Today's frost has fallen. For Mobei City, a city with only three seasons a year, it seems to have become colder overnight. Even the green pine branches and leaves outside the courthouse have condensed into a layer of fine white frost.
Murong Shui puffed out waves of mist as he spoke, "Boss? Are we really not going in? Today is the day Sister Xianglan is in court."
Xu Tiannan thought for a while, and finally decided not to go in, "Forget it, our mission has been completed long ago, and the remaining things are no longer under our control."
Murong Shui said slightly worriedly: "Well, I hope Fourth Master's efforts will not be in vain."
It was not unreasonable for Murong Shui to be so worried, because just three months ago, after Chen Jialuo was formally arrested, several unexpected things happened.
Wen Sibao's interrogation ability did not disappoint everyone. It only took three days to completely obtain Chen Jialuo's confession.
Chen Jialuo confessed to the fact that he lured Li Xiangqin to vacation and drugged Li Xiangqin's drink, causing her death. He also confessed to the fact that Ma Bangdang killed Zhang Gou San in order to exonerate himself.
It stands to reason that this case can be transferred to the Procuratorate as long as the remaining materials are completed, but a police officer from the Investigation Team accidentally revealed this news during the interrogation of Ma Bond. When the other party heard the news of Chen Jialuo's arrest, he began to
Mabond, who had been silent for days, seemed to have suddenly changed into a different person, taking all the crimes on himself without hesitation.
Mabond confessed to the police that Li Xiangqin was actually killed by him, and then explained the entire criminal process of killing homeless man Zhang Gousan, and signed a confession on the spot for the two murders.
In short, Mabond uncharacteristically cooperated with the police that day. Not only did he admit to all the crimes, but he also took the initiative to fire his lawyer and stated that he would obey the police's arrangements.
On the night Mabond confessed his crime, he made his bed into a strip of cloth, hanged himself in the water room of the detention center, and it was already early the next morning when his body was discovered, but the confession he left behind was completely
It is contrary to Chen Jialuo's confession.
However, the hemp rope always breaks at the smallest points, and gods and Buddhas only cross over to the rich. During that time, Wen Sibao seemed to be experiencing the Mercury retrograde period in his life. The day after Mabondang died, Chen Yan woke up in the hospital.
, the first thing he did after waking up was to call Lai Wen Si Bao and tell him the password to the safe in his home.
Under the leadership of Chen's mother, Wen Sibao found an English version of the confession and audio recording evidence in Chen Yan's safe.
The confession was signed by Ma Bond, in which he confessed in detail how he had evil thoughts after seeing Li Xiangqin at the resort, and later killed him after being rejected. He also guaranteed that all the above facts were 100% true. At the same time, the text
The audio recording of the murder process obtained by Sibao was authenticated by the Mobei Judicial Identification Center and determined to be a self-narration made when Mabondang was awake.
But Ma Bangde was dead and had no evidence to prove it. No one knew that the English version of the confession was actually the "equity transfer agreement" that Chen Yan had figured out that the other party did not understand English, and then tricked the other party into signing it.
Ma Bangde defended Chen Jialuo to the death, but Chen Yan always had a back-up plan. However, all these secrets were no longer known after Ma Bond's suicide.
At this point, the case began to become difficult again. Soon, under the guidance of the lawyer, Chen Jialuo also made a request to retract his confession, overturning all the criminal facts he had previously admitted. At the same time, the lawyer also submitted Wen Sibao to the Inspector General to force the suspect to undergo fatigue interrogation.
After a series of complaints including inducement of confessions, the criminal investigation detachment was finally forced to remove Wen Sibao's investigative authority on the case under pressure.
The new investigators spent three months investigating without finding any stronger evidence, and today is the day of trial.
"Boss?" Murong Shui felt the chill, raised the collar of his windbreaker, and asked in a low voice, "What are you thinking about? Why don't you speak?"
Xu Tiannan said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid Chen Jialuo will still be at large in the future."
Murong Shui was surprised: "Ah? Really? How could this happen?"
Xu Tiannan explained: "Now all the confessions and recording evidence point to Mabondang as the murderer, and even Chen Jialuo himself has already proposed to retract his confession. I dare to conclude that as long as Wen Sibao and the others interrogated Chen Jialuo during that period, there was nothing
Any question with the intention of leading will be falsely accused by Chen Jialuo's lawyer as luring or coercing a confession. So I think Chen Jialuo is very likely to escape punishment this time, and Fourth Master and the others from the investigation team will also attract the attention of the inspection team.
investigation."
Suddenly, a group of uniformed police officers rushed out from the court gate. Murong Shui, who had excellent eyesight, recognized them at the first sight: "It's Fourth Master and the others! What's going on?"
Wen Sibao rushed out of the gate and said to Xu Tiannan: "Something happened, go quickly!"
