Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 288 Behind the Case

Six o'clock in the evening.

Rain fell from the low sky, dripping onto the policemen's hats, then flowed along the brims onto their faces.

A tarpaulin had been put up around the cellar, and because the light was dim, four searchlights were set up nearby.

Luo Rui wiped the rain off his face and looked at the policeman in raincoat crawling out of the cellar.

Under the tarp were five boxes, freshly brought up from under the cellar.

Kang Bolin squatted on the ground and smoked for a long time, leaving more than a dozen cigarette butts on the ground.

"Can you estimate how many children there are?" he asked a forensic assistant in a raincoat.

"Team, we found five heads. They are all children between the ages of two and ten, both boys and girls."

"What about the cause of death?"

"It's still unclear. After so many years, the body has long since decayed. We may not be able to find out the exact cause of death based on the skeleton alone."

"I understand." Kang Bolin stood up, feeling cold and his heart chilled.

Luo Rui looked at the forensic assistant and said, "Screen the DNA as soon as possible, contact the anti-trafficking office, and find the relatives of these children."

"Yes! Team Leader Luo." The other party agreed, with a strong warmth in his eyes towards Luo Rui.

Not only the forensic assistant, but also the police officers on the scene looked at him completely differently since Luo Rui and his team caught the two robbers and found the bodies of these children.

All the police officers, big and small, in Linjiang City knew Luo Rui. At first, everyone affectionately called him "Student Luo".

But now, the way they looked at Luo Rui was completely different. In addition to respect, there was also strong admiration.

Kang Bolin sighed and hesitated to speak.

"Lao Kang, these are just the dead ones. There are probably more people who were trafficked."

"Luo Rui, I never thought that there was such cruelty behind this case..."

Before Kang Bolin finished his words, Lin Chen walked to the cellar holding an umbrella.

"Team Leader Luo, Team Leader Kang, Director Wang wants you to attend a meeting."

Two people followed her to the roadside. Due to the urgency of the case, most of the people did not rush back to the Municipal Bureau, but temporarily requisitioned the Jiuling Town Police Station as the command center for the case investigation.

The police station was not far away, but because it was raining, they drove there anyway.

Lin Chen put away his umbrella and sat in the passenger seat.

She turned her head, brushed the wet hair by her ears with her hands, and looked at Luo Rui who was sitting in the back row.

"Team Leader Luo, you are amazing. You caught both robbers."

Luo Rui shrugged and said nothing.

"Captain Luo, I heard that there used to be a female police officer named Cai in your criminal team. She was the captain of the criminal police team in the Haijiang Division?"

"Yes, she was injured in an operation, so she is on long leave."

Lin Chen blinked and asked eagerly, "Are you still short of people?"

Cumberlin, who was driving, glanced at her.

Luo Rui smiled and said, "Why? Did you have someone to introduce you?"

"What do you think of me?" Lin Chen said as he leaned forward.

She was wearing an olive green uniform, with shoulder-length hair tied in a ponytail at the back of her head. She had a fair face, a slender and delicate neck, and especially a pair of big watery eyes that were like a clear spring.

Luo Rui raised his eyebrows: "Don't joke, Officer Lin, you are Director Wang's top student and a talent of the provincial department. Isn't it good to stay in the provincial department? Being a local frontline criminal police is very tiring and also very dangerous..."

Lin Chen quickly shook his head and said solemnly: "I am not afraid of tiredness or hardship. I just want to work on the front line. Although it is dangerous, it also trains people.

In particular, Team Leader Luo's criminal team is well-known in the provincial department, especially the younger generation of police officers, who have all heard of your name.

Last month, I went to the Criminal Police Academy. The students in the school were all talking about you, saying that you were the only student in the school who skipped several grades. Not only that, you also graduated in the shortest time. Within a year, you solved major cases and went from being a neighborhood police officer to the position of deputy criminal police captain.

Especially a professor named Li Mubai, he always mentions you in every class. "

"Oh?" Luo Rui was a little surprised. It turned out that Teacher Li was still thinking about him.

