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Chapter 126

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Wu Chun's pupils shrank suddenly, "I don't know anything." Wu Chun denied powerlessly, but the trembling feet under the interrogation table had already betrayed him.

The content in the tablet computer changed from the driving record to a surveillance screenshot of the Jiangting Island pier. In the picture, the stumbling back figure fleeing was exactly the same as him in the evening.

"You can deny it. We are already searching your house. Soon, we will know whether the footprints found at the scene of Huang Daqiu's death are yours. You know, a person's footprints are unique, just like fingerprints." The screen in the tablet computer reflected Qi Fei's firm jawline. Opposite him was Wu Chun, who was even more panicked.

"I didn't do anything. I don't know anything about Huang's affairs." Wu Chun denied it before he even confessed. He looked at Qi Fei and the others with a look of verification, as if looking for some guarantee. Unfortunately, he didn't get the echo he wanted.

"What did Huang Daqiu go to Jiangting Island for?" Qi Fei stood up, walked to the corner of the room, took a disposable water cup, and fell into silence in the interrogation room.

This sound of water seemed to make Wu Chun think of the river waves at the Jiangting Island pier, and he couldn't help but tremble. He hesitated for a moment and took the hot water handed by Qi Fei.

The heating in the interrogation room was very sufficient, but he seemed to be frozen, holding the hot water tightly with both hands.

"We found out that you owed 500,000 in gambling debts and borrowed from Huang Daqiu. You know that relying on a driver's salary, you can't pay back this money at all, so you had the heart to kill Huang Daqiu. You knew Ying Shuigen wasn't at home on the 15th of the first lunar month, so you deliberately brought Huang Daqiu to Jiangting Island and killed him. She Xiaohui and her son who saw you killing people were also not spared, right?!" Qi Fei leaned forward, staring at Wu Chun's face, giving enough pressure. Everyone present, except Wu Chun, knew that Qi Fei was talking nonsense.

According to Xiao Tao's latest autopsy results, She Xiaohui and her son died before Huang Daqiu and Wu Chun went to the island.

Although the suspicion of Wu Chun murdering Huang Daqiu cannot be ruled out, at least the deaths of She Xiaohui and her three sons had nothing to do with him.

However, this move of attacking to defend indeed worked. Wu Chun's already fragile psychological defense collapsed all at once, and he defended busily: "I borrowed money from President Huang, but I really didn't kill anyone. I swear, if I lie, I will be struck by lightning!"

"If swearing was useful, why would we need police? You didn't kill anyone, but judging from the traces at the scene, you were at the scene, which means you knew Huang Daqiu was dead. Why didn't you call the police?" Qi Fei asked immediately, not giving him room to think.

When Wu Chun heard this, it was as if the puppet that had just stood up had scattered again: "I didn't want to either. I just thought I couldn't get involved in such a troublesome matter. There have always been rumors that President Huang and the Golden Snake Immortal have an unclear relationship. President Huang is dead. If I called the police, what if the Golden Snake Immortal knew? Who knows what he would do to me? He knows magic! I have a family to support in my hometown. If something happens to me, I won't be the only one to die." Speaking of this, Wu Chun was already crying.

"You think Huang Daqiu was killed by the Golden Snake Immortal?" Qi Fei sat back from his leaning body and asked.

"But, but I didn't know that others died at that time. I only knew after watching the news later." Wu Chun raised his head and looked at Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu back and forth, as if looking for evidence of his innocence on their faces.

"Start from the beginning, what happened that day." Qi Fei opened the notebook, took off the cap of the ballpoint pen, and waited for Wu Chun to speak.

Wu Chun picked up the hot water and took a sip, thinking of the day that made him trance and nightmare: "That day I was supposed to get off work. President Huang said a few days ago that he was going to Europe for vacation next. The boss went abroad, and I, the driver, could rest, so although I worked in the first lunar month, I was quite happy. I drove that black Maybach to pick him up as usual, the one you have seen."

Qi Fei certainly knew that the eye-catching Maybach had been photographed a lot on the day of the crime.

"On the way back, he suddenly asked to go to Jiangting Island temporarily. In the past, President Huang always drove to Jiangting Island by himself. Although I never dared to ask why, I could guess some of it.

It's the rumor in Myanmar that I told you. The relationship between President Huang and that Golden Snake Immortal is definitely not simple. Sometimes I drive, and President Huang calls the Golden Snake Immortal. Although they are sporadic words, I am not a fool. The content is definitely not fortune-telling, but like money matters, or black money.

I don't know what happened that day, as if God had to make me go to this island. President Huang had surgery on his stomach when he was young. These two days, the old wound recurred and he couldn't drive. At that time, President Huang looked at a document in the car and looked very anxious. He made several calls first but couldn't get through. I thought about it later, it was probably to that Golden Snake Immortal. Because after the phone couldn't get through, President Huang muttered to himself, saying..."

Wu Chun paused and imitated Huang Daqiu's tone: "Damn, forgot what day it is today!"

This clumsy imitation inexplicably grasped the ugliest part of Huang Daqiu's demeanor, adding some playfulness to the originally serious interrogation atmosphere.

Wu Shanqiu, who was sitting next to Qi Fei, suppressed the rising corners of her mouth and had to bury her head to hide her face, pretending to be focused on recording.

"Hmm, your President Huang should have remembered that today is the 15th of the first lunar month, and Ying Shuigen is not on Jiangting Island." Qi Fei was as serious as ever.

Wu Chun seemed not to know this, and said "Oh" lightly: "So that's what it means. However, President Huang seemed to have to see this Ying Shuigen, and even exceptionally allowed me to drive him there." Perhaps it was the exhaustion after fleeing and being frightened, his voice was like a rusty hinge, saying that his gaze swept over his face on the one-way glass, "I shouldn't have driven him there. If the car hadn't gone to the island that day, maybe... sigh, but who knows, President Huang is my boss, I couldn't disobey the boss's order." After Wu Chun finished speaking, he swallowed his saliva. The atmosphere in the interrogation room made him nervous, and the hair on his cheeks stood up significantly.

"And then?" Qi Fei tapped the table with the tip of his pen.

Wu Chun picked at the edge of the disposable paper cup: "I arrived there and parked the car not far from the house. President Huang said to drive to the door to pick him up in an hour. Generally speaking, he would call me after he finished, but this time he didn't call. I waited for another hour."

"Wait another hour? Didn't you call to ask?" Qi Fei found it incredible.

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