Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 161 Who Wants X? (Combined Chapter)
At two o'clock in the morning, only a few lights were on in the city police building.

Looking from the night sky, it looks like a huge whirlpool in the dark clouds, slowly spinning and being sucked into the endless abyss.

In the corridor, Hu Changyu looked at the departing backs of Chen Hao and Luo Rui, and his eyes suddenly became dim.

For two whole days, he was under tremendous pressure and his nerves were tense.

When the escort vehicle was hijacked, he used the power of thunder to seal off the entire city of S and set up a plan to capture the criminals, but he did not expect that this group of criminals was so cunning that they killed and injured dozens of people in extremely cruel and vile ways, which was rare in recent years.

The Z robbery incident, the difficulties faced by the city police department and the public opinion from the outside world all fell on the shoulders of Hu Changyu alone.

As the head of a bureau, he could be said to be treading on thin ice and trembling with fear.

He originally thought that after Luo Rui rescued Z, the matter would be resolved satisfactorily, but the opposite happened.

He didn't expect that things would become so serious and develop to the point where he couldn't control it.

But he understood that if he chose to terminate the investigation, the person behind the robbery would most likely go unpunished!

What about those who died?!

Is this the end of it? !

Hu Changyu knew very well that the only thing he could do was to choose not to compromise!
This is the most basic principle of a police officer!
Secretary Tan Zhitong had already "gone off work", and besides him, only Yang Xiaorui was still on the entire floor.

"Director Hu, would you like some tea? I'll make it for you."

Yang Xiaorui's office was not on this floor, so she followed her up.

The case is still under investigation. Although there are only a few people including Chen Hao, Yang Xiaorui, as a logistics staff, must stay in the police station and keep in touch with them at all times.

Hu Changyu smiled slightly: "Xiao Rui, go and do your work. I will stay here for a while."

Yang Xiaorui looked at him: "Director Hu, Captain Chen and Luo Rui will definitely be able to catch this man! If you are hungry, I have snacks."

As she spoke, she took out a piece of chocolate and handed it over timidly.

Hu Changyu took it and said with a smile: "I was wondering why your criminal police office always smells like potato chips and chocolate. So it turns out you are the one who eats them secretly every day?"

Yang Xiaorui blushed: "No, it's Wu Lei, his drawer is full of snacks."

Hu Changyu took the chocolate: "Thank you."

"Director Hu, I'm going to be busy now. If you need anything, call me."

Hu Changyu saw her figure disappear at the stairs and then walk into the office.

He first glanced at the landline phones on the desk. There were two phones, but neither had any incoming calls.

Hu Changyu sat back in his office chair and closed his eyes tightly.

Not long after, his personal cell phone rang.

He saw the caller was from his old partner Wei Qunshan.

After answering the call, Wei Qunshan didn't say anything.

Hu Changyu didn't say anything either.

After a long time, the person on the other end of the phone said, "Old Hu, why do you have to do this?"

Hu Changyu pursed his lips and still said nothing.

Wei Qunshan sighed and whispered, "Is your phone safe?"

Hu Changyu frowned, as if he sensed something, and replied: "This is my personal cell phone."

Wei Qunshan: "Well, listen to me..."

……

Two police cars drove out of the police station building and headed in different directions.

Because time is urgent, we cannot afford to investigate slowly and have to act separately.

In addition to Luo Rui himself, there are two other people around him, both of whom are veteran detectives who choose to continue working overtime.

There were a total of fourteen hostages at the time. Excluding Manager He who was beaten to death, there were thirteen left.

What they have to do now is to inquire about the situation before the explosion, hoping to find clues.

Chen Hao went to the hospital, where seven customers and two security guards who had been shot were treated.

Luo Rui was looking for four female employees.

Wufu Jewelry Store has its own staff dormitory, where three employees live, and one is a local who lives in a rural area in the suburbs.

The staff dormitory was on the commercial street. Luo Rui brought two people to the door and knocked hard.

It was already early in the morning, and the people in the house might have gone to bed, so he waited for a long time before a panicked voice sounded in the house: "Who... who are you?"

