CHAPTER 31: CHAPTER 31 WU YU IS CAPTURED (BROTHERS, PLEASE COLLECT AND VOTE MONTHLY)

4:00 PM

The urgent knocking sound "dong dong dong" woke Luo Fei from his sleep.

Luo Fei already had some guesses in his mind.

He opened the door to find his aunt and Wu Yan outside.

His aunt’s eyes were red and her face full of anxiety, Wu Yan also wore a worried expression.

"Mom, Aunt, what’s going on?" Luo Fei asked, although he already had a suspicion.

"Xiaofei, just now several police officers rushed into the house and took Xiaoyu away, claiming he killed someone. Go and check it out, there must be some mistake, Xiaoyu might make mistakes but he wouldn’t kill anyone," his aunt said tearfully.

"Xiaofei, hurry and see what’s going on, maybe there’s some misunderstanding," Wu Yan urged Luo Fei.

Luo Fei knew that the criminal investigation team must have finished matching DNA and fingerprints since they suddenly arrested someone, but he nodded and said, "Alright, I’ll go see. Mom, you and Aunt stay at home and wait."

Suddenly recalling something, Luo Fei asked, "By the way, Aunt, why are you here alone? Where’s Uncle?"

"Your uncle, that good-for-nothing, is at home. I asked him to come over, and he said the police wouldn’t arrest someone without reason and claimed he didn’t raise a murderer as a son, so he refused to come," his aunt said angrily about his uncle.

"Mom, Aunt, you both should go back home and check, I’m afraid something might happen to Uncle," Luo Fei suggested, thinking that although the chances were small, who knows what Uncle might think confronting such a situation.

Then Luo Fei quickly got dressed and headed to the criminal investigation team, eager to find out the details.

By the time Luo Fei reached the front desk of the criminal investigation team, there was no one around, leaving him unsure of whom to approach. Just then, a short-haired police officer came out holding a notebook.

Luo Fei recognized him as Yang Su, the team leader of the action squad in the criminal investigation team. They hadn’t interacted before, but since the first Gu Youguo case, the Su Xiao suicide case, and now this case, they had encountered each other three times.

"Captain Yang," Luo Fei quickly greeted him.

"Luo Fei, what brings you here," Yang Su asked, recognizing Luo Fei, whom he had a good impression of, as he had been helpful in solving previous cases.

"Captain Yang, have the DNA and fingerprint matches come out?"

"The fingerprints don’t match Wu Yu’s, but the DNA matches a set collected at the scene exactly. The captain and the others are interrogating Wu Yu now, come, let’s go see the situation," Yang Su replied.

Luo Fei followed Yang Su to the door of the interrogation room, where Yang Mei and others were present.

Inside the interrogation room, Wu Yu was handcuffed to a chair, looking terrified with his pale face and trembling hands. Zhao Donglai was the one conducting the interrogation.

Yang Mei and the others noticed Luo Fei’s presence too.

Yang Su asked Luo Fei to stay outside with Yang Mei and the others, while he entered the interrogation room with his notebook.

The interrogation of Wu Yu wasn’t particularly difficult. Zhao Donglai managed to get a full confession from Wu Yu in less than five minutes.

Tang Youquan was indeed killed by them - there were four in total: Wu Yu, Zhou Xiaotiao, Ma Hu, and Huang Bin. All four were unemployed and usually loitered around the streets.

That day they got the urge to have a drink on the mountain, so they brought two packs of bottled alcohol and some snacks to Walnut Mountain.

As they passed by Tang Youquan’s house on the mountain, his dog barked at them incessantly, annoying them so much that Zhou Xiaotiao even picked up a stick to hit the dog.

Afterward, they found a nice spot to settle down, eating snacks and drinking while chatting and bragging. Out of nowhere, someone mentioned the heroes and warriors of the past, who would eat meat and drink heroically.

As they talked, Ma Hu felt that just drinking without meat was inadequate. He said if they had meat, they could emulate those heroic figures, eating and drinking boldly. The others also felt regretful about not having any meat.

Then suddenly Zhou Xiaotiao mentioned the dog they saw earlier and suggested stealing it to roast and eat.

The others were tempted by the idea, and they conspired to steal the dog.

They returned to the house, and since the owner wasn’t home and the dog barked at them again, Ma Hu and Wu Yu, armed with sticks, hit the dog hard on its waist, bringing it down instantly.

They took the dog away along with its chain.

After dealing with the dog, Wu Yu and the others started a barbecue, drinking beer and feeling a sense of satisfaction.

Around 4:00 PM, after finishing the dog meat and the alcohol they brought, they decided to head back.

As they passed by Tang Youquan’s house on the way back,

Tang Youquan had returned home and realized his dog was missing, searched for it but couldn’t find it.

Upon seeing Wu Yu and his group, he asked if they had seen his dog. Wu Yu and the others naturally denied it, not expecting Zhou Xiaotiao to still be playing with the dog chain, having not discarded it.

Seeing the chain, Tang Youquan knew that Wu Yu and his friends had something to do with his dog’s disappearance and harshly questioned them about its whereabouts, threatening to break their legs if they didn’t confess.

Having consumed quite a bit of alcohol, emboldened by the buzz, Wu Yu and the others boldly admitted that they slaughtered and ate the dog.

Upon hearing that his carefully nurtured dog had been slaughtered and eaten by these young ruffians, Tang Youquan was enraged. He stepped forward and slapped Ma Hu, who was standing at the front, angrily calling them animals, deprived of human decency and upbringing.

This infuriated Wu Yu and his group. They held Tang Youquan down to the ground, took off his shoes, and slapped his face repeatedly.

However, Tang Youquan was stubborn, still spewing curses even as his face swelled from the beating.

Incensed, Wu Yu and his gang challenged Tang Youquan’s resilience, carrying him into the house.

Zhou Xiaotiao put the dog chain around Tang Youquan’s neck, stripped him of his clothes, treating him like a dog, riding him, and viciously whipping him with the chain.

No matter how they tortured him, Tang Youquan remained defiant, still hurling curses at Wu Yu and the others.

Wu Yu, who had been sitting on a camp bed, was feeling the effects of the alcohol and his head felt uncomfortable. He then, without conscious thinking, grabbed a rusty wrench...