Free Web NovelChapter 256: Chapter 253 Vulnerability_1
Zhou Ning walked up to the laboratory door.
Just as he raised his hand, the lab door opened, and a young man, seeing Zhou Ning, quickly nodded at him.
"Doctor Zhou, what brings you here?"
"Is Mrs. Cui around?"
The young man stepped aside, and Cui Lili came from behind him, her face wary upon seeing Zhou Ning.
"What are you doing here? What’s this about, another big batch of tests?"
Zhou Ning felt somewhat embarrassed and shook his head slightly.
"No, Xu Da is in a bit of a rush. These cigarette butts we sent in before, I think we can compare them to the other butts we found earlier. Prioritize those from the same brand, it’ll make things much easier."
Cui Lili slapped the young man on the back of the head.
"Didn’t you hear? Hurry up and sort it out. I don’t smoke; how have none of you noticed this?"
The young man zipped away quickly, leaving Zhou Ning feeling embarrassed.
"I won’t bother you any longer, Mrs. Cui. Can we have the results by noon?"
Cui Lili humphed twice.
"Get going, I’ll send them over as soon as they’re ready!"
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February 2nd, 13:22
"Is the report out?"
Xu Dayuan, looking nervously, watched as Zhou Ning quickly approached him.
Zhou Ning nodded vigorously.
"On one of the cigarette butts, we found Wang Guanli’s DNA, and on the fingerprint residue left by Wang Guanli, we also found traces of his blood. It seems that during the struggle, Fang Wenjie didn’t just cut through his gloves; he also cut his fingers.
Moreover, Mrs. Cui compared the sampled wounds of Qin Xuejin once more, and this time extracted Fang Wenjie’s DNA. We can now be certain that the same dagger was used to kill both individuals.
As for the dagger, it had traces of blood from both Fang Wenjie and Qin Xuejin, as well as an unknown DNA. The mud on the dagger was also tested, containing kitchen waste and excrement, consistent with our initial analysis that the dagger was thrown into a sewer, whence Wen Xiue fished it out."
Xu Dayuan waved away the tablet and report that Zhou Ning handed him.
"Managing to keep the dagger shows that this Wen Xiue is very meticulous. With the evidence chain so solid, let’s go and hear what Wen Xiue has to say for herself."
"Alright."
Without further ado, the two walked up to the observation room. Mr. Hu was sitting inside. When he saw them coming, he raised an eyebrow slightly.
"Oh, is there new evidence now?"
Xu Dayuan cracked a smile.
"Don’t rush, Mr. Hu. I’m about to go in. This Wen Xiue is quite the actress, but it’s not so easy to perform in the face of conclusive evidence."
Hu Guangjian waved his hand, aware of the tremendous pressure he was under, as they had to report daily to the special investigation team, which was closely following the case.
"Hurry up; I want to know why the victims could have taken off their clothes. This is still unexplained."
Xu Dayuan didn’t waste any words and hurried into the interrogation room.
Zhou Ning glanced at Wen Xiue, who was crying non-stop, her facial expressions captivating. If one didn’t know her identity, they might genuinely be fooled.
Hu Guangjian handed Zhou Ning a pair of headphones, which he quickly put on without refusing. The two of them stared intently into the interrogation room.
Xu Dayuan, with a stack of reports in his arms, threw them onto the table, and He Chunyang quickly made room, while Liu Yufei didn’t move at all.
Opening the tablet, Xu Dayuan found the surveillance footage and, holding it, walked up to Wen Xiue.
"Is this you?"
Wen Xiue glanced at it, nodded, and then frantically waved her hands.
"Yes, it’s me, but I was forced to go there. I’ve already told the officer just now. Didn’t you find the things I hid in the CC car? If I were an accomplice, why wouldn’t I destroy the evidence instead of leaving it to incriminate myself?"
Xu Dayuan laughed, a smile that made Wen Xiue shiver inwardly. She edged slightly backward, and Zhou Ning narrowed his eyes – Wen Xiue was afraid.
Xu Dayuan bowed his head to the tablet, finding the household registration photos Mr. Zhao had sent earlier. Of course, the text annotations below were there too. He turned the tablet around, displaying the information to Wen Xiue.
"We’ll get to that in a minute, but first, let’s look at this information. Why do you think I’m here? Despite the many changes to your household registration and the evident effort put into it, we still managed to find some interesting information. Let’s take a look together."
Your mother’s name is Ren Shufen, among these people, Ren Guangyun, Ren Guangming, Ren Tao, and Ren Guangzhi, they are either your cousins or your nephews. As for your husband, he once controlled 100% of the shares of Qindao Julili Environmental Protection Co., Ltd., and this company was not originally an asset of Beishan Group.
We discovered during our investigation that this company once developed an environmental protection device that was considered internationally advanced. Beishan Group wanted to buy this patent, but Zhang Yonggui refused to sell and even disdained cooperating with Beishan Group.
However, at the same time, you began pursuing Zhang Yonggui, and after marrying him, gradually took control of the company. Then, Zhang Yonggui suddenly was diagnosed with cancer and passed away unexpectedly in 2000. You sold the environmental protection company to Beishan Group for a symbolic price of one hundred thousand yuan.
Before Zhang Yonggui’s death, you transferred your and Zhang Ping’an’s household registrations to the Lishugou Village where Zhang Yonggui resided. I think you were quite far-sighted, considering that the Ren Family was an influential part within Beishan Group.