Luo Rui replied: "We are the police. Sorry to bother you. We have an emergency and need to question you. Please open the door."

The door was not opened. The voice said, "Wait a minute. I'll call the police. I need to confirm it."

These girls were held captive and managed to escape alive. How could they not be scared when someone came to their door in the middle of the night?

"You don't have to call the police. Open the door a crack and look at me. You should know me. I saved you."

These words worked very well, and soon the door was opened a crack.

The girl who opened the door saw him, her eyes lit up, and then she opened the door wide.

"It's really you!"

Luo Rui smiled and said, "Can we go in?"

The girl let down her guard: "Please come in, but the house is a mess."

Luo Rui brought two criminal police officers into the house, which was a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment.

Except for the girl who opened the door, the other two girls were holding fruit knives and spatulas from the kitchen.

It seems that what happened yesterday did cast a huge shadow on them.

They were wearing pajamas, but they didn't look tired, so they must have not gone to bed yet.

Luo Rui said: "Sorry to bother you so late, we do have something very important to ask you."

One of the older girls said, "We talked about it yesterday at the police station. We told them everything we knew."

Luo Rui: "I know, but there are still some questions that we need to ask again. This is very important. I hope you can cooperate?"

The girl who opened the door said, "Then please sit down. I'll pour you a glass of water."

Luo Rui quickly waved his hand to refuse: "No, let's get started."

Hearing this, the three girls sat on the sofa with their legs together. They were very nervous and repulsive, and seemed unwilling to recall what happened at that time.

Luo Rui took the transcript handed to him by his companion, which recorded the girl's confession yesterday.

Luo Rui had already read this information in the car. He sat opposite the girls and asked, "The criminals broke into the jewelry store after 2:01 yesterday. How many customers were there in the store before that?"

The girls all frowned, seemingly unable to remember.

One of the girls, named Xue Fangfang, replied: "Business was not very good that day, and there were few customers. The seven people who were kidnapped with us were the only ones who were kidnapped."

Luo Rui nodded: "What was wrong with them at that time?"

"I didn't notice that. They were just strolling around and didn't seem to have any intention of buying."

"What about before that? Besides them, which other customers left a deep impression on you before two o'clock?"

Xue Fangfang blinked: "If I have to say, it's because of the escort vehicle incident. Business in the store is very bad. It seems that we only closed one deal yesterday."

She was unsure and looked at her two companions.

One of the girls nodded and said, "Yes, we were all serving customers at the time. But I remember very clearly that one customer bought a pendant, a gold pendant of the Future Buddha."

"Future Buddha?"

"It's Maitreya Buddha, also known as the future Buddha. Men wear Guanyin and women wear Buddha."

Luo Rui asked doubtfully: "Is it a female customer?"

Girl: "Yes, it looks like I just came back from abroad!"

Luo Rui narrowed his eyes: "She came back from abroad? Did she buy it from you?"

The girl shook her head: "No, it was Yao Chun who opened the order."

"Yao Chun?"

Luo Rui quickly flipped through the notebook, and a photo of a girl appeared in front of him.

The girl continued, "Yao Chun is an old employee, she is beautiful. When we were held hostage, she was bullied by the gangsters! Manager He wanted to protect her, but he was beaten badly... Woohoo, he was taken away by the gangsters to open the safe, and he never came back..."

When it comes to this, the girls' faces immediately darken and they keep wiping away their tears.

Luo Rui exhaled a breath. When the explosion happened, he hid in the safe room and saw the body of Manager He.

Whether it is the store manager in Guangxing City or the store manager He in this city, they are all real men!

Luo Rui still remembered that when Tang Seng hit the store manager with a hammer, he said nothing and never told the password of the safe until his death.

Although Manager He helped the criminals open the safe, it was also to let the criminals let down their guard and prepare for counterattack.

But unexpectedly, these two people ended up like this.

