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

Chapter 358 Admitted

"look at me!"

Su Miaoyi's shout startled Lu Zhishen and Chu Xingrou, who were outside.

Qin Chengyuan glanced at the two of them.

The two didn't dare to speak.

Qin Chengyuan glanced at them and then looked towards the interrogation room.

He knew they were all afraid of him, and that keeping quiet might be more friendly to them.

Zhao He was startled by Su Miaoyi's shout.

I subconsciously looked up at her.

Su Miaoyi showed him a photo of a woman and a child, staring into his eyes: "When you went into the inner room, the woman was holding the child tightly in her arms. As soon as you entered the room, you raised the kitchen knife and slashed the back of the woman's neck. The child started crying at that moment, and you tried to pull the child away, but the woman held the child tightly and wouldn't let go. You couldn't pull her out, so you slashed the woman's back twice more."

"I didn't, I didn't, I didn't." Zhao He stared at the photo, his eyes bloodshot, but he kept repeating "I didn't."

Su Miaoyi continued, "You slashed her back twice, but still couldn't pull the child out of her arms. So you cut her neck with a kitchen knife until the woman was completely still. Then you pulled the child out and hit him on the head with a stool several times until he was completely silent."

As she spoke, she ran her fingers over the child's photo.

It was smashed so badly that it was completely unrecognizable.

As Zhao He listened to her words, memories of what happened fifteen years ago surfaced in his mind.

Every time she said something, a corresponding image would appear in his mind.

"I didn't kill them, I didn't kill them!" Zhao He began to cry. "It was them, they deserved to die! They deserved it!"

"How could they deserve it?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

"It's them! They take advantage of their money and treat me like I'm not human. They beat and cursed me! They deserve to die!" Zhao He shouted.

Zhuang Yanzheng and Su Miaoyi exchanged a glance.

Then the two of them remained silent for a while, waiting for him to calm down.

"They deserve to die! They deserve to die!" Zhao He kept saying, "I killed them to rid society of a scourge, I did nothing wrong, I did nothing wrong!"

He kept repeating these words over and over.

After he stopped talking, Zhuang Yanzheng asked, "Why did you kill them?"

Zhao He tilted his head and wiped a tear on his shoulder: "Fifteen years ago, I came to Jinghai from Yue City to work. After arriving in Jinghai, I worked as a waiter in a restaurant. When I went to eat at the restaurant, I accidentally stepped on the man's foot while serving the food, and he slapped me across the face. I apologized repeatedly, but he made me kneel down and clean his shoes, otherwise he wouldn't let me go."

“I told them I was quitting and wanted to leave, but they wouldn’t let me go. The whole family, except for the child, blocked me from leaving, saying that the money for that pair of shoes was more than I could earn in my entire life. They made me kneel down and apologize, and polish his shoes. The man even tried to hit me, so I pushed him and ran away.”

“Three days later, that man had me beaten up again,” Zhao recalled. “There were three or four people. They beat me up first, then forced me to kneel in front of that man and made me wipe his shoes with my face.”

Su Miaoyi and Zhuang Yanzheng remained silent.

Zhao He shouted, "Is this some kind of insult?! So what if he has a few stinking bucks?! He won't spend his money on me, so why is he trying to act tough with me? I just stepped on his shoe, I didn't break his leg, I didn't kill him! Why are you treating me like I'm not human?! You even came looking for me and chased after me to beat me. What kind of family are you! Living is disgusting. And that child, growing up in a family like that, what good can he be? He might as well reincarnate and go to someone else's family." "Do you really think I'm that easy to bully? If you push me too far, nobody will live!"

Zhuang Yanzheng glanced at Zhao He's information.

He was caught stealing for the first time when he was 23 years old. After he was released, there was no record of what kind of work he did.

"How did you know they were at the brick factory?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

“Among the people who hit me, one was wearing a uniform from the brick factory with the factory’s name printed on it,” Zhao He said. “I went to the restaurant to inquire, and I went to the place where he had people hit me to inquire. I found out the location of the brick factory, and I secretly went to check it out. Sure enough, I saw this man at the brick factory.”

“After confirming that he was at the brick factory, I approached one of the brick factory workers. I asked him about some things and learned that the man and his family of five usually lived at the brick factory. I also secretly went to the brick factory at night to observe and ask the workers. After I got to know them, I broke into his house at night, took his kitchen knife, and killed the old couple first. Then I killed the man, and finally killed the woman and the child.”

“They’re all all talk, but when they were being killed, they were all terrified.” He said, trembling, as he turned his head to wipe away a tear.

"And then? What happened next?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

“I’ve watched a lot of crime-solving TV dramas and learned some things from them. I was worried about leaving fingerprints, so I wore two layers of plastic gloves. I was also worried about leaving sweat, so I wrapped myself up very tightly. The murder weapon was taken from his house. I also cut his electrical wires. I had already observed his house, so his security cameras couldn’t capture anything at that time.”

“You’ve definitely seen my file. I’ve broken into places before, so I’m pretty familiar with things like surveillance cameras and not leaving fingerprints,” Zhao He said. “After I killed them, I found more than 70,000 yuan in cash in their house. Then I went to the train station and stayed in one of those cheap hotels that don’t require ID and cost only a few yuan a night. The next day, as soon as it was light, I took a black cab back to Yue City from the train station.”

Su Miaoyi thought about the time she reported the case fifteen years ago, as well as the autopsy results.

When the municipal police arrived at the scene after receiving the report, Zhao He had already left Jinghai.

The scope of the investigation at that time was very large, and all the workers in the brick factory were questioned.

No one has mentioned the brick factory owner leading people to beat people. There were people wearing brick factory uniforms, so they must be from the brick factory.

One worker mentioned that someone had asked him about the brick factory owner, but the worker said that the person asking about the matter had burn scars all over his face, which did not match Zhao He.

"When you were asking the brick factory workers about things, you disguised yourself, didn't you?" Su Miaoyi asked.

“Yes,” Zhao He said. “I stole the props, stuck them on my face, and then covered them with a hat and scarf. I fabricated a tragic backstory to gain sympathy and make it easier to get information out of them.”

No wonder they couldn't find anyone.

The names don't match.

Where can I find this?

“It’s really weird. It seems like there’s something wrong with their money. Every time I spend their money, I have nightmares at night. I dream that the whole family of five is standing by my bed watching me,” Zhao He said. “I didn’t believe in superstitions, so I just kept spending the money, but I dreamed about it more and more often. Gradually, I became afraid to sleep. As soon as it got dark, I felt like they were watching me. I had no choice but to throw the remaining tens of thousands of yuan into the river.”

“The problem isn’t with the money, it’s with your mind,” Su Miaoyi said.

No wonder he was so decisive when he killed people; now he trembles with fear just thinking about it.

It turns out he had a guilty conscience.

"I didn't dare to go back to Jinghai for more than ten years. I only came back in the last few months." Zhao He said, glancing at Su Miaoyi before quickly looking away, clearly afraid of her.

His hands were trembling as he lowered his head and said, "I hate rich people like you the most. I was just going out for a walk today, not planning to steal anything. But when I saw you, you looked like a rich person, so I thought I'd steal a cell phone."

(End of this chapter)