Chapter 149: Three Blows Scatter Brotherhood, Crying While Reciting Brothers' Names

Once the suspects are caught, confirming their identities will be easy.

When they were in the morgue, those four simply had no time to wipe away fingerprints and footprints.

Moreover, in their view, there was no need.

Who wipes fingerprints off a corpse in a morgue? That would be obviously fake at a glance.

For this arrest, Li Jun kept it within the branch bureau and did not report it further up the chain.

First, the mortuary has few on-staff personnel; counting everyone, there are only twenty-something.

The squad's police force, combined with cooperation from the police station, is more than sufficient.

Second, it was to prevent the news from leaking.

In the previous case at the Grade-A tertiary hospital, many successfully fled and have yet to be brought to justice.

Therefore, this time caution is mandatory, and information leakage must be avoided as much as possible.

Most importantly, direct evidence has not yet been found.

If a mistake is truly made, there is still a way out; it can be explained under the guise of assisting with an investigation.

If it gets escalated to the municipal bureau, explaining it afterward will be difficult.

To get things done, one must dare to take risks; on this point, Li Jun has always been firm.

Just go for it recklessly.

During the arrest, Yu Dazhang noticed Li Jun's phone ringing frequently.

Every time a call came in, Li Jun would quickly pick up the phone to answer, but each call lasted only a very short time.

Often, after connecting, he would first fall silent, as if quietly listening to the other party speak.

After a short while, he would respond with a single, low and brief sentence.

Immediately after, he would hang up without hesitation; the entire action was smooth and fluid, with not a trace of dawdling.

A man is most handsome at such a moment... After interacting with leaders like Ji Bin, Yu Dazhang now finds Li Jun increasingly agreeable.

The content of the calls is not hard to guess; nine times out of ten, the mortuary side has started calling for help everywhere.

At a time like this, if someone still dares to risk helping and plead on their behalf, that person must have some connection to this case.

Yu Dazhang suddenly felt this case was somewhat beyond his imagination.

Those people bribed the doctors for forty thousand.

They paid two hundred thousand to someone to help swap the bodies.

They are spending far too lavishly.

Maintaining relationships within the system usually involves a huge expense as well.

Plus, so many people splitting the money...

Calculated this way, what kind of number must the profits they obtained be?

Yu Dazhang simply cannot imagine how they actually operated.

Or rather, how they obtained such a large sum of money.

Are corpses really that valuable?

Inside the branch bureau's interrogation room.

The four people who pretended to be corpses were now sitting separately at different interrogation tables, facing stern-faced criminal police officers.

What kind of criminal is the hardest to interrogate?

Definitely those who commit crimes alone.

Because they know clearly that only they themselves know the truth.

As long as they can clamp their jaws shut and not slip up, once they survive round after round of interrogation, what awaits them is likely freedom and open skies.

Conversely, gang crimes are also the easiest to break.

Once more than three people in a gang are successfully caught by the police simultaneously, the first thing after entering the interrogation room is to expose each other.

There is a saying that is quite vivid...

Three blows with a stick scatter brotherhood; crying while reciting brothers' names.

Here is another one.

The confession is two and a half pages long; two full pages are just brothers' names.

Those four were not even fully recovered from their illnesses yet.

While running with a runny nose, they confessed everything they knew.

They denounced and exposed various things, fearing that if they spoke slowly, other accomplices would get there first. One woman confessed first:

"The mastermind behind this incident is our mortuary's deputy director; he also planned the entire body-swap process."

"The one driving and responsible for transportation is a regular employee from our place."

One could say their attitude toward admitting guilt was quite proactive; they held nothing back.

Even the police officer conducting the interrogation found it somewhat unexpected.

People daring to go to the morgue at dawn to pretend to be corpses should have very strong psychological quality.

This is a professional characteristic.

For ordinary people, facing a corpse generates a kind of inexplicable fear.

But for those who work in a mortuary year-round, corpses and living people are no different.

Seeing them every day, they have long grown accustomed to it.

Although they are not afraid of corpses, it does not mean they are not afraid of the police; especially after doing something unspeakable, they naturally become even more fearful.

Please... collect... 6... 9... Book... Bar...!

"What did you steal the corpses for?" the interrogating officer asked.

The woman thought for a moment, seemingly unsure where to begin.

The officer sitting across from her didn't press her either, waiting patiently.

After about ten-odd seconds, the woman finally answered:

"Four registered corpses are missing. If anyone investigates, they'll definitely discover this."

"After discussing it internally, we figured the only way to get past this inspection was to make up the missing corpses."

Now it wasn't just the interrogating officer who was dumbfounded.

Even Yu Dazhang, who was watching the interrogation monitor, felt her speech was jumping all over the place.

At first listen it sounded reasonable, but on closer examination you'd realize her words had neither head nor tail.

Why were four corpses missing in the first place?

And how did they know an investigation was coming?

No wonder she'd hesitated so long earlier—if she just answered whatever was asked, she'd inevitably skip over the earlier parts.

Fortunately, the officer handling the interrogation was experienced and caught on quickly.

"Start from the beginning."

"Which beginning?" The woman was clearly rattled, momentarily lost for words, and looked pleadingly at the officer in front of her.

"Start from when you first began planning this case." The officer studied her eyes, his gaze cold and piercing:

"The cause, the process, every person involved—explain it all carefully."

Given the current situation, they definitely had to start by asking about this case.

As for why the funeral home was short on corpses, that was a deeper layer of the case and needed to be dug into bit by bit.

This woman was already panicking; expecting her to lay everything out at once was clearly impossible.

So for now they could only proceed step by step, letting her first explain the process of this case clearly.

"At the beginning of this month, for some reason, the crematorium suddenly got inspected…"

The woman began to speak slowly.

It turned out the reason they'd gone to steal corpses was still because of the tertiary hospital case.

Seeing the crematorium being investigated—and two autopsy technicians and one crematorium worker arrested—

Their guilty conscience got the better of them and they started to panic.

The funeral home's leadership immediately reached out through someone inside the system to gather information.

They learned that a full investigation of the funeral home was about to be conducted.

Afraid that the missing corpses would be discovered, they could only take a desperate gamble and steal a few back from the morgue to first make the registered numbers add up.

Facts proved this method did indeed fool the Criminal Investigation Brigade's inspection.

After hearing her out, the interrogating officer asked expressionlessly:

"If you were stealing corpses, why not just steal them outright? Why the hell pretend to be corpses and put on a show at the morgue?"

This question, Yu Dazhang had already analyzed before.

Now that the interrogating officer had asked it, he also wanted to hear whether his earlier judgment had been correct.

The woman answered with a face full of bitterness:

"If we just stole them outright, wouldn't you investigate even faster?"

"According to our deputy director, walking out of the morgue dressed up as corpses—something that bizarre is most afraid of getting out. Maybe the police would just suppress the whole thing."

(End of chapter)