If Wu Fu Jewelry Store has a conscience, it should treat their families well!
Luo Rui cleared the messy thoughts from his mind. He took a pen and drew on the notebook for a while. He felt dissatisfied, so he tore it up with his hands and then drew a new one.

Feeling satisfied, he held the notebook in front of the three girls.

"Have you ever seen this backpack? My drawing is not very good, please look carefully. This bag is black, with three zippers and a trademark on it, which is a string of English letters. Was this bag in the store at that time?"

The girls opened their eyes wide, looked carefully, then looked at each other, and then shook their heads: "Never seen it."

Xue Fangfang: "Everyone was entertaining customers at the time, and we kept our heads down while working, introducing the jewelry on the counter to customers, so no one noticed."

Luo Rui was a little disappointed, and then asked: "Listen to me, this bag is placed under the display case at the back of the hall. Who is in charge of that counter?"

The three girls answered in unison: "Yao Chun."

Yao Chun? Luo Rui muttered, then stood up: "Thank you for your cooperation, we will leave first. If you have any more questions, we will bother you again."

Xue Fangfang said: "It's okay, officer. You saved us. If it weren't for you, we would have died a long time ago. We should cooperate with your police investigation. This is what we should do."

The girls stood up and walked Luo Rui and the others to the door.

As soon as he went downstairs, Luo Rui received a call from Chen Hao. He had just finished his inquiry at the hospital.

"Luo Rui, we found out. Based on the clues you provided, we asked the customers who were in the store at the time, as well as the two security guards. They all said they saw a woman carrying that black backpack and walking into the store. At the time, she was wearing tortoise-shell glasses and a hat on her head to hide her true appearance.

However, when she left, the two security guards recalled that they did not see her take the backpack, and that the criminals broke into the jewelry store and took hostages less than a minute after she left! "

Before Luo Rui could speak, Chen Hao continued in an excited tone, "This is a very important clue. If we can confirm that this woman is the mastermind behind the scenes, then we can support Director Hu's statement at the press conference. This will prove that our police department is not aimless and will also reduce the pressure on Director Hu's shoulders!"

But Luo Rui is not so optimistic. Now that things have turned out like this, it is no longer a question of right or wrong!
Small people care about right and wrong, while big people only care about interests!

Don't imagine that if you are right, your leader will look at the problem in a new light. Instead, he will hate you even more.

There are so many things like this in history!

Chen Hao: "I have already recorded the confession and drawn a portrait of this woman. I will take a photo and send it to you right away."

Not long after, Luo Rui received a black and white sketch on his mobile phone.

In the portrait, the woman seemed to be only 27 or 28 years old. She was tall and wore a black down jacket. It was early winter, and she was also wearing a summer women's hat.

Because the portrait was drawn based on the security guard's memory, there are major discrepancies. The nose and eyes lack details and are very stereotyped, so the woman's face is rather blurry.

Could this woman be the mastermind behind this?
Is this “X”?
Luo Rui walked towards the police car while looking at the photos.

The two veteran detectives who came with Luo Rui to investigate were Jiang Dawei and Li Xueming, both of whom have been detectives for more than 20 years.

The two men sat in the driver's seat, Luo Rui opened the door and sat in the back seat.

Li Xueming looked back at him: "Team Leader, where are we going now?"

Luo Rui replied: "Go to Yao Chun's house."

Yao Chun's home is in the suburbs, which is considered a rural area, but it is next to the east side of the city. Not only is it not backward, but because of the expansion of the city, the farmers there are very rich.

Yao Chun's family consists of three people, including her and her parents.

Luo Rui always felt that it was not real that he could find X's portrait so easily.

The reason why X was used instead is because Luo Rui did not believe that this woman was the person behind the scenes.

The jewelry store and the escort vehicle were robbed, and X personally took charge of the robbery in order to ensure that there would be no mistakes.

After the incident, with five million in hand, X sent Ge Hong to replace himself, and then he did not hesitate to kill his accomplices. On the one hand, it was to eliminate his own existence, and on the other hand, it was also to give an explanation to the police.

