Chapter 26: Crime and Punishment II
(Thanks to the 10,000 reward of "Meow Balon", the three-in-one update, the number of words is slightly less, and I will make up for it tomorrow, this time there is really no broken chapter, I swear to chop my hands when I break the chapter again!!owe more 7)
Everyone kills, in the world, now and in the past, and the blood flows like a waterfall, like champagne, and for this reason someone is crowned with laurels in the temple and later called the benefactor of mankind. βFyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (note 1)
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Liu Dongqiang had a nightmare in which he was tied to an operating table, and several doctors in green coats and hats were surrounding him with scalpels, he wanted to move but couldn't move, he wanted to shout but couldn't make a sound.
Like now.....
Liu Dongqiang gasped for breath, and then opened his eyes, his eyes were a familiar scene, the Xiangjiang River with silver waves was particularly enchanting in the neon, the darkness and light were intertwined to form a harmonious picture, the starlight of tonight was rare and bright, making the night sky seem extraordinarily distant, and the Yuelu Mountain on the opposite bank meandered out of a rugged shadow in the blue sky, hanging heavily in the sky.
It was a beautiful, quiet and harmonious atmosphere.
If you weren't tied to a leather boss chair with your hands wrapped around the back of the chair, facing a broken glass curtain wall more than one meter high.
The drunken wind on a summer night blew in from the huge hole, and the slightly scorching wind made Liu Dongqiang feel cold, because he was only two or three meters away from the entrance of the hole, and as long as someone gently pushed it, the boss's chair would fly out directly with him.
He knew where this was, the scenery in front of him and the goldfish bowl by the blinds were extremely familiar to him, those red arowanas that he usually loved were swimming leisurely, and there was no doubt that this was his office, Room 3701, 37th Floor, Block A, Chaozong Imperial Garden......
It's about 80 or 90 meters above the ground, and it's not a question of whether you fall to the ground or not, but how ugly you can die is.
There was silence all around, only the howling of the wind pouring in from the entrance of the cave and his violent heartbeat drumming in his eardrums.....
For example, he watched "Bao Qingtian" when he was a child, Bao Heizi, who has a crescent moon on his forehead, sits next to the dog head and asks the prisoner kneeling in the court, and what impresses him the most is that when the prisoner in the white coat confesses his guilt, he will be pressed under the dog head by Wang Dynasty Mahan, and the head will be cut off with a click.
He remembered that the other children would turn their heads in fright, but he was the only one who was very excited.....
Legend has it that Bao Qingtian broke the sun and the night broke the yin, could it be that he had now become a ghost? At the beginning, the black shadow that suddenly rose up was black and white impermanence, or bull head and horse face? He remembered a sentence: "If you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts", and he remembered another sentence: "If you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself."
Fear exploded in every cell of his body.
Until he remembered a small detail, "No! Didn't I see a hat at the end?" The hat was very familiar to him, as if the young man he had met in the elevator when he was off work was also wearing a similar hat.....
Maybe it's him, Liu Dongqiang gasped, he would rather he encounter a ghost, sometimes people are more terrible than ghosts.
So he cried out desperately, "Is there anyone, help me!"
"Anyone, help me....."
As a result, as soon as he screamed twice, the boss's chair gently slid a little towards the hole like the demon's open bloody mouth, Liu Dongqiang didn't feel the people around him at all, and he couldn't feel how the chair moved, he could only close his mouth tightly immediately, stared at the deep blue sky outside the window with wide eyes, and trembled in horror on the chair....
At this moment, a cold, heavy voice echoed softly through the room like a whisper from the abyss.
"In order to shield herself from all external interference, Themis, the goddess of justice, is blindfolded, she holds a scale in one hand to weigh crime and punishment, and a sword in the other hand to punish corruption and evil. Unfortunately, the price of blindfolding is that there will always be crimes that evade punishment in a blatant manner..... Mr. Liu Dongqiang, do you think that as long as you can skillfully circumvent the provisions of the law, you can avoid being punished?"
Hearing that someone finally spoke, Liu Dongqiang breathed a sigh of relief, and he mustered up his courage and said in a loud voice: "Who are you? What are you going to do? Don't pretend to be a ghost for Lao Tzu!"
Although Liu Dongqiang had tried hard to show composure, his voice was a little fluttering and shaking by the wind, and it was not as stable and deterrent as usual.
"I'll give you ten minutes to confess to me, if it's not sincere enough....." As soon as the cold words fell, the boss chair that tied Liu Dongqiang slid forward a little more.
