Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 532 A Foreign Land!

This day at the end of April.

A flight takes off from Yuncheng International Airport.

Nearly two hours later, the plane arrived in Yangon, a city in Myanmar, where it was greeted by staff at the exit.

Luo Rui and his group pushed their suitcases and arrived at their hotel in a special vehicle.

The weather here in April is the rainy season, it's humid and hot, and the clothes feel sticky and uncomfortable to wear.

On the flight, the group had already learned about the situation here. Not only were guns and uniforms prohibited, but it was also best not to reveal their identities.

Luo Rui sat in a chair in the hotel room. Besides him, Qiao Xue, Lin Chen, Fang Yonghui, Qian Baishan, and Zhou Hui, who was in charge of their itinerary, were also in the room.

He explained, "This hotel is mostly frequented by Chinese people, and the owner is also Chinese, so there are no safety issues. However, if you need to go out on business, it's best to go in pairs."

Luo Rui nodded to Lin Chen, who walked to the window and drew the curtains, instantly dimming the room.

Seeing how cautious they were, Zhou Hui said, "It's not that serious. After all, this is a tourist city, so the situation is relatively much better."

Most importantly, a few days later, you will be going to Karen State, where the situation is much more complicated. The largest force there is the Karen Militia Union, which controls Phra Phuttha and the eastern mountainous region of Myawaddy. The US is the power behind them, and they have 15000 troops.

Secondly, there is the border guard battalion, SAC, stationed in the city of Myawaddy, with a strength of 4500 men.

These forces are all alright, after all, they are waving the banner of justice, and even if they encounter obstacles or disputes arise, they can be resolved with money.

The most feared group is the Yen An Army. This group is controlled by local drug traffickers and tycoons. They operate along the Thai-Myanmar border year-round, engaging in smuggling, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and other illegal activities. Their strength is close to 1500 men.

The telecom fraud industrial park in Myawaddy is almost entirely connected to these people, doing business with them in various ways, such as through them, trafficking in human beings and organs.

Mr. Luo, my suggestion is that we should scout out the situation from the outskirts. If you really intend to go to Myawaddy, I think you should abandon that idea.

Luo Rui waved to Fang Yonghui and Qian Baishan, and the two immediately left the room.

Without Luo Ruiming saying it, they were there to check out the hotel's layout.

They were on the third floor of the hotel; Luo Rui had rented the entire floor.

At this moment, Luo Rui spoke up: "Director Zhou, according to Jiang Li and Zhang Hanbing, the park in Myawaddy is detaining as many as five or six hundred of our compatriots. If we don't go to Myawaddy, what will happen to these people?"

Zhou Hui was silent for a long time before replying, "If you can't squeeze them dry, you can either make money off them themselves, like their organs, or resell them to other places."

Luo Rui nodded: "Several cases we've handled before pointed to this place. Deep Blue Biotechnology Company in Linjiang City, many of the organs flowed here. Besides that, there's the drug lord Hao Fan, whose hideout is also in Miaowadi. And then there's this case."

If it can be confirmed that our compatriots are indeed being held in that park, then we will have a legitimate reason to rescue them.

Zhou Hui sighed: "That's the idea, but Mr. Luo, if we really do that, you'll be in danger."

"Yes, there will be danger."

Zhou Hui thought Luo Rui would say something righteous and righteous, but he didn't.

With this, Zhou Hui felt a little more at ease, at least the other party wasn't completely fearless, and was at least somewhat wary.

A short while later, Qian Baishan and Fang Yonghui returned. The two nodded to Luo Rui, indicating that there was no major problem.

Then, Jiang Feng, dressed in camouflage and wearing a baseball cap, returned, carrying two travel bags.

He placed one of them on the coffee table, unzipped it, and took out more than a dozen cell phones, placing them on the table.

“Here, communication is more important than guns. Each person has two cell phones, and I have saved the numbers of each phone number according to the first letter of your names.”

"In addition, I also had two satellite phones purchased, but they won't be delivered until tonight."

Qian Baishan took the phone that was handed to him and asked, "Can you get a gun?"

Jiang Feng smiled and said, "If I could get my hands on it, would you dare to use it?"

Qian Baishan shrugged: "Why wouldn't I dare? I just feel a little uneasy here without a gun on me, don't you think, Mr. Luo?"

