Captured By The Cold Detective (BL)-Chapter 151: What If...

When Wu Liang came near with a mocking look on his face, the pressure on Wu Yuan reached its peak. He was really desperate to protect this precious money that was given to him. In the heat of the moment, he screwed his eyes shut and swung the knife blindly!

The sensation of the sharp knife tearing into flesh was scalp-numbing, so was the grunt of pain that escaped Wu Liang’s lips. Terrified, Wu Yuan immediately dropped the knife and ran out of the house without looking back. He did not even stop to check on his father’s condition. However... Wu Yuan was certain that the wound he inflicted was not a stab in the stomach, not even deep enough to take lives!

"You ran away," Mu Yuze repeated, the color of his eyes deepening. He recalled the statement from the field officer who was the first to arrive at Wu Yuan’s house and reasoned, "You must not have gone far. From the time of the fight until the police arrived, it was only ten or so minutes. Where did you go? And why did you come back again in such a short time?"

Mu Yuze’s question was completely reasonable. In hindsight, the body would trigger an acute stress response to perceive harmful events, attacks, or threats — namely fight, flight or freeze.

In Wu Yuan’s case, the highly-stressed environment prompted him to throw an attack as a feign in order to pave a way for retreat. Mu Yuze could understand it very well. However, there was one point he could not figure out. If Wu Yuan had indeed fled, then why would he come back so soon? Why didn’t he run further someplace nobody could find him? Was he not worried that his father would be waiting for him at home and really beat him to death?

Once again, Mu Yuze recalled his memory of that year. What a coincidence... Wu Yuan had also injured his father before running out. As for Mu Yuze, he had run out in a moment of panic and after he calmed himself down, he thought of calling for help around the neighborhood. What about Wu Yuan?

"I..." Wu Yuan screwed his eyes shut, his breathing ragged and uneven. "Mister, if... if I told you that I don’t remember what happened during those ten minutes, will... will you believe me?"

This time, Mu Yuze was stunned. "...Don’t remember?"

Perhaps thinking that Mu Yuze did not believe him, Wu Yuan grasped onto him tighter, his eyes wild in panic as he pleaded in desperation, "I–I am telling the truth! I really don’t know what happened, Mister! I... I ran away from home but then... I suddenly blacked out and... and when I came to, I found that my father... he was already dead!"

It sounded utterly unbelievable, Wu Yuan knew that. Today, if he had been in the police officer’s position, he would not have believed it either. Alas, exactly because he found it unbelievable that he did not dare to defend himself. After all, everything had happened so fast.

One second, he was still scrambling out of the house in panic, the next second everything went dark and he woke up to his father’s corpse and the police who suddenly barged into the house to put metal cuffs around his wrists. There was so much blood and... and the knife. He was still holding onto the blood-stained knife!

He tried to convince himself that he was not a murderer. He really tried to, but... all of the evidence was clearly pointing at him!

There was no third person in the house, only him and his father. There were no other fingerprints on the knife, only his and his father’s. No matter from which angle he saw it, the only murderer could only be... him.

Eventually, even he started to doubt himself. What if... what if he was wrong all along? What if everything was only a trick of his mind? What if during those ten minutes, he had really stabbed his father and forgotten everything due to some inexplicable reasons?

In the end, when the fierce-looking officers demanded, "Is it you who killed him?!"

He could only tremblingly utter, "Y–Yes... it is me."

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"—hiss!" 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

The technician who was operating the earpiece Mu Yuze was wearing could not help but suck in a surprised air when he overheard this conversation. He grumbled under his breath, "What kind of fantasy thriller plot is this? He blacked out and his father died all of a sudden just like that?"

He thought that people would more or less echo his opinion, after all this case was really too strange. There were only two people at the crime scene. One was dead, while the other claimed that he was not the killer. Then who was the real culprit here? A ghost?

But much to his surprise, when he lifted his head, he saw solemn expressions from Captain Li, Captain Rong from the Narcotics Division next door, and also a handful of field officers. Even the slow-to-react Kang Guanyu was putting on a grave look as if he was contemplating something crucial.

The technician was dumbfounded. What was going on? Why did it seem like he was the biggest idiot here? Unreconciled, he asked Kang Guanyu with an incredulous look. "Do you believe him?"

Kang Guanyu wrinkled his nose with pure confusion in his eyes. "What are you saying? This is my bewildered face, okay?!" After that, he subtly nudged Li Zhi with his elbow. "Psst, Captain. What do you think? The culprit can’t be a ghost, right...?"

The technician brother: "..." Fuck, this guy looked so convincing that he thought he was the only one who was dim-witted around here!

"Your subordinate is good," Captain Rong suddenly opened his mouth to give a rare praise.

Li Zhi’s lips were pressed tight, his brows furrowed deeply in thought. However, after hearing what Captain Rong said, the creases on his brows relaxed for a second and he sneered, "Don’t bother trying to poach him."

They could not deny that Mu Yuze’s method of interrogation was unique. He had never raised his voice nor had he tried to pressure or threaten the other to confess the truth. In exchange, he always had a way to find a chink in someone’s armor and tried to break through from there. This method could be considered gentle, delicate yet ruthless at the same time. And it worked very well on Wu Yuan whose mental state was on the brink of collapse.

Not only did he manage to extort a piece of crucial information, he also made the suspect trust him and rely on him!

If you pondered on it more, you would find what kind of terrifying side was hidden beneath his frosty and noble façade...

’Fortunately, Mu Yuze is on the side of law,’ Li Zhi thought in relief.

From his peripheral vision, Li Zhi caught sight of a tall figure who was leaning against the wall. It was none other than Tak Jung-hwa who decided to join in on the monitoring at the last minute. Li Zhi’s heart got an itch and he could not help but ask the man, "What do you think, Mr. Tak? Is Wu Yuan telling the truth?"