Chapter 322

"Do you still have the key to Yin Fei's warehouse back door and the printed paper?" The interrogation expert continued to pursue.

A sharp glint flashed in Zhang Xiang's eyes, like that of a 120-kilogram fitness man: "Of course, I stored it in a bank safe. 600 a year."

The expressions of the few people in the monitoring room changed slightly.

So, no one is truly a fool. Even a guy like Zhang Xiang, who was big and thick and looked like he had ruined his brain by taking drugs for bodybuilding, still used his limited brain cells to make the right choice.

The expert in the interrogation room couldn't help but praise: "Not bad, you even know to store it in a safe."

"Lest someone find their way to my house and burn it down with a fire." The current arsonist Zhang Xiang smiled as if he had seen through the world.

The interrogation expert pondered and casually asked: "Which other arson have you participated in?"

Zhang Xiang's eyes changed, clearly lying: "Just that one time; that one time was enough of a headache. Who would have nothing better to do than set fires every day?"

The interrogation expert frowned, but he didn't continue to pursue aimlessly. He quickly returned and said: "You went to find Yin Fei; was it your own decision?"

"Yes."

"What was the trigger? Why did you go to find Yin Fei at that time, in that time period? And why did you choose to carry a knife and enter through the back door?"

Zhang Xiang recalled and said: "There was a contract to be signed, right? The logistics company Yin Fei found didn't get along with us.

We told her not to talk, but she treated us like small-time thugs. She's just a mistress who couldn't even climb into bed; what the hell is she pretending for..."

Zhang Xiang became angry as he spoke.

It seemed he was quite sensitive to the concepts of status and hierarchy within this.

When a person stays in a unit for a long time, they often accept some of the unit's unspoken rules as the common laws of society; they even execute them.

The interrogation expert couldn't find any loopholes in Zhang Xiang's words either, so he could only continue: "Do you know who gave you the key?"

"Honestly, I don't know." Zhang Xiang shook his head.

"Take a guess."

"Can't guess."

The interrogation expert frowned: "Someone gave you the key, the key to Yin Fei's warehouse back door, and even wrote it clearly with printed paper. Didn't you ever think about who gave it to you? And for what?"

"Someone from Jianyuan, I guess. Who it was, I can't say clearly." Zhang Xiang said indifferently.

"After so many years, didn't you ever want to investigate it yourself?"

Zhang Xiang was stunned, then smiled: "I know what you mean; you want me to bite someone, right? Actually, to tell you the truth, if I could find someone who instigated me, say, hired me to kill someone, wouldn't I not have to die? But I can't bite; whoever I bite, I offend. Wouldn't I die faster then?"

"Jianyuan Company isn't as powerful as you say. Your case is now being handled by the Changyang Municipal Criminal Investigation Detachment; they can't interfere."

"Maybe. But I don't have any evidence in my hands. Who can I name?" Zhang Xiang spread his hands.

"Breaking and entering, two deaths, burning the bodies—these circumstances can all lead to the death penalty. If you confess your accomplices or the mastermind, it's still possible to get a suspended sentence. Otherwise, it's highly likely to be an immediate execution." The interrogation expert stopped pretending and delivered the pressure fully to Zhang Xiang.

Zhang Xiang's face turned beet red, the interrogation chair rattled, but he still couldn't say anything of substance.

Accomplices couldn't just appear out of thin air, and the mastermind was even harder to prove. Thinking about the things he had done before, the money he had earned, and the things he had taken, Zhang Xiang found it even harder to choose. After all, the knife wasn't really at his throat yet.

Office.

Jiang Yuan and the others sat and waited for the dispatched criminal police to retrieve the items Zhang Xiang had placed in the bank. Inside were a key, a note, a plastic bag, and a stone.

Jiang Yuan focused on studying the key.

Yu Wenshu and the others looked at Jiang Yuan anxiously, expecting him to give some good news.

Jiang Yuan looked very slowly; after looking at the key, he looked at the other three items.

