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The leader's casual remark gave me and Captain Shao a new direction, perhaps shedding light on some of the four mysteries. However, it was getting late, and verifying my idea now might be dangerous, so I had no choice but to suggest we come back tomorrow.
On the way back, Captain Shao engaged me in light conversation while Mary kept teasing me about my mental health issues, seemingly intent on avenging the incident with the corpse water. Suddenly, Captain Shao asked me a profound question that left me momentarily speechless.
Captain Shao inquired, "I know you've always wanted to be a police officer, but due to your background, you haven't been able to. Can you tell me why you want to be a police officer?"
Mary, overhearing Captain Shao's words, shrugged and said, "Background issues? What background issues does he have?"
Captain Shao usually spoke to Mary in a friendly manner, but this time he was unusually serious. "Mary, you'll understand in time; for now, let's not discuss it."
Mary pouted and fell silent, seemingly upset. Watching the thirty-year-old woman act like a little girl made me wonder what the legendary Armed Police Instructor saw in her that gave him the courage to marry her.
I waved my hand dismissively and said, "My background isn't a state secret; there's nothing to hide. My father is a criminal. When I was one year old, my mother abandoned me at the prison gate and ran away. Ironically, she went to the wrong prison; my dad wasn't even there."
I chuckled bitterly. "So I still don't know who my parents are. Until I turned eighteen, I grew up in Warden's care."
Upon hearing this, Mary gasped in disbelief at my background. I was used to it; I had been called the child without parents or simply Warden's kid since childhood. It wasn't until I turned eighteen that Warden finally let me out into the world on my own.
"You still haven't answered my question," Captain Shao said as he released the steering wheel and lit a cigarette.
I didn't know how to answer that question; I had no way of responding. Growing up in Warden's care surrounded by thieves, prostitutes, robbers, murderers, rapists, and perverted killers, one would expect me to become one of them. So why did I want to be a police officer?
It was a profound question. I replied honestly, "Right now, I can't answer that."
Captain Shao took a puff of his cigarette and smiled, "When I was young, I couldn't answer that question either."
"And now?" I pressed on.
"There are born Criminals in this world, and similarly, there are born police officers. Some people are naturally inclined to hide in the darkness, while others are drawn to seek out the light within it. Fortunately for me, I am the latter. What about you?" Captain Shao replied.
"I'm half dark and half light," I said, scratching my head.
Captain Shao seemed intrigued by my response for the first time. He glanced at me through the rearview mirror and remarked, "Both righteous and wicked? That's interesting."
"Have you ever encountered a born Criminal?" I asked.
"I have," Captain Shao answered.
I continued to inquire, "Where is he now?"
"In prison," Captain Shao said softly.
As the first rays of sunlight illuminated the earth, we found ourselves once again on this side of the barbed wire. Today, I was going to test whether my hypothesis was correct; I was going to conduct a crime simulation. After sharing my idea with Captain Shao, he agreed.
I would play the role of the Murderer, Mary would portray Zhang Xutong, Captain Shao would take on the role of Luo Yongjun, and Gu Chen would act as Li Cunzhuang. The two Electricians who discovered the body were also invited to participate.
I instructed them to recreate the scene as it had unfolded on that rainy night, with the timeline based on the overlapping handwriting of Li Cunzhuang and Luo Yongjun.
I stood at the entrance of a makeshift cabin, and in the dim light, I saw a woman—a curvaceous woman. I smiled and casually pulled the power switch, and something interesting happened: all the streetlights went out.
Mary was startled but didn’t panic; instead, she continued to walk forward.
I slipped into the passage and emerged outside the wire fence facing Mary. Then, I sprinted down the path ahead of her. I dove into another passage and reached the wire fence where the woman was. Peering through a small gap in the wooden boards, I watched as Mary finally appeared before me.
I grabbed Mary’s leg and yanked her inside. She screamed, but the thunder masked her voice.
Gu Chen was trailing behind Mary from a distance, but suddenly lost sight of her. Alarmed, he began searching left and right for her.
Mary and I stayed in the passage for about ten minutes. When I felt it was time, I lifted Mary out. First, I placed a wooden board on the muddy ground, then grabbed a chair. I intended to throw the body onto the railway track, but the chair was too low for me to manage it.
Then I thought of a good plan. I climbed up a wire pole and cut a wire—one end tangled around Mary while I tossed the other into the wire fence. Next, I pulled out the wire from inside the fence through its gaps and tied it up. In this way, I had constructed a "bridge" spanning between the wire pole and the fence.
