Chapter 1253

What can be done in two hours?

Two hours spent playing ball can ruin an ordinary person.

Two hours spent writing can ruin an ordinary person.

Two hours spent having sex can ruin an ordinary person.

Two hours spent eating can fill an ordinary person!

Two hours given to Li Haochen, he crafted a perfect persona for himself.

"I think we can use this person's identity!" Li Haochen, holding the written proposal, found Jiang Yuan and the others, and began promoting it on the spot.

"Anzi?" Jiang Yuan flipped it open and noticed this somewhat familiar name.

"Yes. Anzi, real name Li Zhekai, is a smuggler from Guangdong Province, operating on a small scale. During this investigation, he was accidentally caught. His coming to Tianjin this time was itself a secret trip, to reach an agreement with the local smuggler Golden Ape in Tianjin, known to very few. At the same time, people in Guangdong Province don't know he was caught, which conveniently facilitates our operation." Li Haochen's strategy this time mainly lies in making good use of this person.

This is also Li Haochen's most proficient pattern: find a suitable criminal, then think from his perspective to explore the case and investigate suitable angles.

Choosing Li Zhekai is mainly because his connections are in Guangdong Province. Tianjin's side has been cracking down on smugglers day and night; even without saying more, word has definitely spread among smugglers, just like a newly released gossip video—although daily gossip output exceeds standards and fewer things can go viral nationwide, if it's gossip within a certain industry, peers generally want to have a taste.

Li Haochen racked his brains for two hours and could only manage to draft a plan; at this point he emphasized especially: "Li Zhekai is a salesman, not famous, but he's registered in the industry. He bought a car from Cai Dahammer, and Cai Dahammer won't suspect him."

Liu Jinghui then asked: "How do you plan to arrange a meeting with Cai Dahammer?"

"Big business! As long as the profit is sufficient, Cai Dahammer is willing to take risks. He himself is someone who likes high risk and high return." Li Haochen began to explain the criminal psychological profile he had made.

"What business, and how high a return?"

"Two McLarens. 765 or 750." Li Haochen said and quickly explained: "This used car price is also several million yuan; letting it go a bit would let Cai Dahammer make a profit of over one million yuan, no problem. Used as a doorstop brick, it's sufficient. Li Zhekai has never dealt with Cai Dahammer before, so requesting a meeting is completely normal."

"Can Cai Dahammer find a McLaren?" Jiang Yuan interjected at this moment. When people in Jiang Village suddenly became rich, some wanted to buy sports cars, but if they didn't want to be the big shot, it wasn't easy to buy one.

Li Haochen laughed: "This is exactly the best point—Cai Dahammer happens to have two used McLarens in his hands, heard to have questionable origins, and he's been looking everywhere for buyers. I'll use Li Zhekai's identity to make an appointment with him, and then I can act on hearing this news."

"Won't that be too coincidental?"

"There has to be a buyer. Li Zhekai couldn't have imagined Tianjin's smugglers." Li Haochen paused, then said: "But if we want to reach an intention, buyers like Li Zhekai usually need to pay a deposit."

Paying money to a criminal—if the person is caught, it's still manageable; if not caught, it's likely to become a pure loss, which is a headache for many investigative departments.

But Jiang Yuan isn't restricted by this, and directly asked: "How much?"

"200,000 USDT is required." Li Haochen felt slightly apprehensive. The value of 200,000 Tether is 200,000 USD; this sum going out is nearly 2 million RMB, and even for a ministry-level case, leaders might not necessarily approve.

"Okay." Jiang Yuan looked at Li Haochen with the eyes of someone who has never suffered loss or been troubled by documents: "You go ahead and do it; just follow the rules and you'll be fine."

"Yes!" Li Haochen shouted back, his excited eyes almost tearing up, turned around and began to work seriously, his striving posture resembling that of a startup founder.

Cui Xiaohu, Qiu Jianye, Wan Quan, Hang HaiChuan and others nearby were greatly encouraged. Don't look at how, working together on a project, they lightly spend hundreds of millions or even billions, but to produce 200,000 USD as bait, or even convert it to cryptocurrency, many project team leaders are truly unwilling to do so.

Jiang Yuan dares to take responsibility; from another angle, this also proves his confidence.

When Li Haochen sat down at the computer and began issuing orders and operating, the uploading and downloading became noticeably smoother.

Those participating in this case included the anti-smuggling bureaus and criminal police from two regions, plus liaison officers from the ministry, and even foreign personnel; bringing them together was not easy, and Cui Xiaohu and Li Haochen even exchanged shocked expressions. Both are from the ministry, have experienced many similar scenes, and have seen all kinds of teams, but operations running this smoothly before usually had strong leadership presiding over the work...

Soon, Huang Qiongmin, having received the news, rushed over, gave Jiang Yuan's promise certification, and forwarded the invoice to the Changyang Customs Anti-smuggling Branch.

The project team's operation flowed like mercury spilled on the ground. Li Haochen even didn't have to wait as expected; he just made contact on the dark web with Cai Dahammer's people and obtained the real contact method.

When Zhong Renlong and Ni Cha, who had flown over from Malaysia, arrived, Li Haochen's disguise as 【Li Zhekai】 had already begun communicating with Cai Dahammer via Little Blue Bird.

Zhong Renlong first gave Ni Cha a translation, enabling our side to keep up with the progress smoothly.

When Li Haochen came over holding a slip of paper, the two Malaysians had already been reading the palm-thick file seriously, nearly finishing the readable parts.

Li Haochen took a deep breath, handed the slip to Jiang Yuan, and said again: "In the name of Li Zhekai, I've confirmed this position with Cai Dahammer; we agreed to meet tonight at 9 o'clock. The precondition is to transfer the deposit first."

Jiang Yuan nodded, then passed the slip to Zhong Renlong and Ni Cha.

"This is a bar." Zhong Renlong also checked on his phone.

"Yes, Cai Dahammer is somewhat suspicious; his meaning is that the purpose of the meeting is merely to get acquainted, neither discussing matters nor business, just purely meeting, calling this bar a friend's place he often goes to, more convenient." Li Haochen introduced from the side, then added: "I estimate the surrounding situation will be relatively complex, worrying they might have opened a back door for themselves, but indeed it's not easy to change the venue."

Jiang Yuan sniffed, and taking Li Haochen's earlier remark, if said domestically, might just allow finding Cai Dahammer.

Because he often goes to that bar, it's not just once or twice; likely three to five times or even more, so technical investigation finding a phone that appears multiple times repeatedly would easily put Cai Dahammer in the net.

Inside, there will certainly be some regular bar patrons and staff, but eliminating them is easy, and even combining with photos can directly yield results, then following the phone number and surveillance all the way, one could catch Cai Dahammer at home.

Malaysia obviously can't do this easily—no real-name phone cards is a problem, technical investigation isn't very convenient either, so in the end we still have to use entrapment.

Ni Cha made a phone call on-site back to China to confirm the bar's situation.

Half an hour later, Ni Cha nodded to Jiang Yuan: "The bar's surroundings are indeed complex, but we have a way—you guys go ahead and transfer the money."

"Transfer the money." Jiang Yuan confirmed.

Li Haochen instead became a bit flustered: "Just confirmed like that?"

"Confirmed." Jiang Yuan added no more words: "The nest is already set, you just need to twitch the rod—whether Cai Dahammer opens his mouth or bites the hook, it's not our concern."

(End of Chapter)