The sudden outburst of Liang Dezhong startled the recorder next to him, while Zhang Hui smirked, "Just afraid you wouldn’t get agitated, but now that you are, it’s a sure win."

"What did I do wrong?"

"Why did he betray me!"

"Is it just because I’m older?!"

"Damn it! He deserves to die!"

A crazed Liang Dezhong began to reveal the reason he killed Zhang Xiaotian’s family.

"To help all the tenants in the building, I formed the Mutual Aid Association so everyone could band together and share responsibilities. Isn’t that great?"

"To show my sincerity, I waived everyone’s rent and even covered their utilities and heating expenses."

"At first, everything was fantastic. I felt like our whole building was a warm family; it was the first time in years I felt this way."

"But... slowly, people insisted on leaving our Mutual Aid Association."

Liang Dezhong’s eyes were wide with confusion and bewilderment: "Isn’t our Mutual Aid Association good? Why do they want to leave?"

"So..."

Zhang Hui spoke: "So, you started organizing those ritual ceremonies, right?"

"Yes!"

Liang Dezhong laughed neurotically: "I wanted them to listen to me; I wanted to make myself their god."

"And it actually worked remarkably well. Initially, some wanted to leave, but after those ceremonies, no one mentioned leaving again."

"What about Zhang Xiaotian?"

"Why did you kill him and his family?"

"Why?"

Heh heh heh ha ha!

"Foolish!"

"That fool, I gave him money, bought him clothes, and even treated his father’s illness!"

"I was so good to him!" 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

"Do you understand? I gave him my everything!"

Liang Dezhong’s eyes were filled with madness, as if lost in memories of being with Zhang Xiaotian.

"But..."

"But after his father’s illness was cured, he actually made Zhang Xiaotian leave me!"

"That idiot Xiaotian actually agreed with his father and didn’t even think about who had helped him come this far in Haizhou City. How could he betray me?"

While Zhang Hui’s side was conducting the interrogation, another team was searching Liang Dezhong’s residence.

"Found it!"

By the bedside in Liang Dezhong’s bedroom, the detective in charge found a box containing a pair of red high heels, a sharp knife still stained with blood, and some clothes, along with a blood-stained pillowcase.

"Bring it back and hand it to the Crime Scene Investigation for lab work."

The entire apartment building had been sealed off.

While Liang Dezhong was being interrogated, the other tenants were also being questioned.

"Wang Huihui, you might not realize yet, but your actions the day before yesterday already involve perjury and harboring a criminal suspect for malicious murder. You’re going to serve time in jail!"

Serve time in jail?

Wang Huihui was the neighbor living next to Zhang Xiaotian. On the day of the incident, Wang Huihui’s testimony claimed she heard nothing, no sound from next door.

However, if the kids upstairs could hear, how could she not, living right next door?

"I... I..."

Wang Huihui’s face turned pale, unable to speak for a long time.

"Wang Huihui, you still have time to confess. Everyone living in the building is being questioned, and whoever speaks first will have a significant advantageous performance. If someone else speaks before you, your advantageous performance will be lessened."

"If you continue to remain silent, you will be consistently considered someone who harbors a criminal suspect with particularly serious circumstances, and you’ll go to jail."

"Go... go to jail?"

Wang Huihui barely completed elementary school, recognizing just a few words, and knew nothing about the law.

But even in ignorance, she knew what going to jail meant.

"I... I’ll talk!"

"That... that night... yes... I did hear the sound, cries for help from next door!"

"It was the landlord!"

"He said he was going to perform a ritual using live people..."

At the same time, the other interrogations included those in the makeshift interrogation office, apart from Wang Huihui and Sun Qigang, who had already confessed at the home workshop, the remaining five tenants all confessed as well.

The building had poor soundproofing; everyone actually heard what happened in the middle of the night.

"Why didn’t you call the police?"

"I... I didn’t dare..."

"You... you don’t understand, the landlord’s Mutual Aid Association ritual was exceedingly bloody."

"If we spoke out, we feared he might sacrifice us too... we didn’t dare speak..."

...

While the action team was searching Liang Dezhong’s residence, they not only found the clothes, shoes he wore during the crime, the murder weapon, and the pillowcase taken from the scene.

But also discovered many audio and video CDs in his drawer.

Furthermore, they found some plans for his Mutual Aid Association rituals.

"Take everything back."

In the interrogation room, Liang Dezhong confessed to the murder of Zhang Xiaotian’s family of four without any reservations.

The cause of the case was relatively simple, it was because Zhang Xiaotian wanted to move out of the rental house.

According to Liang Dezhong’s account, he was already aware of Zhang Xiaotian and Wang Junshan’s relationship early on, and he even tried to persuade Zhang Xiaotian to have Wang Junshan join the Mutual Aid Association.

The reason for persuading them, apart from increasing members for the Mutual Aid Association, was also because Liang Dezhong took a liking to both Zhang Xiaotian and Wang Junshan.

Although Liang Dezhong was middle-aged, he had never married and was bisexual.

Zhang Xiaotian and Wang Junshan were younger, one had a pale and handsome appearance, while the other was somewhat charming after cross-dressing, both of whom Liang Dezhong fancied.

At that time, for some reason, Wang Junshan refused to join the Mutual Aid Association and even broke up with Zhang Xiaotian, moving out directly.

It was after Wang Junshan moved out that Liang Dezhong took advantage of Zhang Xiaotian’s emotional vulnerability and got close to him.

Later, when Zhang Xiaotian’s family discovered the matter between him and Liang Dezhong, they adamantly refused to let him continue living in the rental house and insisted on moving.

This led to Liang Dezhong’s insane act of silencing by killing the entire family.

The case of Zhang Xiaotian’s family massacre should now be considered solved, but the case hasn’t ended yet.

In the conference room.

"Where did all these CDs from Liang Dezhong’s house come from?"

The table in the conference room had a box of CDs and some books found in Liang Dezhong’s house, all contraband.

Qin Yong had roughly gone through some of the contents, which instructed on how to perform rituals, superstitions, and mind control.

Moreover, after the lab work by the Crime Scene Investigation was completed, it was found that the incense used in Liang Dezhong’s house contained hallucinogenic substances.

"Earlier, Old Liu’s team found hallucinogenic substances in the incense at Liang Dezhong’s house, which are also prohibited items and can’t be bought on the market at all."

"Investigate! We must get to the bottom of it, Liang Dezhong still hasn’t told the truth about how did he obtain these items? From where? And when did he come into contact with them?"

"Zhang Hui, strive to take down Liang Dezhong in the shortest time!"