Chapter 698: A Brief Life

If Yu Dazhang had been exposed to this case a month earlier, he would have had absolute confidence in solving it.

But now the opposing side's acquisition has reached full capacity; once they stop, the suspects on this line will do everything possible to hide.

This is equivalent to the entire criminal chain being severed right there.

And for a primary suspect like Zhang Jiangke, once he flees abroad, the difficulty of bringing him back is extremely high.

"He will never return to Yanjing or Songhai again."

Yu Dazhang stared at Zhang Jiangke on the surveillance screen, a flash of coldness passing through his eyes.

Since they could lock him down in Qingpu District, it meant the police had figured out his patterns of movement; given his style of operation, he would definitely go to an unfamiliar place to hide first.

He won't show his head again... Yu Dazhang sighed.

Having committed such a huge crime, being caught means death; a human trafficker as cunning and crafty as Zhang Jiangke must surely understand the relevant laws.

No, there's no need to even consider legal statutes; his crimes warrant execution ten times over.

"Leaving Songhai, where would he go?"

Yu Dazhang muttered to himself, various possibilities flashing through his mind, but he quickly rejected them one by one.

Zhang Jiangke, that old fox, wouldn't keep fleeing on the road forever.

That kind of panicked, aimless flight would only expose his whereabouts and increase the risk of capture.

The most likely scenario is that after leaving Songhai, he would immediately find a place he had never been to before to hide, then wait for an opportunity to smuggle himself back to Old Burma.

And the province closest to Songhai is S Province.

"Is it possible he came this way?"

Very likely... the more Yu Dazhang thought about it, the more reasonable this possibility seemed.

Moreover, he had previously seen that sophomore student named Zhou Jiacheng here in Jin Ling.

Given his style of operation, he probably wouldn't come looking for this Zhou Jiacheng again, but it couldn't be ruled out that he came to S Province to settle down.

It's just that S Province is too big; relying solely on deduction won't catch him.

Just as Yu Dazhang was worried about having no leads, the office door was pushed open, and Captain Xu walked in from outside.

"The investigation on the Jin Ling side has results."

Captain Xu came up to Yu Dazhang and placed a document on the desk in front of him:

"These are the investigation results sent back from there; I printed them out."

"Inside are Zhou Jiacheng's contact details, as well as his mother's identity information and past history."

The efficiency is quite high... Yu Dazhang quickly opened the document and began reading carefully.

Zhou Jinyan, female, from Jin Ling, graduated from Jin Ling Agricultural University, died at age 32; during her lifetime, she worked in technical promotion at an agricultural machinery enterprise.

The preceding content looked utterly ordinary, like the resume of an average person.

What followed was an extraordinary past.

According to the investigation, in the year Zhou Jinyan first graduated, she was deceived by a high salary offer while looking for work and trafficked to a mountain village.

Two months later, she successfully escaped and reported the family that had bought her.

Strangely, nine months later, Zhou Jinyan gave birth to a baby boy.

During her pregnancy, her family suspected she had been violated by the family that bought her, but Zhou Jinyan firmly refused to abort the child.

Because of this, she ran away from home, only returning after giving birth to the child.

The logic doesn't add up... Yu Dazhang quickly spotted the inconsistency.

If Zhou Jinyan had been violated, she would never have given birth to that child.

Don't talk about the child being innocent.

When the child is born and looks very much like the perpetrator, what kind of feelings would a mother have?

Having nightmares every day isn't enough; she would also have to face the perpetrator's own flesh and blood every single day.

Those with weak psychological resilience might even be driven to mental illness by the pressure.

But Zhou Jinyan didn't.