Chapter 53: Surrender or Shelter
Li Erlong's method was basically consistent with Wang Zheng's inference. Wang Zheng didn't even say a word during the entire confession process. He had already confessed everything.
It was indeed a random killing, but when the topic of the motive for the murder was raised, the other party's expression was obviously wrong.
From then on, apart from the details of Li Erlong's crime, everyone pretended not to hear anything else. After considering this situation, the task force immediately communicated with the director of the Municipal Bureau. The prisoner was directly escorted to the local prison by the armed police, and the prosecution would directly prosecute him after verifying the prisoner's situation.
"I'm afraid this matter is not that simple." After Wang Zheng walked out of the interrogation room, he fell into silence.
The next day, Li Erlong was tried in court, and the arson and murder case was announced to be solved. After being exaggerated by the media, the task force was suddenly pushed to the forefront, and major newspapers and tabloids across the country came out to report on it.
"Is it the messenger of the night, or the judgment from heaven?" Gao Feng muttered while holding a newspaper on the train, "Isn't this editor too immature?"
"You're taking advantage of me, look, he's almost writing you into a superman, invulnerable!" Bai Ling laughed non-stop in the back seat. Of course, there was also a description of her, but she just skipped it and didn't bother to read it.
"By the way, where are Wang Zheng and Professor Gu?" Gao Feng asked in confusion. This time the task force was disbanded, and Gu Xia had bought tickets for them in advance, but after getting on the bus, Gu Xia and Wang Zheng were the only ones missing.
Bai Ling was awakened by what he said. After thinking for a while, she said, "Maybe something happened. You know that one of them has a bad temper and the other is weird."
"What you said is true." Gao Feng seemed to recall the scene when Gu Xia held the baton. He shrank his neck unconsciously and reminded: "Don't say this in front of Professor Gu, or you will be spanked!"
"Got it." Bai Ling stuck out her tongue, looking very cute.
While the two men were still chatting in the car, they didn't know that the three ancient heroes they were talking about were actually sitting in a van driving on a country road, and their destination was actually the scene of a corpse dumping case.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Huamei, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked a little unhappy. After a moment of silence, she said, "The media are chasing us now. It would be bad if the news got out, right?"
Gu Xia was silent for a while and then said, "But I'm afraid some people will feel guilty." As he said that, he turned his head and looked at Wang Zheng.
"Not only me, but you as well." Wang Zheng said.
The car stopped at the door of Wang Hai's house again. Facing him were two open iron gates. The scene inside the iron gates was still the same as when he left that day. The only change was that the broken glass was temporarily blocked by plastic sheeting.
"Hello, Professor Gu!" Huang Ming rushed over immediately after receiving the news. After greeting Gu Xia, he stood at the door and said with some emotion: "It's not easy for this child. His father is in the detention center, so he has to do everything by himself."
Wang Zheng nodded, turned to Huang Ming and said, "Captain Huang, can you lend me your handcuffs?"
"What are you doing?" Huang Ming's smile suddenly stopped. He seemed to have guessed what Wang Zheng was going to do. He handed the handcuffs to Wang Zheng with concern and begged, "Comrade, it's not easy for him and his son."
"It's not easy." Wang Zheng hung the handcuffs on his belt.
Huang Ming wanted to stop Wang Zheng, but was stopped by Gu Xia who was standing beside him.
Ignoring the scene behind him, Wang Zheng silently lifted the curtain of one of the rooms and immediately saw Wang Ping sitting on the bed.
"There is nothing in the house like before, take whatever you want." Wang Ping said. He didn't even raise his head, staring at the yellowed photo in his hand.
"Have you figured it out?" Wang Zheng asked.
"It's you!" When Wang Ping looked up and saw Wang Zheng, a fierce light suddenly appeared in his eyes, but he lowered his head powerlessly the next second and said hoarsely: "Take me away."
