"Where did the protected wild animals that you sent to City S end up?" Xu Lang asked.
"Most of them were smuggled abroad by Chang Hongyun on his freighter. Although these things are not common in China, they are not particularly rare. However, it is different abroad. Many people abroad like to keep these things. It is very rare.
Make money." Chen Zhen said.
"What about the other part?" Xu Lang asked again.
Chen Zhen shook his head and said: "As for the rest, I don't know. After all, Chang Hongyun and I just have a cooperative relationship. He can't tell me everything."
Xu Lang nodded, knowing that Chen Zhen was right.
"What about those newborn babies? Did you use the same method to send them abroad?" Xu Lang asked, narrowing his eyes.
Chen Zhen shook his head and said: "How is that possible? Smuggling wild protected animals abroad is inherently a high-risk matter, let alone babies. After all, those babies are not long after they are born and their bodies are very fragile.
He may have experienced those strong winds and waves, and he may have died on the road before being sent abroad. This is not worth the loss for us."
"So what do you do with these babies?"
"I don't know the specifics, but according to my guess, Chang Hongyun should have regular buyers. These children are probably those rich people. They are unable to have children and want a perfect child. And the newborn baby,
We don’t know anything. As for who their father is, we don’t know, let alone the buyer. As for the mother of the child, after they gave birth to the child, they were silenced. If the person dies, it is naturally impossible to find them.
Having a baby is a good thing both for us and for buyers."
"Then do you know who these children were sold to?" Xu Lang asked.
Chen Zhen shook his head again and said, "I don't know, but Chang Hongyun definitely knows."
"Why?" Xu Lang frowned and asked.
"As far as I know, Chang Hongyun has a ledger in his hand. He clearly remembers the whereabouts of every baby. He must know."
"Why did Chang Hongyun do this?"
"hehe......"
Hearing Xu Lang's question, Chen Zhen smiled and said, "The answer is very simple, of course it's for money."
Xu Lang was stunned for a moment, then thought of something. He looked at Chen Zhen and said: "You mean, after Chang Hongyun sold these children to whom, he recorded their whereabouts in detail, except for the ones you got.
You want to blackmail them for money?"
Chen Zhen nodded and said, "I don't know. This is just my guess. You need to ask Chang Hongyun if this is the case specifically."
"By the way, have you caught Chang Hongyun?"
Xu Lang did not answer Chen Zhen's question. He was very confused now. Although, according to various signs investigated so far, the criminal gang headed by Uncle Li was not only engaged in smuggling and selling wild animals, but also engaged in the business of smuggling and selling wild animals.
It is an illegal act to sell babies. However, after hearing Chen Zhen admit it personally, Xu Lang couldn't accept this fact.
How poor a person must be to make a profit from this, and how inhumane a person must be to do this. In their eyes, those newly born babies are not people, but goods. Each one can
The thought of the goods that made them money made people very angry, and what made Xu Lang feel extremely angry and extremely sad were the women who gave birth to these children.
How poor and short of money do they have to think of getting money in this way? Why do they do this? What do they want?
Although there are some people who choose to do this in open countries abroad, they are only a handful. However, China is an ancient civilization that has been passed down for thousands of years. In ancient times, the civilization was backward, the ideology was feudal, and sons were favored over daughters.
, in order to have a child, they may do this, but at most it is just adoption or adoption, and more often it is just marrying multiple wives. This was true in the ancients, but in this era, there are still people who do this.
Let’s not talk about it. Pregnancy and childbirth are inherently harmful to women’s bodies. Even if they successfully get pregnant and give birth to a child, what will they gain? In the end, they gain nothing and lose their lives.
Is it worth it?
Of course not worth it.
Before knowing the truth, Xu Lang always felt that those who sold their bodies were pathetic, pitiful, and hateful. However, most people still had extenuating circumstances, or in other words, they had no choice but to bear it.
Temptation, such as the case of selling human organs that Xu Lang solved, they hurt themselves, but what about this case? They killed others, and what's even more hateful is that they actually targeted those who were just born,
It would be unbearable for anyone to do this to a baby who doesn't understand anything, not to mention that so many people died.
People are human because they know how to think and have morality and conscience to restrain themselves. But what about Chen Zhen and others? Where is their morality and conscience? In other words, where is their humanity?
Tiger poison does not eat its seeds. This is true for all animals, but what about humans?
Xu Lang suddenly remembered a saying, sometimes people are people, and sometimes they are not people at all. This is the case with Chen Zhen and others.
After a long silence, Xu Lang spoke again.
"Who is Uncle Li?" Xu Lang asked.
Chen Zhen
After thinking for a while, he said: "My uncle has been in the village since I was born. I only know that he has a high prestige in the village. He has the final say on almost everything in the village. Who is he? I
I don’t know, but he is a very powerful person, and the older I get, the more clearly I can feel this.”
