The door was knocked on after a long time.
The ones who knocked and entered the house were a male and a female criminal police officer. Wei Zhenzhu’s empty gaze quickly swept past the male officer and lingered on the female officer, but more of her attention was on her husband.
“Go make a pot of tea,” her husband ordered her.
“Okay,” Wei Zhenzhu obediently went.
The human body is actually a sophisticated machine, which means that the body and mind can be completely separated. Her mind was completely in the living room, not giving even a sliver of attention to the housework she was doing, but her body still followed its past habits, as if executing a program, handling the chores.
The conversation in the living room continuously reached her ears.
“How did you get to know Zhuo Cangying?”
“I was writing a book about doctors, so I went to their hospital to gather material. Dr. Zhuo was my main source. He was quite enthusiastic and explained the professional knowledge in great detail, so we’ve been in frequent contact recently and I’ve been to their house.”
So hypocritical.
Wei Zhenzhu thought this about her husband. While thinking, she silently and woodenly placed the brewed tea on the table.
They had clearly already rolled onto their bed.
Disgusting.
“Go wash some fruit,” her husband ordered again.
“No need. We have work regulations. We can’t eat or drink when we visit,” the baby-faced female police officer first thanked her, then said this to her husband.
“It’s fine, it’s fine. Just let her go wash the fruit. She’s used to doing these things,” her husband said again.
Wei Zhenzhu also meekly complied.
She kept her head down, her gaze hidden in her falling hair, secretly peeking at the baby-faced female police officer.
This girl was so much younger than her. A strong sense of envy welled up in her heart. The other’s eyebrows were beautifully drawn. Was she wearing lipstick? Probably not. It should be the natural color of her lips. Besides the natural moisture and vitality of the lips, even the most high-end lipstick couldn’t create such a natural and vibrant shade.
But this girl must not be married, and definitely didn’t have children.
Wei Zhenzhu thought.
If she were married, she wouldn’t be able to be a criminal police officer. If she had a child, it would be impossible to balance work and family.
Maybe… she didn’t even have a boyfriend?
No matter how you thought about it, no boyfriend would be happy with his girlfriend being a criminal police officer.
She liked this girl very much.
So, when the two police officers had finished their inquiries and were about to leave, she secretly followed them and said to the female police officer, “Officer, hello, may I have your name…”
The male police officer next to the female officer looked at her with a strange expression.
But she didn’t care about this man. She just wanted to know the female police officer’s name.
“My name is Wen Yangyang,” the female police officer told her cheerfully.
Even her name was so nice. She thought, and she felt envy rise in her heart again. This envy was actually similar to the envy she felt when she looked at Gao Shuang. These people, they all lived so much better than her.
“Officer Wen, I have something to tell you…”
She stammered. On the surface, it seemed she was not used to communicating with people other than her husband. But Wei Zhenzhu knew that not being good at communicating was only one aspect. On the other hand, she also wanted to prolong this short conversation, to make it even longer…
“To you alone.”
She pulled the female officer away from the male officer.
A man’s face was truly disgusting.
Even Gao Shuang, the woman who was having an affair with her husband, was much more beautiful than them, much, much more beautiful. After all, when it comes to s*x, how could it happen if the man wasn’t proactive?
In this matter, the first thing she thought of was still her own husband.
She had been looking at the Ning City Public Security Online recently. She knew her husband wanted to kill her, so when she stared at that public account, she would unconsciously fantasize about whether one day she would become the “Wei XX” on it.
Or perhaps her cunning husband could get away with murder, and then his photo would be posted by the police… oh, just like those fugitives. Their gazes were always empty, staring straight at the camera.
People who have killed always have that kind of look in their eyes.
Living as if they were dead.
In fact, the lies of criminals were also different from the lies of ordinary people. Wei Zhenzhu felt that she could somehow detect it between the lines, just as she always knew that when her husband hid in the toilet, it wasn’t to use the toilet, but always to plot something false.
Just as when her husband said he was going out to see an editor, it must not be true.
She secretly followed her husband who had snuck out. First, he went to the health hospital. Oh—that place, maybe it was a cover. It definitely wasn’t the destination.
Sure enough, her husband came out again, walking, hiding, and sneaking to the overpass.
From a distance, she saw her husband talking to someone, then scanning a code to pay.
Wei Zhenzhu suspected that was most likely the money to hire a killer to kill her.
That’s right. A person like Duan Hongwen, cowardly, fierce in appearance but timid in heart.
After a while, the stranger laughed out loud. Her husband left with his face covered in shame. From beginning to end, he didn’t see her hiding in the corner, calmly watching all this happen.
It seemed she wouldn’t die today.
Wei Zhenzhu shrank her neck. The cold wind made her steps sluggish. She didn’t immediately follow her incompetent husband.
Then she saw a black down coat come out—
She stared at him, the thin and small person in the down coat—.
A strong sense of familiarity made her take out her phone. On the Ning City Public Security Online, she saw Mo Nai’s wanted photo. The person in the photo and the person in the black down coat in front of her gradually overlapped…
Mo Nai sat in the interrogation room. The various small items from his black down coat had been confiscated.
An ID card, an eyebrow pencil, a box of foundation, a contouring stick, and two lipsticks, a dusty rose and a burnt orange, both from high-end brands.
