Time: 13:30 on August 6, 2025 to 19:05 on August 6, 2025
Location: Interrogation Room of the Third Criminal Investigation Detachment of Xiadu Police Station
Investigator name: Zhang Yu
Unit: Criminal Investigation Detachment 3 of Xiadu Police Station
Interrogator: Zhang Yu
Recorder: Li Chen
Unit: Criminal Investigation Detachment 3 of Xiadu Police Station
Suspect: Mei Qian
Question: We are investigators from the Xiadu Police Department. Today we are questioning you in accordance with the law. You should answer our questions truthfully and assist in the investigation. You are not allowed to forge, conceal, or destroy evidence, otherwise you will bear legal responsibility. You have the right to investigate the relevant
They have the right to make statements and defense on the situation, have the right to refuse to answer questions that are irrelevant to the case, have the right to apply for the withdrawal of the person in charge of the case, case handling personnel, and appraisers, the right to check the transcript of the inquiry, and make corrections or corrections to any errors or omissions recorded in the transcript.
Check the transcript of the inquiry and provide corrections or additional comments for errors or omissions in the transcript. If your answer involves state secrets, commercial secrets or personal privacy, the case handling agency will keep it confidential. Have you heard the above clearly?
Answer: I heard you clearly.
Question: We hope that you can truthfully explain your illegal and criminal issues. Only by truthfully confessing is the best choice for you in the future. Do you understand? This is a notice of rights and obligations. Please read it carefully. Once you understand,
signature.
Answer: Understood.
Q: First tell me about your situation.
Answer: My name is Mei Qian. I live in Building 1201, Four Seasons Garden, Beijing. I am 26 years old. I am an online writer by profession.
Q: Is there anything else you want to add?
Answer: No, it has been made very clear.
Question: You are so humble. You are a great writer. Your novels are popular all over the Internet and have been adapted into movies and TV series. Why didn’t you say this?
Answer: This seems to have nothing to do with your so-called case, right?
Question: Do you know why you were taken to the police station?
Answer: It is said that there is a suspicion of tomb robbing, but I really don’t know anything!!
Q: Please cooperate, you have no problem, will we bring you here?
Answer: I really don’t know. You arrested me before I even got home, and my behavior was rough. Be careful, I will sue you for brutal law enforcement!
Question: Brutal law enforcement? When we arrested you, you took action. Good guy, you can’t tell how powerful you are. If we hadn’t had so many people, we wouldn’t have been able to restrain you.
Answer: I got out of the car and cooperated with the inspection. When you came up, you arrested them. I just struggled for a while.
Q: Struggled? Almost hurt someone?
Answer: If you react subconsciously, won’t you cooperate with you in the future?
Question: Huh, isn’t it because we used guns? You are too vigilant, right?
Answer: These days, there are all kinds of counterfeits. After all, I have some money and I am afraid of being kidnapped. How can I not be more vigilant? It’s not that I didn’t move when I saw a gun, but you showed me your ID.
Question: Could you please explain how you, a cultural person, got such powerful punches and kicks?
Answer: As you know, I usually code at home. Sitting all the time is not good for my health. I practice kung fu when I have nothing to do. Is that reasonable?
Question: Stop pretending to be confused! Don’t think that because you are a public figure, you can be arrogant here. Letting you take the initiative to explain is giving you a chance. Think about it carefully. We allow you to consider it, but within limits. Don’t be uncooperative due to temporary mood.
, causing regret in the future.
Answer: I can’t think of anything. Stop beating around the bush and just tell me what you have to say. What is the case?
Q: Besides being a writer, do you have any other career?
Answer: No, I just write books and rarely go out. You can investigate all of this.
Question: Let’s talk about the latest one. You went to Nagumo last week, which was July 30?
Answer: Yes, I am participating in a slow variety show, just to relax.
Question: According to our investigation, you only stayed for one day in that variety show called "Leisurely Mountain Village" and left after recording. Where did you go?
