Reborn Cat Sheriff

Chapter 636 Sister Mei
The police car arrived at the Yongshi Municipal Public Security Bureau quickly, where a group of officers who had been notified in advance were already waiting at the entrance.

The last people to come to Yongshi to work were Nie Guoqiang, Sun Chang, and Lin Ge. This was Zhang Yong's first time here. Therefore, in terms of familiarity, the Yongshi police were only familiar with Sun Chang and Lin Ge, the police cat, and were completely unfamiliar with Zhang Yong and the other three.

Whether they were strangers or not didn't matter. Mimi was famous in the police system of Nan Province and even the whole country. For Zhang Yong, having her to show his face was enough. Their own identities were not important.

"Welcome, but we're sorry to have troubled you to come all this way to investigate our case."

Li Changqing, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Yongshi City Public Security Bureau, is an old acquaintance of Nie Guoqiang and Lin Ge. He is responsible for handling the follow-up cases in Tuqiao Village and the Luo family. His signature is also required for the interrogation of Luo Jianlin from prison this time.

Because of the camaraderie they had formed during their previous battle, Li Changqing welcomed Zhang Yong and his group.

The group arrived at the conference room, where Zhang Yong explained the case in detail to Li Changqing. Unlike the brief description in the fax, Zhang Yong this time detailed Huang Guimei's existence and her more than thirty years of human trafficking crimes.

Another point to note is that Huang Guimei's red notebook records a significant number of failed transactions.

However, unlike ordinary cases, human trafficking cases involve the unique characteristic of the 'goods' involved. In other words, even if the transaction fails, the 'goods' she brings to the buyer cannot be 'returned'.

So what happens to the 'goods' that failed in these transactions?
This is a reality that sends chills down your spine.

Whether resold to other buyers or disposed of on the spot, these lives are enough to prove Huang Guimei's cruelty and ruthlessness, and her attitude of not caring about human lives at all.

The nearly ten victims are not the limit of Huang Guimei's human trafficking crimes, but rather the limit of the number of victims that the police can find through clues to survive!
In addition to buyers refusing to accept the goods, there are also situations very common in TV dramas, such as feeding abducted people drugs to prevent them from being discovered by the police during transportation, which may lead to accidents for the victims. These situations may also exist in Huang Guimei's "work".

In other words, besides the red notebook, she also has blood on her hands!
This is a cruel executioner, whose blood is as deep as the sea, even more so than a serial killer!
Her targets are even infants and young children who are unable to resist, which further proves her despicable nature.

Zhang Yong's words silenced everyone in the conference room.

The police officers in the Yongshi City Public Security Bureau's Anti-Trafficking Office, who are specifically responsible for anti-trafficking cases, felt particularly ashamed and wished they could disappear into the ground.

"Many years ago, the Southern Province was indeed a major area for human trafficking cases."

Lu Xiqi, the director of the Yongshi Municipal Public Security Bureau, glanced out of the corner of his eye at Wang Siliang, the director of the Anti-Trafficking Office, whose face was flushed, and then looked at Li Changqing, whose expression was serious, and sighed deeply.

The meeting room was silent. Lu Xiqi said softly, “Although our police department in Nan Province has made unremitting efforts over the years to change the people’s views on human trafficking cases and effectively curb the frequency of such cases, we must admit that the Nan Province police are largely to blame for Huang Guimei’s ability to commit so many human trafficking crimes over the years, as well as for the ordeal of Ai Yun and Luo Jue. Of course, I will not shirk responsibility here! If it is our fault, we must admit it! As for human traffickers, once they are discovered, they must be taken down; there can be absolutely no leniency! We will definitely cooperate fully in this Huang Guimei case! Whatever your demands, I hereby say that I will support them 100% and guarantee that they will be absolutely fulfilled! Please make sure that everyone in the bureau and your subordinates make sure that anyone who dares to be perfunctory will be fired; Yong City has no need for such useless people!”

"Yes!"

