Chapter 161

Noon.

Wanxiang City.

Wu Junhao carried a bag of meat sandwiches, handing them out one by one, as if last night hadn't passed at all.

When it was Jiang Yuan's turn, Wu Junhao stuffed an extra bottle of milk in and said: "Little Jiang is still young, maybe he's still growing, drink more."

"If Forensic Doctor Jiang grows any taller, he'll have to choose special vehicles in the future." A team member from the same First Squadron smacked his lips twice and finished a meat sandwich.

Wu Junhao patted the team member's head affectionately, stuffed a cigarette into his hand, and said: "Don't worry so much about Jiang, everyone, let's discuss the arrest plan."

They determined the tour group's itinerary after four o'clock last night, set off before five, and drove for six hours, finally catching up to the westernmost part of Shannan Province, Wanxiang City.

Compared to Ningtai County's lack of tourism resources, Wanxiang is a relatively large tourist destination in Shannan Province.

There are mountains, water, and culture here, and the hardware foundation is also quite good, belonging to the preferred place for tourism in Shannan.

The tour group that Li Jianye signed up for, which is the tour group the criminal suspect is in, is dining in Wanxiang City at noon today. After checking into the hotel, it will be free time.

The arrest team, led by Wu Junhao's First Squadron, plans to make the arrest inside the hotel.

Bringing Jiang Yuan along is mainly to be responsible for identifying the person and the shoes.

In case they miss him and can't block him in the hotel, Jiang Yuan is also responsible for watching surveillance and finding the person.

Sitting in the Coaster parked not far away is the brigade instructor. He is an old acquaintance of the deputy captain of the Wanxiang City Criminal Police Detachment, so he is chatting with him while communicating the actions of both sides.

Making an arrest locally is more convenient if local police participate.

The wait of more than an hour is the most anxious.

Wu Junhao regrets deciding to make the arrest at the hotel at this moment. Sitting in the car, looking at the restaurant where the tour group is eating, filmed by the team member responsible for tracking, he said in a low voice: "This place is also quite suitable for making an arrest. Actually, if we can contact the driver, we could find a highway toll station and arrest everyone."

Jiang Yuan smiled and didn't say anything. On the way here, several plans had been considered. Deciding on the hotel was ultimately based on considerations of time and fault tolerance.

Contacting the driver—who knows if the driver will give the game away? Maybe someone will hear it when the call is made.

Most importantly, it takes time for Jiang Yuan and the others to rush over. The hour or so of waiting now is equivalent to leaving time; if something happens in between, there is still time to deal with it.

It's impossible to rush over in a hurry without being familiar with the ground and start the arrest; if he runs away, they would really be clueless and wouldn't even know where to chase.

Even now, within the Criminal Police Brigade, some people have suggested whether to follow him for a while.

Because if they want to seek the death penalty, the evidence is not sufficient, and the chain of evidence is not perfect enough.

But neither Wu Junhao nor Huang Qiangmin is willing to wait any longer.

This Li Jianye has already arrived in Wanxiang City with the tour group. As police officers from the Ningtai County Criminal Police Brigade, it is no longer easy to follow him, and they don't know what information they could get from following him anyway.

What they do know is that in at most two days, the tour group will leave Wanxiang City and go out of the province. By then, wouldn't following him be even more difficult?

The main problem is that everyone is completely unfamiliar with this Li Jianye. Arresting him and taking him back might yield more information.

The tour group spent 30 minutes dining, took a short break, and then boarded the bus collectively.

Starting from the local tour group in Changyang City, they have been walking for more than a week, and they already have basic discipline.

It took another 30 minutes to get to the hotel. The criminal police from the Wanxiang City Criminal Police Team sat directly in the lobby, watching a group of people go through the check-in procedures.

The criminal police from the Ningtai County Criminal Police Team did not appear, fearing that their own people would be recognized by Li Jianye.

Since he has returned to the crime scene, the criminal police who have been coming and going at the crime scene might have had their faces remembered.

The team members of the First Squadron simply laid an ambush in the room reserved for Li Jianye. People were also arranged on both sides of the corridor; as long as Li Jianye walked out of the elevator, it would basically be like catching a turtle in a jar.

Wu Junhao is quite experienced and creative when it comes to catching people.

Under his command, the team members of the First Squadron not only had universal room cards but also carried hydraulic cutters, just in case Li Jianye entered the room and latched the door.

In Jiang Yuan's view, the First Squadron's arrest was purely an overkill of force.

Just take the deputy captain who was laughing and carrying hydraulic cutters nearby; his task sounded like he was going to cut the door latch, but in reality, there were four big men with exaggerated builds currently packed into the bathroom inside the room.

Jiang Yuan couldn't even imagine what this criminal suspect Li Jianye would look like after entering the room in a while.

More than twenty men, heavier than donkeys and taller than horses, gathered together to deal with one person—even Japanese movies wouldn't dare to film it like this.

