Chapter 600: His Plan Was Still Missing One Piece

The plan he had racked his brain over and never guessed—was it over just like that?

At this moment, Yu Dazhang suddenly felt as if he had a fishbone stuck in his throat.

Not only that, he also felt a tightness in his chest.

It absolutely couldn't be this simple!

But all five suspects had been caught, and even the mastermind had been brought to justice right before his eyes—under such circumstances, what follow-up plan could there possibly be?

During the five minutes he spent waiting for the phone call at the Western Suburb Hotel, Yu Dazhang placed a micro GPS tracker in every bag of gold.

Although he knew it wouldn't be of much use, he still did it.

Later, after tracking, the target was located in this village, and the officers finally found the four trackers in a patch of grass by the roadside.

"Master, I'm going to run over to Jinze Town."

Yu Dazhang said to Lu Zhongxin:

"I think the hostage should still be in town. The officers over there have probably almost finished their sweep, so I'll head over and get a sense of the situation."

He had no interest in searching for the gold here—what mattered most now was finding the hostage.

Besides, they were in charge of the investigation; tasks like searches could be left to Wei Qian to arrange.

"I'll go with you."

Lu Zhongxin had no interest in searching for the gold either; there were simply no other leads at the moment.

"No need." Yu Dazhang refused:

"We need someone keeping an eye on this side too, and we can't rule out the possibility that the kidnappers brought the hostage here."

"If we investigate both sides at the same time, the efficiency will be higher."

This place wasn't far from Jinze Town—only a ten-minute drive.

Yu Dazhang brought one team member to the town and met up with the officer in charge of the sweep there.

"How's it going?" he asked.

"Almost done." The officer replied:

"Setting aside the permanent residents, we're going door-to-door on the vacant houses in town and any recently rented ones—another two hours should wrap it up."

Setting aside permanent residents first was the right call; the kidnappers couldn't have hidden the hostage in someone else's home.

Besides, with over forty thousand people in the whole town, checking every single one would take at least ten days to half a month.

So under these circumstances, they had to make trade-offs, prioritizing the places with a higher likelihood for the sweep.

"Carry on."

Yu Dazhang had no objections to such an arrangement.

He had considered the possibility that the kidnappers had hidden the hostage in their own home, or at a relative's place in town.

For instance, the Qi brothers hiding the hostage at their parents' house.

If they really had done that, Yu Dazhang genuinely wouldn't have thought of it—after all, they had run away from home years ago, and their parents hated them to the bone.

The more something defies common sense, the more surprising it seems.

But the odds of it actually happening were also vanishingly small.

These kidnappers all had relatives in town too, but which relative would dare help with something like this—give up a perfectly good life to become an accomplice to kidnappers?

So any normal person wouldn't do something that stupid.

And in fact, the first thing the police swept in town were the relatives and friends of those five kidnappers.

"Where did they hide him?"

Yu Dazhang was now standing on a street in town, scanning the buildings before him.

The sweep was almost finished and the hostage still hadn't been found—could the other side really have hidden the hostage in someone else's home?

But the relatives and friends of those five people had all already been checked.

They wouldn't have hidden the hostage at a stranger's house, would they?

Just as he was about to calm down and reason it out, his phone suddenly rang.

After he picked up, Lu Zhongxin's voice came through:

"Wu Rui and Yu Chong have started talking. According to their statements, this kidnapping was planned by Tan Mou, and he's the one who gathered everyone together."

His tone was heavy, solemn:

"Qi Jianhua was also killed by Tan Mou."

"It was only because, while they were hiding out in the unfinished building, Qi Jianhua tried to sexually assault Su Mi. When persuasion failed, Tan Mou slit his throat from behind with a knife."