Chapter 582: Creative Thinking

It's precisely these criminals who don't play by the rules that give people the most headaches.

It seems everyone is used to kidnappers always threatening the victim's family.

For example, "If you dare call the police, we'll tear up the ticket."

That line sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it?

It seems like every kidnapping plot in a TV show or movie has to include that line.

Actually, that line also serves as a warning: don't reach out, reach out and you'll get caught.

Anyone committing a crime will naturally fear the police — that's just normal human psychology.

But this time, there's an exception.

"Your family is already preparing the cash?" Lu Zhongxin asked.

"Yes," Bai Jincheng's father answered immediately:

"We've already raised seven million so far. We should be able to gather the rest by this time tomorrow."

The Bai family is no small matter either… Yu Dazhang sighed inwardly.

The very same day they received the kidnapper's call, they were able to raise seven million in cash on the spot — proof enough of just how wide the Bai family's network of connections ran.

Withdrawing that amount from a bank in a single day is obviously unrealistic.

No bank can hand a customer ten million in cash the same day, no matter how esteemed a VIP they are.

At a time like this, you have to turn to relatives and friends to figure something out.

As mentioned before, many wealthy people usually keep a portion of cash at home for emergencies.

If your network is wide enough and you know enough rich people, scraping together ten million in a short time is no problem at all.

And if you happen to know someone running shady business, having them pull out a few million in cash on the spot is a breeze.

For instance, someone who runs gambling dens.

Even though electronic payment is widespread now, those running underground casinos still keep large amounts of cash on hand.

After all, their business can't see the light of day — once the police catch them, every penny in their bank accounts will be frozen, and they won't be able to touch a single cent.

In fact, the Su family is also raising cash, and reportedly they're almost there too.

Both families share the same mindset: gather the money within three days, rescue the person first, and worry about the rest later.

The police are only their backup plan — in their eyes, the safety of their family comes first.

If the police haven't caught the kidnappers within three days, paying the ransom is their last hope.

The next day.

First Brigade.

"Road surveillance turned up seven commercial vehicles in total."

Wei Qian looked at the master and his two disciples with a grave expression:

"Strangely, not one of those seven commercial vehicles had fake plates — every single license plate was real."

Passing off fake as genuine… Yu Dazhang figured that the more it looked this way, the more it proved something was off.

From the moment the body was discovered in the abandoned building yesterday, he had been certain there was a mastermind among the kidnappers.

Switching cars and then doubling back to hide in the abandoned building — on the surface it seemed unnecessary, but in reality they were trying to delay the police's review of the surveillance footage as long as possible.

If the police assumed the kidnappers fled the scene immediately after switching cars, they'd have fallen right into the trap.

In fact, they stayed in that abandoned building at least until the second half of the night.

Which meant that if the police only reviewed the road surveillance from the first half of the night, they would absolutely fail to spot the vehicle the kidnappers had switched to.

And who would have thought that after switching cars, the kidnappers never actually left — they just hid nearby.

What kind of nerve does it take to arrange something like that?

By now Yu Dazhang was certain the other side had a meticulous plan, and to pull it off they had even spent a long time preparing.

The suburbs, the residential house, the abandoned building…

They made use of every single location, and each step linked tightly into the next — even the timing of their withdrawal from the abandoned building was probably worked out only after repeated calculation.