All the Yongshi police officers stood up, saluted solemnly, and made a promise.

Human lives are a heavy burden, so no one dares to speak lightly of the difficulties, much less show the slightest frivolous expression.

Zhang Yong stood up, bowed, and said with a smile, "Although we're troubling everyone in Yongshi, there's no need to be so insistent. Whether a 30-year-old case can be solved, or how easy it will be, is uncertain. As long as everyone has done their best and has a clear conscience, that's enough. Besides, we're quite embarrassed to have troubled you all this time. Once the case is closed, I'll treat you all to dinner! And if you have the chance to visit Zhangshi again, I promise to give you a warm welcome and make you feel right at home!"

"Ha ha……"

Zhang Yong's exaggerated expression led Lu Xiqi to smile first, and the other police officers couldn't help but laugh as well, which eased the atmosphere in the meeting room considerably.

But jokes aside, serious matters cannot be ignored.

Lu Xiqi interrupted everyone's laughter, handed the specific work back to Li Changqing, and quietly began to look through the detailed paper documents brought by Zhang Yong.

Li Changqing said with a serious expression, "We'll start handling this case from the Ai Yun case. I've already informed Yongshi Prison, and they'll bring Luo Jianlin back to the Municipal Bureau later for another interrogation. He previously claimed he couldn't remember what the trafficker looked like, and that he didn't have much interaction with her, only paying her on the spot before taking Ai Yun away. While this makes sense, and it aligns with the fact that human trafficking crimes are often clandestine, I still think we should intensify the interrogation to see if we can get any useful clues. We need to compare her appearance, accent, and so on to see if she really is Sister Mei!"

"Sister Mei?"

"contrast?"

The police officers in the conference room looked up.

"Actually, we already had some findings regarding the child trafficking cases that appeared in Yong City. Before we knew Huang Guimei's identity, the police in Nan Province had already discovered that a woman who called herself 'Sister Mei' had been frequently active in Nan Province committing child trafficking crimes more than ten or twenty years ago. She had a certain Nan Province accent and was also involved in several child trafficking cases. However, by the time we investigated and identified and pursued her, Sister Mei had already disappeared from Nan Province."

Li Changqing briefly explained the situation in Nan Province before continuing, "At this moment, the Zhangzhou police have discovered and arrested a suspect named Huang Guimei. Both of their names contain the character 'Mei,' raising the possibility that they are the same person. Furthermore, judging solely by age, Huang Guimei does fall within the relevant age range for the Mei Jie case. After all, the first case related to Mei Jie was over twenty years ago, meaning she would have been at least in her forties or fifties. In short, if Luo Jianlin can confirm that Huang Guimei is indeed the human trafficker he dealt with back then, the overlap between the two is too high, suggesting that Huang Guimei and Mei Jie are the same person."

"If it's the same person, wouldn't it be better to combine and categorize the evidence from the Mei Jie case and the Huang Guimei case? Wouldn't that result in more valid evidence?"

A police officer from the city bureau had a sudden realization.

"Wait a minute! Even if Luo Jianlin only met the seller once, can't you determine from his testimony whether the seller is Sister Mei or not?"

Zhang Yong raised his head and questioned, "Since the Yongshi Public Security Bureau had some knowledge of the criminal suspect named Sister Mei, didn't they make any comparisons when they were investigating Luo Jianlin's case of buying trafficked women?"

Li Changqing paused for a moment, then suddenly gave a wry smile.

"Unfortunately, we previously compared the seller's face described by Luo Jianlin with the hand-drawn portrait of Sister Mei that we had categorized based on intelligence in the past, and the final result was that they were not the same person. However! If Huang Guimei is Sister Mei, then the reason for this testimony can be explained. You judged that Huang Guimei had undergone plastic surgery, then this may be the real reason why we have not been able to find Sister Mei all these years."

