Chapter 1156 - 591: Dual-Track Breakthrough (2)

I don’t know why, but when many suspects finally break down their psychological defenses, they instinctively ask for a cigarette.

For this behavior, when Jiang An was in Jiangcheng, he would always keep a pack of cigarettes in his pants pocket.

He himself didn’t like smoking; he carried cigarettes only for interrogation needs in cases.

However, after arriving in Guangling, he no longer carried cigarettes with him all the time.

Because Qin Feng always had cigarettes in his pocket.

Immediately, he turned his head toward Qin Feng and nodded.

Qin Feng quickly pulled out a Yunyan cigarette, lit it, took a couple of puffs himself, and handed it over.

Li Hui took the cigarette, took a few quick puffs, and watched the smoke rise in strands.

At this moment, silence was all that remained in the interrogation room.

As the cigarette was nearly finished, Li Hui spoke up: "I’ll talk... I’ll tell you everything..."

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Meanwhile, Director Hou and Deputy Chief Chen Guan had driven to Houshan Village.

At this moment, three key Scene Investigation personnel were also in the car.

On the way, they saw many people carrying fish from the pond home, smiles adorning their faces.

The arrival of a police car in the village suddenly didn’t interest them at all.

You have to know, in some rural areas, you can’t see a police car all year round.

Whenever a police car comes by, everyone considers it quite a rare event.

However, at this moment, everyone was more focused on the fish in their hands.

The vehicle arrived at the entrance of the fish pond, where many people were selling fish, including two young men.

Mr. Chen speculated that these two young men might be friends or relatives of Li Hui and rolled down the car window to ask, "Hello, we are looking for Li Hui’s house. Could you tell us where it is?"

The man was busy weighing fish, glanced at the police car confusedly, and asked, "Li Hui has gone out with a friend to discuss something; he’s not here now."

"May I ask, officers, what’s the reason you’re looking for him?"

"Oh, we want to investigate his transportation vehicle."

"Transportation vehicle?"

Upon hearing this, the young man opposite suddenly asked, "Is there something wrong with his vehicle?"

"There’s no issue, but recently there was a traffic accident on the road, and surveillance captured Li Hui’s vehicle passing through that section."

"Ah? That can’t be, Li Hui drives very steadily; it shouldn’t be involved."

"Officer, could you have made a mistake?"

Mr. Chen waved his hand, "We’re just conducting a routine check."

"If it’s not his vehicle, there won’t be any marks of a collision. We wouldn’t wrong a good person."

"Oh! No problem, his vehicle is parked in their home’s courtyard; mainly used to deliver fish for others."

"You can go take a look, and when Li Hui returns, I’ll ask him to come home soon."

"Okay, is there anyone at home?"

"There’s an elderly mother at home."

"Could you find someone to guide us there? Your village is a bit of a maze, and we’re having trouble finding it."

The man glanced at the side, pointed to a boy, and said, "Hu Wazi, take the police officers to Uncle Li’s house."

Hu Wazi quickly put down the fish, wiped his hands, and said, "Okay, I’ll take the officers."

After about 10 minutes, the vehicle arrived at the entrance of a courtyard.

At this moment, the courtyard gate was open, and inside was a white small container truck that looked no different from a regular refrigerated truck from the outside.

After the five people got out of the car, they walked into the courtyard.

At this moment, there was an elderly woman sitting at the entrance, husking corn.

"Hello, ma’am. We’re from the Public Security Bureau and came specifically to look at this vehicle."

"From the Public Security Bureau?"

Upon hearing this, the elderly woman immediately became nervous: "Our Xiaohui hasn’t done anything against the law, right?"

Mr. Chen quickly replied, "Definitely not!"

"Mainly, we’re here to check the vehicle’s exterior because we’re investigating a traffic accident."

"If it’s unrelated to this vehicle, we’ll leave immediately."

"Alright, officers, please clear Xiaohui’s name. He is usually a very honest boy."

Director Hou and Chen nodded after hearing this, "You can get back to your work. We’ll just take a look at the vehicle."

"Okay."

Director Hou then turned and asked, "Is Li Hui married?"

"No, he..."

The elderly woman hesitated but simply shook her head and said softly, "He’s always been single."

Director Hou nodded, turned around, and instructed the Scene Investigation team to start inspecting around the vehicle.

These young people were just pretending to look for collision marks, making others think that’s all they were checking for.

In reality, Director Hou wanted to inspect the inside of the container.

For long-distance body disposal, such a container would be well-suited for concealing things.

Walking up to the vehicle, Director Hou asked, "Are the keys to this vehicle at home?"

"Yes, the keys are here. Xiaohui went to catch fish today and hasn’t come back to drive yet, but he’ll likely need to soon."

Two minutes later, she walked into the house, fetched a set of keys, and said, "Here are the keys."

"Thank you."

Director Hou took the keys and glanced at them.

In addition to the car key, there was another key nearby, which seemed to be for the container.

Soon, he inserted it into the container’s lock and clicked it open.

The moment it was opened, a glance inside revealed nothing but emptiness.

A strong smell of fish hit them in the face.

Director Hou and Chen Guan exchanged a look, "Let’s focus here."

Director Hou asked, "Do we have footprint lights and gloves?"

Chen nodded, "Zhang, get us a pair of gloves and footprint lights, we’ll inspect the inside of the container."

Two minutes later, both of them were wearing gloves and foot covers, holding footprint lights as they walked inside the container.

At this time, the floor of the container had some stains, mainly water marks and fish scales.

From the entrance of the container, they systematically pushed forward, splitting into two groups to ensure no clue was left unturned.

Director Hou and Deputy Chief Chen Guan led in front, while the three young investigators rechecked behind them.

Holding the flashlight, Director Hou walked and carefully observed.

When he reached the midsection of the container, he suddenly stopped and said, "There are sliding marks here."

As he spoke, he pointed to the ground.

Immediately, everyone looked over.

Sure enough, in the line of sight, there were sparse, intermittent sliding marks.

Deputy Chief Chen quickly instructed the officer beside him, "Take photos, document it, don’t miss a single clue."

After snapping a few photos, Chen curiously said, "Hey, if these are sliding marks, they shouldn’t just be in this section."

As he spoke, he turned and looked around, not seeing any other gear marks.

Director Hou nodded, "We’ve spotted sparse gear marks."

"There are two possibilities: one, Li Hui might have carried the box inside and then set it down here."

"Another possibility is that something might have been laid inside at the time, so during the sliding process, no footprint was formed, like foot covers."

Upon hearing this, Mr. Chen said, "Possible, indeed possible."

Director Hou continued, "We should quickly document the size, dimensions, and spacing of these sliding marks, and then search for the box used for corpses to compare."

"Alright."

Immediately, several people swiftly began photographing, documenting, and measuring.

At this moment, Director Hou looked around and suddenly pondered another question.

So far, it’s evident there are sliding marks left by a container here.

But where did the box carrying the corpse go?