Chapter 52: Ordinary Murderer
Less than two hours after Shan Yang finished the facial puzzle, the murderer was arrested. The funny thing was that he was arrested not by officers from the criminal police team, but by auxiliary police from the Minjiang City Anti-Pickpocket Team.
The auxiliary police officer who escorted the murderer to the city police said, "I saw him walking around our surveillance point for two days. I thought he was our comrade. Who knew he was a car thief? Now, he was caught red-handed!"
Gao Feng and others almost laughed out loud when they heard this.
No one would have thought that the murderer that the task force had been chasing for so long would eventually be caught for stealing.
Everyone was a little skeptical about the auxiliary police's words, but when they actually saw it, they were convinced that the murderer really looked like a typical anti-theft team member. It was difficult for people to remember his appearance in a crowd of people. It was not an exaggeration to say that if the murderer changed his clothes and appeared again, the members of the task force might not recognize him even if they had met him once.
"Wang Zheng, you are responsible for interrogating this man." I don't know what Gu Xia was thinking this time, he issued a strict order , asking Wang Zheng to interrogate the murderer.
Soon, the murderer was taken to the interrogation room. Wang Zheng sat on the interrogation chair, looking at the ordinary faces slowly approaching, without saying a word.
"Should you ask something?" The murderer couldn't sit still anymore and took the initiative to ask.
Wang Zheng did not answer, but just looked at the other person with pity, then made a "tsk tsk" sound with a somewhat disdainful attitude.
"What's wrong with him? Why don't you start the interrogation?" Gao Feng stood in front of the glass in the interrogation room outside the interrogation room and looked at Wang Zheng's performance in confusion. Wang Zheng's current interrogation method completely violated the interrogation process. If the prisoner did not confess voluntarily, then the interrogation would be completely meaningless.
"Just wait and see." Gu Xia patted Gao Feng's shoulder and said with a smile, "Why are you in such a hurry? I think he's going to confess."
Confessed? Gao Feng was a little bit unconvinced. Based on his many years of experience in handling cases, the more such prisoners there were, the more difficult it would be to deal with them. However, since Gu Xia had already spoken, he had no other choice but to calm down and watch the situation in the interrogation room.
"Hey, if you don't ask, you can only detain me for 24 hours at most. Don't forget that I stole the car and got in. You can only detain me for a few days, but you still have to let me go." The murderer said with a smile. It seemed that he was not afraid of this occasion. At this moment, he could actually see excitement on his face.
When Wang Zheng heard this, he suddenly shook his head and said softly: "I think interrogating you is a waste of my time. In fact, you are nothing special."
"Then can you do the crime I committed?" The murderer suddenly laughed, looked Wang Zheng up and down and said, "You are a kid who hasn't even grown all his hair yet."
"Really? But I think your method is too crude, and I don't think it's challenging." Wang Zheng rubbed his wrist and said, "The first victim died because you destroyed the smoke detector. Let the sprinkler start at a specific time. If I were to do it, I wouldn't be as stupid as you and only destroy one smoke detector."
"Oh? Then tell me, if we don't destroy the smoke detector, what should we destroy?" the murderer asked.
Wang Zheng smiled and said, "If I were the one committing the crime, I wouldn't need to destroy such a useless thing. I would choose to destroy the distribution box in the carriage when the train makes a temporary stop, causing a short-term current disorder. It happens to be summer now, and as long as someone walks by, the effect will definitely be better than a smoke detector, and it can also be disguised as an accident. I don't need to do it myself, the train's equipment maintenance personnel will clean up the mess for me."
"Do you have the skills to do this?" The murderer glanced at Wang Zheng with contempt, obviously not believing him.
"Is it difficult?" Wang Zheng said with a smile, "The high-speed air-conditioned train from Jincheng to Jiangnan City passes through 22 stations in total, stopping at each station for five minutes. In the middle of the night, it passes through three stations, stopping at each station for fifteen minutes. If the train is not delayed, I have enough time to hook out the wire and cut it. All I need to commit the crime is a pair of pliers, a set of nylon gloves, and a lit cigarette."
