"You... you lied to me just now, you bastard! You lying cop!"
"Shut up, you're just a prisoner, what right do you have to make demands here!"
As soon as I finished speaking, I walked out of the interrogation room without looking back...
This time, I was the only one interrogating. After all, it wasn't an interrogation. When I mentioned the Defu Hotel to He Xin, she started typing furiously on her keyboard. She, the tech expert, was amazing. Within a minute, she had pinpointed the exact location of the Defu Hotel for us.
This hotel was indeed owned by a female teacher named Qian Ziyan. I couldn't help but want to scoff at that moment, these dirty women!
We immediately dispatched, and this time, to prevent them from escaping, Director Zhang assigned me a squadron of special police. We arrived near the hotel in a large convoy, surrounding the entire hotel so tightly that not even a fly could escape.
Li Fan, the captain of the special police, and I led many officers upstairs. As soon as we kicked open the door to the large hall upstairs, hundreds of police officers surged in. I held my gun and shouted, "Halt! This place is suspected of kidnapping and multiple disappearances. You are now required to accept a police investigation! If anyone dares to resist, we will use force! Everyone squat down! Hands behind your heads!"
Inside, countless women in revealing clothing were embracing each other, and some were even dancing wildly on tables. However, upon seeing so many police officers, they were terrified, quickly got down from the tables, and squatted down with their hands behind their heads.
Li Fan, I, and others went directly to the back. As we passed by the women, many officers stood guard, controlling everyone present.
The moment He Jinghui and He Bailing brought out a mature woman from the back, I recognized her at a glance. It was Qian Ziyan!
"Qian Ziyan, we are the Guangming City police. We are now officially arresting you for kidnapping and multiple disappearances. If you resist arrest, we will use force to take you away!"
Qian Ziyan looked at us in silence, her reaction very calm, as if she had known we would be here today. She then directly raised her hands and allowed us to handcuff her. Seeing her like this, I felt a sense of unease because she was too cooperative.
In the provincial interrogation room of Guangming City, given her current situation, the human evidence we had collected couldn't do much to her yet. We needed to find the victimized girls and have them identify her.
I had already planned this before entering the interrogation room. At that time, Xia Hou and Xiao Yuande were interrogating her first.
Ma Biao, sitting in the observation room, asked me, "Deputy Director He, why aren't you going in yourself this time?"
"The evidence is insufficient. The testimony of those few Les members alone is not enough. We found many women in the hotel, and we hope to get some useful information from them. When the time is right, I will personally handle it. Letting Xia Hou and the others go first is just my strategy."
"I see. I've learned something. As a rookie, it's time for me to make some progress."
I didn't answer. I glanced at the situation in the interrogation room and then walked out of the observation room. I now went to the nearby interrogation room and began questioning the women recovered from the scene one by one.
Of course, other members of the criminal investigation team, as well as colleagues from the criminal police team, would also question them separately. After all, the number of people brought back was quite large, a total of 123 people, not including the high-ranking officials of the club.
The woman I was now facing, named Tu Caiping, was someone the criminal police found suspicious after questioning her. They had all invited me to question her personally, and I agreed.
Approaching Tu Caiping, I said sternly, "I heard you've been uncooperative? What's going on? Are you also part of the club?"
"I'm not. I'm just a patron. Can't you tell? I'm very wealthy, but I don't like men, so I like to hang out at Les clubs. What's wrong? Is it illegal for someone to have a certain sexual orientation? Officer He."
"Sexual orientation is of course a matter of freedom, and I don't have any discriminatory intentions..."
However, before I could finish, Tu Caiping slammed her left hand on the table: "You say you're not discriminating, so why did you arrest us?"
"Heh heh, Ms. Tu, do you think we arrested you for this matter?"
"Otherwise?"
I was certain this woman was not pretending to be foolish, as her micro-expressions betrayed her.
I couldn't help but let out a cold laugh: "Tu Caiping, stop pretending. Do you know some unspeakable secrets about the Les club? Otherwise, why would your reaction be different from the other members?"
"Officer He, I think you must have misunderstood. First, I'm not a member of the club, I'm just a guest, do you understand? I don't go there often, and I never thought about joining any club, I just went for fun. Second, I'm so rich, how could I possibly associate with these criminals? Wouldn't that implicate myself? Third, I've been here for almost 12 hours, and I don't want to waste time like this. If you have nothing important to ask, please let me go and don't waste my precious time. You should have checked; I own dozens of jewelry stores."
As Tu Caiping spoke, her face displayed an expression of "I'm a big boss, you poor cops aren't qualified to question me about this."
I, however, calmly replied, "First, whether you are a member of the Les club or not, and no matter what you say, it is up to us to decide. Second, based on your performance and reaction, we have every reason to treat you as a suspect. Third, regardless of how many jewelry stores you own, cooperating with the police investigation is a citizen's duty..."
Tu Caiping thought I was finished, but my lips moved again: "And one last thing, and the most important one. It's only been 12 hours. Do you think you can get through the next 12 hours safely?"
"You..." Tu Caiping, for some reason, seemed a little flustered. I deliberately stood up abruptly, came in front of her, and tightly gripped her left hand, threatening, "This is an interrogation room. If you don't cooperate, you'll get an extra handcuff on your other wrist later!"
"I don't... I really don't know the internal situation, Officer He, don't force me!"
"You don't know? Then did you see something? Speak quickly. Our people are already investigating your home, as well as the surveillance at your hotel, and your recent whereabouts will be completely exposed."