Chapter 0510 – The Strange Events in Mingyang District
Being forced by Tian Lei’s gaze, Chen Ge was silent for a short while before he said something that surprised everyone.
”When one of my employees and I sent Huang Ling home last night, she had confided in us that her husband was a controlling psychopath.”
”It wasn’t her who was crazy? It was her husband?” Tian Lei put down his cell phone, “What proof do you have?”
”Huang Ling has been working outside to support her family, her husband Jia Ming keeps himself locked up in his home, no contact with people, self-isolated, in terms of attitude towards life Jia Ming is more likely to be the patient.” Chen Ge looked at Team Yan: “I also asked Team Yan to investigate Jia Ming before, you can ask Team Yan about the specifics.”
”You haven’t seen the real person and are only investigating through the periphery, how can you easily jump to conclusions? I’ve been in contact with both Jia Ming and Huang Ling, even Huang Ling herself thinks she’s sick, yet you say that it’s her husband who’s sick, could it be that you know the patient personally better than the patient herself?” Tian Lei, because he was worried about accidents, after receiving the driver’s report, he personally rushed to Huang Ling’s house early in the morning, and did not see the so-called murder, nor was there any domestic violence, and there were no injuries on Huang Ling’s body.
”I still insist on my own opinion, I feel that you are all deceived by Huang Ling’s husband, he used to be a simple and kind person, but people do change, maybe after experiencing the ravages of life, his body is now living a devil.” The development of things was completely different from what he thought, Huang Ling was already under control before he could probe for information, which caused Chen Ge to develop a sense of crisis, “The opponent this time is very cunning, we can’t be careless.”
Chen Ge and Tian Lei had a word for each other, the cab driver next to him had already listened dumbfounded, questions like who was mentally ill and who was lying had not crossed his mind at all, but one thing was for sure, he would never dare to drive to the eastern suburb late at night again.
”Both of you be quiet.” Team Yan signaled Chen Ge and Tian Lei to stop arguing, “Do you have the transcripts of Huang Ling and her husband?”
”Only Huang Ling’s husband’s, Huang Ling just had an offense last night, we were worried about irritating her again, so we just simply asked some questions.” The East City Police Station where Tian Lei is located has a heavier human touch than the West City Police Station, but there are times when having a human touch will instead affect subjective judgment.
”You guys are going in the wrong direction, the one who was with Chen Ge last night was Huang Ling, the one who left the phone number for the driver and drove the car away is still her, this woman is the most crucial person among the whole case.” Yan team threw the transcripts organized by Dongcheng police station on the table, “Let’s go, let’s go to Huang Ling’s house again now, it just so happens that I want to meet them as well.”
”Are you going too? No need, just leave this to us.” Tian Lei didn’t realize the danger hidden behind this case and felt that their police station was perfectly capable of handling it.
”Since we’ve come across it, let’s go and take a look, ignoring it is not something a police officer should do.” Team Yan directly opened the door of the office and headed outside, Li Zheng and Chen Ge followed closely behind, and the two people, Tian Lei and the driver, were soon left in the room.
”Comrade police officer, what’s the situation now? Can I leave?” The driver no longer expected to be able to claim more compensation.
”Go over together, you’re the victim, it’s not good for you to be absent at this time.” Tian Lei put on his police cap and walked out of the office as well, “Xiao Qing, Ah Wen, you two stay and watch the house, work hard tonight, call me if anything happens.”
”Tian team, where are you going?” Xiao Qing had just finished cleaning up the floor, but the drunkard threw up again.
”To handle the case.” Tian Lei waved his hand and led the driver out of the police station.
After nine o’clock in the evening, two police cars drove downstairs to Huang Ling’s house.
”Team Yan, we didn’t notify them either, it’s not good to go over directly like this, right?” Tian Lei got out of the car and jogged over.
”Didn’t you notify them during the day?”
”This is not in accordance with the rules right ……”
Several people came to the fourth floor and knocked on the door for half a day before hearing footsteps coming from inside the house.
”Who is it?” The man was very alert and didn’t open the door.
”Police, please open the door immediately and cooperate with the investigation.”
”Officer Tian?” The security door was opened, and a haggard-looking middle-aged man poked his head out, “Why are you here? Didn’t you ask everything during the day?”
”Go in and talk.” Several people all entered the house, Chen Ge followed at the very back, keeping a very low profile.
The house was not big and looked very simple, the sofa was worn out and should have been second-hand, there were stains left on the coffee table, and a pack of fruit candies was thrown on it.
”Feel free to sit.” The middle-aged man looked much older than his actual age, he ran to the kitchen and poured a few glasses of water out.
