Chapter 562: Excellent

Jiang Yuan and the others were on high alert regarding the latest situation. They conscientiously split into several small teams to investigate the leads on Zhang Haobin's several ex-girlfriends.

Facts proved that there was absolutely no need for this.

If one were to say that the heads of the Zhang family, such as Zhang Xiu Lan, still had a shred of counter-reconnaissance awareness, then the 20-year-old Zhang Haobin—once the "Young Master Zhang" of Litang Township who feared nothing in heaven or on earth—was so arrogant that he was afraid people wouldn't know how awesome he was. The things he did in his daily life were never hidden, especially when it came to having a pretty girlfriend. For Zhang Haobin, setting his social media feed to be visible for six months was already the height of respect for his current partner.

As his several mobile phone numbers were exposed, almost all of Zhang Haobin's whereabouts and time could be found across various social media apps. There were texts and photos, and sometimes even videos; the police didn't need to expend any effort searching at all.

When the police brought the photos and names to interrogate Zhang Haobin, he completely collapsed, confessing clearly to the method of murder and the location where he buried the bodies.

It should be said that Zhang Haobin had already collapsed once before; it was only because his family had given him a "preventative shot" in advance that he managed to hold out for a while longer.

However, when a new set of evidence appeared, Zhang Haobin's line of defense completely crumbled.

The 20-year-old Zhang Haobin didn't quite understand the difference between a death sentence, a suspended death sentence, and life imprisonment. With his personality, he fantasized about a life of dashing horses and fine clothes, living life to the fullest. Rather than being locked in prison for 20 years and being 40 by the time he got out, he might as well...

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This kind of thinking is something 40-year-olds would basically never agree with, but 20-year-olds are exactly like that.

Most importantly, Zhang Haobin wasn't actually facing the death penalty immediately. Once Meng Chengbiao tricked and provoked him during the interrogation, Zhang Haobin let the secret slip.

He didn't realize that for the police, there was still a huge chasm to cross between filing a case and solving it. Especially with burial cases, if the perpetrator kept their mouth shut, sometimes the bodies really couldn't be found. In that case, even if a death sentence could be handed down, it might be dragged out for a long time.

Of course, with so much information exposed, it would be very difficult for Zhang Haobin to achieve that goal while facing Jiang Yuan.

Therefore, collapsing was just collapsing; it saved time and energy for both sides. From this perspective, Zhang Haobin could be considered sensible. Given the routine he used when committing the crimes, if Jiang Yuan had propped up his legs to observe him carefully, he wouldn't have lasted long anyway.

Wu Junhao led his men to the location indicated by Zhang Haobin and, sure enough, found two female corpses under a cliff.

"This guy had quite a good plan. He was planning to find some detonators later to collapse this cliff so that these bodies would be even harder to find." Meng Chengbiao came over with Jiang Yuan to exhume the bodies, and he felt a chill down his spine when he recalled the information Zhang Haobin had confessed.

"No matter how well he hid the bodies, what's the use if he himself let the secret slip?" Wu Junhao said, though he also felt Zhang Haobin's plan was cruelly brilliant. If he had really blown up this cliff, the buried earth and stone would have weighed hundreds or thousands of tons. The burial depth could have been over ten meters; even if one knew the location, digging them out wouldn't have been easy.

"He planned to blow up the cliff later... was he thinking of burying more bodies underneath?" Jiang Yuan looked at the location of the grave, which was very close to the cliff and didn't look like a random choice.

Meng Chengbiao gave a "humph" and said, "I think that was the intention, but he didn't explicitly state it."

Things that haven't happened cannot be prosecuted, and Meng Chengbiao couldn't keep pressing the issue.

"Did the families of the two victims not report them missing?" Jiang Yuan stood waiting, while two forensic assistants and two young police officers were digging the pit in front.

Meng Chengbiao's expression darkened again: "The two girls he found were both orphans."

"Oh?" Jiang Yuan was a bit surprised.

