Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 420 That mysterious woman!
Luo Rui extended his index finger and pressed the space bar, and the image on the big screen froze on Kong Zhijie's action of turning his head to look diagonally behind him.

Sun Kang's words made Luo Rui stand up and asked anxiously: "Who is he?"

"It was a woman." Sun Kang frowned and recalled, "She was sitting at the very edge, wearing a mask, so I couldn't see her face clearly."

"Think carefully about what kind of woman she is."

Sun Kang pointed at the picture on the big screen and said, "Director Luo, don't the videos you found show her face?"

Luo Rui shook his head: "There is only the video of the court trial, and it was all filmed. The camera was always facing the defendant and the judges in front, and did not film the seats below. Besides, the case has been over for three years. Even if there is a video, it is estimated that it has been deleted long ago, but..."

His pupils shrank. "Spectators must show their ID to enter the courtroom, so we only need to investigate who was present when Kong Zhijie was sentenced in court three years ago, and we will definitely be able to find this person!"

Sun Kang's eyes lit up: "That's right, what are we waiting for, let's go check it out!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Pan Changfeng, who had been silent, said, "Are you guys playing here?"

Hearing his voice, Sun Kang, who was originally very emotional, changed his expression and stopped talking.

As the head of a bureau in Qingyang City and Sun Kang's immediate superior, Pan Changfeng naturally knew what the other party was thinking.

As expected, Pan Changfeng pointed the finger at Luo Rui: "Director Luo, just based on this, you concluded that the [718 case] was a wrongful case and Kong Zhijie was wrongly accused. Isn't that too arbitrary?"

Before Luo Rui could reply, Sun Kang spoke up first: "Director Pan, the suspect in [Case 404], Deng Mowei..."

Pan Changfeng stretched out his hand to interrupt him: "I didn't ask you, Director Luo, if you don't give me solid evidence, don't even think about intervening in any case in Qingyang City!"

Hearing his unfriendly tone, Luo Rui looked at Secretary An again. This old fox was observant and didn't seem to care about what was happening in front of him.

But there is no doubt that this group of people hold a belief, that is, for a case that has already been settled and the suspects have been sentenced, wanting to overturn the verdict is tantamount to Monkey King making a riot in Heaven. Don't even think about it!
Luo Rui looked outside the conference room and through the blinds, he found that there were still some people wandering outside. These people were dressed in suits and carrying briefcases, with the style of government officials. There was no doubt that some leaders from the procuratorate and the court had already arrived.

These people are afraid that they will poke a hole in the sky!
"How is it?" Pan Changfeng said with a smile: "Director Luo, do you have any evidence?"

Luo Rui sighed and couldn't help but asked, "Director Pan, are you stupid?"

Pan Changfeng had never been told this before, so he slammed the table and said, "Luo Rui, even if you are the captain of a provincial department or something, you still have to call me 'leader' based on your position. What's your attitude?"

Luo Rui shrugged: "I told you ten minutes ago, and Director Sun also reminded you just now, but you, the old stubborn man, just wouldn't listen."

"You..." Pan Changfeng's face turned pale and he was speechless.

Luo Rui ignored him and continued: "The suspects in the [404 case] have already admitted that on the night of April , a group of people forced Deng Mowei to kill Zhang Guanglu, and Zhang Guanglu's car was also burned by this group of people. You are deaf and can't hear it, right?"

Just as Pan Changfeng was about to speak, Secretary An, who had been resting with his eyes closed, opened his eyes: "Director Luo, even if this is the case, you don't have to drag the [718 case] into it, right? You said that there was something fishy about the [404 case] and that Deng Mowei was forced by someone. Fine! The Qingyang City Bureau will fully cooperate with your investigation. There's no problem with that, right, Director Pan?"

Pan Changfeng nodded quickly: "Yes, Secretary An is right."

"But there is no doubt that Kong Zhijie committed a crime. Not only did the Qingyang City Police Department interrogate him many times, but the Procuratorate also interrogated him several times. He confessed to his crime!
I just want to ask you, Director Luo, why are you so obsessed with this case?"

