Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 203 The Murderer Tan Jia 22
The murderer was caught, and the body in the bamboo forest was moved along with the bamboo shoots. The remaining tasks were no longer Tan Jia's concern; she seemed to have lost her purpose.

With nothing to do, she got into Zheng Yan's car, leaned against the passenger seat, and half-closed her eyes to observe the people coming and going outside.

Everyone seemed to be doing their job, and there was nothing strange about it.

Who exactly is coming to settle the accounts? And what methods will they use?
Did they directly infect Zhou Qi'an's monitoring system with a virus? They say Zhou Qi'an is a genius who created a system with anti-copy locks that automatically delete content once copied?

Will Zhou Qi'an be killed?
As she was thinking, her eyelids drooped, and she didn't even realize when she had fallen asleep.

When I woke up again, it was already daylight.

They had already left the bamboo grove. Zheng Yan, driving, glanced at her and said, "Awake? You can sleep a little longer. It'll be almost an hour before we get to the station."

She could barely open her eyes, they were still half-closed, and she rested her hand on the car window, looking out.

"Go straight back to the station? I thought we should first go to the room where I was locked up, and find out who smothered me to death, or whether anything unexpected happened that could destroy the evidence while we were collecting evidence?"

Zheng Yan: "It's not unexpected. You yawned three times in one sentence, each word strung together by yawns. I think you should go back and rest for a while."

Tan Ming also said, "Go home, your family is very worried about you."

She didn't answer immediately; instead, she looked ahead and saw two vehicles carrying corpses.

"Another car came by, and we found more bodies?"

Xiao Chen in the back row said, "Yeah, besides the one you found, we found three more bodies. Wow, this is the first time I've ever seen a death like this. One of them had a bamboo shoot that grew into a bamboo stalk and was growing out of the body's neck... Old Li's intern was so sick he almost threw up. This Zhou Qi'an, so young, is pretty weird."

“Bamboo execution is a form of punishment for criminals. He sees himself as a judge with the authority to punish bad people,” Zheng Yan said, turning the steering wheel. “He said that these are criminals who have committed serious crimes but the police have not been able to find them. Now that he has discovered them, he has an obligation to help execute them.”

Xiao Chen: "Logically, it seems to make sense, but the problem is that he doesn't have a license. Working without a license means that no matter how good his skills or how strong his abilities are, he will still be punished."

Zheng Yan glanced in the rearview mirror: "You're so good at using metaphors. When you interrogate Zhou Qi'an, you should go with the investigation team."

Xiao Chen shut his mouth and shrank back.

Then Zheng Yan continued, "The identities of those bodies cannot be confirmed yet, but we guess there must be other victims, perhaps with less serious crimes."

"【The Army of Justice】has been secretly developing for several years. Even if Zhou Yuan was just using these people as human shields for his money laundering business at first, Zhou Qi'an got a taste of pleasure from these things later on and would definitely not be able to resist committing crimes one after another. Especially after Zhou Yuan's group was arrested, he may have been enraged."

"Moreover, he committed the crime not to launder money, but simply to enjoy the thrill of executing others."

Tan Jia nodded: "Perhaps there's also a sense of smugness at seeing the police unable to find these victims. But I think his choice to use bamboo torture on these people wasn't because their crimes were the most serious, but because they were the easiest to control."

“He knew he wasn’t strong offensively, so the person who could be brought to this bamboo forest couldn’t possibly be someone who would turn on him at any moment. And the fact that the victim’s disappearance hasn’t been traced back to him for so long means he has accomplices, or… let me think, he made detailed preparations using surveillance and knew when it would be easiest to succeed…”

Zheng Yan immediately guessed a possibility and said to Tan Ming, "Go back and check the unsolved missing persons cases in various places in the past few months. Pay close attention to those cases that are suspected to be committed by acquaintances."

Then, regarding the speculation about an accomplice, he said, "Before Zhou Yuan was arrested, he may have been assisting his son in committing murders. We need to go to prison to see Zhou Yuan. If he knew about these murders, he would directly convict Zhou Qi'an of murder, and then, in order to help..."

Tan Jia didn't hear what was said after that. Her gaze went over the windshield to a car coming from the opposite direction.

The car stopped, and a tall, thin figure stepped out of the car opposite, walking closer and closer against the morning sunlight.

But in the last few steps, Lin Zhiyue stopped restrainedly, stood outside the passenger seat, and stared at her through the gradually lowering car window.

"Are you alright?" His lips moved, but he only managed to ask this question at the end.

Tan Jia rested his elbows on the car window, his chin on his arm, and his injured hand dangled right in front of him.

"I'm alright." "Are you injured?" His gaze finally fell on the moving object.

"Hmm. Is there anything to eat? I'm so hungry."

"Yes. Come to my car."

It was just a simple conversation, but Lin Zhiyue's direct gaze and restrained body language were enough to explain their true relationship.

The investigation team wanted to call them back, but they were too embarrassed to do so. The two looked like a couple, and the situation was more like the family members weeping with joy as they welcomed the surviving victim. It was not appropriate to interrupt them.

So without any hindrance, Tan Jia successfully got into Lin Zhiyue's car.

A car that was not monitored in time.

There's food up there. But that's not Tan Jia's purpose.

"I need your help with some videos," she said softly.

Lin Zhiyue, who was still holding food, frowned upon hearing this and watched her quietly without moving.

Tan Jia raised an eyebrow and beckoned to him with her finger. Lin Zhiyue moved and slowly moved closer. Their noses almost touched. Tan Jia habitually used her injured right hand to gently touch the back of his neck.

"I heard about the online messaging, and it was done very well."

Lin Zhiyue gently nuzzled her with the tip of his nose.

She kissed the corner of his lips, which were so close to hers, and then asked, "Can I watch now?"

"...What are you looking at?"

"Zhou Qi'an's secret."

Zhou Qi'an wasn't really as stupid as Tan Jia's words suggested, which was to provoke him.

He knew that the biggest secret he possessed was the Wenwu incident, so he left behind evidence from multiple sources.

Tan Jia guessed that a high-ranking superior was involved, based on his attitude toward the secret.

“Wenwu’s death should also be considered a cover-up,” they whispered, leaning close together. “The key point is actually his friend who fell to his death. Wenwu noticed something was wrong and wanted to investigate the truth, but the person behind it thought things were easy to resolve and dealt with it brutally, killing Wenwu directly.”

"But Zhou Qi'an noticed this through surveillance. Those people finally panicked a bit, but quickly realized that they could use this incident to smoothly resolve the three problems of Wen Wu's death, Wen Jinbing's investigation, and Zhou Qi'an's surveillance system. Moreover, the method was much more effective than Zhou Qi'an's."

"Zheng and I suspect that Zhou Qi'an discovered something amiss with Wenwu's death and guessed that it involved a high-ranking leader. Zhou Yuan might have been aware of it."

"When Zhou Yuan was arrested, he took full responsibility for the crime and protected Zhou Qi'an. If he knew then that Zhou Qi'an's capture was due to those people's scheme and that he would definitely be killed by some leaders to prevent future troubles, he would probably reveal something."

She had actually heard Zheng Yan's words very clearly in the police car.

But they couldn't explain it too clearly; they could only rely on their tacit understanding to each do what they could.

For example, Zheng Yan and his colleagues, after returning to the police station and completing some of their work, planned to go to the prison.

But before he arrived, news of Zhou Yuan's death in prison spread.

(End of this chapter)