Chapter 137: Not for Money?

Upon hearing the report, Yu Dazhang had already simulated the scenario in his mind.

Assuming those four corpses were living people, how did they manage to leave the small woods without being discovered?

Three possibilities:

1. Exploit the camera blind spots and walk out of the hospital through the surveillance-free zones.

This is basically impossible.

Every exit of the hospital is monitored; as long as one passes through the gate, they will definitely be captured on camera.

Climbing the wall is even more impossible. The walls of Qingpuer Academy are over three meters high, topped with glass shards; climbing up is already difficult, let alone climbing over.

2. A vehicle provided support.

Vehicles are allowed inside the hospital, but not every vehicle can drive within the hospital grounds.

Except for medical vehicles, other vehicles must park in designated spots.

Yu Dazhang had observed this when he arrived.

No temporary parking spots were set up near that small woods, so outside vehicles are not allowed there.

That leaves only the last possibility.

The four of them changed clothes.

That night, they first packed the prepared shoes and clothes into plastic bags and tied them to a tree in the small woods.

Why tie them to a tree?

Because it's easy to find.

If thrown directly on the ground, without lights, it would be very hard to discover.

Tying them to a tree removes that concern.

Arriving at the designated spot, seeing something hanging on a specific tree makes it instantly distinguishable.

After changing clothes, they didn't put on their shoes immediately; only after leaving the small woods did they put the shoes on.

Doing this turned footprints into shoe prints.

Next, it was simple.

The four of them emerged at intervals; as long as a crowd passed by the small woods, they just needed to blend in.

The clues found so far match Yu Dazhang's deduction almost exactly.

The hospital's foot traffic is too heavy; trying to find them through surveillance is simply impossible.

Moreover, the police side still does not know the specific appearances of the four of them.

"Pack up," Yu Dazhang said to his team members.

The objective was achieved; there was no need to stay here any longer.

What can be confirmed now is that those four corpses were people in disguise.

Also, the person behind this case is very familiar with the hospital's corpse-handling procedures.

One could say that from the moment a person died, the perpetrator knew every single step that followed inside out.

From this point, it is clear that the perpetrator must be someone within the industry.

Some things cannot be guessed just by having high intelligence.

Afternoon.

The other team brought good news.

Li Tao was brought to justice, and the other corpse mover was also caught.

For the special case task force, this was undoubtedly huge good news.

Yu Dazhang also breathed a sigh of relief:

"Bring them back for interrogation immediately."

If all goes well, this case will very likely be concluded.

Inside the interrogation room.

The corpse mover named Li Tao lowered his head and said in extreme anguish:

"A few days ago, someone added me on WeChat, saying they wanted to do business with me."

"What business?" the interrogating team member asked.

"He didn't specify the details," Li Tao replied:

"He only said that when I transport the corpse, I should park the car at the location he designated, with a reward of two hundred thousand."

"To show sincerity, he was willing to pay half the deposit upfront."

The team member followed up on Li Tao's words:

"Did you receive the deposit?"

"Yes, I received it," Li Tao said dejectedly:

"On August 14, he sent me a message saying the money was placed in a roadside trash can, packed in a black plastic bag. 'After I went over, I found that plastic bag, and it indeed contained one hundred thousand yuan.'"

"I checked; that road section had no surveillance, so I took the money."

In the adjacent room, Yu Dazhang stared at the surveillance footage on the computer, his mind momentarily unable to process it.

They hadn't even met the person, yet the money was given?

And all at once, one hundred thousand!

Are corpses that valuable now?

No, that one hundred thousand was just the deposit; the full amount is two hundred thousand.

That means one corpse is worth fifty thousand yuan.

Looking at it this way, the other party urgently needed those four corpses.

If it wasn't for the money, what was their purpose in urgently wanting the corpse?

Yu Dazhang's thoughts stalled here, and for the moment he had no leads.

The interrogation was still ongoing, and the officer sitting across from Li Tao pressed:

Please... collect... 6... 9... book.... bar....!

"And then?"

"On the evening of August 16th, I received another message from him." Li Tao answered quickly:

"At the time he sent me a location pin, and told me the exact parking spot."

"There was a van waiting there. Following his instructions, I had the driver park the car in front of the van."

"What happened after that, I have no idea."

The interrogating officer frowned and asked in a low voice:

"No idea? Didn't you get out of the car at the time?"

Li Tao's face twisted in a grimace, and continued:

"I did get out then, along with another body mover."

"When we got to the back of the car, there was already a person standing there waiting."

"He was wearing a mask, told us to open the rear door, and said we didn't need to worry about anything after that."

"Seeing us hesitate, he handed us a bag containing a hundred thousand yuan."

"Once we took the money, we walked to the roadside to smoke."

"About ten-odd minutes later, that person called us over and said the job was done."

"I even took a deliberate look at the time, saw that none of the bodies inside the car were missing, so I closed the rear door and went back to the driver's seat."

"By the time we left, that van still hadn't moved."

After these words were spoken, the faces of the task force members inside and outside the interrogation room all darkened.

Just when the dawn of cracking the case finally seemed within reach—snap—the lead broke again.

Watching the interrogation monitor, Yu Dazhang was also frowning tightly at this moment.

The other side had anticipated that the body movers would be caught, so they had taken precautions against them long beforehand.

They even possessed counter-surveillance capability.

"Trace the other party's WeChat." Yu Dazhang ordered the team members in the room.

Although he didn't hold out much hope for this, no avenue that should be checked could be overlooked.

"I've already arranged for people to check." one of the team members replied:

"But I don't expect we'll find anything."

This wasn't because they were overly pessimistic—communications accounts nowadays really are managed in far too much chaos.

Although, like phone numbers, WeChat has been under real-name registration since it first came out.

But with this thing, private underground account trading is rampant.

Vast numbers of social accounts that were stolen, scammed away, or voluntarily sold are all being traded, and at very low prices.

A newly registered WeChat account, for instance, can be bought for around thirty yuan.

Some with longer registration histories, that have posted to Moments, that have traces of daily life, go for only two or three hundred.

Although this kind of trade is illegal, cracking down on it is extremely difficult.

All sorts of scam operations and marketing companies are basically all involved.

An hour and a half later, just before the end of the workday.

The team members received a reply back from the cyber security division: the WeChat account used by the other party was a black account.

Apart from being used recently to contact Li Tao, it had no traces of any usage.

It could be said that the body-mover lead was completely cut off here.

(End of this chapter)