"You, don't! I didn't do anything. Why would I be the murderer just because I appeared at the scene? Am I being framed?"
Liu Yuning and Xia Hou ignored him and walked out of the interrogation room. Upon seeing me, Liu Yuning looked displeased. "This guy just won't confess!"
"No, he's not the murderer!" I stated with certainty.
"I knew you'd say that. Don't be fooled by his outward reactions. I found him very suspicious from the start. Of course, that's not the main point; it's primarily because of the surveillance!"
"Yes, it really looks like he did it. In this situation, any alibi is powerless. However, I believe his previous description wasn't just a story. You wouldn't be able to describe something so vividly if you hadn't experienced it yourself. I noticed that while he was speaking, his hands were clenched tightly, his pupils showed confusion and panic, and his body was trembling severely. These things can't be faked." wap.kanshuwu.net
"I don't understand criminal psychology. I only believe in physical evidence. Alright, team leader, you can let me calm down now."
After she finished speaking, she left. Xia Hou pulled me aside and said, "As the team leader, why do you sometimes seem like her subordinate? I really don't get you guys."
"You're overthinking it. She was actually the captain of the criminal investigation team before. Our ranks aren't strictly defined. Just focus on your work and don't worry about these things."
"I understand, but I also feel that Song Xingguo isn't the murderer."
"Oh? Why is that?"
"You should know. I watched his reaction firsthand just now. With my years of experience solving cases, his reaction was very natural. He doesn't have a background in psychology, so he couldn't possibly be faking it."
I had initially thought Xia Hou was siding with Liu Yuning, but it seemed he was still rational.
I smiled at him, and we walked out of the observation room. For a while afterward, several waves of police officers entered the interrogation room to conduct a series of interrogations on Song Xingguo. However, the result was clear: Song Xingguo still refused to confess. How could he confess?
With no breakthrough for the time being, I asked Xia Hou to return with me to the craft factory. Although we had previously said we would unseal it, the case still hadn't progressed. It remained under police protection.
I planned for Xia Hou to accompany me to the factory to reconstruct the crime scene. If I hadn't had a falling out with Liu Yuning, I would have come with her. At this moment, we appeared near the machinery. I had Xia Hou carry me on his back, and I pretended to be the killer who came here to dispose of the body. The entire process went relatively smoothly. Regrettably, we found nothing. Just as we were about to leave in disappointment, we suddenly heard a clanging sound coming from a certain direction in the factory, and both Xia Hou and I immediately shifted our attention there.
We both drew our weapons, pointing them towards the source of the sound, our nerves tensed. Neither of us dared to relax at such a moment. He and I took a deep breath and walked towards a iron gate in the dark factory workshop. Several steel balls had fallen from a shelf. These steel balls seemed to be commonly used in circuses. I thought they were likely finished products manufactured by the craft factory.
However, I didn't give up searching. I stepped over the steel balls and shone my flashlight inside. Suddenly, I noticed a figure near a wall. I pointed my gun at it and shouted in a threatening voice, "Freeze! We are police officers!"
"Ah! Don't come closer!" someone yelled, pushing aside a nearby shelf. The surroundings immediately became chaotic, with many shelves toppling towards us. Xia Hou and I quickly separated. The shelves fell in between us just as we moved. If we had been a moment slower, we would have been crushed beneath them.
These shelves were very heavy, and they seemed to be made of aluminum alloy. The person took advantage of the chaos and turned to run. We were delayed, and the opponent gained some distance. I quickly crossed over the shelves, shouting at the person in front, and chased after him!
My body felt as if it were possessed by the Divine Speed Master, running with astonishing speed. The person ahead seemed to be running towards the back of the craft factory. After a short while, he pushed open an iron gate and ran outside. However, after getting out, he quickly turned back to close the gate and even locked it.
When I arrived, the gate in front of me was locked. I pushed it a few times and cursed, "Damn it!" This person had quite a lot of strength. For him, such an iron gate only required a casual push to close, and he even had time to lock it.
If it were me, I would probably have to spend some time just pushing this door open. Xia Hou caught up and saw the situation, saying, "Did he get away?"
"This guy even had time to close the door. Let's find another way around!"
Saying this, I walked to a nearby passage and then rushed out with Xia Hou. However, as we exited the workshop, the person we had seen earlier had already disappeared. Although we were a little disappointed, we thought of something.
That person just now might have been the murderer. Many murderers have a habit of returning to the crime scene after committing a crime. One reason is to relive the thrill of killing, and the other is to check for any evidence they might have left behind. The person's panicked flight upon seeing us probably falls into the latter category.
However, I don't think this person was the mastermind. There should be someone behind him, just as Song Xingguo had said before.
Upon returning to the provincial department, we told Liu Yuning about this. She then began to waver, realizing she had suspected Song Xingguo wrongly. However, she seemed to be in a difficult position and was unwilling to concede.
"Let's leave it at that. We'll continue investigating from multiple angles," Xia Hou said to me.
"En, I know that Captain Liu has implicitly agreed, but she just doesn't want to admit it."
"I know. Actually, team leader, what stage have your relationship with her reached? I heard you're getting married soon?"
"Uh, who told you that? Marriage will probably take some time. After all, we're both too busy. Besides, I haven't even met Yuning's parents!"
"No way? Did she meet your family either?"
I nodded, thinking that my family only had my uncle and his family. If anything were to happen, I'd probably have to meet them. Of course, why was I thinking about things that might happen years from now? I slapped my face, came back to my senses, and returned to the information department to continue checking the surveillance.
Perhaps it was because we refused to give up, but we actually discovered some issues in the surveillance footage from a period before the incident involving Deng Yuanwu.
Just before Deng Yuanwu's accident, he was seen meeting a woman near the Kuihe Road outside the factory, and these meetings were quite frequent. From the footage from Tianyan, their relationship seemed to be quite intimate.