Chapter 576: The Professional Habits of Master and Disciple

Two days later.

Songhai.

"I heard the detention center had a complete overhaul of personnel."

Lu Zhongxin pulled his disciple aside first thing in the morning to dish some gossip:

"The warden and deputy warden have both been taken in. The procuratorial authorities have opened investigations against them on charges of abuse of power and dereliction of duty respectively."

"Several officers below them were also taken away."

Isn't this perfectly normal… Yu Dazhang felt there was nothing to make a fuss about.

The fact that three escapees could kill a police officer and then stroll out of the detention center showed that a major loophole had already appeared in management.

To put it bluntly, from top to bottom, it was rotten to the core.

It was precisely because of their dereliction of duty that the prison break occurred, and it directly led to the extermination of Yao Jing's family of three.

Not to mention the people at the detention center—even Bureau Chief Liu couldn't escape responsibility this time.

If the police hadn't responded quickly and recaptured the escapees within a single day, Bureau Chief Liu would probably have been transferred somewhere else this time.

"Where did the replacements come from?"

Yu Dazhang looked very interested and asked curiously:

"Transferred from other detention centers?"

He knew perfectly well in his heart that it was impossible, but to keep his master from losing interest, he still put on a show and asked the question.

Lu Zhongxin wasn't the type to enjoy gossiping; it was simply that cases like this were rare—one might go a whole lifetime without encountering one.

"What do you think?"

Lu Zhongxin gave his disciple an eye-roll:

"Every detention center in Songhai is currently undergoing rectification. Multiple departments, including the procuratorial authorities and detention administration, are conducting joint inspections of all detention centers in Songhai."

"Under these circumstances, our local detention centers can hardly look after themselves, let alone have extra people to transfer out."

Every detention center in Songhai must be trembling in fear… Yu Dazhang quipped to himself.

This counts as locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Good thing.

If they had taken it this seriously earlier, this prison break wouldn't have happened.

"Transferred in from out of town?"

Yu Dazhang found that chatting about gossip with his master was actually quite interesting.

When others gossip, they always act all mysterious, afraid of being overheard.

But although Lu Zhongxin also lowered his voice, his face remained dead serious—anyone who didn't know better would think he was imparting criminal investigation knowledge to his disciple.

"That's right, they came from Province S."

Lu Zhongxin nodded and looked at his disciple:

"I went to the detention center yesterday to pick someone up, saw them, and chatted with them for a while."

"The warden and deputy warden were both parachuted in from over there, and even the newly transferred officers came from Province S."

At this point, he seemed to remember something and suddenly changed the subject:

"Oh right, I also heard them say a big case happened over there, one that even alarmed the provincial department."

When it comes to criminal police chatting about gossip, nothing piques their interest more than criminal cases.

Yu Dazhang was naturally no exception.

When he heard that a big case had happened in Province S, he was immediately hooked.

"What big case?"

His eyes lit up, and he came to life:

"I know the people at that provincial department very well. I even worked cases with them over there before."

One thing was certain: anything that could alarm the provincial department had to be a case with extremely bad social impact.

Like the severed-finger case he had worked on over there before.

"They said it was a kidnapping case—over ten students were abducted."

Lu Zhongxin replied:

"They didn't know the specifics themselves. Although they're all within the system, their knowledge was limited—after all, case details can't be disclosed to outsiders during an investigation."

Kidnapping over ten people at once? Yu Dazhang really had never encountered a similar case.

After all, a kidnapping of this scale was unlikely to occur.

First, the success rate was low.

Controlling over ten people at once—the difficulty was self-evident.

Second, transportation was difficult.

With so many people, transporting them together made the target too large; evading the police search was nearly impossible.

Third, hiding them was very hard.

Gathering over ten people in a single residence—the daily consumption alone would draw the neighbors' attention.