"Have you figured it out?" This was the second time Wang Zheng asked. He kept his eyes on the other person's eyes, trying to see something.
"I was the one who killed him." Wang Ping said shockingly. He was silent for a while before he said, "You knew it a long time ago?"
Wang Zheng said "yeah", then nodded and said, "From the time your father told me about the case, I knew he didn't kill the person. Do you want to know why?"
"It's the weight. My father ignored the weight issue. With his height, he definitely can't carry that scumbag." Wang Ping said. His performance at this moment was very unexpected. He didn't look like a teenager at all.
"I was thinking about Huang Ming all the way here..." Wang Zheng paused and continued, "Director Huang told me that there's something wrong with your brain, so you and your son usually receive a subsidy in addition to the income from the garbage station. But when I saw you for the first time, I knew you were pretending."
"Huh?" Wang Ping looked at Wang Zheng in surprise and asked, "Are you a psychologist?"
"I'm not, but my colleague is." Wang Zheng explained with a smile: "Your acting skills are much better than I thought. When I first saw you, I thought you were an autistic child who didn't trust the outside world and could only live in your own world. But when I heard the pleasure in your eyes when you were talking to your father, I knew you were not."
"Then why did you arrest my father?" Wang Ping suddenly stood up and pointed at Wang Zheng and said, "Do you think I won't kill you just because you're a policeman?"
"I know you dare. Just like you killed Gao Jianguo, you could knock me out, throw me into the stove, and then throw me into the river without anyone noticing." Wang Zheng said this, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face. "That's what you did, didn't you?"
"Yes." Wang Ping recalled with some emotion: "It rained heavily that night. I watched him having dinner with those bad guys, and I waited at the door of the restaurant. When he came out to relieve himself, I hit him on the head with a stick. He didn't even scream. I carried him back home and threw him into the stove to burn him."
"Your father discovered you had killed someone when he saw you turning on the stove, right?" Wang Zheng said.
"So what? By the time my dad found out, the man had already been burned to death." Wang Ping's eyes revealed excitement. It seemed that for him, this was something to be very proud of.
Huang Ming, who was eavesdropping outside the door, almost cried out. Fortunately, he covered his mouth in time. He turned to look at Gu Xia with a horrified face and said, "Professor Gu, is this true?"
"Yes." Gu Xia nodded and said, "It is indeed true, but at that time we took into consideration the family reasons of the father and son, so we did not let you take him away."
"Why!" Huang Ming exclaimed, looking at Gu Xia with his eyebrows furrowed, and quickly lowered his voice and said, "Sheltering is against the law!"
"Haha, it's not necessarily shielding someone, right?" Gu Xia coughed lightly and said, "The scene was very chaotic at the time, disrupting the police's law enforcement thinking, and Wang Hai took the initiative to speak out and took responsibility. Is this shielding someone?"
"No." Huang Ming quickly shook his head and secretly gave Gu Xia a thumbs up.
The conversation in the room was still going on.
Wang Zheng looked at Wang Ping's excited eyes and suddenly felt a little distressed. He was silent for a while and then said, "You are very smart, but I didn't expect that you would let your father take on this ."
"You're talking nonsense!" Wang Ping shouted excitedly, "I didn't want him to take the responsibility for me, but before I could say anything, you took my father away!"
"Really?" Wang Zheng smiled, threw the handcuffs on his waist onto the bed, and said, "I'll give you a chance. It's up to you whether you want your father to come out or you can take over. And don't worry, I will never report you."
Click!
Before Wang Zheng finished speaking, he heard the crisp sound of handcuffs closing. He looked up and found that in the short time he was talking, Wang Ping had handcuffed him without hesitation.
"You don't have to say more. I understand everything. As long as my father can come back, it will be worth it even if I spend the rest of my life in prison!" Wang Ping said proudly.
"You're just wishful thinking, you little brat!" Wang Zheng smiled and patted Wang Ping on the head, then led him out of the house, "Be filial to your father in the future."
