“Huh?!” Team Wu’s face darkened then, early in the morning, calling us over with great fanfare, only to have nothing come of it.
Xiao Sun could see that Team Wu’s face was not good, so he said, “It’s not completely nothing, from the phone card, I still repaired a photo, but it’s damaged, so you can only see a general picture.”
He said, opening his computer and showing us the photo. The key parts of the picture were not clear, and the whole picture was very blurred, only an approximate colour block could be seen, and we could probably tell that this was a photo taken by a person standing at the landmark building of Ningcheng, Qianmen.
I don’t think it was used to store anything else, but probably the phone number and the photo. In fact, the total capacity is only enough to store such a small amount of things, the phone storage function is now integrated, rarely an external memory card.”
I said, “The old man probably took a picture of something and put it on the phone card. Because he didn’t have time to print it and didn’t dare to send it to Liu Hao in a hurry, because the person he photographed was a policeman, it made him trust Liu Hao much less and no longer trust the police, so he asked to give it to Liu Hao in person. Maybe he wanted to meet Liu Hao that time not to meet him, but to test Liu Hao’s identity by some means.”
Zhao Zichen concurred, “So the photo taken in this phone card must be the one that made the old ghost feel scared.”
Unfortunately, this photo was too blurry to see clearly, and this kind of photo made it impossible for Meng Meng to compare it to the corresponding person.
I said, “Officer Sun, hard work, how long will this probably take?”
“Restoration to this extent, the next step is to restore it with software, it will not be restored to exactly the same as the original photo, yes nine out of ten, at least the person’s face if restored, you will definitely be able to recognize who the person is, the difference is that the folds on the face will not be restored one to one. The best case scenario is that I can just restore the phone card and then I can export all the information from the phone card.”
“It’s been a really hard few days, so how long is this probably going to take to do the mountain gate?”
“I reckon, five to six days, don’t worry guys, I’ll call and let you know when there’s any news.”
I was busy leaving him my mobile phone number, telling him to let us know immediately if he had any news.
“You bet.”
I said, “Officer Sun, let’s go down for breakfast together, my treat.”
“This ……” Little Officer Sun certainly didn’t want to eat instant noodles in the morning, but there are requirements for police officers, they can’t take want to eat please, otherwise they will have to out disciplinary action, in front of Captain Wu of course he didn’t dare.
Wu team own a wipe mouth said: “I heard that Zhang Chao you are not ordinary family.”
Zhao Zichen laughed, “That’s not true, a rich second generation with good roots.”
I laughed, “Our family has properties in Ningcheng, so I’ll ask the cook to bring some breakfast.”
“My goodness, the family chef, this is grand, rich people are different. Then I’ll thank you on behalf of our police force, but I’ll say this upfront, breakfast can’t be too expensive, soy milk and doughnuts will do.”
I said, “Team Wu, where are you going? Even if I were to buy you, I wouldn’t buy you with breakfast.”
Team Wu picked up the waistband of his trousers, stretched and said, “That’s what I said, but we have to keep a string tight in our hearts at all times, we are the police, if this string is loosened, then the people of Ningcheng will be scattered.”
Xiao Sun said, “Team Zhang, can you add a tea egg for me?”
I smiled and told him of course I could. My phone was gone, but I could call from Zhao Zichen’s phone, and I dialed a hotel owned by Junran directly and asked them to send a twenty-minute breakfast over.
Team Wu pulled me along, “Go, go, go down and have breakfast, what are you doing piling up here. By the way, after breakfast, I’ll take you to meet an old acquaintance of yours.”
“An old acquaintance of mine? Who is it?”
“Or a relative of yours. Your grandson, Zheng Peng.”
Team Wu said, “The incident at Binjiang Haino has gone too far this time, and the provincial department has formed a task force to take charge of the matter. No one involved in the case will be able to escape, all of them will be accountable. Not only the person in charge of Binjiang Haino, but also the controlling party behind it, Guang Group Media, and the public officials involved in it, all of them will be investigated.
“Then the umbrella behind him ……”
Before I could finish, Team Wu waved his hand and said, “You don’t say anything about an umbrella, even if it were a mountain of support, it would be dug up for him this time. But …… hey, Zheng Peng is very tight lipped and won’t say anything.”
Zhao Zichen laughed: “This Zheng Peng is not particularly stupid, if he gives up that person now, how can that person still go through all the trouble to save him?”
Team Wu said with chagrin, “This Zheng Peng is usually a coward and stupid, but why is he so smart this time?”
I said, “He’s not clever, he’s just stupid. The evidence is overwhelming, how can he get away with it? If he had confessed, he might have been able to get a lighter sentence, but now he’s betting on that umbrella, and he wants to get away with it.”
Wu Yi Yi said, “Then let’s go and see him? Hehehe, that b*****d did that to Qianmen, it’s good to see how unlucky and down he is now.”
“I’m afraid your senior brother won’t want to, he, tsk.” Zhao Zichen whispered, “Hypocrisy.”
Wu Yi Yi was not pleased and reached out to twist Zhao Zichen’s ear, who jumped out of the way to dodge.
I said to Moon Full Bow, “It won’t hurt to take a look, but we have to leave Zheng Peng hanging for now, it’s not too late to interrogate him after his heart’s defences have completely broken down.”
I didn’t expect Moon Man Bow to agree, but Moon Man Bow said, “Yes. Go and see, I want to see what he is like now too. Hmph, evil has its own reward, this is his retribution.”
“You want to see his joke go too?” I didn’t expect Moon Man Bow to say that and was very surprised, “Is this still Moon Man Bow? Tsk.”
Yue Man Gong said in a cold voice, “Is it strange, he did that to my Qianmen, I can’t wait to see him exposed in the street, he should be thankful that he is not a jianghu, if he was a jianghu, I would just take his dog’s life.”
I laughed, “I was not expecting you to admit that.”
“What do you mean? You think I’m a hypocrite too.”
He ignored me and walked straight away, and Team Wu spat out his tongue and whispered to me, “This kid’s got quite a temper.”
Zheng Peng had not slept for a long time and was in poor spirits. After the first round of questioning was over, the police decided to shift their offensive, hanging Zheng Peng out to dry for a while and mainly attacking his heart’s defences.
Wu arranged for us to look outside the interrogation room, which had headphones outside to hear the sounds inside and a single side of glass in the middle, so you could see in from the outside, but not from the inside.
Zheng Peng kept wanting to sleep, but as soon as he closed his eyes, the policeman opposite would shine a torch into his eyes or shake him awake, but he would not let him sleep anyway.
Both of Zheng Peng’s eyes were covered with red blood, his eyes were blank and confused, his hair was messed up like a chicken’s nest, and he was on the verge of going crazy.
I said to Moon Full Bow, “One can not eat or drink, but not sleeping is the most painful.”
Wu Yi Yi said, “But not many people can stand not sleeping.”
I said, “What do you know about Gilgame? The heroic king of ancient Uruk, legend has it that he went through a lot of trouble to find the Elixir of Immortality, and finally the man with the Elixir asked him to give it to him if he insisted on staying awake for three days, but he lost out to drowsiness.”