"Once a fool becomes a devil, they become like this. His first time might have been a coincidence, but after that, it became a pattern." Meng Chengbiao said coldly: "It's like a ritual."

The police officers present instantly understood what he meant. Many criminals actually have similar tendencies, especially those with low levels of education. He didn't understand why, nor did he want to know why; he just followed his own successful experience to commit crimes, and by coincidence, he was often able to avoid being caught for a period of time.

As for some criminals with higher levels of education, they often like to innovate their methods, and the more they change, the more they end up sending themselves to prison.

"We've dug it open," a forensic assistant reported.

Jiang Yuan and the others stepped forward, began carefully clearing away the dust, and collecting the remains from the grave.

The time of death for both bodies was less than two years, meaning Zhang Haobin had killed his two ex-girlfriends in succession within the last two years.

As for why this change occurred, it was likely due to a mental journey unique to him, but Jiang Yuan and the others couldn't care less.

For people like this, as long as they could ensure they were sent to their deaths, learning more would only lead to more frustration.

In the process of collecting the remains, a glowing blue orb flowed into Jiang Yuan's hand:

Yu Dongyue's Legacy: Japanese-style Makeup Art (LV2) — Yu Dongyue treated her face as a canvas, painting a blueprint of hope. Yu Dongyue fantasized countless times that she was a princess, an ugly duckling, fantasizing that her parents would descend from the sky and take her away... However, her fantasies never came true. Only after she carefully applied her makeup would men be willing to treat her seriously. She truly wished she could ride the wind and become a free and carefree white swan...

Jiang Yuan silently took the legacy, counted Yu Dongyue's remains, and then found the hyoid bone to confirm the cracks on it. That was all.

As the interrogation deepened, the number of cases involving the Zhang family was several times that of the Jin family.

At this moment, Jiang Yuan could truly understand why the old criminal police officers of the past valued preliminary trials so much. For a long time, many police stations treated the preliminary trial section as the core for solving cases.

Catching an old thief, digging deep, finding more cases, and getting them to confess to more criminal suspects—one linked to another—meant there was no need to spend time and effort investigating cases, and the number of solved cases was even higher.

Take the Zhang family, for example; with the whole family and several in-laws, nearly a hundred people could end up in prison. Those with long sentences would face the firing squad, and the median sentence would be over five years.

Jiang Yuan could already imagine that four or five years from now, when the Zhang family members and Jin family members started graduating from prison one after another, the police at the Litang Township Police Station would definitely be so busy their heels would ache.

In fact, the best approach would be to let the Zhang family and Jin family live in an independent area, which would also be convenient for providing corresponding police support. If absolutely necessary, dining and even daily consumption could also take place there, and they could even be provided with a certain amount of work, such as simple labor-intensive industries...

"Chuanxing, let's work on the new cases." Jiang Yuan called Wang Chuanxing over to continue helping him organize the case files.

Small cases also have all the necessary components; the efficiency of searching through them alone was too low.

Wang Chuanxing appeared enthusiastic. The phrase "eradicate evil completely" was still very attractive to criminal police officers. Working on cases with Jiang Yuan, being able to achieve the effect of... wiping them all out, everyone felt refreshed, whether they realized it or not.

Moreover, with the cases at the Litang Township Police Station being completed so quickly and in such large numbers, the constantly reported results also attracted the attention of superiors.

Soon, Cui Xiaohu arrived in Ningtai County... Litang Township, once again with a face full of smiles.

Station Chief Tang Xiaobo received the comrade from the ministry with a blank expression.

As an old police station that had been rooted in the countryside for over twenty years, the number of provincial department cadres Tang Xiaobo had seen on the job was pitifully small; this was his first time seeing staff from the ministry.

If he were a dozen years younger, Tang Xiaobo might have had other thoughts, but at his current age and work state, Tang Xiaobo just found it absurd.

Looking at Cui Xiaohu's smile, a question couldn't help but pop into Tang Xiaobo's mind: Everyone is working at a police station, you guys are even here temporarily, how come you colleagues are so excellent? ===== CHAPTER 563 =====