Li Jianye entered the elevator without knowing anything, under everyone's attention.

Wu Junhao patted Jiang Yuan, and they immediately stepped forward to block the elevator.

This hotel building has a total of 6 floors, and two people are arranged to guard the elevator lobby on each floor.

And Li Jianye's room is arranged on the second floor; as long as he walks out of the elevator normally, basically, he's done for.

"He's entered the corridor." Voices came through the earpieces of Wu Junhao and Jiang Yuan at the same time.

Wu Junhao and Jiang Yuan immediately turned around and went upstairs through the fire escape.

Li Jianye was actually already blocked in the corridor at this time, but he didn't know it himself.

The rooms on both sides of the corridor were empty and the doors were locked.

Woo...

The electronic lock made a rotating opening sound.

This was like a bugle call; more than a dozen men like stallions lowered their heads and rushed out from both sides of the corridor without saying a word.

What romance in an arrest.

What tacit understanding between men.

What confrontation between spirit and flesh.

There was nothing; it was just the sound of pure physical slapping.

When Jiang Yuan ran over, he saw Li Jianye, who was 1.7 meters tall, being pressed directly against the wall by two sturdy men who were at least 1.8 meters tall, his face pressed out of shape.

And on both sides of him were two men in tight clothing, tightly pressing their shoulders against his side waist and immobilizing his arms.

Li Jianye didn't even have a chance to kick his legs, because two people were lying on the ground, clamping his legs with their big arms. Li Jianye's calves were clamped under the sturdy men's armpits, and his leg bends were forcefully pounded by fists.

Looking at the body proportions at this time, Li Jianye's thighs were not as thick as the arms of the sturdy men below.

This was an activity of 100-plus jin resisting 1000-plus jin. What Jiang Yuan saw was like slaughtering a pig in the countryside; even the process of putting on handcuffs was like a knife stabbing into the heart during a pig slaughter—slow and firm.

"What's your name?" Wu Junhao waited until the handcuffs were on before pulling the arm of someone who was choking the neck and asked Li Jianye.

Li Jianye didn't make a sound.

"Do you know that your crime has been committed?" Wu Junhao said loudly.

Li Jianye rolled his eyes, but saw Jiang Yuan, and actually let out an "Eh" sound, saying: "From Ningtai County?"

With just this one sentence, the criminal police understood that the cases this guy had committed were definitely more than one.

Of course, judging by his proficiency in committing crimes and his courage, he didn't look like a rookie criminal who had only done it once.

"Take him back first." Seeing this, Wu Junhao stopped asking questions directly, searched his body on the spot, and even pulled out the belt of his sweatpants.

Li Jianye came to stay at the hotel with luggage; other items were all packed in the suitcase, so there was no need to take them in, just drag it away.

People and evidence go in one car, while other personnel stay on the spot to take statements from all members of the tour group. See if there is any evidence, preferably accomplices, so they can be taken back together.

After several more hours of rushing, it was already night when they returned to Ningtai County.

The entire Criminal Police Brigade was in place, all waiting for this person.

In terms of numbers and mental state, they were more united than waiting for leaders.

"Collect his DNA, collect fingerprints, collect footprints, collect shoe samples..." Seeing the person, Lu Jianfeng, the captain of the Criminal Science Squadron, came over first and scanned the human evidence.

At the same time, Wu Junhao also took out the evidence found one by one.

"There are three ID cards with matching bank cards and mobile phone cards; they should have been bought online." The first thing Wu Junhao took out was a bit surprising.

"Debt collectors don't need this. Such a complete set must cost a lot of money." Huang Qiangmin glanced at it, quite surprised.

"It might have been cheaper before, but now any set costs over ten thousand yuan. His is different." Wu Junhao picked up the ID card and showed the photo part to Huang Qiangmin.

Huang Qiangmin looked closely and found that it was two or three parts similar to Li Jianye himself.

With the clarity of the ID card photo, such a two or three-part similarity could deceive many places.

"This is a professional criminal. Check all the ID cards and see what cases there are." Huang Qiangmin adjusted the plan for Li Jianye again and directly asked Liu Wenkai, the captain of the Second Squadron, to conduct the interrogation.

Liu Wenkai and Wu Junhao, one civil and one martial, were the strongest lineup under Huang Qiangmin's command.

When it comes to catching prostitution, Liu Wenkai is strong; when it comes to interrogation, Liu Wenkai also has his own set of methods.

After receiving the order, Liu Wenkai first went into the bathroom, faced the mirror, and combed his slicked-back hair properly. Then, he dug out a large piece of hair wax, smeared it carefully again, and finally used a hairdryer to set it.

Once everything was done, Liu Wenkai entered the interrogation room steadily.

Liu Wenkai gathered his momentum, ready to give the criminal suspect a show of force.

"Get a cigarette and get something to eat." Li Jianye spoke first and asked for things.

Liu Wenkai was slightly surprised.