"Are you afraid of him?"
"Everyone in the village is not afraid of him."
"Then why are you so afraid of him?"
"I don't know, I was born with it."
"Did you start smuggling and selling wild protected animals and selling babies in the past few years?" Xu Lang asked.
Chen Zhen shook his head and said: "Baby trafficking only started in the past few years. As for smuggling wild protected animals, in fact, it has been done a long time ago."
"Have you been doing this a long time ago?"
Xu Lang frowned and looked at Chen Zhen.
"Yes, it started a long time ago." Chen Zhen nodded and said, "Chen Qiumin is dead. I think your police must have investigated Chen Qiumin's family background and found out that his parents have passed away, and they have a breeding farm in Changyang City.
The farm, in fact, was the earliest place where wild animals were smuggled.”
Hearing this, Xu Lang was immediately shocked, and then he figured out that when Fan Yang returned to his hometown to investigate the murder of Chen Jianjun and his wife, he had already found this breeding farm. However, because Chen Jianjun and his wife
Death, this breeding farm has no one to take care of it and has been abandoned for a long time. When Fan Yang was investigating, he did not find any useful clues in the breeding farm. This matter was put aside by Xu Lang. Now
, hearing what Chen Zhen said, Xu Lang found that their understanding of Chenjiahe Village was still too superficial.
"When did the smuggling begin?" Xu Lang asked.
Chen Zhen thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't know exactly when it started, but I am certain that the smuggling started a long time ago."
"That's it."
Xu Lang pinched his chin and fell silent.
"Did Chen Jianjun and his wife really die accidentally?" Xu Lang suddenly asked.
"Accident? How is it possible?"
Chen Zhen smiled and said, "They didn't want to do this anymore and were planning to leave Chenjiahe Village completely. The uncle found out, so they died."
"How did you know?" Xu Lang asked.
"Chen Wang told me this when I accidentally asked him about it once he was drunk."
"Does Chen Qiumin know?" Xu Lang asked again.
Chen Zhen thought about it, frowned, and said uncertainly: "Maybe he doesn't know. If he knew, with his character, he would definitely kill Chen Wang."
Xu Lang was silent.
"There is a refrigerator in the room where Chen Qiumin lives. In the refrigerator, we found cooked body parts. What happened to these body parts?" Xu Lang asked.
"Oh, you're talking about those corpses. You should know that Chen Qiumin actually has the habit of cannibalism, right?" Chen Bo looked at Xu Lang and asked.
Xu Lang nodded. As for Chen Qiumin's cannibalism, previous investigations have proven this, and Chen Yuzhen's previous confession has further proved this. Now, after hearing what Chen Zhen said, Xu Lang
Not shocked at all.
"Those body parts are actually the bodies of pregnant women."
"Pregnant woman's? However, we found the man's body parts in the refrigerator." Xu Lang frowned and said.
"It was some time ago. A villager wanted to leave, and then he was killed. There was also an eight-year-old child from the next village. He accidentally saw something he shouldn't have seen, and he was killed.
Killed."
"Chen Qiumin started cannibalism. When did he start?"
"I don't know exactly when, but I'm sure that his cannibalism was either inherited or cultivated by his uncle." Chen Zhen said.
"Hereditary?"
Xu Lang was stunned for a moment, and then he thought of Chen Qiumin's grandfather.
"Could it be said that Chen Qiumin's grandfather has eaten people?" Xu Lang asked in shock.
Chen Zhen nodded and said, "I have also heard that Chen Qiumin's grandfather, during the war, relied on cannibalism to survive in order to survive. As for whether it is true or not, I don't know."
"Then you said that Chen Qiumin might have been trained by Uncle Li to eat people. What do you mean?"
"This is just my guess. Among us, he is the only one who has the best relationship with the uncle. I estimate that Chen Qiumin's cannibalism is probably related to the uncle."
Hearing what Chen Zhen said, Xu Lang felt more and more that there were too many secrets in Chenjiahe Village, and they were far beyond Xu Lang's imagination.
Next, Xu Lang asked Chen Zhen many questions, and Chen Zhen also told everything he knew, including his relationship with Song Jinzhong, the places where Song Jinzhong and Chang Hongyun might be hiding, and the relationship between these places and Chen Shuhao and Chang Hongyun.
Cunliang and others confessed almost the same thing, and in the end, they talked about the whereabouts of Uncle Li and others.
At the end, Xu Lang learned a very important piece of information from Chen Zhen, that is, in the mountains behind Chenjiahe Village, there was a secret base built a long time ago. Chen Zhen didn't know where it was specifically, but...
He was sure that there was such a place. Since Xu Lang and the others were unable to find the whereabouts of Uncle Li and the others for the time being,
, then, they are probably hiding in that secret base.
