Tsubame Police Department
"Did you find the car?"
"No." The unshaven man took a sip of strong tea, rubbed his hair irritably and said, "The suspect had planned it in advance. He chose a route that was not monitored. He disappeared as soon as he left the highway."
"Boss, Captain Wang, I think the suspect may have an accomplice."
Captain Wang and the bearded man turned their heads at the same time, "What do you mean?"
The young policeman moved his chair and slid between the two seniors. He spread out his notebook so that the two could clearly see the route map and timeline on it. "I checked the surveillance footage overnight yesterday and found that he not only knew the victim's life path, but also knew his actions very well. At 11:20 noon, he drove to the parking lot of the community near Chengyang Square. At 11:35, before the victim came out of Lide Building, he drove to the west side of the square. He almost caught the victim at the moment he walked out of Lide, pretending that his car broke through the guardrail to lower the victim's vigilance and commit the crime."
Captain Wang and the man looked at each other and frowned at the same time.
The young policeman continued to elaborate on his conclusion: "As long as the suspect does not have X-ray vision, he would not be able to calculate every step of the victim so clearly. Moreover, the victim usually leaves the Lide Building at 12 o'clock. He left early yesterday because he received a call from the victim's mother. The suspect could not have calculated this in advance. This can only mean that he must have an accomplice inside Lide. This is how he could accurately fake the murder scene as an accident."
Captain Wang nodded: "Who do you think is the most suspicious?"
"Everyone is a suspect." The young policeman said, "Everyone who saw his movements, including Li Nanfeng, the president of Lide, and even the victim's mother Yang Si, could be suspects. Boss, why did you hit me on the head?"
"Are they all suspects?" The bearded man retracted his hand: "You better be more careful, kid."
"Isn't it?" The young policeman said aggrievedly, "Don't you think that Li Nanfeng's appearance time is too coincidental? And he just happened to find an excuse to go to the parking lot to clear himself of suspicion. And the victim's mother, I didn't say she is the suspect, I just think she is also a suspect, after all, it was she who called the victim and the victim came out. At that time, only the victim and the victim's mother were on the phone, so the possibility that the victim's mother told the suspect the exact time is the greatest, and my inference is not wrong."
"That's right! That's right!" The bearded man slapped the young policeman on the head twice again: "What's the motive for the crime? Let's not talk about Li Nanfeng for now, what was the motive of the victim's mother?"
The young policeman pursed his lips and said unconvincedly, "I just said that the victim's mother might be a suspect, not that it was her... When I first entered the police station and looked at the case files, I saw a case that was not solved until 17 years later, the Zhangzhuang murder case. The suspect's accomplice was the victim's best friend. Didn't everyone think he had no motive at the time? It was not until more than ten years later that it was found out that the victim always bullied him when they were in school, and he wanted revenge, so he planned the murder. Since we all know that the suspect had planned it, but the victim also said that he had never seen the suspect, maybe there was someone behind it?"
"We can try this idea..." Captain Wang sat down and pointed at the young policeman and said, "Go to the hospital later and ask the victim whether he has conflicts with others at school or other places, or whether there is any vicious competition. Then we will check the victim's..."
Someone trotted over and said, "Captain Wang, the director is calling."
Captain Wang nodded, stood up and said, "You guys discuss it first, I'll have a meeting as soon as I get the call."
"yes!"
After Captain Wang left, the young policeman whispered to the bearded man, "Boss, what do you think the identity of the victim is? It's been less than 24 hours and the higher-ups have called three times. I think it's the same this time, and they're urging us to make progress."
"According to our investigation, apart from his good grades, he is just an ordinary high school student in terms of family and other aspects. But who would deliberately murder an ordinary high school student? And...can so many people from above put pressure on him to investigate the case if something happened to an ordinary high school student? The He family of Tunan Group, the Li family of Lide, and even the Shi family...What special identity does he have that alarmed so many big shots!"
"Why do you care so much?" The bearded man took a sip of tea and said, "Just do your own thing."
"Isn't this also for investigation?" The young policeman said, "Only by finding out the interpersonal relationship network behind the victim and finding out his true identity can we better investigate. The fact that so many big shots have come out proves that his existence itself has a certain value. Value involves interests, and interests trigger motives for committing crimes. Isn't this what you taught me, Boss?"
"You are quite good at reasoning, aren't you?"
“That’s it!”
"How about you become the head of the criminal investigation team?"
"No, no, no - how dare I?" The young policeman smiled and moved his stool back. Halfway through, he felt something. He looked up and stood up suddenly: "Captain Wang! You've finished your call!"
Captain Wang glanced at him, waved to the bearded man, and said solemnly: "Come to my office."
The bearded man pointed his finger at the young policeman in the air, turned around and followed him into the office.
"What's wrong?" The bearded man held the wolfberry chrysanthemum tea, closed the door and took a big sip: "Who is it this time?"
"The military."
“Puff—cough cough cough—” The bearded man coughed and wiped his mouth while staring with disbelief, “Who?”