Closer, he is closer to the fall, as long as he looks down, he can see the wide road and the endless flow of car lights along the river road, his favorite thing to do is to stand in front of this huge floor-to-ceiling window, sighing that he actually has the opportunity to stand in such an expensive office building overlooking all beings, thinking that when he first came to Star City, he was poor and white, and even thought about eating a bowl of rice noodles for three yuan at noon, at that time he was most envious of the white-collar workers who could get thousands of wages a month, and the life he fantasized about at that time was to have a stable job, buy a house, marry a wife, and gain a foothold in this crowded big city.....
However, if you have a stable job, you will aspire to a higher-paying job, if you have a house, you will yearn for a bigger and more luxurious house, if you have a woman, you will yearn for more beautiful women, and if you can gain a foothold, you will yearn for a higher social status....
But these are his usual feelings, at this moment, he does not have the usual ambition and sentimentality, he only feels afraid, his brain is trembling, he wants to rub his feet against the ground and stop the chair from moving forward, but his two feet are fixed to the base with pulleys, no matter how hard he tries, he can't break free.
Liu Dongqiang couldn't help but shouted hoarsely: "Don't.... Other.... Please don't push.... It's not a joke, it's going to kill people..... You can't escape if I'm dead, it's a legal society now, and there's surveillance everywhere.... If you want to push me down, you don't want to run away.... Murder is paid for life...."
At this time, a wall clock suddenly appeared in front of him, floating quietly in the air as if it had been cast by some magic, because he felt unlucky, there was no clock in his room, this clock was the wall clock hanging in the staff office outside.
This is not the point, the point is how did it appear, and how did it magically float?
Liu Dongqiang stared at the rotating clock with frightened eyes in his thoughts. He remembered that he had seen a live magic show in Las Vegas, it was amazing, even people could make her float, and a bell was pediatric, right?
So this scene in front of me must be a magic trick, or is it that I have hallucinated after taking too many drugs?
He closed his eyes, trying to shatter the dreamlike illusion.
However, the cold voice pulled him back to reality again, "You have eight minutes left. β
Liu Dongqiang opened his eyes again in despair, the ticking of the bell was like the footsteps of the urging dynasty Mahan, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and asked with great difficulty: "What do you want to do? Do you want money? How much do you want? I'll give it to you, there are hundreds of thousands of yuan collected today in the safe in my office, you untie me, I'll give you the money....."
The other party didn't answer, Liu Dongqiang thought he was thinking, so he continued: "I promise not to call the police.... You should know that you are most afraid of dealing with the police in our business, you took the money to re-tie me up, and then left, don't worry, I will definitely not resist.... If you still don't think it's enough, I have a pure gold Pixiu on my table.... I still have a 300-gram gold chain around my neck..... All for you.... Brother, who is not in the world for money? I can understand, you take it all, there is no need to hurt people's lives, is it? This is going to hurt people, and the nature is different...."
"You have six minutes left!" the other party said lightly.
Just now, Liu Dongqiang's heart was still full of hope, thinking that he had the right pulse, who in this world didn't love money? As long as he could move the other party to let him open the safe, then this person would be dead, not only did he have money in his safe, but also a gun, and when this bastard asked him to open the safe, he could take the opportunity to counteract, and the next thing was to cramp and peel this bastard who pretended to be a ghost, teach him to be a man, and actually dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head, isn't this tired of being alive?
But the other party's cold and ruthless tone made Liu Dongqiang burn the hope that had just been ignited into ashes in an instant, his heart shook to the bottom, he endured frustration and helplessness, his brain teaser was sharp, and he said sincerely with grievances: "Brother, stop playing, you just say what are you going to do? I Liu Dongqiang really haven't done anything bad in my life that needs to be repented of..... Yes, I may have accidentally offended you, brother, in the process of loan sharking, I apologize to you.... But to be honest, borrowing from loan sharks is a thing that is willing to fight and suffer..... I, Liu Dongqiang, have never forced anyone to borrow money from me.... All are voluntary.... We're just opening the door to do business, aren't we?"
After a pause, Liu Dongqiang said: "Yes, I have to admit that there is a violent collection incident, but this has nothing to do with our company! Our collection is subcontracted to another company..... If you look for me, I'm also wronged!"
"The layout of your room is very feng shui..... It seems that you are superstitious. β
Liu Dongqiang laughed dryly and said: "Those who do our job are more or less superstitious. β
"Most superstitious people have an irresolvable fear because of the uncertainty of the future, and they seek psychological comfort in superstition.... For example, corrupt officials, such as underworld people like you, such as mortals who are terminally ill and have no hope.... Your anxiety is much greater than that of ordinary people, so you are prone to superstition.... If you really have a clear conscience, you will not seek such unrealistic psychological comfort. β
"Brother, superstition doesn't need repentance, right?"
"No..... No.... But in vain attempts to deceive and conceal my need...."
So the chair moved forward a little further.
