Dark Light Chaser.

Chapter 181 Sharing Intelligence

I knew it.

Tian Hao stared at the sky speechlessly.

Every time I ask a sea hare to do something, she will list a whole bunch of dangers.

It all boils down to those two words—more money.

Of course, he's not the kind of ruthless person who'd risk everything for you if you paid more.

Before taking on a task, the sea hare will thoroughly investigate the cause, process, and degree of threat to itself, or at least have a general understanding of it.

If you had contacted Hai Tu a month ago to help investigate the kidnapping case, they would definitely have refused without hesitation.

But now things are different. With Gao Bin's support, the case has taken a turn for the better.

Unlike before, when even the lives of those involved in the case were hanging by a thread.

"We can add more money, but the conditions will have to change."

Tian Hao patiently negotiated with Hai Tu: "You don't need to inquire about the RV's travel history. Just pull up the identity information of all the RV owners who have recently purchased RVs in Qianhua City, and also check the source of their purchase funds."

Tian Hao changed the terms, and the other end of the phone immediately fell silent.

After about half a minute, the phone emitted a strange, teeth-grinding sound: "...So this is what you really wanted, isn't it?"

The sea hare's breath smelled like spoiled fried rice left out in the summer sun for three days; you could almost smell the strange resentment through the phone.

Tian Hao remained noncommittal: "The pay will be 50%, so tell me if you're in or not."

"Double."

The sea hare bargained.

"Eighty percent."

"Double!"

"Seventy percent."

"Why are you trying to bargain?!"

"The maximum commission is 80%. Just tell me if you want it or not."

Tian Hao stuck to his price, saying that a 1.8x return was already quite substantial.

"Give me two days... Do you have any clues about the car model or anything like that? If so, I can send you the information tomorrow."

"Yes, it's been sent to your phone, but you'd better hurry."

Tian Hao casually transcribed the messenger's recording, made some minor edits, and sent it to Hai Tu.

A series of rapid keystrokes came from the other end of the phone: "80% of the reward, don't back out, I'll check right now."

"Of course, it's the same old rule, the money will be transferred to your card later."

Tian Hao readily agreed, figuring that Liu Yuan would handle the expense reimbursement afterward, so he'd let him worry about it; he'd just agree first.

After agreeing on the direction of the investigation, Tian Hao prepared to return to the warehouse, just as the messenger came out of the warehouse.

Tian Hao quickly called out to him, "Wait, where are you going?"

"Of course, we'll continue the investigation."

The messenger answered without turning his head.

"I'll send you the investigation data here later."

Tian Hao did not try to keep the messenger; it was clearly more appropriate to let him act alone than to keep him by their side.

However, the messenger stopped in his tracks upon hearing this.

"Are you willing to share your intelligence network with me?"

The messenger retorted, "Aren't you afraid the Ministry of the Interior will cause you trouble?"

Bounty hunters are, after all, hired helpers.

In principle, it is strictly forbidden for the police to provide intelligence to low-reputation bounty hunters.

Systems need time to be perfected, and any system will have loopholes when it is first established.

For example, when the bounty hunter system was first established in the United States, the crime rate in the entire society did not decrease but increased.

The economic level, people's living standards, and public security situation have all regressed by five years.

In fact, the people who created this system were not native Americans, but European Unioners.

The fact that Meibang was able to gain independence from the Asian Union and the European Union back then may well have been due to the consideration of it being a testing ground for new policies.

Despite being independent, many mayors, administrators, and councilors in American cities have secured their positions with the support of both major political systems.

Whenever the Asian Union and the European Union are about to promulgate any new laws, regulations, or systems, they will first conduct social experiments in the United States.

Therefore, even after independence, the actual influence of the two major political systems in the United States has not decreased much.

The details are similar to the control of a white-flagged nation with the slogan "You can never defeat me before I surrender" over its colonies on the equatorial continent.

The details are clear to those who know.

Asia Union originally thought that by learning from Meibang's experience and establishing a bounty hunter reputation rating system, it could rest easy.

However, those who perfected the system still underestimated the ability of those below to cheat, shirk responsibility, and exploit loopholes.

In the early days of the Asia Union bounty hunter system, bounty hunters only needed a certain level of credibility to share the police's public intelligence network.

This regulation, originally intended to encourage win-win cooperation between the two parties, has been targeted by some cunning old foxes.

Some people register as bounty hunters and then work with the local black market.

Criminal gangs provide criminals with their henchmen, or they team up with bounty hunters to fight another faction, providing bounty hunters with a channel to "farm points" and quickly increase the reputation score of the individuals involved.

