Chapter 172 I Don’t Care About This Case
In the previous life, after Qian Lailai was kidnapped by Sun Kun, Liu Jianshe replaced Sun Kun's eighteenth note and intercepted Sun Kun's ransom, causing Sun Kun to kill Qian Lailai in anger.
If this professional criminal gang is a kidnapping gang roaming around the country, they must have set their sights on Qian Lailai long ago and were secretly waiting for an opportunity to plan a kidnapping.
As a result, Sun Kun, a "self-taught" half-baked guy, suddenly intercepted their business.
Looking back now, Sun Kun’s kidnapping of Qian Lailai was basically an accident.
Just then, Yao Yuling's ex-boyfriend came to see her, so she asked the nanny to take the child to the park next door to play. The nanny was not paying attention and the child was kidnapped.
In the previous life, after Qian Lailai was killed by Sun Kun, the professional criminal gang lost its target, and naturally there were no subsequent cases.
If they were traveling across the country to commit crimes, they might have left Hongcheng directly after losing their target and moved to another city to look for a new target.
What Zhou Yi was familiar with were the case files within the province.
If it rises to the national level, he will only know about it if it is some major case and it is used as internal learning and sharing material.
In addition, there are those reported on TV news and those circulated on the Internet after the rise of the Internet.
But those were all major cases, and those that were released and circulated in the media must have been cases handled internally.
So, regarding this professional criminal gang, apart from the unsolved case in Ducheng, Zhou Yi did not have any new clues in the case files.
This means that this time, one of Zhou Yi's eyes is "blind".
After listening to Wu Yongcheng's words, Ni Jianrong asked, "So Captain Wu wants to merge the cases?"
Everyone was shocked. Combining cases sounds simple, but it is actually quite complicated.
Wu Yongcheng shook his head without hesitation and said, "The case is not closed! The three cases span a wide geographical area and are separated by a long time. Everyone here is aware of the complexity of the joint case process. If the criminals who kidnapped Qian Lailai are the same group that committed the two kidnapping and murder cases, then this means that the hostages' lives are in danger at any time."
Ni Jianrong frowned. "Since we're not combining the two cases, Captain Wu is bringing these two cases out to show us how brutal the criminals are, and therefore how dangerous the hostages' situation is."
Wu Yongcheng walked back to his seat, but did not sit down. Instead, he leaned on the conference table and looked at Ni Jianrong: "No, I'm not telling them, I'm telling you."
In an instant, the conference room was filled with tension and everyone became nervous.
Several people from the Third Brigade exclaimed in their hearts: Damn, is Captain Wu going to fight Ni Jianrong head-on?
Just when the atmosphere was about to become tense, Wu Yongcheng suddenly sat down, spread his hands and said, "I don't care about this case anymore."
"What?" Ni Jianrong was stunned, and so was everyone else.
What's going on?
"Wu Yongcheng, what do you mean by this?" Ni Jianrong said angrily.
Wu Yongcheng said with a look of dejection, "That's what I mean. This case is too big and too serious. I can't handle it anymore, so I'll just ignore it."
Ni Jianrong slammed the table and yelled, "Your Third Brigade is the serious crime squad. If you don't take care of it, who will?"
Wu Yongcheng rolled his eyes at him and said, "You're still the captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment."
As soon as these words came out, Ni Jianrong was speechless.
Wu Yongcheng asked Jiang Biao who was standing beside him, "What's that old saying? If the sky falls, there's someone tall enough to hold it up."
Jiang Biao clapped his hands and said, "Right! If I have to die, I'd rather die on top first."
At this moment, Zhou Yi really wanted to give Captain Wu a thumbs up, thinking that the experience is still the best.
You are trying to make things difficult for me, so I will put the blame on you.
A formal case analysis meeting has been held, and you've been invited to "chair" it. They're reporting that this is likely a highly serious serial crime, and the previous two cases are still pending. Are you going to do anything about it?
In private, you, Mr. Ni, can say whatever you want. No matter how sarcastic you are, I can't do anything to you. We are all police officers and we know that there must be evidence for everything. If I sue you without any basis, the higher-ups will just think that I am ignorant and don't understand internal unity.
But now all the things are laid out directly in front of you at an open meeting, and you are slapped in the face. I want to ask you, do you still dare to say that this case can only be handled by your Third Brigade?
I, Wu Yongcheng, dare to go barefoot. Do you, Ni, dare to do that?
Not to mention that your surname is Ni, even if Director Xie was here, he would not dare to be vague.
Wu Yongcheng's desperate move was really clever. Not only did he roast you, Ni Jianrong, over the fire, he also sprinkled some cumin on you.
But at the same time, this also means that Wu Yongcheng is really at his wit's end. He is willing to openly break up with Ni Jianrong in order to force him to devote all his police resources to this case, because of his judgment based on the clues he has now.
First, this case cannot be handled by just a few people from the Third Brigade and Nanhu Police Station.
Second, the kidnappers' brutality has far exceeded their imagination. Not only the hostages, but also the lives and property of the entire Hongcheng people are in threat.
If this case falls out of the hands of Hongcheng police, everyone will have to pay the price.
