Chapter 389: Delivery to the Door? Clever!

Xu Mo just opened the car door and got out; before he could steady himself, the man snatched the car key from his hand and gave him a strong push.

Yet when he looked closely, Xu Mo was delighted.

This guy is none other than the Liang Ping they were after, isn't he?

Good fellow, just when we were about to catch you, you actually turned up on your own!

After Liang Ping ran out of the station, the first thing he thought of was to hijack a car and then drive away, since relying on Shiyi Lu wouldn't shake off the police.

Just as he stepped out, he ran into an rs7 that had just stopped; he thought the heavens were helping him, knowing he needed to flee, and specially arranged a fast car.

With this car, those police won't even see my taillight!

After snatching the car key from an unfamiliar youngster, Liang Ping gave the youngster a shove; he was getting in the way of his own business.

"Get out of the way!"

……

Five seconds later.

Beside an rs7 parked at the entrance of the High-Speed Rail Station.

A middle‑aged man wearing a duckbill cap was being held down hard on the ground by a young guy, his face making intimate contact with the earth.

On closer look, you can see bruises on the middle‑aged man's face.

The plan backfired: not only did he fail to steal the car, he even got beaten.

"Liang Ping, right? You're linked to the two murders; we're going to arrest you according to law," Xu Mo said, pulling out Handcuffs and cuffing the Liang Ping he had pinned to the ground.

Liang Ping: "……"

What a string of bad luck…

He stole a car only to have the police who were after him end up on his head—talk about delivering the goods to the doorstep!

At that moment, several police officers on duty at the High-Speed Rail Station rushed out.

As soon as they arrived, they saw Xu Mo pinning Liang Ping to the ground and the Handcuffs on Liang Ping's wrist.

The few of them let out a sigh of relief; thank goodness the suspect didn't get away!

……

Police Station.

Interrogation Room.

"Why did you kill?"

"I didn't kill."

"Then why were you running around the High-Speed Rail Station just now?" Chen Ke tapped the table.

"They were chasing me, so of course I ran."

Xu Mo picked up several photos that had been developed on the table.

"At 2 a. m. today, you threw a bag of Ankang Fish into a trash can at the Seafood Market; we found some Body Fragments inside the fish's belly. Later you went to Jin Yi Residential Area Building 4 Room 102; when we arrived, we found another corpse in the room."

"Our investigation shows one of the victims was your daughter, the other was your daughter's boyfriend… Your daughter was pregnant; after you discovered this, you felt it would bring shame, so you killed your daughter, stuffed her body fragments into the fish's belly, and then killed her boyfriend."

"Am I wrong? Our casework relies on evidence; without evidence we wouldn't have brought you here, so… I urge you to speak honestly, don't make a reckless resistance."

After Xu Mo finished speaking, the man fell silent.

Motive, time, method—Xu Mo laid them out clearly.

Police already had these clues; he knew his clever denial would likely be futile, and finally the man lowered his head.

"I was the one who killed."

"Just because you felt you couldn't keep your face?" Xu Mo asked.

"What do you think?" the man gritted his teeth: "Do you know how the neighbors have been talking about me? I…"

"Can you give me a cigarette?"

Xu Mo thought for a moment, then gave Chen Ke a look.

The latter got up, went forward, took a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to Liang Ping, then lit it for him.

"Thanks."

Liang Ping took a drag, exhaled a heavy plume of smoke, then leaned back in the interrogation chair and began.

"I'm usually busy with work, no time to look after her; plus she was in a rebellious phase, never listened to me, even ran away from home for months… She just came back the day before yesterday, heavily pregnant."

"I had her bring me to see her boyfriend, but he wouldn't open the door; when I took her to the hospital she refused, and she argued with me, insisting on keeping the child. Can you understand how I felt then? In a fit of anger I just…"

"It's scorching summer, you can't leave a corpse at home; you have to deal with it. There's a Seafood Market nearby, and I heard Ankang Fish have strong digestive power; whatever they swallow gets digested. So I bought some Ankang Fish and a big fish tank, planning to let the corpse decompose and feed it to the fish, letting them slowly digest it. But the fish died not long after."

"I didn't dare dump the fish in the residential area, fearing someone would pick them up to eat, so I repackaged those fish that had been fed meat and threw them back into the Seafood Market. After all, that place often gets fish and shrimp thrown away, and no one notices… How did you discover those fish?" Liang Ping asked curiously.

"A procurement officer from a hotel picked them up," Xu Mo explained. "Keep talking—what about that Huang Mao, why didn't you deal with his body?"

Liang Ping gave a self‑deprecating smile.

"How could I deal with a corpse? The first time I tried I failed, didn't I? After tossing those fish back into the Seafood Market I made the worst plan—prepare to run away. Killing that Huang Mao was a spur‑of‑the‑moment idea."

"Anyway, whether I run or not, I might as well kill him too; killing one is killing, killing two is also killing, and it lets off some steam, plus I don't have to handle a corpse. After stabbing Huang Mao I went to an ATM and withdrew all the money from my card in batches. At dawn I contacted buyers in the same city and sold all the home appliances cheap. I originally planned to run with the cash, but… I committed the crime just after midnight, and you caught me that night."

Liang Ping's words were all recorded by Chen Ke.

After he finished his statement, Chen Ke quickly organized the transcript and handed it to him.

"Everything you said is written here; look it over, and if it's fine, sign your name."

The latter glanced at it briefly, then took the pen and shakily signed his name, and anxiously asked,

"Comrade Police, in my situation… roughly how long will I be sentenced?"

"We only handle arrests; we don't know the exact sentence, but you'll find out soon enough," Xu Mo shook his head.

Deliberate murder of multiple people, even dismemberment, could very well result in a death sentence carried out immediately.

Xu Mo didn't tell Liang Ping, to prevent him from causing trouble in the temporary holding cell at the Police Station or even taking his own life before the trial.

One more thing is worse than one less.

"The case is closed; go take care of the lockdown at the hotel's back kitchen," Xu Mo said to Chen Ke after leaving the Interrogation Room.

"Alright."

"Then I'll head back first; after you finish, go straight home... Oh, right, the meal payment hasn't been settled. When you go to the hotel, also ask how much that meal cost, let me know after you ask, and I'll transfer the money to you."