Chapter 135: Jumping to Conclusions Is a Grave Taboo

This detail wasn't recorded in the case file.

Probably the criminal investigators at the Qingpu branch focused all their attention on the corpses themselves and overlooked the transport process before the incident.

The team member didn't ask further, stood up and walked aside, pulled out his phone and began dialing.

About ten minutes later, the other party replied.

The team member looked at the reply and said to Yu Dazhang:

"They were delivered to the morgue at 23:20 that night. The registration book has the time written down."

"The four corpses were delivered together?" Yu Dazhang asked again.

The team member nodded: "Yes, delivered at the same time."

"Then there's no mistake." Yu Dazhang stared at the screen and said:

"The six bodies in the surveillance footage came in one vehicle, and the four that ran off were among them."

After a moment's thought, Yu Dazhang said to the team member again:

"Contact the team investigating the hospital and bring that corpse-transport driver back. He's a major suspect!"

"Got it! I'll send someone right now!" the team member immediately agreed.

No supernatural events exist in this world. When something seems eerie, it must be man-made.

The four corpses were hauled in by the same vehicle. A coincidence?

If you believe in that kind of coincidence, there's something wrong with your IQ.

Yu Dazhang knew very well that a person must have their own judgment, especially when solving cases.

Once the other party leads you into a mental误区, you'll make the mistake of jumping to conclusions.

For example, you visit a temple.

You'd naturally maintain a skeptical attitude toward the Monk's introduction inside the temple.

At this point, the other party would say to you:

"Faith moves mountains."

That's right—you have to trust me, you have to believe there are gods and Buddhas in this world, otherwise you won't receive their blessing.

This is the legendary double-edged trap.

If something good happens to you, it means you've received the Buddha's favor.

If you have bad luck, it means your heart isn't sincere enough.

If the police were superstitious too, cases would be impossible to investigate.

If you encounter something eerie and immediately go pray to gods and worship Buddhas, wouldn't everything fall into chaos?

Some friends asked.

If that's the case, why are there still so many temples and so many believers?

That comes down to purpose.

Some people go to temples to seek... children, wealth, peace, romance.

Their purpose is simply to satisfy personal desires.

Have you ever seen anyone go to a temple to pray for the Bodhisattva's good health?

And there's another group of people who go to cultivate their hearts, giving the heart a place to belong.

Temples were originally established and developed by these people, but later got led astray by human desire.

That night, the driver of the corpse-transport van was brought back to the Qingpu branch.

Inside the interrogation room.

"Name?"

"Jia Liang."

"Age?"

"Thirty-five years old."

"..."

After a string of routine questions, the interrogation quickly got down to business.

"What did you do on the evening of August 16th?"

The interrogating team member's eyes burned like torches; the aura cultivated over many years as a veteran criminal investigator scared the driver pale, who didn't dare meet his gaze at all.

"N-nothing, I just went to work normally."

"Just went to work? What exactly did you do during work?"

Under the officers' questioning, the driver began to confess hesitantly.

As the driver of the corpse-transport van, his job was very simple. His main daily task was transporting bodies from nearby hospitals to Qingpuer Academy.

Not every hospital has a facility like a morgue.

Only large general hospitals are equipped with one, and they're shared among several nearby hospitals.

And a morgue's corpse-transport van is different from a funeral parlor's.

First, capacity—a funeral parlor's body van usually only carries one body.

After being taken to the funeral parlor for the farewell ceremony, it's cremated directly.

A morgue is mainly responsible for storage and transport, so the corpse-transport van is usually designed as a refrigerated truck.

This ensures the bodies stay at low temperature during transport.

It's also designed with multiple compartments, able to carry several bodies at once.

According to the corpse-transport van driver Jia Liang's confession, on the evening of August 16th, he only made one trip that night.

He transported six bodies from two nearby hospitals to the morgue at Qingpuer Academy.

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After everything was done, he went home to sleep.

When the interrogators asked about the specific details of transporting the bodies that night, his eyes clearly began to dart away, and his shoulders twitched unnaturally.

In another room, Yu Dazhang, who was staring at the surveillance screen, slowly began to furrow his brow.

Judging from the micro-expressions, the driver's actions just now indicated that he felt very awkward about what he had said.

He was lying!

Pressing the microphone beside him, Yu Dazhang said in a deep voice:

"He's lying. Make him describe the process of transporting the bodies in detail."

The officers in the interrogation room were jolted to attention, their expressions growing even more solemn, as they sternly cut off the driver who was in the middle of defending himself.

"Still lying. I'll give you one last chance. Start from when you loaded the bodies onto the vehicle at the hospital."

This was a common interrogation technique—using information asymmetry to make judgments and apply pressure.

Generally speaking, the more inexperienced the subject was with interrogations, the easier they were to scare, thereby revealing their flaws.

On the contrary, those seasoned veterans who had been through it many times would have enough psychological fortitude to keep resisting.

This driver was clearly in an interrogation room for the first time.

Seeing that the officers across from him had seen through his lies, he immediately panicked.

He sat in the interrogation chair with an ashen face, his eyes revealing fear and unease.

Seeing this, the interrogation team members decisively struck while the iron was hot and asked again in a deep voice:

"Speak. What did you do when you were transporting those six bodies?"

This sentence completely shattered the driver's psychological防线.

He looked at the officers across from him and said haltingly:

"L-leader, it really has nothing to do with me, I didn't do anything…"

The officer scrutinized him for a moment, then slightly eased his tone:

"Whether you did it or not, we know perfectly well."

"Describe the process of transporting the bodies that day again, in more detail."

"From beginning to end, you're not allowed to leave out a single thing!"

The driver's eyes narrowed, and he began again from the start:

"On the evening of August 16th, around nine-thirty, I got the first call to pick up a body, so I set out with two body carriers."

"After picking up two bodies, we went to another hospital and picked up four more bodies, then I drove toward Qingpu Hospital."

"When we were about halfway there…"

The driver stopped mid-sentence, a look of struggle appearing on his face.

Yu Dazhang, who was staring at the surveillance screen, immediately realized the main act was about to begin.

Sure enough, after a brief internal struggle, the driver said dejectedly:

"When we were about halfway there, one of the body carriers, a guy named Li Tao, suddenly told me to stop the car."

"I listened to him and pulled the car over to the side of the road."

"Then Li Tao got out of the car with the other body carrier."

"They went to the back of the car and didn't come back until about ten or so minutes later."

"After that, we delivered the bodies to the morgue at Qingpu Hospital."

The driver stopped at this point, but there was still a hint of trepidation in his eyes.

This time, without even needing Yu Dazhang's reminder, the interrogation team members knew he was definitely still hiding something.

But for experienced veteran criminal investigators, as long as the suspect opens their mouth, everything can always be dug out.

So the team members didn't rush, but asked unhurriedly:

"Why would you listen to a body carrier?"

(End of chapter)