With such a meticulous layout, could X be the woman in the portrait?
While Luo Rui was daydreaming, Chen Hao called again.

His tone was very excited: "Hey, Luo Rui, I asked Yang Xiaorui to retrieve the surveillance video of the surrounding area before the criminals broke into the jewelry store. Guess what I found?"

Luo Rui: "Did this woman appear in the surveillance video?"

Chen Hao: "That's right! We have found a video of her walking out of a jewelry store. Her face is similar to the woman in the portrait. It's almost certain that she is this woman!"

Luo Rui hesitated for a moment, then said, "Captain Chen, don't hold your hopes too high."

Chen Hao was anxious when he heard this: "What do you mean?" Luo Rui: "What I mean is that X is very cunning and has strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities. She can't appear in the surveillance video."

Chen Hao: "Luo Rui, isn't this what you speculated before? You said X might have pretended to be a customer, entered the jewelry store, and hid the backpack containing the Z-bomb under the counter!"

Luo Rui: "I said that, but I might be wrong. Think about it, if you were X, would you do this? I think this woman might be a scapegoat!"

Chen Hao was silent and didn't say anything for a long time on the other end of the phone.

Luo Rui sighed: "Captain Chen, if you want to know if this woman is X, you should go back to the police station now and ask professionals to compare the surveillance footage of the jewelry store being robbed to see if the posture of the man wearing the Tang Monk mask is the same as this woman's. In any case, this woman is a very important clue. If we find her, we can follow her and find X."

Chen Hao said anxiously, "Luo Rui, do you know that we can't investigate this case slowly? The pressure faced by Director Hu is unprecedented. If we can't catch the real culprit soon..."

Luo Rui quickly took over the conversation: "I understand, so we have to act quickly! I am now looking for a female employee named Yao Chun. At that time, it was Yao Chun who received this woman. Maybe there are some clues. What you have to do now is to find this woman as much as possible!"

Chen Hao: "Okay, I hope everything goes well!"

Luo Rui: “I hope everything goes well!”

After hanging up the phone, Luo Rui looked out the window. He didn't know when snowflakes started floating in the night sky. The snow fell even heavier than last time, and everything was white.

The police car drove out of the city and onto the suburban highway.

Half an hour later, the police car stopped in front of a small building in the suburbs.

The spot was off the main road and surrounded by open fields.

Although it is called a small building, it is actually more like a small villa with a garden in front and a small pond behind.

The small building seemed to have been built not long ago, and leftover discarded materials such as gravel, steel bars, and prefabricated panels could be seen around it.

This is Yao Chun’s home, a single-family household. The nearest neighbor is behind the pond, at least five or six hundred meters away.

The information contained Yao Chun's phone number. Luo Rui had already informed her on the way here, otherwise no one would be happy if she suddenly visited him in the middle of the night.

Sure enough, as soon as Luo Rui got out of the car, he saw that the lights were on in the house.

He walked up to the door and knocked on the ring.

After a while, a middle-aged man who looked like Yao Chun's father opened the door.

"Are you Officer Luo? I saw you on TV this afternoon. It was you who saved my daughter!"

Luo Rui did not deny that he was not a policeman, and he was too lazy to explain.

"Hello, this is what I should do. Are you Yao Chun's father, Yao Jun?"

"Yes, it's me. We've been waiting for you for a long time."

He glanced behind Luo Rui and saw two more people. There was a hint of vigilance in his eyes, but he still opened the door: "Come in quickly, it's cold outside and it's snowing."

Luo Rui and his companions walked into the house. Yao Chun and her mother were sitting on the mahogany bench in the living room on the first floor.

Her mother is a typical rural woman, dark and thin, but looks very capable.

She quickly got up, made three cups of hot tea and placed them on the coffee table.

"Officer, have some tea."

"Thank you. Don't be so polite."

After Luo Rui sat down, he looked at Yao Chun, a very beautiful girl. When he asked the other three female employees just now, they said that Yao Chun had been bullied by Tang Seng.

At that time, the person wearing the Tang Monk mask was Ge Hong, the scum who raped Kong Fei's wife Xie Ying and killed their family of three.