The ID card was real, belonging to a man named Zang Bai, from Xi’an, 26 years old, a graduate student. He didn’t seem to have any connection with Mo Nai. It was likely that the other had stolen it through unknown means.
In fact, the unwashed Mo Nai, when he was first caught, bore an eight-tenths resemblance to the person on the ID card. If it weren’t for Wen Yangyang’s years of pain from cakey foundation, it would have been very difficult to recognize at a glance that this made-up man was Mo Nai.
“I finally know how he dodged a bunch of people’s pursuit. It turns out that being good at drawing can also be applied to makeup,” Tan Mingjiu said, somewhat speechless, as he turned the cosmetics over and over. “First, he used his drawing skills to escape from prison, then he used his drawing skills to disguise himself. This guy has really used his drawing skills in every aspect of his escape.”
“Be gentle with them. Don’t break the lipsticks. They’re very expensive, you know,” Wen Yangyang’s heart unconsciously swayed up and down with Tan Mingjiu’s fingers.
Jinshui Town was very close to Ning City. Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin had already rushed back. Although catching Mo Nai was a phased victory, how to interrogate him, that new female corpse, and the grave of Qi Meng that Mo Nai had been willing to risk escaping from prison for, were all unsolved mysteries.
Huo Ranyin exchanged opinions with the interrogation experts of the special task force, formulating a strategy, while also listening to Hu Yuan’s report on the death of the female corpse at the KTV.
“The cause of death was asphyxiation due to vomit blocking the trachea. The deceased was a long-term drug user with a high blood alcohol content. It should be a natural death in her sleep while drunk, not a homicide. The deceased had s*xual intercourse before death. The semen extracted from her vagina has been compared with the other person at the scene. The results will be out later.”
Ji Xun curiously asked Tan Mingjiu, “Does this person know Mo Nai? And it just so happens to be another corpse?”
Tan Mingjiu rolled his eyes. “He’s not stupid. Of course, he said he doesn’t know him. He just admitted to messing around.”
“If he messed around and someone died, why didn’t he call the police immediately? It’s not like he killed her.”
“He said he was drunk and confused. We went in and said someone was dead, and only then did he react,” Tan Mingjiu said, then muttered, “If it weren’t for the fact that the concentration in his body was indeed over the limit, just looking at the way he walked a straight line so easily when we took him into the car, you’d think this guy was faking being drunk and lying.”
“Whether he’s lying or not, the body was moved anyway,” Hu Yuan was indifferent to the case itself. “The livor mortis on the body proves this.”
“…This guy named Zhu Huan, detain him for 24 hours first,” Huo Ranyin made the decision. “And investigate the relationship between Zhu Huan and Mo Nai. These two must have some kind of connection.”
The forensic department had reached a conclusion, and the trace evidence department was not slow either.
The fingerprints that Huo Ranyin had lifted from Qi Meng’s tombstone had been confirmed by the trace evidence department—among them, there were indeed a few that matched Mo Nai’s fingerprints. This confirmed their trip to Jinshui County. They had indeed found the real reason why Mo Nai, with his sentence about to end, had risked escaping from prison:
To rush to Qi Meng’s tombstone, which was about to be moved!
After all these miscellaneous matters were dealt with, the special task force also set the tone for the interrogation. The matter of the prison escape was not urgent; that was for the Liucheng side to consider. Their main focus was on the cases Mo Nai had committed in Ning City.
This time, the questioning was still presided over by the pre-trial examiner.
Huo Ranyin, Ji Xun, and the special task force members all listened in on the questioning.
Mo Nai was in the interrogation room.
He no longer had the black down coat on, just a thin high-necked sweater.
Although the police station had heating, he still looked very cold, his neck shrunk into his collar. After the pre-trial examiner went in, he first gave Mo Nai a glass of water. After the routine questions about his name and age, the topic of the 2.12 blood painting case came up.
“Do you know Zhuo Cangying and Gao Shuang?”
“I don’t.”
“Do you know Building 7 of Huayi Community?”
“I seem to have some impression.”
“On the night of February 11th, where were you?”
“I was in a villa…” Mo Nai raised his head. “Killing someone.”
“He’s too cooperative,” Ji Xun said softly from outside the one-way glass of the interrogation room.
“…Don’t. At a time like this, does he still need to put up a futile resistance? Of course, it’s better to cooperate,” Tan Mingjiu shivered subconsciously, remembering the miserable, windy, and rainy mountain search that had happened just last night.
In the interrogation room, the pre-trial continued.
There were thousands of interrogation techniques, but with Mo Nai’s level of cooperation, no matter how many tricks you had, there was no need to use them. The pre-trial examiner, who had clenched his fist and was ready to strike, punched a ball of cotton. He was somewhat frustrated, and the subsequent questioning became even more business-like.
“Why did you kill them?”
“There’s no reason. Seeing them living so well, in a big house, driving a good car, I just felt angry and unhappy. I originally just wanted to go and rob something, but after I got in, I don’t know why, I just killed them.”
“How did you kill them?”
Mo Nai lowered his head again.
“I killed the woman first, then the man.”
“How exactly did you kill them?”
The pre-trial examiner asked one by one. In a murder case, of course, every aspect had to be crystal clear.
“Just as you investigated.”
“How was that? What method, what time, what was the murder weapon? Be clear.”
“…”
However, Mo Nai, who had been cooperative all along, suddenly fell silent when faced with this question.
After a long silence, he said, “I forgot.”
