Chapter 459: Sunrise in the Southeast Corner

Noon.

The criminal police sent out to investigate returned one after another and pooled their clues together.

Yu Wenshu came to the conference room again, bringing a fruit platter filled with oranges.

This was something he had learned from the deputy bureau chief. If the fruit bought was grapes, strawberries, or something easy to pick up and eat, then needless to say, once placed on the table, it would be wiped clean in five minutes.

It didn't matter if it tasted good or not; if everyone tasted one, the whole plate could be swept away. Then there were those who liked sour, those who liked bland, those who liked salty, those who liked the taste of socks, those who liked raw, those who liked soft, those who liked firm, those who liked big, those who liked small, those who liked flat...

In short, it was hard to please everyone, and easy-to-eat things disappeared easily. For example, oranges: peeling them would dirty your hands, and juice would easily squeeze out when eating, so most people just looked and left it at that.

Captain Bai twisted uncomfortably twice.

He was originally the highest-ranking person in the conference room. Although Liu Jinghui was a fourth-level senior police officer from the provincial department, he had no specific duties, and in the police system, he was not as high-ranking as him, a proper county criminal police captain.

But Yu Wenshu was different; he was a man in a white shirt, and sitting in the conference room, his presence was fully felt.

"Let's begin." It was still Captain Bai who presided over the meeting. As he spoke, he took the initiative to light a cigarette.

The signal was given, and the room full of old smokers lit up one after another.

Even Jiang Yuan could only defensively light a cigarette to resist the invasion of secondhand smoke.

Yu Wenshu frowned but didn't speak; his criminal police detachment was in the provincial capital, and such a trend had long since disappeared there.

A squadron leader from Shi Tingxian stood up and said: "The last location where Chang Jiagui's mobile phone signal disappeared was the logistics industrial park in Heping Town, next to Changyang City. The industrial park has already failed, and currently, the largest enterprise inside is in the parking lot business."

"The technical investigation team sent a car to take us there specifically, but we didn't find Chang Jiagui's large vehicle. The Heping Town industrial park is near the national highway entering the city, and there is a newly built road for traffic, leaving a large empty area. When we went there, it was full of all kinds of transport vehicles, mostly large vehicles from out of town, as well as small vehicles doing cargo hauling. The parking order was very poor, and management was not strict. The parking lot security guards also had situations where they took money privately to let vehicles through."

"The parking lot surveillance only keeps records for half a year, so we couldn't find the original entry and exit records either. Later, several of us discussed it and felt that the criminal police in Qi Province might have found some situation here, so we contacted them."

The squadron leader looked at Wang Chuanxing.

Wang Chuanxing naturally stood up and said: "A month after the victim Chang Jiagui went missing, his ex-wife reported it to the police in Qi Province. The local police considered that Chang Jiagui was an adult and could not have gone missing without reason, so they dispatched personnel to search in many ways. After confirming that Chang Jiagui went missing in our province, they dispatched four people to Shannan Province."

Wang Chuanxing looked down at the record and continued: "We found the Qi Province criminal police who handled the case at the time. They followed the vehicle all the way here. The last thing that could be confirmed was that the vehicle left the province, exited the highway at Xinxian, Pingjiang Province, and then got on the national highway, after which it never appeared again."

"Did the vehicle checkpoint not capture the person?" Liu Jinghui asked first.

Wang Chuanxing shook his head and said: "The other party took preventive measures, with masks, hats, and sunglasses all in place. It was summer at the time, and it was exactly when Pingjiang was sunny..."

As he spoke, he projected a photo onto the projector. It was exactly the appearance of a person in a full suit passing through the checkpoint.

Although the disguise was a bit excessive, in this season, unless stopped by traffic, no one cared about the driver's attire.

Jiang Yuan took a look and said: "It's not the same person who took Wang Xingzhai away."

The person who took Wang Xingzhai away had a high probability of being the murderer himself. And Jiang Yuan remembered his gait very clearly; he couldn't describe the figure accurately, but now with a photo for comparison, he could determine it wasn't the same person.

Bai Jian said "En" and said: "This shows that there is still a gang."

