Tuesday 10.20am

"Hello, classmate Yang Mo! I am police officer Lin Xiaojing in charge of this criminal case! I am not much older than you, just call me sister! This interrogation is not what you imagined, it is just a simple comparison It's just a formal inquiry, just relax! Just answer how you want, don't feel any psychological burden."

Yang Mo looked nervously at the female police officer with a ponytail and a sweet smile.

There are no cameras or other surveillance here, so it’s a little different from the interrogation room I thought..."

Yang Mo turned his eyes and looked around at the interrogation design that looked like a square interior space. It was clean and neat, with no slight flaws or peeling wall coverings at all. The color of the walls was a uniform gray-blue.

It would be nice if the walls of my house looked like an interrogation room.

Yang Mo didn't know why he suddenly thought of home.

Yang Mo lowered his head and looked at the silver handcuffs tightly cuffing his wrists, and a feeling of uneasiness slowly filled his heart.

"Don't worry, little brother! This is just a process of interrogation. Sister will help you solve it immediately after asking the questions."

Officer Lin looked at Yang Mo with a gentle tone.

"I understand, I will cooperate with the questions you ask, sister."

Officer Lin smiled after hearing this.

"Then let's get started!"

Officer Lin then turned his chair and turned on the projection equipment behind him.

Yang Mo watched the white curtain slowly lowering, and the increasingly clear images made Yang Mo feel fear again, and his hands and feet began to gradually tremble.

Officer Lin sitting in front stared at Yang Modao.

"You may not know how He Jiaqing died. Although this method is a bit cruel, I still want you to see it."

Looking at the bloody incision in the neck on the curtain, the headless He Jiaqing was parked quietly on the edge of the bed. Because the camera had a flash to take the picture, the splattered blood in the photo appeared particularly clear.

Yang Mo pulled out the chair and finally couldn't help but fell to his knees on the floor with a thump, and kept retching.

Officer Lin on the side slowly turned his head to look at the wall on the right, shaking his head slightly.

"This is just the beginning. Continue to interrogate him. There is no need to carry unnecessary emotional baggage because he is a child." Officer Wang bent down and pulled up the microphone on the electronic board and said coldly.

"Yes." Officer Lin lowered his head and pressed the Bluetooth headset next to his ear and whispered.

Officer Wang stood up and stroked the thick beard under his chin, squinting through the reverse glass and watching Yang Mo's every move.

The tears in Yang Mo's eyes fell on his cheeks, and he gasped and looked up at Officer Lin, who looked a little downcast.

"Why are you showing me this?"

"I'm sorry, this is also an interrogation session to clear your suspicion. I hope you can understand."

Officer Lin's thoughts were interrupted and he looked up at Yang Mo and said guiltily.

Yang Mo knocked on his legs that were shaking with fear, grabbed the corner of the table with both hands and slowly stood up and sat back in the interrogation chair.

"Really? Then there's nothing we can do." Yang Mo said hoarsely.

"Maybe you feel that this kind of interrogation is unreal, but the only real thing is that He Jiaqing is dead." Officer Lin hesitated.

Yang Mo felt a heavy feeling in his heart that he had never felt before after hearing this.

"This murder case, which is somewhat inexplicable to our police, has happened to you who are only 14 or 15 years old. It is so sudden and unreasonable..." Officer Lin pursed his lips and his eyes turned red. stand up.

"Sister, there is no need to say so much. It has happened for so many days and I can slowly accept it." Yang Mo lowered his eyes and said.

No matter how strong this sister's ability to empathize is, she is not a party to this case after all and cannot empathize with her, so continuing to make such emotional remarks will only lead to meaningless time. The only thing she can do now is... .

"I will tell you all the information I have in the case completely, so can I ask you, sister, for one thing?"

"Say it." Officer Lin said seriously.

"We must catch the real culprit." Yang Mo said with complicated eyes.

"Tell him we will." Officer Wang looked at Yang Mo and said into the microphone with an expressionless face.

"Old Wang, this is really unexpected. I didn't expect your judgment to be interesting." The police officer who was also looking at Yang Mo said in surprise.

"Xiao Lin, the only perceptual thinker in the police force, came to interrogate this Yang Mo just to see how he would react in such an empathetic atmosphere. Unexpectedly, he turned out to be such an honest boy. I thought he would You know how to lie! It seems to have exactly the opposite result." Officer Wang withdrew his sharp eyes and said helplessly.

"It seems like it's going to take a lot of effort!" The police officer sitting on the side stretched out on his chair and laughed.

"Is there any way?"

"Hmph, I wish I had more." Officer Wang took out the Chinese lit and took a sip.

Officer Lin pressed the electronic pen and the picture on the curtain moved to the next one.

In the picture, the mobile phone on the counter was lying quietly on the cabinet. When Yang Mo saw it, a cold sweat broke out on his back.

