It was as if Xia Xiaoling had found an opportunity to retaliate. She immediately retorted, "Do you know what? Bai Junren, Bei Ji Xing also conducted a retaliatory operation against us. In the end, they were slowly captured and are now weaker and weaker, not daring to show their faces. They must be brewing something lately, gathering people again!"
"Nonsense! You have no idea what they're doing. Although they don't have time to compete with us, if you think they've chickened out just because of this, then you are ignorant!"
I didn't want to continue this shouting match. It was all just empty words. I finally stood up and said, "Bai Junren, tell me properly, how did you get into the Zui Yin Zhe?"
"Don't rush. Now that things have come to this, I will definitely tell you... We were all teachers before. You could say that the men who admired me were all my students. Later, we escaped from Dao Zui Zhe and established Zui Yin Zhe. Please note, I said 'we' just now, not 'I'..."
As Bai Junren spoke, he began to recall how he attracted men to join. I had no intention of listening to his melodramatic love stories. Internally, I wondered why he had emphasized "we" just now and not "I"? Could this be a case of protesting too much?
Perhaps Bai Junren was the leader of Zui Yin Zhe? But he didn't want us to investigate the smaller branches, wanting them to survive and slowly continue to develop?
However, the more this was the case, the more we had to find those branches. So, when I heard her talking about how she enticed the fifth man, I directly interrupted her and said, "Get to the point. Where are your branches located? If you tell us, you might still have a chance to atone for your sins. I can try to get you a death sentence reprieve. What do you think?"
Actually, I wasn't joking. If he was willing to yield, I could even risk my life to help him. However, Bai Junren didn't believe me at all. "You're spouting nonsense! I will never believe these so-called promises made by you police. I'm telling you, many people from our Dao Zui Zhe were arrested by you before. You always talked about sentence reduction and leniency, but in the end, it was still the original sentence, wasn't it? Don't waste my time with these nonsensical words. I won't fall for it. Alright, I can only explain how I enticed those men to become my subordinates, my students, my admirers, and even my suicide squad, but I will not betray my companions!"
As soon as Bai Junren finished speaking, Xia Xiaoling chuckled sarcastically, "I think you're all doomed, aren't you? You're just saying you still have branches out of pride. You don't want Dao Zui Zhe to be completely annihilated, do you? This way, even before you die, you can leave us a difficult problem. We will continue to investigate, and as long as we can't find your remains, we will think that Dao Zui Zhe is still around. Do you think you've won like this?"
"Don't talk nonsense. How could our Dao Zui Zhe be annihilated... Even if Professor Cao is gone, we are..."
"Tell me, do you know someone named Cao Xiangyang?" I pressed.
Bai Junren's eyes widened. Perhaps he couldn't believe that we had even found him out.
He naturally refused to admit it. "I don't know him!"
"You're lying again, Bai Junren. I see you're really not going to shed tears until you see the coffin. The Cao family is Ci Men, and Ci Men is Dao Zui Zhe. Cao Xiangyang, Cao Xiangchen, do you think we wouldn't connect them? Why didn't you change your names? Did you think it was useless to change them, and we could still find out? So, you decided to inherit Cao Xiangchen's last wish. In reality, you are Dao Zui Zhe, and changing your name to Zui Yin Zhe was just to confuse us..." I blurted out my suspicions in one breath.
As my words progressed, Bai Junren's face grew increasingly grim. But his face twitched, his teeth gnashed together, and his eyes darted around as if a bat lost in a dark ancient castle, flying about in confusion, never finding a way out.
Xia Xiaoling's hands clenched as she stared at Bai Junren. The expression on the face of this sissy monster, screaming at him to speak quickly, was evident. However, Bai Junren still had that "come and hit me if you dare" kind of reaction.
He simply stopped talking. I knew that whenever I hit the nail on the head, these people would choose to remain silent to avoid exposing more information to us. But the more they did this, the more it proved I was right.
I rested my elbows on the interrogation table, leaning forward slightly, maintaining my standing posture. But now, there was a subtle sense of oppression about me. My clearly angry face made it impossible to look directly at me. "You can choose not to speak, you can remain silent, but the final outcome will be that all charges will be pinned on you. Your lovers will be released soon, and you will be alone in the detention center awaiting execution, eventually being injected with poison to end your pathetic life..."
I kept creating invisible pressure on Bai Junren, painting terrifying scenarios, trying to create a world of fear before him. However, Bai Junren remained unmoved, his heart ashen, his face wooden. A sense of weariness appeared in his deep eyes, and he slowly yawned.
I cursed him as ignorant and told Xia Xiaoling to ignore him as we went outside. As we walked out, Xia Xiaoling said from behind, "Are we still going to investigate Zui Yin Zhe?"
"Let's go straight to Dao Zui Zhe. Now, figure out how to find Cao Xiangyang. You know, that's the key!"
"Have you ever considered that Bai Junren might actually be Cao Xiangyang? Have you thought about it?"
"This..."
I turned back to look at the observation room. To confirm this, there was only one way: compare the skull and verify with plastic surgery hospitals. But he had been to too many plastic surgery hospitals. We could only look for the most recent ones.
At the same time, I sent people to look for Cao Xiangyang, but they reported that they couldn't find him at all. Half a month later, there was still no result. I was already very suspicious that Xia Xiaoling might have guessed correctly.
Actually, I only truly paid attention to the name Cao Xiangyang after arresting Bai Junren. I thought I could find a breakthrough with Bai Junren, but after a good start, this guy acted like "Damn, I don't know anything." Otherwise, why do you think we asked him about the matter on his person in the first place? In fact, our main objective was to find out Cao Xiangyang's whereabouts, but our plan ultimately failed.
As Bai Junren was being taken to the detention center, I said behind him, "Cao Xiangyang, don't think that just because you did this, we don't know it's you. You're still so clever. But this time, you're not using a transparent scheme. Didn't your elders tell you that this wouldn't work? You've lost face for Dao Zui Zhe, you know? Schemes are not your style!"