Chapter 92: The Truth Revealed, Part One

Liu Gang’s already precarious heart sank to the very bottom at that moment.

Even now, he had still clung to a shred of luck, believing Chen Yu had only uncovered part of the truth and was merely bluffing him.

But it was not until this instant that he realized in despair that from beginning to end, this young man had seen straight through him.

If he had not come here today of his own accord, willingly walking into public disgrace, the investigators might truly have been powerless against him.

Liu Gang’s voice was trembling with tears as he asked, guiltily, “You... you’re sure you can catch the man who killed my wife, right?”

“Relax.”

Chen Yu nodded slowly, looking at the pitiable and hateful man before him, sighing inwardly.

How true it was: those in the storm could not see clearly, while outsiders saw the whole picture.

At this point, Liu Gang still had not realized who the person he had spent fifteen years desperately searching for actually was.

Chen Yu no longer bothered with him. Instead, he suddenly turned, thrusting his gaze through the camera and straight toward someone behind the screen.

He faced the camera and asked, word by word:

“Some great figure with immense power and influence—are you satisfied with this outcome?”

The chat room exploded at once.

“What the hell! Who is Yu God talking to?”

“That tone... so murderous! It feels like even the screen is trembling!”

“Who else could it be? It has to be that Mr. Gold, or someone connected to him!”

“Zhang Fu! It has to be Zhang Fu! This is... a direct showdown!”

“Brother Zombie, awesome! Brother Zombie is incredible!”

At this moment, Chen Yu’s face was filled with undisguised coldness.

The entire livestream erupted because of that abrupt, unexplained remark.

Seeing this, Su Qingzhu hurried forward and gave Chen Yu a meaningful look.

Then she cleared her throat and said to the camera, “Ahem, Chen Yu, back to the main point!”

According to procedure, the chief presenter needed to deliver a complete closing statement on the case, tying together the relevant testimonies, evidence, and motives into a finished chain of proof.

Her voice drew everyone’s attention back.

Chen Yu understood immediately. He withdrew the killing intent that had nearly spilled out of the screen, then turned to face the audience.

“Very well, then let me give everyone the final summary of the case.”

“First, fifteen years ago—”

Chen Yu held up one finger, his gaze deepening.

“The suspect, Liu Gang, had his newlywed wife brutally murdered, and because the case remained unsolved for so long, he completely lost his mind.”

“He spent all his savings looking for private detectives, and what did he get? Nothing but swindlers and charlatans!”

“And at that very time, there were two names blazing in the underworld of River City—Brother Lei, and a mysterious ‘Mr. Gold’!”

“The women under Brother Lei’s command were of very high quality. In the language of the streets, they were sleek, top-notch, flawless from the factory...”

“Ahem!”

Beside him, Su Qingzhu blushed faintly and gave a hard cough, half furious and half mortified. She glared at Chen Yu.

“Pfft! Brother Zombie is at it again!”

“Factory flawless, huh? Host, you really know how to drive!”

“Police Beauty Su is blushing, hahaha!”

“Be serious! We’re discussing the case here! Though... I do want to hear more...”

Chen Yu grinned and smoothly changed course. “Uh, anyway, Brother Lei was responsible for introducing women to Mr. Gold, and one of them unfortunately ended up pregnant by him!”

His tone suddenly turned icy.

“Do you really think Mr. Gold wanted that child?”

“Wrong!”

“Given his perverted nature, he probably had gotten countless women pregnant over the years! On the surface, he told Brother Lei to keep a close watch on the pregnant woman, but in secret he found Liu Gang, who had already been driven to the brink with nowhere else to turn!”

“He offered Liu Gang a devil’s bargain—he promised him a huge sum of money if he would take that woman’s life!”

“And Liu Gang, already unable to find any way to avenge himself, had long since transferred all his hatred onto Brother Lei.”

“After all, among the people he knew, a thug like Brother Lei was a genuine villain! Naturally, he became the prime suspect in Liu Gang’s mind as the man who had killed his wife!”

“So Liu Gang did not hesitate for long. He took the filthy deal!”

“He actively approached Brother Lei, pretending to become his sworn brother, while in truth he was waiting for an opportunity to strike!”

“In the end, he found it. Imitating the brutal method used when his own wife was killed, he disemboweled and murdered that innocent escort girl in the very same way. This was the first person he killed!”

Liu Gang, strapped to the interrogation chair, began to tremble violently all over. The memory of his first murder surfaced again in his mind.

“Damn... Even though we just heard the interrogation process... why does it still feel so unsettling?!”

“So it wasn’t for money, but for the startup capital of revenge! But that doesn’t make it much better!”

“It’s too twisted! Using the method of the man who murdered his wife to kill another innocent person... He was already insane by then!”

“That Mr. Gold is one devious bastard! He plays the game of killing with a borrowed knife so smoothly!”

Chen Yu did not pause. He threw out another bombshell.

“After that, Liu Gang used the payment from Mr. Gold to find a man who had just begun to make a name for himself in the private detective world and charged relatively low fees—the man known as Pipe, also known as Mr. Shen Tao!”

“And what happened? Shen Tao was just as helpless. His thinking had been ossified by so-called evidence and logic!”

“At the time, everyone in the underworld had heard that Brother Lei had taken all the blame for the escort girl’s murder on behalf of Mr. Gold. So naturally, Pipe began investigating Brother Lei as well!”

“And the result was no result at all!”

“He found no useful leads whatsoever!”

“By then, Liu Gang’s mentality had become completely warped! In his eyes, what difference was there between Pipe—who could not uncover the truth—and those swindlers from before?”

Chen Yu stopped abruptly here, fixing Liu Gang with a dead stare as he thundered:

“So, in boundless rage and disappointment, you, Liu Gang—”

“Used the exact same method by which your own wife had been killed...”

“And killed Pipe’s wife once again!”

Buzz.

Those words petrified Liu Gang all over again.

Like a man drugged, Liu Gang kept shaking his head over and over.

He did not want to admit it, nor could he accept that back then he had uncovered such an absurd crime.

Chen Yu paid him no heed at all. Instead, he slowly turned his head and looked toward the huge one-way glass on the side of the interrogation room.

He smiled faintly and gave a small nod.

As if greeting someone.

On the other side of the glass, in the dim observation room, Shen Tao silently watched everything unfolding in the interrogation room.

When he heard Chen Yu reveal that final earth-shattering secret, the man who had endured for fifteen years could no longer restrain himself.

Two scorching lines of tears surged from his bloodshot eyes.

So that was it...

So that was how it was...

He had searched in the wrong direction for fifteen years, hated the wrong person for fifteen years, and in the end, the true killer turned out to be the very poor soul he had once wanted to help with all his heart.

How laughable.

How... tragic.