GBP Chapter 1748: Playing tricks
Chapter 1748: Playing tricks
The interrogation room of the Yanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau was still dimly lit, but the atmosphere was different.
Li Xiangnan leaned against the glass observation window, smoking a cigarette. Guo Qian sat upright, while Wei Jingfei gripped his pen tightly.
At this moment, Wan Laoshe was sitting in a chair wearing handcuffs, and his feet were already wearing heavy iron shackles.
His expression was no longer one of indifference and shock, but rather one of near-relief and calm, and his expression even revealed his undisguised admiration for Li Xiangnan.
“You’ve had your tea and finished your cigarette,” Li Xiangnan said, exhaling smoke. “Now you can say what you need to say, right?”
"Li Xiangnan!" Wan Shuisheng's voice was still hoarse, but very clear: "In my life, I, Wan Shuisheng, have few people I admire, but you are the only one as young as me! I have no regrets about losing to you!"
Li Xiangnan stepped forward, pulled over a wooden chair, plopped down, and looked calmly at Wan Shuisheng across from him. "Since that's the case, then tell me in detail how Xu Sheng died!"
A complex smile appeared on Wan Shuisheng's lips as he began to speak. As soon as he started, Guo Qian, Wei Jingfei, and the members of the First, Third, and Fourth Battalions standing at the observation window next door all felt a chill.
"Xu Sheng may seem flawless and without any weaknesses, but he's actually a weak and incompetent fool! He's afraid of death, even more afraid of being disgraced, and even more afraid of having his dirty deeds exposed by you!"
Wan Laoshe's cigarette burned as he slowly took a drag. "I've been observing him for a long time, and through some channels I've obtained conclusive evidence that he once raped a female student, as well as records of his long-term research, use, ingestion, and experimentation with hallucinogens..."
Hearing this, Li Xiangnan narrowed his eyes. "Who are your connections?"
Wan Shuisheng was finally caught, and some clues about Xu Sheng's case were details that Li Xiangnan and Guo Qian urgently needed to know.
Based on the information currently available, it seems highly likely that Wan Shuisheng was hired to kill Xu Sheng.
Because the two of them had no prior connection.
Wan Shuisheng had committed thirteen crimes before. Except for the first case of killing the boat captain, which was out of revenge, Li Xiangnan guessed that the rest were either to vent his anger, to hone his killing skills, or, as his reputation grew, someone approached him hoping he could help solve their problems.
It is highly likely that Xu Sheng was killed in prison because Wan Shuisheng was hired by drug lords outside.
This is still speculation, but at this moment, Wan Shuisheng said that he had a way to obtain evidence that Xu Sheng raped female students, so it is possible that it was done by someone who had a grudge against Xu Sheng.
Wan Shuisheng's smile faltered slightly. He gave Li Xiangnan a deep look, neither admitting nor denying, but laughing freely and skipping over the question. "Of course I know he's in prison. Killing him silently is extremely difficult! This is different from the people I've killed before, but... it excites me immensely. If I succeed in taking his life, I'll be a legend in the martial arts world! So, I chose to let him end his life mysteriously, hahaha!"
His words, treating the trampling of life as a trivial matter, inexplicably aroused anger in all the police officers inside and outside the house.
At this moment, Li Xiangnan, suppressing his anger and barely containing his disgust for the culprit in front of him, asked, "What did you do?"
"The first step is to give him a strong psychological suggestion!" Old Snake Wan flicked away his cigarette butt and held up a finger. "I bribed a guard to open the top bricks of the playground drainage ditch for a whole week..."
Guo Qian gritted his teeth: "Name?"
"Ge Erdan!" Wan Shuisheng said indifferently.
Guo Qian turned his head and exchanged a glance with Li Xiangnan, and the two nodded slightly.
This is one of the last five people to be silenced.
Li Xiangnan asked, "Is it your old buddy that can't break the drainage bricks?"
"Of course! Otherwise, I wouldn't have spent money to bribe another person!" Wan Shuisheng shrugged. "In the entire exercise yard, there's only one iron brick in the northeast corner used for drainage. I had Old Snake go in and touch it before, and he found it was made of iron. Although it understands human nature, it's not as strong as a human... What a fucking idiot, who uses iron for drainage bricks!"
Li Xiangnan calmly said, "Those are iron bricks deliberately placed here to prevent anyone from trying to escape. It will naturally take some effort to move them, which will give the guards on the tower some reaction time."
"Nonsense, who the hell escaped from there!" Wan Shuisheng spat irritably and continued, "Luckily, no one noticed when a guard did it! He opened the iron brick at night and closed it in the morning! He naturally didn't understand why someone needed him to do this, and thought it was for the prison to drain water in time. In fact, that's what I told him, saying that the autumn rains were coming and the prison would have difficulty draining water... So I had Old Snake climb into the prison through the drainage pipes at night for seven consecutive days and put drunken grass powder in Xu Sheng's ventilation ducts!"
"This is a powder with datura added. Although the dosage is very small, after burning it, the smell is very faint, similar to low-quality sandalwood. It can relax people's minds and produce mild hallucinations and compliance, which is enough to make Xu Sheng's nerves start to become fragile! It can also make him familiar with this smell."
Li Xiangnan nodded, explaining the trace amounts of powdery debris found in the corner of Xu Sheng's cell and the sweet, cloying scent that could be detected when people entered.
He initially thought it was a one-time application, and wondered why the smell lingered for so long!
It turns out that Wan Shuisheng actually commanded a snake to be released into the wild for a week straight. No wonder the smell was so strong!
Xu Sheng's cell is practically pickled!
"The second step! It's to create a motive and a trigger for suicide!" Wan Shuisheng held up another finger, as confident as an old monk preaching. "Of course I know that you police are forcing him to confess. He's under a lot of pressure. During this time, I not only affected his nerves, but also delivered two things to where that guy could easily reach them on the night of the incident!"
Li Xiangnan narrowed his eyes slightly.
Inside Xu Sheng's cell, he and Guo Qian, along with other police officers, found nothing unusual.
In other words, it may have been taken away after the incident.
"What is it?" he asked in a deep voice.
“A photo of him driving Cuihua to her death, and a confession I wrote in imitation of his handwriting,” Wan Shuisheng laughed loudly. “Haha, it says on it that my crimes are so heinous that I can only die to atone for them to the world.”
Wei Jingfei angrily retorted, "Playing tricks!"
"Not bad! Haha!" Wan Shuisheng laughed heartily: "Although Xu Sheng's emotions were stable those days, as soon as the Drunken Fish Grass was lit at night, he would have hallucinations. He would think he had seen a ghost at the slightest sound, and he could see many things that we couldn't see. He might really have seen a ghost!"
Li Xiangnan said in a deep voice, "So, under the prolonged effects of hallucinogens, when those two things appeared, he suspected that he had really encountered a ghost, that it was a vengeful spirit seeking revenge!"
At this point, he suddenly remembered that some prisoners had heard voices coming from Xu Sheng's cell.
"Xu Sheng's mental instability even led to him talking to himself. Several of his personalities were brought to life by you, and you were acting out a scene in prison!"
“Excellent! Li Xiangnan, what a pity, you should have seen the scene back then! It was truly perfect!” Wan Shuisheng felt like he was the master of life. He shrugged and said with relish, “After he went insane, he would have accepted my guidance and completed this sacrificial act of suicide!”
He suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked at Li Xiangnan.
"Next comes my third step, my perfect assassination!"
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