Luo Rui met the old fox's gaze, narrowed his eyes slightly, and answered word by word: "We are police officers, and the people have given us rights, so we can't fool around with every case, especially Kong Zhijie, he was once one of us!
I don’t know why he confessed, whether he was forced to do so or he did it voluntarily, but that’s not important. What’s important is the truth. I want to see the truth, and the people also want to see the truth!”

"Ha, what a big tone." Secretary An smiled and said, "Okay, since you insist that there is something wrong with the [718 case], and you also said before that the [404 case] and the [718 case] have a common mastermind, then please produce solid evidence..."

At this point, Secretary An looked at everyone in the conference room with sharp eyes and a stiff tone: "If you can't produce evidence, or if you are fooling our Qingyang City Bureau, I will go to the provincial department to find Captain Zhu and Director Wu. No matter how they protect you, we in Qingyang City must have an explanation."

This is a naked threat. If Luo Rui keeps talking nonsense, these old guys will definitely try every means to bring him down. Moreover, Luo Rui's opponent is the entire Qingyang Municipal Bureau.

The atmosphere in the conference room was tense. Everyone was so silent that you could hear a pin drop.

Luo Rui looked at Sun Kang, who kept giving him looks, asking him to say something nice and not to tear his face off.

No one from the assault team was here. At this moment, Luo Rui was facing these people alone, and Sun Kang was only half of his own.

Luo Rui also understood that Sun Kang had been trying to reopen the [718 case] for the past three years, but he did not dare to take action. On the one hand, there was no solid evidence to support it, and on the other hand, those who understood would understand.

Seeing these people looking at him unkindly, Luo Rui sighed deeply.

Kong Zhijie's confession is undoubtedly true, and the physical evidence is not fabricated out of thin air. If the [718 case] is really to be reopened, everyone will be in big trouble.

From their perspective, Luo Rui was here to cause trouble and to mess with them.

However, since Luo Rui became a policeman, the word "justice" has taken root in his heart, which has brought him to where he is today. Otherwise, with his current wealth, no one would want to be a policeman, working day and night, not being able to sleep well, not eating well, and facing all kinds of dangers.

Not only that, he also offended countless colleagues, and I don’t know how many people want to kill him.

Seeing Luo Rui was a little dazed, Pan Changfeng sneered: "Director Luo, if you can't produce evidence, then this matter will be difficult to handle..."

After he said this, everyone looked at Luo Rui frowning and breathed a sigh of relief. You are dreaming if you want to restart the investigation.

At this moment, Sun Kang looked solemn. He had already told Luo Rui last night about the doubts he had discovered in the past three years, but this boy did not bring them out.

Moreover, this was only a suspicion and could not be used as evidence at all, which prevented him from speaking up to help. If he spoke rashly, he would become the target of public criticism within the Qingyang Municipal Bureau. Unless he was transferred, his future fate was unimaginable.

But at this moment, footsteps were heard in the conference room.

Cai Xiaojing pushed open the door of the conference room. When she saw everyone, she took a breath, straightened her face, and strode towards Luo Rui.

Lin Chen, who followed behind, was not as reserved as her. She ignored the bigwigs in the conference room and spoke directly: "Director Luo, Captain Cai and I are exhausted. We slept for less than ten minutes before you woke us up. We have been so busy that we didn't even have breakfast. You have to compensate us!"

"You came at the right time." Luo Rui raised his eyebrows, took the law enforcement recorder handed over by Cai Xiaojing, and said to Lin Chen: "Okay, the case is done, I will invite you to the yacht and have a big meal at sea."

Lin Chen winked playfully: "You said it, don't regret it."

She didn't take Secretary An and the others seriously at all. This was determined by her status. After all, those who visited her house were either rich or noble, not ordinary people.

Luo Rui raised the law enforcement recorder in his hand and looked at Secretary An: "Everyone, this is the evidence."

As he said this, he handed it back to Cai Xiaojing, who took it, sat in front of the computer, and projected the recorded video on the big screen.