Yao Chun was lucky, otherwise he would have ended up in a miserable situation.

Luo Rui took the teacup and took a sip of the tea. The other two detectives stood there without touching their cups.

Yao Chun looked at Luo Rui and said sincerely, "Thank you for saving us."

Luo Rui waved his hand: "It's okay, it's my duty."

Chen Hao had already sent the footage of X to Luo Rui. He immediately took out his cell phone and handed it to Yao Chun: "Do you know this woman?"

Unexpectedly, Yao Chun didn't look at his phone, but kept staring at him with a smile in his eyes.

Luo Rui coughed twice before she reacted. She smiled embarrassedly and looked at the photo.

"I know her. As soon as she left, the criminals broke in. When she was held hostage, I was thinking how lucky she was. If she had left a minute later, she would have ended up like us."

"Can you describe the situation in detail?"

Yao Chun nodded: "Business was not very good yesterday. After she came in, she went straight to my counter and sat on the chair and looked at it for a long time. I introduced it to her, but she didn't say anything. I was a little impatient and let her look around.

When I went to drink water, she called me over and said she wanted to buy a pendant. It was a gold pendant of the future Buddha, and it was quite expensive..."

Luo Rui interrupted her: "Did you leave the counter at that time?"

Yao Chun nodded: "That's right."

"About how long?"

"It'll only be two or three minutes...it shouldn't be more than two minutes."

Luo Rui was thinking to herself that during these two minutes, the woman hid her backpack under the counter while she was not behind the counter.

The surveillance cameras in the jewelry store have been destroyed. If they hadn't been destroyed, the scene at that time would have been seen more clearly.

"What's her expression like?"

"She seemed a little flustered. When I gave her the pendant, she asked me to open the order immediately. She looked like she had something to do and wanted to leave early."

Luo Rui was thinking, and because the weather was too cold, he picked up the teacup and drank two sips of hot water.

Yao Chun's eyes were always on him, and even her parents felt that their daughter seemed to be a little in love with this young police officer.

While watching the news in the afternoon, my daughter kept talking about how brave and amazing the police officer who saved the life was.

At that time, everyone thought he had died in there, and his daughter cried very hard. Unexpectedly, this police officer named Luo Rui survived the disaster and was still alive.

Moreover, the TV was all about Luo Rui's news. My daughter sat in front of the TV and watched the news reports. She seemed to have developed a feeling of admiration for this young police officer.

As soon as Yao Chun received Luo Rui's call, he seemed very excited and even dressed himself up.

Yao Chun looked at Luo Rui with burning eyes: "Officer Luo, are you looking for this woman again? Is there anything wrong with her?"

Luo Rui was thinking about himself and didn't hear what she said.

Unexpectedly, Yao Chun's words woke him up.

"Officer Luo, I know this woman's name."

Luo Rui's heart suddenly stopped beating: "Do you know her name?"

Yao Chun couldn't help nodding and said with a smile, "When we in our jewelry store issue invoices to customers, we always ask for their names, and then print the invoices on the computer. Only then can we match the names one by one if the customers want to return the items or get after-sales services."

Luo Rui asked hurriedly: "What's her name?"

Yao Chun frowned, as if recalling: "It seems... her name is Li Mina."

Luo Rui: "Li Mina? How do you write this name?"

Yao Chun smiled and said, "Stretch out your hand and I will write it for you on the palm of your hand."

Luo Rui refused: "Just tell it orally."

Yao Chun was a little disappointed, so he had to break down the words and repeat them.

Luo Rui immediately wrote down the name in the notebook and showed it to her.

"Yes, that's the name."

“Thank you, this news is very important to us!”

Luo Rui stood up and said, "Then we'll take our leave. Sorry to disturb your rest."

Yao Chun also stood up, with a disappointed look on his face: "It's so late, you policemen are really hard-working. How about we leave at dawn, since it's still snowing outside? I'll make you noodles?"

Luo Rui smiled and said, "We still have things to deal with."

