Chapter 21#

Chapter 21 Result

The ten-square-meter interrogation room was particularly quiet at this moment.

The middle-aged driver’s breathing became heavy, his face flushed, his eyes bloodshot, and even his body began to lean forward… but that was all. The next moment, he collapsed on the chair like a punctured balloon, lowered his head and murmured: “You won’t do that…”

“You will know soon whether I will do this or not.” Gu Chenzhou said. He looked at the man who raised his head opposite him and smiled slightly, “Yes—very soon, no need to wait until the day you get sick in the detention room or die in prison or get shot.”

At Gu Chenzhou’s request when he came in, everything in the interrogation room was recorded in real time.

In the police station’s video room, besides the operator, there were also several veteran police officers who were absolutely proficient in business and transferred from various places sitting around. Each of them had at least ten years of criminal investigation experience. These people, together with the operator, remained quiet. The whole room could only hear the conversation in the interrogation room, mostly Gu Chenzhou’s voice. Every time a sentence from Gu Chenzhou came out of the speaker, they carefully observed the suspect’s expression on the screen. After a few times, most police officers already had an idea.

The closed door was suddenly opened. The branch police chief, who had reported to Wei Chengbo in the hospital before, pushed the door in and just heard the sentence “No need to wait for your accidental death”. He didn’t step forward immediately, but waved his hand to the people who turned their heads when they noticed the movement, stood by the door, and listened quietly.

The image on the big screen was played in real time, and the sound in the speaker was very clear.

“Really? …Sun Changxing, Lin Youde, Wu Weiren, Fang Yunlin, which of these names do you know?”

“Did the person who told you to die give birth to you or raise you? You are so obedient without using your brain?”

…

After standing behind and listening for a while, the branch chief felt it was about time, stepped forward and asked the police officers who started recording, talking, or drinking water: “Did you see anything?”

The veteran police officer sitting on the left swallowed the tea in his mouth: “There really is something.” He turned to the equipment operator and said, “Can you switch the video back to the scene where Young Master Gu mentioned the names just now? Just over there with several names.”

“No problem.” The operator reached out and pressed twice, and one of the screens rewound to five minutes ago. The screen showed that while Gu Chenzhou was questioning, he also took out several photos for the other party to distinguish.

The veteran police officer pointed to the suspect on the screen and said: “Chief, look. When hearing these names, the muscles at the corner of the suspect’s eyes moved, and his gaze also changed… I can’t quite say the technical terms,” this police officer was a bit old, smiled embarrassedly and said, “Anyway, that’s what it means. This person has heard one of these names, or seen one of these people.”

“That’s right.” Other police officers next to him echoed, “It can be considered well hidden, but looking at the screen, you can find that the suspect’s attention is different in this section.”

In fact, the purpose of the interrogation proposed by Gu Chenzhou, organized by special personnel, and conducted by him alone was exactly this:

He needed to find some clues as soon as possible, and for this reason, he didn’t mind doing some things that didn’t fit his identity and that public officials couldn’t do.

“It’s really not easy to make this tough guy reveal a flaw.” A police officer sitting around the big screen laughed.

The middle-aged police officer sitting opposite him glanced at the file: “He has been a hooligan for almost ten years, and has been in the station countless times. Practice makes perfect.”

“This time it was Young Master Gu who struck first…” This striking first certainly didn’t mean the threats in these tens of minutes—the current society is not the ancient era where common people knelt on the ground and shouted “Blue Sky Lord” when they saw an official. Such a drama couldn’t scare a newcomer who just entered the underworld and was bold, let alone someone who had been in gangs for ten years—but the two shots that really hit the other party before.

Only after pain do you know fear. This applies to most people, and obviously also applies to Peng Youchun.

It was also these two shots that made the other party convinced that Gu Chenzhou meant what he said.

Of course, this young master from the capital seemed to really not just talk…

Several police officers who watched the video thought to themselves.

At this time, the branch chief also communicated with most police officers, and left the video room when confirming that most people’s views were consistent.

The business was done, and the immediate boss also left. The atmosphere in the video room relaxed. The operator who watched the video with a bunch of police officers was a young man in his twenties with strong curiosity: “This… what crime will be convicted? He only has an old mother left at home?”

A chubby policeman sitting next to him looked very easy to talk to. Hearing this, he answered: “It’s hard to say what crime. This matter depends on the higher-ups,” he looked at the little pity appearing on the operator’s face and laughed, “You don’t understand. This guy has a very bad relationship with his mother, and may not see her once a year.”

“Eh?” The operator was obviously surprised.

Other police officers next to him took over the conversation: “How could they leave such a big handle when picking people to do this kind of thing? The underworld is not stupid these days. This matter was done too neatly. Young Master Gu came this time…” He glanced at the frozen picture, “Just trying his luck, not letting go of any possibility.”