"Military." Captain Wang tore off a few pieces of paper and gave them to him, frowning, "We must speed up the process. The victim's identity is not simple, and the suspect's motive may not be simple either."
"What do you mean?" The bearded man wiped his mouth and asked, "Why is the military involved?"
"The victim had a piece of software that he developed and designed on his own. The higher-ups didn't say what it was, but it was very important to national defense security. He went to the 17th Research Institute of the military just the day before yesterday." Captain Wang looked serious, "You know what I mean."
The bearded man stood up straight and frowned, "Fuck... Such important news, why didn't he tell us when we questioned that guy?"
"What did he say?" Captain Wang rolled his eyes at him, walked to the table and sat down, and said in a deep voice: "This matter was confirmed as a top-level national secret yesterday. No more than ten people in the entire country know about it. I guess even his parents don't know how capable their son is, but his ability is enough for the entire military research institute and even the entire country to pay attention to. In other words, Jiang Chen is very likely to become a national high-level protected person in the future. We must thoroughly investigate this whole matter, and we must do it quickly!"
"If his identity is so... then the scope of his involvement is too wide." The bearded man also frowned, "The difficulty of our investigation has also increased dramatically."
“No matter how difficult it is.” Captain Wang stood up and said, “This matter must be solved as soon as possible.”
Jiang Chen sat next to the desk, his eyes fixed on the screens of two computers. The computer on the left displayed a zoomed-out map with a dotted circle slowly stretching and retracting somewhere, while the computer directly in front showed lines of code moving up quickly, with photos of unfamiliar places flashing from time to time.
"Changjiang, report the tracking progress."
The dotted circle on the map on the left computer screen stopped moving, fixed at one point and slowly shrinking the scope of the dotted circle. The code that was moving up quickly on the computer in front also slowed down, and several photos appeared on the screen in turn, from mountains to forests, then to a shrinking forest range and a village.
"Satellite monitoring shows that the target van is currently at 112°32′-114°30′ east longitude and 39°02′-40°44′ north latitude, located in Naozi Village at the northernmost tip of Shaoxing Province, adjacent to Yangfeng County of Shaoxing Autonomous Region, and connected to Huamin City and Fusheng County in the southwest."
"Naozi Village..." Jiang Chen clicked on the photo, zoomed in a little bit manually, and relaxed his brows: "Is there any movement record?"
"There has been no record of the van moving since three hours ago."
“Does the photo capture the target person?”
"No." Changjiang said: "Naozi Village is located in a remote area, in the northern part of the Changnan Mountains. It is densely wooded and the satellite cannot capture the target person."
“Monitor at all times.”
"Okay, Dylan."
Jiang Chen saved the data into a mobile hard drive. When he pulled out the hard drive, his cell phone rang.
Glancing at the caller ID, Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows and said, "Didn't you have surgery this morning?"
"Go to the operating room immediately." Shi Fengyue said lazily, "How's the examination going?"
"Found it, thanks to your high-coverage GPS system." Jiang Chen stood up and stretched his body, saying, "But this kind of GPS connected to satellites must be reported even if it is used by developers, right? How come it was approved for me to use so quickly?"
"This is not included in the agreement I signed."
Jiang Chen chuckled: "Can you bargain when you sign an agreement with the country?"
Shi Fengyue said in a low voice with a smile: "I'll teach you when you sign."
"Then I'll trouble you then."
"How's your hand?"
"It's almost healed." Jiang Chen raised his hand and glanced at the place where the blood was oozing out. He paused and said, "I'll go see my mother later and change the medicine by the way."
"What time is it?"
"Around ten o'clock." Jiang Chen thought for a moment and said, "Huo Bo and Shen Xu will come to me for lunch later. If you are going to have surgery at noon, would you like me to bring some food to your office so you can eat after the surgery."
Shi Fengyue said calmly: "No, I don't eat reheated food."
Jiang Chen had heard from Li Nanfeng that Shi Fengyue had many picky habits, but this was the first time he noticed it. He teased, "Didn't you say you're not picky about food?"
Shi Fengyue: "I just don't eat reheated food."
Hearing his confident tone, Jiang Chen couldn't help but smile. The next moment, Shi Fengyue said, "I called you to tell you that the He family may have known your identity."
Jiang Chen's smile faded a little: "I guessed it."
"What are you going to do?"
"Since yesterday, I have been a person with full civil capacity."
Shi Fengyue was calm and composed: "So you don't plan to go back to the He family?"
"Not now."
"What about He Qianjian?"
Jiang Chen said calmly: "That's the He family's business."
Shi Fengyue said calmly: "It is also the Jiang family's business."
Jiang Chen's eyelashes trembled, and after a moment of silence, he lowered his eyes and said, "Not now."
Shi Fengyue: "Mr. and Mrs. He Yanfeng may act according to your ideas, but Mr. He is very decisive in his actions, so he may not do what you want."
Jiang Chen said calmly: "I won't let anyone disrupt my plans, and I won't allow anyone to influence my parents."
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