”Where’s your wife? Is she getting better? We have a few questions we want to ask her.” Team Yan was ostensibly inquiring about Huang Ling, but in reality, his eyes had been staring at the middle-aged man’s face, watching his expression change.
”Much better, I’ll call her out.” The middle-aged man walked to the bedroom door and gently knocked on the door, “Huang Ling, the police want to ask you something.”
A few moments later, a woman with a waxy face who looked like she didn’t have much spirit walked out.
”You’re Huang Ling?” Yan team scrutinized the woman in front of them for a long time, she was very different from the photo on her profile, “Where did you meet Chen Ge last night? Why did you set his cell phone to one-touch dialing?”
”I don’t remember, I don’t remember all the things that happened last night.” The woman sat on the sofa, she didn’t even look at Chen Ge.
”No impression at all?”
”No, no, no!” Huang Ling’s voice suddenly became louder as she slammed her head hard with both hands.
Jia Ming, who was closest to her, didn’t go over right away, instead, Chen Ge and Tian Lei, who were slightly farther away, went over and grabbed Huang Ling’s arm at the same time, “Calm down!”
”I didn’t see it! I didn’t see anything last night!” Huang Ling was unusually agitated.
”It’s the same as when we came here this morning, as long as you ask about what happened last night, you’ll get sick.” Tian Lei said towards Team Yan after controlling Huang Ling, “She’s already sick herself, and last night she was probably shocked again, causing her condition to worsen.”
”There must be a trigger for the change in condition.” Team Yan looked to Jia Ming who was standing to the side, “What were you doing last night?”
”I was at home the whole time ah, when Huang Ling came back she was a bit out of sorts, as if she was coerced by someone, the same symptoms as she showed just now, as soon as I asked her what she saw, she frantically whacked her head.” After Jia Ming finished speaking, he secretly swept a glance at a few people, “What exactly did they go through last night, you should ask the cab driver and that person called Chen Ge, they were together last night.”
Jia Ming knew his wife’s illness very well, he waited for Huang Ling to stop struggling before picking up a candy from the coffee table and putting it in Huang Ling’s mouth.
Strangely enough, after the sugar was placed in her mouth, Huang Ling quickly calmed down.
”Like sugar?” Team Yan and Chen Ge both noticed this detail, and they also simultaneously thought of Ma Fu, whom they had just met in the detention center.
When Ma Fu was sick, he also only ate candy to quickly calm down.
”Sugar isn’t medicine? How can it still have such an effect?” Team Yan couldn’t figure it out, while Chen Ge beside him vaguely had a thought.
Ma Fu could only calm down by eating sugar because the souls of several children had entered his body, and the children seemed to be very interested in sugar, so it was very likely that there were one or more “children” in Huang Ling’s body as well.
”This is just ordinary sugar, if you don’t believe me, take a few away.” Jia Ming said, shoving the bag of candies to Team Yan.
Team Yan didn’t bother to pick it up, just reached out and took one away, “This is enough.”
Huang Ling had a hard time stabilizing her emotions, and Team Yan didn’t ask her any more questions, letting Li Zheng help her back to her bedroom to rest while he and Tian Lei asked Jia Ming a few more questions.
It was not until eleven o’clock at night that the few people were ready to leave.
”Thank you for your cooperation, we will definitely find out the truth.” Team Yan walked at the front, and only after a few police officers walked out of the room did Chen Ge retract his gaze toward the bedroom.
At this time, only Jia Ming and Chen Ge were left in the room, and the temperature was slowly dropping.
”This friend, is there anything else you want to ask?”
”Nothing, it’s really not easy for you to take care of a crazy woman.” Chen Ge gently patted Jia Ming’s shoulder, didn’t say anything else, and walked towards the door.
Downstairs, Li Zheng took out his cell phone and quietly came over to Team Yan: “Just now I went into the bedroom with Huang Ling to take a look, the interior scene was roughly photographed for a few shots, and I didn’t find anything wrong, this Jia Ming shouldn’t be suspected of committing the crime.”
”Huang Ling will go crazy, it must be related to Jia Ming.” Team Yan said with certainty, “When Huang Ling was sick, Jia Ming was the closest, but he was indifferent, there are many similar small details.”
”But according to Tian Lei’s and their visits and investigations, the neighbors all sympathized with Jia Ming and felt that he was a good person, haven’t we also seen this man’s work history? He’s a good person in every way, how could such a person torture his wife into madness?” Li Zheng had also studied criminal psychology, personality perversion had signs and a process, Jia Ming’s behavior was not quite the same as what the book told him.
