Chapter 3 Questioning

November 26, 10 a.m., Linyi City Federal Police Station, an inquiry room.

"Officially acquainted ......," a white man in a suit and leather shoes reached out to Che Wuchen as he approached the table, "I'm Lieutenant Mark Skrram, and I'm part of the Asian branch of EAS (extra ability supervisor). ”

"Che Wuchen." Che Wuchen reported his name without humility or arrogance, and got up and shook hands with the other party, "FCPS agent, currently on vacation." ”

"Nice to meet you, Detective Car." When Scram sat down, he took out an I-PEN from the pocket of his jacket and quickly unfolded its projection screen on the table, "Before I begin, I want to reiterate that this is not an interrogation, just a simple questioning, as for the recording through video...... That's the standard process required by our organization. ”

"It's okay, everyone is working for the Federation, I can understand that." Che Wuchen also sat down again and replied in a very calm tone.

"Hmm." Scram nodded, "...... then," he said, turning on his I-PEN recording function, "Let's get started." ”

"Yes." Che Wuchen replied.

"Please repeat your name and job title again." Scrambau.

"Che Wuchen, senior agent of the Federal Public Safety Commission." This is the Nth time Cha Wuchen has repeated this sentence today, but he has not shown any impatience.

"As for the events of yesterday evening, please repeat them in detail from the beginning." Scram.

"Okay." Che Wuchen responded and was silent for a few seconds.

And for a few seconds, Scram's gaze stayed on his face, as if he wanted to see through his eyes.

Objectively speaking, it was rude for him to do this, but he didn't care.

Scram didn't come to get on good terms with others, but to investigate; The only thing he had to do was get the information the organization needed, and confirm its authenticity, among other things...... It doesn't matter.

"At about half past six in the afternoon, I came out of Dr. Cui's clinic to ......" After a few seconds, Cha Wuchen seemed to clear his thoughts, organized his language, and began to speak.

Unexpectedly, he had just finished half a sentence when he was interrupted.

"I'm sorry, can I ask you what you went to the clinic for?" Scram asked in a quick voice.

"Psychological Evaluation." Che Wuchen replied to these four words, paused, and learned the other party's sentence just now, "Of course, this does not indicate that I am mentally ill." And that's just that...... It's just a standard process for our organization. ”

"Hehe, understood." Scram smiled and reached forward with a "please" gesture, "Please continue." ”

As a result, Che Wuchen recounted the process of meeting the police, hearing the call to report the crime, and requisitioning the other party's guns and motorcycles.

These were things that Scram knew before he entered the room; He had questioned the police officer before he saw him, and he also confirmed the information provided by the other party through street surveillance.

But...... For now, this repeated Q&A on the same question has to be done again; Because when a "confession" is obtained through only one person, the credibility is very low.

Not to mention the case of "deliberately lying", just talking about "memory" is a big problem.

People's memory is far less reliable than people themselves think, for example, at this moment, you who are looking at this text cannot remember what you ate at noon the day before yesterday.

It takes most people about a minute to go back to a memory point in the last forty-eight hours, and if you can't think of it in a minute, you may never remember it again, or...... You can only get a so-called "approximate" and "vague" impression.

This impression is not so much a "memory" as it is a guess - a guess made based on your own knowledge of yourself and the fragments of memories before and after.

This is the truth of our memory: human memory is not black writing on a white piece of paper, nor is it data stored on a hard drive, human memory is just a fragmented puzzle made up of many key pieces connected together. Our brains automatically dispose of things that we've already experienced that aren't particularly important as junk to make room for what we think is more important.

If the experience related to oneself is still the same, then ...... Not to mention memories that have nothing to do with you.

We can often see in some film and television works that during the trial of a homicide case, an eyewitness is asked to identify a suspect who passed in front of his eyes or even dozens of meters away in the middle of the night a few months ago...... It's a joke, the witness doesn't even remember what he was wearing that day, and you expect him to be able to identify what a stranger looks like when he only glances at it?