"You're an expert!" The murderer's eyes lit up and he gave Wang Zheng a thumbs up in appreciation. He then asked, "What about the second and third cases?"
"The second case was actually caused by a software that burns and rewrites cards. I checked and found that there are still many PHS cards in use in Minjiang City. I only need to recharge 10 cents to activate it temporarily, and then burn the number into the computer in advance. When the fire starts, the computer on the other end will help you solve the dialing problem, right?" Wang Zheng spread his hands and said, "If I did it, I only need to enter the deceased's room in advance and make some modifications to make the charger explode in a small way, and the flames will be enough to burn the deceased to death."
"What about the third case! What will you do?" the murderer asked again, somewhat unwilling to admit defeat .
"For the third case, we don't even need to enter the scene. This case is a complete failure." Wang Zheng said with a smile: "With your appearance, you don't need to hide your identity. You just need to wait until 1 or 2 o'clock, go directly to a room and open the door, and then carry out your plan. Even if you ask the clerk to do the puzzle, I'm afraid that the clerk who is half asleep will not remember your appearance, right?"
"You..." The murderer was a little depressed. He didn't expect that the murder he had carefully planned would be said to be worthless. Moreover, it sounded as if what the other party said was simpler than what he said.
"But speaking of it, I can't figure out why you committed another crime?" Wang Zheng was silent for a while, then continued, "The previous two cases were your best. We didn't find any evidence against you. You are completely destroying yourself in the third case."
"You won't understand." The murderer smiled and shook his head, and didn't continue.
At this point, everyone in the interrogation room opened their mouths wide. Even Gu Xia hadn't expected that Wang Zheng would interrogate in this way. It couldn't even be called an interrogation, but rather a discussion.
The topic of discussion is naturally about how to kill people.
"Wang Zheng, what nonsense is he talking about in broad daylight!" Gao Feng felt a headache. The interrogation room recording will be kept by the monitoring room. This recording will not be destroyed. I am afraid that it will be sent to the Ministry of Public Security along with the case file.
If the Ministry of Public Security knew that a member of the task force was a crime expert, then the ministry's attitude would probably take a sharp turn for the worse.
"This is not a good sign." Gu Xia sighed and looked at Huamei and asked, "What is Wang Zheng's recent mental state?"
"No, I think he is right." Unexpectedly, Huamei's eyes lit up the moment Wang Zheng opened his mouth, and she said with a hint of excitement in her tone: "Professor Gu, you are not interrogating an ordinary person, but a proud and conceited person. What method will you use?"
Gu Xia was a little confused when he heard the question. He thought carefully for a while before he said, "I will find a way to destroy his self-confidence, so that he can't be arrogant in front of me, and then make him confess."
"That's right." Huamei nodded and analyzed calmly: "At first I also thought that Wang Zheng had entered a different state again, but after listening to his analysis of the case, I found that I was wrong. He deliberately used this method to make the prisoner confess!"
"Inducement?" Gao Feng's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly waved his hand and said, "That won't work. If the other party changes his statement, we will also be implicated."
“No, no, no, I think I understand what Huamei means.” Gu Xia smiled and pointed at Wang Zheng on the other side of the mirror and said, “Suppress him first, and when he feels that his skills are not as good as others, share them together. This is getting into his heart!”
Things happened just as Gu Xia had thought. While everyone was discussing it, Wang Zheng had already started recording on the other side of the mirror, and the murderer's voice was coming from the radio.
"My name is Li Erlong. I'm from Minjiang City. I'm 33 years old this year. I'm an electrician... and a mobile phone programmer." Li Erlong was silent for a while, then said, "The first time I killed someone, it was an idea I came up with on the spur of the moment. That day I was in Qingquan City..."