Li Changqing said excitedly, "This is why we hope to determine whether the seller is Huang Guimei through Luo Jianlin! If the seller is confirmed to be Huang Guimei, and if we can confirm that Huang Guimei is Sister Mei through Luo Jianlin and other clues in the Huang Guimei case, then some investigations that have been stuck in dead ends over the years will have definitive evidence to restart and change the direction, so that the victims in Sister Mei's case can also be rescued."

"Yes! She's had plastic surgery!"

Zhang Yong also remembered this and suddenly realized, "It's a pity that a leopard can't change its spots. Even though she got plastic surgery to escape the police investigation, she is still engaged in human trafficking. As a result, her real identity, Huang Guimei, was also arrested on suspicion of human trafficking. If we can confirm that Huang Guimei is Sister Mei, the effective clues and directions of the case can be combined, and it might really help to find those victims."

"The only prerequisite is whether Huang Guimei is actually Sister Mei! This cannot be wrong! Even if there is only a one in ten thousand chance that the two are not the same person, we must be wary of the possibility that the real Sister Mei may escape the law!"

Lu Xiqi tapped the conference room table, reminding everyone not to let the slightest possibility cause errors or variables in the case.

"Yes! Of course, we will definitely be careful about that!"

Li Changqing quickly promised, "Whether Sister Mei is Huang Guimei or not, whether the investigation is conducted as two separate cases or as one, we will definitely not allow the criminals to escape!"

"No matter what, the kidnappers have to be caught!"

"That's right! Even if Huang Guimei isn't Sister Mei, it would be good to find clues about Sister Mei through her!"

"Huang Guimei must be Sister Mei!"

"Great! This long-standing cold case finally has a chance of being solved!"

Immediately, the crowd erupted in discussion, with various opinions circulating. Whether Sister Mei was truly Huang Guimei, and whether Huang Guimei had committed other crimes in Sister Mei's name, were all questions that fueled the crowd's diverse opinions and heated debate. "If Huang Guimei is indeed Sister Mei, then are the human trafficking cases she committed in Sister Mei's name also recorded in that red book? Hopefully, that's the case; otherwise, there will be even more victims, and she will be even more utterly depraved!"

Lin Ge squatted on the chair next to Zhang Yong and couldn't help but sigh softly.

He desperately wanted Huang Guimei to be Sister Mei, and for the red notebook to record all her crimes over the years. Because if Huang Guimei wasn't Sister Mei, or if her actions as Sister Mei weren't recorded in the notebook, it would prove that there were many more victims who hadn't been discovered.

This is so cruel!
The sheer amount of bloodshed this woman, or these two women, committed in the human trafficking case deserves to die a thousand times over to quell his anger.

"I'm a little cold!"

In an office next to the conference room, Li Siyu and a policewoman from Yongshi sat with Ai Yun. Seemingly hearing the sounds from the conference room, Ai Yun pulled her coat tighter and said pitifully to Li Siyu.

"cold?"

The young policewoman named Zeng Wan looked at the scorching hot sunny day outside and was somewhat taken aback by Ai Yun's behavior.

"Don't worry, the nightmare will pass! Huang Guimei has been caught, and she will pay the price for what she did! We will also follow the clues to her crimes to find your family, so that you and Luo Jue can have more relatives who care about you and love you..."

Li Siyu put her arm around Ai Yun's shoulder with heartache.

Even though she was much younger than Ai Yun, looking at Ai Yun now felt like seeing a fragile and pitiful younger sister.

"I don't want that! I have Luo Jue, that's enough!"

Ai Yun shook her head earnestly, looking at Li Siyu with her eyes and saying, "My family is Luo Jue, I don't want anyone else! When can I go back? I miss Luo Jue, and I miss my dog! When can I get it back?"

"Ha ha……"

Li Siyu twitched the corner of her mouth.

That little Teddy is still locked up in the police dog kennel at Zhanghe Police Station! Although it attacked Huang Guimei to save Ai Yun, given Huang Guimei's injuries, we really can't let it roam freely anytime soon.

