Chapter 469

"There really are several dozen people... Hmm, there must be over a hundred by now."

Standing in the Criminal Police Detachment's conference room, the Deputy Detachment Captain of the Anti-Drug Detachment flipped through the list Jiang Yuan had pulled out page by page and exchanged a look with Captain Old Qian.

Captain Old Qian nodded solemnly and said, "On your way over, I communicated with the office, and it should be correct. Any further verification will just confirm it."

"Are they all matches from the fingerprints we provided?"

"Yes."

"Phew..." The Deputy Detachment Captain let out a breath, glanced at Jiang Yuan, who was still buried in his work, and his expression also turned serious.

Of the dozen or so people in this conference room, aside from him and Captain Old Qian, everyone else—including Jiang Yuan—didn't know where the evidence came from; they were simply processing the evidence.

And the Deputy Detachment Captain knew very well that the fingerprints in this stack of names included some extracted from small packets of drugs, which meant they were either members of the drug sales chain or drug users who were consuming the drugs.

Other fingerprints were obtained from intelligence on suspected high-risk locations acquired recently. For example, the office building Jiang Yuan had just identified as a suspected drug manufacturing factory for Huang Li was a high-risk location. Anti-drug personnel couldn't enter directly, so they designed things in nearby parking lots, convenience stores, and restaurants that required human contact—such as installing an extra lever that needed to be pressed, or changing the inner doors of public restrooms to a manual pull-to-open mode.

In short, most of the people whose fingerprints they provided, once identified, were basically criminal offenders, and some of them were even facing the death penalty.

But honestly speaking, the Deputy Detachment Captain had watched his subordinates send the evidence over, and when he sent it, he really hadn't expected that what he would get back would be a Death Note.

"Jiang Yuan from Ningtai, his murderous aura is overwhelming." Recalling this phrase, the Deputy Detachment Captain immediately had a personal realization.

"What should we do?" Captain Old Qian couldn't help but be anxious; there were nearly a hundred people here, and it looked like they were looking at a hundred criminal suspects.

If they didn't arrest them, would these people run?

Even without considering the issue of leaks, criminals are mobile by nature. If it were just one or two, they could move as they pleased, and the Anti-Drug Detachment wouldn't care about the travel expenses for a few people.

Now it was different. With over a hundred criminal suspects, tracking them down would be difficult, to say nothing of the fact that if ten or twenty percent ran, that would be ten or twenty people—just thinking about it felt like a pity.

While there were certainly underlings among them, there were definitely essential mid-level drug traffickers as well.

How difficult would it usually be to catch such a person? Now that they were right in front of you, do you arrest them or not?

But if they did arrest them, the drug trafficking ring would definitely have a stress reaction. They weren't like those penniless street thugs who could only run to their relatives' or friends' homes. Drug traffickers might be out of the country by the time you finish speaking, and in a few years, they might die abroad, making it impossible to bring them to justice.

Most importantly, behind these suspects, there might be even more people involved.

Perhaps there really was hope of uprooting both criminal gangs.

Such an opportunity was not easily achieved, even for a detachment-level anti-drug unit.

What Captain Old Qian could think of, the Deputy Detachment Captain could also think of.

While he was thinking and weighing the pros and cons, the printer beside him kept creaking and spitting out slips of paper.

"Suddenly, I feel like a school beauty." The Deputy Detachment Captain, with his rough face, suddenly said this, which gave Captain Old Qian a start.

"How... how did we become a school beauty?" Captain Old Qian was a bit panicked; he was old and couldn't handle the stimulation.

The Deputy Detachment Captain said, "When I was in school, the school beauty in my class was just like this. She wouldn't even finish reading one note before another was sent over. During a single recess, she could be stuffed with a pile of notes."

"That school beauty must have been very beautiful." Captain Old Qian was envious.

The Deputy Detachment Captain gave a "Hmm" and said, "She was truly beautiful. Later, she was tricked into using drugs, and when she died, she looked better than other corpses."

"What a pity." Captain Old Qian was too old; hearing such stories now, his emotions didn't fluctuate much, and he only said, "This time, we can catch a few more drug dealers to sacrifice to the heavens."

