I Play Dungeons in the Police Station-Chapter 102 - 98: This Is the Truth

Through the confessions of these three people, the situation at the time of the incident was basically reconstructed. The three accidentally beat Cui Mao to death, and because Zhang Xiuting also hit her husband a few times earlier, she became one of the murderers. To evade police capture, they conspired with the young couple to falsely claim that her husband accidentally fell down the stairs.

At this point, everyone’s initial questions about the case were completely resolved. Justice may be slow, but it never overlooks.

The young office clerk, Zhou Man, upon hearing the result, immediately said indignantly, "That old man was truly vile. He was already so old, yet still went around fooling around. His death is not to be lamented. It’s just a pity for Zhang Xiuting. She meant to teach her husband a lesson, but instead ended up beating him to death alongside others. For someone like him, it’s really not worth it."

Seeing the case had finally been solved, Li Xiang prepared to take out his phone to check if his mission was completed, only to find that the system hadn’t notified him of the mission’s completion.

"What’s going on? Hasn’t the truth of the case been revealed? Why hasn’t the game system’s mission been completed?"

He didn’t suspect the system of malfunctioning, as he was well aware of its power. The mission wasn’t complete, which meant there was only one reason:

The truth they had wasn’t the real truth, but rather the truth the suspects wanted the police to know.

"In that case, the case should be close to wrapping up. Mao Ji, you and Zhou Man can take Li Xiang along to finish up the follow-up work."

After Cao Gang said this, he prepared to adjourn the meeting.

Li Xiang, upon seeing this, immediately raised his hand, "Captain Cao, I still have questions."

"Hmm? What questions?"

Everyone, upon hearing that Li Xiang still had questions, curiously sat back down to hear his thoughts.

Although Li Xiang was new to the team, everyone respected his opinion, not underestimating him because he was new and came from an auxiliary police background.

It’s well known that throughout the country’s public security system, there are very few who can switch from auxiliary police directly to a national civil servant post. Such people are indeed exceptional.

"I think there’s something wrong with their confessions. They likely coordinated their stories after realizing Cui Mao was dead to mitigate their crimes. Cui Mao is dead, which means there’s no testimony to contradict theirs. They can say whatever they want."

"But Cui Mao left behind a confession. I took it to the tech personnel for comparison, and the fingerprints on it are indeed Cui Mao’s; that shouldn’t be fake, right?"

Zhou Man mentioned the confession because she had immediately sent it for verification once it was handed over to her, seeing that Li Xiang wanted to defend that bad man.

"That confession could have been coerced too. Cui Mao, in that situation, was controlled by Liu Shijie, and it’s possible he wrote it under duress."

"We can’t dismiss that possibility, but technical staff had just sent word. They found Cui Mao’s DNA on Wang Yunmei’s sheets. They indeed had intercourse, and the scene investigation matches their statements, so the case likely wouldn’t be overturned."

Zhou Man remained unconvinced by Li Xiang’s words, given all the hard evidence presented before her; the lecherous old man shouldn’t be able to overturn the case.

Captain Cao and others watched the two young people bickering with amusement and chose not to intervene.

With all the evidence pointing to this truth, without the system, Li Xiang might also believe that the truth was as it appeared. But since the system mission wasn’t complete, it indicated there was another truth. What really happened in this case?

Could it be? Was this another case of a honey trap targeting a wealthy person?

In Jinling City, Chen Long and his group had schemed using honey traps to extort money. Could it be that this couple was also using a honey trap?

Did their methods simply evolve?

Thinking of this, Li Xiang immediately said, "I think there’s another possibility. Could this be a honey trap targeting a wealthy individual? If we assume that Cui Mao was the target of this couple, then the entire case’s logic would make sense. And proving whether they premeditated it is simple—check their phones."

If this were a premeditated case, then there would surely be communication between them beforehand. Checking their phone chat histories would reveal the truth.

"Li Xiang makes a valid point. To avoid wrongful or false cases, we must verify any doubts,"

Captain Cao then spoke, having carefully considered Li Xiang’s perspective. It’s not impossible that this was a premeditated honey trap; if so, it involves further criminal charges.

"I had looked at their phones before and found nothing, but they might have deleted chat records. I’ll try restoring the data in a moment."

Mao Ji, being an expert in computers, naturally had the most say in this at the moment.

The meeting ended,

Mao Ji immediately retrieved Liu Shijie’s phone to perform a data recovery. Most chat software stores chat content on the client. Though it can be deleted from the phone, the data isn’t truly erased—it’s like a book with its table of contents removed, making it unsearchable. But the book remains.

Data recovery involves retrieving this book from obscurity.

For Mao Ji, data recovery was just a matter of time. After two hours of data recovery, Liu Shijie’s phone data was finally cracked.

But what was contained in the phone left Mao Ji stunned.

"Li Xiang, you were right. This case is indeed not simple."

Once it was known that Mao Ji had recovered Liu Shijie’s phone data and made a shocking discovery, everyone gathered to watch the content on the phone, their mouths agape, minds blown.

"Charge him with rape, demand a million, or report him to the police."

This message was sent to Liu Shijie’s phone at 07:06 this morning, and the sender was none other than Cui Mao’s wife, Zhang Xiuting.

Indeed, the case had hidden implications beyond what Li Xiang suggested. This wasn’t just honey trapping a wealthy individual; it was a honey trap set by a wife against her husband.

What kind of move is this?

To get to the bottom of it, everyone immediately examined their chat logs to find that Liu Shijie and Zhang Xiuting had known each other for two months.

Zhang Xiuting suspected her husband of having an affair, so she sought out Liu Shijie to help gather evidence of her husband’s infidelity.

Unexpectedly, although Liu Shijie investigated for two months without finding anything, Zhang Xiuting ended up getting involved with Liu Shijie herself. The chat logs showed their interactions became increasingly intimate.

"How could she do this?"

Initially sympathetic towards Zhang Xiuting’s plight, Zhou Man now found the situation hard to accept. As a woman, even she couldn’t condone Zhang Xiuting’s actions.

But it didn’t end there. To get more assets in a divorce, Zhang Xiuting asked Liu Shijie to find a woman to seduce her husband.

Liu Shijie thus approached his former girlfriend, Wang Yunmei, from his real estate days, offering her 100,000 yuan to seduce Cui Mao.

Offered such a sum, Wang Yunmei immediately agreed, leveraging her real estate client outreach to approach Cui Mao actively.

Cui Mao, lacking strong will, fell into the trap after Wang Yunmei’s repeated advances, landing in a romantic snare.

Everything was going according to plan, perfectly until they overestimated Cui Mao’s physical resilience. In an attempt to extort a million, the three beat him and accidentally killed him.

"Even a TV melodrama wouldn’t dare script this, Zhang Xiuting’s scheming is too deep. We almost got deceived by her tears."

Were it not for Li Xiang’s suspicion, they might have overlooked this detail. Now, they realized Zhang Xiuting was far from the innocent victim she seemed.