Chapter 70: Scrat's Nut

Evening.

The rain was only a little lighter, and Liu Wenkai drove onto the road.

Further verification was left to the criminal police behind, and he, who was a forward, only needed to find a direction and rush forward first.

The dense raindrops, under the action of the wind, were like streams of scattered urine splashing on the windshield, making the vision clear for a while and blurry for a while.

Fortunately, there were very few cars on the road, and Liu Wenkai exerted all his strength, driving with concentration, and the time to reach the destination was much faster than the navigation.

The destination was a hot pot restaurant, with two floors used for business. The parking lot downstairs also had many cars parked, and there were actually many people who had to come to eat a meal in the weather of wind and rain.

Just before getting off the car, Liu Wenkai said to the other 3 people in the car: "Our target is Zhou Lei's girlfriend, Wang Na. She is currently the main suspect, but we are mainly asking questions. Pay attention to the men appearing around Wang Na. If Wang Na is the murderer, consider that she has an accomplice. Women who plan and execute homicide cases alone are extremely rare. In addition, abandoning the corpse also requires physical strength and equipment."

The deputy driver was the old criminal police officer Zhang Enze, who said: "Pay attention to the equipment in the kitchen, everyone. See if there is anything that can dismember the corpse. The upper half of the corpse hasn't been found yet."

"En, sliced, chopped, pay attention to everything." Liu Wenkai added.

"That last sentence of yours makes people's hair stand up." Zhang Enze said with disgust: "It's just to protect the scene, make the arrest decisively, hey, our manpower is still a bit short, otherwise, we should guard the doors on both sides."

"Today is just this condition, the team can't get more people up, the highway is closed, and on the Qinghe City side, if you ask people to come out, you can't get them." Liu Wenkai could actually wait until tomorrow, because the corpse had been floating for several days, the murderer hadn't run before, and there was no reason to run just today.

However, having done major cases for so many years, Liu Wenkai knew that many times, things that happened just right were just that right.

Moreover, weather was something that couldn't be said. The weather conditions outside now looked bad, but it was just that reinforcements couldn't come up, and it was no problem for them to carry out the task, and they could also meet the basic conditions.

If they waited until tomorrow, who knew if the weather conditions would be worse; if a rainstorm more powerful than today came, then I'm afraid even the arrest would be difficult.

It was also for the same reason that the uncertainty of the weather conditions outside was too great, so he didn't want to squat, and decided to go into the complex hot pot restaurant to make an arrest.

Of course, another main reason was that today wasn't a determined arrest operation, but an investigation operation mainly based on questioning.

Liu Wenkai was just guarding against the questioning turning into an arrest. Still, in this weather, if the person ran, it would be difficult to catch.

The four people directly disguised themselves as customers and sat in the hot pot restaurant. Then, Liu Wenkai didn't order food, just said he was waiting for someone, dismissed the waiter, and said in a low voice: "Wang Na is at the front desk, the cashier near the door. I'll go find the manager now, let him arrange a room for us, and then call Wang Na over. Little Zhao, you follow me."

Liu Wenkai said he would find the manager through the waiter, and then waited in the lounge in the back passage with Little Zhao.

Zhang Enze and another criminal police officer sat in the booth more than ten meters away. They had a fake vine partition between them and the front desk, and they could also see the scene in the kitchen, and the view was quite good.

After waiting for a long time, they saw Wang Na get up and go to the back passage.

Zhang Enze and another criminal police officer hurriedly followed.

Several people successfully sent Wang Na into the passage, closed the door, and blocked her in the small material room.

"Tell me, what is your relationship with Zhou Lei." The light in Liu Wenkai's eyes flickered.

Just such a little girl in her early twenties, regardless of how many times she had played room escape or script murder, Liu Wenkai had the confidence to interrogate her clearly, letting her see how humans who had once looked directly into the deep darkness pierced through lies.

"Zhou Lei is my ex-boyfriend." Wang Na frowned and said: "The red envelope he hit was voluntarily given to me. Reporting to the police after breaking up, is it too tasteless?"

Liu Wenkai also frowned, this disguise was a bit like it.

Zhang Enze asked: "When was the last time you saw Zhou Lei?"

"What's the matter?"

"The police are asking you questions, answer them properly. If you don't want to say it here, we'll go to the police station to say it." Liu Wenkai came back to his senses and once again took the route of oppressive questioning.

Wang Na looked left and right, and no colleagues could help, so she said: "It's been more than a week, I can't remember clearly."

"Where did you meet?"

"Just in the shop, he came to find me, I said don't be mother-in-law after breaking up, let him go."

"Did a conflict happen?"

"No. What exactly is the matter."

Liu Wenkai looked at Wang Na's expression and decided to make a big one, saying directly: "Zhou Lei is dead, don't you know?"

"Dead?" Wang Na showed a surprised expression: "Really dead?"

Liu Wenkai frowned again: "What do you mean by really dead?"

"It's... it's..." Wang Na hesitated for a few seconds and said: "Just two days ago, Zhou Lei sent a paragraph, saying he was going to die. I felt it was quite disgusting, feeling he was just the kind of crying, making trouble, and hanging himself. I pulled him into the blacklist..."

"What did he say? Let me see." Liu Wenkai urged.

Wang Na hesitated and took out her phone, found Zhou Lei's avatar in the blacklist of her WeChat contacts, a squirrel from Ice Age.

A line of text appeared in front of everyone:

I can't hold on anymore. Life to me was originally very cruel, and now, it has become even more colorless. I once believed that everything would get better. You were once a rainbow in my life, but now, you are no longer. I'm leaving. About no one will know about this. Just like Scrat got his nut, it no longer has meaning.

Liu Wenkai and Zhang Enze looked at each other and became silent.

This WeChat message could be said to be a standard suicide note, and from the perspective of a criminal police officer, Wang Na's performance didn't look like lying either.

"What does 'Scrat got his nut' mean?" Zhang Enze asked.

"It's... Scrat is the squirrel in Ice Age, Ice Age is a Hollywood animation, that squirrel has been chasing the nut, and can never catch it." Wang Na realized the seriousness of the matter and became cautious.

Liu Wenkai was a bit angry and said: "You received such a message, which is equivalent to a farewell letter, and you still pulled him into the blacklist?"

"I... I also didn't expect he would commit suicide. I thought he was just a trick he learned from somewhere. He looked quite cheerful on weekdays..." Wang Na said in a low voice: "If I had known earlier, I would definitely have persuaded him well."

Liu Wenkai sighed heavily, just treating it as if he had looked at the deep darkness once again, and took out his notebook again, saying slowly: "How is his relationship with his parents? Have you seen them? Does Zhou Lei have any other relatives?"

Even if there was a farewell letter, it couldn't fully prove that Zhou Lei committed suicide, and there was also the problem of dismemberment to be solved.

Wang Na whispered: "I haven't seen his parents, but I heard they divorced a long time ago and formed their own families. Zhou Lei didn't go back on holidays. He was brought up by his grandmother, and his grandmother passed away two years ago."

This added new evidence for suicide. Zhang Enze shook his head secretly and asked: "Have you talked about that kind of commemorative location? Especially along the Tai River?"

Wang Na recalled for a moment and said: "He quite likes the Traveler's Bridge over there. He said before he wanted to buy a house over there." ===== CHAPTER 71 =====