"What did he say about me?"

Lin Chen smiled and said, "I can tell you, but you have to promise me to let me work in your criminal team."

Luo Rui spread his hands and said, "I'm sorry, Officer Lin, I can't make the decision on this matter."

Lin Chen said confidently: "It's none of your business, just agree to it."

"Let me think about it."

Luo Rui did not agree easily. He did not want to find a vase. It might look nice, but if it was useless, it would be a burden.

Seeing that he didn't agree, Lin Chen pouted: "Anyway, you have to agree whether you agree or not."

Upon hearing this, Luo Rui quickly recalled in his mind that Lin Chen looked only a few years older than you. In addition to his ability, the most important thing for him to be able to work in the provincial department was that he had someone behind him.

Luo Rui thought for a long time, but couldn't remember any big shot in the provincial department or local area with the surname Lin.

Maybe it was from a government agency. Luo Rui didn’t delve into the matter any further.

7 p.m.

Jiuling Town Police Station.

The institute consists of just a yard and a two-story building.

The yard was filled with police cars and armored vehicles. Those with no space were parked on the side of the road with red and blue police lights flashing on their roofs.

The building was full of police officers walking around, their shoulders wet from the rain.

The chief had never seen such a large event before, and wanted to arrange for his subordinate police officers to provide food and lodging, but his funds were tight, and he was too embarrassed to ask the Municipal Bureau for help.

Seeing his embarrassment, Kang Bolin had to grit his teeth and pay out of his own pocket to ask Monkey to buy some midnight snacks.

At this moment, the conference room was full of people.

When Luo Rui and his group walked in, Wang Mu quickly waved: "Come over here."

That was the top position, and it was obvious that Luo Rui would be the one to lead this investigation meeting.

After all, he knew the case best and he was the one who caught the two robbers.

Because there were so many people, and people from the SWAT team and the explosion-proof team were all there, many police officers were standing.

Luo Rui nodded and walked to the front of the conference table. He did not sit down, nor did he care whether everyone was present or not.

He picked up a marker and listed the names of suspects and victims on the whiteboard.

Liu Jiafu and Ding Li's names were at the top, followed by the names of five suspects.

“A day ago, we found a large amount of unknown deposits in Liu Jiafu’s account, which were deposited into the bank in batches every month.

For more than ten years, the money remained unknown until last year, when their son Liu Yong got married. They lied that the money was a lottery win of five million.

However, we found out that there was no one named Liu Jiafu who won the lottery at the Welfare Lottery Center, and there was no record of any payment from the lottery center in his bank account.

How did the money come from? We kept investigating this question until we found a clue from Liu Jiafu's son, Liu Yong..."

When Luo Rui said this, he glanced outside the meeting room and saw Chu Yang walking in.

"Team leader!"

He handed the information in his hand to Luo Rui and whispered, "This is Liu Yong's DNA test report, and there is also a medical report of Ding Li from 20 years ago."

His hair was wet from the rain and his clothes were soaked.

Luo Rui took it and nodded: "You have worked hard."

Chu Yang shook his head and smiled: "It's not hard."

Yang Bo, who was standing by, quickly took off his clothes and threw them to him: "Wear my clothes, or you will catch a cold."

After Chu Yang took it, he quickly walked aside to avoid disturbing the meeting.

However, he was still very curious and asked in a low voice: "When I first entered the yard, the old gang members said that the team leader led you two to catch the robbers?"

Fang Yonghui nodded proudly: "That's right."

Chu Yang punched him on the shoulder: "That's awesome, it's a pity I'm not here."

Fang Yonghui handed him a box of tissues. "What are you talking about? This is the credit of everyone in our criminal team, including you!"

Chu Yang chuckled and stopped talking. The three of them all looked towards the front of the meeting room.

Luo Rui looked down at the DNA identification report and Ding Li's medical records.

Liu Yong is indeed not the child of Liu Jiafu and Ding Li, and Ding Li went to see a gynecologist 20 years ago, and the medical records proved that she was infertile.

