Chapter 215: The Humiliated and Shattered Butcher, Su Ming’s Resolve Never Wavered

“Spare me, I won’t say a word.

The ghost is coming, don’t chase me.”

The interpretation of these two different lip movements made Su Ming raise his brow in contemplation.

Because just from the context, these two sentences were entirely different, with the content analyzed reflecting the difference between official and folk interpretations.

One leans toward science, trying to identify the hidden killer or determine if suicide is a possibility.

The other, however, leans toward metaphysics, preparing to verify the idea of a malevolent ghost pursuing the victim, spreading superstition and causing panic among the public.

However, after uncovering the drug trafficking organization led by K and confirming that it was Ghost who killed Lan Cai’er using some method,

The so-called ghost pursuit naturally became irrelevant and fell apart.

The key point was… “Spare me, I won’t say a word”—the official interpretation of the lip movements, combined with the information just extracted from Butcher’s mouth,

Undoubtedly indicated that… Lan Cai’er had discovered some extremely important evidence, and it was even possible that she had begged K for mercy, swearing she would never expose those things.

This was likely why she said that sentence in such a mentally unstable state, facing the corner of the elevator.

But unfortunately,

For the cautious K, only the dead could keep secrets.

After quickly going over the general details of the case in his mind,

Su Ming turned to Bai Yu at the interrogation table and asked in a calm voice,

“Xiao Bai.”

“When the autopsy was conducted, there shouldn’t have been any traces of drugs or hallucinogenic substances in Lan Cai’er’s blood, right?”

“If any such drugs were found, it would probably have been labeled as a suicide to temporarily suppress the scandal.”

Bai Yu didn’t respond but nodded immediately, confirming this deduction.

Su Ming didn’t continue to dwell on the case, deciding to wait until the current interrogation was over and then thoroughly review the relevant files to try to find a breakthrough.

The most important thing right now was still to continue with this special interrogation.

Su Ming looked at Butcher, still pale, his fingers lightly tapping the desk of the interrogation chair, and once again coldly asked,

“Butcher.”

“Don’t tell me… as an Elder member of the entire drug trafficking organization, you only know this internal information?”

“Then I think, maybe your experience wasn’t enough just now, after all, there’s quite a bit of blood in an adult’s body. Maybe you haven’t reached your limit yet, huh?”

Su Ming’s cold words made Butcher, who couldn’t see anything, tremble involuntarily. He then hurriedly said,

“I really… I really only know this much.”

“K, he’s really very cautious, very cautious, because I’ve taken so many lives that he wouldn’t tell me any important or confidential organization information.”

“Officer Su, I’ve told you, I’ve already told you, there’s no need, there’s no need to keep lying to you.”

Seeing Butcher’s nervous and emotional state,

Su Ming roughly judged that the important information Butcher knew had mostly been extracted, and the remaining information was probably not critical to the overall situation.

For example… how K supplies high-purity drugs, how often he contacts people, how to determine if someone is a member of the organization, money laundering channels, and so on.

These pieces of information might help capture K and dismantle this drug trafficking organization,

But the overall probability wasn’t high.

At least, given K’s caution and brutal methods, he probably had ways to sever these less hidden and important leads.

It was a pity that Butcher had far too many lives in his hands.

He might be arrested by the police at any moment, which meant even K wouldn’t trust him too much, so the information he had was pitifully scarce.

But the only fortunate thing was…

By prying open Butcher’s mouth, two other leads have been uncovered, along with a possible crucial breakthrough to locate K.

Demon Witch and Ghost are undoubtedly the next targets for capture and control.

As for Hua Jiu, Wang Minghui, and Lan Cai’er, these three people, whose names were pointed out by K as vulnerabilities, what kind of special evidence did they possess that cost them their lives?

And… could the foreign casinos be another hideout of K, or the source of high-purity drugs?

These unanswered questions still need to be further investigated, and time has become exceptionally precious and urgent.

With that thought,

Su Ming stopped hesitating and turned to Bai Yu and Liu Yang behind him, speaking decisively.

“Chief Liu, Xiao Bai.”

“There’s probably nothing more to be found on Butcher, so let the other officers handle the usual questioning from here on out.”

“The most important thing right now is to track down Demon Witch and Ghost, using them as a bridge to find K, who’s hiding in Luzhou City.”

“At the same time, we can’t drop the Priest lead, so we must leave Modu immediately and begin further screening. At that point, we’ll probably need to work on three fronts.”

“Let’s go, time’s of the essence.”

After saying this,

Su Ming prepared to leave the Interrogation Room and instructed the other officers to proceed with the standard procedures to continue questioning Butcher in more detail.

Hearing this, Butcher immediately panicked, anxiously calling out.

“Officer Su, Officer Su, wait, wait a second.”

“I’m still here, I’m still here, you’ve got to finish your questioning first before I can go to the hospital, my blood is about to…”

Before Butcher could finish,

Su Ming swiftly removed the blindfold from his face.

Then,

Butcher looked at the scabbed wound on his wrist and at Shen Lin, who was placing a blood bag into a medical box, and glanced at Su Ming, who didn’t even bother to look at him.

Three seconds later,

Butcher, who had been terrified, suddenly tilted his head back and began to laugh wildly, his crazy laughter echoing as tears of humiliation streamed down his face.

He didn’t expect… he didn’t expect…

A man who had taken twelve lives, who enjoyed watching his prey bleed to death, would be… would be toyed with like this, after just moments ago being so scared and frantic.

Humiliation, true humiliation.

He wanted to say some harsh words, even curse Su Ming, perhaps slam his head onto the interrogation chair to express his dissatisfaction.

But Butcher unexpectedly discovered…

He was afraid, his mental defense was beyond repair, and the man who had been frightened like a quail earlier had completely lost the courage to resist the interrogation.

And as Butcher’s emotions grew more complicated, slowly lowering his head in silence,

Su Ming, who had already packed up his things and was ready to move on to the next step, suddenly paused as he was about to open the door to leave the Interrogation Room and said coldly without a trace of emotion.

“Butcher.”

“Cooperate fully with the other officers, and remember, don’t give me… a chance to apply any other interrogation methods.”

At these words,

Butcher, who had been looking down in silence, immediately raised his head to look at Su Ming, his eyes filled with a deep, unerasable terror.

The mental and emotional scars would take a long time to heal.

However,

Su Ming, never glancing back, continued walking with steady steps and a straight posture as he exited the Interrogation Room.

He was walking, always walking, on the path of capturing criminals…