Liu Dongqiang's hairs stood up, his heartbeat seemed to be frozen, he felt that the wheels at the front of the chair had reached the edge of the floor-to-ceiling window, he didn't even have the courage to look down, he wanted to break open his hands and grab the windows on both sides, but he didn't dare to use force at all, he trembled and said: "Brother, you say, where did I offend you? I Liu Dongqiang knelt down and compensated you, not only do I have money in the safe, I still have a lot of cash at home, I will give you two million..... It's all cash, not a serial number .... I beg you, let me go, just let me go, everything is good..."
The clock above his head flew out of the room in the warm wind and floated outside the building, and behind the round beige plastic clock was a cold moon, and the clock and the moon overlapped to form a strange picture.....
"You've got four minutes left!" the cold voice said softly.
Liu Dongqiang looked at the incredible scene, felt that he was about to suffocate, he couldn't help crying, tears couldn't stop flowing down, the fear of death made him incontinent, the crotch of the black trousers suddenly warmed and wet, he felt a little regretful at this time, he knew that he deserved to die, all these years he has been thinking about saving enough money and then immigrating, he thinks that as long as he is careful enough to escape the punishment of the law, he can live a nourishing life, maybe he should answer the sentence, "People are doing, the sky is watching." β
He looked at the spinning second hand in mid-air, wishing it would slow down.
"I really haven't done anything to kill people and set fires.... I'm just going to let go of the loan sharks, you see that the police haven't arrested me, what do you want me to confess?..... As for those women, they are lazy and like to spend highly, I lent them money, but they can't pay it back, and I also provide them with jobs, and I don't want their lives! By the way, you are He Qing, aren't you? You really can't blame me for that incident, it was just an accident, we didn't know that your dad couldn't swim, and besides, I really didn't know that the lotus pond was cleared.... It's getting deeper, and we want to push him down to cool him down..... I really didn't mean to.... You said the lender wanted to kill someone..... Besides, isn't my little brother still in prison for this? When is the time for retribution? I'll compensate you.... I'll double the compensation for you.... Could it be that you are Hu Lin? Big brother, you begged us to lend you money! We have advised you, stop gambling, you don't listen to yourself, you say that you will definitely win.... Your wife went crazy later, can you blame us? You gambled!"
Liu Dongqiang poured beans into the bamboo tube and generally said all the less serious bad things, Cheng Mo, who was standing by the wall, should be said to be Cheng Mo's thirty-fourth-level carrier-Dawn Star Lin Zhinuo looked at the chair in front of him expressionlessly, he waved his hand, so there was a cold air flow in the air, and the tangible air flow pushed the chair to the outside of the hole, and Liu Dongqiang's calf had completely extended out of the glass curtain wall of the building.
Liu Dongqiang cried, he had completely collapsed, a kind of weak anger began to burn in his heart, scorching his soul, "Are you mentally ill? If you don't want money, what do you want? You paralyze and you want me to repent! I also repented..... What the hell are you going to do now? Who the hell are you? Fuck you, who the hell are you bastard!"
Cheng Mo is not interested in torturing people, he just thinks that Liu Dongqiang can still have the courage not to tell the truth at such a time, so how many bad things has he concealed that he has done? Maybe he also thinks that if he really wants to say it, he will definitely not live.
Cheng Mo slowly walked to the floor-to-ceiling window printed with the light of the moon by the dark office wall, he grabbed the back of the boss's chair, lowered his head slightly and whispered in Liu Dongqiang's ear: "Do you think that you are not wrong in what you do? If you want to blame, you have to blame others for being greedy?"
Liu Dongqiang felt a cold breath approaching, he heard the voice without the slightest emotion echoing in his ears, but he didn't dare to turn his head to look at it.....
"Why do you think that usury is not wrong? According to what you say, there is nothing wrong with drug trafficking and gambling, and the victims are voluntary, so how can you blame them? Right? Yes, these people who ask you to borrow money also have problems themselves, but you are really guilty of deserving death by using coercion and inducement to lure others into borrowing money, and seeking extremely dirty and rapidly expanding money that cannot even be described as huge profits!"
"What's more, you also tricked the underage ****, and you didn't even let go of the child..... Isn't it enough for you to go to hell? You scum like Satan will dislike you for being too dirty!"
Liu Dongqiang was desperate, he stiffened, and he said unconsciously: "Pull me in, pull me in, I confess, I confess, I confess everything..... I'm going to turn myself in right away!"
"Surrender is not something that can be solved by surrendering now....." Cheng Mo said lightly.
Hearing this, Liu Dongqiang's pupils began to dilate, and he remembered that he seemed to have said something similar in the afternoon, his teeth chattered in his mouth, and the up and down collided with a crisp "gurgling" sound, and the boy's expressionless face and emotionless eyes appeared in his memory, and he remembered where he had seen that kind of look - Jing Ye, the kind of ruthless eyes that look at ordinary people like looking at ants.