“He really hit it.” Someone started, and everyone chatted freely since they had nothing to do, “Actually, don’t look at the mess of words said in the interrogation room today. The only useful sentence is that one. Look, the picture is still cut there. The previous ones were all to shake the other party’s will. For example, the mother at the beginning, although the relationship with the suspect is terrible, can always affect the suspect’s emotional fluctuations. With emotional fluctuations, whether good or bad, some small movements will come out. These small expressions often help us confirm the investigation direction.”

“But like this… if taken to court, the procedure won’t pass, right?” The operator said hesitantly.

Several police officers exchanged an ambiguous look.

It was still the chubby police officer at the beginning who laughed: “How long have you been working here? Didn’t you receive the notice from above? This video cannot be copied or archived. Including what we watch and say in this room now must be kept confidential. We, well, just happened to be here at the right time.”

“But Young Master Gu really took great pains this time,” The young policeman popped out a network term, “Seeing him like this, I believe in love again!”

Eight out of ten people in the room didn’t understand, and one of the remaining two laughed and scolded: “What does this have to do with love!”

Coming out of the interrogation room, Gu Chenzhou didn’t leave immediately, but stood in the corridor, rarely took out a cigarette, and took a deep puff.

He didn’t wait too long. The branch chief who came out of the video room soon came here and told him the result.

“Indeed knows, it’s very likely this one…”

Gu Chenzhou looked at the person pointed out by the other party: “Sure?”

“Seventy to eighty percent.” Gu Chenzhou was not an ordinary second young master. Plus knowing the relationship between the Gu family and the Wei family clearly, the branch chief counted on Gu Chenzhou remembering him, and then mentioning him to Wei Chengbo at a critical moment. Therefore, when Gu Chenzhou came this time, he behaved extremely politely and handled things very neatly.

“I know, sorry to trouble the chief this time.” Gu Chenzhou said politely.

“It’s what I should do, what I should do. Speaking of which, this is our responsibility. To have Young Master Gu come personally to supervise and inspect, it is really our work that is not up to standard. Young Master Gu, please forgive us!” The branch chief had a basket of beautiful words waiting in his stomach.

Gu Chenzhou took the opportunity to say a few more polite words, then stopped and said goodbye to leave.

Eight o’clock in the evening is the most prosperous stage of a city.

Walking out of the police station, brilliant lights had replaced the sun of the day, igniting the vitality of the entire city that had not yet been exhausted.

The silver-gray Porsche was waiting by the roadside as usual, but this time, the car was empty—after arriving at the police station, he had let Lin Fang leave first—not all things were suitable for another person to stand by. The other party did a good job abroad, but whether to entrust domestic affairs to the other party again, he still needed to consider.

Getting into the car, starting the ignition, the gentle vibration was transmitted from the right foot stepping on the accelerator to the hands holding the steering wheel.

He was thinking about the conclusion he just got.

For the police officers in front of the video, this was a “result of luck”.

For Gu Chenzhou, this was a plan carefully prepared for two months and bound to get a certain conclusion—just like the villa he built on the top of Tianxiang Mountain two years ago.

In these two months, whether it was his own injury or wrestling with He Hailou, Gu Chenzhou did not give up the pace of verifying this matter.

Or rather, only this matter was the only thing Gu Chenzhou had been doing with his heart in the past two months.

It was expected that the police could not find anything.

It didn’t matter. In two months, he used the power of the Gu family and the Shen family, and even some of the Wei family, with painstaking effort, to investigate everything that happened to Peng Youchun every day in the past two or three years. Then, combined with his dream and some guesses, he carefully selected several photos and showed them to Peng Youchun. He even didn’t hesitate to leave a handle and invited several police officers with rich criminal investigation experience to help him judge Peng Youchun’s reaction.

He did get the result.

But… not the one he imagined.

Not He Hailou’s people.

“…I know.” In a bar separated from Gu Chenzhou’s location by most of the capital, He Hailou finished saying this sentence to the phone, pressed the end button, raised his glass to Zhou Xing sitting opposite him and said, “Where were we just now?”

Actually, we didn’t say anything just now. The dim light didn’t affect Zhou Xing seeing clearly the casual expression on the face of the person sitting two meters away. He smiled slightly, didn’t mention the matter the other party said when asking him out, and just chatted with the other party aimlessly—in fact, he was somewhat strange. In his impression, Young Master He in the capital was not a person who was in the mood to chat with people not in his class.

These people either ended up in his bed, or had a big piece of meat bitten off by him with an excuse…

“Oh?” The slightly raised voice showed that the owner’s attention had increased.

Zhou Xing quickly withdrew his thoughts scattered around, recalling what he just said.

Portland? No, that was just a country extended from the foreign wine on the table.

Sun Li? Never heard that He Hailou liked singers.

Lyra? His thinking diverged really fast…

—“Young Master Gu’s temper is actually quite good.”

He finally remembered the last sentence he said. Combined with He Hailou’s expression of sweeping away laziness and adding some attention at this moment, he couldn’t help showing a trace of strangeness on his face:

The other party called him out, actually—wanted to know a little about Gu Chenzhou’s situation?