Everyone didn't know what he was up to and was a little confused.

Pan Changfeng said suspiciously: "Director Luo, I advise you not to fool people. You know the consequences."

Luo Rui ignored him and sat next to Cai Xiaojing.

Soon, Deng Mowei's image appeared on the big screen.

The background is in the ward. Deng Mowei has white gauze wrapped around her neck. She is lying on the hospital bed, her face is pale and her eyes are red and swollen.

In addition to her, there were also the hospital's attending doctors and others. None of them spoke, but the baby's crying could be heard.

Cai Xiaojing sat in the chair next to the hospital bed, while Lin Chen stood beside her, holding a law enforcement recorder.

The camera just happened to capture the faces of the three people. Cai Xiaojing spoke up, "Deng Mowei, we are police officers from the Haidong Provincial Department. My name is Cai Xiaojing, and my colleague is Lin Chen. We are now questioning you about the murder of Zhang Guanglu. If you understand, just nod."

Deng Mowei's eyes were always looking outside the camera, which was at the end of the bed, where the child's crying came from.

Deng Mowei raised her hand, wiped the tears from her eyes, and nodded slightly.

Cai Xiaojing breathed a sigh of relief and solemnly reminded: "Deng Mowei, I'll make it clear to you in advance. No matter who or what organization threatens you, you don't need to worry. We can protect you and your family. You can rest assured about your and your family's personal safety. Do you understand?"

Hearing this, Deng Mowei's eyes became much firmer.

Cai Xiaojing and Lin Chen exchanged glances, then began to ask: "Did you kill Zhang Guanglu on the night of April 4th?"

Deng Mowei nodded, then shook her head. Feeling that she had not expressed herself clearly, she opened her mouth, but because of the injury to her throat, she could not make a sound.

Lin Chen quickly put the prepared children's drawing board aside and handed her a marker.

Deng Mowei took it and wrote crookedly on the drawing board: [I was forced. They threatened that only one of me and Zhang Guanglu could survive...]

"Who forced you?"

Because it was inconvenient to write, Deng Mowei shook her head and indicated that she was not sure.

"How many people are there?"

Deng Mowei wrote: [Three people, wearing raincoats...]

"Did you see their faces clearly?"

Deng Mowei nodded, a look of fear appeared in her eyes, and she wrote on the whiteboard: [I only saw one person’s face.]

Lin Chen quickly took out his phone, flipped through a photo, enlarged it, and handed it to her: "Look carefully, is there this person?"

Deng Mowei took a closer look, her expression terrified, and immediately turned her eyes away, nodding heavily several times.

Because the phone was facing away from the law enforcement recorder when filming, Lin Chen immediately flipped the phone in front of the camera after getting Deng Mowei's confirmation so that the recorder could take pictures.

The background in the photo was not clear, but the image of a woman wearing a mask appeared in front of everyone in the conference room.

The woman was sitting in a chair, looking young, and seemed to be looking at something. At this time, Pan Changfeng couldn't wait and immediately asked, "Who is she?"

Everyone else in the conference room was on tenterhooks because they had clearly heard Sun Kang recall that a woman wearing a mask also appeared in the court where Kong Zhijie was sentenced.

Could this be the same person?

Secretary An twisted his buttocks uneasily in his chair, looking solemn.

Sun Kang opened his eyes wide, his heart was in turmoil. He already understood that Luo Rui and his people had been busy the whole night, and he actually managed to find evidence.

And no one dared to refute this evidence!

Luo Rui waved his hand and nodded towards the big screen, signaling Pan Changfeng to continue watching.

Cai Xiaojing asked several more questions, and all the details of the [404 case] were answered in detail.

After Deng Mowei was transferred to Zhang Guanglu's unit, the two had a relationship. It was not like what Deng Mowei said, that Zhang Guanglu forced her to have a relationship by transferring her. Both of them were willing to do so.

On the evening of April 4, Zhang Guanglu originally went to Deng Mowei's home, but in order to seek excitement, the two came to the scene of the crime, which was a relatively remote place in Xiahewan, and did unspeakable things in the car.

