Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 168 X Surfaces
Three days later...

Linjiang City Police Station, inside the interrogation room.

Chen Hao sat at the interrogation table, and next to him sat the recorder, typing on the keyboard.

Wu Lei and several criminal police officers folded their arms, leaned against the wall behind them, and stared at the short man in front of them without blinking.

If Chen Hao had not been present, these criminal police would have definitely rushed forward.

These criminals have been taken back to Linjiang City for several days. Several seriously injured ones are still lying in the hospital. The one with the least injury is this short man. He was only beaten with a bone stick and the injuries were all superficial.

He was the first criminal to be brought in for questioning. As soon as he was brought from the detention room, all the police officers in the entire Linjiang City police station were alarmed.

If Chen Hao hadn't protected him with all his strength, he would never have made it to the interrogation room.

Looking at the policeman who was staring at him hungrily, the short man lowered his eyelids and didn't dare to raise his face at all.

Chen Hao asked with a cold face: "Name?"

The short man answered in stiff Chinese: "Wu...Wu Wanshi."

"Place of origin?"

"XX city in the north."

When they heard that he was a local, several detectives flew into a rage and rushed over.

"Damn it! How dare the Chinese collude with the Koreans and kill my master and Uncle Li! Fuck you!"

A young criminal police officer raised his hand and wanted to punch him, but Chen Hao immediately shouted at him: "Stop! Don't you want to be a police officer anymore?"

The young criminal policeman was grabbed by Wu Lei, his eyes red, "Captain Chen, my master and Uncle Li shouldn't have died like this... We can't just let it go like this."

Chen Hao took a look at the surveillance video, then glanced towards the observation room. The police officer inside understood and he wanted to turn off the camera immediately, but he still glanced at Wan Mingxia who was standing behind him. Only when he saw her nod did he dare to turn off the camera and then delete all the videos.

Chen Hao looked at the young criminal policeman: "Why let it go? They won't live for more than a few months. This is a big case. We will organize the evidence and hand it over to the procuratorate. The court will make a verdict soon!"

The young detective gritted his teeth and said, "Captain Chen, are you sure they can all be sentenced to death?"

Chen Hao was silent. He certainly understood that there were eight people in this gang, and except for the two main culprits, the other six would most likely not be sentenced to death.

This is where the police officers feel frustrated.

Chen Hao sighed: "Wu Lei, take him out and calm him down! Also, tell the people in the corridor, do we have no cases to investigate? What are you all waiting outside for?"

"Okay, Master."

After Wu Lei pulled the young criminal policeman away and opened the door of the interrogation room, he saw that the corridor was indeed crowded with people, all of whom were staring inside like wolves and tigers.

The interrogation room became quiet and Chen Hao sat back in his chair.

At this time, the police officer in the observation room turned on the camera again.

Chen Hao repeated the previous two questions.

The short man named Wu Wanshi was obviously frightened and answered timidly.

After two hours of interrogation, Chen Hao learned that this group of people came from Incheon City on the peninsula and were operatives of the Kinmen Group.

This group of people received a hunting order from Hong Kong, with a commission of 10 million, and went to the mainland to kidnap a young man named Luo Rui.

As for who the employer was, Wu Wanshi didn't know.

However, he was very clear about the action plan.

There are eight people, six of whom are Chinese and come from XX city in the north. The reason for choosing them is probably because of their Chinese background, so it would be less troublesome for them to enter the country.

They took a boat to the international terminal in Linchuan City, and then inquired in Guangxing City for several days, trying to find Luo Rui's whereabouts.

One of them even went to the Haijiang Branch to inquire, but the police ignored him.

Finally, they learned of Luo Rui's whereabouts on TV news, because the news that day was all about Luo Rui rescuing the jewelry store residents.

So, they rushed to Linchuan City, went to the hospital to inquire, and found out that Luo Rui was hospitalized at the time, and then they kept following him.

After Luo Rui came out of the hospital, these people began their kidnapping plan.

Wu Wanshi said that at that time they found Luo Rui and two criminal police officers going to a farmer's house to investigate, and they originally planned to go in and kidnap the people.

But their leader, the scarred man named Kang Jae-myung, stopped them.

This Jiang Zaiming is not Chinese, but a real Korean, but he speaks Chinese most fluently.

The plan he came up with was to wait for Luo Rui to leave, kidnap him on the way, and then return to kill Yao Chun's family of three and frame Luo Rui for the crime.

