Chapter 556: The Method of Delivering Money Was a Bit Special

"I am a police officer."

Yu Dazhang still used the same script:

"Do you know Yao Jing?"

"I know her." The woman on the other end replied:

"We were university classmates, our relationship has always been good, we are like best friends."

Hearing that Yu Dazhang was a police officer, the woman's tone became somewhat uneasy; she seemed to want to ask why he was calling her, but ultimately held back.

Afterwards, Yu Dazhang asked her whether Yao Jing had borrowed money from her.

The result was that this woman's answer matched the explanation given by Yao Jing's cousin.

Yao Jing had only asked her to exchange cash.

The woman ran a bookstore and had some cash flow, but relatively less; the cash she could produce was only sixty thousand yuan.

She handed the money to Cheng Wenhao at the entrance of another bank.

Two withdrawals totaling two hundred and sixty thousand... Yu Dazhang calculated in his mind.

And both handovers took place at the entrances of banks.

This indicated that Cheng Wenhao had been rushing between the ATMs of various banks during that morning period to withdraw cash.

Four thousand yuan short, and the limits on the two cards would be enough.

Based on the situation currently at hand, Cheng Wenhao had already gathered the money.

Just as the call with that woman ended, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment called him.

"ATMs at two banks captured images of Cheng Wenhao; between five-thirty and six in the morning, he withdrew cash twice, taking a total of forty thousand yuan."

Exactly three hundred thousand... Yu Dazhang did the addition in his mind.

The total amount should be even more than this.

The Yao Jing family wouldn't have zero cash on hand; for families like theirs, they usually keep tens of thousands in cash for emergencies.

"The bank card information has also been found."

The detachment captain added:

"Cheng Wenhao used the two cards belonging to the deceased couple for the two withdrawals respectively."

Yu Dazhang was not particularly surprised by this, because he was very familiar with the operating mechanism of ATMs.

Bank ATMs use an independent limit system; this means that regardless of whether the user changes bank cards or changes banks, the preset withdrawal limit cannot be broken.

Unless one changes identity.

That is to say, even if Yao Jing and her husband possessed many more bank cards, they could withdraw at most forty thousand yuan in cash from an ATM.

"Can Cheng Wenhao's whereabouts be confirmed?" Yu Dazhang asked.

Now that Cheng Wenhao's location had been locked down at the banks, the next step was to use the city's Sky Net system to track his movement trajectory.

"He went into the mountains again."

The detachment captain's voice carried a hint of helplessness:

"At six-twenty, he bought food at a breakfast stall, then took a taxi to Xishan Town."

"The taxi finally stopped at the edge of a mountain village; afterwards, Cheng Wenhao walked into the village and from then on lost his trail."

Having said this, he paused, then added another sentence:

"I have already dispatched officers to rush to that mountain village to further track down Cheng Wenhao."

Went into the mountains again? Yu Dazhang was confused.

He had the money in hand; what was he going into the mountains for?

According to logical inference, once Cheng Wenhao had gathered the three hundred thousand, his next step should have been to deliver the money.

Therefore, Yu Dazhang deduced that Cheng Wenhao would next go to his parents and hand the money over to the elderly couple.

After fulfilling this wish, he would have no regrets left.

The reason Yu Dazhang asked about Cheng Wenhao's whereabouts was actually to verify his own speculation.

But the course of events turned out to be contrary to his expectations.

As a habitual offender, Cheng Wenhao should have known very well that he could not possibly escape Songhai; being caught was inevitable, it was only a matter of time.

Then why did he still go into the mountains?

Deliberately setting up a smokescreen for the police?

"He only bought breakfast?" Yu Dazhang asked while holding his phone.

"That's right." The detachment captain on the other end replied:

"The taxi did not stop once along the way; it drove straight to that small mountain village in Xishan Town."

That meant he had no intention of staying in the mountains for a long time... Yu Dazhang made this judgment in his mind.