Chapter 184 Death Warrant
The person Zhou Yi was referring to was, of course, the commander-in-chief of this operation, detachment leader Ni Jianrong.
Wu Yongcheng was staring at the map and said without even looking up, "Let's go."
"Gone?" Zhou Yi was shocked. He actually left under such circumstances? Was he crazy?
"Where did you go? Did you go home and sleep because you couldn't bear it anymore?"
Wu Yongcheng said, "He drove to the provincial capital. He said it was such a serious case that he had to report it to Director Xie in person and also to the provincial department."
When Zhou Yi heard this, he immediately understood. It turned out that he was going to take the upper-class route.
Moreover, it takes several hours to drive from Hongcheng to the provincial capital, which is more than 300 kilometers. In a sense, Captain Ni is really working hard.
"Then isn't he afraid that his superiors will say that he doesn't care about the case?" The reason why Zhou Yi didn't mention Director Xie was because he knew that Director Xie could distinguish right from wrong.
Wu Yongcheng looked up and said, "Who said he didn't care anymore? Before he left, he clearly told me that any important progress in the case must be reported to him immediately. Otherwise, if the case is delayed, I will bear the responsibility."
This person... is simply amazing.
He did this just to prepare for both situations. If the case was solved, he would be the biggest hero for rushing to the provincial capital to report the case. After all, the provincial department would not be so involved in the details and would only regard Hongcheng as a whole.
If the case didn't work, he'd put the blame on Wu Yongcheng. After all, he'd gone to the provincial capital to seek help from Director Xie and the provincial department. Wu Yongcheng was the overall commander in Hongcheng, so it must have been Wu Yongcheng, the deputy detachment commander, who had failed to handle the case effectively. If Wu Yongcheng hadn't shared the details with him, then that was definitely Wu Yongcheng's responsibility. If he had, he wouldn't have been accused of "failure to command effectively."
In short, working hard is your business, and my goal is to seek credit and reward. Moreover, even if something goes wrong, he can still rely on his connections to protect him.
Sure enough, it is like this everywhere. Mr. Jin Yong must have seen through this world long ago, which is why he wrote "Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes."
"Captain Wu, where does he come from?" Zhou Yi came up and asked in a low voice.
Wu Yongcheng shook his head slightly: "I don't know the details, I just heard that his wife is twelve years older than him."
"..." Zhou Yi seemed to have guessed something, but he did not express his thoughts, nor did he continue to ask questions.
"You two, don't go out for now. Take a rest and refresh yourself," said Wu Yongcheng.
"Master, I'm not tired."
"We need to rest even if we're not tired. Once we identify one of these key suspicious areas through license plates and photos, we'll deploy all our elite police forces to surround the target and then launch a surprise rescue plan," Wu Yongcheng said seriously. "It would be even more dangerous if these kidnappers had guns."
"That shouldn't be the case. I saw no record of shooting in the Ducheng and Suiyuan cases," said Chen Yan.
Zhou Yi shook his head. "I don't think so. Anyone who can pull off so many major crimes probably has weapons. Just because they didn't fire a gun doesn't mean they don't have them. It's probably because the kidnappers didn't think it was necessary, or they didn't want to be exposed."
In the Ducheng case, the police were behind the times, and by the time they investigated, the kidnappers had already disappeared.
In the Suiyuan case, although the police received the report immediately, they did not have a direct confrontation with the kidnappers.
So there was really no need to shoot.
Wu Yongcheng patted Chen Yan on the shoulder and said, "Xiao Chen, you should conserve your energy. They all say you are the best marksman in Hongcheng. Shooting at the training ground doesn't make you a marksman. Only in actual combat can you truly demonstrate your marksmanship."
Chen Yan asked nervously, "But Master, I've never had any experience killing a criminal before. I'm afraid..."
Wu Yongcheng only said one sentence, and Chen Yan's originally flustered mood calmed down. "Master believes in you."
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Zhou Yi remembers that Hongcheng didn't even have a special police force in 1997. The first special police force in Hongcheng was officially established in 2004.
Unlike criminal police, special police have extremely strong response capabilities when dealing with serious violent crimes, and of course they are supported by advanced weapons and equipment.
In 1997, Hongcheng not only lacked special police, but also bulletproof vests. This was due to the country's strict gun control policy. Most of the criminals they encountered were armed with sharp weapons, and bulletproof vests couldn't protect against puncture wounds. Of course, budget was also a major issue, as Hongcheng's overall economy had always been poor.
As for the armed police, Hongcheng does have an armed police force.
However, the armed police are under the jurisdiction of the army, and the two sides do not belong to the same system. If the armed police are to be dispatched to assist, the procedures will probably be very complicated. Not only are the army and public security systems involved, but it also involves the attitudes of the city leadership team and even the province. According to custom, a meeting must be held to discuss it.
