Chapter 20: Temptation (2)
Zhou Ji, who was sitting next to Lin Xingcheng, instantly heard the important information revealed in his words, whether intentionally or unintentionally: most of his six-year work experience was carried out in Malaysia. In other words, the shadow of the Black Book Company is likely to spread to many countries and regions in the world. Although I don't know what the identity of this person is, whether he is a native or a Malay, he can participate in various cases between the two countries as an agent, which shows how deep the background is.
Lin Xingcheng didn't seem to mind a few people speculating about the meaning of his words, but opened the conversation box by himself:
"I didn't make much progress in working outside, so I returned to China a year ago. And my job is to quickly rush to the scene to get first-hand useful clues to summarize and solve the case when I receive an incident suspected of being involved in the black book company, and if the case is not helpful to the incident I am dealing with, I will immediately leave and fly directly to the next place of the crime. That's why I've had a brief experience working with your partner, Li Tang. ”
More than a month ago, Li Tang and Zhou Ji were still in the archives of the Security Bureau, sorting out the mountains of materials. Wang Yao and Yue Zhi had already taken over the investigation of the case before them and left there. However, it didn't take long for Li Tang to receive a call from his master, Liu Lao, and due to a sudden illness, he asked him to continue the investigation as a substitute. After about half a month, Lin Xingcheng also flew over to check whether this case had any value for him to leave for investigation.
Zhou Ji couldn't help but straighten his waist when he heard this. The agents never asked each other about the content of each other's missions, and he naturally never knew what problem Li Tang had encountered. But it was only after he arrived at his destination that he checked for another two weeks before Zhou Jilai called when he was dealing with the cause of Wang Desheng's death. What has he been through during this time? A case involving a high school student that took so long to get the answer from a teenage suspect, or was he quickly judged to be a dangerous person after he had already figured out some secrets but didn't report them?
Zhou Ji has made countless assumptions about this, and this time he can finally get clues from the real insiders that his best friend has disappeared in vain. But Lin Xingcheng seemed to see through his thoughts, and said lightly:
"But I'm afraid my answer will disappoint you. Because when I arrived at my destination, it was a few days before Li Tang disappeared. And the case in Li Tang's hands at that time was judged by us, although it may have some connection with the Black Book Company, but it is worthless. It's just a divorced woman who poked herself in the eye, saying that since she made a wish to a strange person, she could never get rid of her ex-husband's shadow, and the murder case of her married ex-husband's family who went insane after brutally killing her. In the end, it is positioned as an ordinary criminal case as an end. ”
...?
Divorced woman?
Zhou Ji twisted a pimple between his brows, and immediately interrupted Lin Xingcheng's words: "No, is Li Tang investigating this case?" He was recording the last call with me, and you must have heard it, and he clearly said that the suspect was a high school student, how did he suddenly become a divorced woman who went crazy? ”
"Ahh I was just about to say that. Lin Xingcheng waved his hand and signaled that Zhou Ji needed to continue to listen patiently: "What I said is that the case that Li Tang is working on after I arrive is a divorced woman murdering her husband. But the day before I was about to leave, there was an accident, there was a school bullying case in N City High School, the bullied girl jumped off the building and committed suicide, the perpetrator and her small group were at the scene, and everyone was frightened. When they were taken back to the police station, Li Tang volunteered to talk to the girls led by the small group, and within a few minutes, he called me into the interrogation room to listen to the conversation between the two of them. ”
Lin Xingcheng said, and began to describe the scene he saw behind the double-sided glass at that time:
When several girls from the school bullying group were brought into the police station, Lin Xingcheng didn't pay attention to it although he also knew about the general process, after all, he had more important things to deal with. But just as he was about to leave N City after sorting out the report on the murder case, Li Tang pushed the door in, saying that after a brief conversation with a suspect, he got some very interesting clues, and asked Lin Xingcheng to temporarily put down his work to observe. And Lin Xingcheng couldn't stand his stubbornness, so he got up and came to the interrogation room.
Li Tang: "Little girl, don't be afraid. No one is going to blame you here, can you tell your big brother in detail about what you just said? (Zhou Ji almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood when he heard this, Li Tang called himself a big brother?) It's shameless, they're already uncle-aged! As he spoke, he handed the girl in front of him a glass of warm water with her head down and shivering, "Don't worry. Take your time. Even if no one else understands you, I will do my best to help you. ”
In terms of appeasing people (or flirting with girls), Li Tang is full of skills. The words eased the mood of the originally flustered high school girl a lot, and after looking up at him, she sobbed and said:
"I... I didn't expect that... She was so fragile that she couldn't even stand that level of bullying, obviously she was so excessive before, a hundred times a thousand times more than me... Whining... I didn't want her to die... I just want her to understand what it means to treat others the way they do..."
"Don't cry, don't cry." Li Tang patiently comforted, while handing over a pack of tissues, "I know you didn't mean it." Because you're a victim too. Let's not talk about these things for now, but talk about what you just told me, who helped you get out of the predicament of being bullied and then take revenge? ”
"Uh-huh," the high school girl wiped her tearful face, "... Ever since I first entered high school, Li Nana has been looking at me unpleasantly. Because the boy she likes likes me, she has been trying to bully me, originally she still scribbled on my desk clothes, spit in my water glass, and then began to call my friends to block me after school, asking me to give them money, run errands for them, and beat me..." I've endured all of this, but they..."
"What's wrong?"
“... No. I just can't take it anymore. "The high school girl doesn't seem to want to talk about her experience anymore. At this time, she slowly calmed down, no longer had the timidity when she first came, held the cup tightly with both hands, and said viciously, "At that time, I thought about bringing a knife, and the next time they bully me again, I will stab them to death, and the big deal will be the same, but... I was afraid of injuring my dad and brother. Our family didn't have much money in the first place, so if I did kill someone, what would the two of them do in the future? She paused and took a deep breath, "That day, Li Nana bullied me again. I came to the rooftop by myself, and I wanted to commit suicide by jumping off the building, and I ended this meaningless life. But just then, a boy appeared. ”
Hearing this, Li Tang looked in the direction of the double-sided glass, as if signaling Lin Xingcheng to focus on it next.
The female high school student showed a yearning on his face: "That boy, he is much taller than me, thin, very stylish, a bit like Kashiwahara Chong and a bit like Yang Yang, with a pair of black-framed glasses but dyed red curly hair, he doesn't look like a high school student at all, I wondered why he appeared here, but now it seems that it should be the angel who saved me... He was the one who told me about the Black Book Company. ”