Chapter 478: Liang Youping Is Dead

The operator, flustered, called up Han Fei and Xu Mo.

"Han Team, Team Leader Xu, there's trouble: someone reported that a male and a female corpse were found near the airport!"

Han Fei: "???".

Xu Mo: "???".

"What?!" Han Fei was a bit stunned.

Just now, he had just had an officer use Tianyan Search to check Liang Youping's whereabouts.

The result showed that Liang Youping appeared near the airport two days ago, and after that was no longer captured by surveillance.

At that time Han Fei felt something was off.

Then, turning his head, the bad news arrived.

Someone discovered a male and a female corpse near the airport.

Could those two corpses possibly be Liang Youping and his sister‑in‑law?

Thinking that, Han Fei couldn't sit still.

"Let's go take a look!"

Under Han Fei's lead, Team One officers set off in great numbers toward the airport.

…

Airport.

The roadside where the bodies were found.

The reporter was pale with fright, continuously drinking water to soothe his fear.

After the officers arrived, they quickly cordoned off the scene and gave the reporter a brief psychological comfort.

According to the reporter, when he discovered the bodies he was driving normally.

In front of him was a water‑spraying truck; its water cannon washed away a layer of un‑fenced mud on the roadside, revealing two shallowly buried corpses, so he called the police.

The officers stepped forward to examine the bodies.

"The deceased is Liang Youping," Xu Mo said after glancing at the body.

Earlier, when they had identified an unknown male corpse, they had suspected it was Liang Youping, so they knew his appearance.

"It really matched my guess…" Han Fei rubbed his forehead; his front foot had just locked onto the suspect, but his back foot discovered the suspect's corpse.

What a pointless check!

Just when a lead emerged, the trail cut off—so frustrating.

Xu Mo put on gloves and began examining the corpse.

"The deceased bore multiple wounds; he had been beaten before death, but the fatal injury was a knife wound. The shape of the blade and its location match those of the previously murdered Xiang Jun, indicating the same killer killed Liang Youping and Xiang Jun, and the time of death is roughly two days ago."

Upon saying that, Xu Mo glanced at the nearby female corpse and reached a conclusion.

"The killer is male; this female victim was assaulted while alive."

Xu Mo also found the killer's bodily fluid inside the female victim.

This clue might be useful, provided the killer has a prior record.

A normal person's DNA wouldn't be stored in the database; the data is too massive.

The DNA database the Police maintain contains only individuals with criminal records.

The officers immediately took both corpses back to the Police Station and tested the killer's residual fluid.

It is worth noting that the test showed the fluid matched data in the DNA database.

The killer has a prior record!

His DNA happens to be stored in the database, so the killer can be directly identified.

Han Fei suddenly felt a glimmer of hope.

The killer is named Li Hao, who was imprisoned for robbery and released half a year ago.

The Police quickly used Tianyan Search to locate Li Hao and immediately moved to arrest him.

A little over half an hour later.

The officers found Li Hao sweating hard in a foot‑massage parlour.

During the raid, the officers also happened to bust a Y‑selling den, capturing a wave of piao clients and hostesses.

These people were just armed, and the Police hadn't intended to arrest them, but they happened to be conducting illegal activities when Li Hao was seized.

Since they were already there, catching one is catching, catching a group is also catching, so they just arrested everyone.

…

Interrogation Room.

Li Hao sat in the interrogation chair, being questioned by Han Fei and Xu Mo.

"Liang Youping and Xiang Jun, do you know them?"

"Yes, one is my childhood friend, the other is my prison mate," Li Hao answered truthfully.

He didn't deny? Xu Mo was puzzled; is Li Hao being this cooperative?

Without thinking further, Xu Mo kept asking.

"Did you kill them?"

Li Hao, with a calm expression, nodded, still not denying.

"Yes, I killed them."

He paused briefly, then continued.

"Comrade police, I voluntarily plead guilty, can I get a sentence reduction?"

Li Hao had long sensed that he would be captured.

It was mainly because when he killed Liang Youping, Liang Youping's sister‑in‑law was also present; at that moment he was under the influence of the golden worm, couldn't hold back, committed an indecent act, and left his bodily fluids inside the corpse.

As long as the Police locate the body before it fully rots, he won't be able to escape.

So Li Hao didn't run away; instead, he spent the next two days indulging, staying at the foot‑massage spa where the technicians let him try everything.

"Why kill?" Xu Mo ignored Li Hao's question about whether he could get a Sentence Reduction and instead asked.

Li Hao thought for a moment, then recounted how it happened.

"About half a month ago, my childhood friend—Liang Youping—came to me. He knew I'd been in prison, so he asked me to help him kill someone. He said that grandson was flirting with his wife, and the reward was two hundred thousand."

"I've never killed anyone. I don't have the guts, but I was really short on cash. I thought of my prison buddy, Xiang Jun, who has killed before and had just been released, so I went to him and discussed the matter."

"People like us, with criminal records and who have been in prison, can't even find work after release, and Xiang Jun was also short on money, so he agreed. Then I arranged a meeting with Xiang Jun and Liang Youping to discuss it."

"He said he'd pay each of us a hundred thousand to hire us to kill. After we got the money, Xiang Jun and I just forgot about the whole thing, spent the cash on a life of revelry. Killing… what killing? We already had the hundred thousand; who cares about the murder?"

"But we spent it too fast; within a few days the hundred thousand was gone. After the money ran out, Xiang Jun and I tallied up and decided to ask Liang Youping for more cash. We called him, discussed the killing over the phone, recorded the conversation, and used that recording to blackmail Liang Youping into giving us money."

"The method worked well; we had leverage over him, so he could only keep feeding us money. Every time we got cash we went on a spree, and after spending it we asked him for more."

"Until about four or five days ago, he suddenly called me and said that Xiang Jun had called him, wanting to keep the money for himself instead of splitting it with me, and to team up to lure me to a deserted spot and kill me. Liang Youping said he told me this because we were childhood friends, and left it to me to handle."

"And three days ago, when the three of us met, Liang Youping and I teamed up to kill Xiang Jun, smashed his face and threw him into a well. I damn well only realized it afterward; that grandson of Liang Youping was probably sowing discord, and I suspect he also wanted a chance to kill me, so I struck first and killed him in advance…"