Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 41 Ghost Hotline - Serial Murder Case 21
Before 7 a.m. the next day, Jiang Zhixin left the police station.

Because he had fallen ill and urgently needed to be hospitalized, Jiang's parents, before leaving, threatened to sue them for violent interrogation.

They made it sound like they were the ones who caused his illness.

Xiao Chen exclaimed in disbelief, "Ha, could he really have a mental illness? Looking at his abnormal behavior, I'm starting to believe it."

“Maybe the stab wound hasn’t healed and has gotten infected,” Tan Ming said, his eyes bloodshot and yawning. “But his parents helped get a mental evaluation report, and when they saw that he really looked like a mental patient, they couldn’t believe it, which means the previous evaluation was definitely fake.”

They walked back to the office, talking amongst themselves, and as they turned a corner, they saw Tan Jia leaning against the wall, waiting for them.

These past few days, everyone has been working day and night, and they've had very little time to rest. She, a temporary worker, is no exception. Right now, she's curled up the ends of her green hair and tucked it under her baseball cap, leaning against the wall with her head down, looking drowsy.

Her baseball cap was pulled low, so from their angle they couldn't tell if her eyes were closed; they could only see her smooth jawline, almost touching the collar of her jacket.

"Jiajia." Tan Ming called her softly, approaching her as if to tell her to go home.

After being woken up, Tan Jia immediately stood up straight, raised the brim of his hat, and looked at Zheng Yan.

"Captain Zheng, I've noticed something's not right and I'd like to talk to you about it." His voice was still a little hoarse.

Zheng Yan called the person into his office, found a carton of milk and handed it to her, asking gently, "What's wrong? Things are almost over, don't tell me you're having another dream."

“No,” she said, putting a straw in her milk and taking a sip. “I suspect Jiang Zhixin has rabies.”

"What?" Everyone in the office looked up, staring at her with surprise and disbelief.

Tan Jia said, “I saw Jiang Zhixin’s symptoms outside the interrogation room, and they didn’t seem fake. He was manic, seemed very sensitive to light and wind, and was terrified of water. These symptoms are consistent with the excitement phase of rabies. I’ve seen what rabies patients look like before, and I still remember them.”

"Moreover, in the recording that Bian Qingyu posted online before, she said that Jiang Zhixin and his gang would use dogs to scare people, and Wei Ting's grandmother may have suffered a heart attack because of this. Wei Ting's backup plan may have been that dog. She had so much time to kill Jiang Zhixin, but in the end she only stabbed him once. The wound she left may have been to cover up the unusual appearance of the rabies wound."

After a moment of shock, Zheng Yan murmured, "You really dare to think this way. When I was bluffing Jiang Zhixin, I only thought about poisoning him."

Therefore, he believed that Jiang Zhixin's fear was genuine, because Jiang Zhixin probably also suspected that he had been poisoned, which is why he became restless and irritable in the latter half of the interrogation.

If it's rabies...

"But the onset of rabies shouldn't be this quick?" Xiao Chen hesitated.

Wu Yang shook his head: "Who knows when she bit me? If Wei Ting had this intention, she must have taken this into consideration."

“No wonder…” Zheng Yan recalled the last question he asked Bian Qingyu during his interrogation, “No wonder Bian Qingyu laughed at the end.”

That's rabies, which has a near 100% fatality rate.

"Go to Yinchuan Middle School and see if you can find a dog that's already dead." He roused himself again and asked Xiao Chen to notify the police.

Rabies is a zoonotic disease. If a person does not show any symptoms within ten days of being bitten by a dog, the person is likely to be fine. However, if the person has already developed symptoms, the dog is probably dead.

Xiao Chen sighed, "If it's true, that's a really ruthless move."

That really felt good.

A few hours later, the police reported that the dog's body was not found at the school, but according to Wei Ting's former classmates, she did have a stray dog, but it seemed that she hadn't seen it for about a month.

It seems that Wei Ting may have actually used this tactic.

The criminal investigation team was speechless with shock. Zheng Yan thought for a moment and went to the hospital where Jiang Zhixin was being examined.

Once the team leader left, the remaining people collected all the evidence and handed it over to the person in charge of the next steps, and for the time being, everything was fine.

Xiao Chen stretched, let out a long breath, and fell asleep snoring within half a minute of lying on the table.

