Chapter 597: How Did He Know I Was a Cop?

But if they had come to launder money, they should have been sneaking around, shifty-eyed.

Yet the fatty in front of her showed no panic at all—just a bit of looking around, no one knew what he was looking at.

"Um…"

The shop manager grew a little evasive, and said hesitantly:

"Mr., even if you bought every gold bar in our store, it wouldn't cost this much money."

She also didn't know exactly how much money was in the eight black bags in front of her.

She couldn't even begin to estimate.

In her life up to now, she had never seen so much cash.

"Buy however much there is."

Spending someone else's money doesn't hurt, Yu Dazhang said boldly:

"While you're at it, let the other gold shops know for me—tell them to bring out all their gold bars. I want to turn all this money into gold bars."

How much gold could twenty million buy?

At the 2015 gold price of 235 yuan per gram, it could buy over eighty-five thousand grams.

Converted, that was 170 jin.

Just as Yu Dazhang had guessed before, every gold shop on the entire first floor combined couldn't come up with that many gold bars.

It wasn't that the gold shops lacked the capital, but that the amount of gold bars they normally kept in stock was determined by foot traffic and business conditions.

Gold shops in a typical shopping center would keep around 50 jin of gold in reserve, and most of that stock was everyday jewelry, with very few gold bars.

If a customer needed them, they could be reserved in advance.

So for someone like Yu Dazhang, who came in wanting to buy that many gold bars all at once, no gold shop could produce them on the spot.

Yu Dazhang said nonchalantly:

"Spend the rest on jewelry. It has to be gold—nothing in other materials."

Every gold shop on the entire first floor burst into action.

Counting money, weighing, converting…

Yu Dazhang, meanwhile, stood at the entrance of the gold shop, seemingly watching the shop staff bustle about, but in reality observing the escalator area.

The shop manager, afraid he'd tire himself out, considerately brought him a chair.

He didn't fix his gaze on the escalator area either; instead, he would glance over every so often, as if he were just sitting there bored, casually looking around.

He sat like that for about five minutes.

When he glanced toward the escalator area once more, he spotted a familiar face at the second-floor escalator entrance.

Yu Chong!

The photos of those five people had long been etched into his memory, so with just one glance he recognized the other.

In reality, the distance from the gold shop entrance to the escalator area was at least thirty meters.

Although the distance wasn't too far, for an ordinary person, being able to clearly make out the other person's face at a glance still posed some difficulty.

But Yu Dazhang was not in that category.

As long as the lighting was sufficient, his eyesight could easily make out a person's features from over a hundred meters away.

Yu Chong also looked toward Yu Dazhang's side, but with his eyesight, he could only see a fatty sitting at the entrance of the gold shop.

He was clearly sharper than his accomplices outside.

After glancing at Yu Dazhang from the second-floor escalator entrance, he didn't linger, but blended into the crowd and stepped onto the escalator, reaching the first floor in no time.

Then he began to wander about casually, no longer looking toward the gold shop.

At this point, Yu Dazhang had already dialed Lu Zhongxin's number.

"Suspect Yu Chong spotted on the first floor."

He didn't hold the phone to his ear, but turned his head toward the gold shop and said quickly:

"He's moving toward the elevator area—probably planning to take the elevator back up to the second floor."

Lu Zhongxin on the other end of the line, hearing this, immediately replied:

"Wu Rui has been successfully apprehended. We're heading to the second floor right away."

After hanging up, Yu Dazhang glanced once more at the escalator area and saw Yu Chong still strolling leisurely along, heading straight for the elevator.

As long as the direction was right, he couldn't get away.

Yu Dazhang wasn't worried at all now about the suspect escaping.

With so many experienced armed detectives, cornering and capturing a suspect without even a criminal record was an absolute piece of cake.