When Wu Yongcheng quit, Ni Jianrong already understood everything. He had been in the industry for so many years and was quite experienced in this area.
What he didn't expect was how Wu Yongcheng could find these two cases in such a short time.
You have to know how many criminal cases occur every year across the country. Cases in different places are managed independently. To find highly similar cases in this regard, not to mention the procedural approval issues, the workload is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
What he didn't expect was that Wu Yongcheng actually dared to force him by saying that he didn't care anymore. Did he not want a career in politics anymore?
Ni Jianrong knew he had no choice. After pondering for a long time with a gloomy face, he said, "Tell me, what do you want to do about this case?"
Wu Yongcheng, who had been acting like a jerk, immediately straightened his back. "Impose martial law throughout the city. Block all major roads and strictly inspect passing vehicles. Organize police forces to conduct a large-scale dragnet search, tightening the net section by section. We'll try to uncover the kidnappers before the family pays the ransom. If that fails, we'll have to focus on tracking down Qian Hongxing."
Wu Yongcheng had already thought of the deployment plan. Although Zhou Yi found the clue of Scar Eyes and Jiang Biao and his team found the tattooed woman named Nana, they had no further clues to identify the identity and locate the whereabouts.
So the only way is to use the human wave tactic.
Ni Jianrong nodded, stood up and said, "I understand. I'll make a phone call and notify everyone in the Criminal Investigation Detachment to return immediately."
Wu Yongcheng said, "Team Leader Ni, remember to have all the brothers wear plain clothes for easier movement, and equip everyone with guns."
Ni Jianrong nodded.
"Team Ni."
"Any other instructions?" Ni Jianrong asked with a cold face.
"Thank you."
When Ni Jianrong left the meeting room, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"While the main force is returning, let's quickly sort out the clues. Then, Xiao Qiao, you should organize and print out all the clues and send them to all the brothers for their familiarization." Wu Yongcheng said.
Qiao Jiali turned off the slide projector and nodded in agreement.
"Captain Wu, how did you find out about the Ducheng and Suiyuan cases so quickly?" Zhou Yi couldn't help but ask.
"Come to think of it, you have a share of the credit for this."
Zhou Yi was a little confused. Was it also his own credit?
"Do you still remember Professor Xing Jianxing from your Provincial Police High School?" Wu Yongcheng asked.
"I remember."
"We hadn't been in touch for a long time. I mentioned her when I first met you, testing your limits. I later called her to chat. She's still teaching at the Provincial Police High School, but her husband has been promoted. She mentioned she's compiling a reference textbook for the police department, focusing on analyzing criminal investigation strategies based on existing cases. She has a wealth of case data from all over the country. With a desperate attempt at a solution, I called Xing Jian and asked her husband for help. To my surprise, I actually found these two cases."
Zhou Yi didn't feel relieved when he heard this. He said, "So these two cases just happened to be discovered. It's very likely that there are more cases."
In one sentence, everyone was silent.
The brutality of the previous two cases is still vivid in our minds. Every time this gang commits one more crime, it means one more victim.
"Cheer up, we still have a tough battle to fight."
After Wu Yongcheng finished speaking, he began to lead everyone to sort out the clues.
Ni Jianrong did not come back in the short term. Zhou Yi did not believe that he would call the brothers in the detachment one by one. He only needed to notify a few responsible persons, such as Shi Tao from the second team.
Since he hasn't been back for so long, he must have gone to call his connections.
He is so anxious, probably because he is already planning how to shirk responsibility and protect himself if the case is not solved and the hostages are killed.
Zhou Yi suddenly thought of his experience in his previous life. It was a case that happened in 2016. It was this case that changed his fate in his previous life.
He remembered very clearly that it was also a kidnapping case, but the difference was that the kidnapper was not a vicious professional criminal, but a middle-aged man who invested half his life savings and overdrawn his future, but ended up buying an unfinished building.
After failing to complain, the desperate man decided to take a risk and resort to kidnapping to get back what belonged to him in order to get his house payment back.
After waiting for more than half a month, he finally caught the drunk developer boss, but in the end the man failed to kidnap the other party. He just scratched the developer boss with the knife in his hand during the fight.
The developer was furious and used various connections to put pressure on the police to capture the fugitive murderer immediately.
On the third day after the incident, Zhou Yi received a phone call from the public reporting that there was a suspected wanted criminal. The young captain who happened to hear the report was eager to make a contribution and asked to go and arrest the criminal personally with Zhou Yi.
As a result, in the process of chasing the fleeing suspect, Zhou Yi and the captain were supposed to surround and block the suspect, but when Zhou Yi arrived, the suspect had already fallen to his death, with an obvious footprint mark on his chest, and the young captain standing on a high place had a look of horror on his face.
Zhou Yi immediately understood what had happened and called for emergency assistance.
If an extreme act during a manhunt results in the death of a suspect, it is no longer just a career issue, but a suspected criminal issue.
Of course, Zhou Yi also has joint responsibility, but based on the circumstances at the time, there was nothing wrong with the decision to split up and pursue the suspect, so in theory his responsibility was very light.
But during the investigation, Zhou Yi received a hint from someone, who told him to say that he saw the suspect arresting and attacking the police.
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