kvmb Chapter 834 Zhang Zhentao was arrested; I was just delivering medicine.
Chapter 834 Zhang Zhentao was arrested; I was just delivering medicine.
After careful comparison and verification, the police confirmed that the suspicious figure in the surveillance footage was indeed Zhang Zhentao. Without delay, Qin Chuan decisively issued an arrest warrant. The task force swiftly moved in and apprehended Zhang Zhentao at his home. When Zhang Zhentao was brought into the interrogation room, he was pale, his eyes filled with fear and unease, and his body trembled slightly as he was forced to sit in the interrogation chair by the officers.
Li Ming and another experienced interrogator entered the interrogation room, their eyes fixed intently on Zhang Zhentao. Li Ming spoke first, his voice cold and authoritative: "Zhang Zhentao, do you know why you were arrested?" Zhang Zhentao lowered his head, not daring to look them in the eye, and stammered, "I...I don't know."
"Hmph, still playing dumb?" The interrogator sneered. "The surveillance video clearly shows that you were near the warehouse of the Northern Chemical Plant before the incident, acting suspiciously. What exactly is your connection to this bombing?" With that, the interrogator slammed the surveillance screenshot heavily on the table.
Zhang Zhentao's body jolted, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. He opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to defend himself, but ultimately remained silent. Li Ming stared intently at him, pressing him relentlessly: "You'd better confess honestly. The evidence is conclusive now; concealing the truth will only make your crime worse."
Under the police's intense psychological offensive, Zhang Zhentao's defenses gradually crumbled. He raised his head, his eyes filled with despair: "I'll talk, I'll talk... I was just delivering something, I didn't know it would turn out this serious."
"What are you sending? Who are you sending it to?" Li Ming pressed.
Zhang Zhentao took a deep breath and slowly said, "I work in a biological laboratory. Someone contacted me and asked me to deliver a toxin to a chemical plant in the north. They gave me a large sum of money, and I... I agreed in a moment of confusion."
"Tell me the details of how the drugs were delivered," Li Ming pressed.
“I followed their instructions and put the poison in a trash can in the factory. Then I left, and I really don’t know what happened after that,” Zhang Zhentao said, his voice trembling with tears.
"Who is your contact?" the interrogator asked sternly.
Zhang Zhentao hesitated for a moment and said, "He's a driver from the factory. I don't know his name. He's the one who always contacts me to tell me the exact time and place to deliver the drugs."
“The driver is dead now, you know that?” Li Ming stared intently at Zhang Zhentao.
Zhang Zhentao's eyes widened, a look of horror on his face: "Dead? How could this be... I really didn't know, I just took the money to do the job, I never thought someone would die."
Li Ming and the interrogator exchanged a glance. Judging from Zhang Zhentao's reaction, he seemed to be nothing more than a pawn being used. But who was actually manipulating everything behind the scenes remained to be investigated. "Zhang Zhentao, don't think you can get away with this. We will verify every word you say. If you dare to lie, you know the consequences," Li Ming said sternly. Zhang Zhentao nodded repeatedly, slumped into the interrogation chair, and awaited the judgment of the law.
Detective Xiao Wang, in charge of investigating the cause of the explosion, and Professor Chen, an expert in explosives, meticulously searched the rubble at the explosion site. They left no stone unturned, examining every piece of debris. Suddenly, Xiao Wang discovered a dusty lighter under a collapsed wall. "Professor Chen, look at this!" Xiao Wang exclaimed excitedly, carefully picking up the lighter.
Professor Chen strode over, put on gloves, and took the lighter for a close examination. "It's very unusual for this lighter to be here. Explosion sites usually don't leave these kinds of things unless they're somehow related to the explosion," Professor Chen analyzed, frowning. The two quickly put the lighter into an evidence bag and took it back to the temporary investigation point.
At the investigation site, technicians immediately began extracting fingerprints from the lighter. After some professional work, they successfully obtained a clear set of fingerprints. "Immediately enter these fingerprints into our fingerprint database for comparison," Li Ming ordered upon receiving the news. However, as time ticked by, no matching record was found in the fingerprint database.
"How could this be? Could it be an outsider?" Li Ming fell into deep thought. But he quickly made a decision, "Since the fingerprint database failed to match, then collect the fingerprints of all the chemical plant workers, leaving no one out."
Police acted swiftly, setting up multiple fingerprint collection points inside the chemical plant. Workers lined up, looking puzzled as they had their fingerprints taken. "What's going on? We're just ordinary workers, what does this have to do with the explosion?" "Yeah, it's disrupting our work," the workers whispered among themselves. The officers reassured them while carefully collecting fingerprints from each person.
After several hours of hard work, the fingerprint collection was finally completed. Technicians immediately entered the newly collected fingerprints into the system and compared them with the fingerprints on the lighter. "Found it!" a technician suddenly shouted excitedly. Li Ming immediately went over and saw on the screen that the fingerprint on the lighter had successfully matched with a worker named Li Qiang.
"Find Li Qiang immediately and bring him back to the police station for questioning," Li Ming decisively ordered. The officers acted swiftly, but when they arrived at Li Qiang's dormitory, they found it empty. "This is bad; he may have fled to avoid punishment," Li Ming said gravely. "Increase the search efforts. We must find him as soon as possible; he may be a key figure in this case."
After identifying Li Qiang as the key suspect, the police immediately mobilized a large number of officers to launch a manhunt. Qin Chuan divided his forces into several groups: one group tracked Li Qiang's possible escape routes, investigated various transportation hubs, and deployed a tight cordon at train stations, bus stations, and highway entrances; another group delved into Li Qiang's social network, interviewing his relatives and friends in an attempt to obtain clues about his whereabouts. Meanwhile, technical personnel analyzed Li Qiang's communication records and online activities to determine his possible hiding places.
After several days and nights of relentless pursuit, the manhunt team finally located Li Qiang in his hometown—a remote mountain village. It was a misty morning, the village shrouded in tranquility. The officers silently surrounded the dilapidated old house where Li Qiang was hiding. The lead officer gestured to his teammates, kicked open the door, and shouted, "Police! Don't move!" Li Qiang, huddled in a corner, his eyes filled with terror, had no chance to resist before the officers swiftly subdued him.
Li Qiang was escorted back to the police station and taken directly to the interrogation room. The interrogation room was dimly lit and the atmosphere was oppressive. Li Ming and another experienced interrogator sat opposite Li Qiang, their eyes fixed on him intently.