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Two police officers completed the record for Zhang Yang as required. Suddenly, they realized that there was a key witness, the girl mentioned by both Zhang Yang and Zhao Pengfei, who needed to be located for questioning. One officer looked at Zhang Yang while the other hurried off with the record to find Chang Qingxi.
"That girl has probably disappeared by now; in situations like this, she would avoid it at all costs," Zhao Pengfei said, lounging in the office.
"Is this kid a student? The record is airtight," Chang Qingxi remarked after reviewing the record and asked the officer, "Did you use any methods?"
"This is a student, and the case is still under investigation; it might not be appropriate..." The officer who brought the record was the one who had only cuffed one of Zhang Yang's hands earlier; he was a young man with large eyes.
"I’m telling you, Big-Eyed Tao, how long have you been on the job? What student? He’s suspected of intentional injury; he’s a suspect! Just follow Zhao to the hospital and take statements from his friends; they are all victims," Chang Qingxi said impatiently. The young officer was named Qu Tao, known as Big-Eyed Tao due to his large eyes.
Big-Eyed Tao hesitated for a moment but decided to go with Zhao Pengfei. Afterward, Chang Qingxi went to the interrogation room where Zhang Yang was handcuffed.
"Wu Peng, why didn’t you use any methods?" Chang Qingxi asked.
"Captain Chang, Big-Eyed Tao is too straightforward; I couldn’t do anything with him," Officer Wu Peng said quietly while glancing at Zhang Yang, who was sitting on the floor leaning against the wall with his eyes closed.
"Get another pair of handcuffs and cuff his other hand as well," Chang Qingxi instructed Wu Peng. He then walked over to Zhang Yang and kicked his leg lightly. "Hey, hey, stand up!"
Zhang Yang opened his eyes. "Can I leave now?"
"Leave?" Chang Qingxi sneered and told Wu Peng, who had brought another pair of handcuffs, "Cuff his other hand too!"
"It's getting serious now." Zhang Yang surprisingly smiled and offered no resistance as Wu Peng cuffed his other hand to the heating pipe. Thus, Zhang Yang's hands were behind his back, his body bent forward in an awkward half-squat position.
"Hehe. Let me show you what seriousness really means." After saying that, Chang Qingxi surprisingly pulled out a black hood from his pocket and placed it over Zhang Yang's head. Then he punched Zhang Yang in the stomach. "Strange, why does it feel like hitting a cotton bag? There's no force at all?" Chang Qingxi wondered to himself.
Next, Chang Qingxi exchanged glances with Wu Peng and said something about "kidney torture." They both moved to either side of Zhang Yang's body and suddenly threw punches simultaneously into his lower back on both sides. The so-called "kidney torture" was a method of coercive interrogation invented by Chang Qingxi; it left no visible injuries but caused immense pain when struck in that area. If done too harshly, it could even lead to blood in urine—a particularly insidious technique.
As a result, this time, the feeling of hitting Zhang Yang in the stomach was different from the first time when Chang Qingxi struck him; it felt like hitting a wet bar of soap, slippery and elusive. Both of them stumbled slightly, nearly slipping onto the radiator.
"Damn it!" Chang Qingxi was furious and even pulled out a gun, intending to smash Zhang Yang's head with it.
At that moment, a series of urgent knocks sounded at the door.
Chang Qingxi gave Wu Peng a glance, and Wu Peng stepped forward, removing Zhang Yang's black hood and unlocking the handcuffs on his wrists, allowing Zhang Yang to sit in the interrogation chair. Only then did Chang Qingxi go to open the door. Throughout this process, Zhang Yang remained passive and composed.
"Zhang Instructor!" Upon seeing the person who entered, Wu Peng immediately greeted him. It was an instructor from the Criminal Investigation Team.
"Old Chang, the director is looking for you. He said no one answered your phone; he seems to be in a hurry. You should call him back quickly," Zhang Instructor said anxiously.
"Oh, I left my phone in the office," Chang Qingxi replied as he left the interrogation room and headed toward the office. Zhang Instructor glanced at Zhang Yang before leaving as well.
After seeing both of them off, Wu Peng returned to find that Zhang Yang had already gotten up from the interrogation chair and was fiddling with his phone. "What are you doing? Hand over your phone!" Wu Peng shouted.
"It's recording fine; although the angle is mediocre, it should be sufficient as evidence of Chang Qingxi's coercive interrogation," Zhang Yang said as he pulled out his phone and played a video for Wu Peng. The video showed their earlier actions against Zhang Yang. It turned out that at some point, Zhang Yang had hidden his phone inside the radiator and activated the camera.
"You think you can walk out of the Criminal Investigation Team?" Wu Peng sneered coldly and kicked toward Zhang Yang's stomach.
"Damn it, you bastard... ah!!!" As a result, his ankle was caught by Zhang Yang, and before he could finish cursing, his ankle was crushed with a snap, letting out a scream akin to that of a slaughtered pig.
"Are you two idiots? I've taken down over ten people; why were you two allowed to cuff me and put on a hood while letting you hit me? Do you really think you're tough just because of your skin?" After releasing his grip, Wu Peng fell to the ground with a thud, beads of sweat rolling down his face as his facial muscles twisted grotesquely, making him look even more hideous.
While Wu Peng was howling in agony, on the other side, Chang Qingxi was trying to call the director but kept getting a busy signal. He thought to himself that if the director was looking for him, it was likely because Zhao Kuan, the Party Secretary of Shanhu District and father of Zhao Pengfei, had contacted him to ensure strict measures against Zhang Yang. Thus, he returned to the interrogation room. Upon entering, he saw Wu Peng on the floor and Zhang Yang sitting at the main interrogation table smoking.
Chang Qingxi was startled and was about to draw his gun when Zhang Yang threw a work ID at him: “Chang Qingxi, I have recorded your coercive interrogation and assault on a public servant. Also, this person named Wu Peng attempted to harm me, and in self-defense, I broke his leg.”
“Isn’t he a student?” Chang Qingxi thought to himself but still opened the work ID, and the words “Heavenly Mechanism Group” caught his eye.
Under normal circumstances, if it were in another province, a police officer of Chang Qingxi's level would not know the critical details about the Heavenly Mechanism Group. However, since the headquarters of the Heavenly Mechanism Group was located in Shanzhou City, the police there were generally aware that it was a special national agency directly under the central government, dealing with high-level and special cases. The people involved here were not to be trifled with.
“My apologies. Look, misunderstandings happen every year, but this year seems particularly abundant,” Chang Qingxi said with a smile that seemed forced.
“What you should do now is go to your branch’s Disciplinary Committee and Inspection Team to confess. However, I doubt you can complete even this procedure; given your situation, criminal liability can be pursued,” Zhang Yang said coldly, not buying into his act.
“He has it recorded,” at that moment, Wu Peng, lying on the ground, said to Chang Qingxi.
“Zhao Pengfei, you rely on your father being the District Committee Secretary, but the Heavenly Mechanism Group is directly under the central government. Damn it, you could get me killed,” Chang Qingxi cursed inwardly, wiping the sweat from his forehead and quickly thinking of a countermeasure.
Just then, with a loud bang, the interrogation room door was violently pushed open. A stern-looking middle-aged man walked in and shouted at Chang Qingxi: “Chang Qingxi, is your phone for hatching chicks?! It’s either unreachable or busy!”
The newcomer was none other than the Director of the Shanhua District Public Security Bureau.
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