[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi":3,"chapter-reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-80":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in 2014: I Am the King of Criminal Investigation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2315936,4529,"Chapter 80: Why Are You Using Provocation Now?","reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-80",80,"\u003Cp>That’s a brutal name… Yu Dazhang felt his heart quicken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Things that were once uncertain now seemed confirmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder Zhang Sen was so nervous—anyone hearing that name would be shaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who gave it that name?” Yu Dazhang wanted to confirm again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know,” Zhang Sen looked equally helpless:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“An aunt told me—many years ago, a group of people in town clashed with those on the mountain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After that, people began secretly referring to the village on the mountain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s probably not fake… Yu Dazhang quickly formed a judgment in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The older men had mentioned the fight before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they never named the village—looks like I came back too early; they probably haven’t gotten to that yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the advantage of splitting up to gather information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, you can uncover different details.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, when you get the same information from multiple sources, it increases credibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now Yu Dazhang was certain: the two missing officers must have gathered similar information before deciding to go up the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Undoubtedly, Shuishouyingzi Village was their final destination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All clues now pointed to that village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this stage of the investigation, Yu Dazhang hesitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The best course now was to report the situation, but they had no direct evidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So far, they only had clues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And clues are fundamentally different from evidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was another option.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like the two missing officers, go up the mountain to find evidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a good idea—but Yu Dazhang dared only think it in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t that he was cowardly; there were already precedents. To risk going up the mountain again was tantamount to suicide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, someone might be wondering:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s 2014—could something this absurd still exist?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a den of dragons and tigers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It exists, and there are many such places.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Check online yourself—many films and TV shows are based on real events.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I won’t list them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang had previously learned the origin of Shuishouyingzi from the older men.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d also deduced some key insights from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People who spend their lives sailing have certain traits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One: they’ve been to many countries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though they didn’t live long-term in those places, their exposure was far greater than ordinary people’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precisely because of that exposure, if they turned to criminal schemes, they might do things others couldn’t imagine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two: this job directly affects marriage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Humans are emotional creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though distance can create beauty, and short separations renew affection, prolonged absence doesn’t work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wife at home grows lonely or falls prey to outside temptations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The husband, stuck on a ship for years, can’t endure it either—he’s easily tempted when docking in foreign ports.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One partner cheating is bad enough; mutual cheating? How could life go on?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made it harder and harder for lifelong sailors to find partners.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Combining these two points, Yu Dazhang reached his own conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A group of people who spent their lives drifting at sea now settled in a remote mountain village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they stopped sailing, what was their income source?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They must have found a new way to make money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why choose the mountain?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far from the emperor’s reach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their money-making scheme was almost certainly illegal. In modern terms: the more remote the area, the weaker the legal awareness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is that really true?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if legal awareness is weak, can’t they still tell right from wrong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Yu Dazhang reached his final conclusion in his mind: the people on the mountain had planned this for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Senior Zhang, report the situation to the branch team.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no other choice now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang believed the branch leadership, once informed, would make the right judgment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since they were a team, he naturally needed to inform Zhang Sen before reporting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not investigating further?” Zhang Sen stared at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked like he still wanted to keep digging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ve checked everything we could,” Yu Dazhang sighed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You saw it too—all clues point to Shuishouyingzi Village, but that place isn’t something we can go into. Let the team handle the rest.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Please… you… collect 6…9…books…!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was clear he was just as helpless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also understood what Zhang Sen was thinking: he wanted to find direct evidence himself and rescue the missing officers as soon as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Put plainly, Zhang Sen wanted to save his own master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Personal emotion was at play here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the two missing officers were just ordinary colleagues, he wouldn’t have risked himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strictly speaking, Zhang Sen shouldn’t even have been assigned to this case.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why can’t we go?” Zhang Sen fixed his gaze on Yu Dazhang:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ve got two people and two guns—why should we fear them?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two missing officers thought the same thing… Yu Dazhang didn’t want to crush him, so he soothed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I know you’re desperate, but don’t rush—this kind of thinking will mess things up. Don’t fall for lone-hero nonsense.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t give me that crap,” Zhang Sen snapped, pointing at him:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you scared?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang truly wanted to punch him in the face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were colleagues, got along well—why resort to goading?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fine, fine, I’m scared, I’m scared, alright?” He forced down his anger, speaking as calmly as he could:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Senior Zhang, some mountain villages are paradises—but others are… hells on earth.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To ordinary people, trafficking falls into two categories:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1, trafficking women for marriage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2, trafficking children for lineage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In reality, these are just the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The truth is far more complex, darker, and crueler.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Globally, about three hundred thousand people are trafficked to Europe each year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Women forced into prostitution, men forced into labor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Labor” is a euphemism—it’s slavery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why are women the primary victims of trafficking?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they’re expensive and easier to control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young woman can bring a trafficker at least 100,000 yuan per month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’re forced to serve clients daily, living in hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reality is brutally harsh—in many places we never see, unspeakable crimes occur.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang had once pondered a question:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why had the police never uncovered it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Far from the emperor’s reach” was a major factor—but not enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most important factor was the market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they sold the victims across the country, they’d have been discovered long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of trafficking cases are solved annually within China.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If even one or two victims connected to this village were rescued, the place would be exposed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The probability was extremely high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if they smuggled people overseas, the outcome was entirely different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the country, this person was as if he had vanished from the face of the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1090,"2026-06-20T14:22:46.062Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","645a20d25858494cc23dfed86bb68587d4299de35e62b489055c3b133a95a709","reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-81","reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-79",763,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-cover.jpg"]