Chapter 1047 Case Solved

The interrogation room was filled with smoke, and Gao Feng’s expression changed repeatedly.

Wang Zhaokai’s voice was calm, but to Gao Feng’s ears, it seemed like a thunderbolt.

He hadn’t expected his lie to be exposed so easily.

For the past 9 years, Gao Feng had been thinking every day, if Zhao Xiaowan’s body was discovered, and the police came for him, how he would evade them.

Initially, when the police came to his door, Gao Feng was genuinely shocked.

He thought his last meeting with Xiaowan had been exposed, but unexpectedly, they just asked some questions without taking him away.

This gave Gao Feng a stronger sense of relief.

So, during this period, Gao Feng kept thinking that if the police later found other clues, the worst-case scenario would be getting caught, but it’s been 9 years after all.

The specific details of the murder were only known to himself and the murdered Zhao Xiaowan, so as long as he didn’t talk, or whatever he said should be the truth.

So over the past few days, he carefully recalled every detail of the murder.

Finally, he fabricated a story with nine truths and one lie just now about the murder process to Wang Zhaokai.

But what Gao Feng didn’t expect was, Wang Zhaokai saw through his scheme.

What Gao Feng also didn’t expect was, thank you! Now the police could reconstruct the crime scene from some marks on the skull.

Gao Feng’s face changed as he was being interrogated. Wang Zhaokai knew he couldn’t hold out for long; even if he didn’t speak this time, he wouldn’t withstand two more interrogations.

Wang Zhaokai stood up and took out two cigarettes.

He lit both cigarettes at his mouth, then he kept one for himself and walked over to Gao Feng.

Wang Zhaokai placed a cigarette in Gao Feng’s mouth.

He spoke sincerely.

"Gao Feng, as a police officer, I can responsibly tell you that the marks on Zhao Xiaowan’s skull can provide a lot of information."

Wang Zhaokai took a puff of his cigarette, but Gao Feng didn’t make any other move.

"According to the clues we currently have, the evidence of your murder is conclusive."

"Of course, the marks on the skull can only determine some basic murder actions, like which angle you’re standing at and where you struck."

Wang Zhaokai spoke while mimicking some murder movements with his hands.

"But the police aren’t gods; they can’t deduce your entire murder details just from the marks on the skull, so you’ll need to explain them carefully."

"However, if your explanation doesn’t match the details we deduced from the skeletal marks, I think you won’t get through this."

Get through?

Gao Feng certainly won’t get through.

Wang Zhaokai informed him that the police could deduce some murder details from the marks on the skull.

But he didn’t specify to Gao Feng what these details or actions were.

So as long as Gao Feng lies, if during this process the details don’t match the police’s deductions.

Then, of course, he’ll have to explain again.

Wang Zhaokai felt that Gao Feng, during the interrogation, had fabricated a set of lies; it’s unlikely he could fabricate a second set.

So once the first lie was uncovered, Gao Feng would definitely tell the truth and restore the entire murder detail.

The cigarette in his mouth, though not smoked, had already burned a third.

Gao Feng took a deep breath and looked at Wang Zhaokai with the Flame Emperor in hand.

"I’ll confess... I’ll confess everything..."

"Actually... my murder of Zhao Xiaowan... was planned long ago..."

Planned long ago?!

Wang Chaokai was slightly stunned; he hadn’t expected Gao Feng’s first sentence to reveal such significant case truths.

"You planned to kill Zhao Xiaowan, why was it planned long ago? You hadn’t seen each other for half a year 9 years ago, and the first meeting you planned to kill her, why?"

Why?

Gao Feng smiled wryly.

"There are two reasons for killing her. The first is what I just said: she threatened me, saying if I didn’t divorce my wife, she would cause trouble at my home and tell my wife and all the villagers about my issues, making me lose face at home."

Indeed, regarding this matter, Gao Feng didn’t lie; this was the main motive for Zhao Xiaowan’s murder.

"What other reasons?"

Gao Feng continued: "For money."

"For money?"

Wang Zhaokai slightly frowned. According to the dossier of Zhao Xiaowan’s disappearance case, she didn’t carry much money at the time.

When Zhao Xiaowan left home, she said she was going to buy groceries, so she only had a few dozen yuan on her.

Her husband had hidden her ID to prevent her from going to Haizhou City for work and was very strict with her, not giving her any family money to prevent her from buying a ticket to Haizhou City secretly.

Wang Zhaokai questioned: "You sent a car to pick up Zhao Xiaowan in Haizhou City, how did she have money on her?"

After all, if she had money, she could have taken a cab to Haizhou City herself without Gao Feng picking her up.

"She saved it secretly."

Gao Feng explained: "Zhao Xiaowan had been working for a few years, the time at the mooncake factory was relatively short, but she had worked at other factories over the years. She only sent a small part of the money she earned back home and spent some herself, saving the rest."

Gao Feng continued: "Actually, at first I didn’t know about this. She only brought out this money when she said she wanted to elope with me, totaling 17,800 yuan."

"Because at that time when she suggested eloping, I said it wasn’t possible, we didn’t have money, and even if we did, we couldn’t live outside and would need to find jobs."

Gao Feng repeatedly used the excuse of having no money to delay Zhao Xiaowan’s elopement plan, and later she brought out the money, silencing Gao Feng.

Gao Feng then recounted what happened afterward.

Initially, he thought Zhao Xiaowan was penniless but didn’t expect her to secretly save 17,800 yuan.

Such a sum of money is not considered small even now, let alone 9 years ago.

So at that time, upon seeing the money, Gao Feng decided to keep it all to himself and conceived the idea of killing Zhao Xiaowan.

Coupled with Zhao Xiaowan pressing him for a divorce, these two reasons combined reinforced his resolve; the night they met the next day, Gao Feng arranged to meet Zhao Xiaowan.

"On the afternoon of August 26 after I came back from work, I actually told Zhao Xiaowan we were going to elope, taking her away."

Afterwards, upon knowing she was going to elope with Gao Feng, Zhao Xiaowan directly handed over the originally agreed 17,800 yuan to Gao Feng.

However, Zhao Xiaowan had no idea that waiting for her wasn’t the happiness of elopement, but a cold reservoir.