Chapter 707: Settling Down

Night.

Xu Taining rolled up his quilt and had a good sleep in the hotel.

This sleep even gave Xu Taining a sense of religion—ever since he started conducting dragnets, the sleep time during the dragnet had become a metaphysics.

The mystery wasn't about how long to sleep, but whether there was sleep at all.

Think about it, when a unit invests its budget for the next two or three years, how can the leader sleep?

If the leader can't sleep, can the high-ranking police officer responsible for the dragnet hide in a hotel and sleep soundly because "there is nothing to do here"?

This time, Xu Taining could, because the accidental dismemberment case on the dragnet road was successfully concluded, eliminating more than half of all anxiety.

It wasn't that because this dragnet solved a homicide case, the value of the dragnet was recognized, the pressure of the dragnet was reduced, and the series of tasks of the dragnet wasn't so heavy—the above were indeed facts, but more importantly, everyone's spiritual world was strengthened.

A headless dismemberment case, without a dragnet, without a confirmed corpse source, without surveillance records, without visiting and questioning, was solved in just one day. Since such a bizarre thing had happened, everyone had no unrealistic worries about the dragnet.

The next morning.

Xu Taining returned to the scene, feeling refreshed.

In the sky, drones continued to dance; on the ground, pickups and off-road vehicles crawled; in the bushes, personnel like worker bees flowed arduously.

Xu Taining put down his binoculars with enjoyment, bit hard on the croissant in his hand, and said, "This is the capital."

The subordinates who came with him smiled knowingly and finished the bacon cheese egg burger in their hands in two or three bites. Eating such a Western-style breakfast was also the first time in his ten-year dragnet career.

It wasn't that they couldn't afford it, but every time a dragnet was organized, it was large-scale. This kind of Western-style breakfast, which was three to five times the price of a Chinese-style breakfast with the same calories, would cost a lot of money if distributed to everyone once, so they really couldn't afford it.

But in the capital, this level of expenditure wasn't in the eyes of the Zheng-Guang Bureau. They provided a variety of food at one time. Besides this, various special vehicles also took turns, making Xu Taining and his peers from small places dazzled.

In the past, when doing dragnets, it wasn't that there were no special vehicles. The special vehicles in service in Changyang City weren't necessarily fewer than those of the Zheng-Guang Bureau, but the maintenance of these cars was poor, the car age was long, and like the suburban routes this time, some cars were easy to drop the chain after running. At that time, it was estimated that tow trucks wouldn't be enough, which was even less helpful to the work itself.

In the final analysis, they couldn't afford to use them.

Even in smaller places, not to mention the level of Ningtai County, if they conducted a dragnet on the scale of ten thousand people in Qinghe City, the Qinghe City Bureau would have to calculate the use of gasoline.

A car with an average of 15 liters per 100 kilometers meant that for every 100 cars used, 15 liters of oil would be used for every kilometer. 1,000 cars would use 150 liters of oil for every kilometer. Hearing the sound of cars, the Bureau Chief of a city bureau would frown at these numbers.

Jingcheng Branch Bureau didn't have these things, at least Xu Taining didn't see Bureau Chief Chu have a painful expression. People in administrative departments couldn't see that kind of county-style money-saving, plus Xu Taining wasn't actually such a considerate high-ranking police officer...

"Let's do alternating inspections in the afternoon and run the map from yesterday again. The alternating plan is ready, right?" Xu Taining didn't want to waste, just purely wanted to be more rigorous.

In more than a day, even if the dragnet personnel used drones, it would be great if they could run 70% or 80% of the places. The terrain structure of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region was still very three-dimensional. Not to mention the plains, in mountainous areas, looking from above was the peak, and looking from the side, there were valleys and side peaks. The trees at the bottom of the valley were often exceptionally lush. To determine whether there were buildings, one had to fly very close.

The so-called "looking at the ridge from the side creates a peak." This kind of search was like looking for a fortune tree in the steel jungle of a city. When luck was good, one glance might discover it. If luck wasn't enough, one had to go around building by building, having to look at several sides of the building. Who knew which balcony, or even air conditioning position, the fortune tree was hiding in.

Xu Taining's thinking was still to check the large areas first, that is, areas with relatively convenient transportation. His idea was that non-mainstream religions also needed transportation conditions, especially the evil and messy varieties. Whether it was the pursuit of clothing, food, housing, or transportation, they all needed transportation conditions to support them.

