Chapter 260: Chapter 232: Case Closed, You’re Under Arrest

The surveillance camera near She Dou Village captured the van.

The driver inside the van was wearing a mask and a baseball cap. You could just make out that he was wearing a blue and white striped polo shirt.

"According to Zhang Ping’s statement, when you rushed to the auto repair shop that night, you were wearing a striped polo shirt and a baseball cap."

"You could have at least changed your clothes. Did you really think that just because you covered the license plate, we wouldn’t be able to trace it back to you?"

Zhou Hui trembled violently, completely breaking down.

"I..." He stammered for a long time before wailing, "I didn’t want to! But he was asking for too much, always demanding money from me. What else could I do? I had to kill him."

As soon as he said this, everyone, whether in the observation room or Liu Jie in the interrogation room, felt a sense of finality.

At this point in the investigation, the case was as good as closed.

Zhou Hui didn’t even need to admit to murdering Han Xiaolong. Just premeditating the hit-and-run on Yang Maocai was enough to sentence him to death.

In the observation room, everyone began to hug and celebrate.

After high-fiving Lai Yong, Ding Junbao walked over to Shen Xin.

"Xiaoshen, thank you!"

He pulled Shen Xin into a hug.

They had locked onto Zhou Hui in just one day. Shen Xin was arguably the single greatest contributor to solving this case.

Moreover, for Liu Jie, this case had been a thorn in his side.

And what about him?

He had also been on the original investigation. For him, it was no less of a thorn in his side.

Now, that thorn had finally been removed.

Inside the interrogation room, Zhou Hui calmed down a bit and began to slowly recount what had happened.

Because the two cases were connected, he couldn’t avoid talking about Han Xiaolong, so he started his story with Han Xiaolong’s case.

Shen Xin listened in silence.

The team had actually already deduced the truth.

During that period, Zhou Hui and Mao Yanru had gotten together.

Han Xiaolong, feeling protective of Mao Yanru, believed that men like Zhou Hui had ill intentions.

That night, as Zhou Hui was returning from dinner at his father-in-law’s house, Han Xiaolong cornered him at the crime scene.

The two of them got into an argument.

Zhou Hui didn’t want to lower himself to arguing with a fool like Han Xiaolong, but Han Xiaolong was relentless and even started throwing rocks at him.

At the same time, he was yelling that he would let the whole village know about Zhou Hui and Mao Yanru’s relationship.

That sent Zhou Hui into a panic.

At the time, he was deep in gambling debt and being hounded by his creditors.

He knew in his heart that only Li Jing could help him pay off his debts.

So he picked up one of the rocks Han Xiaolong had thrown at him and smashed it against Han Xiaolong’s head.

He said he just lost it and wanted to teach him a lesson. He never expected that after the blow, Han Xiaolong would collapse to the ground and stop moving.

And the dog, it rushed over and tried to bite him, but he chased it off with the rock.

That’s when he panicked. He checked for Han Xiaolong’s breath and found there was none.

In the end, he chose to dump the body.

Afterwards, Yang Maocai found him and said he had seen him kill Han Xiaolong and had even recorded a video on his phone.

From then on, he started blackmailing him relentlessly.

All in all, Zhou Hui gave Yang Maocai a total of 340,000 yuan.

He also took the opportunity to search Yang Maocai’s house when he wasn’t home, but he never found it.

He had tested Yang Maocai many times, even getting him drunk on several occasions to search his phone and try to get him to reveal where the video was, but Yang Maocai was always evasive.

By 2014, seeing that Yang Maocai’s demands were getting bigger and bigger, he hardened his heart and decided to act as if Yang Maocai didn’t have the video. That’s when he planned and carried out the hit-and-run that killed Yang Maocai.

As for the rock used as the murder weapon, he had thrown it into the village’s septic tank.

When he said this, the expressions of Ding Junbao and the others in the observation room immediately turned awkward.

Regardless of whether any traces of blood remained on the rock, as the murder weapon, if there was a chance of finding it, they had to find a way to retrieve it.

So next, they would inevitably have to deal with a septic tank.

Shen Xin glanced sympathetically at Wang Cheng. He probably wouldn’t be able to get out of this one.

The interrogation lasted for over two hours.

After Zhou Hui signed and fingerprinted his confession, Liu Jie took the written record and walked out of the interrogation room, suppressing his excitement.

He had been a detective for so many years and had handled countless cases.

But this case, he had been thinking about it for a full six years. It was like a heavy stone that had been weighing on his heart.

The moment he stepped out of the interrogation room, he truly felt a great weight lift from his shoulders.

He felt he finally had the right to go find Luo Limei and tell her to her face that it didn’t matter if her son was a fool or not. To him, he was simply an innocent life that had been tragically taken.