Xu Tiannan's heart sank, "What's wrong?"
"Get in the car first and then talk!"
Wen Sibao turned on the police lights and opened the way ahead. Along the way, numerous police cars drove very fast towards the section where the escort vehicle lost contact.
Wen Sibao explained while driving: "Just now, the vehicle the bailiff was escorting Chen Jialuo lost contact with!"
"Lost contact?" Xu Tiannan asked: "When was the last call?"
Wen Sibao said: "The court's escort vehicle departed from the detention center at 9 o'clock this morning. The last call was 20 minutes ago. At that time, the vehicle was passing by Yaba Reservoir, and then contact was lost."
The Yaba Reservoir is located between the Mobei Detention Center and the city. It is a very remote suburban road with no monitoring section at all. If contact is lost in a place like this, one has to wonder whether there is an accident.
Soon, Wen Sibao led a large number of police cars to the scene of the incident. According to the design specifications, the road around the reservoir was one meter higher than the wasteland on both sides. Therefore, the wasteland on both sides was wet all year round and was covered with half a person's height.
of weeds.
"There!" Murong Shui saw the Iveco gold cup overturned in a weed from a distance.
Several people rushed down the roadbed and ran over. They found that the door of the escort vehicle had been blown open, but there was no one inside. Xu Tiannan looked inside through the door and smelled a faint sweet smell, so he told Wen Sibao
Said: "It's ether! Our people should still be alive, go find it quickly!"
Wen Sibao immediately ordered everyone: "Quick! Quick! Find people separately!"
Xu Tiannan then checked the outside of the vehicle and found that a metal tire breaker with a width of about 30cm was caught in the two front wheels of the vehicle. It seemed that the vehicle hit the tire breaker while driving quickly and then lost control.
Fell off the roadbed.
Xu Tiannan analyzed: "The other party used a replica police tire breaker to cause the vehicle to roll over, but judging from the welding process of the tire breaker, the other party should be a professional engineering production personnel."
Wen Sibao said angrily: "Chen Yan must have found someone to do it! This guy is so bold, he actually robbed the prison car!"
Xu Tiannan said thoughtfully: "Fourth Master, I'm afraid it's not as simple as you think."
"What?" After hearing this, Wen Sibao immediately asked alertly.
Xu Tiannan said: "There is no discovery yet, but I think the court's decision this time should be very beneficial to Chen Jialuo. Taking a step back, even if the court really ruled that Chen Jialuo was guilty of manslaughter, he would not be guilty of death.
Therefore, I think there is absolutely no need for Chen Yan to take such a big risk to save his son."
"Here! Here!"
A police officer shouted, and everyone rushed over following the sound, but the scene in front of them shocked everyone speechless.
Beside the embankment, five fainted bailiffs were lying in a mess in the weeds. However, right next to them, surprisingly, Chen Jialuo was lying in a pool of blood.
When Chen Jialuo died, his face was ferocious and his eyes were wide open. It seemed that he was still fighting hard before he died, but the wound on his throat directly cut his throat. It can be imagined how much pain he suffered before he died.
"What on earth...is going on!"
As Wen Sibao spoke, he looked around Chen Jialuo's body and suddenly focused on the pocket of the corpse's prison uniform. He put on his gloves and carefully took out something from his pocket, and found that it was a piece of white.
On the small wooden sign, the word "kill" was written with a black calligraphy pen, and below it was a short sentence - Murderer Chen Jialuo.
"Death card?" Xu Tiannan suddenly said to himself: "In what age are there still people using this kind of thing?"
Wen Sibao asked in confusion: "What card? What is it used for?"
Hearing this, Murong Shui immediately thought of it and responded: "That's right! Boss, I remembered it. Isn't this what was shown in the TV series before and was used by ancient executioners during executions? It's called the death card!
"
The death plate is a nameplate used by ancient prisoners during executions. It is usually inserted into the clothes behind the neck of the prisoner. The name of the prisoner and the reason for the crime must be clearly written on it to avoid wrongful killing. When the prison officer gives the order at noon, the executioner will take off the prisoner.
The death card announced the beginning of the execution.
However, this method of execution has been eliminated as early as the late Republic of China. Just like the sword of the previous dynasty cannot kill the officials of this dynasty, what kind of murderer is he who likes to arrange such a ritual murder scene? And the murderer
What relationship did it have with Chen Jialuo? This also made Wen Sibao completely confused, so he asked: "Tiannan, what is going on? Why can't I understand."
Xu Tiannan said: "I don't understand much."
Hearing the other party's answer, Wen Sibao also felt slightly comforted. After all, in such a strange and ritualistic murder scene, the other party could not find a clue for the time being like himself, so it was not a shame.
