Yu Hua Branch, interrogation room.
After Mu Xinran repeatedly declined, she finally arrived at Yu Hua Branch.
She wore a hat, sunglasses, a mask, a scarf, and a thick coat.
Other than her hands, there was nothing else that was exposed. No one from Team 2 could recognize her.
After entering the interrogation room, Mu Xinran was still wearing the same outfit.
Han Bin frowned. "Ms. Mu, please take off your hat, sunglasses, mask, and scarf. We are recording."
Mu Xinran hesitated for a moment before taking off her outfit. She complained, "If you have any questions, you can go to my house. Why do you have to come to the police station?"
"The police station has its own rules. I hope you can understand," Han Bin responded before getting to the point. "Do you know Jiang Erkang?"
"Officer Tian asked me yesterday. I don't know him," Mu Xinran said.
"Jiang Erkang admitted to taking pictures, but he didn't admit to extortion," Han Bin said.
"Officer Han, don't be fooled by him. If he didn't do anything, why would I call the police?" Mu Xinran asked.
"Tell me what he said on the phone again," Han Bin said.
Mu Xinran lowered her head and thought for a moment. "He said that he took a video of me and asked me to prepare ten million in cash. I'll wait for his call. I asked him where I could get the money, and he said that he would tell me when I have ten million."
"How many times did he make the extortion calls?"
"Just this once," Mu Xinran said.
"There is a real-time recording for your statement. Can you be responsible for what you said?" Han Bin asked.
"Yes," Mu Xinran said.
"Do you have any other evidence to prove Jiang Erkang's extortion?"
"No, I was terrified. Besides, isn't this the police's job?"
"Have you offended anyone recently?"
"No."
"Do you know why Jiang Erkang took pictures of you?"
"I'm not sure."
Mu Xinran shook her head and changed the topic. "What I'm most concerned about now is whether he got back all the videos he secretly took of me. I don't want my videos to be spread."
"We found a surveillance video on Jiang Erkang's computer. It's currently being kept by the police as evidence. We'll hand it over to you after the case is over."
Mu Xinran breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you."
"Ms. Mu, you really don't know why Jiang Erkang took photos of you?" Han Bin confirmed again.
Mu Xinran hesitated for a moment. "I don't know."
"Do you think Jiang Erkang was instructed by someone else?" Han Bin asked.
"I'm not sure." Mu Xinran lowered her head.
Regardless of whether Mu Xinran really didn't know or didn't want to say, it was meaningless for Han Bin to continue asking.
After giving Mu Xinran a statement, Han Bin interrogated Jiang Erkang again.
It was the same interrogation room, but the person in the interrogation chair was different.
Han Bin sized up Jiang Erkang. "You look good."
"Thanks to you," Jiang Erkang said politely.
Han Bin took a sip of tea to moisten his throat. "Jiang Erkang, do you know who was sitting on this chair just now?"
"I don't know."
"It's Mu Xinran," Han Bin said.
"Humph, so it's that hypocritical woman," Jiang Erkang said with disdain.
"Jiang Erkang, I heard you just bought a house?" Han Bin probed.
"Yes, my wife likes that neighborhood, so we bought it there." Jiang Erkang squeezed out a smile.
"The housing prices are so high now, and you can still afford a house. Amazing. Where are you and Guo Jiahui working?"
"We're doing business."
"What kind of business?"
"This case doesn't seem to have anything to do with it, right?" Jiang Erkang questioned.
"How is it unrelated? If we don't ask clearly, how do we know where the two million you bribed Li Xia came from?" Li Hui snorted.
"Officer, I've already told you that I earned it from doing business. I'm not a government official, so there's no need for me to report my assets to the government," Jiang Erkang said.
"Did someone give you money to take photos of Mu Xinran?" Han Bin voiced out his speculation.
Jiang Erkang smiled. "No, taking photos is my own action, and it has nothing to do with anyone else."
Han Bin interrogated for nearly an hour, and Jiang Erkang still insisted that he did not extort money. He only took photos secretly, and it was his own action, and it had nothing to do with anyone else.
…
After exiting the interrogation room, Li Hui could not help but scold, "Pfft, this kid must be lying."
Han Bin only wanted to test Jiang Erkang's attitude when he interrogated him again. "It's hard to make any more breakthroughs in this case, and he'll definitely fight to the end."
"Don't tell me that after spending so much effort to investigate, it's just a case of taking photos. If the other teams find out, they'll laugh at us," Li Hui said.
"The only evidence we can rely on now is that eavesdropping software," Han Bin said thoughtfully.
At noon, they had lunch at the police station's canteen.
After lunch, Han Bin rested on the table as usual.
After lunch, it was the easiest time for people to get sleepy. If they could take a nap at this time, it would definitely be a good thing.
"Creak …" With a muffled sound, the door was opened from the outside.
Zheng Kaixuan strode in. "Wake up, I have something to say."
"Captain Zheng, you look like you're in a hurry. What urgent mission do you have?"
"Just now, the vice captain of the city's criminal investigation team called me and asked me to help with a case." Zheng Kaixuan sat down on the chair.
The city's criminal investigation team was also called the first criminal investigation team. They were usually responsible for serious cases, and their rank was higher than the criminal investigation teams of other districts.
Zheng Kaixuan was the vice captain and team leader of Yu Hua Branch's criminal investigation team. If he went to the first criminal investigation team, he would only be a team leader.
"What case?"
Zheng Kaixuan sighed. "Guo Jiahui is dead."
"Jiang Erkang's wife is dead?" Li Hui said in surprise.
"Didn't she just come to the police station last night?" Tian Li didn't quite believe it.
"Yeah, she just came to the police station last night, and she's dead today." Although Zheng Kaixuan was used to seeing death, this kind of thing wasn't common.
"Are you sure?"
Zheng Kaixuan took out a stack of photos and put them on the table. "Look at them yourselves."
In one of the photos, a naked woman was lying by the river. She wasn't wearing any clothes, but there were many scars on her body.
After Han Bin looked at the photos carefully, he confirmed that the woman was indeed Guo Jiahui.
"Looking at the photos, she must have been tortured before she died. There are signs of being tied up on her wrists, and there are many scars on her arms, legs, and chest." Tian Li looked at the photos and couldn't help but frown.
"What time was the time of death?"
"According to the preliminary autopsy, the forensic doctor estimated that it was around five in the morning. The body was found in Anyang County, beside the Golden Water River. Anyang County didn't have enough manpower, so they reported it to the city bureau, and the city bureau's first criminal investigation team's second squadron took over the case." Zheng Kaixuan explained.
"The second squadron found out that Guo Jiahui's husband was detained by us, so they contacted you." Han Bin guessed.
Nodding his head, Zheng Kaixuan sighed, "I thought that this case was about to come to an end, but I never expected that there would be a big case!"
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