After reading it, he handed the information to Wang Mu.

"Liu Yong suffers from mental disorders and is very afraid of fire. From his words and actions, we know that Liu Jiafu and Ding Li want to kill him. In addition, there is another person named Xiao Jie. We don't know who this person is yet.

Liu Yong had once been burned in a fire, and his chest was covered with burn scars, which occurred in the Liu Family Ancestral Hall.

That’s how we managed to find the whereabouts of the two robbers.”

"From the skeletons of the five children we found in the cellar, we can now infer that Liu Jiafu and Ding Li are most likely human traffickers. They must have used the bus as a cover to abduct and sell children, and they must have been doing this for many years."

Kang Bolin asked, "After Liu Jiafu and Ding Li kidnapped the child, they hid him in the cellar of the Liu Family Ancestral Hall?"

Luo Rui did not answer because the other party was not asking.

"But is trafficking children so profitable? With nearly five million in assets, how many children would they have to traffic?"

Speaking of this, not only Kang Bolin, but all the police officers present felt chilled to the bone.

Wang Mu stood up from his chair and said thoughtfully, "No, they have more than one way to make money. I think so much money must be related to Jiuling Coal Mine."

Luo Rui nodded: "According to the confessions of Kou Tao and Wu Qiang, Nie Lin, who is suspected to be the man with the hood, worked at Jiuling Coal Mine with them. So, if Nie Lin is also a trafficked child, then can we suspect that Liu Jiafu sold the abducted, slightly older children to Jiuling Coal Mine to use them as illegal workers?"

Wang Mu agreed: "It's entirely possible!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone felt as if the clouds had been cleared and the sun had appeared.

In this way, the so-called bus robbery and murder case was just a superficial phenomenon, and the real motive surfaced.

Wang Mu continued, "If this Nie Lin is really a trafficked child who once worked illegally in a coal mine, then who else is he going to take revenge on?"

Luo Rui said: "I think it's not just Nie Lin who was sold to Jiuling Coal Mine." Hearing this, Wang Mu took a breath and Kang Bolin was also stunned.

They never expected that this case would involve such a wide range of people!

There were Z-bombs, revenge killings, and police officers were killed. Even the head of the police station, Wan Mingxia, was injured. Now there is child trafficking, five missing children* died, illegal workers in the coal yard...

For a moment, no one spoke.

Wang Mu took out his cell phone. He had to report the news to the provincial department.

Kang Bolin also walked aside, took out his cell phone, and reported to the deputy director and the political commissar.

Both of them understood that this major case would definitely be used as a typical example, and if things went wrong, a group of people might be brought down.

Luo Rui didn't have as many concerns as they did.

He looked down and saw the police officers attending the meeting looking at him with burning eyes.

These are all police officers from Linjiang City. They all know their duties and understand what they should do.

They can also see some people's concerns.

But Luo Rui was different. He did not report to his superiors. He ignored everyone and looked at the police officers with firm eyes.

Luo Rui pursed his lips and said hesitantly: "Given the nature of this case, shall I arrange the investigation mission?"

He said it very carefully, as if seeking everyone's consent.

"Please give me your orders, Team Leader Luo!"

What Luo Rui did not expect was that nearly a hundred police officers in the entire conference room answered in unison, their voices were so excited that both Wang Mu and Kang Bolin were startled.

The two put down their phones, looked at each other, and then stared at Luo Rui blankly.

Luo Rui took a step forward and nodded slightly: "Thank you everyone! It is my honor to be able to participate in this case with you!
The case is becoming clearer and clearer, but we still lack conclusive evidence and have not yet caught the main culprit.

So we have to hurry up, collect all the evidence and catch the main culprit.

Even if someone interferes, as long as the evidence is secured, no one will dare to do anything to the case!
1. Send someone to check the personnel list of Jiuling Coal Mine, look up their accounts, and bring all relevant personnel to the Municipal Bureau!