"We'll have guns," Luo Rui said meaningfully.

Qian Baishan felt a little relieved when he heard him say that.

Zhou Hui stood up: "Okay, shall we have a meeting first?"

Immediately afterwards, everyone sat around the coffee table and began to make detailed arrangements for this outbound investigation.

In summary, Luo Rui and his team's objective was to investigate whether the 'Fanbang Industrial Park' in Myawaddy was holding five or six hundred compatriots, if the situation was true.

The provincial government, and even the ministry, would then contact Myanmar to conduct law enforcement operations, including crackdowns, arrests, and hostage rescues.

But now they have to go to Myawaddy and go deep into the park to find concrete evidence.

For example, if you use a camera to capture the true situation in the park, or to rescue some compatriots, you need solid evidence to present before you can have a legitimate reason to act.

According to Jiang Li and Zhang Hanbing's testimonies, one of the main forces controlling the park was the Ren'an Army, in addition to a Chinese family.

After more than a month of investigation, it was found that this family were descendants of defeated soldiers, surnamed Lin, and the patriarch was named Lin Mansheng.

The family's territory is in Mae Sot, separated from Myawaddy by a river called the Moai River, which is about 120 meters wide.

The main passage is the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge, and on the other side of the bridge is the Thai-Laos customs port.

This Lin Mansheng had five wives and thirteen children.

Lin Mansheng gradually expanded his business from drug trafficking and smuggling, and now has his own armed forces. His business is now a mix of legitimate and illicit activities.

He ran two casinos and several food processing plants in Thailand. On the surface, he was running legitimate businesses, but in private, he was involved in smuggling, drug trafficking, kidnapping, and loan sharking.

His youngest son, Lin Cong, is in charge of managing his gray-market businesses and is also one of the forces in the Fanbang Industrial Park.

In addition, the Lin family had close ties with the Ren'an Army of the Miao Wadi, which meant they were helping this group with their illegal and criminal business.

The other person Jiang Li and Zhang Hanbing mentioned is Hu Jing, whose ancestral home is Fujian. Her parents are overseas and run a construction business in Myanmar called "Emerald City" Construction Co., Ltd.

The telecom fraud gang that Luo Rui and his team had previously dismantled was the one whose leader, Huang Zhang, was swindled by this woman, incurred huge debts from loan sharks, and was then taken to the Fanbang Industrial Park.

In addition, Huang Zhang also confessed that three years ago, his wife and daughter were taken to Fanbang Park and have not been heard from since.

In fact, Luo Rui and others, along with the Yunnan Provincial Department, already believed that many compatriots were being detained in the Fanbang Industrial Park.

Over the past month, the provincial public security bureau's economic crime investigation and cybersecurity departments have conducted extensive investigations and collected dozens of missing persons cases, all pointing to Myawaddy.

Not to mention the testimonies of Jiang Li and Zhang Hanbing.

Huang Zhang's wife and daughters are the most direct evidence; their flight information, departure times, and so on are all traceable.

But that won't work. To convince the Myanmar side, we need solid evidence.

At this moment, everyone gathered around the laptop, where photos of Lin Cong and Hu Jing, along with their identity information, appeared on the screen.

Zhou Feng said, "We informed the Myanmar side that we were pursuing wanted criminals who had fled the country, but we didn't tell them our purpose. So, we also need to be wary of them doing something behind our backs." Jiang Hui nodded, "However, if we really find conclusive evidence, they would be very willing to cooperate with us to carry out law enforcement in Myawaddy. After all, that area is a headache for them, as the territory has always been controlled by multiple forces."

"Mr. Luo, when do you plan to depart?"

At this moment, Luo Rui was holding his phone and sending messages continuously, but no one knew who he was talking to.

"Brother Feng, find two cars first, preferably bulletproof ones. We also need satellite phones, trackers, miniature cameras, and other equipment. We've already made a list. Once you've gathered everything, we'll head to Myawaddy."

Jiang Feng nodded: "That will take at least two days. The official channels are faster, but they are easy to be targeted."

"Then let's stay here for two days. That's perfect, we can explore this tourist city."

Luo Rui put down his phone and smiled: "It's getting late, let's all go out for a meal. What good food is there around here in Myanmar?"

