Animal Detective

Chapter 219 Interrogation
Inside the interrogation room, Cao Rui continued to recount what happened next.

That is, how he cooperated with Bai Jifei, paid professional online trolls to portray Bai Jifei as a cold-blooded murderer after Bai Jifei reported the case.

Everyone listened in silence.

Shen Xin felt a surge of emotion.

I was moved by Bai Jifei's unwavering devotion to Jiang Qi.

But I don't agree with his approach.

He did call the police, but it was a false alarm.

He took advantage of the police and wasted police resources.

Shen Xin didn't know what he was thinking, that he distrusted the police so much.

You should just file a normal police report saying your wife is missing. Shouldn't the police investigate properly?

Even if Jiang Qi isn't an ALS patient, she's just an ordinary person. If a living person goes missing, does that mean the police won't bother to find her?

Why did you have to pull this stunt, turning yourself into some kind of murderer?

Putting aside the effort spent over the past two days, wasn't the investigation misguided from the start, wasting precious time searching for the missing person?

He should have immediately called the police on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the very day he discovered his wife was missing, to allow them to search for her.

As a result, it has dragged on until today, a full five days have passed.

"Who gave you the video?"

Inside the interrogation room, Chen Chao suddenly asked.

He carefully compared the video posted online, and it turned out to be the property management surveillance video outside Bai Jifei's house.

How did Cao Rui obtain the video? Everyone was there that day.

"It was Lao Bai who did it. He seems to have paid a hacker to find out who deleted the property management video. Then that guy sent me the video directly to my email. I don't know how he did it."

Cao Rui is very honest and says what he thinks.

After saying that, seeing that Chen Chao didn't ask any more questions, he hesitated for a moment and said, "Officer, in my situation, shouldn't we... take action?"

Chen Chao looked up: "Scared?"

A hint of embarrassment flashed across Cao Rui's face.

Chen Chao pondered for a moment and said, "At least it should be detention."

Spreading false police reports and disrupting public order should at least warrant a few days of detention.

"Oh."

Cao Rui could be seen to breathe a sigh of relief.

Bai Jifei had told him before that the worst outcome of what he did would be detention.

Shaking his head helplessly, Cao Rui said, "Seriously, having a brother like this makes me cry buckets. What can I do?"

“When I was a kid, I fell into the river, and it was Lao Bai who pulled me out. He’s my brother for life. He was so eager to kneel down and kowtow to me that I had no choice but to agree.”

"By the way, officer, what will happen to Lao Bai? Will he also be detained?"

He also showed concern for Bai Jifei.

"he?"

Chen Chao snorted and slammed his hand on the table: "Do you think this is child's play?"

Bai Jifei is making a false police report.

There are also distinctions in the severity of false police reports.

At best, someone might just be harassing the police officer at the emergency call center out of boredom. That could result in a warning or reprimand at their doorstep, or it could lead to a five-day detention.

In serious cases, it's called making a false police report.

For example, if you call the police and say you've been robbed, and a large number of police officers are dispatched, investigate for a long time, and then find out you were just joking, then the police won't take it lightly.

This is a criminal offense and can lead to imprisonment.

"You should worry about yourself."

Chen Chao closed the folder, got up, and left the interrogation room.

Back in the observation room, he tossed the folder onto the table and said, "What's all this about?"

So many people were involved in on-site evidence collection, investigation, working through the night, analyzing data, and running around everywhere until their legs were about to break.

It even caused concern and worry among parents, and countless netizens joined in the gossip.

Just to cooperate with your grand drama of forcing your wife to show up?
"Alright." Seeing that everyone's morale had dropped, Lü Youwei said in a deep voice, "There's an old saying that goes, 'His heart is pitiful, but we certainly can't support his behavior. We should deal with it as appropriate.'"

"But let's not forget that there is still a seriously ill patient missing. Five days have passed. If Jiang Qi is determined to commit suicide, I don't need to say more about the consequences."

"So hurry up and interrogate Bai Jifei to find out exactly what happened on the sixth day of the lunar month, and also check the surrounding surveillance footage."

"A patient with ALS who is unable to move, just disappeared so easily without the help of outsiders? Jiang Qi's social connections must be thoroughly investigated."

Sun Zhao stood up and saw that Shen Xin and the others were still staring at him. He shouted, "Didn't you hear me? Get to work."

As he spoke, he turned to interrogate Bai Jifei.

Shen Xin followed him out and offered to take notes, wanting to hear what Bai Jifei had to say.

Why is this guy so convinced that the police can't find Jiang Qi, and then he has to come up with this whole thing?

In the interrogation room.

Bai Jifei's eyes were bloodshot from exhaustion.

Without wasting any words, Sun Zhao simply tossed Cao Rui's statement in front of him, indicating that he should read it himself.

Bai Jifei understood everything just by looking at the name.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm really sorry." He immediately bowed his head and apologized.

Sun Zhao snorted and sat down, saying, "Your friendship with your friends is so deep, you must have spent a lot of money hiring online trolls. Now it's all over the internet, Shen Xin."

Sun Zhao turned to Shen Xin and asked how many people would see this kind of dissemination. Shen Xin thought for a moment and said, "It must be at least in the tens of millions."