Not to mention anything else, even if one went out to pick up a courier, within a range of one or two hours, there should be a courier point, right?

Xu Taining hoped to check these large areas carefully. If he still couldn't find them, he would change his thinking and search in more remote locations.

And by that time, what needed to be considered overall might also be the transformation of the overall thinking.

"The details of the alternating plan haven't been made yet," the subordinate said in a low voice.

"Do it now." Xu Taining wasn't angry. He did dragnets very fast and didn't require finished products to be available at any time. If there weren't any, make them. If you can't make them, add people and money. This had always been Xu Taining's way of thinking.

The subordinate immediately responded and added, "Should we communicate with the Capital Bureau? This is equivalent to doing yesterday's work again."

"Who can guarantee that thousands or tens of thousands of people are all careful, meticulous, and dutiful?" Xu Taining didn't care. "The core of a dragnet is first to prevent omissions. A large workload is not terrible; as long as the direction is correct, the dragnet will have results. But if there are omissions, then all the work will lose its meaning. We are not here to rely on luck, nor is there any bureau willing to take out so much budget to buy lottery tickets..."

Xu Taining emphasized this, pointed to a person, and said, "Old Pi, you go and communicate. Just say that today's inspection is the most cost-effective plan. Moving this afternoon, although alternating inspections require swapping the positions of various teams and running the map repeatedly, only the frontline troops are mobilized. By tomorrow, all support departments and logistics vehicles will have to move, and they have to move twice. Not only is it wasteful, but it might also cause congestion in the middle..."

Old Pi had been cooperating with him for several years and nodded. "I know how to say it. However, it mainly depends on their budget. If the other party insists on not doing alternating inspections, I'll call you again?"

Xu Taining said "Mm" and added, "Alternating inspection is just a question of when to do it; there is no option not to do it."

"They certainly hope to find the target in the first round of inspection."

"I also want the budget not to have an upper limit. Just thinking of good things."

"Maybe we really found it in the first round..." Old Pi was also full of hope.

"I'm here to conduct a dragnet, not to gamble with them." Xu Taining paused and added, "Even if I want to gamble, I'll gamble that the other party built the base in a remote place, not in a corner."

The boss's opinion was clearly stated, and Old Pi and the others had nothing more to say, so they packed up and went to urge.

Noon.

The army that received the order, like a giant abalone, began to slowly shrink back.

Xu Taining returned to the parking lot and saw Bureau Chief Chu, Tao Lu, Huang Qiangmin, Jiang Yuan, Liu Jinghui, and others eating under the sky.

Most people's expressions were relatively relaxed, and this was something Xu Taining hadn't encountered in daily dragnets.

This made Xu Taining's face sink.

"You seem quite happy?" Xu Taining asked unhappily.

"The case found yesterday, the one who killed his wife, Pei Yongsi, the knives used for dismemberment were found, and the motorcycle traces were also identified as the same. The corpse DNA also matched, confirming it was his wife, Wu Cuiyun," Liu Jinghui smiled and said. "Time and motive are consistent, and the bathroom at home is also a mess. It can be considered an ironclad case."

"I thought you encountered a new case." Xu Taining smiled, and at the same time stood up, holding a teacup, and smiled, "Just right, since everyone is relatively together, I'll toast everyone with tea instead of wine. A dragnet is a hard and tiring job, and the key is that it's not easy to achieve results. Thank you for everyone's cooperation and help..."

After toasting together, Xu Taining toasted several leaders with tea again.

Turning his head, Xu Taining clinked glasses with Jiang Yuan and others again, then came to several detachment leaders of the Zheng-Guang Bureau, and smiled, "You have suffered these few days. The dragnet work is heavy... and Cui Da, when did Cui Da come back? You've worked hard in Zhanggang Village."

"I came back yesterday. Detachment Leader Tao said there was a shortage of manpower here. As for Zhanggang Village, now that we're familiar with it, leaving two people and asking local police to cooperate is about the same." Cui Qishan's voice was hoarse. The village basically relied on shouting, and it was easy to use.

Xu Taining smiled and clinked glasses, and added, "What about your subordinates? Are they resting today, or are they fighting with you?"

"Hey, work is important..." Cui Qishan was just speaking when his phone rang.

Cui Qishan said "sorry" and answered the phone.

Xiao Si's voice came from the receiver: "Team Leader Cui, we just went to the woods to pee and encountered a corpse. Looking at it, the deceased looks like a teenager." ===== CHAPTER 708 =====