In this way, Luo Rui was also kidnapped by them. Then when the police start to investigate, they will definitely suspect Luo Rui. They can then calmly take a boat to Guangxing City, hand the person over to the employer, and finally take a boat back to the peninsula.

The plan seemed perfect, but what they didn't expect was that an accident happened halfway through, and Luo Rui actually overturned the entire ship's population by himself.

In order to make the scene more realistic and to create a motive for the crime, they even raped Yao Chun on purpose.

Chen Hao found a video on the mobile phones of Wu Wanshi and several criminals.

The shots were all taken from different angles. Yao Chun was stripped naked and held down by several people.

The mastermind behind the rape was Jiang Zaiming.

Chen Hao gritted his teeth and asked, "Why do you want to take a video?"

Wu Wanshi blinked and said, "To make money."

"Sell for money?"

"Boss Jiang said that this kind of video can be sold on the dark web and is worth a lot of money. They often shoot such videos in Incheon. If the woman is raped to death, it will be even more valuable!

I don't really understand. Officer, I'm not the mastermind. I'm Chinese. I haven't been there for long. I was brought there by my fellow villagers. They said that as long as you cross the Yellow Sea, you will make a fortune. "

Chen Hao's heart sank to the bottom. He knew that many people in the north were either running to the peninsula or to the Sakura Country.

What's more, the people in XX City and the Koreans are almost of the same ethnic group and have similar languages.

We have already understood about 70% of the matter. The most important thing now is, who is the employer who wants to kidnap Luo Rui?

Who gave the 10 million commission?

This matter will be clear if we ask the mastermind Jiang Zaiming, but he is still lying in the hospital. In addition to the gunshot wound, his left eye is blind and the eyeball has been removed. Moreover, his entire head has been beaten into a pig head, and it is difficult for him to even drink water, let alone interrogate him. He can only rely on intravenous infusion to maintain a glimmer of life.

The Haijiang Branch has already caught the contact person, but has not contacted the Linjiang Police Station. Chen Hao is very puzzled. No matter what, the other party should have informed him.

Chen Hao walked out of the interrogation room, and the police officers in the corridor had already left.

Wan Mingxia also followed him out of the observation room and said to him, "We don't have time to record the testimonies of the others. We will take Wu Wanshi to identify the scene this afternoon, and then send these people back to the provincial and municipal governments and hand them over to the Guangxing Municipal Bureau for trial. Two of them are from the Peninsula and are involved abroad, so it's more difficult."

Chen Hao nodded. Although the case had not been solved yet, he had a vague feeling that the things involved were not something he could interfere with.

Wan Mingxia was silent for a while, then she spoke: "Um... Chen Hao, I was wrong to doubt Luo Rui earlier, please don't mind it."

Chen Hao shook his head indifferently.

Wan Mingxia always felt that he had a deep prejudice against her, and it was not just Chen Hao, but almost everyone in the whole organization was like this. She understood that the root cause was not Luo Rui, but Hu Changyu.

But she had no choice but to use all her heart to maintain the situation.

However, she knew very well that if she could lead the police station and solve several major cases, her prestige would definitely increase, and her situation would then improve.

All she had to do now was to catch X at all costs.

Although this case was not led by her, as long as this person was caught, the Linjiang City Police Department would be delighted and their suspicion towards her would be reduced.

Wan Mingxia calmed herself down and said, "Let's go. Commander Zhu is waiting for us to have a meeting."

Chen Hao nodded and followed her to the conference room.

The detectives who were previously in the corridor were all sitting inside. It turned out that they did not leave voluntarily, but were called to a meeting.

Zhu Yong sat in the upper seat in the conference room and nodded to him.

Chen Hao found a seat and sat down, with Wu Dahao and Kang Bolin on his left and right.

At the beginning of the meeting, Wu Dahao walked to the big screen and explained the case: "In the past two days, we have sent a large number of police officers to visit the scene. When the jewelry store exploded, there were a total of 2307 onlookers. We have questioned everyone, both adults and children, and no suspicious people were found at the time.

In addition, the Information Department also checked the surveillance within a 500-meter radius centered on the jewelry business, but no suspicious persons were found.

In other words, whether X was present at the scene at the time is still unclear.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Xiaorui quickly raised her hand and retorted: "I tracked the location of the phone at the time. I can confirm that if this phone belongs to X, then he must be at the scene!"