”Are good people always good people?” Team Yan looked at the candy in his hand and flicked the candy paper away.
”But good people still have basic morals in their hearts after all, they won’t go and do anything too outrageous.”
”You’re wrong, a good person turning into a bad person will be even more completely bad.” Team Yan put the sugar into his mouth as if he was talking about something completely unrelated, “Because they know that the sugar is no longer sweet.”
Opening the door of the police car, Team Yan gave one last order to Li Zheng, “You Criminal Investigation Team 1 had a hard time being in charge of the eye gouging case before, the case in the western suburb will be taken over by Team 2 for the time being, and you’ll be investigating Jia Ming and Huang Ling’s case in the dark for the time being.”
”Team Yan, isn’t it okay for the East City Police Station to be in charge of this case? It’s not too good for our CID team to step in, right?” No case was too big or too small, Li Zheng said this only because he was worried that the East City Police Station side would have an opinion.
”That’s why I’m asking you to secretly investigate.” Yan team’s finger tapped on the edge of the car window, his complexion slowly became grave: “Pay more attention, I always feel that there might be a shocking case involved behind this.”
”I don’t think so, the eastern suburb has always been very calm.” Li Zheng also became serious, he knew that Team Yan would not just say anything.
”It was indeed calm before, but now ……”
Before Yan team finished speaking, the car door opened and Chen Ge, who had just come downstairs, skillfully drilled into the police car, “Sorry, I’m late.”
”It’s okay, Li Zheng, let’s go to New Century Paradise first and send Chen Ge back.” Team Yan and Li Zheng had a tacit understanding not to continue the topic they had just discussed.
”Thanks a lot, please drive faster.” Chen Ge said casually, he had other things to do tonight.
Just now he touched Jia Ming’s body after the police left, he had thought to test the other party with the ghosts and monsters on his body, after he finished shooting he remembered that he didn’t carry any ghosts and monsters on his body except for Zhang Ya in the shadow, and the backpack was still thrown in the haunted house.
Zhang Ya Chen Ge commanded not to move, and he was worried that his actions would alert Jia Ming, so he was ready to return to the New Century Paradise, take all the props, and then immediately turn back and try in a more direct way.
The police car had not yet started when a grandmother suddenly walked out of the family home building.
The old man trembled as he walked over to the police car and knocked on the window.
”Something wrong?” Yan team opened the car door and walked out.
”That comrade policeman, my son bought me a house in the Mingyang neighborhood over there, it’s been several years and the house is still not inhabited, can you help me ask, when will this house be finished?” The old man’s tone was very pitiful, so that people could not bear to refuse.
”Mingyang neighborhood? Okay, I’ll ask for you, quickly go back, it’s windy outside.”
Team Yan sent the old lady away and returned to the car, “Go call Tian Lei over, he should be more familiar.”
Li Zheng shouted towards the back, Tian Lei stopped the police car and ran to the side of Yan team’s car, “Yan team, you’re looking for me?”
”How much do you know about the Ming Yang neighborhood?”
Tian Lei shook his head, “Ming Yang neighborhood has been stopped for many years, the owners will make trouble every year, we also went out to the police to deal with them, and we sympathize with them, we also know that many of them have taken half of their life’s money to buy a house, but this is also something that can not be helped.”
”What can’t be helped?” Team Yan looked up.
”There are a total of three investors, the first one died of illness, the second one had a car accident halfway through the construction, and the third one jumped off a building in the middle of the night while standing in the unfinished Ming Yang neighborhood, a lot of people in that place say it’s unlucky, and now no one dares to take over the project.”
”It shouldn’t be a coincidence that all three investors had accidents.” Team Yan thought for a moment and said to Li Zheng, “Later, go back and organize the information on Yangming District.”
”Okay.” Li Zheng gave a no problem gesture.
”Team Yan, it’s best for you to stay out of this matter, that Yang Ming neighborhood is a mess, whoever touches it will have bad luck.” Tian Lei seemed to be deeply touched.
”And you, go back and organize a piece of information for me as well.” Team Yan raised the car window, not bothering about Tian Lei who stood beside the car with a bitter face.
The police car started, and when it drove out of the neighborhood, Team Yan suddenly looked at Chen Ge and coldly asked a question, “Chen Ge, did you know Jia Ming before?”
”Don’t know ah.” Chen Ge subconsciously said it.
Yan team nodded, his complexion eased a lot, “Be careful lately, I feel that that Jia Ming has an inexplicable hostility towards you, and during my questioning, he would always try to push things onto you.”