Chapter 427: Broken Reputation
Now that the police have arrived, Jiang Ping is certainly not suitable to continue to stay in the garden. He left Robert's villa the same way he came, then found a place where no one was around, took off his ski mask and changed his clothes, and simply became a spectator outside the villa gate.
As soon as Jiang Ping arrived at the gate of the villa, several police cars arrived roaring. There were also ambulances and a police car from the SWAT department, and apparently the police who arrived early noticed the seriousness of the case and had to call for backup.
Then the outside of the villa became more and more lively, and the news interview cars of several major media also arrived one after another. Although they learned the news earlier, they couldn't compare with the police after all, so they came a little later.
However, the reporters felt that the timing was just right, just in time to photograph the police cars outside Robert's villa, and the police and special police officers were like enemies, ready to search the entire villa.
Seeing that the police made such a big scene, how could these experienced reporters not know that something was wrong? They began to capture the scene in front of them, unwilling to let go of any detail.
The efforts of the reporters were not in vain, and everyone was shocked when a number of young women dressed in blankets and naked at first glance walked out slowly with the support of medical staff. Even the well-informed journalists looked at each other, wondering what was really going on in this villa.
And just when everyone's attention was focused on the villa, Jiang Ping, who had been quietly watching nearby, left silently with a satisfied smile.
In fact, the reason why Jiang Ping notified the reporter was to make this matter bigger. After all, Robert is also a celebrity in the fashion industry, with a wide network in France and even throughout Europe. That's not to say he has the power to control the judiciary, but to call on a group of prominent lawyers to defend himself. It is still quite possible to fight for a lighter sentence.
And Jiang Ping called reporters to expose the matter in advance. can let the general public know. What a pervert Robert is. As long as public opinion is overwhelmingly unfavorable to Robert, and he is indeed conclusively incriminated, even if a capable lawyer comes, there is not much that can be done.
It turned out that Jiang Ping's plan was completely correct, and the next morning, several major media in Paris began to report on the crime in Robert's villa.
To say that these reporters are really capable, although they were only filming an interview outside the villa last night, but after a little midnight activities, they really dug up a lot of inside information.
For example, the dungeon under Robert's villa. The situation of the girls in the dungeon, and even the details of the two "prey" he caught last night, have all been in the news.
A sanctimonious person in the fashion circle actually did such a heinous thing behind his back, which immediately caused an uproar. The people were even divided into two factions, one of which angrily denounced Robert's actions and demanded that he be sentenced to life imprisonment according to the law; On the other hand, Robert's brain-dead fans are convinced that he would not do such a thing, so everything is all rumors spread by several media outlets, and demand that the rumor-mongering media be held accountable.
This matter made a big fuss. The next day not only the French media began to pay attention to the matter, but even the media in other European countries began to report on it.
Given the magnitude of the impact of this case. The Paris police held a press conference on the third day. At the meeting, although the police spokesman did not give a positive answer as to whether the content of the news report was true or false, he said very vaguely that the real case is likely to be more serious than the public knows.
As soon as the press conference began, it immediately caused an uproar throughout Europe. As far as the public already knows, Robert's crime is already very serious, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is heinous. And the police actually said that this is only the tip of the iceberg, so that many people can't imagine what kind of atrocities Robert has committed.
After the press conference, those who had supported Robert and said that it was just the media slandering him all died down, and no one dared to publicly support Robert. Now Robert has become a street rat, and if anyone dares to support him, he will not be able to escape the fate of everyone shouting and beating.
As it turned out, the police's words were not groundless, and after suspecting more "victims", the police used police dogs to conduct a careful search of the entire villa. And the result is horrifying, in a corner of the villa garden, several human bones were dug up.
According to the forensic examination, the bones all belonged to young women, and the presumed time of death was between two and ten years. That is to say, Robert has been doing evil for a whole decade, and it is not known how many victims have been violated, ravaged or even killed by him.
When the news came out, it almost shocked the world. Some media have already called Robert "the most murderous serial killer of all time", and some feminist organizations have even demanded that the death penalty be reopened so that this pervert can be punished with the most severe punishment.
Of course, this is just wishful thinking on the part of those people. France has long abolished the death penalty, and no matter how heinous Robert's crime is, it will not change the law because of him.
However, as the saying goes, "capital crimes can be avoided and living crimes cannot be escaped", many people in the legal profession have said that in view of the seriousness of Robert's crimes, no matter how many lawyers he hires to defend himself, the final outcome will be similar -- a life sentence will certainly not escape.