Wu Dahao expressed his opinion: "Even if he was at the scene, we can't recognize who he is? It's like looking for a needle in a haystack if we continue to investigate like this!"

Zhu Yong frowned and said, "After investigation by Luo Rui and Chen Hao, it turned out that this X was involved in the robbery of the Guangxing City jewelry store and the Linjiang City escort vehicle.

Should we investigate from these two directions? It is conceivable that since the robbery was successful, X has separated from the gang of criminals, so if we want to investigate, we can only start from these two aspects!
In addition, X is the organizer and planner, he must be connected with several other criminals, it is impossible that they have no connection at all, have you checked this?"

At this time, Kang Bolin stood up and replied: "Captain Zhu, in the past two days, we have visited Tang Xiong, Jiang Shu, Ge Hong, and the relatives and friends around Miao Chuan, but we did not find anyone other than these four people.

However, when it comes to organization and planning, we speculate that Tang Xiong should be the leader. The Guangxing Municipal Bureau found out that the four of them had been in and out of a tea restaurant together, and once, Ouyang Qian, an employee of a jewelry store, was also among them. "

Zhu Yong frowned when he heard this.

I have been investigating for several days. Director Wu has called me many times to inquire about the matter, but I have no clues at all.

You have to know how much pressure Wu Chaoxiong was under to push the case forward. If there was no result in the end, the provincial department would have been caught by Wu Dahao's brother-in-law.

Besides, his old friend Hu Changyu is still studying. Although he cannot reinstate him, he must prove that his original persistence was not wrong!

Zhu Yong gritted his teeth and looked at Wu Dahao, "What a mediocre person, a show-off!"

Kang Bolin is capable, but he is a smooth person. He follows Woodhall's lead and appears to be fawning. Bah!

Looking at Chen Hao again, he stood up and asked, "Should we use Kong Fei as the starting point for our investigation?"

Everyone looked at the big screen, and Kong Fei's photo was on it.

He drove his car to disrupt the escort vehicle, and then his entire family was killed by Tang Xiong and others.

Chen Hao walked to the big screen and said, "We checked the mobile phones of these criminals. Tang Xiong's phone was blown up, but Yang Xiaorui checked his call list and found that he was in direct contact with X. Apart from him, only Kong Fei had X's mobile phone number in his phone. It is because of this that we suspect the existence of X.

Then we will start from Tang Xiong and Kong Fei and investigate carefully, there will definitely be clues."

Hearing this, Zhu Yong's expression eased a little. The ideas provided by Chen Hao were very clear and feasible.

He didn't believe that a bird could fly by without leaving any trace.

But crimes will definitely leave clues!
Zhu Yong clapped his hands and looked at Chen Hao approvingly: "You are right. As police officers, we have to unravel the mystery and find clues for investigation. Chen Hao, since you have nothing else to do now, I will appoint you as the deputy leader of the investigation team and give you full authority to investigate this case!"

Chen Hao nodded and left the big screen.

He walked out along the conference table, extending his hand and pointing at the detectives present.

"You, you, Wu Lei, and Old Tang, follow me! Go to the armory and get your guns!"

"Yes!"

These people immediately stood up, and the chairs were pulled aside. Everyone was excited and followed him, a group of people quickly walked out of the meeting room.

Only Woodward and Kang Bolin were left standing in front of the big screen, looking a little overwhelmed.

……

At 10 o'clock in the evening, Cai Xiaojing walked into the "Red Shoes" cafe, and heard soothing music.

This cafe is located on the commercial street of Haijiang District, and is frequented by nearby white-collar workers. However, as it was already time to get off work, there were not many customers in the store. There were only two couples sitting in a dim corner, talking in low voices.

A young girl was sitting on a high stool, holding a guitar, and singing Wu Bai's "Last Dance".

When Tao Yanhong saw her, she quickly stretched out her hand and waved in the air.

Cai Xiaojing walked to the booth where she was sitting. After she put down her bag, the other party pushed a cup of chrysanthemum tea in front of her table.

"I didn't order you some coffee. You policemen work too hard. Chrysanthemum tea can calm your nerves."

Cai Xiaojing nodded: "Thank you."

Then, she looked at Xiaolan who was sitting next to Tao Yanhong: "Xiaolan, why are you unhappy?"

Xiaolan folded her arms and raised her head with a wronged look on her face: "Hello, sister, my mother didn't let me bring Xiaomao here."

