Miao Bin: "Last year, I only came into contact with this group last year."
Lie detector: [Lying! Master, he’s lying!]
Miao Bin, with a dark face, repeated, "The year before last, I started from the year before last, specifically seeking out friends online who were depressed, despondent, and negative about life."
Zhang Lang continued to ask, "How many people have you persuaded to commit suicide from the year before last to now?"
Miao Bin: "...I can’t remember clearly, there were many who wrote suicide notes, and later some were saved by family, friends, or even strangers. Those who succeeded were... 6."
As Miao Bin’s words ended, the lie detector on his head made no sound, indicating he was telling the truth.
Everyone knew what the word "succeeded" meant in his mouth.
[This is really a beast!]
[Six people just gone like that???]
[Alas, I wonder who these six people were, someone’s sons and daughters, someone’s brothers and sisters, probably quite young if they were confiding in strangers online.]
[Actually... For people who are depressed themselves, living is very painful for them, it’s better to be relieved early. Whether alive or dead, it’s their own choice. Even if Miao Bin deliberately incited them, it’s just incitement, not forcing them to die. If they didn’t want to die themselves, no matter what others said, they wouldn’t do it.]
[Helping others to be relieved does have no fault.]
[The two above me, crawl away!]
[Are you even speaking human language? You two are probably friends from Miao Bin’s group, right? People with depression are just sick, not dead, and normal people when encountering this group, would not incite them to suicide as a way out. I’m not asking you to help relieve their anxiety, but you shouldn’t become the last straw that makes them choose death.]
The things Miao Bin did caused quite a stir in the live broadcast room.
As Zhang Lang threw out one question after another, and with Miao Bin’s truthful responses, more details surfaced for everyone to see.
Initially, Miao Bin himself hadn’t expected to do such things.
Two years ago, he was just an ordinary university student whose studies were not demanding. When he wasn’t attending classes, he liked to stay in his dorm surfing the internet, addicted to gaming, watching videos, and live streams. The most extreme thing he would do was to log onto foreign websites to see things not available in his home country.
It all changed when he accidentally clicked on a malicious link, and that was when Miao Bin’s new world was opened.
This malicious link was actually a hidden forum.
In this forum, the posts were bold and radical, mostly antisocial comments, but Miao Bin was very interested, feeling like he had finally found his tribe after stumbling through life for so long.
Miao Bin made a few friends in this forum, and his first successful incitement of a suicide came from a recommendation by these friends.
Miao Bin would never forget the morbid curiosity and excitement, the feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction. The feeling of controlling someone else’s life and death through a screen terrified him with trembling fingers, and yet he was addicted to it.
Therefore, there came the second, the third, the fourth...
Zhang Lang frowned as he listened to Miao Bin’s narrative, his expression becoming more and more solemn.
Miao Bin’s case was clearly the work of a gang operating behind the scenes, and there might be even more "Miao Bins" in places they hadn’t discovered yet.
Jiang Ning had cut the live stream early as Miao Bin divulged more information, and the onlookers nearby had been dispersed by Zhang Lang’s colleagues.
Some things are not suitable for public knowledge before the police have completed their investigation.
Hearing Zhang Lang say that he was going to take Miao Bin back to the police station for a formal investigation, Jiang Ning nodded.
Zhang Lang took off the lie detector from Miao Bin’s head and handed it back to Jiang Ning, saying, "We owe you guys again for this. If you hadn’t apprehended him and uncovered what he was doing in secret, who knows how many other lives would have been lost to his incitement. I’ll report everything exactly as it happened, and you’ll certainly be rewarded."
"We didn’t expect this coincidence when we came. We were here because of his hiring an online army to slander me, and incidentally, to test if the lie detector was any good. If he hadn’t slipped up on his own, we wouldn’t have discovered the things he was doing behind the scenes," Jiang Ning once again clarified their intention for coming with Zhang Lang and Qi Xingzhou: "If not for his own slip, we wouldn’t have discovered the things he’s been up to."
Zhang Lang nodded, "Regardless, we owe you one for this."
If not for Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou confronting Miao Bin offline today, how could they have discovered that Miao Bin was an invisible executioner?
While Zhang Lang suspected that Jiang Ning must have discovered something in advance to personally confront Miao Bin offline.
But that was just his suspicion. Since Jiang Ning was not willing to share, he wouldn’t awkwardly press the issue. He accepted it as an amazing coincidence!
After all, in the police’s history of catching criminals, such coincidences, though rare, were not unheard of.
There had been policemen who recognized criminals while on vacation just by gazing at them once in a crowd.
There were also times when off-duty plainclothes officers eating noodles in a diner turned around to find themselves face-to-face with an escaping felon... All these unexpected and beautiful encounters had happened!
Zhang Lang snapped out of his reverie, and before leaving, he looked at the lie detector in Jiang Ning’s hand and praised it again, "That’s a pretty good lie detector."
Their department had plenty of crafty suspects, and the colleagues in the interrogation room had to pit their wits against these suspects daily.
They had tried high-tech products like lie detectors before, but the results were not obvious.
He felt that the lie detector in Jiang Ning’s hand was very good, better than the expensive one they had purchased for the department before, with higher accuracy.