Genius Detective - Chapter 34

Chapter 34

In the interrogation room, Kong Wende sat in the interrogation chair and hung his head . Lin Qiupu sat down with another old police officer and minute-taker . He cleared his throat and began to ask questions . “Name . . . ”

In front of the security camera on the other side of the interrogation room’s one-way mirror, almost all the members of the task force gathered here . They were very concerned about the truth of the case . Of course, Chen Shi was also present .

After explaining the basic information, Lin Qiupu continued his line of interrogation . “Kong Wende, I don't think I have to explain why you’re sitting in this chair . Explain what you’ve done!”

Kong Wende looked up, “If I confess, will there be leniency?”

“It depends on your cooperative attitude!” Lin Qiupu countered . The other people present knew that Kong Wende had at least three lives on his hands and that the death penalty could not be avoided .

After a moment of silence, Kong Wende confessed . “I did not expect that things would become like this . This started from my misappropriation of company funds . I found a loophole in the insurance company and used it to constantly misappropriate funds . Small amounts soon began getting larger and larger . By March of this year, I had already moved close to 400,000 yuan in company funds . I originally planned to save the money to buy a house within the school zone . I didn’t expect the old man to be sick starting at the end of last year with stomach cancer . I had almost spent all of the money on a few surgeries . I hate the insurance company . When I invested in insurance, they made it sound so good, but when it came time for a claim, they kept arguing about it so that they wouldn’t have to pay up . By the time they paid, it was only enough to pay for the bed he stayed at . If they had just paid in the beginning, things wouldn’t have gone south like this!”

Lin Qiupu interrupted him . “I wanted you to explain the crime, don't give me your reasons . Talk about yourself!”

Kong Wende asked for a cigarette and took a puff before continuing . “The old man's illness had been dragged on until March of this year, and then he died . I never imagined that at this moment in time, the company supervisor found out my misappropriation of funds . They threatened to take me to court so that I would will the funds I took . I was so anxious that I couldn’t help but borrow from loan sharks! I originally thought about selling the house, but I have a bottom line in my heart . I must not sacrifice my family’s happiness . ”

When he heard this sentence, Lin Qiupu slightly revealed a ridiculing smile . The man who claimed that he would never sacrifice the happiness of his family actually went and killed his own family .

“Loan sharks really shouldn’t be messed with . Interest piled on interest . Even though I used up all my credit card funds, I couldn’t even pay back just the interest . The guys would come to my house and company every two days, forcing me into a corner . I was really out of options . Around May of this year, a little event happened: my twin brother and I met . At first, I didn't know that I had this brother . He was working in a restaurant . When we saw each other, we were both dumbfounded . We could have been cut from the same mold! I called my family and that’s when I found out I had a twin brother . When I was young, my family was too poor and they had abandoned him . I had dinner with him several times . He saw my suit and thought that I was wealthy . In the midst of talking, he implied that he wanted me to help him out . I could only smile bitterly in my heart . He envied me, but I envied him more . He just needed to feed one mouth . He was free, unlike me . I was almost at a dead end!”

“Because of the money owed, my wife and I had a big fight for five days, plus the loan sharks kept coming for their debt . Additionally, I was unable to reach my quota at work . All these kinds of pressures drove me crazy, and I hated everything around me . I thought about dying and leaving my insurance pay-outs to my family . However, when I thought about the insurance company and how they might try to deny claims as much as possible, as well as how my wife kept saying that I was useless, I thought ‘Why should I die? It’s these people who should die!’”

Having said that, the light in his eyes instantly turned from a calm and gentle middle-aged man to a violent criminal .

“Last Friday, I took the money I borrowed through pleading from various places and went to the loan sharks . I was prepared to return at least a part of it, but I was then told that my debt was now 800,000 yuan, double the amount borrowed . Big Tiger and I argued about this . I told him that he was being unreasonable, but the stinking gang member just kept insulting and humiliating me . He even mocked me, saying that if I couldn’t pay my debt off, I should just sell my organs, my wife, my son . Blood rushed to my head from anger, and I grabbed something from the table and just smashed it onto his head . After I had calmed down, it was only then that I realized that he had stopped breathing!”

