Li Ming had been feeling rather smug these days.
He had made a tidy sum from his last deal. If he had been on edge in the crime scene area, constantly fearing being caught by the police, he had completely relaxed once he arrived in Buhai.
He knew this place was more or less the stronghold of the syndicate behind him. He also knew that at the slightest sign of trouble, his phone would receive an immediate alert. Then he could simply swap his ID and disappear without a trace.
Humph, what was the point of slaving away as a car - washing worker? He'd just be bossed around all day. It was nothing compared to his current carefree life.
Li Ming, who had lost himself in the glitz and glamour, was in a well - known nightclub in Buhai. With a seductive lounge singer in his left arm and a glass in his right, he was thoroughly enjoying himself.
Li Ming had been there for a while. He swayed his glass, drunk. Why did he feel like he was having a hallucination? Why were there two extra policemen across from him?
Was he seeing things? Li Ming blinked and took a closer look. A cold sweat broke out on his back.
Damn it, they were really policemen.
His long - formed conditioned reflex made him immediately drop his glass, knocking the woman in his arms to the ground.
But as soon as Li Ming stood up, he found that he had drunk too much and couldn't even walk properly.
Everything spun around him, and he flopped to the ground, still muttering incoherently, "Drink, keep drinking."
Then he felt himself being handcuffed.
The ones who came were the criminal policemen from Buhai. They had been monitoring Li Ming's movements for a long time. But considering the big fish behind Li Ming, they had only been keeping an eye on him instead of arresting him immediately.
However, days had passed. Whether Li Ming really didn't know or was just feigning ignorance, he spent his days indulging in these seedy places, eating and drinking to his heart's content. The criminal policemen had followed this guy for so many days, but he hadn't even had a single meeting.
This couldn't go on. If they couldn't catch the fish, were they even going to lose the bait?
So, Li Qiang and the other policemen from Buhai discussed it and finally decided to arrest Li Ming that very night.
"Who... You, who are you... How dare you..." "Burp～～～" Before he could finish his sentence, Li Ming let out a huge belch, which made the woman next to him feel nauseous.
"You all leave first." A criminal policeman stepped forward to direct the scene.
The women here were engaged in shady business and were most afraid of crackdowns. Hearing that the policemen didn't seem to be after them, they didn't even dare to look back and scurried out of the nightclub.
Only then did the Buhai criminal policemen turn back and look at the drunkard on the ground with amusement.
Li Ming's consciousness was hazy. He struggled desperately to get up. When he found his hands couldn't move, he immediately started cursing, "Which bastard tied my hands up? Let go quickly!"
An old - hand policeman couldn't stand it anymore. You couldn't be polite to a scoundrel like this.
"Splash!" The old criminal policeman poured a full glass of ice - cold water on Li Ming's face.
The sudden cold and the water choking him made Li Ming cough non - stop, but he finally sobered up a bit.
As soon as he woke up, he started cursing. He first wiped the water off his face and looked around with his small eyes to find the culprit.
When he saw the glass in the old criminal policeman's hand, he got angry and was about to start yelling, "You good - for - nothing..."
But the next second, when he tried to move his hands, he found them handcuffed.
Li Ming immediately shut up.
Although the policemen were in plain clothes, just like cats and mice being natural enemies, many of them had a sixth sense about each other.
When Li Ming realized who had caught him, his face turned as white as a sheet.
Not willing to give up, he tried to do a backflip to escape the encirclement, but his old body, unused to such movement for a long time, got sprained.
"Ah!" With a scream, Li Ming felt as if his wrist had been broken.
Looking again, he saw that the policemen had anticipated his escape route and had set up an ambush. They were just waiting for him to fall into the trap.
Now Li Ming had no way to defend himself.
In the police station.
It was late at night. Although Buhai was hot during the day, when the sun set at night, the sea breeze blowing from the sea was extremely cold.
Li Ming, with his spiky crew - cut, was squatting next to the radiator, dejected. A large part of his shirt on his chest was wet. He was handcuffed, with one end on his hand and the other on the radiator.
"Officer, I really don't know anything. I just visited a prostitute. Am I breaking the law for that?" Li Ming put on an act, his expression greasy.
This made Xiao Chen furious.
"You!" Xiao Chen was about to step forward, but was stopped by Li Qiang.
Li Qiang shook his head at Xiao Chen, signaling him not to intervene.
Xiao Chen was a bit puzzled but still obediently stopped.
When the Buhai criminal policemen stepped in, they clearly laid out Li Ming's whereabouts since he came to Buhai, including where he lived, where he ate, and which women he had been with.
Li Ming's face turned deathly pale, but he still stubbornly said, "So what? I'm not a local. Is it a crime for me to come here on vacation?"
"Vacation is fine for ordinary people, but Li Ming, do you really think you can hide what you've done for a lifetime?" Li Qiang snorted and stepped forward.
He squatted in front of Li Ming with a stack of photos and showed them to him one by one.
The photos included pictures of Wang Lin's murder scene as well as photos of her daily life before her death.
Li Ming closed his eyes tightly as soon as he saw the first photo and didn't dare to look anymore.
"What?" Li Qiang didn't take back the photos and sneered, "Afraid to look? You've done it. What's there to be afraid of?"
Li Ming suddenly opened his eyes wide and retorted, "I didn't do it!"
"What evidence do you have to prove you didn't do it?" Li Qiang continued to flip through the photos. "This is the chat record between you and Wang Lin, clearly showing that you brought her to Buhai. The surveillance can also prove this. And this, if it wasn't you, why did such a large sum of money suddenly appear in your bank account?"
As Li Qiang threw one piece of direct and indirect evidence after another in front of him, Li Ming's mental state gradually collapsed.
"Ah!!!" Li Ming suddenly burst into tears. "It wasn't me. I just did them a small favor. They said it was nothing and that I would never be found out. Why was I caught?"
"Them?" Li Qiang and Xiao Chen keenly caught the meaning in Li Ming's words.
They glanced at each other and thought that there was finally some progress in the case today.
"Yes, I'm just a small fry. There's someone else pulling the strings behind the scenes."
"Who?"
Li Ming sniffed. Since he had been caught, he didn't expect to get out. So why should he take the blame for the real murderer?
"I don't know his name. Every time, he contacted me and gave me the information of the targets they had their eyes on. Then I would post some part - time job information to lure these students in."
Hearing Li Ming talk so casually, Xiao Chen's eyes turned red.
He roared, "Do you know what this means for those students? It means they're walking into the gates of hell."