shoulder, slamming him firmly into the chair with a thud. The movement was so fast that before Jiang Zhixin could even react, he was in so much pain that he was bent over and unable to move.

His face contorted, and his composure finally crumbled; he began to curse, "You fucking..."

“You’d better shut up,” Tan Jia said, her hand still firmly on his shoulder, looking down at his cowardly appearance. “I’m not a police officer, I don’t have the noble quality of treating murderers with humanity.”

Zheng Yan had watched long enough when he coughed once, pretending to tell her to let go.

I wanted to call her by her name, but calling a girl by her name in front of someone like Jiang Zhixin is dangerous, so I waved my hand.

"You can go out now; we need to prepare for the interrogation."

Tan Jia took a few steps out, looked back, and met Jiang Zhixin's sinister gaze. In front of several policemen, he even smiled at her.

Disgusting bedbugs. The interrogation of Jiang Zhixin was predictably difficult. After half a day of calm, his panic at witnessing Wei Ting's fall had completely turned into indifference.

He didn't hide what he had done, talking about it casually as if it were nothing, which infuriated the interrogators, and then he casually denied the charges.

"Why would I want to see Wei Ting? She's my girlfriend. What else would I do but date her? Hold hands, kiss, lick me in bed, do anything."

“We’re adults, do you have to interfere with us sleeping together? She doesn’t like it? How do you know she doesn’t like it? I think she likes it a lot, one person isn’t enough for her, you can ask her if you don’t believe me… Oh, I almost forgot, she committed suicide out of guilt.”

“Zhang Jie was killed by her, and I was also stabbed, so I'm a victim, right? She's gone mad, can her words be trusted? She was even yelling that she wanted to eat my flesh raw, it's good enough that I didn't sue her.”

"Drug rape?" Jiang Zhixin denied the charge. "She came with us willingly, let Zhang Jie have his way with her, and even took my money. It was all consensual. Don't put it so harshly. Besides, we didn't have any drugs. She was the one who had them. She drugged us. I suspect she's gone mad and can't control herself, wanting to kill indiscriminately. If you don't believe me, go ask the others. Her mental state wasn't good to begin with."

Zheng Yan suppressed his anger and asked, "What about Chen Yingying? According to Peng Shuai, you and they conspired to assault, intimidate, and threaten Chen Yingying. You even took photos when Feng Yang was bullying Chen Yingying."

Jiang Zhixin shook his head: "Feng Yang made me do it. Good brothers are loyal, and he insisted that I help him take photos, saying he wanted to leave behind beautiful proof of being with his girlfriend, so I couldn't refuse."

"Weren't you involved in Feng Yang using Chen Yingying's photos to take out online loans, which caused Chen Yingying to have a mental breakdown? Did your parents find someone to cover this up?"

"Of course not. Why don't you believe in the integrity of your own staff? My parents just inquired about the progress of the case. The clues found by the police are not enough to convict Feng Yang. Besides, maybe Chen Yingying set up that online loan herself. She just wanted to use this trick to frame someone else and avoid repaying the loan, but she failed."

No matter what he says, he only admits to moral depravity, but resolutely denies committing crimes.

Later in the questioning, Jiang Zhixin even retorted, "Officer, I haven't killed anyone, I haven't committed any crimes. Can I leave after the questioning? It's not like having a few extra relationships is illegal, is it?"

Xiao Chen couldn't take it anymore: "Is this what dating is? You're intimidating them and threatening them to let you violate them!"

"What evidence do you have?" Jiang Zhixin remained unfazed, shrugging as he said, "Go ask those people what they have to say. It's not too late to interrogate me once you have evidence."

After the first round of interrogation, Zheng Yan was left only with a belly full of anger.

Xiao Chen, hands on his hips and panting, said, "A man like him is the kind of serial killer that's going to be around!"

Tan Ming said solemnly, "Why is he so fearless? No matter how rich the Jiang family is, they can't cover up his repeated crimes, right? Could it be that the people who were bribed have something on them and would desperately protect him?"

“It depends on what kind of shady dealings the Jiang family has, but I think it’s more than that,” Zheng Yan said. “He just mentioned that we could ask other people for their statements, as if he was very sure that those people would not say anything detrimental to him, and that we would not find any evidence to prove that he raped her.”

"Could it be that he bribed all those people?" Xiao Chen asked, then shook his head. "That's unrealistic."

"So the evidence is flawed?" Tan Ming pondered. "The bullying of Chen Yingying has been going on for several years. When he and Zhang Jie went to the school to find Wei Ting the day before yesterday, it shouldn't have been specifically to assault her. So, we can't extract his biological information from the two victims to determine if he ever assaulted them. But it's hard for someone like him to stop. Are they so sure we can't find anyone he's bullied recently?"

Hidden victims who dare not come forward can also hinder the investigation of cases.

Zheng Yan slowly shook his head, looked at Jiang's parents who were guarding the hall, and beckoned the police who were investigating the Jiang family.

"Did you find anything wrong?"

"The information we've found so far seems normal. However, with the help of the Economic Crime Investigation Division, we cast a wide net and investigated the Jiang family and the relatives and friends of the officer surnamed Gan. We found that the officer's relatives and friends have been embroiled in some minor lawsuits in recent years."

Zheng Yan took the report and skimmed through it, finding one that was quite interesting.

"The property management company in which the Jiang family holds shares had a lawsuit with a man named Lian Sheng because the property management company breached the contract, causing the property Lian Sheng purchased to depreciate. In the end, the two parties chose to settle out of court, and the property management company compensated Lian Sheng with a sum of money. Lian Sheng's wife and the investigator surnamed Gan are cousins."

(End of this chapter)