Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 21 Being targeted

Night falls.

A small courtyard by the river on the outskirts of Jinghai.

A man dressed in black stood by the river, watching the water ripple gently.

After a while, a woman wearing a baseball cap and dressed all in black walked over: "They have found Tang Qiang and are arresting him. Shen Yanzhou has already left the police station. They have also checked the license plate number."

The man threw a handful of fish food into the river: "So fast? Much more efficient than I expected."

The woman looked at him.

"Speak your mind," the man said.

The woman took an envelope out of her pocket: "These photos were taken on Qingyang Road."

The man glanced down at the envelope in her hand but did not take it.

“There’s a girl who looks a lot like her. I checked, she’s twenty-five years old, and her name is Su Miaoyi,” the woman said. “She seems to be very close to Zhuang Yanzheng.”

"Su Miaoyi?" The man took the envelope and looked at the photo inside. "The real Su Miaoyi?"

The woman said nothing.

The man looked at the photo, paused for a moment, and then chuckled softly: "How long do you think it will take them to find Tang Qiang?"

The woman remained silent.

The man laughed, walked to the woman's side, put his arm around her neck, and led her into the courtyard: "Stay one more night, and tomorrow we'll go see this Su, Miao, Yi."

Municipal Bureau.

Everyone was working overtime again that night.

The forensic experts have confirmed it.

The head found in Huating Imperial Garden and the rest of the body found in the abandoned amusement park belonged to the same person, He Kai.

Tang Qiang is still at large.

The car with the fake license plate was also identified through surveillance footage; it appeared on Qingyang Road around 3 a.m. last night.

There are no security cameras at the amusement park.

The surveillance cameras on Qingyang Road only captured the car entering the street near the amusement park, and then coming out again about ten minutes later, after which its whereabouts became unknown.

Two people were seen inside the car, appearing to be a man and a woman.

However, everyone was wearing masks and hats, so no faces were captured in the photos.

The vehicle is currently being tracked down.

The surveillance footage around the bar He Kai frequented was also checked, and it was found that a car with a fake license plate had been near the bar ten days prior. Again, no faces were captured on camera.

The security camera behind the bar can only capture the entrance to the alley behind it.

The photos captured Tang Qiang's profile and He Kai's back.

It involves something that happened a year ago.

The higher authorities attach great importance to this.

Everyone is under pressure.

Another busy night.

Tang Qiang was finally caught at around 7 a.m. the next day.

Take them back to the police station for immediate questioning.

Zhuang Yanzheng didn't sleep all night again, making him appear even more ferocious, and his temper was gradually escalating.

Dealing with a scoundrel like Tang Qiang, it took less than ten minutes for him to confess everything.

After being released from the drug rehabilitation center, Tang Qiang idled away his time.

I haven't had a proper job in the past few years.

I earned a few hundred, and I spent it all on alcohol.

More than three months ago, a woman suddenly approached him.

They gave him a suitcase full of cash.

Tang Qiang had never seen so much money in his entire life.

Having taken the money, he naturally had to do things for them.

The woman gave him a few packets of ice cream.

Tang Qiang naturally recognized what it was.

I also know how harmful this thing is.

It was because of this that he became neither human nor ghost, suffering greatly before he finally quit. Tang Qiang dared not accept it.

But he couldn't resist the temptation of money and accepted it anyway.

"That woman also gave me a few cigarettes rolled with big M cigarettes and told me to go to a bar and get close to a guy named He Kai," Tang Qiang said. "He Kai is always a loner, but he gets along well with everyone at the bar, and I got to know him very quickly."

"After we got to know each other for two days, I offered him a cigarette, and he didn't suspect anything and took it. Then he became addicted. After that, I gave him methamphetamine instead," Tang Qiang said. "Then he quit his job and would come to me every now and then to ask for more goods."

"Then, about ten days ago, that woman contacted me again. She said that when He Kai came to me for more goods next time, she would wait for us in the alley behind the bar and asked me to bring He Kai into the car. We always do transactions in the alley behind the bar. There are no surveillance cameras there, and no one goes there," Tang Qiang said. "About ten days ago, He Kai came to pick up goods, and I made up an excuse to bring him into the car."

Zhuang Yanzheng listened to what he had to say.

What Su Miaoyi saw and what the surveillance cameras captured all matched.

"As soon as I got on the bus, He Kai got hit on the head, and then I got hit on the neck and passed out," Tang Qiang said. "When I woke up, it was already noon the next day."

"Where did you wake up?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

“In a courtyard by a shallow river in the suburbs,” Tang Qiang said. “I was lying on the floor inside the house. There was no one there. I didn’t know where the woman was, nor where the man who drove the car was, and He Kai was nowhere to be found. But I saw bloodstains on the ground in the courtyard. I didn’t know what kind of blood it was, so I ran away as fast as I could.”

"You didn't know He Kai was dead?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

"I guessed a little bit," Tang Qiang said. "That's why I'm hiding. But I really didn't kill anyone. I was just doing a job for money. I didn't know anything. If I had known it would involve a death, I definitely wouldn't have taken the money."

"The courtyard by the shallow river, the exact location," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Tang Qiang gave the exact location.

Zhuang Yanzheng left the interrogation room directly, taking his men, guns, and various equipment with him, and went to the outskirts.

The other party intentionally revealed their location through Tang Qiang.

We don't know if we'll clash head-on, so it's best to be cautious.

It's almost a two-hour drive.

Arrived at destination.

With detailed planning, they slowly made their way in.

But there was no one left in the courtyard or the rooms.

There was a car parked in the yard; it was the car that was captured on the surveillance camera.

The river is surrounded by woods.

There is only this one courtyard.

The area around the courtyard is under security.

Zhuang Yanzheng led several people to search the courtyard and rooms.

Qi Feng opened a wooden box: "Team Leader Zhuang, we've found something."

Zhuang Yanzheng walked over.

Another wooden bead.

The three characters are still engraved on it.

There is also an envelope below the wooden bead.

Zhuang Yanzheng opened it.

They discovered that the room was full of photos of Su Miaoyi.

A photo of an abandoned amusement park.

His heart sank.

I flipped the photo over.

One of the photos had a note that read: "[You're here? Too bad, I'm in a hurry to find the girl in the photo, so I'll have to see you first.]"
Su Miaoyi went to the old town after returning from the police station yesterday afternoon. She went home and had already talked things over with her uncle and aunt.

Then she came back this morning.

She submitted her resume to several companies over the weekend, planning to find a job.

She had an interview in the morning, so she rushed back.

I took a car directly from the old town to the company where I had the interview.

After the interview, she left the company and went to the bus stop to check the bus routes.

As she was looking, she suddenly felt someone staring at her.

She turned around and glanced around, her gaze finally settling on a long-haired woman.

The woman was dressed in all black and wearing a mask.

Even from a great distance, she could feel her eyes fixed on her.

Su Miaoyi felt uneasy and was about to leave when her phone suddenly rang, startling her.
(End of this chapter)