Rebirth 2014: I, the King of Criminal Investigation

Chapter 336: The method doesn't have to be new, as long as it works.
"Explain in more detail," the officer sitting opposite said coldly.
"Let's start from the beginning."

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you," the man quickly replied.

"To start from the beginning, it was about three years ago, not long after I was released from prison. A former cellmate contacted me and asked me to work with him."

"Oh right, it's the one who was arrested with me, the one who's about my age."

"At first I thought it was just delivering goods by car, but once I got into the business I realized I was transporting people, and people with intellectual disabilities at that."

Yu Dazhang, who was watching all this from the observation room, immediately ordered another police officer to share this information with the other two interrogation rooms.

At the same time, Yu Dazhang also realized that this person had joined later, and the person who was originally in charge of transportation might have already taken on other responsibilities.

"When I found out it was illegal, I thought about quitting. After all, life inside was tough, and I didn't want to go back in."

Seeing that no one interrupted him, the young man continued:

"But the pay they offered was simply irresistible. Regardless of whether there was work or not, the monthly salary was a fixed 20,000 yuan, plus bonuses."

“I personally received a bonus of 5,000 yuan for each delivery. By the second year, my monthly salary had increased to 30,000 yuan, and the bonus also increased to 7,000 yuan per delivery.”

Sake makes one's face flushed, and wealth stirs the heart.

Moreover, the other party gave far too much... Yu Dazhang looked at the surveillance footage and sighed helplessly.

These ex-convicts already have a hard time finding work, so when they suddenly have a chance to make money, few can resist.

Very few people are willing to work overnight at the sorting plant like Ye Zhiyu.

Given the choice between poverty and breaking the law, many people chose the latter.

"Have you three been together all these years?" the officer opposite asked.

“Yes,” the young man replied.

“I don’t know what it was like before, and I never asked. For the past three years since I joined, it has always been the three of us escorting the trucks together.”

Such illegal activities are usually carried out with acquaintances to minimize the risk.

Once the number of people is sufficient, they are not easily replaced unless someone voluntarily withdraws or there are unexpected circumstances such as illness.

"Where did you pick up your people from?" the officer asked in a serious tone.

Upon hearing this, Yu Dazhang also became nervous.

The other party's response will determine the progress of the case.

If they were picked up directly from that underground prison, then things will be much easier. We can organize a police force to raid the location directly, and the case can be closed.

However, Yu Dazhang knew it wouldn't be that easy.

Fang Peng had previously mentioned in his confession that he was transported by a different vehicle during the journey.

The other party must have taken precautions long ago.

However, Yu Dazhang still harbored a sliver of hope.

Three years! That's a long time. Was there never a time when we were in dire need of someone?
Moreover, such a long period of time is enough for people to lower their guard.

"At the border between Yancheng and Jianning."

The young man answered very decisively:

"The other party will randomly select a section of road without surveillance cameras, and it will be a remote and sparsely populated place, but the scope will remain the same, all of which will be at the border of the two cities."

This method of handover is very common. Yu Dazhang had encountered similar situations many times when he was investigating cases in his previous life.

Although this method lacks originality, its practicality cannot be ignored.

People like them, who are responsible for transportation, are figuratively called "feet".

These "feet" do not know each other.

Their only contact was a brief encounter during the handover.

The purpose of this arrangement is clear: to separate the various "feet".

Once a "foot" is caught, the trail goes cold because there is no direct connection between them.

Does this method seem familiar?
Because this kind of crime plot is frequently used in movies and TV dramas, this is one of the few scenarios that is close to reality.

For example, right now. The three people who were arrested have no idea how to contact each other.

Every time they pick someone up, the other party contacts them, and they always use VoIP.

"You never went to pick up anyone from anywhere else even once?" the officer in charge of the interrogation asked.

It's clear he's unwilling to let the trail end there.

They all waited there for a full five days.

"No." The young man shook his head.

"Never once, and the handover location has never been outside the border area between the two cities."

Too cautious... Yu Dazhang was somewhat amazed by the other party's way of doing things.

For three years, they strictly followed the established rules and never made a single exception.

The trail has gone cold!
Hearing this, he already had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

The other party had anticipated this day years ago and had already taken precautions.

Why can't we use these three people to lure out the "foot" of the next level?
It's too late.

The police were exposed from the moment the rescue operation began.

The other side will soon find out that the Yancheng Industrial Zone has been raided. No matter how much they regret it, they will have to sever ties with this place.

Not only will they abandon their "foot" here, but they will also stop contacting Hong Liuwen.

The other side will cut off everything in Yancheng.

However, it wasn't entirely fruitless; at least we learned which direction the other party was sending people to Yancheng.

The interrogation continues.

Once the first person spoke up, the other two followed suit and began to confess.

The other young man had been doing this for a relatively longer time; he had started sending people to the industrial zone five years ago.

He was approached by the oldest man; the two were related by blood and lived in the same village. Hearing that there was money to be made, he agreed to join in.

Upon hearing this man's confession, Yu Dazhang smiled slightly.

Although there are only three people in this "foot" group, their relationships are quite complicated. They came together spontaneously by finding one another.

The older one was the last to speak.

"I started doing this seven years ago."

What he said immediately caught Yu Dazhang's attention.

Seven years ago!
The city of Yancheng alone has been operating for seven years; it's hard to imagine the scale they've already achieved.

"I was dragged into this by a junior high school classmate of mine."

The man's face still held a hint of hostility, but his eyes were calm, and his tone had softened considerably.

“In the beginning, this industrial zone had not yet developed, with only a few scattered factories. The first two wood-based panel factories to employ mentally disabled workers were the only ones.”

“My classmate took me to Jianning to pick up people, and sometimes we couldn’t go out for months at a time.”

Upon hearing this, Yu Dazhang immediately picked up the microphone from the table:
Ask him where in Jianning he picked up the person.

Clearly, what this man said was different from what the other two men said.

He didn't mention the border between the two cities, but instead said he was going to Jianning to pick up people.

This suggests that initially, the place where they picked up people was closer to that underground prison.

Upon hearing this, the police officer in charge of the interrogation immediately relayed what he had said:
"Give me the specific address. Where in Jianning are you picking up your people?"

“In a warehouse in an industrial park,” the man thought for a moment and replied.

“Every time we went there, the other party had already left, and the warehouse was only filled with mentally disabled people who were tied up.”

(End of this chapter)