According to common sense, asking for things in this environment is often a prelude to the prisoner's confession.

And the Li Jianye in front of him...

Liu Wenkai instantly thought of a reason: "Have you left DNA and fingerprints at other crime scenes?"

They had checked Li Jianye's identity many times; only biological information was the shackle he couldn't escape.

Li Jianye was stunned for a moment, let out a "Heh" laugh, pointed at Liu Wenkai with his finger, and said in a very underworld-like manner: "You're no fun."

Liu Wenkai knew these old hands who claimed to be from the underworld too well, and he also smiled.

The strategy he had when combing his slicked-back hair in the bathroom was all canceled at this moment. Liu Wenkai changed to a warmer smile, took a cigarette from his pocket, and casually tucked it into Li Jianye's extended finger.

After lighting the cigarette for Li Jianye, Liu Wenkai added: "Since you have cases on you, be straightforward. Say whatever you want to say, so you don't get locked up and still have people pinning cases on you, swindling and bluffing."

The corners of Li Jianye's mouth twitched. He looked down at the cigarette and said: "Liqun, the cigarette you smoke is quite manly."

Liu Wenkai looked at him and waited for him to smoke half the cigarette in one breath before asking: "Tell me, do you know why we arrested you?"

"The person in the building in Ningtai County who I stabbed and pushed down?" Li Jianye was indifferent.

Liu Wenkai was instantly satisfied.

Just this word "stabbed" already indicated that the killer was nine times out of ten him.

If he wasn't at the scene, how would he know that the victim Hu Lei was stabbed down with a mop handle?

"What did you use to stab him?" Liu Wenkai asked on the spot.

"A mop." Li Jianye smoked and blew smoke rings.

Thus, the murder weapon was confirmed.

Liu Wenkai then asked about the motive: "Why did you kill Hu Lei?"

"I didn't intend to kill him; I just wanted some money." Li Jianye said calmly: "I pretended to be from a debt collection company and asked him to get some money. As a result, he only took out three thousand and something; when I asked for more, he started acting like he'd rather die."

Li Jianye shook his head as he spoke, with an expression blaming the young man for not knowing the situation.

Liu Wenkai's eyelids twitched: "Pretending to be from a debt collection company, what does that mean?"

"I just pretended to be from a debt collection company and asked those who owed usury for money. I used to work in a debt collection company, and later I thought, asking for money is so easy, why should I work for the company? It's better if I do it myself."

"You don't have the debt rights, so you just ask for money directly?"

"What debt rights? Just need the list of debtors." Li Jianye said proudly: "Companies nowadays are all very cowardly; what's the use of address book bombing? You just go to their door and ask for money; none of these people who borrow online loans won't give it."

"You took the money, but didn't clear the debt for the other party?"

"Clearing the debt is the other party's business; what does it have to do with me?" Li Jianye said happily.

Liu Wenkai wanted to say that this guy was simply robbing, but using the name of debt to rob seems to be really more effective than robbing directly?

"Where did you get the list of debtors?" Liu Wenkai couldn't help but ask again.

"Sold online." Li Jianye said, then pouted and added: "ID cards are also bought online."

"Hmm..." Liu Wenkai was made uncomfortable by Li Jianye's confession. He adjusted his breathing before saying again: "Hu Lei gave you more than three thousand yuan, but you still killed him. Why?"

"He climbed the window himself." Li Jianye laughed, and his smile was very playful, saying: "I was holding a mop handle at the time, preparing to scare him, but this kid climbed up himself and even threatened me, saying that if I forced him again, he would jump down."

Li Jianye's eyes became blurred, recalling: "I watched him climb onto the window, and there was no one else around, so I laughed at the time."

Li Jianye revealed a playful smile again and said: "I thought to myself, isn't this just right..."

Liu Wenkai waited for a minute before asking: "Just right for what?"

"Just right for a perfect murder. Don't people on the internet love discussing this?" Li Jianye said, putting away his smile, and said with regret: "I shouldn't have stabbed him, right? During the autopsy, was there a change in the chest? I scared him, but he didn't fall, so I had no choice but to stab him."

Liu Wenkai looked at his expression, which was becoming more and more proud and satisfied, and felt a wave of nausea.

Liu Wenkai intentionally interrupted him and said: "You returned to the crime scene afterward?"

"You found out?" Li Jianye smiled indifferently.

Liu Wenkai didn't answer, only asking: "Why return?"

"It's rare to do such a beautiful case, so I wanted to appreciate it, take a few photos, and keep them as a souvenir." Li Jianye's expression became increasingly perverted.

Liu Wenkai sighed, which meant that this guy still had his own criminal evidence on his mobile phone.

At this time, Liu Wenkai thought of the scarves, ropes, and other items he had seen in the suitcase earlier. He stood up directly and left the room, reminding Huang Qiangmin outside: "Captain Huang, the things in his suitcase might be the murder weapons from the crime scene."