"Hmm... I'll call the Detachment Captain over to take a look. We aren't in a rush for this one hour." Having said this, the Deputy Detachment Captain had also thought it through. Jiang Yuan had only just started doing fingerprint comparisons and had already matched so many drug addicts and dealers. Although there might not be many important figures among them, this was just the beginning.

There were still so many fingerprints to go. Even if they couldn't maintain the current ratio, with so many fingerprints, it wouldn't be strange to match another 100.

So arresting people now would definitely be a case of the losses outweighing the gains.

But on the other hand, he also couldn't bear the risk of such a major decision. If they arrested all the nearly one hundred people on the list in his hand...

The Deputy Detachment Captain couldn't help but clench his fists, unable to resist the temptation.

An hour later, the Detachment Captain of the Anti-Drug Detachment arrived at the conference room.

He must have been out earlier, as there were sweat stains on his collar, and he had nowhere to change his clothes—perhaps he didn't care either. As soon as he entered, he looked at the list the Deputy Detachment Captain had mentioned.

The Deputy Detachment Captain held it and placed it in front of him.

The Deputy Detachment Captain flipped through a few pages and discovered that one page meant one person, and couldn't help but say, "This... is more than a few dozen or a hundred pages."

"In the time it took you to get here, Team Leader Jiang has already processed another thirty or so people." The Deputy Detachment Captain pursed his lips. He couldn't exactly make a special phone call to talk about this in the middle of things.

Jiang Yuan looked up politely, smiled, and greeted him, "Detachment Captain."

"Oh... Jiang Yuan, thank you for your hard work." The Detachment Captain didn't grasp Jiang Yuan's intention of saving time and even went over to shake his hand.

Jiang Yuan could only stand up to shake his hand and then said, "I'm in the zone right now. Let me work for a while longer, and I'll treat you to a meal later?"

Although it was a 24-hour cooldown, he couldn't waste it. When it came time to make arrests, this one hour of effort might add two more names to the death penalty list. For things like this, it was better not to delay.

The Detachment Captain was naturally all smiles and hurriedly said, "You do your thing. If you need anything, just tell me, and we'll provide you with good service. By the way, are these photos and materials complete?"

"They're alright. I can only process the existing materials and evidence." Jiang Yuan said this and sat back down to look at the computer screen. LV5 fingerprint identification technology didn't seem to be much stronger than LV4, but if you looked closely, it was roughly the difference between an Olympic champion and a National Games champion in a 100-meter sprint—it seemed like a difference of only a few tenths of a second, but in reality, it was a world of difference.

When facing fingerprints, it was actually the same: a miss is as good as a mile.

If they were all simple fingerprints, then an LV3 or LV2 fingerprint expert could handle them. But if they encountered complex, difficult fingerprints, an LV3 might need to work on them for several days, an LV4 might be able to do it in a day or two, and for an LV5, they might be able to get results very quickly.

Jiang Yuan was currently facing a lot of fingerprint evidence, and with his LV5 skill, he was processing it very quickly. But if he were back at LV4, the final result might be about the same, but it could take several more days, or even a week.

Previously, when Jiang Yuan did fingerprint analysis, he often had to spend several days on it, and ordinary experts were the same; everyone relied on both technique and meticulousness, and sometimes on luck as well.

Criminals were actually the same. If their luck was bad, even if they cleaned the crime scene very meticulously, they might still encounter an LV3 expert, and all their previous efforts would be wasted.

The most common parolees in drug trafficking rings were sometimes very smart people who had trained for years; the crimes they planned and implemented could even deceive LV3 experts, but if they went up against Jiang Yuan's current LV5, it was all for nothing. They didn't even know if he was strong or not.

The current situation was actually like this: among the evidence collected by the Anti-Drug Detachment, the degree of blurriness or difficulty of some evidence was outrageous, and it was possible that ordinary LV3 experts couldn't handle it simply.

Jiang Yuan would have previously estimated that he would need to process it for a while, or just set it aside and come back to process it over a longer period.

