I make a living solving crimes.

Niu Yanbing died in the detention center, committing suicide by hanging.

The time of death was around five in the morning. When the prison guards found him, he was already stiff!

After hearing the news, Chang Wei sat in a chair in a daze.

In the east wing of the Dragon Group courtyard, there are three large offices connected together.

It was so quiet that no one dared to speak.

Because Niu Yanbing turned himself in, Chang Wei took back the base in the parking lot in order not to alert the enemy. Today, all the members of the Dragon Group were on standby in the office and did not go out.

Those responsible for surveillance and tracking were Xie Sanfu's comrades when he was an underground party member. Most of them worked in various police stations in the Beijing Public Security System. After Chang Wei called last night, they took up their posts overnight.

The people from the Dragon Group were too conspicuous, and they must have been noticed by someone when they entered and left the factory.

The most critical thing is that the Dragon Group's monitoring and tracking level is too low.

Xie Sanfu's comrades-in-arms are veterans who have lived inside the enemy's territory for more than ten years and have gained experience through their lives.

Li Lai Fu handed Chang Wei a cigarette, interrupting his thoughts.

Chang Wei took a deep breath and exhaled a thick fog to cover his face. He sorted out his thoughts and wanted to hear everyone's opinions.

"Tell me, what do you think?"

As soon as he spoke, the heavy atmosphere in the office instantly relaxed. Unknowingly, he, the team leader, had become a real leader.

Li Laifu sat back in his chair, thought for a moment and said, "There is no reason for Niu Yanbing to commit suicide."

Jiang Hongxia echoed, "Indeed, he has confessed. If he takes the blame and takes on his former status as a member of the Central Bureau of Investigation, he will be sentenced to ten to eight years at most. There is no need for him to commit suicide and put his life at risk."

Wu Jimao immediately expressed his support and said loudly: "Yes, if he commits suicide now, who can he fool?"

Ji Xiaowang said quietly in the corner, "What if he wants to deceive the spies outside?"

Wu Jimao scratched his head and looked at Jiang Hongxia, asking in confusion, "What does Xiaowang mean? Why did Niu Yanbing lie to the spies outside?"

The others understood and lowered their heads to start thinking.

Ji Xiaowang continued, "Why would he be willing to surrender and take the death penalty?"

Wu Jimao asked in confusion: "Isn't it because the secret agent gave his wife and children 2,000 yuan?"

"What if he takes the money and doesn't come?"

"That spy will definitely kill him!"

"What if he took the money and ran away? In addition to the two thousand yuan, he also had five bars of gold in his hand that he used as evidence to deceive us. This is a lot of money."

Wu Jimao glanced at him with disdain and said as a matter of course: "If the spies can't find him, they will definitely kill his wife and children to vent their anger."

Ji Xiaowang didn't know how to snap his fingers. He still huddled in the corner with a faint smile on his face. "Yes, if suicide was what he agreed to before turning himself in, he would still be sentenced to death for arson anyway..."

Jiang Hongxia immediately understood what he meant. "If he doesn't die in the detention center as agreed, the secret agents will kill his family. Is that what you mean?"

Ji Xiaowang nodded in agreement. "The spies must have been afraid that he would regret it after being imprisoned, so they must have controlled his wife and children and forced him to commit suicide on the first day of his imprisonment. This left us with no clues and we can only close the case with Niu Yanbing."

Jiang Hongxia asked in confusion: "Would he, a former spy, commit suicide for his wife and children?"

Ji Xiaowang patiently explained, "A spy is also a human being. Isn't he taking the blame for his wife and children? Although two thousand yuan is a lot of money, he can't spend a penny of it, and he has to risk his life."

Everyone was silent.

The readers who were reading the book also fell silent.

Once a man has a family, even his life is no longer his own.

Of course, this refers to good men, good men who are as responsible as the readers.

Chang Wei listened to their discussion and pondered in his heart.

A prisoner committed suicide in the detention center, and Chang Wei's first reaction was to be killed by suicide.

Now, after listening to his colleagues' discussion, he began to waver in his guess.

In his opinion, there are only three possible scenarios for Niu Yanbing's death.

First, as his colleagues had discussed, Niu Yanbing had already made up his mind to die. For the safety of his wife and children, even though he had confessed, in order not to anger the spies, he still decided to die in prison.

The second situation was that the enemy agents outside did not know that he had confessed, and in order to prevent him from regretting his actions, they bribed the people in the detention center to have him commit suicide.

The third possibility is darker, and is the situation Chang Wei is most reluctant to face.

Some people didn't want him to solve the case, so they simply killed Niu Yanbing.

Chang Wei now only has a confession from Niu Yanbing in his hand. Just like Li Chenggui, there is no evidence to prove his mistake.

Using this evidence to overturn the previous investigation results is obviously too weak.

As he thought about it, he gradually ruled out the first possibility.

Niu Yanbing came to take the death penalty, and he must have been prepared to die.

But he is not a tough guy.

Once in the interrogation room, he lasted only ten minutes before he was eager to confess and collapsed completely.

He confessed that he had left all the money for his wife and children.

If he really had an agreement to commit suicide after being imprisoned, he would not have insisted on not confessing.

What's more, his confession was not made public, and he himself would not be so foolish as to tell others. According to Xie Sanfu's feedback this morning, the spy behaved very normally. Not only was he not panicked, he even bought some wine last night.

Even if there was a suicide agreement between the two, if Niu Yanbing did not carry it out now, the secret agents would not touch his family at this critical moment.

Aren't you confessing yourself?

As long as the delay lasts for a few days, this spy organization will be eradicated by the public security organs. Does Niu Yanbing still need to worry about their revenge?

Excluding the first possibility, Chang Wei felt even worse.

The second situation indicates that the detention center has been infiltrated by spies.

The third possibility is...some people in the system have become so rampant that they do whatever they want.

He organized his thoughts, slowly got up and went out. Without making a phone call or asking anyone to accompany him, he went to the ministry compound alone.

I first found an excuse to go to the office of the deputy director of the Investigation Bureau, but was told that Director Liu had gone to Tangshan on a business trip that morning.

Director Nie...is still suspended from his duties at home.

If you can't see people, the all-seeing eyes are useless.

He finished smoking a cigarette in the corridor outside the office, then turned and went to the minister's office.

After coming out, I felt relaxed all over.

Regardless of the possibility, a serious criminal in custody actually committed suicide by hanging himself in prison, and was successful.

Chang Wei can tolerate it, but even the minister cannot.

If you were to die by hitting your head, or piercing yourself with the handle of a toothbrush, and there was no way to save you, everyone would understand.

A felon, hanged...the person was frozen when he was found.

The matter was not handed over to Chang Wei for investigation. Instead, the minister called the Political Security Bureau directly from his office.

In the old man’s words: You are still young, let us do the offending things.