Answer: I told you to relax. The local scenery is very beautiful, so I stayed there for a few more days.
Question: Where did you go these past few days? Which village? Which township? This should be clear.
Answer: This is really hard to explain. When you are interested, you will hitchhike if you have a ride, or walk if you don’t have a ride. It doesn’t matter where you go, and you will stay at a fellow villager’s house at night. You should be able to investigate this clearly.
Question: Apart from traveling and relaxing, do you do anything else? For example, find an ancient tomb, have a fight or something?
Answer: (laughing) You don’t think I went to rob a tomb? Although I have written novels about tomb robbing, I am just a book writer. Let alone tomb robbing, if you throw an antique in front of me, I won’t recognize it. It can’t be Nan.
Did Yun discover that some ancient tomb was stolen? It has nothing to do with me.
Question: Just answer whatever is asked of you. Are you sure you are just relaxing?
Answer: OK.
Question: Okay, please look at these photos. They were found in your home. They are complete, including a Luoyang shovel, a short-handled hoe, a miner's lamp, an engineer shovel, a dog-leg scimitar, a good guy, and a bottle of black dog.
Blood? Do you have any explanation? Don't tell me that you are just farming at home with nothing to do. This is a tomb robbing tool.
Answer: These are all purchased online. I have written a tomb-robbing novel. I can’t figure out what tools the protagonist uses, right? So, I bought these things just to experience the feel. None of them have been used. I don’t believe it.
You can’t see it. As a writer, in order to enhance my sense of immersion, it’s not too much to collect a few things, right?
Question: That’s not necessarily true. Other writers wouldn’t play with these things at home. We suspect you are a tomb robber.
Answer: Then don’t you still collect fitness tools? Are you also suspected of committing crimes?
Question: Mei Qian, please be serious, don’t look at where this place is, and honestly explain your problems. Don’t you understand what’s going on now?
Answer: What's the explanation? Just because of these things? It's not illegal, right?
Question: What about this photo? This was also found in your home. By coincidence? It is exactly the same as a Tang Sancai yellow-glazed fox in a Tang Dynasty tomb in Western Shaanxi. Experts have identified it as authentic. We suspect it was unearthed at the same time.
, don’t tell me that this was also bought online?
Answer: I bought this from a street stall in my spare time, Xiadu Lijiayuan.
Q: When? How much did it cost? At which stall?
Answer: It’s been so long that I don’t remember it. I thought it was fake at the time because it didn’t cost much. I have a lot of these things at home, and I just used them as handicrafts to display for good looks. I didn’t expect them to be antiques.
Question: Who can sell this thing as a fake? Do you think they are stupid?
Answer: This is really an injustice to me. Let me think about it. Just a year ago, yes, it was not a street stall. It was sold by an old woman. At that time, she said it was true, but I didn’t believe it. In the end, I seemed to have spent five hundred yuan on it.
. Besides, it’s so cheap, who can think of the real thing, right?
Question: Humph! To tell you the truth, we have been involved in this case with you for more than three months. Now there is sufficient evidence to show that you are a writer on the surface, but secretly a heinous tomb robber. If you have not broken the law, we will take you to jail.
Got here?
Answer: Am I a tomb robber? How come I don’t know it myself? You can’t unjustly accuse me of being a tomb robber just because I have written a novel about tomb robbers, right? Where is the evidence?
Question: Come, take a good look. Does this photo look familiar?
Answer: Is this a hole in the ground? I’ve never seen it before. Is it the hole of some kind of beast?
Question: Look at this picture again. Do you recognize it?
Answer: This, is this a spider? Sorry, I know nothing about biology, so I really can’t tell what species it is.
Question: I can’t tell why you are stuttering? OK, since you won’t tell me, I’ll ask directly. You have a novel called “Memoirs of a Tomb Raider”. Where did you get the inspiration and clues about the ancient tombs in it?
