In the interrogation room, there was silence again because Xu Lang was not conducting questioning.
The faces of Xu Lang and the others were ugly, especially Xu Lang. They did not get any useful clues from Chang Hongyun, and what he said was information that the police already had. Continuing the interrogation would have little effect. Xu Lang
Lang and the others must start from other aspects to obtain new evidence, and there is no way around this.
"That's it for today."
After a long silence, Xu Lang finally spoke.
Ding Haoqiong and Lai Pi looked gloomy, silently packing up the materials on the interrogation table and preparing to leave.
"Officer Xu, please tell me, when can I leave?"
Chang Hongyun raised his wrist and looked at the valuable watch on his wrist and asked.
Watches are a symbol of a man's wealth, just like women will buy a lot of jewelry and luxury goods to dress themselves up. Maybe some rich people don't like to drive luxury cars, live in villas, and dress simply, but their temperament
There are also watches, which are very particular. Chang Hongyun's watch is worth a lot of money. With Xu Lang's current income, it would probably take many years to afford such a watch.
"Until the problem is investigated clearly, you can only stay here for the time being." Xu Lang said lightly.
"Officer Xu, let me remind you that I am a law-abiding person. If you have evidence to prove that I have committed a crime, I have no objection to arresting me. However, now that you have no evidence in your hands, you can only detain me for twenty years."
Four hours, and now, it has been almost twenty-four hours since I was arrested, can I leave?" Chang Hongyun said in a calm tone.
Hearing this, Xu Lang stopped, turned his head, looked at Chang Hongyun, and found that the other person was looking at him with a half-smile.
"Don't worry, we will find evidence. By the way, I forgot to tell you that your detention time has been extended. It is now forty-eight hours. Of course, if we find new clues and evidence, we can extend the detention time again." Xu
Lang said with a smile.
Chang Hongyun stopped talking. The smile on his face gradually disappeared and his expression became gloomy. Obviously, he was very dissatisfied with the result.
"Have a good rest, we will talk to you again."
After saying this, Xu Lang led Ding Haoqiong and the others out of the interrogation room, leaving Chang Hongyun sitting alone in the interrogation room.
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After walking out of the interrogation room and coming to the office area, Xu Lang slammed the documents in his hands on the desk and shouted loudly: "Fuck, you are doing this to me, you old fox."
The interrogation had no results and Xu Lang was irritable and annoyed. This is normal. In fact, it was not just Xu Lang but also Ding Haoqiong and Lai Pi who participated in the interrogation.
Lai Pi looked at the angry Xu Lang, thought for a moment, and said, "Brother Lang, haven't Chen Zhen and the others already confessed? We can let them testify against Chang Hongyun. Let's see how he can still quibble?"
Xu Lang said nothing, raised his head and glanced at Lai Pi.
Ding Haoqiong shook his head and said aside: "This is the most direct way. However, we can think of it, and Chang Hongyun will definitely think of it. He must have thought of how to deal with it. I am worried that if we do this, not only will we fail to achieve the goal,
If the expected effect is achieved, it will also allow him to find our flaws and put us completely into a passive situation."
"Is it just going to go on like this? Let him go after forty-eight hours?" Lai Pi also became excited.
As soon as Lai Pi said this, Ding Haoqiong stopped talking. They all knew one thing, that is, if new and powerful evidence is not found within the next twenty-four hours to prove Chang Hongyun's guilt,
When the forty-eight hours are up, whether Xu Lang and the others are willing or not, they will release the person. Releasing the person is a very simple matter, but if they want to arrest Chang Hongyun again, they must have sufficient evidence, and
It cannot be solved with just a few words of suspicion.
In addition, if Chang Hongyun is released, given his ability and experience, what if he takes the opportunity to abscond? Before the police find sufficient and strong evidence, Chang Hongyun may not choose to do this, but, no
Excluding this possibility, similar things have not happened in many previous cases. If it really comes to this time, it will be very difficult to arrest Chang Hongyun.
"Evidence, evidence, we still have to find sufficient evidence."
Xu Lang said helplessly.
Lai Pi and Ding Haoqiong looked at each other and saw the worry in each other's eyes.
Xu Lang gradually calmed down and asked Ding Haoqiong: "Has the investigation into the company under Chang Hongyun's name been completed?"
"Oh, Luo Jiayan has already taken people there. The police department has also intervened in the investigation, and the customs has also notified her." Ding Haoqiong said.
Xu Lang nodded, just get on with it and hope there will be results.
"By the way, how was the interrogation by Chang Hongyun's bodyguard?" Xu Lang asked again.
Lai Pi shook his head and said: "After the interrogation, there was no result. He didn't say a word and chose to remain silent."
Hearing this, Xu Lang's eyes dimmed a bit. Obviously, it was unrealistic to open a breakthrough from Chang Hongyun's bodyguard Yu Liang. If Yu Liang could be taken down so easily, Chang Hongyun would not be there.