Actually, the moment he got his hands on the key, he basically

determined that this key was indeed the one that caused the scratches on the back door lock cylinder but failed to open the door correctly.

There was even very fine powder on the key; if a trace evidence analysis were done, most of it could be matched to the lock on the back door.

The problem was that recognizing the key didn't really help much.

Jiang Yuan could match the key to the key-duplicating machine, provided the machine was found and the cutter head on the machine hadn't been replaced—from a time perspective, unless the machine had been well-sealed many years ago, it was unlikely to be possible.

Jiang Yuan could also analyze the note and the printed handwriting on it.

Level 3 document examination skills were for this.

However, Level 3 document examination was still at the level of a clever woman unable to cook without rice... Like the key, one had to have comparison samples.

The reason fingerprints could become the king of evidence, and later DNA could repeatedly solve major cases, was all due to mature and direct fingerprint databases and DNA databases.

Trace databases and document databases were too weak and could provide very little help.

Jiang Yuan thought while looking, spending a good while, and finally spread his hands: "Currently, it seems these few items can't help much."

"It's normal not to find anything." Shen Yaoguo hurriedly comforted Jiang Yuan.

Shen Yaowei said: "Maybe he was just talking randomly, to escape punishment or something."

"Yeah, with just these few items, it was already very difficult to find clues."

As Yu Wenshu spoke, he suddenly felt a little disappointed.

Yu Wenshu hurriedly suppressed his emotions.

On second thought, he began to examine his own heart: Yu Wenshu, you shouldn't think this way; you can't expect Jiang Yuan to provide answers for everything. Jiang Yuan is rented, not bought; who knows when he might sacrifice himself at the scene, what will you do then?

Thinking this, his heart quickly provided the correct answer: Of course, it's to take advantage of Jiang Yuan's rental period to let him plow the most land, harvest the most wheat, behead the most criminals, and build a Jingguan (a monument of heads) would be best.

Use the large-particle heads of criminals who committed violent crimes at the bottom, place men and women with better images in pairs in the middle, and use the heads of criminals from memorable cases as decoration at the top...

Yu Wenshu watched Jiang Yuan put away the evidence and said: "If there are no clues, this case can be put aside for now. Send two people to wrap it up and see the situation. Even if the person Zhang Xiang mentioned is real, it's very difficult to convict and sentence them. Sentencing to death or determining murder is very difficult..."

The fact was indeed so; if the other party really only gave money and provided the key without instigation and substantive bribery, then even if convicted, it could only be a fixed-term imprisonment.

Several people flashed through Jiang Yuan's mind, but he said: "If there are no clues about the owner of the key for now, I think we can check the parking lot security guards of Jianyuan Pharmaceutical first."

Yu Wenshu immediately looked at Shen Yaoguo.

Shen Yaoguo was stunned for a moment. Seeing that Jiang Yuan's expression didn't look like he was faking, he said: "Checking them is no problem, but for no reason, it's a bit of an offense to Jianyuan Pharmaceutical. Yuan Jiansheng is also a well-known name in the province."

"This isn't for no reason. If we're talking about offense, Yuan Dong has a son I sent to prison. I performed the autopsy on another one." Jiang Yuan clapped his hands, looking clean.

Shen Yaoguo, having just owed a favor, couldn't not return it, so he simply nodded and said: "Do it then. However, since we're doing it, my opinion is that it's best to have solid evidence and catch them all in one net."

"That goes without saying." Jiang Yuan looked at Yu Wenshu and said: "Then let's do this case first."

"That works too." Yu Wenshu didn't care; he didn't have any feelings for the enterprises in Qinghe City either, just asking: "How do you plan to do it?"

Jiang Yuan smiled, pointed at Zhang Xiang on the screen, and added: "We can also look for cases that occurred near Jianyuan's factory area and warehouse that haven't been solved; we can solve them for them while we're at it."

Yu Wenshu had no objections, but somehow, a picture inexplicably appeared in his mind: a parking lot of Jianyuan Pharmaceutical, and inside the parking lot, it wasn't a blue guard

booth, but a small-to-medium-sized Jingguan.