Once the bounty hunters' reputation reaches a level where they can share public intelligence, they will stop their score-farming activities.

This allowed the bounty hunter to exploit the police intelligence network to funnel profits to the black market.

For example, they could provide real-time updates on police movements, quickly pack up and flee before a crackdown, or offer bail services to arrested gang members.

However, there are still some proud and arrogant people who disdain such underhanded and low-class dealings.

They directly used police channels to recruit informants, run underground casinos, and engage in smuggling.

In just one year, 40 percent of Asia Union's informants were lured into corruption.

These informants are people who make a living in the gray area. If they are offered benefits and given a taste of success, they are easily swayed.

Fortunately, this chaos was detected in time.

Asia Union added an assessment system to the credit system: 60 points is assessed once, and 80 points is assessed again.

At the same time, the rules were changed, replacing the original 50 reputation points with a minimum of 80 reputation points to qualify for sharing police intelligence networks.

Generally speaking, bounty hunters who can score over 60 points on the exam can directly join the public security system. Isn't it more comfortable to be a bounty hunter than to live off the government and slack off?
Since then, it has essentially severed the link between bounty hunters and the police in sharing intelligence networks.

Over time, everyone accepted the unspoken rule that only bounty hunters provide information to the police, but the police will not disclose any investigative leads to the bounty hunters.

"Now is not the time to care about such things, and there aren't many people we can trust anyway."

Tian Hao wasn't being old-fashioned: "If you don't tell me, and I don't tell you, no one else will know anyway."

"Old Tian, ​​it's settled...it's done..."

Jin Ping'an's echo came from inside the warehouse.

By the time he ran out, the messenger had just driven away.

"Isn't the messenger with us?"

Jin Ping'an asked.

The two only acted together during their first meeting; subsequent investigations were conducted by the messenger alone.

This employment arrangement felt unreal to Jin Ping'an, and he really wanted to go with the messenger.

To be honest, he was very interested in the messenger's observation methods. He could analyze a lot of things just by looking at the naked eye and the information spoken by others, which was more effective than his backtracking.

Therefore, Jin Ping'an really wanted to learn from the messenger.

If you can learn it, and combine your own retrospection with that superhuman observational ability, what case can't you solve?

Fantasy may be wonderful, but reality is cruel.

Jin Ping'an didn't even consider that with his brain, which gets dizzy after doing just two math problems, how could he possibly process the large amount of information his eyes saw?
What's the point of you following them?

Tian Hao's question stumped Jin Ping'an.

“You’re not doing anything by following the messenger, so why are you even following him?”

Besides, don't forget the messenger's past. He definitely has a side he doesn't want people to see now. Weren't you just causing him trouble in the past?

Tian Hao went to the trunk, took out the evidence collection and investigation kit, and tossed a pair of gloves to Jin Ping'an: "Enough with the nonsense, how's the negotiation with Wu Ke going?"

"Captain Wu agreed and granted me access to the monitoring system. Le Jia is currently using the software to search for surveillance footage related to the RV."

Jin Pingan put on gloves: "And when you're making an arrest, you can call him and he'll send a small team to assist you."

"Wu Ke granted you access to the monitoring system?!"

Tian Hao was dumbfounded. He had intended to explain to Jin Ping'an the difficulty of connecting unapproved software to a public monitoring system, but who knew that this bald man would agree so readily.

What does this mean?

This is equivalent to a beggar walking up to a king and saying he wants to be king for a couple of days, and the king readily agreeing.

Or to put it another way that's easy to understand.

I went to a restaurant and ordered a bowl of beef fried rice. I asked the chef to give me only beef and no rice, and then the waiter brought me a bowl of stir-fried beef.

It's absolutely incredible.

"what happened?"

Jin Ping'an put on an innocent expression: "This shouldn't be anything bad, right..."

Tian Hao bypassed Jin Pingan: "It's nothing, just hurry in and collect a blood sample, and check if there are any other people's fingerprints."

Wu Ke has already agreed, so why should I say so much?

Ultimately, the main reason for preventing outsiders from accessing the public monitoring system is the concern that someone might use it for illegal or criminal activities.

They integrated the software into the system to assist in case investigations, not to do anything shady.

As for whether Cheng Lejia would use software to do bad things?

Don't be ridiculous, there are countless businesses in Qianhua City that are under the Shengjia Group's name.

Take Jiuhua City as an example.

This landmark tourist and commercial area in Qianhua City was spearheaded by Shengjia Group.

