Chapter 3933: Chapter 3921: Sun Dandan’s Whereabouts

"Robbery?"

Li Wan Gang’s words took everyone in the interrogation room by surprise.

But whether it was Ma Wenliang or Xu Zhengqi, they were both veteran cops with many years on the job, and had plenty of experience handling similar cases.

Standing off to the side, Lin Yi felt that Li Wan Gang was actually a smart guy.

Normal people don’t run when they see the police, so he needed a reason to cover up his behavior.

Robbing 500 hadn’t yet reached the threshold for a criminal case; at most he’d get administrative detention, which could nicely cover what he’d really done.

"That’s not what we’re talking about right now. You’d better come clean," Xu Zhengqi said sternly.

"I don’t know what you’re talking about. I just robbed 500 yuan. I didn’t do anything else."

While Xu Zhengqi was talking, Lin Yi kept his eyes locked on Li Wan Gang.

The latter had his head lowered, his tone calm, showing no signs of nervousness. The feeling he gave off was more like that of a habitual offender, able to respond coolly to police questioning.

"So you’re not talking, huh."

Xu Zhengqi took out a photo of Sun Dandan.

"According to the video shot by netizens, you’re the one who drove off with this child. What else do you have to quibble about?"

Li Zhenggang glanced at the video. "That car in the video is definitely using fake plates. You’ve got no grounds to arrest me."

Smack!

Xu Zhengqi slapped the table. "Still putting on an act, are you! You think that way we can’t deal with you, is that it!"

Li Zhenggang drooped his head and said nothing.

Lin Yi, standing to the side, didn’t speak. A habitual offender like him was definitely going to be harder to handle.

Either they used stronger tactics to force a confession, or they found more direct evidence; otherwise it would be hard to do anything to him.

"Old Xu, cool down first."

Ma Wenliang offered a word of persuasion, then looked at Li Zhenggang and said:

"The fact that we dared to arrest you means we’ve already got enough evidence. You’d better cooperate and tell us everything. You can still fight for leniency."

"I really don’t know what you’re talking about. I just robbed 500 yuan. I really didn’t do anything else."

Facing this "dead pig unafraid of boiling water" attitude from Li Zhenggang, for a moment no one knew what to say.

After all, the netizens had only filmed the car; there was no direct evidence showing he had been the one driving it at the time.

"I’ve already checked. This car’s plates haven’t been faked. So the car that appeared near Zhong Hai’s Xinyang Mall was yours. There’s no room for you to argue."

"I admit I drove to Zhong Hai a few days ago, and I did go to Xinyang Mall, but you can’t just say that means I kidnapped someone’s kid."

"Since you won’t talk, we’ll just produce other evidence."

Ma Wenliang took out the sketch drawn by Qiu Yuluo. "Based on Sun Jiantao’s description, we drew your likeness. It’s a bit off, but it’s about eighty percent you."

As he spoke, Ma Wenliang pushed the sketch in front of Li Zhenggang.

"If you still refuse to admit it, I can have Sun Jiantao come out and point you out in person. We’ve got evidence in hand, otherwise we wouldn’t have come to arrest you. Your quibbling is useless."

Seeing the sketch on the table, Li Zhenggang’s expression grew even uglier, and cold sweat started running down from his forehead.

The interrogation room fell into a long silence.

"It was me."

"Talk. Where did you sell the child?"

"Goushui Village, more than 200 kilometers from here."

"What did you sell her there for?"

Everyone’s hearts clenched, because his next answer would determine the child’s situation—whether she was alive or dead, essentially.

"There’s a household that said they wanted to buy a little girl to raise as a child bride. They gave me thirty thousand yuan. It just so happened I needed to go to Zhong Hai those days to deal with some stuff, and that’s when I spotted Sun Dandan. Then I spent twenty thousand yuan to buy her."

"A child bride?"

Everyone was stunned. In this day and age, there was still this kind of feudal dregs of thought?

Even Lin Yi hadn’t expected something like this could still happen.

But the hearts they’d been holding finally dropped—at least Sun Dandan was safe.

"In big cities this definitely doesn’t happen anymore, but there are still some places that are really backward and feudal, still clinging to old ideas. That’s how things like this come about."

Lowering his head, Li Zhenggang said:

"In their village, lots of families do this. You’ll see when you get there."

After hearing this, it took a long time for everyone’s emotions to settle.

For something like this to be happening in modern society, every one of them present bore some responsibility.

"What’s the name of the person who contacted you?" Xu Zhengqi asked.

"Gan Shangsun."

Just then, Zhang Jiajia came running over and said:

"Brother Xu, we’ve located Goushui Village. It’s 233 kilometers from us. Should we get in touch with the village director over there?"

"Captain Ma, what do you think?"

"Not for now. Villages like this are all tightly knit. If we contact them in advance, word will spread easily. We can’t waste time—we go now."

"Okay."

Once the plan was set, everyone geared up and got in the cars one after another to head out.

Lin Yi’s driving was still very fast, but because the road conditions in the second half were bad, it still took more than three hours to get there, and Ma Wenliang and the others were left far behind.

After arriving, Lin Yi didn’t wait in place. Instead he took a lap around, checking out the situation in the village.

The village was ringed by mountains on all sides, with only a little over a dozen households. All the homes were small mud houses, not even a single brick house in sight.

The road into the village was all dirt, running between two mountains. Even if no cars passed, a gust of wind would whip up clouds of dust.

Facing a place like this, Lin Yi finally understood why such deeply ingrained feudal thinking still existed here.

A village wrapped in mountains on all four sides was like a corner abandoned by the world. Not only did no one care about it, even the winds of civilization couldn’t reach this place.

Give civilization to the years, instead of giving years to civilization.

In that moment, Lin Yi understood this truth.

After waiting about twenty minutes, Ma Wenliang and the others arrived one after another, and the group got out of their cars to regroup.

"I just checked out the surroundings. It’s all mountains around, and there’s only a single narrow road up ahead, about 500-plus meters from the village," Lin Yi said.

"I suggest we don’t drive in. We all change into plain clothes, which will maximize our concealment."

After hearing Lin Yi’s suggestion, no one raised any objections. They all switched into their own casual clothes and headed toward the village.

By now the sky was completely dark. Under cover of night, the group arrived at Goushui Village.

The dozen or so households all had lights on, but just a single dim bulb in each. Walking here gave one a strange feeling of having stepped back in time.

Wooo-woo-woo—

Wooo-woo-woo—

Wooo-woo-woo—

They had barely entered the village when they heard a low sobbing sound.

Everyone’s expression changed as they looked toward the source of the sound—it was coming from a house diagonally ahead!

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