Xiaomao is a golden retriever, and Xiaolan is inseparable from it.

Cai Xiaojing comforted her: "Don't be angry, dogs are not allowed in this cafe. Think about it, if you bring Xiaomao to a public place, what if it hurts someone..."

Xiaolan curled her lips and said, "Xiaomao won't bite people, it will only bite money."

"money?"

Tao Yanhong quickly explained: "Xiao Jing, don't listen to this kid's nonsense. She is angry because I had a quarrel with his father, so..."

Xiaolan interrupted, "Huh, are you guys arguing? You want a divorce. Don't think I don't know that you despise your dad for being a loser. Mom, can we move back home? If you get divorced, who will Xiaomao and I go with?"

Tao Yanhong sighed helplessly: "Xiaojing, I'm sorry, there are only Xiaolan and I at home, so I had no choice but to bring her here."

Cai Xiaojing shook her head without any concern.

Tao Yanhong pointed at the girl who was singing and said to her daughter, "Xiaolan, why don't you go and listen to that girl singing for a while while mommy chats with her friends, okay?"

Xiaolan snorted, but still left obediently.

No one interrupted her, so Tao Yanhong looked at Cai Xiaojing and asked, "Xiaojing, you looked for me a few days ago, but I was busy at that time and I only had time today. You were in such a hurry to look for me, is there something wrong?"

"Sister Hong, this is it, are you really planning to divorce your husband?"

Tao Yanhong was very surprised. She raised her eyebrows and leaned back: "You are not Qu Bo's lobbyist, are you?"

Cai Xiaojing hurriedly shook her head and explained, "No, I want to ask if Qu Bo has behaved abnormally recently?"

Tao Yanhong blinked, her expression becoming more defensive: "Xiao Jing, what do you want to ask? I'm ready to divorce him. Isn't it normal for him to be in a bad mood?"

Cai Xiaojing hesitated for a while and decided to tell the truth: "Has he ever hit you before? Or did he want to kill you?"

Tao Yanhong's expression froze, and then she laughed: "I understand, Xiaojing, are you worried that Qu Bo wants to kill me? Haha, he is a coward, he wouldn't be so courageous. But I'm curious, where did you hear this?"

Cai Xiaojing couldn't say that it was Luo Rui who told her, so she could only say, "You know, I'm a police officer..."

"Hmm..." Tao Yanhong took over the conversation, but she did not say anything immediately. Instead, she picked up the coffee on the table and took a sip.

"Don't worry, Xiaolan and I have already moved out. It's okay. Besides, Qu Bo doesn't have the key to where we live now."

Cai Xiaojing let out a sigh of relief: "You'd better be careful. Our police station receives several tragedies caused by divorce every year."

"Thank you for your concern."

Tao Yanhong blinked and asked again, "By the way, I haven't seen Luo, the classmate who lives on the same floor as you, for a long time. I rented the house to him, but he never came to live here."

Cai Xiaojing picked up the chrysanthemum tea and was about to take a sip, but when she heard her interruption, she replied, "Oh, by the way, I almost forgot to tell you this. Luo Rui bought his own house, and he might have to give up the room he rented from you."

Tao Yanhong was surprised: "Bought a house? I really can't tell what this young man's family does."

Cai Xiaojing nodded.

Tao Yanhong continued to ask: "Xiao Jing, how did you get to know him?"

"Just friends." Cai Xiaojing covered up.

Seeing that she looked a little flustered, Tao Yanhong did not let her go: "I'm afraid it's not as simple as just friends. Xiaojing, I'm also a woman, I can see, do you like him?"

"I don't have any."

Cai Xiaojing became anxious and picked up the cup of water and wanted to drink, but was stopped by Tao Yanhong.

"No, you are lying, you have to tell me the truth."

Cai Xiaojing blushed and hesitated to speak. She felt that her thoughts could be seen through by the woman in front of her, and she thought that she was really not a simple person.

However, how could she admit such a thing?

She just lay in bed in the dead of night and thought about it shyly.

Tao Yanhong took her water cup and asked with concern: "The tea is cold. Can I ask the boss to change it?"

Cai Xiaojing refused: "No, I'm leaving right away."

Tao Yanhong had no choice but to put the cup of water on the table.

The two of them were speechless for a while and remained silent.

On the stage, the girl finished singing a song, put away her guitar, and smiled at Xiaolan.

She collected her payment for the evening at the counter and left the cafe.