During the interrogation just now, Yu took the initiative to mention
Liang, and Dong Wenzhuo, another bodyguard of Chang Hongyun, is still lying in the hospital, unconscious, and he is the person closest to Chang Hongyun, so he should know a lot of things, but he is also unconscious now, otherwise, from now on,
It would be a good way to open a breakthrough for him.
In fact, when Dong Wenzhuo was arrested, Xu Lang felt that Chang Hongyun should have planned to abandon his soldiers to save his car. Moreover, Dong Wenzhuo had not been following Chang Hongyun for a long time, and he should not know much. Otherwise, he would not have arranged for Dong Wenzhuo, Chen Yuzhen and others to be arrested.
Chen Zhen left together. Of course, if Dong Wenzhuo wakes up, everything will be easy to say. The key is that he is unconscious now.
The problems of Song Jinzhong and others are now basically clear, and the facts of their crimes, including the Changkui company where they work, their residence, and according to their explanations, the evidence found by the police is enough to prosecute them, but
, trying to prove Chang Hongyun's guilt through this evidence is still not possible.
First of all, the activities they engage in in smuggling and selling wild protected animals do not have any written documents. They pay attention to the payment with one hand and the delivery with the other hand. The goods are all brought directly from Hengtong County to S City by Song Jinzhong and they are delivered directly.
As for the money that went into the hands of Chang Hongyun and the others, it was directly given in cash, and the money went directly into Chen Zhen’s hands. The person who gave the money was not given by Chang Hongyun personally, but someone specially sent it there.
The people who gave the money were different each time. Chen Zhen didn't even know their names, so naturally he couldn't find them.
Secondly, Song Jinzhong and the others are more like an intermediary, responsible for the intermediate links. As for other things, they don't know much. Even though there is now a lot of evidence to prove that these things are related to Chang Hongyun, Chang Hongyun is only a suspect.
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Now, there are only four ways to get Chang Hongyun to plead guilty.
First, open a breakthrough from Chang Hongyun himself. Xu Lang and the others tried this method just now, but it obviously didn't work.
Second, open a breakthrough from the people around Chang Hongyun. However, there are no people who are very close to Chang Hongyun except for the employees of his company and two bodyguards. Of the two bodyguards, one is silent.
, without saying a word, and one unconscious. As for the employees of his company, there are many of them. The investigation takes time, and time is exactly what Xu Lang and the others lack now. Chang Hongyun's relatives, his wife and children left the country very early.
They have been living abroad and have not come back for many years. Even if Xu Lang and the others let their relatives come back, it is estimated that the effect will not be big. What's more, it will take time to contact them and let them come back. What's more, it takes time.
What's more, they are no longer Chinese nationals, which will bring new obstacles to the police.
Third, that is to find evidence that Chang Hongyun engaged in criminal activities in a short period of time. However, this also takes time.
Fourth, find Uncle Li and his group and start from the source. As long as Uncle Li and others are arrested and the problem is explained, then Chang Hongyun will definitely not be able to escape.
There seemed to be many ways, but they either didn't work or lacked time, which made Xu Lang feel helpless and powerless.
Since Xu Lang came back from Chenjiahe Village, he has been busy investigating these things. In fact, he has been worried about the progress on Tian Yongchun's side. However, so far, there is still no new progress on Tian Yongchun's side. They have not found anything yet.
Uncle Li and others, as for Chen Guodong, the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection has started working intensively, and Chen Guodong has also taken the initiative to confess the facts of his crime. However, regarding Chang Hongyun, he only knows this person. As for what Chang Hongyun does,
He doesn't know either.
Passive, Xu Lang and the others were very passive, and the investigation reached a deadlock.
In addition to the lack of progress in Chang Hongyun's affairs, there was another thing that made Xu Lang feel troubled.
The number of skeletons discovered in the cave in Chenjiahe Village has reached as many as fifty-two. Autopsies by forensic doctor Qin Mingyue and other forensic doctors showed that the deceased were all women and had a history of childbirth. This means that there were already fifty-two people.
The woman was killed. This is what the police have currently judged based on the corpses. In addition to the fifty-two who have been killed, it is not yet clear whether there are other victims. However, Xu Lang can be sure that there are still victims.
It is unheard of to have so many victims in one case. It is also the case with the largest number of deaths in S City in recent years. Who are they? Where are they from? What occupations did they engage in during their lifetime? None of this is known.
Know.
Now, apart from knowing that these victims are all women and that they are all young, with the youngest only sixteen years old and the oldest in his early thirties, nothing else is known. Furthermore, according to the forensic autopsy results,
The deaths of these victims all occurred in the past two years or so. The latest body was found half a month ago, which was the period before Chen Qiumin was killed.
At the scene where the corpses were found, no belongings were found, and no documents were found to prove their identities. Therefore, it is simply impossible to quickly determine the source of the corpses and find clues based on the corpses.
Among the fifty-two corpses, except for the three corpses that were carbonized by the fire, some of the other corpses have turned into white bones, some have been highly decayed, and only a small part of them still retain some of their physical appearance during life.
Characteristics, however, it is also difficult to determine their identity through this information.
