Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Police station interrogation room.
The interrogation had begun.
A table separated the two people, with a dazzling incandescent lamp overhead. Team Leader Chen sat opposite Qin Shuyi and was responsible for questioning, while Zhao Li was responsible for recording.
The rest of the people were in a booth outside the interrogation room, observing the interrogation process through one-way glass.
Captain Chen did not speak immediately, but carefully observed Qin Shuyi.
Before he retrieved the files on the He family village flood in 1999, he had no doubts about the old man. An old man in his seventies who lived alone had neither the motive nor the ability to kill three sturdy middle-aged men.
Even now that the files had been retrieved and it was confirmed that Qin Shuyi had a motive for committing the crime, Team Leader Chen was still more inclined to believe that he had an accomplice who collaborated in the crime.
He deliberately didn’t speak at first, leaving the old man alone and putting psychological pressure on him, which would make it easier for the interrogation later.
The bright white light shone on him, magnifying his subtle expressions and inadvertent micro-movements. Team Leader Chen had been paying attention to his subtle expressions and movements calmly.
But no, nothing.
Qin Shuyi made almost no unnecessary movements except sitting with his back straight. His eyes were very dark, and the dazzling lights failed to bring any sparkle to them.
The longer Captain Chen observed, the more troublesome he felt. At this time, Qin Shuyi was not like an ordinary old man, but like a warrior who had experienced hundreds of battles. He strictly controlled his words and deeds without revealing any flaws.
What he didn’t know was that Qin Shuyi was not good at restraining his words and actions. He was just too used to this kind of scene. After his wife and daughter passed away, he often sat alone under the incandescent lamp like this, not daring to think about anything. He just stripped away all his thoughts and sat there all day long.
Captain Chen didn’t ask any questions, so he just sat there quietly. No one could tell that he had actually withdrawn from his emotions.
In the end, it was Team Leader Chen who started asking questions first.
He started with the most basic information such as name, age, etc., then using this as an entry point, gradually started asking more in-depth questions.
He thought Qin Shuyi would be a tough nut to crack, but on the contrary, Qin Shuyi was very cooperative.
Later, he was even able to calmly recount the past events in the He family village.
This was a story that was completely contrary to the file records. Team Leader Chen had seen many shocking cases, and his heart was moved only for a moment. In their line of work, reason always had to restrain emotion.
He calmly asked more aggressive questions, trying to force Qin Shuyi to reveal his true thoughts: “So in order to avenge your wife and daughter, you started planning revenge? How long have you been planning? With so many enemies, it is difficult for you to complete it by yourself, right? So you found someone to cooperate with?”
After saying that, he looked at Qin Shuyi sharply.
Qin Shuyi’s eyes were dazed for a moment, and then he nodded.
His hands on the table clenched unconsciously, recalling those crazy days: “I thought about a lot of revenge plans… I also secretly went to the city to get a barrel of gasoline. When the time came, I was going to pour gasoline on their houses and set it on fire, then I could avenge Cuiping and Nan Nan…”
“But you didn’t do it? Why?”
Captain Chen paid close attention to his expression. The old man’s eyes were a little cloudy at this time, his teeth were clenched, and his hands were constantly clenched… All signs showed the hatred in his heart.
He also noticed that there was a red paper man in the pocket of the old man’s coat.
He had seen this kind of paper figurine hanging in every house in the Fourth Building, and it was called Sao Qingniang. He always felt that these paper figures looked a bit weird, so he couldn’t help but take another look, only to find that the paper figure that had only exposed a little corner now had its entire head exposed.
The paper man’s eyes seemed to be looking at him.
Team Leader Chen: ???
Suspecting that he was dazzled, he closed his eyes and concentrated, quickly retracted his thoughts and continued his work.
Qin Shuyi replied: “I can’t bear it. In addition to those damn people, there are many children in the village. They used to come to Cuiping to ask for sweets. Some of them were about the same age as Nan Nan, and some were even smaller than Nan Nan, and they are innocent, how could I do it…”
His eyes trembled, but there were no more tears in his dark eyes.
“Were you willing to give up revenge just like that?” Captain Chen continued to ask.
“Of course I wasn’t willing to do it, so I kept following them like a ghost, making them uncomfortable even when they were alive.”
Qin Shuyi shook his head. He seemed to feel something. Then he raised his hand and pressed it on his left chest. The palm of his hand just covered the position of the paper man.
Team Leader Chen’s eyes followed him subconsciously, but they were fixed on his arm.
Qin Shuyi’s not very strong arms were almost covered with dark purple-red patches. He could recognize them without even having to identify them. They were corpse patches that appear only after death.
Captain Chen’s throat suddenly became dry.
He swallowed several times and subconsciously looked at Zhao Li, who was in charge of recording. Zhao Li also looked horrified.
He had only vaguely glimpsed some corpse spots in Building 4 before, and he could still deceive himself that they might be bruises from a fall, but this time the two were so close and the light was so bright, he could see clearly and he could no longer deceive himself.
Cold air rose up from his back, but his eyes seemed to be glued to that arm. The incandescent lamp was so bright that he could clearly see that in addition to the dark purple-red corpse spots, the opponent’s arm muscles were not full, and some parts were strangely sunken, as if the muscle tissue inside had been eaten away, and only a layer of skin remained.
His recording hand trembled and he looked away in panic.
Others observing behind the one-way glass naturally noticed this strange scene. Zhang Peng, who had been to the fourth building together, stared at the arm, his eyes so wide that he almost fell off.
He seemed to remember something and quickly looked at the surveillance camera.
There was surveillance in the interrogation room, and he kept rewinding and rewinding the surveillance video… until he finally found something, and he was so shocked that the mouse dropped to the ground.
Other colleagues looked at him in surprise: “What’s wrong?”
“You guys, see for yourselves.” Zhang Peng’s voice was a little floating and trembling.
Others quickly looked at the screen where he paused, and saw Qin Shuyi sitting steadily on the monitoring interface, like a still statue. But as the time on the screen jumped, a red paper figure slowly poked its head out of his left shirt pocket.
From the surveillance camera, the paper man’s dull eyes seemed to be staring at Team Leader Chen who was interrogating Qin Shuyi.
“…”
Silence spread in the small cubicle.
“Maybe it was just Qin Shuyi’s movements that caused the paper man to slide out.”
Someone swallowed and came up with an argument that was not very credible.
“That’s right…”
Zhang Peng agreed with his eyes straight, and boldly rewind the video and played it slowly, trying to find evidence to support this statement.
Then in the surveillance video, a blurry outline of a paper man could be seen in the thin white shirt pocket. They watched with their own eyes as the red paper man unfolded bit by bit from the folded state, then poked his head out and stared at Captain Chen.
It was like a squatting person slowly standing up.
Someone said: “How about informing Team Leader Chen first and suspending the interrogation. This is too weird…”
The old man with corpse spots on his body and the paper man who seemed to be alive all challenged their endurance and outlook on life.
Zhang Peng remembered what Wang Qing said.
Wang Qing said that the old man was already dead.
At that time, he scoffed, but now… he turned on the communicator in fear and asked Team Leader Chen to end the interrogation as soon as possible.
Team Leader Chen was wearing miniature headphones during the interrogation. When he heard Zhang Peng’s slightly trembling voice, as he asked him to pause the interrogation first, his first reaction was not confusion and objection, but relief.
Even if he didn’t want to believe it, he had to admit that the look that made him restless came from the paper man.
The interrogation was suspended, and Team Leader Chen and Zhao Li went out together.
The two of them looked at each other when they came out of the door, and without the need for words, they turned to the reception room to find Jiang Lan.
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