Today, it was all broken through in one go. Whether it was difficult or not, aside from Jiang Yuan, the criminals themselves probably didn't even know.

The Detachment Captain turned back and, like the Deputy Detachment Captain before him, began to flip through those "resumes" page by page again.

His expression gradually became serious, then he felt a bit like laughing, and finally, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but reveal a smile.

His movements also involuntarily became slow, and in the end, he read them with a sense of being deeply cherished, even a bit piously.

The Deputy Detachment Captain had to whisper a reminder to the Detachment Captain: "Huang Huang Qiangmin."

The expression at the corners of the Detachment Captain's mouth vanished instantly.

At this moment, Yu Yu Wenshu walked into the conference room.

"Old Yin, you're running back and forth..." Yu Yu Wenshu entered and teased, laughing, "I asked you all before if you needed us to prepare an office location, and Captain Old Qian said no, so I didn't arrange one..."

"We don't need an office location. We'll just take a look and head back." Detachment Captain Yin felt a bit embarrassed.

Yu Yu Wenshu glanced at Jiang Yuan, then looked at Detachment Captain Yin, and laughed, "Jiang Yuan is getting results, right? My recommendation wasn't bad, was it?"

"There are indeed results." Detachment Captain Yin nodded solemnly, then thought for a moment and said, "Detachment Chief Yu, let's speak plainly: the security work for this conference room still needs to be strengthened as much as possible."

Yu Yu Wenshu was taken aback: "Is it necessary? The security of our Criminal Police Detachment should be decent enough."

"I know, I just mean to strengthen it as much as possible. I don't mean anything else, but with the lives and survival of over a hundred people hanging in the balance here, I have to be careful." Detachment Captain Yin insisted, biting the bullet.

Yu Yu Wenshu was unhappy, but still gave a "Hmm."

Detachment Captain Yin explained again: "At least two days. I have to coordinate things on my end before we can take action. When the time comes, I'll still have to ask for your help."

"Fine. I'll seal off this corridor, clear out the offices upstairs and downstairs, send a few teams to stand guard, and add double posts in front of the door. Is that alright?" Yu Yu Wenshu provided a simple plan.

"That's fine, that's fine. If you don't mind, I'll send a few more people over to stay in the conference room and at the door." Detachment Captain Yin continued to request.

Yu Yu Wenshu nodded again, self-deprecatingly: "I've brought this upon myself."

"This time, it's on me, it's on me." Detachment Captain Yin apologized repeatedly, then took out his phone and started making calls.

He spent ten minutes on this one phone call.

Putting down the phone, Detachment Captain Yin felt a bit embarrassed and apologized to Yu Yu Wenshu again: "There's really no other way. The strategy we had already made and the plan we had designed might all have to be changed now. A few comrades don't quite understand."

"As long as you can explain it to them, it'll be fine."

"Uh... this... a few of them might still want to come and take a look." Detachment Captain Yin said helplessly: "The case is of great importance, and it concerns how the brothers will charge into battle, so I can't be arbitrary."

Yu Yu Wenshu nodded slowly: "I can understand that. You all go to the scenes, which is much more dangerous than what we do."

"It's been much better in recent years. However, if we could have the support of technical personnel like Jiang Yuan, many of our strategies and methods could truly undergo very good changes..." When Detachment Captain Yin spoke, he looked at Jiang Yuan, and his expression began to turn warm.

Yu Yu Wenshu couldn't bear to watch anymore and reminded him: "Huang Huang Qiangmin is not easy to talk to. You've seen how ruthless he is with his pricing."

Detachment Captain Yin: "Hmm, it is indeed quite high. However, if we can guarantee this kind of work efficiency, it can be considered worth more than the price..."

This was the first time Yu Yu Wenshu had seen someone bitten by a crocodile say it didn't hurt. How fat must this person be...

Yu Yu Wenshu thought about the difference in per capita funding for everyone and was shocked, hurriedly saying: "Old Yin, you must hold your ground. You are not allowed to drive up the prices."

"That won't happen, that won't happen." Detachment Captain Yin agreed with his mouth, but the look in his eyes as he gazed at Jiang Yuan was already one of being completely captivated.