Animal Detective

Chapter 48 SMS
Gao Jinrui took a sip of water to moisten his throat.

He seemed to be looking for a starting point.

After a moment's thought, he said, "I went to a good university, and after graduation, my family used their connections to get me a job at the district education bureau."

Zhao Tianxing typed on the keyboard, taking notes.

"I have a good writing style and my major is relevant to my job. I'm doing quite well at work, and I became a section chief in my early thirties."

"At that time, I was already married, and my son was four or five years old. He was a chubby-cheeked boy who was very close to me."

A smile appeared on his face.

"At that time, I felt that my life was very fulfilling and I was very happy. But because of that text message, everything changed."

His tone became heavy, and his gaze involuntarily turned pained.

Chen Chao and Zhao Tianxing exchanged a glance, then looked up in surprise at the direction of the monitoring room.

Not to mention him, Sun Zhao and Lü Youwei in the monitoring room also looked surprised.

Gao Jinrui's tone suggested he was about to give an explanation.

Inside the room, Gao Jinrui sighed again and said, "I remember that day was Arbor Day. There was a tree-planting activity in the district. After the activity, the bureau invited us to dinner together."

"I was aware of that at the time, thinking that since I drove here, I shouldn't drink, but I couldn't resist the persuasion and ended up having a few drinks."

"After I finished drinking, Old Chen from the Education Section offered to arrange someone to take me home. I thought it wasn't a big deal, so I declined. I know that area well, and I know that traffic police usually come out to check cars at night. Besides, if I take the back roads, I should be fine."

"Really, I should have just agreed back then."

Gao Jinrui sighed repeatedly.

"I took Huiting Road, then detoured to the small road next to Chenfei Motor Factory, went under National Highway 372, took the rural road, and got home in no time."

"Then, as you can imagine, my phone rang. Someone sent me a text message. I reached for my phone, and it slipped from my hand and fell onto the passenger seat. I looked down to touch it, but I only looked down and glanced ahead before actually looking down. I only looked down when there was nothing on the road."

"result……"

Gao Jinrui closed his eyes, his expression showing some pain.

"In that instant, I didn't even know how the child appeared. He just suddenly ran out, and by the time I reacted, I had already run over him."

Chen Chao stared at Gao Jinrui in disbelief.

After submitting the report, waiting for the leaders to discuss it, and finally approving it, he considered many possibilities.

He even prepared several interrogation plans, thinking that too much time had passed since the case, and even with the crucial evidence of the fingerprints on the eye drop bottle, it was impossible to directly link Gao Jinrui and Wu Jiawang's disappearances.

But to his utter surprise, Gao Jinrui confessed without him saying a word.

His words swept right over him, which was tantamount to an admission of guilt.

At this point, Gao Jinrui's face did not show any relief; instead, it showed even more pain.

“I was really scared at the time, so I quickly got out of the car to check. The child was quite big. I don’t know where I ran over him, but his head was covered in blood, and his legs were twisted backwards and completely deformed.”

“I was terrified. I thought about calling the police, but I had been drinking, and I had only been a section chief for less than a year. If I called the police, I would be finished.”

“That road was remote, and I don’t even remember how long I was in a daze. When I looked at the child again, he was no longer moving. He was dead.”

Monitoring room.

No one spoke, and Shen Xin sighed silently.

Surprisingly, I guessed right, and the accident happened right there on that unnamed underpass.

Shen Xin hadn't expected Gao Jinrui to confess so readily.

They weren't reviewed.

After unexpectedly finding the eye drop bottle, Shen Xin and Chen Chao were very excited, especially when they compared the fingerprints with Gao Jinrui's and found that they matched.

At that time, I really felt that the case was about to become clear.

However, after further discussion, they felt that this wasn't enough. Gao Jinrui still had reasons to deny it, and could simply admit that he had been to the Wu family's house. In the end, Chen Chao made the final decision to bring Gao Jinrui back based on the existing clues, cooperate with the investigation, and put him in a difficult position.

Who knew, it all just fell apart like that.

Looking at Gao Jinrui's pained expression, Shen Xin felt that these things had been weighing on his mind for too long, and were about to break him down.

Chen Chao once said that there are quite a few people who, unable to bear the immense psychological pressure, eventually turn themselves in.

Gao Jinrui should be in this situation.

"And then what happened?" Chen Chao asked.

Gao Jinrui said, "At that time, I was really possessed. I just thought that this matter could not be known by anyone. I had to hide the body. At that time, I thought about burying him."

“Perfect timing. My wife knew we were going to plant trees and wanted me to get her some saplings, so I packed them in the trunk, along with a shovel.”

“That area next to it is wasteland. I thought if I buried him there, no one would find him.”

“I put him in the trunk. There was a dog there too. I tried to scare it, but it wouldn’t leave. So I thought I’d kill it, but it ran away.”

"It was afternoon, in broad daylight. I was really afraid of cars passing by, so I didn't care and just hurried away."

"Looking back, I realize I didn't even bother to wipe the blood off the floor."

He said his mouth was dry, so he took a sip of water.

"I drove for a while, parked the car on the side of the road, and went inside to take a look. I knew that some people grew vegetables there. God was on my side, there was no one there."

“I was thinking of driving a little further away, or waiting until night to bury him, but I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to explain if I got back late, so I gritted my teeth and carried him inside.”

“Really, that child was so thin, not heavy at all. I walked to a secluded spot, just about to bury him, when, as if by some strange twist of fate, I had an idea.”

"My family's ancestral graves are nearby!"

Chen Chao looked up and then looked towards the monitoring room.

To his surprise, Shen Xin had guessed everything correctly.

Gao Jinrui continued, "At the time, I thought I could just bury it anywhere. What if someone dug it up later when they were growing vegetables? But it's different if you bury it in a grave. Who would dig up a grave then?"

At this moment, Lü Youwei in the monitoring room also looked around and finally looked at Shen Xin in the corner.

He was aware of the investigation process.

Therefore, he knew that the idea that Wu Jiawang's body was in the Gao family's ancestral grave was Shen Xin's idea.

Shen Xin's guess was completely correct.

Shen Xin did not notice Lü Youwei's gaze, and simply listened silently to Gao Jinrui's story.

"At the time, my mind was completely muddled. I thought it was right and just did it. I didn't even consider whether anyone would pass by."

"Really, I think about it later, and it would have been better if someone had seen it back then, so that I wouldn't have been unable to get over it all these years."

He put down his water glass, his expression turning terrified again.

"You know what? I finally managed to dig open the grave, and when I turned around, a hand suddenly grabbed my trouser leg."

"I was almost scared to death!"

Zhao Tianxing across from him was also startled, and his chair made a loud noise.

Chen Chao glared at him before saying in a deep voice, "So, that child didn't die back then?"

If Wu Jiawang hadn't died then, and had been forcibly buried alive by Gao Jinrui, the situation would have been completely different.

In the monitoring room.

Lu Youwei and Sun Zhao's expressions also changed.

Previously, it could be described as accidental death caused by negligence, but now it is actual murder.

(End of this chapter)