Chapter 184: Chapter 140: The Real Culprit is Caught

“Whimper~”

Hearing Li Xiang shift the conversation to training, the coal ball instantly deflated.

Sure enough, you can’t trust what humans say,

a man’s mouth is deceitful!

After two hours of high-intensity training in the System Space, the coal ball was released and immediately collapsed in its little nest, not wanting to move at all.

With its tongue hanging out and eyes drooping, it could fall asleep at any moment.

After finishing today’s instance, Li Xiang also went to sleep.

The murder-for-hire case was his first case as acting captain, and he had to give it his all to prove his ability to the leaders. Now that all the relevant suspects had been apprehended, he could finally sleep soundly.

Starting tomorrow, the interrogation of Zhen Guangjun would begin. Once he confessed, the case would basically be closed.

Fortunately, this case did not escalate into a homicide, and the related impact was also minimal.

Not a word was spoken through the night. Early the next morning, Li Xiang bought breakfast consisting of soy milk and fried dough sticks at a spot near his house, then boarded the bus to work.

Once this case was over, he would seriously consider going to a car dealership to look at cars.

However, since he didn’t know much about cars, he was likely going to have to ask Sun Zhidong to come along.

In any case, buying a car needed to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

He couldn’t keep relying on colleagues to hitch a ride home every time he worked late, right?

Upon arriving at the municipal bureau by bus, Su Jiayi immediately briefed him on yesterday’s events.

Since Li Xiang hadn’t returned the day before, Su Jiayi had only brought the person back without conducting an interrogation.

Their task today was to tackle this tough nut.

Before employing the Great Memory Recovery Technique, what Li Xiang needed to do was still the same approach he used on Deng Yifan, first securing his criminal evidence.

The first thing Mao Ji did upon starting work was to take out Zhen Guangjun’s computer, which was put into the evidence room yesterday. Only by finding evidence of him logging onto the dark web on his computer could the evidence chain be considered complete.

This task was easy for Mao Ji, and by applying the same method, he quickly found evidence of Zhen Guangjun logging onto the dark web, along with relevant chat records on his computer.

Now Zhen Guangjun had no way to argue.

What shocked Mao Ji the most was that this guy actually dared to log onto the dark web using a company computer in the company, which was incredibly bold and reckless.

Armed with Zhen Guangjun’s criminal evidence, Li Xiang felt more confident.

“Is Zhen Guangjun in the interrogation room?”

“He is.”

“Brother Mao, let’s go meet this big shot leader.”

Upon arriving at the interrogation room, Zhen Guangjun sat bolt upright. When he saw the young police officer Li Xiang, he immediately adopted a superior attitude.

“Do you investigation guys know the rules? Do you know my status? Leaving me here for so long, I want to call my lawyer, I want to file a complaint against you.”

“Whatever your status, it has nothing to do with me. Explain your issues clearly, and you can find whoever you want. I want to see who dares to fish you out.”

Currently, Zhen Guangjun was in a closed state within the bureau, unaware that the commission for discipline inspection and other relevant departments had already started investigating him, while his office director was also being questioned, and related personnel would be interrogated one by one. At this moment, he was like being on a deserted island, only that he didn’t know it yet.

“I won’t say anything, and in three hours it will be 24 hours. You must release me then.”

“I think you misunderstand. Because you’re suspected of hiring a killer, you won’t be out in 24 hours either. The only thing you can do now is confess honestly. As for getting a lawyer for defense, that’s for later.”

Li Xiang directly cut off his escape route. With conclusive evidence, even zero confessions would be enough to convict him, not to mention he had more than just this little issue.

“Hiring a killer, you’re falsely accusing me, I…”

“Do I need to show you your dark web chat records? Will you confess on your own, or do I need to tell you a story?”

Seeing that Zhen Guangjun was still putting up a dying struggle, Li Xiang was getting a bit impatient. What annoyed him the most were these seemingly dignified leaders with their stiff mouths.

Unless you smack the evidence in their face, they won’t admit their crimes.

“I…”

It was only then that Zhen Guangjun began to panic, realizing that he thought Qiu Chengguang was dead, because just before yesterday’s meeting, the hitmen organization had just notified him that the task was complete and asked him to transfer the payment. As a result, after the meeting, the police came to arrest him, asking if he knew Qiu Chengguang.

His relationship with Pan Min could not withstand police scrutiny, and the police could possibly focus on him, but as long as there was no direct evidence, even if the police arrested him, they would have to release him after a maximum of 24 hours.

So he still held onto the hope that once the police arrested him, they would have to release him after a maximum of 24 hours. As long as he firmly denied knowing anything, the police couldn’t do anything to him.

But one thing he hadn’t anticipated was that the police had cracked all the evidence of his hiring a killer.

Therefore, upon hearing the words ’murder-for-hire,’ he truly began to panic.

Li Xiang noticed that his current state had lost the composure from earlier, and his demeanor had clearly become flustered, no longer maintaining the leadership facade.

So he increased the psychological pressure: “The dark web has already been dismantled. Don’t hold onto any illusions. The police already have the relevant evidence, otherwise, they wouldn’t have arrested you directly.”

“I can talk, but I have a question I’d like you to answer.”

Zhen Guangjun slowly closed his eyes, never having imagined that he would have this day.

Perhaps from the moment he made that decision, he had this worry.

But he was too arrogant, believing the police couldn’t find his criminal evidence.

He just didn’t expect the police to come so quickly, as soon as the other side died, he was arrested.

What on earth was going on?

“What question?”

“Why so fast? Qiu Chengguang just died, and you already determined it was me?”

Hearing his question, Li Xiang and Mao Ji exchanged a smile.

He likely couldn’t figure it out no matter how much he brain-stormed, right!

“Who told you Qiu Chengguang died?”

“What? He’s not dead?”

Hearing this answer, Zhen Guangjun widened his eyes in shock, full of disbelief.

Qiu Chengguang isn’t dead?

“What’s going on?”

“Are you interrogating us, or are we interrogating you?”

Li Xiang felt exasperated, he was getting too into asking questions. Exactly who was the police? Who was the criminal?

And who was interrogating who?

“Then you ask.”

Upon learning Qiu Chengguang wasn’t dead, Zhen Guangjun breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he wasn’t dead, he was likely avoiding the death penalty.

“What is your relationship with Pan Min?”

“She is my subordinate.”

“And?”

“We are lovers.”

“Do you know Qiu Chengguang?”

“I know him, he’s Pan Min’s husband.”

“Tell us what you did.”

“I hired someone on the dark web to kill him.

“Why did you want to kill him?”

“Well… I…”

Initially, he spoke smoothly, but when it came to motive, Zhen Guangjun suddenly became stammering, and his expression became increasingly awkward.

“What exactly happened? Why did you want to kill him?”

“I…”

“Stop stammering. Based on our investigation, there’s no economic conflict between you two, and he didn’t offend you. Why did you want to kill him?”

“Because… because he’s Pan Min’s husband, she comes home on time every day, not wanting her husband to find out, she doesn’t want a divorce, and I’m a very selfish person, I don’t want her to have a husband. I heard that you could buy hits on lives with money on the dark web, and even create apparent accidents that police would only label as accidents and not uncover. So…”

“So what?”

“So I tried it on the dark web.”

The dark web runs deep, besides scammers, there are some people who would do anything for money. Many people intentionally forged traffic accidents, and as there were no connections between the hitmen and victims, after a simple investigation, and finding nothing suspicious, the traffic police often deemed it an accident and quickly wrapped up the case.

Thus, this is a crucial aspect of facilitating deals on the dark web.

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