This information is undoubtedly one that deserves great attention and attention. After Xu Lang learned about it, he immediately contacted Tian Yongchun who was still in charge of Chenjiahe Village. After Tian Yongchun learned this information, he immediately began to rearrange the search.
direction.
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After the interrogation, Xu Lang discovered that Chen Zhen not only did not feel depressed and uneasy because he had told everything, but instead felt relieved and relieved.
When Chen Zhen was taken out of the interrogation room, he looked at Xu Lang and asked, "I will be sentenced to death, right?"
"Whether you will be sentenced to death, I don't know. I believe the law will give you a fair sentence."
"I know that I will definitely be sentenced to death. I just hope that this day comes earlier so that I can be truly free."
Xu Lang looked at Chen Zhen and said nothing. From Chen Zhen's eyes, Xu Lang could see that he was telling the truth.
Chen Zhen was taken away, and Xu Lang and the others also left the detention center. Now, they are going back to CSY to see the situation there.
On the way back, Ding Haoqiong looked at the terrifying Xu Lang with a gloomy face, and asked, "Do you really believe what Chen Zhen said?"
Xu Lang turned his head, looked at Ding Haoqiong and asked, "Don't you believe it?"
Ding Haoqiong shook his head, thought for a while, and said, "It's not that I don't believe it, but that I don't dare to believe it and I don't want to believe it."
Xu Lang was silent.
Indeed, the content of Chen Zhen's confession was beyond Xu Lang's imagination. They smuggled and sold wild protected animals, sold babies, imprisoned pregnant women, killed people and even cannibalized people. Every bit of this was horrifying, unbelievable, incomprehensible, and even more incomprehensible.
accept.
Both Xu Lang and Ding Haoqiong have been to Chenjiahe Village. Although Chenjiahe Village is a very remote village and it does seem to be very poor, it is not so poor that it is impossible to open the pot. In the village, people can still
Although those who are self-sufficient live a hard life, they have not yet fallen into the path of murder and crime.
In fact, Chen Zhen and the others are definitely not the first group to smuggle and sell wild protected animals. There are others doing it, especially in the northwest of China. Many similar gangs are cracked down by the police every year. After all, in
Under the temptation of money, many people still take risks. However, while they gain benefits, they also pay a heavy price for it.
Human trafficking has decreased a lot in recent years, but it was still a lot in the past, especially in the last century. However, human trafficking is still mainly focused on women and children. Most of these women are deceived into remote mountain villages.
, became wives for those bachelors, or were forced to engage in prostitution, and some were sent abroad to engage in similar work. However, as the country pays more and more attention to this aspect, the crackdown becomes stronger and stronger, similar
Things happen less and less.
Especially in this era where illiteracy is unlikely to occur, and ordinary people are not so easy to deceive. However, while there are fewer cases of abduction and trafficking of women, there are more and more cases of child abduction and trafficking.
For reasons such as this, the care of children is neglected, which allows some people with bad intentions to take advantage of it, causing children to be abducted and trafficked. The country also attaches great importance to this aspect and cracks down hard, especially
With the help of parents who have lost their children and other people, abducted children are found every year, and criminals are arrested and severely punished by the law.
However, Xu Lang and the others never thought that in today's civilized society with sound laws, there are still people who are so crazy that they make money by selling babies. What is hateful is that the women who gave birth to these children actually did so voluntarily.
This is something Xu Lang and the others cannot accept.
In addition, there is another thing that Xu Lang and the others cannot believe or understand.
Judging from the current investigation and information, the secret behind Chenjiahe Village involves many people, and the largest number of people involved is everyone in Chenjiahe Village. It is not unprecedented in history that people from a village commit crimes together.
, but there are only a handful of them, very rare. It is difficult for Xu Lang to understand why they engage in criminal activities. Is it because they are uneducated and do not know whether they are committing a crime or because they have been deceived? Or, they
You knew it was a crime, but you still did it?
If it was for money, they had made a lot of money over the years by smuggling and selling wild protected animals. They could leave Chenjiahe Village and live in the county and urban areas. It was absolutely necessary to continue, but they did not leave.
When Xu Lang and others went to Chenjiahe Village to investigate, they found that each of their families was not very wealthy and did not look like they were rich. Why was this?
If it's not for money, what are they doing this for?
What puzzled Xu Lang the most was Uncle Li.
What kind of ability and strength does he have to make everyone listen to him? Not only the people in the village listen to him, but young people like Chen Zhen are also very obedient. You know, cities are not like rural areas. In cities,
The information they receive is the most advanced, but they are willing to commit crimes together. Why is this? Chen Zhen is still a college student. Although he has not graduated, he must have a lot of knowledge about the law. He participated in the crime mainly because of Uncle Li.
How can a dying old man control so many people and follow him into the abyss of sin?