The man took a flight with a rose in his hand to meet the "online girlfriend", but unexpectedly, it was a death date

One night in 2018, a flight from Guangzhou to Nanjing had just landed, and Zhou Lin, a young and handsome young man, dragged his suitcase and held a bouquet of bright roses in his hand and walked quickly out of Lukou Airport. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise, revealing his longing and joy for happiness. He did not know that what he was going to this time was not the romantic date he imagined, but a "death game".

The handsome guy knows the sweetheart girl

Thousands of miles to the appointment

Zhou Lin, a 28-year-old native of Gansu, works and lives in Guangzhou with his younger brother. Coming from a remote mountainous area, he is one meter eight tall, handsome in appearance, working hard in a big city, and has no time for love. By chance, he met a female white-collar netizen "Lili" on WeChat who claimed to be engaged in photovoltaic work in Nanjing. In the conversation with "Li Li", Zhou Lin learned that she had a high-end decent job in Nanjing, but she had never found a "confidant". With a beautiful appearance, a high-end job, and a warm care, Zhou Lin is full of good feelings for this "urban beauty" and even thinks that she may be his "related person".

When Li Li invited him to Nanjing in mid-December, he did not hesitate to book a ticket. When Zhou Lin excitedly talked to his brother about going to Nanjing to meet "people with a relationship", he also specially explained to his brother that after staying in Nanjing for two days, he would return to his hometown to prepare for the New Year, so that his brother would take care of himself and wait for him to return in his hometown. But Zhou Lin's family could no longer wait for the Spring Festival of reunion.

Finally, Zhou Lin saw the "Li Li" who was thinking about day and night and followed her to the residence. However, everything is completely different from Zhou Lin's imagination, the dirty living environment, the mixed men and women, and the "leader" in the mouth of "Li Li"... All this made Zhou Lin, who had been trapped in a pyramid scheme organization, immediately realize that he had once again fallen into the magic cave of pyramid schemes.

Forced to stay

He chose to fight hard

Seeing that Zhou Lin wanted to leave, the "leader" in the house asked several of his subordinates to forcibly leave him for "investigation", and it was impossible to escape. When he looked for "Lily" again, he found that the girl who had brought her was twisting a towel and preparing to put it in his mouth. He may not be able to know until his death, the "she" who knows him does not exist, and the female netizen who came to pick up the station is only a member of the MLM organization arrangement, only knows his name, let alone any "acquaintance". The WeChat ID that usually booed and asked for warmth is actually the "family's" public WeChat ID, and everything is a scam from beginning to end, in order to trick him into joining this pyramid scheme called "interpersonal network marketing".

Zhou Lin, who was forced to stay behind for "investigation", kept fiercely resisting and demanding to leave, so he suffered from the rules of the pyramid scheme organization to deal with "disobedient" newcomers - "shake the newcomers". In the process of taking turns to "shake the newcomers" of more than a dozen people that day, Zhou Lin was more brutal and continuously suppressed because of his tall stature and fierce resistance. Four big men pressed his limbs, and some people rode on his body, stuffed his mouth with a wet towel, and choked his neck, this behavior was repeated for three rounds, until Zhou Lin had difficulty breathing and his lips were bruised... The confessions of the twelve suspects have successively pieced together the young man's last desperate time.

"Director, what to do, his lips are purple, his breathing and pulse are weak." When faced with the report of the "subordinates", Yan Liang, the director of the pyramid scheme "family" in this house, coldly instructed the two people to "send Zhou Lin to the hospital, send him to the hospital and leave it and run." In fact, the two took Zhou Lin downstairs, because the community was remote, coupled with the late time, they could not call the car, so they scrawled a coat for Zhou Lin and let him lie on the grass of the community flower bed until 120 and 110 arrived. In the early morning of Nanjing in December, in the cold wind and rain, Zhou Lin was so naked that he gradually lost his breath on the cold grass.

Suspected of unlawful detention

Twelve were sentenced to ten to twelve years in prison

On November 11, 2019, the Jiangning District People's Procuratorate indicted Tang and 12 other defendants on suspicion of illegal detention. On December 31, 2020, the Jiangning District People's Court sentenced Tang and ten others to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 10 to 12 years for the crime of illegal detention, and the other two were sentenced to two years and eight months respectively for their involvement in the lesser circumstances.

The loss of this young and vivid life is deeply regrettable, but more than a dozen young people who have been caught up in pyramid schemes and have become accomplices in crime are also stifling. Originally, they had many opportunities to escape, to stick to their inner bottom line and refuse to be accomplices to evil, but they did not. After suffering the cruel violence of "shaking the newcomer", he accepted such a so-called tradition and then implemented it to others. What they lack is not just a momentary freedom, but also the boundaries between good and evil in their hearts. The state explicitly prohibits all types of pyramid schemes, its harm not only makes people suffer property losses and damage family and friendship, but more frighteningly, it also constantly impacts the normal three views of participants, through continuous brainwashing, so that people gradually break through the constraints of morality and law, become numb and selfish, mercenary, and even lead to robbery, intentional injury, illegal detention, intentional homicide and other criminal crimes.

Such a tragedy has ruined a young life, but also caused the destruction of a family, and at the same time left a stain on the lives of more than a dozen young people involved in this violence that is difficult to erase.

Prosecutor reminds:

In life, we must be cautious about "online dating" and other dating methods, if you want to meet with netizens, try to choose in public places, and be vigilant, refuse to transfer, live together and other invitations. If you are unfortunate enough to encounter a situation where violence restricts your personal freedom, you must find a suitable opportunity to calm down and save yourself, and at the same time, you must not play a trick for the tiger and become an accomplice of criminals. (The characters in the text are pseudonyms)

Source: Yangtze Evening News (ID: yzwb20102806)

Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Liu Liu

Correspondent Hou Shuyun Su Wenjuan