Chapter 27 (1/2)
Published
at 15th of October 2019 02:35:59 PM
Chapter 27
The discussion drag on until night time . Late at night, all the police men and the examiners were exhausted . It’s like they were just waiting to see who will resist until the end .
This two teenagers, even though their body is thin, they have hard skulls . It’s so difficult to break and dig out more about their testimony .
Senior Yang rubbed his red eyes and said to Zheng Yi, “There is one way to prove your conjecture . ”
“What method?”
“The Prisoner’s Dilemma!”
The so-called Prisoner’s Dilemma refers to the tendency of two conspirators to disclose or confess facts because they cannot trust each other or are told that the other party has betrayed them in isolated conditions .
Typical criminals can never survive such psychological warfare .
The interrogations soon began separately .
Chen Nian sat in the interrogation room alone . Her attire are bland, with only a red rope on her wrist which is particularly bright, like a bloodstain .
The expressionless policemen walked in . His expression was not yet stable while Senior Yang threw folders on the table with a snap . The old detective eyes like a burning torch, blazing with anger, looked at her and said, “Bei Ye has confessed . ”
Chen Nian looked at them didn’t utter a single word . There was no surprise or panic in her eyes .
“Chen Nian, you and him are accomplices . ” Senior Yang said .
Chen Nian shook her head: “No . ”
“On the day of Wei Cai’s disappearance, she asked Xu Miao to go to the back hill . That’s just a cover . In fact, you are the person she asked for . Don’t deny it, because she told you the day before . The last lesson is P . E . cla.s.s . It’s convenient for you to go to the back hill . You hurt her when you went there . On that day, you mentioned that movie tickets were difficult to buy at school and your cla.s.smates Li Xiang wanted to watch that . He asked you to go to the movies that night . When you watch the movie, Bei Ye goes to deal with the aftermath again . ”
“No . ” Chen Nian shook her head . The light fell to the top of her head, and her eyelids casts long shadows, swaying under her pitch black eyes .
“That’s what Bei Ye himself said . Chen Nian, if you don’t admit it you will be punished more severely . ”
Hold on, you have to hold on .
She gazed at them with deep, terrible eyes . After half a minute of silence, she asked, “Do you want to lighten my punishment?”
“Yes, we want to help you . ” The detective replied .
“Since you want to help, does it matter whether I confessed or not?” Chen Nian coldly said, “When I plead guilty, only then will you lighten the punishment for me?”
He was silent .
After all, Senior Yang continued: “Do you want to confess?”
“No . ”
“No?”
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“I don’t know why he said that, but I don’t know him . ” Chen Nian said .
“He said you were accomplices . Just three hours ago, he offered another testimony in order to buy time to keep you from doing examination . ”
Chen Nian still shook her head .
“Perhaps he was too bored, or unwilling to make another testimony to plead guilty and do the time, so he’s dragged me into the mud . For the sake of my exam he’s buying time and it makes me guilty too . But think carefully, what’s the meaning of confessing the act itself and involving me? I’m already involved . If it’s possible that I’m convicted, what’s the point of me taking an examination? There is a lot of contradiction . So, it’s incorrect if he said that I was an accomplice with him, it wasn’t credible . ” [ED: Yea I havn’t read the previous chapters, so I can’t edit this part too much]
Her logic is so clear that it makes some policement release cold sweat . [ED: not to me lmao]
Her remarks undoubtedly provided another possibility for the intricate case . Perhaps Bei Ye was unwilling to be caught in her hands and tried to frame her .
“You mean that, what he said was false?”
“Yes . ”
“Chen Nian, the last chance, if you don’t want to confess, Bei Ye’s sentence will be reduce for cooperating with the investigation . On the contrary, your guilt will be aggravated . ”
“He’s lying . ” She calmly stated .
“Are you sure?”
“I will stake my life on it” she said, her eyes clear and her tone absolute . “Otherwise, let me meet him and confront us together . ”
“You think we’re not going to do that?”
“Let him come!”
Under the white burning light, her pale skin and cheekbones further accentuate her deep black eyes…
They have failed, and she has survived .
The last hope for them is to put pressure on Bei Ye .
In Bei Ye’s further interrogation, the opening was solemn and oppressive:
“Chen Nian admitted that when Wei Cai was killed, she was on the scene and was an active partic.i.p.ation . ”
“Heh, is that woman braindead?” Bei Ye said .
The situation on this side is the same as that on the other side; offers of aggravating or mitigating the sentence, leniency for cooperation to the severity of resistance; has not been able to pry Bei Ye’s mouth open .
“You mean what she said was false?”
“Yes . ”
“Bei Ye, this is the last chance, if you don’t admit it, Chen Nian’s punishment will be reduced for cooperating with the investigation . On the contrary, your punishment will be aggravated . ”
“She’s lying . ”
“Are you sure?”
“Sure . Otherwise, let me meet her and confront her . ”
The white light that shone on Bei Ye’s face shows an unprecedented three-dimensional line, as sharp as knives and axes .
His eyes are as tough as nails . [ strong and very determined ]
Zheng Yi felt that his colleagues had tried their best and could not pry any further .
Maybe they can try a few more times, but he knows they can’t break it .
These two children, they’re surrounded by a city wall, trapped, isolated, are still unbreakable .