Cai Xiaojing looked around the cafe and found that there was no one there. The two or three couples who were affectionate had also left, leaving only her and Bao Yanhong and her daughter.

"Sister Hong, let's..."

Before she finished speaking, a man with long hair who looked like the owner of a cafe, who had just paid the bill for the singing girl, walked up to the stage, picked up the microphone, and said to Xiaolan who was sitting on the sofa in front, "Little girl, I'll sing a song for you, okay?"

Xiaolan immediately clapped her hands and shouted happily: "Great, great!"

The boss smiled and said, "What song do you want to listen to?"

Xiaolan tilted her head and blurted out: "Excuse me, where is the road?"

The boss immediately made a Monkey King-scratching-the-neck gesture, which made Xiaolan laugh out loud.

Cai Xiaojing also smiled. She turned to look at Bao Yanhong and found that she was staring at the boss with smiles in her eyes.

Tao Yanhong seemed to be attracted by the handsome boss, and the muscles on her face relaxed.

Cai Xiaojing blinked and couldn't help but complain in her heart.

A woman who is preparing for a divorce can no longer bear the loneliness.

Cai Xiaojing picked up the water cup, took a sip, and prepared to leave immediately.

Her eyes were still on Xiaolan. Before the boss started singing, Xiaolan stood up from the sofa and jumped twice.

She shouted excitedly: "You are Sun Wukong, then my mother is Tang Monk. She has a Tang Monk mask, and I often wear it for fun."

As soon as these words were spoken, the boss was stunned.

Tao Yanhong's smile froze immediately. When she turned around, she saw Cai Xiaojing's sharp eyes shooting at her.

The moment our eyes met.

A feeling of fear surged into Cai Xiaojing's heart, and her heartbeat began to accelerate suddenly!
Almost in the blink of an eye, she reached for the pistol at her waist.

Tao Yanhong moved quickly. She reached out to the top of Cai Xiaojing's head, trying to grab her hair and knock her head against the table.

But Cai Xiaojing dodged with such force that the chair fell over.

She took out her gun, immediately raised it up and pointed the muzzle at Tao Yanhong.

Tao Yanhong didn't leave her seat at all. There was no expression on her face. She just turned her head and glanced at Xiaolan.

Xiaolan has been protected by the boss behind her.

"The water is cold. I told you not to drink it. Why didn't you listen?"

Cai Xiaojing put her index finger on the trigger. She was a little confused as to how the other party could be so calm and say such words.

But in an instant, she felt something was wrong.

My head ached and I felt dizzy.

She wanted to subdue the other person immediately, but she felt powerless.

Then she no longer had the strength to lift the gun and fell to the ground.

Seeing her collapsed on the ground, Tao Yanhong stood up from the chair and walked to Xiaolan.

"Come on, mom will take you home."

Xiaolan stared at Cai Xiaojing lying on the floor.

"Mom, what happened to Sister Xiaojing?"

"She might be sick and fainted. I'll take you home first and then take Sister Xiaojing to the hospital, okay?"

Xiaolan didn't listen: "Mom, I want to go with you."

Tao Yanhong held her hand and said, "Be good and listen to me. If you don't go home, Xiao Mao will get angry at home."

When Xiaolan heard this, she nodded reluctantly.

The owner of the cafe looked at Tao Yanhong, grinned and smiled.

"Deal with it, don't let anyone find out. Oh, and delete the surveillance footage, too, so there won't be any evidence of it."

The boss nodded, and after Tao Yanhong left, he took out a card with the word "closed" written on it, hung it on the handrail of the glass door, and then locked the door.

He went back behind the counter and picked up a narrow fruit-cutting knife and a coil of string.

Under the dim light, he strode towards Cai Xiaojing, his leather shoes making a "clacking" sound on the floor.

……

Guangxing City Hospital.

Luo Rui, lying on the hospital bed, suddenly opened his eyes, and his back was covered with cold sweat.

The ward was so quiet that he suddenly felt very upset.

This feeling has never happened before, no nightmares, but why am I having such palpitations?

He exhaled, endured the severe pain in his waist, staggered to the window, and opened all the windows.

A gust of night wind blew in, clearing his head.

Looking at the dark, moonless night sky, he still felt upset.

"Is something going to happen?"

He muttered to himself and suddenly heard footsteps outside the ward.

He turned around suddenly and saw the nurse pushing open the door of the ward with an infusion bottle in her hand.

(End of this chapter)