Chapter 32: The Curtain Falls

A week later, Jiangdong Sub-bureau.

The interrogation of Liu Baoshan went extremely smoothly. The human corpse pieces found in the Haiqing Cold Storage were confirmed to be Ren Jiahe, the suspect in the 6.21 hired murder case and the 6.23 charred corpse case. Tan Haiqing, who dismembered Ren Jiahe's corpse, kept muttering "man, behind" after being caught, occasionally crying and laughing, or sitting in a daze.

Through a physical examination, it was found that his sphincter had traces of recovery after tearing. Clearly, he was either a gay man, or as Liu Baoshan said, he was raped! As for whether Tan Haiqing had mental illness, it still needed to be determined through medical appraisal.

And Liu Baoshan confessed one by one how he came to Zizhen City, how he colluded with Ren Jiahe to kidnap Jiang Yuanqi, how he planned to escape to Pu Mian after getting the money, how his mentality changed after being raped in prison when he was young, how he met Tan Haiqing after coming to Zizhen City, how he forced him, and forced his spirit to have problems!

Gu Changzheng looked at Liu Baoshan's confession repeatedly. There seemed to be no problem in logic. As for Ren Jiahe being his accomplice, it was also given a reasonable explanation: Ren Jiahe failed to hire a killer to kill his wife for insurance, and encountered the killer's debt collection. At that time, he couldn't take out the money at all, plus he had already spent 500,000, but didn't get the insurance money, and was already extremely angry! And the killer forced him step by step for the balance, and even threatened to report him. After the negotiation at an abandoned sand pit in Shadao failed, Ren Jiahe suddenly attacked the other party when the killer was unprepared, and burned the corpse with a fire afterward.

And at this time, he had already controlled Tan Haiqing, threatened him in the name of destroying his reputation, let him provide the boat and small truck for escape, and colluded with Ren Jiahe to kill and kidnap Jiang Yuanqi in the street during the Hongde Restaurant anniversary celebration on July 5th!

And Zhang Hongyu's death was indeed an accidental event. He originally planned to find a lone police officer to kill and steal a gun, but he didn't expect it to be so coincidental that the house he rented in Fenglinyuan was actually Zhang Hongyu's. That day, Zhang Hongyu happened to go to him to urge him to pay the water and electricity bills. He didn't know Zhang Hongyu's identity at first, but when Zhang Hongyu turned to leave, he saw the bulge under Zhang's shirt was a gun! At that moment, he decided to steal the gun! After killing Zhang Hongyu, in order to create chaos and divert the police's attention, and also because of his hatred for the police in his bones, he deliberately wrote the words "Kill the corrupt cop to eliminate harm for the people" on the wall.

And after successfully obtaining the huge sum of money and transferring it to the Haiqing Cold Storage, he and Ren Jiahe had a dispute over the division of the spoils. After he accidentally killed Ren Jiahe, he violated Tan Haiqing again. Afterward, he fell asleep. He didn't expect Tan Haiqing to be too afraid of him, so he attacked the dead Ren Jiahe and dismembered him in the cold storage...

"Drip-tight!" Gu Changzheng muttered.

Indeed, judging from Liu Baoshan's confession, Ren Jiahe was a hypocrite who would stop at nothing, hired a killer to kill his wife for insurance, killed people to silence them, and colluded with evil bandits to kidnap. He could truly be said to be doing all kinds of evil without any bottom line!

Gu Changzheng always felt that the confession, which seemed to have no flaws and clear logic, had some problems, but the evidence chain and Liu Baoshan's confession verified each other one by one!

The evidence now in front of everyone was enough to prove that Ren Jiahe hired a killer to kill his wife for insurance, killed people to silence them, colluded with Liu Baoshan to kidnap Jiang Yuanqi, and played a leading role in the kidnapping case!

"Hmph hmph!" Gu Changzheng stood up and rubbed his lower back habitually, which could relieve the pain in his lower back muscles.

"Luo Fei!" he shouted.

"Captain Gu!" Luo Fei responded and came to the door of his office.

"Go and bring Liu Baoshan to the interrogation room."

Luo Fei said "Oh," thinking to himself that Liu Baoshan's confession had probably already been sent to the Ministry of Public Security, and would be transferred to the Procuratorate tomorrow. His case was ironclad, the nature was bad, and the influence was huge. It had already alarmed the Ministry of Public Security and was one of the major cases supervised by the Ministry this year. Why was Captain Gu still going to interrogate him?

Thinking was thinking, he still faithfully executed Gu Changzheng's order.

In the interrogation

"Liu Baoshan, how is it? You've confessed everything, so you can sleep well now, right?" Gu Changzheng asked in a teasing tone.

Liu Baoshan had not expected Gu Changzheng to bring him out only to say such nonsense. A slightly surprised expression appeared on his face, and he said lazily, "Heh! I'm a man who is bound to die; what else could keep me from sleeping? I sleep very well!"

"Hmph! You still have attachments, don't you? What? You don't want to know the outcome?" Gu Changzheng said indifferently, leaning his head back without looking at Liu Baoshan.

Liu Baoshan showed no signs of anything unusual; his eyelids remained lowered, as if he did not want to pay any attention to Gu Changzheng.

"Luo Fei, go turn off the surveillance. I want to have a few words with Liu Baoshan!"

Luo Fei looked at Gu Changzheng in surprise. This was a violation of discipline; why was Captain Gu doing this?

Seeing Luo Fei's expression, Gu Changzheng said calmly, "Go, carry out the order. I will take responsibility for any issues!"

At this moment, Liu Baoshan raised his eyelids and glanced at Gu Changzheng opposite him, not understanding what he wanted to do.

Gu Changzheng smiled and said, "Don't worry, your case has already become an ironclad case! It couldn't be more ironclad! I just want to have a private chat with you. What? You wouldn't be afraid, would you?"

As someone who had spent half his life in deep prisons, Liu Baoshan was naturally no stranger to judicial procedures. He also knew that he would soon be transferred to the Procuratorate. Given the case he had committed this time, he estimated the process would be very fast. He had already prepared himself not to survive this winter! After all, he had not only committed murder and kidnapping in the street but had also killed an active-duty police officer!

Therefore, at this point, he didn't care anymore. The only thing he couldn't let go of was that one person!

Now that Gu Changzheng dared to turn off the surveillance to talk to him privately, he also decided to have a chat with the other party. This might be the only chance he would have to open his heart before his life ended!

After Luo Fei turned off the equipment and was about to sit down, Gu Changzheng said, "Luo Fei, you go out and keep watch outside. Don't let anyone disturb me until I come out!"

Luo Fei was about to speak when Gu Changzheng pressed down on his shoulder, pushed him to the door, and said a sentence in an extremely low voice. Before Luo Fei could react, he had already been pushed outside the door.

After closing the door, Gu Changzheng returned to his seat. He was in no hurry to speak. He took a pack of Lao Baitiao from his pocket, pulled one out, lit it, took a puff, and then reversed the cigarette to hold it to Liu Baoshan's lips: "Have one. Don't tell me you don't smoke! Lao Baitiao—the kind of cigarette your partner couldn't get used to."

Liu Baoshan clearly understood who he was talking about. He didn't answer, but pecked at the cigarette butt with his mouth, took a greedy, deep drag, and only exhaled a cloud of smoke after a long while. He said with satisfaction, "Truly comfortable! Captain Gu, whatever you want to chat about, let's begin!"