Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 350 Crime Scene
Before the little guy could react, he was hit on the head by half a brick, and blood spurted out.

"Oh my god..." He cried out in surprise and fell to the ground after being beaten.

Just as he was about to get up, he saw the other person riding on him and raising the brick in her hand. He rolled on the ground, pulling the woman riding on him off the road. The brick in the woman's hand hit the concrete floor and her body fell to the side.

Hearing the unusual noise coming from here, Lao Meng, who was still eating skewers, rushed in immediately.

Seeing the situation in front of him, he walked up without saying a word and slapped the woman in the face.

"Damn it, if you don't accept my toast, I'll punish you!"

The woman had blood coming out of the corner of her mouth, her hands were held by Lao Meng, and her body was pressed to the ground.

Old Meng said "Pah" to the little guy, "Useless thing! Come over and help!"

The blood on the little man's forehead blurred his eyes. He stood up tremblingly, found another piece of hemp rope, and tied the woman's wrists and ankles tightly.

The woman kept struggling and yelling, "You are committing a crime. Let us go and we will pretend nothing happened. Don't be stupid. If the police catch you, you will be finished."

Lao Meng sneered and said, "Ms. Chen, don't worry. You are the wife of the captain of the Municipal Bureau. As long as your husband cooperates, we will release you sooner or later."

Upon hearing this, Chen Shuhui's face turned pale.

There was blood oozing from the corner of her mouth, her hair was disheveled, and the left side of her face, which had just been hit, was swollen.

Despite this, her expression did not show discouragement, but she glared fiercely at the bearded gangster in front of her.

"Who told you that I'm the captain's wife? You're mistaken. My husband is just an ordinary person, not a captain at all."

Lao Meng laughed and said, "Don't fool me. Qinggui Chen Hao is one of the best criminal investigation police officers in Haidong Province. He used to work in Linjiang City and was transferred to Guangxing City two years ago. We have investigated your family's situation thoroughly."

As Chen Hao's wife, Chen Shuhui had been sentenced to ten years in prison for manslaughter due to family changes, so she was not afraid at all when facing the current situation.

Her greatest relief now is that it was she who was kidnapped, not her son.

If anything happened to her son, it would be her death.

Chen Shuhui sneered: "You are too naive. Even if you kidnap me, you can't achieve your goal."

At this time, the little man stood up and said angrily: "That's not necessarily true. We are not targeting you and your wife. As long as your husband releases the person we want..."

Before he could finish his words, Lao Meng slapped him hard on the back of his head.

"Shut up, you're stupid, she's trying to trick you!"

The little guy shrank his head and said, "Stop hitting me, Lao Meng. This woman hit me with a brick and I'm still dizzy."

"Who the hell told you to be careless? You deserve it! Stop talking nonsense and shut her up."

At the same time, the woman in a black women's suit with her back to them was shaking her body vigorously and making a whimpering sound.

Lao Meng walked up to her, squatted down, and tore off the tape in her mouth.

"Let me go, please let me go. I've already given you the money, you can't go back on your word!"

Lao Meng chuckled and said, "Don't worry, Miss Ye, your life is not in danger, but you didn't do what you promised us."

Ye Mei coughed twice and stared at him intently: "I can't do what you said. Now is not the same as before. You can't get out at all."

"Then we don't care. If you want to live, you can only do as we say! If you don't agree, you can pay another 100 million and we can let you go."

Ye Mei gritted her teeth and said, "I have no money left. The 100 million yuan I had before was still in the company's account."

"Then there's no need to talk!"

"Yes!" Ye Mei's eyes narrowed: "I'll give you a chance to make a lot of money."

"Oh, really?" Lao Meng smiled and said, "Tell me about it?"

……

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Four o'clock in the morning, Municipal Bureau.

There is a building next to the Criminal Police Detachment, and the big data command center is under construction on the second floor.

Because it is a provincial and municipal police department, it has more resources and more funding. Although the big data is still imperfect and the coverage does not yet cover every street and alley in the city, it can still be used for big data screening in the city's busier sections of the road.

As the leader of the task force, Hu Changyu was sitting at an oval conference table, facing a large screen.

Below the screen are rows of long curved tables, with technical police officers each having a chair facing a desktop computer.

There are not many cases that can attract the attention of the head of a bureau, but the family of a police officer was held hostage by criminals, and the person in question was the wife of the detachment commander. This has caused shock not only the municipal bureau, but also the entire provincial department.

At this time, the door of the command center was pushed open and Luo Rui and his group walked in.

Hu Changyu first looked at Chen Hao behind him and asked, "Didn't I tell you to take a vacation? Why are you still in the bureau?"

Chen Hao's face turned pale: "Director Hu, if you were me, what would you do? Would you pretend that nothing happened and sit quietly at home waiting for news?"