Shengjia Group is like the Kingston Hotel in the local area; if he wanted to do something bad, he could easily become the next Hu Yingshao.

Although Cheng Lejia is the heir to the group, his wealthy family background has not made him arrogant. On the contrary, he is very gentle, friendly and sincere.

Putting everything else aside, just in terms of how he treats people, Cheng Lejia is far better than any of the rich kids Tian Hao has ever met.

Whether you're a beggar on the street or a corporate executive, Cheng Lejia treats everyone equally. He treats his best friend Jin Ping'an almost like a brother.

Tian Hao has suspected more than once that Cheng Lejia might be a saint from heaven reincarnated.

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In the blink of an eye, it was night.

Tian Hao brought the collected blood back to the criminal investigation team for analysis, but the number of victims was simply too large.

The analysis and comparison alone can take several days.

This is the result of sending some samples to the hospital for analysis.

Hu Yingshao has been released because the "crimes" he described in his "surrender" did not meet the requirements for detention.

Seeing that the objective of diverting police resources had been achieved, they left in the afternoon.

Tian Hao and Jin Ping'an sat in the office area, at the conference room table, reading the interrogation report while listening to Jiang Kaiji complain.

"Sigh, those four guys recruited pretty quickly, but they don't know anything."

Jiang Kaiji leaned back in his chair and held up an interrogation report: "Ping An, don't you have anything to say? Those four came for you."

"It's not the first time, what's there to say?"

Jin Ping'an sighed. He had been beaten too badly in the past month, and it hadn't even been half a month since he was kidnapped by robbers.

To be honest, he's almost immune to all of this. It's just murder, right? In the end, there are only two outcomes: either he'll be buried peacefully or he'll be safe and sound.

Jiang Kaiji moved the report aside, revealing half of his face, and asked in confusion, "You ruined Wang Youcai's business. Is he planning to fight you to the death? Aren't you afraid at all?"

“I am still afraid sometimes, but I will not compromise with him because of fear.”

Jin Ping'an looked at Jiang Kaiji: "Didn't you always tell me that compromising with this kind of person will only make them take advantage of us?"

After listening, Jiang Kaiji hid his face behind the report again.

He chose to skip the topic: "Speaking of which, those four assassins were quite interesting. After entering the interrogation room, they started confessing without me even asking them anything."

The ringleader was a wanted fugitive, which meant he could be punished for multiple crimes.

When he heard that the person he was about to shoot was a prosecutor sent down from above, he almost fainted from fright and begged me for a life sentence, fearing that someone would try to get him sentenced to death.

And then there was the killer who was taken down instantly by the Supreme People's Procuratorate before he could even react.

He even asked me if I could get a reduced sentence since I didn't resist. His thought process and bizarre ideas are truly something else; it's a real shame he didn't study law and get his lawyer's license…

Jiang Kaiji rambled on, using a humorous approach to recount the interrogation process to the two men.

"Alright, be quiet for a bit. If you're really bored, go with Liu Yuan to visit the victims' families. You can have a proper chat with them instead of just chattering away here."

Tian Hao buried his head in piles of documents, processing the intelligence he had gathered and circling the parts that might be related to the case.

Normally, Tian Hao might listen to a few lines, just to relieve some stress by listening to crosstalk.

But now that we've discovered the crucial clue of the RV, there's no time to listen to his rambling. It's much more efficient to just look at the interrogation records than to hear him talking.

Jiang Kaiji slammed the report in his hand on the table with a worried look on his face: "What the hell am I supposed to do? This pile of interrogation reports is giving me a headache. I'll probably have to work overtime again tonight."

The interrogation report in Jiang Kaiji's hand showed that he had spent a whole day interrogating all the people in the club.

But the interrogation wasn't the end of it. Just like what Tian Hao was doing now, he also had to find statements from the interrogation records that might play an important role in the progress of the case.

As for Jin Ping'an, he is currently reviewing the surveillance video sent by Cheng Lejia.

Cheng Lejia's software achieves higher search accuracy the more information you input.

But surveillance cameras aren't living people, and much of what the messenger says can't be analyzed by software just from video footage.

To be on the safe side, Cheng Lejia only entered the vehicle's size and wheel model, which resulted in the software recognizing many similar trucks.

Jin Ping'an is gradually adding those misidentified truck license plate numbers to the software's blocking database.

But just as he finished entering the license plate number and brought up the next video, a motorhome came into Jin Ping'an's view.

Sorry! _(`」∠)__
Yesterday, my mind was full of inspiration for another book. I got so engrossed in writing the outline and adding the settings that I forgot about the time and simply asked for leave.

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