Chapter 1001: Thread

"Clear a spot for Detachment Captain Yu. Detachment Captain Yu, are you coming over to work, or will you send a few people to do liaison?"

After Jiang Yuan entered his work state, he called Wang Chuanxing over to make arrangements.

Yu Li Xiang thought for a moment; it was obviously impossible for the 712 Special Investigation Team to move over directly, so he said: "Then I'll call two people up to do liaison?"

"Good." Jiang Yuan responded and said: "Then you call people first, and I'll call people too."

"Good." Yu Li Xiang also responded with a smile.

A quarter of an hour later.

Yu Li Xiang called two young police officers from the special investigation team to prepare to be runners, while Jiang Yuan invited two detachment captains to start arranging work.

"I think we can use special intelligence. Since there is wind on the street, it means the suspect is also a relevant person. It's very likely that someone knows his identity, or some clues would be good too." Jiang Yuan proposed his idea.

The two detachment captains came from the Cyber Security Detachment and the Public Security Detachment respectively. After asking Yu Li Xiang a few more questions, they went to get busy on their own.

Yu Li Xiang's confidence greatly increased and he said: "Now it has a bit of that three-dimensional combat flavor. The most troublesome thing about us applying for resources is waiting a long time for feedback."

Wang Chuanxing smiled on the side and said: "The longer the time drags on, the higher the cost. Since Team Leader Jiang has entered the field, the efficiency will definitely be pulled up."

Yu Li Xiang nodded, half-understanding.

However, he soon witnessed the efficiency Wang Chuanxing spoke of.

At dinner time, the criminal police from the other four locations, together with the cadres from the two provinces, gathered at the guesthouse of the Qingshi Municipal Criminal Investigation Detachment. Calculating the time, the time on the road alone took this long, and that was with them rushing.

"Let's eat hot pot. Serve all the various meats on the menu first." Sitting in the private room of the guesthouse, Division Chief Li glanced at the menu, handed it back to the waiter, and then laughed: "I heard Jiang Yuan likes to eat hot pot; I think we can cooperate with that."

"Then we will definitely cooperate well." Everyone completed the ice-breaking chat with hidden meanings in their words.

Jiang Yuan gave a bitter smile. Loving hot pot couldn't be considered a rumor, but it had indeed spread a bit outrageously. However, in such an occasion, carrying his EQ, he could only accept it.

Liu Jinghui was familiar with Jiang Yuan and also felt it was a bit funny, but this was just like what happened when he went missing back then; explanations couldn't explain it clearly.

Liu Jinghui came over with the provincial department cadres and belonged to the type that doesn't use it if it's not used.

He waited for everyone to chat a bit more openly before pulling the topic to the case and said: "Let's ask Detachment Captain Yu to introduce the case this time. The 712 Special Investigation Team was the first to come into contact with this case and the first to decide to merge these series of cases..."

He explained it slightly, also to establish the dominant position of the case. Otherwise, when the time came, all five places would want to be the main one, and the communication cost would be too high.

Yu Li Xiang was not polite either and said: "Then I'll talk about the situation I understand. This case has several characteristics. First, it's the location of the case. Lanhuaxiang in Cuigang County is the most remote township in our Qingshi City. The local per capita income is low, young people basically choose to go out to work, and on the other hand, the local birth rate is relatively high, and there are many left-behind children."

Yu Li Xiang: "Second, the criminal is familiar with the layout of our surveillance cameras. The construction of the Sky Net in Cuigang County is also relatively slow, so most township roads do not have usable cameras. Even so, the cameras on the main roads are all usable. By logic, it should also be possible to find the suspect's vehicle. However, after repeated screening, we found that this point is also impossible to do."

Yu Li Xiang looked at Jiang Yuan and the others and then said: "So, initially, I thought the suspect was very likely a local, or a resident of the nearby area, and it was very likely an accidental case, but..."

He looked at the other criminal police detachment captains: "Crossing two places, all choosing similar locations, this makes people feel it's a case after full preparation."

Everyone nodded while eating hot pot, looking like they were praising the taste of the meat.

Liu Jinghui ate two bites of meat and said: "If you say it's fully prepared, you should take the sales channels into account. Putting out word on the street to find buyers seems a bit amateurish."

Everyone then continued to nod, again agreeing with Liu Jinghui's reasoning.

