Chapter 801: Utterly Desperate Jiang Ran
After the three of them stared at each other in bewilderment.
The German police officer spoke first: "Hello, are you Jiang Ran? We're officers from the Aisen Town police station. You're under suspicion of murder, so please come with us to the station for questioning."
This German officer knew English was widely spoken, so he addressed Jiang Ran in English instead of German.
But he overestimated Jiang Ran.
Jiang Ran didn't understand a single word, only hearing a garbled mess.
So he said: "I don't speak English."
He could manage that much English at least.
Hearing that, the two German officers exchanged glances, then pulled out their phones to communicate with Jiang Ran through translation.
When Jiang Ran learned that two German officers had come for him because he was suspected of murder.
His expression was one of stunned disbelief.
Then, he felt as if the sky had fallen on him.
He collapsed onto the ground on his backside.
The thick, overwhelming despair radiating from him was so palpable it could practically be seen with the naked eye.
Seeing Jiang Ran like this, the two German officers exchanged another look, then each grabbed one of his arms, lifted him up, and escorted him to the interrogation room at the station.
Inside the interrogation room.
One officer was tasked with questioning Jiang Ran.
The officer first showed Jiang Ran a video.
The video showed this: A white man was walking normally ahead, when Jiang Ran, walking behind him, suddenly pulled a knife from his waist and stabbed the white man to death.
Seeing this video, Jiang Ran's scalp went numb, and his eyes were filled with terror.
He grabbed at his own face and hair, his elbows propped on the table, and watched it several times over. The more he watched, the more hopeless he became.
In the Special Live Stream, many viewers were also watching this scene.
They had already watched the interrogations of Juliet and Huo Yun before Jiang Ran's.
The fact that all three had been suddenly taken away by the police, with the police having their so-called murder videos as evidence, sparked discussion among them.
【What's going on? How do the police have videos like this? And all three lab rats, arrested on the same day?】
【Don't know, don't want to think, thinking hurts my head.】
Mi—American Captain: 【You two idiots can't figure this out? It's obviously Gates and his crew in Aisen Town messing with them. They're done for. If they don't kill all the lab rats, the rest of them will die once the stream ends—unless a few of them personally take out a lab rat and earn immunity. Right now, they've realized they can't take down Jiang Ran; he's too much for them. There are two left, Huo Yun and Juliet. Even if those two get killed, only two people get immunity. So Gates and the others chose to seal them up, the same method they used with Zhu Hong. Exempting everyone else is basically surrendering early.】
Mi—War Fanatic: 【F*cking speechless. Aisen Town is a veteran stream location. The lab rats that've died here? A hundred at least. And this one Chinese lab rat has them in this mess... Damn humiliating!!!】
Fa—Emperor Napoleon: 【Honestly, if all the deranged criminals and serial killers in this town were dead, killed by Jiang Ran, that'd be one thing—at worst, they just weren't good enough. But this... they've totally chickened out, won't even try to fight back...】
De—Long Live Prussia: 【Gotta say, even though I know those three videos are fake, Gates and his team have some impressive AI tech! It looks so real, completely undetectable as AI. I should ask them to make me one someday.】
Maple—White Supremacy: 【These three videos are just a stalling tactic. They won't do any real fatal damage to the lab rats since they're fake, but they can keep them locked up in the station until the stream ends.】
Ni—Black Supremacy: 【But why are the first two reacting so strongly? Everyone says the videos are AI. When it's Jiang Ran's turn, why's he so despairing? Almost looks like he's about to confess.】
Hua—Middle-aged Uncle: 【From the looks of it, Jiang Ran has returned to his main personality now. Since he's the main personality, and he doesn't know what he did when his alternate personality was in control, when he sees a video of himself killing someone, he'll instinctively think it was the alternate personality. How could he think of AI?】
Interrogation room.
The German officer questioning Jiang Ran, seeing him look like he was about to reform, thought Jiang Ran was ready to confess.
So he asked: "So, do you admit to murder?"
The German officer communicated using a phone translation app.
Jiang Ran clutched his head and didn't speak.
Only when the German officer asked again did he say: "I don't know. I'm mentally ill. I have dissociative identity disorder. This could have been done by my alternate personality."
The German officer listened to the translation coming through his phone, stunned for a moment.
He seemed a bit at a loss.
Chief Pete and Michelle were standing alone in a room at the police station, watching the interrogation videos of Jiang Ran, Huo Yun, and Juliet.
After watching all three videos, Chief Pete asked Michelle: "What do you think?"
Michelle turned his head: "I think there's something fishy about this!"
Chief Pete's left eyelid twitched.
Michelle chuckled.
That line was something he'd learned from his apprentice, Bai Xiaoliang.
He remembered back when Bai Xiaoliang was still studying for his master's degree, he'd brought him to America to talk to a captured deranged serial killer.
After the conversation, he asked Bai Xiaoliang a question, and Bai Xiaoliang responded with that line.
After chuckling, Michelle said: "Enough joking. Let me give you my take.
Those three murder videos of these people should be fake, as two of them said—AI-generated. But we still need to test them. Better safe than sorry.
As for the deeper issue, we received anonymous tips with these videos at different times today. Clearly, someone orchestrated this behind the scenes.
What the goal is, I don't know.
Also, these three people have one thing in common: they're all outsiders."
Chief Pete: "Compared to these three right now, I'm more interested in catching the culprit behind last night's massacre."
Chief Pete, in front of his old friend, didn't bother putting up a front. His fists were clenched tight, and he ground his teeth.
"That person is the most unforgivable. Even with all those unsolved bloody cases before, those were just individual victims. But this time, hundreds dead or injured in one go!!!"
Rubbing his chin with his right hand, Michelle mused: "Based on my years of observing and studying these psychopaths.
I believe that the family-of-five case, the orchard couple case, and last night's bar case were all committed by the same person."