"you……"

"Director Hu, I understand the discipline. Don't worry, I will not interfere in this case. Luo Rui will be the lead investigator. I will not make trouble."

Hu Changyu looked at Luo Rui for his opinion.
Of course, he understood Chen Hao's character and what kind of person he was. From Linjiang City to Guangxing City, the two of them were old partners. Moreover, Hu Changyu was under tremendous pressure because of investigating X, and it was Chen Hao who supported him unconditionally.

At this critical juncture, if he forcibly drove Chen Hao away, it would really chill his heart.

Luo Rui had no objection and naturally understood Hu Changyu's doubts, so he nodded and said, "Let Captain Chen stay. He is right. If it were me, I would not be as calm as he is now."

"Okay then." Hu Changyu breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Hao nodded to Luo Rui but did not say thank you. This friendship was tacitly understood between them.

Hu Changyu asked: "Tell me about the case."

Luo Rui said, "We just interrogated He Tianxiang. We can see that he probably doesn't know about the kidnapping incident. But this group of people wants to rescue him. He must be hiding some secrets."

"Secret? What secret?"

Chen Hao shook his head: "We don't know yet. He Tianxiang is very stubborn. Luo Rui cheated him, but he didn't say anything."

Seeing that the two began to struggle with this issue, Luo Rui interrupted and said, "The most important thing right now is not to find out what he is hiding in his heart, but to find out the whereabouts of this group of people and rescue Chen Shuhui. This is the most important thing!"

Hu Changyu agreed: "Then what did you find out?"

Luo Rui sighed: "The time is too short. All clues are still in the investigation stage. The information has not been collected yet."

"Then hurry up!"

Luo Rui knew that the matter was urgent, so he stepped aside to make a phone call and began to urge the people who were investigating in various aspects.

First, Tian Guanghan and Yang Bo sent back the message and sent two videos to the command center.

After Luo Rui understood, he told Hu Changyu and others, "It has been confirmed that Chen Shuhui was kidnapped by criminals on the road in front of the No. 2 Middle School. At that time, a private car owner saw the whole process of the crime, but the owner did not report it. Tian Guanghan and others are looking for the driver."

"Bring up the video." Hu Changyu instructed the director of the command center.

The latter quickly asked the technical police to project the video on the big screen.

Everyone stood up and stared at the video screen without blinking.

The first video was taken at the school gate at 9:15 am on June 17th.

In the picture, Chen Shuhui was standing in front of the iron gate at the school entrance, and Chen Ma was walking in from the campus. The mother and son said a few words to each other, and seemed to have an argument. Chen Ma ran to the teaching building without looking back.

Chen Shuhui stood there in a daze. Her hand, which was stretched through the gap in the iron gate, remained stiff. One could see that her eyes revealed grievance and regret.

She took her bag and walked to the security duty room, said a few words to the old security guard, and then handed the clothes she brought to Chen Ma to the security guard. She held an umbrella and turned to leave the school gate.

Next is the second video, which is road surveillance.

Photographed from diagonally above, Chen Shuhui looked dazed and was almost hit by a car when she was not paying attention while crossing the zebra crossing.

The private car driver leaned his head out and said something, and Chen Shuhui subconsciously lowered her head as if to apologize.

Just as she raised her head, a Jinbei van came from behind and rushed towards her, with the front of the car almost brushing against her body.

The umbrella in her hand floated into the air and she fell to the ground.

Then, within ten seconds, the door of the van was opened and two people jumped out of the car. Without saying a word, they kidnapped Chen Shuhui.

Both gangsters were masked. When the van crossed the zebra crossing, they stopped for a moment, stretched out a long knife from the van and waved it at the owner of the private car.

The car owner immediately retracted his head into the car, too scared to even fart.

This is the whole process of the case.

Chen Hao's eyes were red and he clenched his fists. When ordinary people encounter bad news, they will have an evasive mentality and think that things they have not seen are false.

Chen Hao was the same. Thinking that his wife was kidnapped, he naturally wanted to escape. But now after seeing these two videos clearly, he finally came to his senses. He had been hoping for luck for the past few hours!

Hu Changyu slapped the back of the chair in front of him, startling the technical police officer sitting in the chair. He shouted, "This is too rampant! In broad daylight, a vicious kidnapping of our police family members is a provocation to our police! This is a premeditated kidnapping! Luo Rui, you must catch these people and bring them to justice!"

Luo Rui ignored his polite words and looked at the technical police officer in front of him and ordered: "Call up all the surveillance cameras on this road! Check the movement trajectory of this van and the license plate number as well. Find out who the owner is?"

"understand!"

"Lin Chen, call Tian Guanghan and Yang Bo and bring this private car owner back. This guy is not a good person. He drove the car so fast as if the road belonged to him and even cursed at pedestrians. When he saw the kidnapping case, he immediately became a coward and didn't dare to say a word!"