But Xu Tiannan quickly added: "I only know now that the murderer is a gang organization. It is initially estimated that they have been treated unfairly by society and are full of distrust of our law enforcement officers, so they will use this extrajudicial trial method to punish them."
Chen Jialuo made a ruling. Among these people, there are at least two men and one woman, and they have strong experience in the engineering industry. However, I really can’t understand what kind of relationship these people have with Chen Jialuo? Or are they just
Kill someone for what you believe in?"
Wen Sibao was stunned. What he said "can't understand" was really that he couldn't understand at all. But he never expected that Xu Tiannan, who also "couldn't understand", had cast the model of the murderer so accurately.
So he hesitated and said: "Yes...yes, what is the relationship between them and Chen Jialuo..."
Xu Tiannan ignored Wen Sibao and went straight to the fainted bailiffs. He took out a ruler and measured it on the ground. After a while, he explained: "Although there are no footprints left in the overgrown weeds here,
But based on the spacing between these weeds being trampled, it can be seen that at least three people have been here, so there are three different step spans left. The murderers threw the bailiff on the side of the road in order to be trampled.
We found out as early as possible, so they had no intention of attacking the bailiffs. At least it can be seen that the murderers have their own strict sense of right and wrong and are not killing innocent people indiscriminately."
After saying that, Xu Tiannan pointed to a row of weeds next to him and explained: "But this row of weeds obviously has signs of being dragged. Judging from the dust on the body of a relatively thin bailiff on the ground, this bailiff
He was dragged from the vehicle by a murderer who was not very strong and whose stride width was smaller than the others. He might have been a woman or a very thin man."
While Wen Sibao was recording Xu Tiannan's analysis, his cell phone suddenly rang. It was Li Mengxue calling.
Wen Sibao calmed down, picked up the phone and said softly: "Meng Xue, what's wrong?"
Li Mengxue's serious voice came from the other end of the phone, "Senior, I just received a report from the hospital and rushed over. I found that Chen Yan...he died in the hospital!"
Wen Sibao was shocked, "Died in the hospital? How did he die!"
Li Mengxue said: "When I rushed to the scene, I found vomit on the mouth of Chen Yan's body, the body spots and lips were obviously purple, and there was a pinhole on the surface of the drip pot of the infusion set. It was initially estimated that he was the murderer.
I went to the hospital last night and injected potassium cyanide into Chen Yan’s infusion set. But the most bizarre thing about the crime scene was that I found a small white wooden sign next to Chen Yan’s pillow. The sign read
...Behead the accomplice Chen Yan."
"It's him! It's the murderer!" Wen Sibao immediately shouted: "Meng Xue, listen to me! Chen Jialuo was also killed just now! The murderer also used the same technique to place a death card here! You go and get it immediately
Hospital surveillance, see who went to that ward last night!"
There was a sigh on the phone, and Li Mengxue said: "Senior, I have already checked, but the hospital's monitoring line was cut off last night, and according to the nurse on duty, there have been more people visiting the inpatient department recently, and they didn't notice it.
There's something unusual going on. I'm afraid we won't be able to find any useful clues... at the hospital."
After hanging up the phone, Wen Sibao punched the car hard and cursed loudly to the sky, expressing his depressed mood during this period.
…
Not far away, there is the wild fishing area of Yaba Reservoir.
A woman with a slim figure but wearing a short skirt that was very inconsistent with the season put down the telescope in her hand and found that the fat man sitting next to her was staring longingly at her legs, but she seemed to have been used to him looking at her like this.
So he smiled evilly and stretched out his white and smooth right foot to dip some water on the lake. He raised his foot and sprinkled the lake water on the little fat man's face.
"Ah! Bah, bah, bah..." The little fat man was splashed all over by the cold lake water, and he cursed at the woman: "You are sick! No. 3! Do you think everyone is not afraid of the cold like you?"
"Who asked you to look at me secretly? This is your punishment!" The woman called No. 3 nuzzled at the fat man and gestured to a bearded man next to him: "Look at No. 2, beautiful women can be here.
Stay calm."
The bearded man said in a deep voice: "No. 3 and No. 4! Don't argue. Listen to what No. 1 has to say."
The woman turned to look to the other side and asked a man wearing glasses: "No. 1, you should really see how angry Wen Sibao looked just now, like a fool, haha... By the way, let's get off
What’s one step for?”
While the woman was talking, the man was still staring at the fish float on the lake, as if nothing could distract him.
After a long time, the fishing rod in the man's hand suddenly moved, and a wild silver carp was fluttered out of the lake. He put away the fishing rod and carefully put the fish into the bucket.
After doing all this, the man slowly raised his head, looked in the direction of Xu Tiannan in the distance, smiled slightly and said: "Xu Tiannan, these two lives are my meeting gift to you."
The first volume is finished, and the second volume will be continued - The Night Executioner