The Huang Guimei case doesn't require Ai Yun to compensate her for medical expenses, but if that dog bites someone else, how will the penniless Ai Yun and Luo Jue compensate them?

"Once we finish things here, we can go back."

Li Siyu could only helplessly brush off Ai Yun, and dared not offer any suggestions on how to deal with the little Teddy dog ​​that had been repeatedly detained by the police and had lived in both the city bureau's police dog cage and the police station's police dog cage.

"That person, she hit me!"

Ai Yun nestled in Li Siyu's arms and suddenly muttered, "She wouldn't give me food, only water, and wouldn't let me go to the toilet! I wet my pants and she laughed, and wouldn't let me get dressed! She gave me bitter things to eat and burned me with hot things. She took me on a long, bumpy car ride..."

"..."

Li Siyu was stunned for a moment before realizing that Ai Yun had remembered some things from when she was abducted by Huang Guimei.

The police had been pondering how Huang Guimei, all alone, managed to abduct and sell Ai Yun, an adult. Now, hearing Ai Yun's words, they realized that she had endured painful training and threats before being sold.

"Keep an eye on her for a moment, I'm going to the meeting room to talk to you about something."

Li Siyu quickly asked Zeng Wanzhao to check on Ai Yun, then hurriedly went to the conference room door, knocked on it, and told everyone in the conference room what Ai Yun had just said.

"This beast!"

Lu Xiqi slammed his hand on the table, causing the notebook and pen next to him to bounce up.

The others also looked very grim.

Although it was widely suspected that human traffickers would need to resort to brutal coercion to control and sell adults or near-adults, hearing the victim recount this scene firsthand still evoked anger and humiliation in many.

Ai Yun was bought by Luo Jianlin in Yongshi, which means it was a dereliction of duty by the Yongshi police. If they had discovered and prevented it earlier, this tragedy would not have happened, and the innocent victim would not have suffered for nearly ten years.

"Clang, clang... Is that the sound of a green train? There must be surveillance cameras at the train station, at least at the entrances and exits. I wonder if we can still retrieve them?"

Li Yiduo raised his head and looked at the people from the Yongshi Municipal Bureau.

"It's been too long, it might not still be preserved."

Wang Siliang gave a wry smile. Facing the gazes of the crowd, he thought for a moment and then took out his phone and fiddled with it to find the office number of Yongshi Railway Station and dialed it directly.

"I'm sorry! We only keep the train station's video footage for one year. After all, the amount of data is too large, and it's impossible and unrealistic to keep it indefinitely. Also, the train station's entrance and exit management equipment has been updated several times, so the previous data... I'm sorry, I can't help with that."

The reply from the other end of the phone made Wang Siliang shake his head helplessly, put down his phone, and sigh.

The others had expected this to happen.

The most complex aspect of human trafficking cases is this kind of problem: the long timeline often causes clues that could be helpful to the police to disappear without a trace over time.

“Then let’s continue as we just said, focusing on interrogating Luo Jianlin and all the people involved. The train station might forget things from long ago, but these people will definitely remember! Human trafficking is a crime, and I don’t believe they would forget everything without any worry or fear! First, let’s confirm whether Sister Mei is Huang Guimei, so we can use the clues on Huang Guimei! Then, we can combine and compare the clues we have about Sister Mei and Huang Guimei, and maybe we can find out the whole route this guy took, and then start searching along that route!”

Li Changqing decided to first determine the suspect's route of movement, and then use a wide-net approach with the cooperation of local communities to investigate all the victims suspected of being trafficked.

This was undoubtedly a huge and arduous task, but the police had no other choice.

"The most valuable clue right now is actually the red booklet we got from Huang Guimei! Haha... I really can't imagine how other human trafficking cases would find the victims if they didn't have similar things."

Zhang Ke ruffled Lin Ge's hair and then sighed softly to Li Yiduo.

Even he felt the pressure of this case.

Chapter Two will be released later; it's currently being coded.

I'm so tired, I really want to go out and have some fun.

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