A few minutes later, Captain Niu hung up the phone and patted Zuo Si on the shoulder, saying, “The murderer of Hero Ding has been caught.”
“C-caught?” Zuo Si exclaimed, his face filled with shock. But upon reflection, Hero Ding had been dead for a week; catching the murderer now didn’t seem like such a big deal.
“Is it Lu Liangyuan?” he asked nervously.
“It is! Since you’re so invested in this case, I’ll make an exception and take you to see! Come on, let’s go to the interrogation room,” Captain Niu said, looking quite pleased.
The three of them arrived at the interrogation room and waited for a while.
Two veteran officers walked in, leading a thin old man in his seventies.
The two officers first greeted Captain Niu politely, then exchanged surprised glances at Zuo Si, but didn’t say much. They directly cuffed Lu Liangyuan to the interrogation chair.
“This person should be Lu Liangyuan, right…?” Zuo Si scrutinized the thin old man.
Although Lu Liangyuan was old, his eyes were bright, and his back was slightly hunched. There was an air of arrogance in his gaze, as if he considered himself superior.
Even in such an environment, he showed no signs of panic, and even wore a hint of a confident smile.
After going through the procedures, Captain Niu began the interrogation.
“Lu Liangyuan, do you admit to killing Ding Wenyuan?” Captain Niu asked.
Ding Wenyuan was Hero Ding’s real name.
“Of course I admit it. Why wouldn’t I? You’ve already found the evidence. Even if I deny it, it’s useless; it’s better to save everyone some time,” Lu Liangyuan replied, surprising everyone, even Captain Niu, who was momentarily taken aback.
“Then did you kill Meng Miaoxue?” Zuo Si suddenly interjected. Whether Lu Liangyuan admitted to killing Meng Miaoxue could affect the completion of the Daily Tasks.
And the completion of the Daily Tasks was directly related to Zuo Si’s life and death.
So, even though Captain Niu had instructed him not to speak, he couldn’t help himself.
Captain Niu shot Zuo Si a glare, and Zuo Si lowered his head, feeling embarrassed and unable to look at him.
Upon hearing Zuo Si’s question, a glint of Essence flashed in Lu Liangyuan’s eyes, and the curve of his lips grew wider.
“Hahaha…” he began to laugh, his voice hoarse, like a dying crow.
“Hahaha…”
“Stop laughing!” Captain Niu slammed the table, stopping him.
Lu Liangyuan obediently stopped laughing, but… the way he ceased his smile was unlike that of a normal person.
Typically, after laughing, a person would take some time to regain their expression, perhaps ten seconds or even longer.
But Lu Liangyuan’s smile vanished in an instant! It was as if the one who had just laughed wasn’t him at all.
Having killed so many people, he truly was a madman.
“Did you… see her?” Lu Liangyuan’s gaze gradually shifted to Zuo Si, his lips trembling as if he was holding back laughter.
Zuo Si didn’t answer. The feeling of being stared at by Lu Liangyuan made him extremely uncomfortable, as if he were being targeted by a venomous snake.
Although Zuo Si didn’t respond, Lu Liangyuan seemed to read his expression and muttered to himself, “I, to see her, have gone once a week for the past fifteen years, yet she never dared to meet me, hehehe…”
Lu Liangyuan let out a strange, eerie laugh.
“Did you kill Meng Miaoxue?” This time it was Captain Niu asking, as the unsolved mystery from fifteen years ago was also a personal knot for him.
“Yes, why wouldn’t I?” Lu Liangyuan suddenly sat up straight, as if he were talking about something very proud: “After all these years, I can finally admit it openly! Hehehe…”
“Why did you kill her?”
“She was too beautiful.” Lu Liangyuan’s mouth even dripped with saliva: “Meng Miaoxue is the perfect woman in my heart!~”
“But she didn’t know how to cherish it!!!” Lu Liangyuan’s expression suddenly turned ferocious: “Why would such a perfect face need plastic surgery!!! Why!!! Why!!!”
He became somewhat hysterical.
At that moment, everyone believed he was a madman.
This was a lunatic.
“Just because of this, you had to kill her?”
“Of course! Since she didn’t know how to cherish it, I had to help her, to keep that perfect face forever on her. Hehehe… how could I ruin her face myself?”
“…”
The room fell into a brief silence; no one expected Lu Liangyuan’s motive for murder was to preserve Meng Miaoxue’s face.
Such a motive for killing could only belong to a madman!!
“Then Shen Xia, Xu Qing, Xu Ying, and Fang Ruxin, did you kill them too?”
“That’s right~” Lu Liangyuan continued to admit without hesitation.
“Why did you kill them?”
“Of course to silence them; you should have guessed it already, hehehe…” Lu Liangyuan’s gaze remained fixed on Zuo Si, who felt a chill run down his spine. This old man was scarier than a ghost.
Captain Niu picked up an evidence bag containing a bottle of clear liquid and asked, “Did you use this hallucinogenic drug to kill them too?”
“Of course! I developed this myself; it’s very effective. It would be a waste to throw it away, so I’ll give it to you, hehehe…”
Lu Liangyuan readily confessed to all his crimes, seemingly unconcerned about whether he would be sentenced to death.
Instead, he kept cackling, his gaze mostly lingering on Zuo Si, making Zuo Si want to leave but he held back.
In the end, Zuo Si had to pull out his black phone to distract himself. Since Lu Liangyuan had confessed to all his crimes, the completion rate for the ‘Screaming Hospital’ task should have exceeded 70%.
Sure enough, as soon as he opened the black phone, he received a notification: the completion rate for ‘Screaming Hospital’ had reached 80%.
He could now unlock the horror scenes of You Ren Hospital at any time and had also gained three hundred Fear Points.
As long as he had his own haunted house, this mandatory task would be considered complete.
Zuo Si’s life was temporarily saved.
“Finally, let me remind you all one last thing,” Lu Liangyuan scanned Captain Niu and the others, saying, “The reason I was caught by you is entirely because I left clues for you on purpose~ Don’t think too highly of yourselves, you bunch of useless fools, hehehe…”
“Ba$tard! Don’t get too c0cky!” Li Feng could no longer hold back; this old man could no longer be described as a pervert.
“Hehe, young man, don’t be too impulsive; being too impulsive can lead to trouble~” Lu Liangyuan didn’t care about Li Feng’s words at all, instead adopting a grandfatherly tone as if educating a grandson.
“You…” Li Feng wanted to explode again but was signaled by Captain Niu to sit down.
Lu Liangyuan was taken away, and just before he left, he turned back to look at Zuo Si once more.
That gaze made Zuo Si feel a chill in his heart.
“It seems the saying that geniuses are all madmen is not without reason…” Captain Niu sighed.
“He’s a genius?” Zuo Si looked at Captain Niu in surprise.
“Not just a genius; he was the pride of the entire Qingshui City when he was young,” Captain Niu said with a hint of nostalgia, sighing, “I don’t know what could have caused him to end up like this.”