Because the main premise for the deployment of armed police is that there is a major vicious incident that seriously threatens the personal and property safety of ordinary people, such as the Huang Jinbao case of the gangster a year later.
So judging from the current situation, it was the right decision for Wu Yongcheng to let them recuperate, because once the target is confirmed, the encirclement and arrest operation will not be something that grassroots police officers can participate in, and all the pressure will be placed on the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Bureau.
But in this situation, who can sleep? The so-called rest is at most to sit down, let the body relax properly, and slow down the consumption of energy.
But it was already 1:30 in the morning, and anyone would feel tired.
When Jiang Biao came back, he also brought back an investigation result, which was the phone number the kidnapper called from.
This was actually a clear clue that had been under investigation since the very beginning of the case, but it happened to coincide with the telecommunications bureau's system update. They said they had installed a new set of imported system equipment that needed debugging, so time was wasted.
If Wu Yongcheng hadn't put pressure on us in Director Xie's name, we might not have gotten any clues about the phone number tomorrow.
Jiang Biao brought back the information provided by the telecommunications bureau, which showed that the two calls received by Qian Hongxing's home phone were from the same number, a mobile phone number, and no name was registered.
This result wasn't surprising, especially for Zhou Yi, who remembered that the real-name registration system for mobile phone numbers was only implemented in 2013. Before that, the lack of a real-name system posed significant challenges for police investigations. Of course, even with the implementation of the system, professional criminals still found ways to circumvent it.
However, what Wu Yongcheng really cares about is the call records of this mobile number. He hopes to find some clues from it.
But Jiang Biao said that the telecommunications bureau could not provide it at the moment and it would take time, and that their signal tower only covered Hongcheng. They had no way to cover areas outside of Hongcheng, so he asked the police to find a solution themselves.
Before the national network was established, the on-site investigation of many cases was extremely difficult. It not only depended on whether ordinary people were willing to cooperate, but also on the attitude of other government departments.
Of course, it is effective for someone at the detachment level like Wu Yongcheng to speak up, but most ordinary police officers do not have this treatment. They are not in the same system, so what can you do if they don’t actively cooperate with you?
Shortly after Jiang Biao returned, the technical department sent over processed screenshots of the video, through which one could basically see the appearance of two of the people who went to the nightclub with Su Jun, the young man and the fat man.
The command center immediately faxed the pictures to each branch and police station, and then distributed them further down.
Then the photos of Deng Chunyan were also faxed back by the local police. It could be seen from the fax that the photos had been torn and then pasted together again.
I guess Deng Chunyan was so angry when she saw this kind of photo after opening the envelope that she tore it up directly.
There are six photos in total, and the tear marks in two of them did not affect Nana's face in the photos, so Nana's appearance can be seen very clearly, and she is indeed very beautiful.
Nana had her eyes closed in all the photos, which shows that these photos were taken after Liu Jianshe drugged and raped her.
Then Liu Jianshe is probably finished. The hunter was bitten by the prey. How could the prey survive in the hunter's hands?
However, from common sense, Liu Jianshe's behavior is unlikely to arouse sympathy from others.
When Zhou Yi compared the faxed photos with the video images processed by the technical department, he understood why this criminal gang went so far as to kidnap Liu Jianshe to find these photos.
Because the clarity of the photos is so high, even if the screenshots of the video can be seen clearly, it can only be said that they are looking for suspicious people with similar appearances. With a little disguise, the suspect can easily get away with it. After all, it is not the accuracy of videos decades later.
But the photo is so clear that whether you use it to search for internal information, conduct public investigations, or issue a direct wanted notice, you can always catch the person.
This photo can be said to be Nana's death warrant.
The reason why Zhou Yi described it this way was not because the police could find Nana based on this photo.
But since Nana’s risk of being exposed is so high, the criminal gang might choose to kill her to silence her for their own safety.
After getting the photos, Wu Yongcheng asked someone to send them together with the screenshots of the previous video to the provincial department, asking for assistance.
At about 2:30 in the morning, Qiao Jiali came back.
Wu Yongcheng asked curiously, "Xiao Qiao, what took you so long?"
Logically speaking, it shouldn't take that long to check the information of a cloned car.
Qiao Jiali took a sip from the large porcelain cup on the table, then spat out two mouthfuls of tea leaves and held up the information in her hand. "It didn't take much effort to find the information on the cloned car. But because I had other clues, I simply went with the traffic police detachment."
"Where are you going?" Wu Yongcheng asked.
"Catch the black market bike dealers." Qiao Jiali said with a smile, "We've made some great gains!"
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