Yu Li Xiang had obviously considered it for a long time and immediately said: "Maybe they have committed more cases, or they discovered that this set of processes makes money, and the original channels couldn't handle it, so they thought of expanding buyers. Another thing, I discovered that they put out word on the street, which was also a very accidental opportunity. The channels they use to pass messages are still quite niche."

"How did you discover it?" A criminal police detachment captain from another city immediately asked.

Their cases were merged because Yu Li Xiang discovered the basis for merging, not because they discovered it themselves.

Yu Li Xiang said without stumbling: "I discovered it on the dark web. The scope of their message passing is mainly concentrated on former criminals of human trafficking. If it weren't for an informant coming over, we might have taken a long time to discover it."

"In that case, you should have also swept through the former criminals."

"Of course. We searched for former criminals the first time. But in so many counties and cities, the number of former criminals is also relatively large. Furthermore, it's not necessarily the criminal himself who released the news; it could be a second-hand dealer."

This time, even Liu Jinghui became serious: "This idea of yours is very valuable. It is indeed possible. The chain of human trafficking is very long; you can't assume all information comes from the criminal. En, thinking from the front line is indeed not quite the same."

Human trafficking is not quite the same as ordinary forms of crime. It is essentially a business, and it is not a business that faces consumers directly. Criminals or criminal gangs that abduct children often tend to sell children to downstream buyers or peers, unlike the drug business, which focuses on end consumers.

Due to the different degrees of development across the country, there is still a very large space for this business. In addition, there are also situations where people sell children voluntarily, which makes the human trafficking market impossible to ban despite repeated prohibitions.

If a human trafficker has the right channels, they might not personally participate in the kidnapping or robbery; by simply flipping the goods once, they could potentially earn tens of thousands of yuan. For many people, and for many people in different circumstances, this sum of money is very tempting.

Even Jiang Yuan couldn't help but look at Yu Li Xiang with high regard.

After Liu Jinghui entered his state, a criminal police officer who could still have back-and-forth exchanges can be said to be truly very powerful. Of course, Yu Li Xiang was not based on pure reasoning, but on his understanding of his jurisdiction and analysis of relevant cases.

However, after running on the front line for a long time, Yu Li Xiang being able to stand out means his business side is truly outstanding.

A Mo Dao soldier like him, placed on the battlefield, hacking at ordinary cloth-clad criminals, would probably be able to hack until his physical strength was exhausted.

A table of people ate hot pot in silence, each lost in thought.

Child trafficking cases are particularly difficult to solve. Their case clearance rate is far lower than the homicide clearance rate.

It's not because they aren't taken seriously; many times, it's really a lack of clues.

To put it in relatively cruel but rational terms, a homicide case has a corpse that can serve as evidence and clues, whereas in a child trafficking case, the most important evidence and clues should have been the children who were taken away.

"Can this dark web channel, the channel for passing information, be traced up, or can the person be lured out? Even if it's done by their upstream, we can follow the vine to find the melon." The criminal police detachment captain from Yuwan City proposed an idea.

"We tried it, but it didn't work. Can Cyber Security do it?" Yu Li Xiang turned his head to ask.

Jiang Yuan nodded and said to Wang Chuanxing on the side: "Ask Cyber Security and see if they can do it."

Yu Li Xiang raised his eyebrows. Whether this can be done is very different from saying things like "is there a way."

Several criminal police detachment captains from different counties and cities looked at each other and all realized the intensity on Jiang Yuan's side.

Several people therefore organized their thoughts and one after another started to put forward opinions:

"Finding the car is still very necessary. We haven't found the car now; maybe it's just the wrong method. This car appeared in six locations in two provinces; does it always use out-of-town license plates? The eyewitnesses didn't notice the license plate problem of the vehicle, which shows that this car is very likely being used with fake plates, or it's not the same car."

"Committing crimes in unfamiliar townships is still quite risky. I think it should be a multi-person crime. It's very likely that they went to places familiar to some gang members."

"In that case, how is the gang composed? Released prisoners?"

"There is another key point. This gang hasn't committed any crimes for over a month. Have they stopped here, or are they preparing to continue committing crimes? Or have they already moved to other places?"

As the saying goes, three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang, but they can worry a table of people to death.

When several people discussed to this point, they suddenly lost their appetite a bit.

"The clues are indeed relatively few." Jiang Yuan looked at Liu Jinghui at this time and asked: "Should we ask Division Chief Xu to take a look?" ===== CHAPTER 1002 =====