Therefore, "a confession from a person", or "memory", is always subject to questioning. Even if multiple people give confessions about the same thing, they have to be compared and analyzed with each other to distinguish the truth from the falsehood - if it is completely incorrect, it means that at least one of them is lying; There is a slight difference in what everyone says, but there is a high probability that it is true; Exactly the same, perfect ...... That's called a confession.

The content of Che Wuchen's narration belongs to the second situation, that is, it is slightly different from what the police said, but it is basically about the same thing.

The main difference is that in the version described by the officer, Mr. Constable is uncompromising, selfless in the face of FCPS agents, and acts calmly when the other party requisitions his gun and motorcycle...... put on a cool face and said coldly: "Hmph...... Then I'll leave it to you. "It's a feeling......

However, in the version described by Che Wuchen and the nearby street surveillance...... That kind of exchange probably only happened in the imagination of the police officer.

Anyway, Cha Wuchen continued to speak, and when he talked about the part where he entered the net ring center and saw the corpses, he also told Skram his reasoning after seeing the first three corpses.

But Scram was a little unimpressed, and interjected, "Detective, you just need to describe what you saw and heard there in as much detail as possible, and the analysis will be handled by someone from EAS." He paused for half a second, "Of course, I'm not questioning or denying the analysis you have done and your professional ability, but I just want to tell you...... Even if your assumptions are correct, the analysis you provide will not be taken into account by EAS and will not have any impact on the final judgment we make. ”

Hearing this, Che Wuchen was silent for a few seconds, and then said, "Okay, then I'll continue." ”

"Yes, please." Scram continued.

After a while, Che Wuchen said: "After entering the main entrance of the building, the first thing I did was to quickly check the rooms on both sides of the corridor where there were corpses.

"The first corridor was flanked by a utility room, a reception room, and two offices, all of which had electronic doors open at the time, and direct access; Upon inspection, several rooms were unoccupied, and the furniture was placed in normal condition, at least at first glance, with no signs of being turned over or damaged.

"After inspecting it, I headed back into the building, and after turning the first corner, I found another corpse in the second hallway, dead in the same state as the three in the previous hallway; Judging by the rest of the head, it was a woman, about thirty-five to forty years old. I didn't linger too long near her, there was only one utility room and men's and women's restrooms on either side of the hallway where she was, and I had seen them all...... It was also empty. ”

Hearing this, Scram suddenly asked again, "Say...... In the process, you shouldn't have tried to find survivors by shouting, right? ”

"Of course not." "Judging from the situation at the scene, it is likely that the prisoner has not gone far, and the other party may even be ambushed in a certain room, trying to sneak attack the police officers who came to the scene, or waiting for an opportunity to escape." ”

"So, you're keeping quiet, aren't you?" Scram asked.

"That's right, I didn't even make footsteps until I confirmed the entire building." Che Wuchen replied.

"Okay, please continue." Scrambau.

Che Wuchen pursed his lips, and then said: "Another section of the corridor on the first floor leads to the cafeteria, and there are several rooms in the middle of the road, I also checked them one by one, and found no more corpses, and then I walked back a little and went up to the second floor through the stairs.

"From the second floor to the fourth floor, the basic building layout is the same – near the staircase are all offices, and adjacent to those offices are fully equipped lounges and toilets; Walking inside, there were several high-security electronic doors, which were undoubtedly open by the time I arrived...... On the other side of the electronic gate are toilets and dormitories that are worse than those in some prisons.

"I searched all the way from the second floor to the fourth floor, and saw a total of 27 bodies, 20 in the corridor, four in the office, and three in the toilet, all of these 27 people were adults, and they all died outside the electronic door that 'separated the two areas', and the dead were all only heads, and their bodies turned into liquids."

"That is, from the first to the fourth floor, what you see...... The number of human heads that fell on the liquid, totaling thirty-one. Scram continued.

"Yes." Che Wuchen replied, "Then, I will go to the fifth floor......" He said this, his tone changed slightly, it can be seen that the situation of this floor is different from other floors, "The layout of the fifth floor is...... Eighty percent of the area is 'treatment rooms', and there are more than a dozen in total, each with two beds with restraint belts and several electric shock devices with the word 'healing device' printed on them.

