Chapter 43 Arraignment
There is nothing more painful in the world than knowing that it is a trap and having to dive headlong into it.
At present, there is no other way except to find Hong Mi and Liu Dao.
Just when everyone was at a loss, Lei Wensheng suddenly received a call from the police station.
"Team Lei, Hong Yong has confessed."
He glanced at Shi Luo and found that Shi Luo was also looking at him in a daze.
Everyone returned to the police station as fast as they could, and the interrogation was over.
Hong Yong, who came out of the inquiry room, seemed to be dozens of years old in an instant, and the moment his eyes met, Shi Luo didn't seem to recognize the man in front of him at all.
He has long lost the calmness of the previous Tarzan collapse and his face does not change, as if his soul has been sucked away overnight, completely like a walking corpse.
It is really embarrassing that a generation of heroes ended up in such a situation.
The police officer in charge of the interrogation excitedly reported the progress of the case to Lei Wensheng, and Shi Luo snatched the confession and scanned it at a glance.
Hong Yong's fingerprints have been put on all the key points in the confession, including admitting that he is the mastermind of the drug trafficking case, instructing his subordinates to sell drugs in bars, including Binks's wine arson case, and also admitting that he was responsible.
"Why?" Shi Luo was not as happy as the others, and his eyes were full of anger when he looked at Hong Yong.
"Request for organization leniency." Although Hong Yong said words begging for mercy, it could be seen from his eyes that he had given up hope of life.
If the confession is true, he will face at least a number of charges including drug trafficking, arson, endangering public safety, and intentional injury.
The vice president of the Red Star Group cannot be so naΓ―ve as to think that he still has the possibility of survival.
It's not so much a surrender, this atmosphere, it's more like suicide.
Shi Luo tapped the confession in his hand with the back of his fingers: "Since you have decided to turn yourself in, the source of the drugs and the way of transportation should be recruited at the same time." β
Hong Yong raised his eyelids, looked at the young man in front of him, and suddenly grinned.
"Annoyed, huh?"
"What?"
"The feeling of powerlessness is annoying, isn't it?"
Shi Luo heard what he was saying.
"Young man, are you married?"
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"People, once you get old, you will be very nostalgic and homesick. Yesterday I dreamed of returning to the old house when I was young, with groups of children and daughters, gathered around for Chinese New Year's Eve. When I woke up, I was very sad, because the old house was no longer there, and I had no children, so what was the point of living? β
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"You know how it feels?" This sentence was not directed at Shi Luo, but at Lei Wensheng.
It's just that Lei Wensheng doesn't understand what deep meaning is hidden behind his words at this time.
"It seems that you don't understand either." He shook his head in disappointment.
After that, no matter what the others said, Hong Yong never opened his mouth again, just looked at the ceiling thoughtfully.
The crowd had no choice but to let the police take him away.
"Hong Yong is probably just a back-eruck." Shi Luo said.
I felt the same way, and the way he looked at him was not at all like a sincere confession, but rather a sense of generosity. For a moment, I found that he was unwilling in his heart. Lei Wensheng agreed.
"But what is the reason?" More and more mysteries made Shi Luo feel like his head was about to crack.
At this time, Poirot, who had been watching from the sidelines, suddenly spoke: "Although I don't really want to get involved in this case, since he may be related to rats, it's okay for me to give you some hints." β
"What?"
"Hong Yong is 70 years old this year, with his identity and status, what else can threaten him and make him willing to pay with his life for it?"
"Someone higher than him?"
Hearing this answer, Poirot couldn't help but cover his eyes and made an expression that he couldn't bear to look at directly: "It is said that the people of this country value affection, but when it turns out, is this the first reaction at the critical time?" β
was ridiculed by Poirot, Shi Luo's face was a little unbearable: "If it were an ordinary person, the family might become the biggest weakness, but Hong Yong came out as a teenager and broke off the relationship with the original family a long time ago, and he never married, and naturally there is no next generation, your assumption is not valid." β
"It's true that he doesn't have any children now, but he has one grandchild."