Tan Ming also urged Tan Jia to go home and sleep.

"Things won't be completely over until at least tomorrow. Go back and get some sleep, then come back tomorrow." Tan Jia was indeed a bit exhausted, so she nodded and agreed. She went home without eating dinner and immediately fell asleep on the bed.

The clay figurine standing by the bedside was shaken by her action of throwing herself into the forest and fell to the side of the pillow, but she didn't notice.

She slept soundly for ages, only to be woken up by pure hunger. When she opened her eyes, it was already evening.

The next day, Tan Jia, drinking a cup of eight-treasure porridge, met Xiao Chen, who was munching on a braised pork bun, at the entrance of the police station.

The entrance was a mess, so Xiao Chen greeted her and led her through the crowd.

"What's going on?" Tan Jia asked, slurping his eight-treasure porridge.

Xiao Chen swallowed a mouthful of steamed bun and said, "The parents of Qu Li and the other three are fighting with the parents of Peng Siyan and his group. Weren't they asked to come and identify the bodies before? At first, they didn't know the truth and were just crying. Now that they know the truth, they want to bite each other to death."

"Even after Peng Siyan's parents knew the truth, would they still dare to act like this?"

"Why wouldn't they dare? They believe their son didn't commit murder for money, so he shouldn't have died. But none of them are as powerful as the netizens who came to help. Peng Siyan and Feng Yang's parents were almost beaten bloody. They had a fight yesterday, and their families even had internal strife. Feng Yang and Peng Shuai's parents cursed Peng Siyan's parents... oh, and the Jiang family too—"

Speaking of the Jiang family, Xiao Chen paused and whispered to her, "Jiang Zhixin has indeed been diagnosed with rabies and has entered the prodromal stage. The Jiang family is so distraught that they are shouting and yelling in the hospital that they want to kill Wei Ting's whole family."

Unfortunately, Wei Ting's only relative was killed by Jiang Zhixin half a year ago.

After Tan Jia finished the last sip of his eight-treasure porridge, he threw the cup into the trash can and said, "You reap what you sow."

The matter is now completely over. Although Jiang Zhixin is already waiting for death, he still has to bear the guilt.

The serial suicides of Qu Li and her three accomplices and the case of soft violence and harassment by Peng Siyan's gang have both come to a conclusion, with official accounts sharing the investigation information, and the internet is filled with lamentations.

A few years in prison is simply not enough!

Four young, vibrant lives lost, dying with the thought of warning other girls. What a pity, all because of those beasts.

This is the first time I've ever heard of the term "soft violence harassment." Oh my god, I've never paid attention to it before.

Protect Bian Qingyu; never let her take the path of suicide.

Thinking about it this way, the fact that Peng Siyan and the others died is actually the most satisfying ending. Otherwise, watching that group of people come out again in a few years to continue harming people would make me want to vomit blood.

Let's pay more attention to people with depression and mental illness. Many of them have experienced terrible things before their illness developed.

[It's said that Jiang Zhixin has rabies, hahaha, Wei Ting, you really did a good thing! That kind of beast deserves to be tortured like that!]

We encourage everyone to actively report people like those beasts, so that we remember their names and will never dare to do such a thing again.

[It would be best to record this in their files as well, so this charge will follow them for life. Why should we work with these beasts without their knowledge?]

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With the matter settled, Bian Qingyu came to the police station to collect the bodies of Qu Li and the other three for cremation and burial.

Zheng Yan told her about Jiang Zhixin, and she smiled calmly and said, "That's good news."

Xiao Chen hesitated, then said, "You... the Jiang family might be thoroughly investigated for allegedly bribing public officials. In serious cases, you could face up to ten years in prison. During this time..."

“I will live well,” Bian Qingyu knew what they wanted to say, “After I finish university, I will travel all over the country for them and visit their graves every year.”

She tilted her head to face the direction the wind was blowing, squinted her eyes, and showed a relaxed and enjoying expression.

"I will tell them this good news after Jiang Zhixin dies. I believe they will be very happy."

Soft violence and harassment are no less harmful than physical violence, and there have been many such cases in recent years, all with tragic outcomes. If this case can help even one person who has experienced something similar, then Xue Jing and her colleagues' sacrifice will have been meaningful.

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