Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 248 They're trying to lie to you

“Xing Chang and Chang Yong are dead,” Zhuang Yanzheng said, looking at Liang Ran.

"What?" Liang Ran exclaimed in shock. "What are you talking about? Who died?"

“Xing Chang and Chang Yong,” Zhuang Yanzheng repeated.

Liang Ran's shock turned into fear and sorrow: "You're lying to me, how could they be dead?"

Zhuang Yanzheng said, "They have been abandoned by their own people. If you want to live, you'd better confess everything honestly."

"I don't believe you! You're lying to me! You must be lying to me! You're trying to trick me into telling you something!" Liang Ran shouted.

"Was it Xing Chang and Chang Yong who showed you the game?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

Liang Ran remained silent.

"Are you aware that this game is illegal?"

"How is it illegal for me to play a game?" Liang Ran said. "I just spent money on the game. I voluntarily spent money on the game, so how is that illegal!"

"Gambling is illegal. Don't you know that the game you're playing right now is gambling?"

Liang Ran fell silent again.

“You know that,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.

"I don't know, I don't know! I don't know anything! I don't know anything!"

"Are you sure you don't know?" Zhuang Yanzheng said. "Have you thought about what will happen to Xing Chang and Chang Yong? What did they say to you? Did they tell you the way to happiness and joy? Is their fate what you want?"

Liang Ran blinked a few times, then said excitedly, "I'm so happy! I have real friends now, I'm not alone anymore, and I feel cared for! Money is such a load of rubbish! I don't need it!"

"Do you think they'd even bother with you if you didn't have money? They're only after your money," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "Do you know where all your money goes? It all ends up in their hands."

"Impossible!" Liang Ran shouted. "Impossible! I would have died without them! They came to save me! What kind of parents are they! They gave birth to me but didn't raise me! Did they think giving me money would make up for everything? If you're not going to raise me, don't have children! What's the use of giving me money! Everyone else has parents to accompany them, parents to pick them up and drop them off, but me, all I do is drive, drive, drive! People say I'm a wild child! A wild child that no one loves or cares for!"

"Only Xing Chang and Chang Yong care about me. They are like my family, giving me warmth and a sense of family. Only they! They are the ones who freed me from the pain and freed me from the constraints of my parents."

"They're doing this just to scam you out of your money," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

"It doesn't matter, I didn't earn the money, I can go wherever I want," Liang Ran said.

Zhuang Yanzheng asked, "How do you know Xing Chang and Chang Yong?"

Liang Ran was silent for a moment, then let out a long sigh: "It's on a chat app. It's an app for sharing all sorts of troubles and venting about all sorts of things. I often find people on it who have similar experiences to mine, and I pay them to chat with me."

"As we chatted, over time, I met Xing Chang and Chang Yong. They were much better than the people I had talked to before. They were willing to listen to anything I talked about, and they knew how to comfort me. They made me feel warm and happy. Moreover, they never accepted money from me. They truly considered me a friend."

"Later, to cheer me up, they would try to distract me from the sad and upsetting things that my parents weren't around. They would play games with me, all kinds of games. They were always the ones who took care of me. They would also order food for my home and top up my game accounts. Whenever I called them, they were always there."

"After a while, we met in person. They were very caring and made me feel warm, a warmth I had never felt before."

Liang Ran chuckled as she spoke, "Family, friends, these are the things they made me feel. That game you mentioned, they were the ones who introduced me to it. Back then, we often played together to complete levels. I voluntarily spent money on it; I not only spent money on myself, but also on theirs." "When the amount reaches a certain threshold, the game mode changes, and then you guys still play together?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

“Yes,” Liang Ran said. “They also recharge, and they recharge even more than I have. Do you think scammers would spend their own money to recharge?”

“They put their own money in, and in the end it’s still their own money,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “It’s like they’re just passing the money through a money counting machine, and your money is the one that’s actually in, so they don’t lose anything. Besides, they’ve mostly swindled money from other people before putting it in.”

"Impossible! You're lying to me! You're lying to me!" Liang Ran slammed his head against the interrogation chair and shouted.

Zhuang Yanzheng waited until he calmed down before continuing, "Why do you think they came after you? Because you kept transferring money to people and getting them to chat with you on that chat app you mentioned. They targeted you because you have money."

Liang Ran looked at him.

"They're not just this nice to you, they're nice to everyone else too. They take advantage of people's feelings for them, cheating and swindling money," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "That's their method of fraud. They exploit your vulnerabilities to cheat you out of your money."

Having just vented his emotions, Liang Ran now sat in the interrogation chair like a deflated balloon, not uttering a single word.

"You have absolutely no sense of security," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "You dare to give your address to two people you met on a chat app so they can order food for you, and even meet them in person. Do you know who's behind the internet? Aren't you afraid that after they see you, they'll take you away and sell your organs for a price!"

"If I saw that things were not going well, wouldn't I run away?" Liang Ran's tone was very unconvinced.

"If they put poison in your food and drink, how are you going to run away? There are so many of them, how are you going to run away? They could just give you a piece of paper and tap you on the shoulder and knock you out, how are you going to run away?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

Liang Ran swallowed hard with her mouth closed.

"Speak up, why are you stopping?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked him, frowning.

Liang Ran remained silent.

"Besides Xing Chang and Chang Yong, who else did you play this game with?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

“No, it was just the two of them,” Liang Ran said.

Have you heard Changyong and the others mention anyone?

Liang Ran shook her head: "No. When we're together, it's always the two of them who take me out to play; they don't mention anyone else."

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at him for a while, then looked down at the information in his hand.

At first, he suspected that Liang Ran was in cahoots with them, but now, judging from Liang Ran's confession, he was just a victim. Nevertheless, he still asked, "Have you ever joined them in swindling money from other people?"

“I don’t need money, why would I go out of my way to scam people?” Liang Ran said.

Zhuang Yanzheng saw that he was not lying.

After a moment of silence, Liang Ran asked, "Are they really dead?"

Zhuang Yanzheng looked up: "Hmm."

"How did they die?" Liang Ran asked. "Someone killed them. Who killed them?"

(End of this chapter)