Chapter 12 Episode 12 The Fool in the Well Deceived You, Deceived You, and Deceived Yourself

  "I don't understand!"

  "Don't understand? Good. 'Let me introduce myself, my surname is Qin, I studied at the world's most famous university for two years, specializing in child abduction cases.' These two sentences are the guiding principle for handling child abduction cases, meaning 'to find the children, we must be willing to use unconventional methods.' Perhaps my approach makes you uncomfortable, but our goal is the same. Now, a new direction of investigation has given us a new breakthrough."

  "Hmm!"

  I handed a printed surveillance screenshot to Zhang Fugui, "Two days ago at 3 pm, the surveillance camera near your home captured your grandson chasing after Da Shuai and Er Shuai with stones. Not only did you not stop him, but you also laughed loudly and even taught your grandson how to throw more accurately!"

  "Hum! Even Master Sun's descendant breaks the law?!"

  "I didn't say you taught your grandson to bully the stupid ones, I was just thinking that when your grandson sneaks out alone to play, when he sees Big Stupid and Second Stupid alone, will he continue to chase them and throw things at them? So I pulled up the surveillance footage of Big Stupid and Second Stupid and saw this."

  I showed Zhang Fugui another surveillance screenshot.

  Zhang Fugui looked at it for half a day and said strangely: "There's nothing! It's all dark and black!"

  "How can there be nothing? Look, this silhouette is Da Sha, and behind Da Sha, there's a small stone flying in the air. See it? We found one of your grandson's hairs on Da Sha's corpse..."

  "Really?! Get away from Lao Hua!"

  I took a step back, "Let's just say it straight out, we found your shoe print at Dashi's house, and the villagers and surveillance cameras can prove that you were walking alone towards Dashi's house around 11:30 last night." I paused for a moment before continuing, "It must be that the villager also told you about this situation, so you went to ask Dashi again with a glimmer of hope. But you asked him like this: as soon as you entered the door, you kicked Dashi and then picked him up from the ground to ask if he had seen your grandson..."

  "No! It's not true! You're framing me! The police are framing people!" Zhang Fugui suddenly became very agitated.

  I picked up the loudspeaker next to me and aimed it at him: "What were the last few words of the big fool before he died? He was likely with your grandson! His last words were to tell you where the child is!"

  Zhang Fugui didn't say anything anymore.

  "Mr. Zhang, your grandson is likely to end up with Big Fool. The words of a fool may seem illogical but they must have some meaning. Or, you can ask him which direction he was pointing and looking at when he died, and then ask him where the child is. He will definitely answer you, it's just that you don't understand what he says."

  Zhang Fugui was pressed onto the chair, panting heavily. He handed him a cup of water and asked with a quiver: "Did you really capture Xiaolong chasing Dashi?"

  "I took a photo of someone throwing stones at the big fool, and there are several more, but they're too blurry to make out. You also know that although the village has installed a few surveillance cameras, it hasn't installed many streetlights, so it's very dark at night."

  "'Don't move, it's good; dead, it's good'..." Zhang Fugui mumbled, looking up to ask me, "What does it mean?"

  "Is that all there is to it?"

  Zhang Fugui shook his head, recalling: "Gone. I held onto a glimmer of hope and asked him, but he just said 'die' and got angry, so I kicked him with one foot. He crashed into the table and didn't move, like he'd gone soft. This doesn't count as murder, does it? Who knew he'd die so easily?"

  "What happened to the body afterwards?"

  "He threw it into the well." Zhang Fugui tried to recall, "His hands weren't pointing in any direction, they were just spread out, his feet were also spread out... not pointing in any direction..."

  "He can't even point in any direction, he can't move at all, his spine was broken by your kick."

  "What's the meaning of 'Ka-boom'? What did he say?"

  "Ka-boom? Oh... That wasn't Big Dumb speaking, it was the sound of his spine breaking."

  I replied to him, and casually crumpled up the "inky black" surveillance screenshot into a ball and threw it into the trash can. Zhang Fugui stared at me in a daze, and after a moment, he suddenly came to his senses.

  Then he hated me so much that he wanted to kick me to death like a big fool: "Bitch! You're going to die! You cheated again......￥#￥%......You're going to die!"

  Haha~ I fooled you, how about that? I fooled you once and used the same trick to fool you again, fooling you is a piece of cake.

  You get a bit more fierce, I love watching your flustered and helpless face, hee hee hee hee yay~

  I walked out of the interrogation room with a smug and self-satisfied look on my face.

  Wang Yong said: "Do you know that you now look very much like a wicked sorcerer?"

  "Who has one?" I pouted and clenched a fist by my face, feeling adorable.

  "Ugh..." Wang Yong.

  I'm really not that venomous, what I told Zhang Fugui was mostly true, mainly just one surveillance screenshot was fake.

  The screenshot is a technical drawing I asked to print one night, and the technician did an especially good job, even using Photoshop to touch it up a bit, making it look like it really happened.

  His grandson was chasing after the big fool, and his brother found three sets of footprints. He analyzed that the child was chasing after the big fool and the second fool to hit them. After visiting, it was also learned that a villager saw this scene and stopped the child.

  But it wasn't a dark night, it was in the afternoon. An hour later, the surveillance camera still captured the child pulling the little girl's braid, and only then did the child truly disappear from view.

  I'm just putting it off for a little while longer, haha~

  The most important thing is to prove that Wang Fugui's shoe prints and other human evidence are real. If they are real, then that's enough.

  The evidence has been solidified. Zhang Fugui may be able to get away with the crime of killing the black-haired pig by using money, but he will not be able to escape the crime of murder no matter what.

  Zhang Fugui's son and daughter-in-law came, made a scene at the police station for a while, Wang Yong directly stuffed me into the branch office and didn't let me out.

  "What's wrong? Why should I hide?"

  "This isn't hiding, this is avoiding conflict."

  ……

  The dust has settled, and the police station is filled with sighs. Many people are saying that Zhang Fugui is both hateful and pitiful. He lost his grandson and now he himself will have to go to prison for manslaughter. It's unknown whether his family can get through this ordeal.

  Wang Yong angrily shouted at them: "Why don't you say that Dashi is pitiful, does he deserve to die?!"

  Everyone suddenly fell silent and quietly went about their own business.

  After giving some advice on the missing person case, we prepared to return overnight, and other tasks would be followed up by the local police.

  Chang Ge said: "I didn't know that this sentence was a principle for handling child abduction cases until now."

  "If you're dead, put it down well, if you don't move, put it down well..." I muttered and repeated the last words that Da Shuai said.

  "Is anything wrong?"