"Yes, team leader!"

Immediately, a dozen technical police officers retrieved all the surveillance footage of the road outside No. 2 Middle School and carefully examined it frame by frame.

Luo Rui and his group also stared intently at the screen that was divided into several pieces.

Half an hour later, several clues were confirmed.

First: There were three gangsters in the van, including the two who committed the kidnapping.

Second: When Chen Shuhui arrived at No. 1 Middle School by bus, the van did not stop on the road outside the school gate.

Third: The van had a cloned license plate, and the direction it came from was unclear, but it fled towards the north of the city.

After watching all the surveillance videos, Hu Changyu asked, "How is it? Any clues?"

Luo Rui did not answer. He first instructed the technical police officers to continue investigating along the movement trajectory of the Jinbei van to see where the vehicle last disappeared.

Chen Hao wanted to speak, but Luo Rui immediately stopped him with his hand: "Don't be anxious, let me think about it."

After several minutes, Chen Hao couldn't help but ask, "Luo Rui, tell me, is there any way to track down this group of people?"

Luo Rui stroked his chin, thinking, and said, "One thing we can be sure of now is that my sister-in-law's kidnapping was actually a misunderstanding. The real target of these criminals was actually Chen Ma."

Chen Hao's eyes narrowed: "You..."

After Lin Chen finished the call, he came over and said, "Captain Chen, you should know this better than us. After all, my sister-in-law was kidnapped at the entrance of Chen Ma's school. The initial target of this gang of criminals must have been Chen Ma, but they probably changed their minds for some reason later."

Hu Changyu also nodded and pointed at Chen Hao: "Look at you, what did I say? Worrying too much will make you confused. I told you not to participate in the investigation of the case. Am I right? Chen Hao, you usually have the most agile thinking and strong ability to solve cases. Now that this has happened to you, no matter who it is, your mind will be fuzzy..."

Hu Changyu wanted to say something, but Luo Rui immediately reached out to stop him.

What frontline criminal police fear most when handling cases is interference from their superiors. Although Hu Changyu was once a frontline police officer, his hands have long been worn out and his thinking ability is not as good as before.

He had been holding meetings for a long time, and during the investigation process he always said inappropriate words, especially a lot of formal and official words, which interfered with the thinking of the investigators.

Luo Rui glared at him and continued, "When Chen Shuhui happened to appear at the zebra crossing, the van drove over and quickly carried out the kidnapping. This is too coincidental. I don't believe that no one is watching nearby!"

"Check, recheck the surveillance at the school gate! Check all the surveillance from those days. Also, check the bus that Chen Shuhui took to school at the time, check the passengers on that bus!"

"Ah?" The technical police officer in front of me said in embarrassment: "Does the No. 11 bus have surveillance? I remember that most buses now don't have surveillance."

"Yes, yes!" Chen Hao answered immediately: "Chen Ma takes bus No. 11 to and from school every day!"

Luo Rui urged loudly: "Check together to see if there is anyone following us."

The technical police officer said with a bitter face: "How can we check? It's already quite late in the morning, and the surveillance video on the bus is not connected to our network."

"Then why don't you send someone to the bus company?" Hu Changyu slapped him on the back of his chair again: "Are you guys supported for nothing? Hurry!"

The director of the command center nodded immediately, called the troublemaker, and assigned several police officers. A group of people ran out of the command center carrying laptops.

The technical police officers who were still in the command center had been watching the surveillance videos around the No. 2 Middle School in the city, but no suspicious persons were seen.

Luo Rui also looked along and his eyes became dazzled.

"Don't watch the video from June 17 yet. Go back one day and watch the video at the school gate on the morning and evening of June 16."

"Ah?" Another troublemaker popped up: "It's school time and after school time, there are too many people, how do you see this?"

"How do you see? Use your eyes!" Luo Rui shouted, "Lin Chen, you come too. Divide the personnel into two groups, watch the surveillance during school hours and after school hours respectively, and identify the suspicious persons hiding in them. If the gang's previous target was Chen Ma, I don't believe they won't show up at the school gate!"

"Okay!" Lin Chen quickly supervised the technical police officers.

Time passed slowly until six in the morning, when the sky outside the window turned pale.

After working all night, the police officers didn’t even have time to eat a bite of instant noodles, and they went to the bathroom quickly and came back quickly.

Luo Rui didn't even blink, he knew in his heart that Chen Hao's family must have been targeted beforehand. There was little surveillance where he lived, and the community was crowded with people, so it was difficult to find any clues. But it was not ruled out that there would be some discoveries, but it would take some time to investigate.

The fastest way is to start from the crime scene and track down the criminals.

Moreover, the timing of Chen Shuhui's kidnapping was too coincidental. If they wanted to take action, it would be most convenient to do it directly outside the community. Chen Shuhui could not have stayed at home all the time. She took care of the elderly and did housework, so she would definitely go out to sell medicine and vegetables.