When the two people were doing that, the car window was smashed. Three people outside the car moved together and smashed the window. The car was also locked, so they could not escape at all.

After the car door was opened, these people threatened them that only one of them could survive, and whoever struck first would survive.

Deng Mowei seized the opportunity and smashed Zhang Guanglu's face with a hammer. At that time, she was completely frightened. After killing him, she was dragged out of the car by people outside. These people burned the car with gasoline prepared in advance, and Zhang Guanglu's body was also burned together.

Deng Mowei thought she would definitely die, but the group of people did not kill her. They just threatened her that if she dared to tell the police what happened tonight, they would kill her entire family.

And she won't even let her young children go!

Deng Mowei was so frightened at the time that she didn't even think about why this group of people knew her family situation and even her home address.

Her only worry was that after Zhang Guanglu's body was found, the police would trace her back.

But this group of people said that if the police found her, she would confess. After all, she was the one who did the murder, and what she did was a heinous crime.

Deng Mowei returned home terrified and did not dare tell her husband who was on a business trip until the police came to her workplace. She realized that the murder had been exposed. Before she died, she told her husband the truth and asked him to take good care of the children.

The video lasted for more than an hour. After it finished playing, everyone in the conference room fell silent.

[Case 404] From the time the case occurred to the present, it took only one day to solve the case, and Luo Rui found the suspect.

This case is not complicated, and the Qingyang City Bureau can figure it out as long as they dig deeper, but the truth behind this case surprised everyone.

Cao Yang, who had been acting as an invisible man, huddled in a corner and couldn't help smacking his lips and saying, "There really is a group of criminals behind this case. It seems that Zhang Guanglu and Deng Mowei were chosen by them. Was this premeditated?"

But his words did not attract anyone's attention. These bigwigs were only concerned about the [718 case]. Even if something else happened in the [404 case], it was irrelevant. After all, even the comprehensive investigation had not been completed, and it would not cause any big trouble.

As expected, Secretary An looked at Luo Rui with a serious expression: "Director Luo, how is this case related to the [718 case]?"

Before Luo Rui could answer, Pan Changfeng followed up with another speech: "Don't tell me that just because there is a female suspect in the group in Case 404, you treat her as the suspicious woman who appeared in court in Case 718. This logic doesn't make sense."

"Really?" Luo Rui smiled.

When Pan Changfeng saw him smile, he felt even more surprised and confused.

Luo Rui pointed at the big screen and said, "Director Pan, why don't you ask me where I got the photo of this mysterious woman?"

"Uh..." Pan Changfeng was surprised.

Sun Kang clenched his fists and thought excitedly, "I found it, I figured it out!"

Luo Rui instructed Cai Xiaojing: "Play another video for them to see."

"Okay." Cai Xiaojing projected the next video onto the big screen.

As soon as the picture came out, everyone was stunned.

Gradually, everyone couldn't help but step forward to the big screen. Secretary An couldn't sit still any longer. He stood up, pushed away the people in front of him who were blocking his view, and stared at the video screen.

Everyone held their breath, not daring to breathe.

They had seen this video before, and Sun Kang had watched it countless times.

Because this video is the surveillance footage of the Internet cafe where Du Yu and Zhang Qiang were before they were killed on the night of July 2007, 7.

The specific time was after nine o'clock in the evening. In the surveillance video, a woman wearing a mask was sitting in machine No. 35, while the victims Du Yu and Zhang Qiang were sitting in machines No. 45 and 46.

Because it was still early, there were many people sitting among them playing games and watching movies. Until ten o'clock in the evening, people who were surfing the Internet gradually left. From machine 35 to machine 45, apart from the woman, there were only the two victims left.

Moreover, after ten o'clock, Kong Zhijie's figure appeared in the surveillance video.

As soon as he appeared, the woman turned her head to look at him and nodded slightly.

At that time, because the surveillance camera on the ceiling was behind Kong Zhijie, his face could not be seen clearly, but the figure was indeed him, because when he walked forward and turned around to confirm the two victims, his face was revealed.

