Rebirth 2014: I, the King of Criminal Investigation

Chapter 624 He can't be persuaded to help with ordinary cases anymore.

If it were someone else, kidnapping fourteen female students at once would be an incredibly difficult task.
But for Ren Yupeng, the school bus driver, it was a piece of cake.

To put it bluntly, it's just a matter of stepping on the gas.

Even if any other driver were to step on the gas, they wouldn't earn 420,000.

Moreover, for someone like Ren Yupeng who has rarely seen money, this amount of money is already a huge sum.

He could never save that amount by working a regular job in his lifetime.

An economist once said that the average household in China has 300 million yuan in assets and 50 yuan in savings.

In reality, 99.63% of families cannot afford this amount of money.

"When you handed over the goods to the other side, how many people were there in total?" Captain Xu asked again.

Ren Yupeng thought for a moment and replied:

"If you include the fourth brother, there are six people in total."

The numbers matched... Team Leader Xu was overjoyed.

This proves that the results of the previous on-site investigation were completely correct.

"Think back carefully, was there anything you should pay special attention to when you met them?"

Team Leader Xu's words were purely a suggestion.

This also helps Ren Yupeng concentrate on recalling the scene at that time.

Sure enough, after Captain Xu finished speaking, Ren Yupeng's eyes gradually lost focus, and he became completely immersed in his memories.

After about two minutes, he slowly began to speak:
"I didn't find anything particularly special, but I did find a few odd things."

"I thought they would wear hoods or masks, but they didn't. They didn't do any disguise at all."

Ren Yupeng frowned:
"Moreover, they didn't get on the school bus in front of me. After Lao Si handed me the money, he immediately urged me to leave, as if he didn't want me to see what happened next."

"Also, apart from the fourth brother, the other five are all quite young, around twenty years old."

No disguise? Upon hearing this, Captain Xu's mind raced.

This shows that they were neither afraid that Ren Yupeng would remember their appearance, nor worried that the female students would identify them afterward.

From this perspective, those five people were most likely hired by the man called Lao Si.

Since Lao Si and Ren Yupeng were already very familiar with each other, there was no need for them to pretend.

Even if he were exposed, Ren Yupeng would point him out first, since he was not familiar with the other five people.

That's why the fourth brother didn't let the five people cover their faces.

If they were accomplices, they wouldn't be so obedient.

The only explanation for not disguising himself in front of the female students is that Lao Si simply didn't believe these female students would survive to see the police.

"Besides the fourth brother, did you get a good look at the faces of the others?"

There's a technique to solving this problem.

If it were an inexperienced detective, they would ask: "Have you memorized the faces of those people?"
It's incredibly difficult to remember someone's face after just one meeting.

So asking that question is making things difficult for someone.

It's possible that some people have photographic memories, but they are a very small minority.

"I saw it clearly," Ren Yupeng said with certainty.

"After we met, I offered cigarettes to everyone and greeted them one by one, so I saw each of their faces clearly, but I just can't remember them all."

That's right, it's normal not to remember.

Judging from Ren Yupeng's appearance, he doesn't seem to be the type of person who has a photographic memory.

"Now that everyone has seen it, things will be much easier..." Captain Xu stood up, paused the interrogation, and then walked out of the interrogation room.

Once outside, police officers quickly emerged from the observation room.

"Call the forensic artist and hypnotist over here," Captain Xu ordered.

"Yes." The officer replied and was about to leave when Captain Xu called him back.

"Wait a minute." He hesitated for a moment, then added:
"Let's see if we can call Xia Bin over."

When it comes to the field of forensic sketching, Xia Bin is undoubtedly the best in S Province. Currently, many police officers in various cities within the province also possess forensic sketching skills, but the vast majority of them were trained by Xia Bin.

That's right, Xia Bin also teaches part-time.

Since solving the case of the severed finger, he has been awarded a second-class merit, which is very rare in technical positions.

Therefore, his status in the provincial department has risen significantly, and he can no longer be persuaded to handle ordinary cases.

Next, Captain Xu plans to have a hypnotist hypnotize Ren Yupeng to make him recall the faces of those people, and then have a portrait artist draw the suspect's portrait.

Hypnosis can help people access memories in their subconscious.

Even things that you can't usually remember can be recalled through hypnosis. The more recent the event, the easier it is to recall it through hypnosis.

Currently, this is also the fastest way to find those suspects.

If the portrait is clear enough, facial recognition technology, combined with big data, can be used to identify the person.

It's worth mentioning that facial recognition technology existed as early as the 1960s, but its accuracy was very low.

It was first truly applied to technical investigation at the end of 2014.

Because our domestic research teams, based on their original facial recognition algorithms, improved the accuracy rate to 98.52% in that year, surpassing the human eye's recognition capabilities for the first time.

It's more accurate than human recognition.

The various facial recognition applications that followed all started in 2015.

Upon arriving at the office, Captain Xu took out the case file from his desk drawer and filled in the current case progress.

The arrest of Ren Yupeng today is a major breakthrough in the entire case.

But he knew in his heart that if the fourteen female students were not found, all the efforts of the task force would be in vain.

"In cases like this, every second counts."

Captain Xu stared at the case file, muttering to himself:

"But it took more than a week to find the school bus driver."

At that moment, he felt a sense of powerlessness.

He knew very well that the longer the time dragged on, the more dangerous it would be for the female students, but worrying wouldn't help. The only thing he could do now was to catch the suspect as soon as possible.

This is also the main reason why he suspended the interrogation and had his portrait drawn first.

Captain Xu leaned back in his office chair, lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and exhaled a cloud of smoke.

What exactly does the other party want?

This is the question he has been thinking about the most these past few days.

Having served as a police officer for twenty years, during which time he handled several human trafficking cases, he was extremely familiar with the methods and psychology of human traffickers.

But he had never seen human trafficking like this before.

Judging from the current situation, it would be more accurate to call it a kidnapping rather than human trafficking.

Why not kidnapping?
It's very simple, because kidnapping requires a ransom.

Every crime is purposeful.

Captain Xu took two more puffs of his cigarette, letting the ash fall onto the table, his eyes gradually becoming vacant.

"I still feel very awkward."

As he talked to himself, his brain was working at high speed.

The methods used by the other party did not resemble those of robbers.

Those who typically carry out hijackings don't care about technical skills; their motto is: "Life and death are nothing to fear, just fight if you disagree."

The suspect clearly put a lot of thought into this case.

It has both a plan and counter-surveillance capabilities.

A bit like……

The human traffickers have turned to robbery.

(End of this chapter)