Second, send someone to investigate the evidence of Liu Jiafu and Ding Li trafficking children. Make sure it is confirmed for me. These two people must have dealt with certain people in the coal mine. Find these people for me.

3. Interrogate Kou Tao and Wu Qiang, and pry more clues out of them. All interrogation videos must be backed up and outsiders are not allowed to access them.

Four: Send someone to investigate Liu Jinhan and Zhang Shirong. These two people are Nie Lin's accomplices. Why did Nie Lin kill them? Find out his motive for killing! "

"Understood!" everyone replied in unison.

"Team One, follow me, we're going to pursue the first clue!" the captain of Team One shouted, and a dozen criminal police officers immediately followed him out of the meeting room.

"Second Battalion, follow me! Let's investigate the second clue!" the captain of the Second Battalion also shouted.

Next came the captains of the third and fourth brigades, who also responded, accepted the mission and left.

The conference room was empty, with only a few people from the provincial department left.

Wang Mu swallowed his saliva. He clearly felt the prestige that Luo Rui enjoyed in the eyes of the police officers at the middle and grassroots levels in Linjiang City.

Not only him, but even the detachment leader Kang Bolin was stunned for a long time.

Ever since Hu Changyu and Chen Hao were transferred, he had never seen the old gang members of the Municipal Bureau so united.

……

At ten o'clock in the evening, the winter rain was still falling and the weather was getting colder.

In the car, the wipers made a "click, click" sound, constantly scraping away the rain on the windshield.

Luo Rui sat in the back seat, the street lights flashed across his face, making his entire face bright, then it fell into darkness again, and then the street lights illuminated his face again...

Fang Yonghui drove the car and said excitedly: "To be honest, I have never seen Luo Da so awesome. You didn't see it just now. The police in Linjiang City obeyed our Luo Da as if he was the captain of the detachment."

"Don't talk nonsense." Luo Rui retorted to him.

But Fang Yonghui was in high spirits and didn't take it seriously at all. He smacked his lips and said, "That's right. Didn't you see that they treat you with more respect than that Kang detachment?"

Yang Bo echoed, "If you ask me, even Director Wang from the provincial department is not as powerful as our Luo Da. I just heard that Director Wang shouted at the robbers for a long time in the Four Seasons Building, but who knew that there was no one inside, and the robbers were still caught by us."

Fang Yonghui: "That's not..."

Luo Rui sighed and wanted to scold them, but then he thought better of it. There were only four of them in the car anyway and no one could hear them.

He looked at Chu Yang and asked, "Have you checked it out?"

Chu Yang had a laptop on his knees. He nodded and held the laptop in front of Luo Rui.

"Team leader, these two people are both imprisoned in a prison on the outskirts of the city. One is called Hong Wei, the production manager of Jiuling Coal Mine, and the other is called Wang Guoxiao, the safety director of the coal mine. One of them was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the other was sentenced to 20 years in prison."

"I see. Let's meet this Hong Wei first."

"Ok."

……

Linjiang City, suburban prison.

At this time, it was already half past eleven in the evening.

In the visiting room, a sixty-year-old man wearing glasses was brought in by the prison guards.

He was wearing a dark blue prison uniform with three white stripes, highlighting his identity.

Luo Rui stood up and asked, "Hong Wei?"

"Here!" he answered habitually.

"I'm a criminal police officer from the Municipal Bureau." Luo Rui took out his ID and showed it to him.

Hong Wei's eyes narrowed and he looked up at Luo Rui.

"Hey, this is the first time I've seen such a young criminal police captain, but your ID is from Shahe County. The criminal police from Shahe County are looking for me, what's the matter?"

"Do you think I don't have the power to enforce the law in this city?" Luo Rui stretched out his hand towards the chair, meaning for him to sit down.

Hong Wei nodded and sat in the chair. He was not handcuffed and his expression seemed somewhat relaxed.

"I've been to Shahe County before. There are a lot of minerals there. I remember there was a Wuyuan sand mining site that made a lot of money. I also dealt with the owner of the site, Gu Zhiliang. But I heard that he was shot to death."