As he spoke, he and the two detectives walked out the door. The snow outside was falling heavier and heavier, and the temperature dropped suddenly. By tomorrow morning, the snow would probably be very thick.

Yao Chun held onto the door and said, "Officer Luo, can I come find you when you're free?"

Luo Rui got in the car: "Sure, I'll treat you to a meal when I'm done."

Yao Chun was pleasantly surprised: "It's settled then. Write down my phone number and be sure to call me."

She immediately gave out a number.

Luo Rui repeated it in his mouth, and Yao Chun waved to him happily.

They got into the police car and drove away in the heavy snow.

After driving onto the main road, Li Xueming, who was driving, said with a smile, "Team Leader Luo, that girl just now seems to be interested in you."

Luo Rui smiled: "Really?"

"Why not? I don't believe you can't see it."

Jiang Dawei, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, also joked: "Captain Luo, you are now a hero who saves people. You are young and promising. I am a woman, and I will like you too."

Luo Rui blinked: "Then I am very lucky, right?"

Luo Rui didn't care about Yao Chun's feelings.

When I said I would treat her to a meal, I meant it was a sincere way of expressing my gratitude, that's all.

Luo Rui took out his cell phone, called Chen Hao, and told him what he had found.

After hearing this, Chen Hao was very excited. As long as he knew the name, it would not be difficult to find this woman.

"Luo Rui, you are such a lucky guy. I will go back to the police station right now. I hope to find this woman after daybreak!"

"Okay!" Luo Rui hung up the phone.

Because they had been staying up late for several nights, they were so sleepy that Li Xueming and Jiang Dawei started smoking cigarettes.

Luo Rui opened the back seat window a little to let fresh air in, but the wind was too cold, so he had to endure it.

Not long after, Luo Rui was too tired and his right side was injured, so he fell asleep in the back seat with his head drooped.

The police car was driving in the heavy snow. When it entered a road section with fields on both sides and no people in sight, Li Xueming saw a triangular warning sign erected in front of him.

A black car stopped in the middle of the road, as if something had gone wrong.

Because the road was too narrow, Li Xueming couldn't drive the police car through. He waited for a while and saw a man checking something in front of the car.

Jiang Dawei had no patience, he opened the car door: "I'll go down and take a look."

As soon as the car door opened, a biting cold wind blew into the car, and Luo Rui in the back seat was immediately awakened by the cold.

Before he could open his eyes, he heard a loud shout.

"What are you doing? We are the police, please stop messing around."

"Ah! Stop!"

Luo Rui opened his eyes alertly and saw several people surrounding Jiang Dawei in front of him.

Just as Li Xueming was about to get out of the car, a gun was thrust in from the car window and pressed against his head.

……

Time goes back to five minutes ago. When Yao Jun just turned off the lights and was about to go upstairs, he heard the sound of a car engine outside the door.

It's been less than half an hour since the police left. Could it be that they've returned?
He didn't go to open the door, but Yao Chun ran down from upstairs. She had already changed into pajamas and was about to go to bed.

"Dad, is that Officer Luo and the others? Are they back again?"

Yao Jun turned on the light and shook his head: "Silly girl, it's so late, why are you still not asleep? It must be a passing car. They have been gone for half an hour, and you are still thinking about him."

"Officer Luo is a hero. He saved me, so what if I pledge my love to him? I will definitely pursue him."

Yao Jun curled his lips. His daughter has always been bold and speaks carelessly.

However, Officer Luo is indeed handsome. If he doesn't have a girlfriend, it would be quite worthwhile if he could become his son-in-law in the future.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

Yao Jun was about to open the door when Yao Chun said, "Dad, I'll go, I'll go!"

Yao Chun ran happily to the door. Without any vigilance, she removed the bolt and opened the door.

The biting cold wind rushed into the house and she couldn't help shivering.

While she was still in a daze, a large hand wearing a black glove pressed her face and pushed her into the door.

Immediately, two masked men broke into the house. One of them turned around, looked outside, and then closed the door tightly.

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