"What nonsense are you talking about......"
"That's her."
Seeing Poirot take out Hongmi's photo, everyone was dumbfounded.
"Your country also follows your father's surname, right? Hong Mi's father's surname is Hong, but his grandfather's surname is Zhang, don't you think it's strange? β
This news is the first time everyone else has heard of it.
"Why do you know this?"
"It's not important, the important thing is that when you meet such a beautiful young lady, isn't it common sense to find out her details at the first time? Aren't you like that? Poirot made a look of incredulity.
Shi Luo lowered his head and pondered for a moment, looked around, and asked, "Has anyone ever revealed to him about Hongmi's disappearance?" β
"I ......" The police officer in charge of the interrogation raised his hand timidly, and the excited expression on his face just now disappeared, replaced by a panicked look that knew that he had made a mistake.
"Who allowed you to reveal such important information without permission!" Raven was furious.
"I ...... I...... I interrogated Hong Yong on your orders. The police officer was so shocked by his momentum that he almost cried.
"When did I let you do that?"
"That's it...... Not long after you went out, didn't you call me to reveal this information to Hong Yong and see his reaction? β
"What ...... me" Halfway through his words, Lei Wensheng suddenly understood what had happened, he and Shi Luo looked at each other, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
If it weren't for Polocha's understanding of the relationship between Hong Yong and Hong Mi, they would not have realized the connection between Hong Mi's disappearance and Hong Yong's sudden confession, and the connection between the impersonating Lei Wensheng and the interrogators would probably not have been discovered.
The worst result of this may be that the search cannot be carried out, and in the end the case has to be closed in a daze, which makes Hong Yong carry the black pot and let the real culprit get away with it.
"It's really a mess of us." Shi Luo reached out and pressed his temple, he was very tired recently, and he felt a little dizzy at this time.
"Not only did I calculate the exact time we went out, but I also knew the information of our insiders, and I now agree with you that this is probably the most formidable opponent I have encountered in my thirty-year career as a criminal policeman."
"But now that we've found out, a lot of things make sense. Yang Jian's death and Hong Mi's disappearance are the killer features designed by the other party to make Hong Yong submit. The purpose is to tell Hong Yong that if he doesn't take all the blame off, his only granddaughter may encounter accidents. β
"You're right, and he knows Hong Yong very well, and he recognizes that Hong Yong will definitely sacrifice himself for Hong Mi's safety."
"But there is only Yang Jian's body at the scene, and Hong Mi may have escaped." Because she didn't speak all the time, everyone almost forgot about Haiyan - she was the first person to find Yang Jian's body.
"That's where this ploy comes in, because Hong Yong has been held in a detention center and is not allowed to visit at the moment, which means he doesn't know anything about what is going on outside except what we tell him."
"At this moment, Hong Mi is indeed missing, whether it falls into the hands of the other party or not, it doesn't matter in fact, what they want is just to borrow our mouth, hinting to Hong Yong, if they don't do what they think, they can't guarantee Hong Mi's safety."
"There's a blind spot here, the police don't lie about human lives. So no matter what we say, Hong Yong will default to the truth, plus he can only infer what happened through fragmented information, and it is easy to fall into the trap of the other party. In his subconscious, he should have decided that Hong Mi's life was in the hands of the other party. β
"That'...... Are we going to tell him? Hae-yeon suddenly felt some sympathy for Hong Yong.
"Tell him what? Hongmi didn't necessarily fall into the wrong hands, she just didn't know her whereabouts? Until we actually find Hongmi, what difference does it make between what is said and what is not said? β
Shi Luo Sanlian's rhetorical question left Haiyan speechless.
"Who do you think will be the person who can do these things?" Ravenson asked.
The answer was surprisingly unanimous.
"Mouse!"