Film and Television World Life Record

The four of them came out, and Li Mu looked at them and said, "Xia Jie, let Liu Xiaoli ride in your car, and have another auxiliary police officer come over."

Xia Jie nodded: "Okay!"

Li Mu was driving, with Zhao Jiwei in the passenger seat, and Li Dawei and an auxiliary police officer in the back, sandwiching Yue Wei in between.

The journey wasn't long, and the two police cars quickly returned to the police station.

After getting out of the police car, Li Mu instructed, "Jiwei, Dawei, Xiao Liu, take this Mr. Yue to the interrogation room first, I'll be there in a bit."

Then he turned to Liu Xiaoli and said, "Xia Jie, will you accompany Liu Xiaoli to the other interrogation room? I'll be right there."

Xia Jie smiled and said, "Okay!"

In the interrogation room, Liu Xiaoli sat opposite Li Mu and Xia Jie.

Liu Xiaoli said, "Officer, everything I said is true, not a single lie. I was indeed..."

Li Mu said, "I believe you. There are indeed some strange things going on, but when we police investigate and present evidence, we can't just rely on words. Can you recall the specific details of how you left the bar?"

Liu Xiaoli said, "He said he would take me home. I had drunk too much at the time, and we had a good chat all night. So I got into his car without thinking much about it, and when I opened my eyes, I was already at his house!"

Li Mu asked, "What time is it?"

Liu Xiaoli tried hard to recall: "I remember it was 10:30 when I was supposed to go home."

Li Mu asked, "And then?"

Liu Xiaoli lowered her head: "When I woke up, he had already stripped me of most of my clothes. I begged and pleaded, but he said he would kill me if I dared to run away. He also said that none of the people in front of me had escaped. I wanted to scream, but he held a knife to my neck. It was too scary. I had no choice but to give in."

Li Mu asked, "Besides these, is there anything else?"

Liu Xiaoli looked at him, then at Xia Jie, and stammered, "Then...then...Officer, he's a pervert, there are some things I...I really can't say."

Li Mu considered for a moment and then asked, "Could you tell me the specifics of what happened?"

Liu Xiaoli hesitated for a moment, then shook her head.

After being asked several times, Liu Xiaoli still wouldn't say.

Li Mu and Xia Jie exchanged a glance. Liu Xiaoli was quite resistant at the moment, and it seemed unlikely that they would get anything out of her.

Li Mu went to the interrogation room next door, where Li Dawei and Zhao Jiwei were already ready.

Li Mu said, "Yue Wei, tell me what exactly happened. They're absolutely certain that you were the one who raped him."

Yue Wei immediately put on a wronged expression: "Officer, I'm innocent! Think about it, I'm not bad-looking, am I? I've been working outside for so many years, and although I don't have a wife, I've seen plenty of women. In the bar, she took the initiative to rub against me and flirted with me in her words. Officer, we're all men, who can resist this? So I took her home."

"But this person went too far. If you want money, just say so. If you think two hundred is not enough, I will give you more. You can't hurt me like this. You just changed your face and said it was rape."

Li Mu said, "So, you didn't use force back then, and both parties were acting voluntarily."

Yue Wei said, "Of course, officer, I even paid you! What kind of rape is this?"

I asked a few more questions, and Yue Wei answered them flawlessly.

Li Mu also knew that he wouldn't get anything out of the questions alone.

At this moment, a police officer walked in and whispered a few words in Li Mu's ear.

Li Mu nodded and said, "Alright, let's stop here for now."

Two auxiliary police officers were assigned to keep a close watch on the interrogation room. Li Mu then led Li Dawei and Zhao Jiwei out.

Zhao Jiwei asked curiously, "Brother Li, what's wrong?"

Li Mu said, "When this case was reported to the police, it was registered as a rape case at the police center. According to regulations, this kind of case needs to be handled by the criminal investigation team, and the criminal investigation team has sent people over."

Li Dawei said, "Isn't this a good thing? These two are quite troublesome. Handing them over to the criminal investigation team will save our station the trouble."

Li Mu smiled and said, "You're right. However, things might not be that simple. The criminal investigation team is quite busy. If they mess up, we'll have to step in."

Chapter 392 Criminal Police Team

Soon, officers from the criminal investigation team arrived and took the two away.

Li Dawei breathed a sigh of relief: "The matter has been handed over to the criminal investigation team; it's no longer our concern."

Li Mu said, "Who said it's none of our business? Investigate Yue Wei's information thoroughly; it's not that simple."

Zhao Jiwei said, "Brother Li, no way!"

Li Mu said, "You all graduated from police academy and have been interning for so long, didn't you notice anything wrong?"

Seeing the two looking thoughtful, Li Mu said, "You've met Liu Xiaoli. She's a regular at bars, so she's seen a lot and isn't easily frightened. But think about the scene when we responded to the call. Liu Xiaoli was truly terrified. If it were just a simple transaction, even if there was a dispute over the price, it wouldn't have scared the girl like that."

Zhao Jiwei looked up and asked, "Brother Li, are you saying Yue Wei has a problem?"

Li Mu nodded: "It's definitely not that simple."

"Alright, enough with the chit-chat. Let's thoroughly investigate Yue Wei's case. If we have time, we should also go through our old case files and police reports. Many of them aren't connected to the internet, so they might hold some clues."

Watching the two begin their operation, Li Mu gave a wry smile. Even though he knew Yue Wei was a ruthless and twisted man, he still had to follow the procedures step by step to make the case seem logical.

Otherwise, they would just jump out and say that Yue Wei committed some crime. How could you know so much about a suspect you've only just met, without any evidence, and how could you be so certain that he's committed a crime?