Answer: The novel is, of course, made up. Just because the writing is so similar, you cannot say that I have committed a crime. According to your logic, are all those who write mystery novels murderers? This does not make sense.
Question: The first photo is of a robbery cave. It was taken in Pengyue Valley in Prairie Province. Does it look familiar to you? By the way, there are also photos of the funerary objects in the tomb. Do you want to take a look and see what’s in your book?
different?
Answer: What's this? Of course I have to look up the information when writing a novel. Repeated place names don't mean anything. Even if there is an ancient tomb there, it's just a coincidence. The Xia Kingdom is so big, where is the place where people are buried?
Question: Coincidence? Okay, the second photo is from Shaanxi Province, with a black face and a swollen body. Do you dare to say that you don’t know?
Answer: I had some speculations when I saw the photo just now. When I looked up the information, I just thought it was folk fiction and quoted it casually. I didn't expect that such a creature really existed in the world.
Question: What does this mean? You have never seen this kind of spider. It is all based on research information, right?
Answer: Yes, I saw it in an ancient book.
Question: Where are the ancient books?
Answer: I don’t remember. It’s been too long and I might have thrown it away.
Question: Haha, you have no sincerity at all. Are you just throwing away such an important thing?
Answer: Whether you believe it or not, this is really a coincidence. I believe you have all checked my itinerary. I rarely leave home and I basically write at home on weekdays. How can I have time to rob tombs?
Q: Your travel records in the past four years have been very detailed, but what about four years ago? Where were you?
Answer: Four years ago, I was in a car accident and suffered a serious head injury. I lay in the hospital for several months. Although I was lucky enough not to become a vegetative state, my previous memories were gone. I even reported the crime at that time, but until now,
I haven't found any. You should have investigated these things, right? My ID card was issued by your police station.
Question: I really don’t remember? How did you write these novels?
Answer: I've said it all, it's all made up. How could I, an honest person like me, do something illegal? If you have evidence that I robbed a tomb, put me on trial directly!
Question: Mei Qian, your attitude is very problematic. Don’t resist and tell the truth about your crime. We suspect that you have already recovered your memory, otherwise how could you be familiar with so many ancient tombs.
Answer: Then go ahead and investigate. If you find out that I have robbed tombs, I have nothing to say.
Question: You have published three books on tomb robbers, "Notes from Pingshan", "Memoirs of a Tomb Robber" and "Diary of a Tomb Robber", involving more than ten ancient tombs. If these are all confirmed, have you thought about what will happen to you?
It may involve the theft of more than a dozen ancient tombs, which means that countless national treasures are being lost. This is a serious case. Can you handle it yourself? Can you handle it?
Answer: I still say that if there is evidence, just press charges.
Question: Forget it, you are seeking death, there is nothing I can do about it. As I said before, we have been investigating you for a long time. Do you know why we want to arrest you today?
Answer: I don’t know.
Question: Just this morning, the Dongshan Provincial Archaeological Bureau discovered the corpse cricket described in your novel during an archaeological live broadcast. Moreover, the layout and geographical environment of the ancient tomb are exactly the same as those described in your novel. How do you explain it?
Answer: Really?
Question: Now that the whole Internet has seen it, you are famous across the country and public opinion is overwhelming. Do you still think you can escape legal sanctions? There are so many similarities. One time may be a coincidence, but two and three times can it be explained by coincidence?
Answer: (Long silence) I’m addicted to smoking. Can I give you a cigarette?
Question: Okay, my cigarettes are definitely not as good as yours, don’t take it personally. Young man, have you ever thought about the future? Four years ago you were only 22 years old. We believe you may just be a participant. Now you have fame and fortune, and you are also
You are young, as long as you honestly tell us about the gang you were in, we will apply for a policy for you, and you can find a good lawyer, maybe it will come out in seven or eight years, and then you will be clean, no psychological burden, and you can write your book with peace of mind.