Even if Robert is capable and can prove that he has a mental illness, he will definitely be sentenced by the judge to a high-security psychiatric hospital but die, and he will not have a chance to regain his freedom. That's even worse than going to jail, because in prison people just treat you like a prisoner. In a psychiatric hospital, it's completely different, people treat you like a patient, and if you don't use sedatives or even electric batons, you might as well go to jail.
However, for Jiang Ping, whether Robert is in prison or in a psychiatric hospital is not very different. As long as this guy can't pose a threat to Lin Xiaonan in recent years, the ending is obviously more satisfying.
Robert didn't want to regain his freedom in his life, so naturally he couldn't threaten Lin Xiaonan at all, and it was completely consistent with the dark brown light that Jiang Ping had seen in his seal hall before.
And as the media dug deeper into this matter, what Jiang Ping did that night gradually entered people's field of vision. Of course, they didn't know that Jiang Ping did these things, and people only knew that there was a masked man who sneaked into Robert's villa and exposed his terrifying true colors.
Jiang Ping knew that these things must have been told by the two girls to the media, and they were lucky not to be harmed by Robert, but they were just a little frightened. So the two were quickly discharged from the hospital, not only resumed their original lives, but also accepted many media interviews, and they were already famous. In this respect, Robert can be regarded as helping them.
In each interview, the two girls mention the mysterious masked man who saved them and the other victims from fire and water. In their description, the masked man was simply perfect. He infiltrated Robert's villa regardless of the danger, bravely fought this pervert, and saved everyone, including them, and the request for one was actually just to call the police, which is simply a saint.
When the black-haired girl was interviewed, she would show a look of regret every time she said this, regretting that she could not "repay" Jiang Ping better. Even Goldilocks has vaguely stated that as long as the masked man is willing to contact her, she is more than willing to "thank" each other with her best friend.
As for who this masked man is, no one knows at all. However, no matter for the people of any country, heroes save the United States, punish criminals, and finally drift away without expecting anything in return, which is an admirable image of a hero, and it is also what everyone likes to see.
So while no one knows the true identity of the masked man, that doesn't stop him from having a large following. There is even a homepage of the "Masked Hero" on the Internet, which collects a lot of information about him, and there are really a lot of views.
Many French people have already compared the masked hero to the legendary hero "Black Tulip", who is also a maverick knight, and has even been made into a movie and widely circulated.
And Jiang Ping, who single-handedly set off this huge storm and turned Robert from a celebrity in the fashion industry into a serial murderer spurned by everyone, was quietly a student at his University of Paris as before.
Jiang Ping's daily life is to study, work part-time, and occasionally be harassed by Jenny, and accompany Lin Xiaonan when he has time.
Since Robert's affair was exposed, Lin Xiaonan was also surprised and afraid. She was also glad that she had kept her distance from Robert, who had invited her to his villa several times, but she had turned down for various reasons. Otherwise, I would have ended up in the same fate as those victims.
Jiang Ping also knew Lin Xiaonan's feelings, so he deliberately took out more time to accompany her. Under Jiang Ping's comfort, Lin Xiaonan's mood gradually stabilized, and he returned to his previous lively and happy appearance.
Don't look at Jiang Ping, who seems to be enjoying the peaceful life now, in fact, he has not forgotten the main purpose of coming to Paris. There wasn't much to distract from at the moment, so it was only natural for him to get blue paint on his agenda.
Jiang Ping has been working at the University of Paris for nearly two months, and he has been working in the storage room for more than a month. Not only do you know how to open the vault and how to use it, but you also know the vulnerabilities of the security system here. Seeing that it was another weekend, Jiang Ping decided to start the operation tonight.
Although it was a weekend, it was no different from the usual on the surface. Jiang Ping came to work in the storage room on time, and he also carried a backpack as before.
The difference is that the two books in Jiang Ping's backpack today are both hollowed out in the middle. There are a few gadgets hidden in the hollowed-out part, all of which are needed tonight.
After coming to the storage room, Jiang Ping casually put the two books on the table, and then threw the empty bag aside. It was also exactly the same as his previous habits, so it didn't arouse any suspicion from Abel in the Vault.
Because it was the weekend, Abel was also in a hurry to go home. He chatted with Jiang Ping casually, and then hurriedly walked out. Just as Able passed by Jiang Ping, Jiang Ping suddenly moved. (To be continued......)
PS: First update.
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