"This mobile phone saw your name when our police checked the communication records." Officer Lin said and pressed the electronic pen to display Yang Mo's name on the screen.

"This is because..." Yang Mo pretended to be calm and said.

"I called Jiaqing at that time to ask if she had arrived home."

"Have you arrived home? The phone shows that the dialed time is 9:50, and the crime occurred at 10:20. Where were you during this time?" Officer Wang said into the microphone, his eyes tight. Staring at Yang Mo.

"I'm at home."

"Really, but can you explain why you were downstairs at He Jiaqing's house at nine-fifty? Why did you go there suddenly? What were you doing there?"

"Because...she forgot her bag." Yang Mo replied.

Officer Lin stared at Yang Mo's face as if trying to find some trace.

"I forgot my bag, and then you went to the community to return the bag to her. Is that your reason?" Officer Lin's tone became a little nervous after speaking.

"Yes." Yang Mo said without hesitation.

"Play the surveillance video from the day of the incident." Officer Wang stared at Yang Mo and said.

Officer Lin pressed the electronic pen to play the video.

Yang Mo looked at the video of himself wearing sportswear and a duck-bill hat appearing on the surveillance camera and slowly opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.

"It's you, isn't it?"

"That's right, but isn't it a bit arbitrary to conclude that I am suspected of murder based on just a piece of surveillance video?" Yang Mo looked a little excited while looking at the video.

"Don't you know it after reading it?"

Yang Mo watched himself on the surveillance camera walking step by step into the unit building, his pupils gradually dilated.

"How is that possible!!! How could I possibly go in when I was just waiting downstairs?! Are you kidding!!!"

"What do you mean?" Officer Lin was startled by Yang Mo's sudden voice and asked cautiously.

"That night I called He Jiaqing and asked He Jiaqing to come down and pick up the bag. She said she had a guest at home and asked me to wait for her downstairs for a while. After waiting for more than ten minutes, she came to WeChat and said that I didn't want to wait for her anymore and asked me to give it to her tomorrow. , but I didn’t expect that when I got up and watched TV the next morning, I saw the news, and she was actually..." Yang Mo's eyes widened and tears could not stop flowing down.

"So what you mean is that you admitted to being downstairs at He Jiaqing's house that night, but denied that you entered the unit building?" Officer Lin confirmed.

"Yes." Yang Mo said firmly.

"Could it be that the surveillance lied?" Officer Wang joked to the colleague next to him. "

"I'm telling the truth!!! I really didn't lie!" Yang Mo stood up fiercely and said loudly.

"Okay, the interrogation is over. Xiaolin, you can come out." Officer Wang put the cigarette into the ashtray.

"Okay, classmate Yang Mo, the dictation sister you mentioned will be used as a reference for verification. There is also the possibility of surveillance issues such as wrong filming or falsification."

After hearing this, the corners of Officer Wang's mouth gradually drooped, and the relief in his eyes slowly disappeared.

"Xiao Lin, your parents are quite old, right?"

Officer Lin's movements to stand up suddenly stiffened.

"Your parents are not in good health, right? What will they do if something happens to you outside?"

Officer Wang whispered into the microphone.

"You are still young, there are some things you don't understand, and what you know is limited. If you still want to earn money to buy a house in the city, you should do your job well."

"Other things that shouldn't be known should be mixed in less."

Officer Wang stared at Officer Lin expressionlessly.

"do you understand?"

Officer Lin slowly sat back in his chair, changed the oral history on the computer, and left the interrogation room without saying a word.

"Isn't this right..." Officer Wang raised his lips and stood up to leave the monitoring room.

"Sister?" Yang Mo looked at Officer Lin's leaving figure with confusion.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Lin Xiaojing's suppressed emotions gradually collapsed and she squatted on the ground and cried.

"The interrogation is over. Relax, kid." Officer Wang opened the door of the interrogation room and patted Yang Mo on the shoulder with a smile.

"I didn't kill him, uncle, please believe me!" Yang Mo looked at Officer Wang and begged.

"Uncle, of course I believe you. After all, you, a teenage student, don't have the strength to cut off a person's head with one knife, and it's impossible to put it on an adult." Officer Wang stepped towards the computer on the table. Lean.

"So can the suspicion be ruled out?" Yang Mo asked nervously.

"Ruling out suspicion?" Officer Wang was stunned for a moment after hearing this.

"Yes, because I am not a murderer in the first place!"

Yang Mo watched as the man in front of him couldn't help but laugh after listening to his words.

"Hahaha! But I can't blame you, because you don't understand yet."

Officer Wang smiled and pressed the electronic pen in his hand.

"Of course uncle believes you, but do you want to know what this video means? As long as your fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, you will be identified as the murderer." Officer Wang turned his head and looked at Yang Mo.

"Uncle, I don't quite understand what you want to say..."

"It means that being convicted and your uncle believing you are two different things. When you get to the court, you should let the people there believe that you did not kill anyone." Officer Wang said with a smile.

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