I Play Dungeons in the Police Station-Chapter 352 - 221: Who Is the Killer? (Part 2)

"Oh, I’m looking for your special investigation team’s Captain Li, please help me contact him."

"Okay, please hold on."

Soon, Li Xiang walked over: "Did you get the item?"

"Here you go."

"Would you like to come in and sit for a while?"

"Get lost!"

Zhao Wanting didn’t want to stay here for even a second. After throwing the USB drive to Li Xiang, she turned and left.

"Take your time leaving～"

Zhao Wanting stumbled and nearly broke her high heels.

Once Li Xiang got what he wanted, he returned to the special investigation team, found the experts, and began studying the data on the USB drive.

"How is it?"

Seeing the dense data on the computer, Li Xiang couldn’t understand it and was very anxious, making his desire to learn computer technology increasingly urgent.

"Captain Li, it’s him. We found the name of the software that modifies the phone’s backdoor and the operation records in his computer diary, which matches the record time on the phone we investigated. The chain of evidence is closed, we can proceed with the arrest."

"Great."

Li Xiang slapped his thigh, finally completing this mechanical grid mission.

This method of murder is truly novel.

"Immediately devise an arrest mission. Field team, report Zhao Shujie’s location."

Yesterday, after letting Zhao Wanting go, Li Xiang had assigned the field team to trail Zhao Shujie. The purpose was to facilitate the arrest once the evidence was verified.

"Captain Li, Zhao Shujie is currently staying at the Buckingham Palace."

"I’ll report to the leader, and the arrest team will proceed with the arrest immediately. The search team will be divided into two locations: Zhao Shujie’s company office and the Zhao family’s bedroom must be searched. No item related to the case should be overlooked, especially electronic devices and controllers."

"Understood."

Actioning...

At Li Xiang’s command, the special investigation team sprang into action.

A team of arrest officers quickly headed to Buckingham Palace, where, with the help of the field team, they arrested Zhao Shujie, who was relaxing at the spa.

"What are you doing? Do you know who I am? Who gave you the courage to arrest me?"

Zhao Shujie looked at the crowd rushing in, jumped off the bed in fright, and tried to run.

But every member of the special investigation team was agile, and with a single swift move, they had him down.

"Police, we’re arresting you, be cooperative."

A black hood was immediately placed over Zhao Shujie’s head.

After all, this guy is somewhat of a celebrity. The special investigation team didn’t want the case to be under the spotlight, or else they’d always be cautious.

Thus, a strange scene unfolded.

Zhao Shujie, wearing white shorts from Buckingham Palace, with a black bag over his head, was pressed into the car by two members of the special investigation team.

Another two search teams, holding search warrants, went respectively to the Zhao Group and the Zhao family to search Zhao Shujie’s office and bedroom. All suspicious items were taken back.

Time is of the essence.

An hour and a half after Zhao Wanting left, Zhao Shujie was brought back.

Wearing a Buckingham Palace logo-emblazoned shirt, Zhao Shujie sat on the interrogation chair, glaring angrily at Li Xiang: "I’m telling you, let me go, or you’ll be finished."

"I was already finished the day before yesterday when you arranged for Ding Xiang to install a controller in our car, attempting to cause a crash. Did you really think you did it flawlessly?"

"You... You’re making things up! What makes you say I arranged Ding Xiang to do it?"

"Ding Xiang’s phone records contain a call log with you at that time."

"So what? I called him to get something for me. How can you prove I ordered him?"

"Oh? To get something? What exactly? Was it to retrieve something from my car?"

Li Xiang played a video from the dashcam, showing it to Zhao Shujie: "Three minutes after your call with Ding Xiang, he appeared in our car and installed a little gadget. Do you know what that gadget was?"

"How would I know."

"You don’t know? No problem, we can just look at your computer. I bet you haven’t deleted the little program for the controller yet, right?"

Most certainly not deleted. The USB drive brought back by Zhao Wanting already had it copied, and during the search of Zhao Shujie’s bedroom, his computer was also seized as evidence.

When Zhao Shujie heard what Li Xiang said, he started to feel nervous.

His computer contained a lot of data, really a lot.

When he learned that Li Xiang brought back his computer too, he panicked: "Captain Li, I have a few words to say to you alone."

Li Xiang gestured to Jiang Fei to turn off the enforcement recorder, then said: "Go on."

"Captain Li, I made a mistake, please give me a break, I’ll give you five million."

"Five million? Can it buy your dad’s life? Can it buy Ding Xiang’s life?"

"Ten million, that’s all I have. Please let me go, the money is in an anonymous Swiss Bank account. Once you let me go, there won’t be any issue with you spending it, even acquiring properties worldwide is a small matter, just let me go."

The survival instinct is the same for both the poor and the rich.

The difference is, the rich are better at using their advantages for a futile struggle.

"Zhao Shujie, your only chance now is to confess honestly, seek forgiveness from your sister and mother, and compensate Ding Xiang’s family, rather than thinking of escaping. A real man takes responsibility for his actions, don’t even think about bribing national police officers, that’s an additional crime. The formal interrogation will start now, this is your last chance. If you still say nothing, once we find evidence on your computer, we can convict you even without your confession."

"How much do you earn a month?"

"Ten thousand."

"Even if you save everything for a lifetime, you won’t earn ten million. All you have to do now is let me go, and the money is yours."

Zhao Shujie couldn’t comprehend how someone could refuse money, has his previously successful tactics failed?

"Though it’s tempting, I don’t need that kind of money, fundamentally different paths mean we can’t make plans together. Jiang Fei, turn the enforcement recorder back on."

By this time, Jiang Fei was full of admiration for Li Xiang. When Zhao Shujie offered the ten million, even his breathing became a bit erratic, and internally he had doubts.

But he never expected Captain Li to refuse without even blinking.

This political awareness is why he became the captain.

Seeing that nothing could sway Li Xiang, Zhao Shujie was utterly desperate.

"I’m confessing."

Indeed, as Li Xiang expected.

Zhao Shujie had an extremely talented sister, and his father always used his sister’s achievements to motivate him, putting a lot of pressure on him.

No matter what he did, right or wrong, he never received his father’s praise.

He was always strictly disciplined.

This made him feel stifled.

He just wanted to win against his sister once, even just once.

He bribed the family servants, hoping they would take his side, but conventional methods were ineffective because Wanting held too much respect in their eyes.

Spurred by bad influences, he slowly got deeper and deeper into trouble.

He did a lot of stupid things, especially because these messes were always caught by his father, resulting in severe reprimands, even punishment in front of his sister, deeply wounding his ego.

Then, a month ago, a turning point emerged. His father fell ill.

During the month his father was sick, he finally unleashed his desires.

The whole family’s attention was on his father, so no one cared about him, allowing him to taste freedom, longing for days without his father’s discipline.

Thus, an evil idea was born, and once started, it couldn’t be stopped.

He even tried to direct all clues towards his sister, attempting to mislead the police into believing that these were actions his sister undertook.

The culprit was caught, the confession recorded, and when Li Xiang submitted the case report, the system also marked the settlement:

[Ding, main quest completion rate 80%, first completion reward skill: computer technology, task rating: B grade, reward skill experience +1500]