Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 223 Unexplained Motives 13
They had anticipated that Wang Yaohua would not cooperate.

"Whether he's really stupid or not, it will take a lot of effort to get him to give us the answers we want," Tan Ming said, looking at the situation in the interrogation room.

Tan Jia nodded, placed his clay sculpture on the windowpane, and compared it with Wang Yaohua's appearance, pressing out the positions of the facial features on the sculpture's head.

"Captain Zheng has dealt with many mental patients and people with mental illnesses, so there shouldn't be any major problems. However, this will take time, and the only concern is that Liao Wenxiang's body might not be able to wait much longer."

In such hot weather, if a body is placed in a special place, it will accelerate decomposition and make autopsy much more complicated.

They suppressed their impatience and waited patiently, but before Wang Yaohua could confess, they received the technical results: they had found all the information on Wang Yaohua's phone.

“He would message Liao Wenxiang every week to say hello, ask what she was doing and where she was, and send her photos and cooking videos. Liao Wenxiang never replied to him. But he kept sending messages, and this behavior continued for at least three years. The day before the incident, he sent a secretly taken photo of Liao Wenxiang.”

“In addition, he would call Liao Wenxiang at irregular intervals every month. If one number was blocked, he would call from another number. But Liao Wenxiang never answered.”

Tan Jia looked at the messages sent to Liao Wenxiang, and each sentence began with "Wenxiang".

Wenxiang, are you going home for the Mid-Autumn Festival?
Wenxiang, I went to see your mother for your birthday.

Wenxiang, I can't sleep at night, and I keep thinking about you.

Wenxiang, when are you coming back to see me?

Wenxiang, you're not home again. Where are you?
Wenxiang, you're not answering the phone again.

Wenxiang, I've found where you live.

They were all very short messages, all released unilaterally, and never received a response.

This is not affection at all; the words convey a kind of calm dread.

Although there was no reply, Liao Wenxiang must have seen these messages, which is why she felt fear when Wang Yaohua knocked on her door.

Tan Jia frowned deeply, and his gaze paused when he came across one of the messages.

"At the beginning of the year, Wang Yaohua sent a message mentioning an address, saying that they had gone there together when they were children, and he would occasionally go back to reminisce. Could Liao Wenxiang's body be hidden there?"

Xiao Chen searched for the address and exclaimed "Wow!" as soon as he saw it.

"This place used to be a tourist attraction themed around a coal mine ruins, but later the area was relocated for development, and the transportation there couldn't keep up, so basically no one went there anymore. I heard that in recent years they've been planning to demolish it and build a shopping mall to attract more people to that area."

Is it far from Baima Lane?

“It’s a bit far. In the surveillance video, Wang Yaohua rode his electric bike away from the river, and the route he took would have led there. But there are only surveillance cameras on the main road, and there are many forks in the road, so we didn’t see where he stopped, and we couldn’t guess where he went after leaving the last surveillance video. So this is where he went.”

As he spoke, he took out his phone and dialed the local police station. While waiting for the call to connect, he asked the technical staff to contact the traffic department and ask them to retrieve the surveillance video from the vicinity.

It was then discovered that Wang Yaohua had indeed been in that area on the day of the incident, and as it was getting light, his silhouette seemed to be deliberately avoiding places with people or surveillance cameras.

“He’s not stupid anymore,” Tan Jia said with a cold laugh, arms crossed. “He knows that carrying a corpse is a terrifying thing, and he’ll avoid the surveillance cameras.” “People are most likely to play dumb before and after committing a crime,” Xiao Chen said casually, then went to the interrogation room to tell Zheng Yan the situation and took his men to the scene.

The "place that carries beautiful memories" that Wang Yaohua mentioned is called "Impressions of the Past". Apart from the coal mine ruins, the rest consists of photo galleries, historical data displays, sculptures, and so on.

There is also a small amusement park.

Liao Wenxiang's body was eventually found on a carousel in an amusement park.

She was tied to the unicorn rocking horse, her posture carefully arranged, carrying a bag, holding onto the vertical pole, and facing outwards.

From a distance, it looks like it's happily ready, just waiting for this abandoned carousel to start turning.

Perhaps this is what Wang Yaohua remembers about Liao Wenxiang, who was willing to talk to him when they were young and with whom he shared beautiful memories.

Only when you get closer do you realize that she is splattered with blood, her body has begun to decompose, and the stench is very strong.

Xiao Chen was sharing footage of the scene via video, and as he spoke, he covered his nose and his voice was muffled: "This scene is too eerie."

"Wang Yaohua actually left her outside," Tan Ming exclaimed in surprise. "If anyone had come, even if Jiajia wasn't dreaming, and even if we hadn't found Liao Wenxiang, we would have eventually traced her back to him. He planned so carefully beforehand, but he did this so openly and honestly. Is he really stupid or just pretending?"

Tan Jia had a bit of an idea: "This kind of person is probably like someone with a split personality. He clearly likes Liao Wenxiang, misses their past relationship, and craves her response, but he doesn't care whether Liao Wenxiang lives or dies, or whether her body rots and is exposed to the sun. He just stubbornly wants to achieve his own goal."

"His goal wasn't to get a response, but to keep Liao Wenxiang, his childhood 'toy,' in his toy box, allowing her to carry the memories of the past. That's why he could continue talking to himself for years when he couldn't get any attention from Liao Wenxiang, only sending messages and making phone calls to harass her when they weren't together, never looking for her. But when they met and he found that Liao Wenxiang wasn't cooperating, he cruelly killed her, treating her corpse as a toy after she became obedient."

Because it was just a toy, he didn't think Liao Wenxiang's achievements in life were too great for him to be worthy of, nor did he think Liao Wenxiang after death was terrifying, able to carry corpses around everywhere.

Xiao Chen had more than a dozen photos taken at the scene, and said quietly, "I've figured out Master Lv. He's become stupid, but his stupidity is dangerous."

"...My brother went to notify the forensic doctor to go there. Be serious."

Bringing the body back made the interrogation of Wang Yaohua much easier.

With an autopsy report, surveillance footage, and clues, and even trace evidence that Wang Yaohua's fingerprints were found on Liao Wenxiang's handbag, no matter how much he pretended to be stupid, the charge of murder was undeniable.

But Zheng Yan wanted to know exactly what happened on the night of the incident.

"You felt that Liao Wenxiang was ignoring you and didn't want to see you, so you stopped her in the middle of the night, perhaps wanting to talk to her, but she was afraid of your approach and just wanted to leave, then you had an argument, and then you killed her, right? You avoided the surveillance cameras and patiently waited in the corner for several hours, you thought about this worst outcome from the beginning, didn't you?"

"But what about Yang Jia? She had no connection with you or Liao Wenxiang. She was most likely just passing through. Why did you kill her? Did you want to kill someone else and leave a body so we could focus on investigating her and not trace it back to Liao Wenxiang? Or did you get carried away and decide to eliminate the eyewitnesses as well?"

Wang Yaohua didn't react to the name Yang Jia, but he chuckled when he saw the photo Zheng Yan had taken on the table.

“She wanted to take Wenxiang away and even called the police to arrest me.”

Zheng Yan paused for a moment, then became especially furious: "You mean she was just passing by and wanted to help a stranger escape danger, and then you just killed her?!"