I couldn’t crawl up to the top of the fence using just three fingers in that narrow gap unless I wanted to lose my hands. But with this makeshift bridge, I could climb up and start pulling on the other wire tied to Mary. Of course, living Mary wasn’t very cooperative.
Once I climbed up, feeling somewhat exhausted, I forced Mary’s hand into one of the gaps in the fence to prevent her from falling. Naturally, I didn’t dare do that to her directly. Then a flash of lightning illuminated the night sky, and from my elevated position, I saw Gu Chen approaching.
Panicking, I jumped onto the railway track without thinking. If I didn’t have a key now, there would be no way out for me. This long stretch of wire fence had only one gate—the back door of the simple cabin.
Gu Chen was getting closer; I dared not move and lay flat on the railway track. Then, I witnessed an unforgettable scene—someone was eating someone else. Once I confirmed that Gu Chen had passed by, I slowly stood up. I had to get out and hide the body.
Fortunately, Gu Chen had moved on. I untied the rope binding Mary to the wire fence and planned to pull myself out using it. Just as I loosened the rope, I suddenly heard a “thud thud thud” sound—a chilling noise in that dark rainy night.
"That's right! The sound we heard at night was this!" the two Electricians shouted.
I was so startled that I let go of my grip and then saw a familiar face. He made a shushing gesture and pointed to two distant lights outside. He gently pushed the chair, which fell into the dirt without making a sound.
Then, he led me back to the Simple Cabin and took me into the tunnel. The two flashlights had long since disappeared, and the Electricians were nowhere to be found. He untied the Wire that was bound to Mary, collected the wooden boards, the chair, and the pile of Viscera, burying them beneath the Sophora Tree.
After that, he sat at the table, writing and drawing. Then he told me to grab some liquor and follow him.
When we arrived, we could clearly hear police sirens blaring above; the police were quick to respond.
We drank in the tunnel, one bottle for me and one for him. Then he said, "I’m going to take you in to confess."
I panicked. I wouldn’t confess; they shouldn’t know I was the one who killed anyone, and I hadn’t shot inside. The police wouldn’t find me. Right, this person couldn’t hold his liquor; he couldn’t drink as much as I could. If I could get him drunk, he would surely drown in this tunnel, and then no one would know I was the killer.
His tolerance was indeed low; we each finished a bottle of liquor. He collapsed, submerged in water that only reached his calves.
I left. I wore gloves when I committed the crime; they wouldn’t find me.
The fallen man was Captain Shao—no, he should be called Luo Yongjun. So who am I?
The answer was simple.
At that moment, Captain Shao received a phone call. After hanging up, he said, "We received a report from an out-of-town caller. The informant is a woman who said she witnessed a terrifying scene while on a train."
"It was night, and everyone was drowsy. She was awakened by the heavy rain, so she pulled back the curtains to see just how hard it was coming down. But what she saw was a young man carrying a woman outside the barbed wire, struggling to throw her onto the Railway Track."
"Captain Shao continued, 'The caller spent quite a while looking at the map before realizing that this incident must have happened in our city...'
The net of justice is vast and does not let anything slip through. I wondered if this person in my mind was the Criminal; all I needed to do was send his photo to the informant.
'By the way,' I asked, 'what did you find out about the Baijiu Bottle?'
Xiao Liu replied, 'I was just about to tell you. One half of the Baijiu had fingerprints on it that matched Luo Yongjun, while the other half had no fingerprints at all. Either someone deliberately wiped them off, or that person was wearing gloves.'
I snapped my fingers and said to everyone, 'I know who the Murderer is.'
Captain Shao shook his head and said, 'I've encountered too many cases like this. Let's find out Luo Yongjun's home address; we need to prepare to arrest the Murderer.'
When we finally tracked down Luo Yongjun's home, we began our operation to apprehend the Suspect. But when we pushed open Luo Yongjun's front door, an unexpected situation unfolded. A person lay on the floor, seemingly lifeless, and on the table nearby were several packages of white powdery substances.
Captain Shao stepped forward first, pinching some of the remaining powder on the table. His brow furrowed as he turned back with an expression of disbelief. He said, 'We might be facing a major case here.'
'What is this stuff?' I exclaimed in shock.
Captain Shao nodded. 'It's exactly that thing!'"
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