Leaving aside short video platforms, the number of reposts and comments on Weibo's trending topics is staggering, reaching hundreds of thousands.

"and then."

Sun Zhao looked at Bai Jifei: "It's already past six o'clock in the evening. It's been a whole day. Has your wife contacted us? No."

"Have you considered whether your wife will appreciate what you're doing? If she's determined to commit suicide, is it possible that by wasting these few days, you'll miss the best time to find her?"

Millions of views.

After a day of fermentation, Sun Zhao felt that if Jiang Qi had been hiding, she might have already seen the news.

But if they didn't contact the police, it's possible they were determined to die and really didn't want to see Bai Jifei again.

Or rather, she may have ended her life within those five days.

Bai Jifei bit his lip until it turned white and said, "Of course I've thought about it, but I really have no other choice. Anyway, I've made up my mind that the best outcome is for her to come out on her own and prove that I didn't kill anyone."

“If she doesn’t come out and insists on dying, then I won’t live either. You can just kill me as the murderer and that’s it.”

Hey!
Shen Xin felt a wave of embarrassment.

What did the branch office do to you that you can take advantage of them?

I'll just shoot you and call it a day.

You died, and a wrongful conviction was fabricated. From top to bottom, countless people will be forced to resign from their police uniforms.

Sun Zhao also had a terrible headache. He felt that Cao Rui was right about one thing: after Jiang Qi left, Bai Jifei had gone mad and was stuck in a rut.

"I'm asking you, where is the letter Jiang Qi left behind?"

They searched the villa many times, but couldn't find any suicide note.

Bai Jifei said, "I burned it because I was afraid you would find out."

Sun Zhao rolled his eyes.

That crucial suicide note might have left some clues, and you burned it?
Bai Jifei was clever; the staged scene was incredibly well- staged.

It's foolish of him to burn his wife's suicide note and then be determined to force her out according to his own ideas.

Bai Jifei added, "But I took the photos and uploaded them to my cloud drive."

Sun Zhao then stopped the fire and made him write down the account and password for the cloud drive, so that someone could quickly check the contents of the suicide note.

Then Bai Jifei was asked to recount in detail everything that had happened since his wife disappeared.

"Everything was fine that morning. I thought that although Matsuura wasn't far away, it would still take more than three hours to go there and back. So I asked her if she wanted to call Ningning over to help take care of her."

"She told me it was okay, so I..."

Sun Zhao raised his hand to interrupt Bai Jifei.

"Is the Ningning you're talking about Wang Xinning?"

Among the social connections found, there was one person who was from the same village as Bai Jifei and was a childhood friend.

Zhou Zhongyi also visited the villa and said that they had been in contact before the Lunar New Year and that he had visited the villa, but not after the Lunar New Year.

Bai Jifei nodded and continued, "Jiang Qi said it wasn't necessary, that she was fine, and that if all else fails, there's always Pudding."

"Who?"

Sun Zhao then interjected.

Bai Jifei said, "We had a dog before we opened the kennel. It was a golden retriever and very smart. Sometimes when Jiang Qi needed to get something, it could help her get it."

Shen Xin chimed in, asking why he hadn't seen the golden retriever at the scene.

There were blood samples at the scene, but there were mostly Maltese, and not many Golden Retrievers.

Bai Jifei didn't speak, his eyebrows furrowed together.

Shen Xin's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly realized what was going on. He said in a deep voice, "You killed it?"

The bloodstains in the first-floor guest bathroom were confirmed to be dog blood. Such a large amount of blood would probably not be enough for a small dog like a Maltese.

Bai Jifei nodded.

Shen Xin shook his head slightly. Why are you taking your anger out on a dog?

Bai Jifei continued his story.

When I got home, all I found was a suicide note.

The letter was very resolute, saying that she saw how hard it was for her to take care of her and didn't want to hold her back any longer.

She herself was in great pain, and had already resigned herself to her fate.

She knew that if she stayed at home, Bai Jifei would not agree to her taking her own life.

So she chose to leave, to find a deserted place, and wait for death to come.

She hoped Bai Jifei wouldn't come looking for her.

“I wanted to call the police at the time, but I know her.” Bai Jifei looked up and said, “She is very methodical in her work, and once she decides to do something, she will think through all aspects and make sure there are no loopholes.”

“She must have planned to leave a long time ago. She asked me once before the New Year what I would do if she died.”

“We had a fight, and I think she already knew my attitude at that time.”

"That's why she left secretly. I can confirm it. Even the buyer Matsuura might have been someone she had impersonated."

“Someone is helping her, but I don’t know who it is. Given her mindset, if she wants to disappear, I definitely won’t be able to find her.”

"Sure enough, I went to the property management office and wanted to see the surveillance footage, but all the surveillance and access control information had been deleted. That's when I realized that she must have been planning this for a long time."

“I had no choice. After thinking it over and over, this was the only way I could force her to come out.”

At this point, Bai Jifei suddenly buried his head and began to wail.

Perhaps he was in so much pain that his wife still hadn't come forward to contact the police.

(End of this chapter)