Of course, the simplest way is to use technical means to restore 3D faces. However, this also takes time, and it takes a lot of time. With so many dead people doing it at the same time, the workload is huge.
With the police's successive major operations in recent days, even ordinary citizens have noticed that something is wrong, not to mention the media reporters. Although the relevant departments have done corresponding work, regarding the fire incident in Chenjiahe Village
, around the time of the explosion in the office building of the Hengtong County Public Security Bureau, the arrest and investigation of former Hengtong County Public Security Bureau Director Chen Guodong was also reported in the news one after another. However, the news about the involvement of the entire Chenjiahe Village in criminal activities has not yet been reported.
However, Xu Lang knew that this matter would definitely be reported before long.
If this news is reported, it will cause a huge social sensation and wave of public opinion.
Murder cases are common, but vicious cases like this in Chenjiahe Village are unprecedented. Once reported, the impact can be imagined.
The bombing of the public security bureau office building in a county town is already very detrimental to the image of the police, and the former director who carried out the explosion is even more detrimental. Moreover, if the public knows that in a small mountain village, not only
If the whole village committed a crime together, and there were smuggling of wild protected animals, baby trafficking, murder, surrogacy, etc., then Xu Lang didn't dare to think about the horrific consequences this would have.
As the investigation of the case deepened, the more Xu Lang knew, the more uncomfortable he felt. At the same time, he also felt horrified. Whenever he thought of Chenjiahe Village, he felt as if he had returned to primitive society.
That village was like a piece of goods, an object, a piece of garbage, so worthless.
Xu Lang used to think that the evil of human nature, no matter how evil, has a bottom line. However, in the case of Chenjiahe Village, Xu Lang did not see the bottom line. The only bottom line is that there is no bottom line. Where is morality, conscience, and law?
Nothing. Xu Lang really didn't believe that he was living in a new era.
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After interrogating Chang Hongyun, Xu Lang and the others began to focus their investigation on Chang Hongyun, and everyone was very busy.
In the afternoon, Xu Lang suddenly received a call from Tian Yongchun.
On the phone, Tian Yongchun told Xu Lang a piece of good news and two pieces of bad news.
The good news is that they finally found the place where the villagers of Chenjiahe Village were hiding. It was indeed a secret base left over from history deep in the mountains.
One of the bad news is that although they found the hiding place of the villagers, there was a problem when they were arresting them. Firstly, there were a large number of people on the other side, which hindered the arresting operation. Secondly,
, they were temporarily unable to determine whether all the villagers were involved in the crime, and it was impossible to issue an order to arrest and kill them on the spot, so a stalemate and confrontation occurred.
Before Tian Yongchun called Xu Lang, they had a fight with the villagers of Chenjiahe Village. There were firearms and heavy weapons hidden in the cave. During the confrontation, a gun battle broke out between the two sides. The battle lasted for a long time, and there were casualties.
There were a lot of people. Not only the police personnel died, but also many villagers died. The fighting has subsided and most of the villagers have been killed or arrested. Most of them are women and children, and some villagers have chosen to flee. The police
A manhunt has been launched.
The second bad news is that during the confrontation and fighting, the police did not find Uncle Li and Chen Qiang. It was the village chief Chen Weiguo who directed the resistance, and Chen Weiguo had been shot dead by the armed police on the spot. According to the interrogation of the captured criminals, it was learned that
, after Uncle Li brought them here to hide, he took Chen Qiang and left. As for where they went, they didn't know.
After learning that there were weapons hidden in the cave, Tian Yongchun and Director Du discussed and urgently mobilized troops to participate in the battle. The central government also knew about this and sent special personnel to the scene.
After hearing the news, Xu Lang felt more than shocked.
He thought that the police would find the villagers of Chenjiahe Village, and also thought that the other party would resist during the arrest. However, Xu Lang never thought that a fight would actually occur. It was incredible. This was a peaceful era, and it actually happened.
Xu Lang knew very well what fighting meant.
Tian Yongchun did not elaborate on the number of casualties on the phone, but from Tian Yongchun's tone, Xu Lang could tell that the number of casualties was definitely not a small number. Otherwise, there would not be armed police, special police, criminal police, and civilian police.
Next, we have to mobilize troops to participate in the battle, and the central government will not send people over immediately.
However, this sudden battle was put down. Although the price was high, Xu Lang should be happy, but he was still not happy because, in addition to those who were killed and arrested on the spot, there were also a handful of
People fled with guns. They are now a group of homeless dogs and are extremely dangerous. If they are not caught or killed as soon as possible, once they are allowed to escape from the mountain, the damage caused will be very serious. Xu Lang thought of this,
Tian Yongchun must have thought of it, and Xu Lang believed that he could handle this matter well.
There is another point that Xu Lang is most concerned about right now, and that is the disappearance of Chen Qiang and Uncle Li. Where have they gone? Where are they now? What are they doing? This is the key. If they are not found as soon as possible, Xu Lang is worried
There will be new incidents, and solving this series of cases as soon as possible is the top priority. As for other things, how the superior leaders will deal with the aftermath is not what Xu Lang should think about now.