A sentence of "is it you?" almost blurted out, he didn't dare to let the other party think that he had recognized him, then he might really be a dead man, he begged bitterly: "I already know that I am wrong, I am old and young, and I am forced to do this line of work, the eldest brother explained, how can we be the younger brothers? Please give me a chance, I will change my mind and be a new person, I will settle all the accounts now, and then go to the door one by one to apologize..... If that's not enough, I'll chop off a finger... No, one hand .... Please!"
"Whatever the reason is, it has nothing to do with me, now you tell me your computer password, let me see your company's accounts...."
"OK, OK, password is 877099LDQGG.... Whatever you say, I will explain it all honestly...."Liu Dongqiang, who was already wet with sweat, said nervously.
Cheng Mo turned around and walked to the desk, Liu Dongqiang didn't dare to move, he was afraid that the chair would fall down if he moved it slightly, he didn't even dare to speak loudly, so he could only close his eyes and whisper: "Brother, you drag me in first..... The accounts are all in my USB drive.... Not in the computer....."
Cheng Mo turned around and dragged the chair in a little, Liu Dongqiang closed his eyes tightly, and said, "Brother, the USB drive is in my pants pocket and hangs with the mobile phone..... You see, my eyes are closed, I don't see anything .... I have absolutely no idea who you are!"
"You won't watch the surveillance tomorrow?Of course you have to live until tomorrow.....," Cheng Mo sneered.
Liu Dongqiang's expression opened his eyes a little blankly, and Cheng Mo's back suddenly appeared in his eyes, which was different from what he imagined, it was not the boy in the afternoon, but the boy standing in the elevator.
Since the other party got the USB drive, there is every evidence to sue him, his life is probably saved, but he has lost such a large amount of money, how can he explain to Jing Ye? Jing Ye doesn't care what the reason is, he thinks he will die even more miserably..... What if the other party sees it.....
Liu Dongqiang's heart was shocked, and his whole body began to tremble again, and he could only pray that the other party would ignore the information that even he found terrible.
Cheng Mo turned on the computer on the desk, entered the password and entered, the desktop was full of page games and chess and card games, he inserted the USB disk into the interface, prompting that he needed to enter the password, he said lightly: "USB disk passwordγ β
Liu Dongqiang smiled reluctantly, "Brother, I'll give you 10 million, how about you let me go and give me back the USB drive? I'll transfer the money to you now.... Do you know Bitcoin? I'll transfer Bitcoin to you, with 100% security and no one will find out..... There's no way I'm going to find you through a transfer transaction either....."
At first, Liu Dongqiang was only willing to spend two million on his life, but for this USB drive, he actually opened his mouth to 10 million, Cheng Mo was even more suspicious of what was in it, he guessed that maybe it was the video of those bosses that he took secretly, and maybe there were great people among those bosses.
However, Cheng Mo didn't care about this, he said expressionlessly: "I'll repeat it again, the password ....."
Liu Dongqiang hurriedly said: "990778GGQDL." β
Cheng Mo opened the USB drive, and there were several folders in it, the first few marked "Rong E accounts and borrower information", "Dafa accounts and borrower information", "Gaoqiao joint accounts and borrower information", it seems that they are the accounts of several cash loan companies.
The last two folders, one of which is labeled: "Little Swan Video", and the other is not labeled, only the words "New Folder.....
Cheng Mo roughly browsed the accounts of the loan company, the list of borrowers was dense, and the amount was quite shocking, in July alone, they issued loans of 28 million, but the profit was as high as 7 million, there are normal loan sharks, and there are also routine loans like Shen Mengjie.
In addition, in Little Swan's folder, as he expected, there are videos of those bosses, and there are also many videos of girls, presumably this is one of Liu Dongqiang's means to control those girls.
Cheng Mo didn't carefully browse those obscene videos, but clicked on the last folder, there is only one compressed package in this folder, Cheng Mo double-clicked, and needed to unzip the password, so he didn't raise his head and said: "Password." β
Liu Dongqiang, who was sweating profusely, said cautiously: "There's nothing in there, it's just a little personal information.....
Before Liu Dongqiang's words fell, his chair automatically slid towards the hole without wind, and Liu Dongqiang said loudly in horror: "The password is too long for me to remember.... It's in my phone memos..... The phone password is 877099....."
Cheng Mo scratched Liu Dongqiang's Apple X, clicked on the memo, and found a long list of passwords mixed with numbers and English, and after entering this extremely complicated decompression password, a table popped up on the screen.
It records the names, birthdays, blood types, and passport numbers of some people, and the dates are also marked at the back, some are also marked with flight information, and some are not, and the names of these people do not look like Chinese people.
There was also a website at the bottom, a website with a format that he was very familiar with - it was a deep web URL.