Chapter 127

Wu Chun felt it was very normal: "As a driver, how dare I urge the boss." Wu Chun's knees hit the table leg, and a few drops of water shook out of the paper cup, "Until I was about to miss the last ferry, I bit the bullet and dialed." His nails scratched deep and shallow marks on the cup edge, "The phone was not answered, and I..." The ceiling light in the interrogation room suddenly flashed twice, and Wu Chun's pupils shrank: "The door was unlocked, and snakes were crawling all over the floor." His voice suddenly trembled, "President Huang was lying there, and those snakes crawled into his trouser legs... When he said the last few words, Wu Chun's voice couldn't help trembling, "I will never forget this scene in my life."

Qi Fei opened the autopsy report and pushed it over: "Don't tell me, you just left Huang Daqiu in place and ran away and hid yourself?"

"I..." Wu Chun stammered, looking like he didn't know where to start, "I ran to the river and vomited until my bile came out. Then... I saw a snake..." As he spoke, his eyes were wide open, and the muscles on his forehead were visibly jumping, as if he had returned to the river, "That snake followed me out of the Golden Snake Immortal's house. As soon as I turned my head, I saw it raise its head and flick its tongue at me... They all say the Golden Snake Immortal can control snakes, this time I really believe it!"

"You just said why I didn't call the police, because even if I saw who killed someone, you wouldn't believe me if I reported the case!" Wu Chun looked at them blankly, "I was really scared out of my wits!"

"Even if you saw it?" Qi Fei immediately caught the loophole in this sentence.

At this point, Wu Chun was also desperate. His dark, hoarse voice was like a rusty wire pulled over: "It's a snake, it's a snake!" He repeated.

"The victims were all hacked to death by sharp weapons, not snakes." Qi Fei put down his pen, folded his arms, and poured a bucket of cold water on Wu Chun.

Wu Chun leaned back dejectedly and said disappointedly: "I knew you wouldn't believe me."

Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu looked at each other. Qi Fei continued to ask patiently: "Then tell me, how did the snake kill people?"

"I, I don't know, but after I saw President Huang die, I heard voices coming from the stairs, weird and strange, it didn't sound like a human voice. As soon as I looked up, I caught a glimpse of a snake tail as thick as this from the stairs, so thick!" Wu Chun gestured as he spoke.

Qi Fei laughed angrily: "You know that the snakes we found at the scene are only as thick as a thumb, there are no snakes as thick as you said. Besides, can snakes talk?"

Wu Chun sighed: "I said reporting to the police is useless, you won't believe me."

"Since you said it talked, what did it say?" Continued to ask.

Wu Chun really thought about it seriously: "I was scared silly at the time, it seemed to be saying something like those who lie to me must die, I'm not very sure, but I'm sure it was talking."

"You should be able to tell if the voice is male or female, right?"

Unexpectedly, Wu Chun still shook his head: "I really don't remember. That voice was just like a monster's voice, that kind of..." He even wanted to imitate that voice, but he pinched his throat, neither male nor female, making Wu Shanqiu on the side couldn't help but steal a laugh.

Liu Tong and Zhong Kui were both watching the whole process of the interrogation next door.

Qi Fei came out and met them.

"This guy is obviously playing with us. People in Huang Daqiu's company said that Huang Daqiu is moody and often fires drivers. This Wu Chun also hasn't done this job for long. It is entirely possible that he was dissatisfied with Huang Daqiu and used two pairs of shoes to create a fake scene of his own panic escape." Qi Fei said his guess.

"He didn't lie." Unexpectedly, Liu Tong and Zhong Kui said in unison.

"Hmm?" Qi Fei looked at the two puzzled.

Liu Tong looked at Zhong Kui: "Ladies first."

Zhong Kui leaned on the metal door frame of the observation room and raised her chin at the one-way glass: "Nothing, typical signs of traumatic flashback. His blinking frequency is very normal, the peak frequency of blinking per minute reached 37 times, far higher than the baseline value when lying. His expressions are also quite natural, and various micro-expressions can't see any signs of him lying, unless he is a master of disguise, or he is telling the truth."

Qi Fei nodded slightly when he heard it, and then looked at Liu Tong: "Then why did you say he didn't lie, Captain Liu?"

Liu Tong smiled and said: "I don't have such profound techniques. Of course, there is another very important basis. He had time to make two sets of footprints, and he could have canceled the footprints entirely and just said he didn't go in at all. Huang Daqiu's phone is missing, he could say Huang Daqiu asked him to go back by himself. It's easy to round off this matter, no need to fabricate such outrageous words. According to what he said, the police won't believe it."

Zhong Kui laughed: "As for this snake, post-traumatic stress disorder leads to cognitive distortion, transforming concrete threats into surreal imagery—in layman's terms, scared silly. I think he should be our valuable eyewitness. That so-called snake demon is him bumping into the killer. Interestingly, the killer was immersed in his own venting and didn't know that an uninvited guest appeared downstairs."

Qi Fei said: "However, what did Huang Daqiu encounter during this period that made him change his mind and go to Jiangting Island temporarily?"

"According to Wu Chun's statement, he only requested it temporarily after getting in the car. Our valuable eyewitness might still have the clues we want!" Zhong Kui said.

Hearing this, the four of them looked at Wu Chun, who was still in the interrogation room, at the same time.

Wu Chun looked at the few people in front of him blankly and stammered: "I've said everything I should say, what else do you want to know?"

"What did Huang Daqiu do in the car that suddenly changed his mind to go to Jiangting Island?" Qi Fei returned to the interrogation position and asked.

"How would I know this? I'm driving in the front. We drivers have to not look or listen." Wu Chun said.

"Everything we hear now is your one-sided words. If Huang Daqiu's reason is sufficient, it indeed has nothing to do with you, and it counts as taking a step forward on your way to get rid of suspicion." Qi Fei said.

The cup in Wu Chun's hand was already cold. He swallowed his saliva: "I really don't remember."

The ceiling light in the interrogation room cut out bright and dark stripes on the blinds. The hem of Zhong Kui's dark purple skirt made a slight friction sound when it swept across the stainless steel countertop. Her left hand, unbuttoning the cuffs, hung in front of Wu Chun's eyes, and the silver pendant swayed gently with the airflow of the central air conditioning.

Zhong Kui walked to Wu Chun and leaned over: "Look at this light spot, the prompt tone you heard at that time came from the back seat, right?" Her voice suddenly became as soft as hot spring water, and the pendant held by her index and middle fingers drew an ∞ trajectory.