Rebirth 2014: I, the King of Criminal Investigation

Chapter 603 All Kidnappers Captured
So fast?
The master and apprentice exchanged a glance, both looking incredulous.

Lu Zhongxin suddenly turned the steering wheel, and the vehicle quickly veered off course towards a fork in the road not far ahead.

Before long, they spotted Yu Dazhang's SUV in the distance.

What puzzled them was that the car in front wasn't going fast; it didn't seem like it was trying to escape.

At this point, the fork in the road ahead of the SUV had also been blocked by police vehicles.

"What exactly do they want?" Lü Zhongxin asked, staring at the SUV.
"Why choose such a narrow road that is easy to be blocked at both ends? Logically speaking, they should have scouted the place beforehand."

Yu Dazhang, sitting in the passenger seat, was also looking at his SUV.

"Because they never intended to run away."

He answered instinctively:

"Sacrifice the pawn to save the king; only in this way can we safely take the money away."

After a pause, Yu Dazhang sighed helplessly:
"If I'm not mistaken, the gold in the SUV has already been moved."

"And there was only one person left in the car, otherwise they wouldn't have gone to such lengths to lead the police here."

This was also part of their plan... Yu Dazhang muttered to himself.

The person who escaped last must have promised them something, which is why they were willing to carry out the plan without hesitation.

Wu Rui and Yu Chong have been in custody for some time, and the on-site interrogation has lasted for more than half an hour, but no valuable information has been obtained.

This indicates that the police officers in charge of the interrogation failed to get the two men to talk.

Yu Dazhang didn't believe that kidnappers could have any sense of loyalty; there must be some exchange of benefits, which was why they were keeping quiet.

Soon, the SUV was surrounded by police from both sides and blocked in the middle of the road.

A large group of police officers quickly surrounded the car.

"Shut down the engine!"

"Take both hands off the steering wheel!"

As the car door was opened, a police officer pulled the person out of the driver's seat.

Qi Jiandong!
At this moment, Yu Dazhang, holding a gun in both hands, walked around the car.

Just as he had predicted, Tan Mou had disappeared.

"What about the other person?" Lü Zhongxin asked, staring at Qi Jiandong.

"I don't know," Qi Jiandong replied, his eyes wide.
"It's just me."

"He's pretty arrogant..." Yu Dazhang suddenly felt that Qi Jiandong had a bit of a heroic, martyr-like quality to him.

This is a desperate move.

The three people who were caught said nothing, so they were definitely not acting for their accomplices. The only possibility is that they wanted to protect the ransom.

What kind of plan could make them make such a huge sacrifice?

Once people are in jail, even if the ransom can be saved, it's meaningless. Prison is not a place where people can squander money or engage in extravagant spending.

If I can't figure it out, I'll stop thinking about it for now.

Yu Dazhang put away his sidearm and opened the trunk of the off-road vehicle.

All four bags of gold have disappeared.

That makes things easier... He actually breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the gold was gone.

As long as Tan Mou takes the gold, he won't escape.

"Team Leader Wei, seal off all entrances and exits to the village next door."

Yu Dazhang said quickly:
"We also request the cooperation of the city's Skynet surveillance system to check nearby road surveillance footage to see if any motorcycles entered the highway from side roads during our pursuit."

Carrying 168 pounds of gold on a one-meter-wide rural dirt road, the best mode of transportation would undoubtedly be a motorcycle.

Why can't it be a bicycle?
Unless Tan Mou has lost his mind and is forcing himself to suffer.

In terms of both load-bearing capacity and maneuverability, motorcycles are far superior to bicycles.

Any normal person knows how to make the right choice.

Is it possible that he didn't use any transportation and instead ran on foot?
Yu Dazhang hadn't even considered this possibility.

That's 168 jin (84 catties) of gold; he had a hard time carrying it, let alone an ordinary person.

Since it has been determined that Tan Mou escaped on a motorcycle, only two possibilities remain:

1. After Tan Mou rode his motorcycle into the village, he immediately escaped through another road in the village.

This possibility is very low. Because before this, Wei Qian had already ordered all the nearby intersections to be blocked, including those in that village.

Seeing that the village entrances and exits were blocked by the police, Tan Mou certainly wouldn't dare to risk forcing his way in.

2. Hide the gold temporarily in the village, and then leave on foot from the other side of the village.

Some roads are impassable by vehicles, but people can still walk across them.

Once he bypasses the exit and gets onto the highway, he can easily find a section of road without surveillance cameras to flag down a car and leave.

Moreover, Tan Mou was confident that as long as Qi Jiandong didn't say anything, the police wouldn't be able to guess how he left for a while.

and so……

be quick!

Judging from the timeline, if Tan Mou did not ride his motorcycle onto the highway, he must still be in the village now.

Because storing gold takes time, he certainly wouldn't hide four bags of gold in the open.

A large team quickly launched its operation.

They not only blocked the entrances and exits of the village, but also stationed police officers in every passable area.

The next step was to search the entire village, like tightening a sack, gradually shrinking the encirclement.

Lu Zhongxin's team naturally also participated in the search operation.

The operation lasted only ten minutes before an officer spotted a motorcycle in front of a house.

"The seat and handlebars are free of dust, and the engine is still warm."

The officer reported over the walkie-talkie:
"This motorcycle was just ridden by someone."

This news excited everyone, and the discovery also made everyone focus their attention, daring not to relax in the slightest.

The last kidnapper is in this village!

All the officers have now confirmed this.

The operation continues...

Twenty minutes later, two police officers, while visiting a household, saw a suspicious person climb over the wall and leave.

After the situation was reported, police officers stationed throughout the village rushed to provide support and quickly arrested the suspicious person.

After identification, the man was indeed Tan Mou.

With this, all five kidnapping suspects were apprehended.

Where are the hostages?

Faced with Wei Qian's questioning, Tan Mou remained silent, acting as if he had nothing to lose.

"Where is the gold hidden?!" Wei Qian asked again.

Tan Mou remained silent.

Seeing his attitude, Wei Qian angrily said:

"Don't think that just because you don't talk, we can't do anything about it. This village isn't very big, and there aren't many places that can hide so much gold. This is your only chance to confess."

Despite Wei Qian's threats, Tan Mou remained silent.

"Keep searching!"

Wei Qian gave the order:
"Don't overlook the fields either. If there are any signs of fresh soil being turned over, report it immediately."

After the order was issued, he immediately applied for pre-trial support.

Finding gold is secondary.

The most crucial issue now is the whereabouts of the hostages. Therefore, if we want to get the four suspects to talk in a short time, we need to find professionals to help.

After all, the purpose of preliminary hearings is to tackle the toughest challenges.

Wei Qian then applied to his superiors to request the deployment of police dogs.

Finding gold is too much work, and it's unrealistic to rely on people to find it.

For tasks like finding things, police dogs are more professional than humans.

All the officers then got to work.

Yu Dazhang, on the other hand, was staring at Tan Mou.

That's it?

(End of this chapter)