Jinghai City Public Security Bureau, in the interrogation room,

Ma Yongwei hung his head, sitting in the chair, looking rather despondent. Ever since he learned that the police had found Hao Lianshan's body, he hadn't really rested.

He replayed all the details in his mind, unable to figure out what exactly went wrong, why the police found the body so quickly.

Logically, he grew up in that place and knew the environment like the back of his hand. Ever since industrial sewage started being discharged into that stinking ditch, it's become completely rotten and smelly.

A pool of dead water, so foul that not even a dog would go near it. How could the police have found the body so quickly?

It's not scientific.

He would have never guessed that it was because when he was disposing of the body, a branch accidentally tore a hole in the woven bag, causing a finger and some flesh to fall out, which was then discovered by a curious bystander's dog.

The heavens' net is wide-meshed, but nothing escapes it.

"Name?"

"Don't you already know?" The seasoned offender was back in custody, feeling somewhat defiant.

This time, he thought he had prepared thoroughly, plotting for almost a month, yet the police found the body and caught him in less than ten days. It was unacceptable to him.

"Ma Yongwei, did you think this time you were caught for some petty affair? We wouldn't have gone all the way to Guiyang to arrest you without evidence, right? You know better than anyone the seriousness of a murder charge. Being honest is your only chance."

"One thing I don't understand, how did you find Hao Lianshan's body?"

"Ma Yongwei, is it us questioning you, or are you questioning us?" Cao Gang smacked the table, reprimanding loudly.

He's seen arrogant people before, but those were in front of ordinary police officers. There're only a few who dare act so wild in front of detectives.

"I killed him, but at most, I was just the murder weapon."

"Are you saying someone ordered you to do it? Who is it?"

"Cheng Jiangbo."

"Cheng Jiangbo?"

Hearing this name, everyone was taken aback. They hadn't ruled out Cheng Jiangbo as a suspect, but at the time, they felt Cheng Jiangbo had no motive to kill Hao Lianshan, and he had no opportunity to commit the crime, so they dismissed him as a suspect.

They never expected that after the real murderer was caught, he would implicate him.

"Yes, I owed him two hundred thousand in gambling debt. He promised me that if I helped him kill Hao Lianshan, my debt to him would not only be wiped out but he'd also give me an extra one hundred thousand as a settlement fee."

"Did he give you the one hundred thousand?"

"Yes."

"Where's the money?"

"Spent it on women in Guiyang."

Ma Yongwei learned from Cheng Jiangbo that the police already knew the identity of the deceased, which made him even more anxious. Being caught was a matter of time, so he was too nervous to sleep, and could only distract himself with women, then crash in the mountains to sleep when exhausted.

Cao Gang was somewhat speechless; the world of lunatics is indeed hard for ordinary people to comprehend, but he said nothing more. There are even more insane and perverted people than Ma Yongwei out there, and detectives have far more chances to encounter such people than normal folks do.

"Tell us how you killed Hao Lianshan?"

"A little over a month ago, Cheng Jiangbo approached me, saying that if I helped him kill someone, our debt would be settled, and on top of that, he'd give me another one hundred thousand yuan. I thought, killing a person is simple, I stand to gain three hundred thousand, so I agreed. I grew up in Jiang'an, very familiar with the area, know where people don't go, where there are no cameras. Knowing Hao Lianshan was a technician, I deliberately rented a house there, stole a phone, called him, and asked him to come and install air conditioning.

It was the 8th. After he came in, I used the tools I had prepared in advance to kill him. Because the body was too large, it wasn't convenient to dispose of, so I had no choice but to dismember it. It took two days to finish, and then I dumped it in the dead of night in the foul ditch, thinking no one would find it, yet you found the body so quickly."

After Ma Yongwei finished speaking, he couldn't help but curiously ask, "How did you find the body?"

"What? Are you going to review your steps again?" Cao Gang tapped on the table, asking meaningfully.

"No, no." Ma Yongwei laughed awkwardly. Actually, he did want to review his steps, but it was a subconscious habit. It was precisely this behavior that led him to learn from experience with each crime, becoming more cunning over time, making it impossible for ordinary police to outsmart him.

"Make sure you don't. Do you know why Cheng Jiangbo wanted to kill Hao Lianshan?"

"Why else? For Mu Xingjuan!"

"Didn't they divorce? Why such a big conflict?"

"I wouldn't know. He gave me money, I do the job."

"Where is Hao Lianshan's skull?"

"Buried it underground."

"Why not bury the whole body, but choose to dismember and bury it separately?"

"I couldn't move it alone. Even if I could, walking around with a corpse is too conspicuous. I had no choice but to dismember it."

Facing the police's Great Memory Recovery Technique, Ma Yongwei confessed candidly. As soon as the interrogation ended, Cao Gang immediately arranged for someone to take him to identify the scene and excavate Hao Lianshan's skull.

Meanwhile, Li Xiang and the others, armed with arrest warrants, went back to Xingjian Road and found Cheng Jiangbo's Mahjong Parlor, named "Breaking the Waves with the Wind."

"Cheng Jiangbo, you are suspected of hiring someone to commit murder. This is a summons warrant. Come with us."

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