At this point in the video, Cai Xiaojing hit the space bar, and the woman’s face was frozen on the big screen.

At this moment, the conference room was silent.

Luo Rui broke the silence and said, "Everyone has seen it. Although this mysterious woman is wearing a mask, her eyes are not difficult to identify. Deng Mowei pointed out that she was the one who appeared at the crime scene of the [718 case] three years ago!

Is there such a coincidence in the world? I don’t think so. "

Everyone remained silent, but no one could deny Luo Rui's statement in their hearts.

Both inspection and court trial require hard evidence, but the police do not need such detailed evidence during the investigation stage. As a police officer, you need to doubt everything. Even if it is a guess, you have to verify whether your guess is wrong.

All those present were police officers, and the case was investigated in this way.

This woman has been identified by Deng Mowei and also appeared at the crime scene of the [718 case], which is enough to link the two cases together.

At this time, Luo Rui raised a finger and said, "Now there is only one thing left to confirm."

Cao Yang was shocked and asked, "Did you find any clues?"

Cao Yang stared at Luo Rui as if he were a monster. What kind of person is this? He had been with him all night. He was more familiar with these two cases than Luo Rui, and he had investigated them with the team. How come he didn't notice so many suspicious points?
Cao Yang began to doubt his own abilities deeply, and then he thought of how Luo Rui had deceived him, saying that he couldn't handle the case either.

Is this what people say?
If you want to find out these clues, it will take at least ten days or half a day to visit and conduct field investigations, not to mention three to five months, right?

You just sat in the conference room and flipped through the files and solved so many problems?
In response to Cao Yang's question, Luo Rui shook his head: "It's not a clue, but to confirm whether this woman appeared in the court for Kong Zhijie's trial. If she did, then there is definitely a problem with the [718 case]."

After finishing speaking, Luo Rui looked at Sun Kang: "Director Sun, did you recognize her?"

Sun Kang was already impatient, and nodded quickly after hearing this: "I remember that this woman did appear in court."

After hearing what he said, everyone couldn't suppress their emotions anymore.

Especially Pan Changfeng, he reminded in a stern tone: "Old Sun, you'd better think about it before you speak, and don't say anything nonsense."

Sun Kang looked at him and Secretary An and said solemnly: "If you don't believe me, you can ask those people outside. I went to the court during the final trial, but those people outside were there for every trial."

Secretary An immediately said, "Old Pan, go and invite the comrades from the procuratorate and the court in and have them identify the body."

Pan Changfeng hurried to open the door. After whispering with these people outside for a long time, five or six people came in one after another.

These people were the prosecutors and judges who participated in the trial of Kong Zhijie that year. One of them was Gao Yuan, an old acquaintance of Lin Chen.

At this moment, he was in no mood to pay attention to Lin Chen, but instead looked at the big screen with everyone else.

After a moment, these people immediately started whispering to each other, but their words remained within their circle and did not spread out.

Secretary An couldn't wait any longer, so he coughed and asked tremblingly, "Can you recognize it?"

One of the judges thought for a moment and replied, "I was sitting in the courtroom at the time and could see everyone below, so I remember very clearly that this woman was indeed sitting in the gallery during Kong Zhijie's trial."

As soon as he finished speaking, Luo Rui raised his eyebrows and immediately said, "Since the comrades from the public security, procuratorial and judicial organs are all here, I want to ask, at this point, do you want to reopen the investigation of the [718 case]?"

Secretary An swallowed his saliva and said in a panic, "I have something else to do, you guys go ahead and do your work first..."

"Wait a minute!" Luo Rui called him, and his next words scared everyone.

"There are three years between the [404] and [718] cases. Are these the only two suspicious cases? What role did this group of people play? Are there no problems at all in the murder cases investigated by your Qingyang City Bureau in the past few years?"

Everyone was poured a bucket of cold water on their heads. They knew in their hearts that this King Luo was going to start a killing spree!

(End of this chapter)