Shi Tingxian was currently cracking down on organized crime and had wiped out multiple active social gangs, but the murderer here seemed unaffected, which made Bai Jian a bit annoyed.

Yu Wenshu asked at this time: "Did the Qi Province criminal police not investigate further at the time?"

Wang Chuanxing shook his head slightly and said: "They didn't find the body, and only had the vehicle as a clue. The case filed was still a missing person case. The local area cooperated with the search for many days, but didn't find the vehicle, so they could only withdraw in the end."

"The vehicle should have been pushed into the mountains." Liu Jinghui was very familiar with the terrain of the surrounding provinces and cities, and without even looking at the map, he said: "Going out from Xinxian, there is a long section of highway, all built along the mountains, with dangerous terrain, cliffs, and rivers. Many areas between the mountains are inaccessible. If operated well, if a truck drives headlong into it, even an immortal would find it hard to find."

Yu Wenshu said: "So, they also retreated in the face of difficulties?"

"In this situation, either send people to plow through it step by step, climb down to look at every ditch and ridge, or get some drones or something..." As Liu Jinghui spoke, his expression became serious.

The word "screening" was very common in the news, but it could also be understood this way: for cases that make the news, screening has to be specifically mentioned.

Moreover, screening is different from screening.

Like what Liu Jinghui said now, compared to the screening along the highway in Luyang City previously, the difficulty was much smaller. After all, they were looking for a medium-sized truck, and even after several years, it was still a large target.

The difficulty was also not small.

Screening along the highway relied on the highway, and eating, drinking, and relieving oneself were easy to solve. Although the personnel participating in the screening felt very hard, compared to mountain climbing and ridge crossing screening, it could be described as easy.

Bai Jian lit another cigarette.

As the case progressed to this point, the basis for him to be able to preside over the case was that Shi Tingxian was spending money.

And such a high-cost screening actually had to be carried out outside the province; Bai Jian didn't even dare to think about this expense.

"Captain Bai, think about it. If it doesn't work, our Changyang City Criminal Police Detachment can take over." Yu Wenshu waited for two minutes and gave Bai Jian a choice.

It wasn't bullying the small, it was purely giving you another way.

If you can't afford the case, then let it go. If the vehicle can be found, the case can be considered to have a bright future. From this point of view, Yu Wenshu was at most taking the pot, but he was prepared to cook it himself.

"No need. We'll do it ourselves." Bai Jian took a deep breath. Although he had more than half of his manpower stuck in Shi Tingxian, he was not familiar with Pingjiang Province, and he didn't know how much funding the bureau could squeeze out, but in terms of confidence, Bai Jian had never lost.

Yu Wenshu didn't care and laughed: "That's best. Actually, if you're lucky, drones can detect it, which can save a lot of effort."

If you're unlucky and can't detect it in a short time, and really send people to climb mountain ditches, that's really a job that even a dog wouldn't do. Yu Wenshu himself wouldn't want to do it.

Bai Jian smoked, frowned, looked at Liu Jinghui, and asked: "Director Liu, how about you command the screening?"

He now began to feel that Liu Jinghui was a small backer.

Liu Jinghui's provincial department status made it easier for him to communicate with counterparts outside the province. The provincial department itself had a certain communication mechanism.

On the other hand, Liu Jinghui also had a certain organizational ability. He couldn't compare to Xu Taining, but organizing a field screening where his subordinates were very tired and the scale was not large was no problem at all.

Liu Jinghui looked at Jiang Yuan and said readily: "I have no problem. I'll tell the department and ask Pingjiang Province how we can cooperate."

For cases of this level, the provincial department itself had to provide subsidies and funding. Especially poor counties would also have particularly vicious cases, and they couldn't just ignore them because they had no money.

Captain Bai hurriedly expressed his gratitude, sincerely. As a captain of a county criminal police detachment, he had rarely received such help before.

The meeting ended, and Jiang Yuan called several male criminal police officers, including Mu Zhiyang and Wang Chuanxing, to return to his house in Changyang to rest.

Although the house was small, it had four large bedrooms, and it was safer for more people to live together. It was a professional killer, or the kind raised by a drug trafficking gang, and just thinking about it made one feel vicious. ===== CHAPTER 460 =====