Luo Rui smiled and leaned forward: "You know a lot."

Hong Wei curled his lips and said, "There's a half-hour news every night where we prisoners are organized to study. Of course I know what's going on at the Wuyuan Quarry in Shahe County."

"Then do you know who arrested him?"

"Isn't it you? Officer Luo, Luo Rui, if I remember correctly, this is your name?"

Luo Rui raised his eyebrows: "I didn't expect you still knew me."

Hong Wei smiled and said, "Of course! I have a cellmate who has dealt with you before, but he is lucky. At least he was not sentenced to death. I heard that many criminals died at your hands."

"Really? What's his name?"

"Do you still remember Gao Yang?"

Luo Rui did not answer. Of course he remembered Gao Yang. He remembered every case he investigated and every person involved in every case.

Gao Yang was the person involved in the kidnapping of Wang Tianlong's daughter, but the mastermind behind the scenes was his father and his daughter, Gao Wenjuan.

"Is he okay in there?" Luo Rui asked out of curiosity.

"He's okay. He was bullied by other prisoners when he first came in a short while ago. Later I protected him." Hong Wei looked at the wall clock on the visiting room. It was almost dawn.

So he asked, "Officer Luo, you came to see me in the middle of the night, it can't be a small matter, what do you want me to help you with?"

Luo Rui didn't say anything, but looked at him.

Hong Wei's eyes were burning, as if hiding some strong sense of anticipation.

Luo Rui thought for a moment, then said, "More than a decade ago, did Jiuling Coal Mine employ illegal workers?"

"Ha!" Hong Wei laughed.

"why are you laughing?"

"I waited for eleven years, a full eleven years, ever since I was arrested, sentenced, and later sent to prison. I waited for someone to ask me about this, but it was as if they had agreed that no one would ask me."

"Oh, really?" Luo Rui narrowed his eyes slightly.

Hong Wei praised: "You are indeed a good policeman!"

"Don't flatter me, talk about conditions." Luo Rui directly exposed his thoughts.

"Smart!" Hong Wei nodded and said, "I ask for a commutation of sentence!"

"I have no say!" Luo Rui refused.

"You know, I was sentenced to life imprisonment. I had thought that when the court sentenced me ten years ago, I would expose this matter to gain merit, but I was also afraid of retaliation from some people, so all these years later, I have kept this matter in my heart and dared not speak out.

I am taking a risk in talking to you. If you disagree, Officer Luo, then there is no point in talking."

Luo Rui hated being threatened the most. He leaned back in his chair and pointed to the next room.

"Hong Wei, don't think that you are the only insider in prison. My colleague is talking to Wang Guoxiao. I believe that even if you don't tell us, we can find out!"

"Security Director Wang Guoxiao?" Hearing this name, Hong Wei laughed. "Officer Luo, would you trust a prisoner sentenced to life or a prisoner sentenced to 20 years?"

Is there anything better than this? Fang Yonghui, who was standing aside, rolled his eyes.

Sentenced to life imprisonment, you are so great! He complained in his heart.

Luo Rui had a cold face and said nothing.

Seeing his appearance, Hong Wei stood up and patted his knees.

"Officer Luo, I have waited for this opportunity for eleven years. If you want to know what happened, go to the court and the procuratorate and ask them to reduce my sentence. If they do, I will tell you everything I know. Otherwise, there is no point in talking!"

After saying that, he looked at the prison guard standing beside him and said, "Officer, I request to go back to the dormitory to rest."

The prison guard looked at Luo Rui, saw that he was motionless, and then nodded to Hong Wei.

When Hong Wei was about to walk out the door, he suddenly turned back.

"Officer Luo, let me remind you that on August 98, 8, a landslide occurred at the Jiuling Coal Mine, burying six workers underground. But the death toll is far more than that. You just said that you used illegal workers. Those illegal workers are all underage children. How many of them are there? Where are these people now? I am the only one who knows..."

(End of this chapter)