There must be a reason why this group of criminals chose June 17th as the day for their attack.

Previously, Luo Rui had seen the video of Chen Ma going to school that day, and they discovered that Chen Ma did not enter the school gate alone.

That morning, after Chen Ma had an argument with his father Chen Hao, he got out of the car and ran towards the school. Because it was raining, he ran very fast. There is no video in between, but when he entered the school gate, the video captured him entering with two classmates.

Moreover, both boys were holding umbrellas for him. Does this mean that the criminals missed the opportunity to kidnap him and then chose to attack his mother?

First of all, Chen Ma is tall and strong, and he is a boy. It would be very inconvenient to tie him up during school hours.

Secondly, it was rush hour during the commuting hours, and Chen Ma was not alone. There were many classmates on the road. As long as the criminals dared to touch him, he could call a group of people immediately with just a shout.

Unless it was after school, the same two problems would occur, so the criminals had to change their target.

Luo Rui closed his eyes, his mind was racing. Chen Hao was sitting beside him, smoking the entire night without even closing his eyes.

The command center strictly prohibited smoking, but he was the captain of the detachment, and his wife was in the hands of the criminals. They were all police officers and felt the same way, so no one dared to say anything.

Luo Rui sighed, opened his eyes, and looked at Chen Hao: "Give me one too."

Chen Hao picked up the cigarette box on the table and crushed it with one hand: "No more."

Luo Rui curled his lips and said, "Smoke less. I think if you keep smoking like this, your body will get sick sooner or later."

At this time, Hu Changyu took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and threw it to Luo Rui: "Take mine!"

After Luo Rui received it, he looked at him and said, "Director Hu, I remember you don't seem to smoke?"

"I smoke once in a while, it's not easy to quit. Nowadays people pay more attention to health, but when I was young, whenever there was an investigation meeting, everyone in the room was a chain smoker, it was like a boiler, smoking one cigarette after another.

The female comrades all complained about us and called us heavy smokers every day. Later, some of them had no choice but to start smoking too.

At that time, the technology for handling cases was not as advanced as it is now. Even if it was just a DNA test, we had to wait for several months to get the results. There was no other way. The pressure was too great, so we could only rely on manual investigation and interviews. Even the rookies who had just joined the company became addicted to smoking within two days. "

Luo Rui took a cigarette out of the box, lit it with a lighter, and took a deep breath: "When the case is solved, I will give you a few cigarettes."

"Don't!" Hu Changyu said with a smile, "Last time Tang Zhiguo came to the provincial department for a meeting, he said you cracked a big gambling case, and bought ten fake Zhonghua cigarettes on the pretext of investigation. You also asked Tang Zhiguo to reimburse you, but Old Tang didn't agree. I'm afraid you didn't want to give me these ten packs of Zhonghua cigarettes, right?"

Luo Rui touched his nose and said, "How could that be? I would not dare to lie to Director Wei, but I would."

At this time, Chen Hao looked at Hu Changyu and said, "Director Hu, you are old now. Don't stay with us any longer. Go back and have a rest."

"It's already daybreak, why would I go back? It's alright, wait till you guys decide on a direction to investigate, I'll just go back to the office and take a nap."

Hearing him say this, Chen Hao stopped trying to persuade him, and walked behind Lin Chen: "What's the situation? Have you found anything?"

Lin Chen covered his mouth with his hand and yawned. Chen Hao had asked this question countless times, almost every time he finished smoking a cigarette, he would come to ask, but the answer was always no.

Lin Chen shook his head: "There are eight surveillance videos at the road in front of the school gate. We have watched them over and over again for more than ten times, but still haven't found any suspicious people. We are currently watching the video from the day before, June 16th."

"How long will this take?"

Luo Rui knew that he was anxious, so he consoled him: "Captain Chen, don't worry, we will definitely lock down the whereabouts of these criminals, and it is only a matter of time to find them. Also, the criminals gave a time before 8 o'clock tonight, so we still have 12 hours, don't worry."

"No, it's already daybreak and we'll be going to school soon. So, I'll take people to the No. 2 Middle School and investigate on the spot to see if there are any witnesses."

Hu Changyu said: "Have you forgotten what I told you not to get involved?"

Luo Rui threw the cigarette butt into the ashtray: "I'll go. I can't judge the situation without going to the scene."

Chen Hao said: "Okay, I'll follow you. Don't worry, I won't interfere with your thoughts."

"Okay then!" Luo Rui looked at Lin Chen: "You stay here, and notify me immediately if you find anything."

Lin Chen nodded and was about to respond, but her eyes were immediately attracted by a figure on the surveillance screen...

Thanks to Mr. Feng Yunhuo for the reward of 5000 book coins!

Thanks to Wuming Chuangshi for the reward of 100 book coins!

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