In the afternoon, based on the information he had, Li Mu dialed the phone number of the forestry police station where Yue Wei was registered.

"Hello, is this the Forestry Police Station? This is the Balihe Police Station in Qing City. We've detained a criminal suspect named Yue Wei, whose ID information is from your station. We'd like to contact you to inquire about the situation?"

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Seeing Li Mu's increasingly serious expression, Li Dawei and Zhao Jiwei felt a mix of nervousness and curiosity.

As soon as he hung up the phone, they rushed over and asked, "Brother Li, what's wrong? Is something wrong?"

Li Mu said, "Fifteen years ago, Yue Wei worked as an auxiliary police officer at his hometown police station for three years. During that time, a woman who worked in the sex industry also accused him of rape, but there was no evidence, and the case was dropped. He soon resigned from his position as an auxiliary police officer. Since then, he has rarely gone back."

Li Dawei's eyes lit up and he said, "He seems like a repeat offender! Looking at it this way, the possibility of Yue Wei raping Liu Xiaoli is much higher."

Li Mu said, "Not only that, before Yue Wei resigned, the old director in charge of handling his case lost his gun, and it still hasn't been found."

Zhao Jiwei said, "No way, Yue Wei has such audacity, it can't be related to him, right?"

Li Mu said, "It's hard to say whether it will happen or not, just be careful."

Li Dawei said, "Chief Li, should we go to the criminal investigation team and tell them this information?"

Li Mu said, "I'll just call Captain Luo in a bit and ask him to take this case seriously. The criminal investigation team will go tomorrow. You guys come with me to the community to find out about Liu Xiaoli's family situation first."

The two nodded.

"Okay, Director Li."

"Okay, Brother Li."

The group arrived at the community center, where an older woman, upon hearing their purpose, sighed: "Alas, Xiao Li is such a pitiful child. When she was little, she was her mother's darling, and she was beautiful too. But her mother died early, and her father found her a stepmother, and she fell from heaven to earth."

Li Mu asked, "Did her stepmother abuse her?"

The older woman said, "We don't have any evidence of abuse, and we've never seen her stepmother lay a hand on her. But we can't stop her from badmouthing her to her father. Her father has a violent temper, and when he beats her, he really beats her to death, while her stepmother just stands by and makes sarcastic remarks."

“The community has come to advise us several times, but even an upright official can't settle family disputes, can he? Later, the child went astray.”

Li Dawei asked, "Has she done anything illegal?"

The older woman shook her head: "No, not at all. She's just out having boyfriends, getting tattoos, smoking, and hanging out on the streets with a bunch of teenagers. What happened to her?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "No. We're investigating another case that involves her, so we just wanted to ask about it."

The group spent half a day wandering around the neighborhood and talking to community staff to get more details before returning to their office.

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The following morning, Li Mu went to the criminal investigation team to learn about the case. As the champion of the city's police officers' skills competition that had just ended, Li Mu was quite well-known. In addition, he had dealt with the city criminal investigation team and the district criminal investigation team before. Captain Luo, who was in charge of the case, received him readily.

Upon arriving at the office, Captain Luo poured them water while chuckling, "Director Li, thank you for sharing the information yesterday. However, it seems you don't trust our work! You even came here specifically to find out what's going on."

Li Mu laughed and said, "Captain Luo, what are you saying? After all, we were the ones who received the call. But the girl was really terrified at the time, so it doesn't seem like she was lying."

"Furthermore, we also inquired with the community, and we learned that this girl is quite pitiful. Her mother died early, and her father remarried. Her stepmother had a younger brother, but she doesn't care about her at all."

"The father is also a disappointment. He drinks all day long and takes his anger out on her when he's drunk. It's true that this child lacks proper upbringing, but as for prostitution, the community says there has never been any such thing."

Captain Luo laughed and said, "Chief Li, your work is even more meticulous than ours. But regardless of whether she has sold before or not, this time she really did sell."

Li Mu asked, "What do you mean?"

Captain Luo said, "Don't worry, we'll find out by checking the surveillance footage."

As they spoke, the group arrived at the monitoring room. Captain Luo asked the monitor to pull up the bar's surveillance footage from that day: "Look, this is in the bar. She and this guy named Yue Wei are arm in arm, chatting intimately."

"This is outside the bar. She got into the car on her own. She said she was drunk, but look how steadily she's walking. A decent girl shouldn't get into a strange man's car at that hour!"

“There are no security cameras in front of Yue Wei’s house, but there are at the intersection. Look, this is the security camera at the intersection. This is Yue Wei’s car. Do you see? She’s in the passenger seat, her head resting on Yue Wei’s shoulder.”

Li Mu looked at the surveillance footage: "Judging from the footage, that's indeed the case. However, we can't rule out the possibility that she was drunk and not thinking clearly."

Captain Luo didn't argue: "Maybe so. But based on that alone, you can't say Yue Wei forced her to go. Besides, more importantly, she said it was rape, but she had no injuries and even received two hundred yuan from the perpetrator. How do you think this is considered a crime?"

“We also know about this girl’s situation. She graduated from junior high school, has no legitimate job, has had relationships with several men, and has a history of asking men for money.”

Li Mu asked, "Did you interrogate her? What did she say?"

Captain Luo said, "After you called yesterday to report that information, we took it very seriously. I sent several female police officers to ask her several times, but Liu Xiaoli gave different answers each time. In my opinion, it is very likely that she made it up."

"The current situation is that we have no evidence of rape, but we do have evidence of prostitution. As police officers, we rely on evidence when handling cases. Without evidence, we can only treat it as prostitution."