"Go all the way to the deepest part, the innermost 20 percent of the area, separated by a state-of-the-art electronic door in the entire building; Behind that door, there is a very spacious dean's office, a coffee room, a toilet with a shower, a monitoring room, and a direct elevator to the parking lot on the first floor.

"When I got to this level, I slowed down and scrutinized every room, but I couldn't find any living or corpses.

"So, in the end, I went to the monitoring room, used the phone there to call the police, and revealed my identity and explained the situation."

This is the end of his narrative.

Skram listened and watched Che Wuchen's expression change, and after he finished speaking, he was silent for a moment before he said, "Hmm...... Understood......" he nodded, "then...... Before we wrap up this record, let's time it again. As he spoke, he clicked a few times on the projection screen, pulled out a few short videos and digital records, looked at the screen and read, "Judging from the street surveillance, you came out of the clinic and met Officer Zhang at 18:22, and requisitioned his car to leave at 18:27; ”

"I only looked at the time twice before and after the incident, the first time was before leaving Dr. Cui's clinic, I glanced at the clock on the wall, and I remember it was around half past six." Che Wuchen said, "After that, the next time I look at the time, it will be time to call the police in the monitoring room, and it will be 19:25...... During this time, my attention was all on the crime scene, and I didn't have time to pay attention to time, so I ...... If you have relevant evidence, I have no objection, and everything is subject to objective evidence. ”

In the end, he is also an FCPS person, and when facing some questions that may generate follow-up questions, with "whether there is" and "is it" as the core point, he will not be stupid to answer a short sentence of affirmation or no, so that the other party may directly CUT out the content he wants to add later.

When asked in this way, the correct thing to do is to say what you want to say first, and then say yes or no last. If the other person interrupts you before you finish and pressures you to say "you just have to answer 'yes' or 'no'", you ignore the other person and calmly repeat the interrupted sentence from the beginning until you have said what you want to say completely.

These are the basic countermeasures when faced with inducement of confessions and "lawyers' clichΓ©s," and a person like Cha Wuchen, who is very familiar with the federal legal system and the struggles within the system, will definitely not reveal any obvious flaws in such conversations.

"Heh......" Scramb listened to his answer, and put on a smiling expression, "OK, your statement is very helpful, Detective Car, thank you for your cooperation." As he spoke, he put away the I-PEN on the table, got up again, and stretched out his hand to the other party.

"You're welcome, it's just a duty, even as an ordinary citizen." Che Wuchen also politely shook the other party's hand again, "So...... If it's okay, can I go back? ”

"Oh, of course." Scram suddenly looked very kind, "I'll go and say hello to the director, you wait a minute." ”

He turned and walked in the direction of the door.

But just a second later, he suddenly turned his head one hundred and eighty degrees with an extremely fast movement, and looked at Che Wuchen in a terrible posture that would break the neck of a normal person: "That's right......"

Scramb's tone when he said these two words seemed to be in a state of "I suddenly thought of something, so I turned around and asked"; But in fact, he made this abrupt move to see that this moment ...... This "moment that should have been relaxed", what was the expression on the other party's face.

However, Che Wuchen's expression has not changed since the first second he saw the other party, and it is the same at this moment.

There was only calm on his face.

Not to mention that you turn your head one hundred and eighty degrees, even if you suddenly twist your head off in front of him, he won't blink more for it.

"Anything else?" Che Wuchen looked at the other party coldly and asked, "Lieutenant." ”

"Huh...... Just call me Mark. Scram smiled and slowly turned his body around, "I just wanted to ask, if I have any questions about this incident...... Could you please help me with my investigation? ”

"Yes, I happen to be an idle person......" Che Wuchen continued, "but ......," he said, he also stood up, and walked directly to the door, "I think it is better for you and me to stay in the realm of official business......" He said here, paused, and still used Fang Cai's name, "...... Lieutenant. ”

After that, he opened the door and went out by himself, and added before leaving the other party's sight: "I'll go and greet the director myself, after all, this is not an interrogation, just a simple question...... Right? ”