“I was terrified . Was my life ruined just like this? I sat there for a long time, and suddenly I thought of a plan . A perfect plan for the golden cricket to get rid of his skin[1] . Since I had already been forced into a dead end, it is better to take a gamble! So I cleaned up the scene, left in a hurry, and went to the pharmacy to buy some sleeping pills . When I got home, I pretended nothing had happened . My mind was fighting itself .  Do I really need to kill my whole family? No, I have to do this . My whole family knows that we’re twins, I must kill them all so as to tie up the loose ends .  I had to finish what I started since I’m a man . If I don't do it, the police would come to me, I would have to go to jail . Anyway, I didn’t want to live like this anymore . God gave me this chance to re-do my life again, why don’t I grab it?”

After he finished saying this, Kong Wende revealed a psychotic, morbid smile, he seems to have forgotten his current situation, as if reminiscent of the night of planning all this .

“On Sunday, I contacted my twin brother and asked him to come to the house to meet his sister-in-law . I found him that evening and had dinner with him . I brought him to a club to find a lady for himself . I took this opportunity and went home quickly . My wife made a pot of white fungus lotus seeds sweet stew, so I put the prepared sleeping pills powder into the food and then left . Around 11 o'clock in the evening, I came back with my twin brother . I paid special attention to not let the surveillance camera catch my face . After entering the house, the family really had fallen asleep . Even the TV was still on I let my twin brother drink the white fungus lotus seeds soup and went into the bathroom . I went to take a leak . Originally, I had hidden a hammer in the bathroom, but I found out that my wife had put it away . This bitch who could never succeed but is more than capable of ruining something!“[2]

“My twin brother knocked on the door outside and informed me that he also wanted to go to the toilet . I thought about it . I had no way out . I took the lid of the ceramic toilet water-tank and asked him, ‘Can you turn off my kitchen light?’ When he turned around, I smashed his head . The lid of the tank shattered on impact and he died . It seemed that my hand was also cut in the process, but I was so filled with adrenaline that I didn't notice it . ”

“The next step was to kill my old mother-in-law . I honestly didn’t feel much when I killed her . When she died, she screamed once and scared me . My wife was alarmed by this and ran out . I started sweating and began slamming her head against the door . After she fell down, I stabbed her . After I felt that she had definitely died, I left the bedroom . ”

Kong Wende swallowed his saliva and continued . “My son also woke up due to the noise . I opened the bedroom door and saw him shrinking into the bed . His eyes were staring at me . I was a little sad in my heart . How could I do this to my own flesh and blood? I stood there for a long time, and finally I couldn’t do it, so I quickly packed up and left . If I could get over my heart ruthlessly, you wouldn’t have been able to catch me . However, I am just an ordinary person, I can’t do anything that is so ruthless . It’s true that if you want to succeed, you need to have a heart of steel!”

After saying this, Kong Wende buried his head and rubbed his face . Lin Qiupu and the group of policemen outside were listening . This person was completely twisted . Lin Qiupu said, “You are wrong, your son did not reveal any clues . You sit here now because your crimes were full of flaws . There is no perfect crime in the world . If you don’t want people to find out, it’s impossible unless you don’t do it in the first place!”

There was nothing left to say, and the interrogation was over . After witnessing the fall of an ordinary person, the police officers had a lot of sympathetic feelings .

Lin Dongxue mused, “The tiger doesn’t even eat their young[3] . Although this guy is distorted inside, there is still a trace of humanity after all . ”

Chen Shi shook his head . “You are wrong . The child is a continuation of his own life . Loving his son is essentially loving himself . This is another form of selfishness . In his consciousness, killing was the only solution because his character is indifferent and selfish to begin with . There are many people like this in the world, but they are not forced into a dead end like Kong Wende . ”

1 . An expression used to describe finding a scapegoat and get rid of responsibility without detection . Shedding their skin to live a new life .

2 . An expression used to describe people who aren’t good at anything . Bringing more harm than good, even when they try .

3 . When she says it this time, she’s saying that Kong Wende can’t even be compared to an animal, as even a tiger isn’t so cruel as to eat their own young .