We also found out that Beishan Group was originally the property of the Feng Family before the founding of the country, and the Ren Family was from the Feng Family Second Branch back then. To avoid political entanglements in those tumultuous times, you changed your surname to your mother’s maiden name, but you’re still an important part of the Feng Family.
After Beishan Group ran into trouble, you kept a low profile and quickly "cut the flesh," severing ties with the Ren Family. But what I don’t understand is why the Ren Family was so eager to transfer the remaining assets of Beishan Group to Sapporo?
Don’t be in a rush to refute. The Dayou Pharmaceuticals in Sapporo, they’re connected to the Feng Family, right? After all, you managed to secure a military attaché position for Wang Guanli at the Sapporo Country Embassy. I’m not wrong, am I?"
Wen Xiue was stunned, her gaze fixed on the tablet, which contained very limited information, and Xu Dayuan’s analysis had momentarily caused her to lose control of her expression.
After a long while, she hung her head and began to shake her body continuously.
"I don’t know, I really don’t know. Although I am part of the Ren Family, what does all this have to do with me?"
Xu Dayuan was not in a hurry. He smiled again, gestured to Liu Yufei, and tossed a stack of photos to her. Liu Yufei glanced at them and started showing them one by one to Wen Xiue, who became very unsettled upon seeing the photos.
With wide eyes, she grabbed the small table, trying to tear up the photos, but Liu Yufei pushed Wen Xiue back into the chair and collected the photos.
"What are you trying to do? How did you find out about this?"
Zhou Ning was confused. Wen Xiue’s sudden change of face and agitation clearly indicated the photos contained something of great importance to her. It seemed that Xu Dayuan’s side had also taken action and obtained even more secretive information based on what they had provided.
What could it be?
In 2000, Wen Xiue seduced Zhang Yonggui and acquired the environmental protection company. She was able to hide her household registration in Zhang Yonggui’s ancestral home, clearly aware of the issues with Beishan Group.
By doing this, she proved to be very clever, but why was she manipulated into working as a maid at Fang Wenjie and Qin Xuejin’s homes, even participating in the silencing of the two?
Given her intelligence, she definitely wouldn’t act like this, unless...
Unless she had been threatened?
But, Wen Xiue’s parents had already passed away, hadn’t they?
Zhou Ning narrowed his eyes. The look in Wen Xiue’s eyes just now, filled with an undeniable fear and panic, was like a wild animal ready to pounce, yet trapped and powerless. Could it be that before she met Zhang Yonggui, she had a lover or a child?
And the child had become a bargaining chip, used repeatedly by the Ren Family. As for the child, perhaps they were not even in the country.
Yes, perhaps they were in Sapporo. After all, she seemed to have appeared out of nowhere at the age of thirty and made such significant moves.
"Boss, what’s in the photo? Could it be Wen Xiue’s child? In the hands of the Ren Family?"
Hu Guangjian was taken aback and turned his head to look at Zhou Ning.
"Zhou Xiaozhou, you’re something, aren’t you? If I didn’t know that the information you could get was limited, I would have suspected that you sneaked a peek at Xu Dayuan’s documents. Wen Xiue escaped from the Ren Family at eighteen and went to study abroad in Sapporo, where she had a child. However, the child had been controlled.
When you investigated Wen Xiue, the special task force sent over some international information. When Wen Xiue went abroad, she used her cousin’s identity, so it was very secretive.
The child has already been rescued by the embassy. Those people are ruthless enough to control the child in their National Medical Academy’s laboratory, constantly under the influence of drugs. That is Wen Xiue’s Achilles’ heel."
Zhou Ning had an epiphany. Hu Guangjian looked at him twice more, given the young man’s track record of astonishing him. They then turned their attention back to the interrogation room.
Xu Dayuan did not respond to Wen Xiue’s remark, but held up the photos, flipping through them one by one.
"This child must be seventeen or eighteen years old by now. He’s been controlled by drugs for too long, and there’s nothing we can do about his intellect. But don’t worry, even though you were involved in the murders of Fang Wenjie and Qin Xuejin, the child is innocent. At the latest, by the day after tomorrow, he will be brought back. As for whether you can see him, whether you can live with him, all of that depends on you."
Wen Xiue looked incredulous, staring long at Xu Dayuan. Sighing, Xu Dayuan made a phone call.
"Have you picked up the person? Then, turn on the speakerphone, someone over here wants to talk to him."
As he spoke, Xu Dayuan also turned on the speakerphone and handed the cellphone to Wen Xiue. Her hands were trembling as she took the phone and softly said hello.
"Hello, yes, I am Mum. Are you okay?"
"Mum, Mum! Yes, miss!"
"Mum knows, we will see each other very soon. You must be well-behaved."
After hanging up the phone, Wen Xiue bowed her head as her shoulders shook continuously. Liu Yufei approached at that moment, handing over some papers. After wiping her tears, Wen Xiue looked up again, having regained control of her emotions, and focused on Xu Dayuan. frёewebηovel.cѳm
"I know that Hua Country doesn’t have a concept of ’dirty witnesses’, and I’m not trying to make demands. I just hope that when the child comes back, I can see him, just a glance. He’s unable to take care of himself; I have to at least arrange for his care, okay?"
Xu Dayuan nodded.
"That’s fine, go ahead!"