Jiang Feng smiled and said, "It's definitely not as good as what we have back home. If you really want to eat it, I'll take you to eat fish soup rice noodles. This dish is the national dish here."

After half an hour.

Luo Rui, Lin Chen, Qian Baishan, Fang Yonghui, and Qiao Xue sat around a food stall.

Zhou Hui didn't come; he went to the consulate.

Lin Chen looked at the shed made of tarpaulin. There were several small wooden tables under the shed. The kitchen was behind the shed, with two stoves made of red bricks and yellow mud.

Jiang Feng exchanged a few words with a middle-aged woman, then walked over and sat down, smiling as he said, "Isn't it different from what you imagined?"

Fang Yonghui joked, "When you said it was a national dish, I thought it was some kind of five-star hotel."

Jiang Feng shook his head: "The food in star-rated hotels is all distorted. If you want to eat, you should definitely eat the most authentic food."

This fish soup rice noodle soup is made by simmering catfish for six hours to extract the broth, adding banana stems to thicken it, and serving it with fried bean cakes, boiled eggs, and lemongrass.

Actually, people here usually eat it in the morning; there's nowhere to buy it at night. This is the only place that still serves it at night, and I eat here every time I come to Yangon.

Lin Chen looked at the old woman cooking and asked, "Does she manage this shed all by herself?"

Jiang Hui nodded and said in a low voice, "Her name is Miao Dan. Her family didn't used to live in a shed like this. They used to own a shop, but her husband was a gambler and lost the house and the shop."

Not only that, he also owed a lot of high-interest loans, and in the end, he even used his thirteen-year-old daughter to pay off the debts.

It was the middle of the night when the loan sharks came to collect their money. While Miaodan was asleep, the man had his daughter put in the loan sharks' car and taken away.

Miao Dan woke up with a start and chased after the attacker for five kilometers with a curved knife, but failed and was almost killed.

Miaodan cried on the road until she was too tired to continue, so she sat down by the roadside and stayed there until dawn.

As dawn broke, she picked up the scimitar from the ground and hurried home.

At that time, her home was gone, and the bed, cabinets, pots and pans were piled up by the roadside.

When Miaodan returned, she saw her husband lying on the sofa by the roadside, sleeping soundly without a care in the world.

She was furious. In front of the neighbors, she grabbed a curved knife and started hacking at her husband, slashing him more than a dozen times until she decapitated him.

Upon hearing this, everyone gasped and looked at the middle-aged woman busy at the stove. She was broad-shouldered and thick-waisted, with a hunched back and a blue headscarf wrapped around her head.

Beside the stove, near the bamboo wall, there was a large pile of green coconuts, and a curved knife was placed on the wooden board for cutting coconuts.

Qiao Xue asked, "She didn't go to jail?"

Jiang Feng shook his head: "She's never spent a single day in jail. The monks at a nearby temple heard about it and bailed her out. Here, monks are more effective than the police."

Qian Baishan laughed and said, "Pretty awesome."

Lin Chen: "Was her daughter ever found?"

Jiang Feng sighed: "Where are we supposed to look?"

As the group was talking, the proprietress turned around and brought over a tray of rice noodles.

Jiang Feng stood up, said something in Burmese, and then helped to serve everyone's rice noodles to the table.

"Want to try some?" Jiang Feng sat down, picked up his chopsticks, and started eating.

Luo Rui took a sip of the soup; the broth was sour, spicy, salty, and savory—the taste was indeed unique.

Lin Chen also thought it was delicious. While eating, she glanced at Qiao Xue.

Qiao Xue rolled her eyes: "What are you looking at?"

"No, I wanted to ask you this when I boarded the plane: how did you convince Chu Yang?"

"I broke up with him!" Qiao Xue slurped up a mouthful of rice noodles, seemingly unconcerned.

Fang Yonghui asked, "Really?"

Qiao Xue nodded.

"Doesn't this mean I have a chance? Sister Qiao, will you consider me?"

"Sure." Qiao Xue smiled, a rather enigmatic smile.

Fang Yonghui lowered his head: "Forget it, I'm afraid you'll beat me to death."

After the group finished eating, Jiang Feng paid the bill, and the group left the shed.

This place is not far from the hotel, just a few blocks away.

Although it is a tourist city and appears glamorous and charming on the surface, it is actually similar to a fourth-tier city in China.

It was already dark by then. They had come on foot, and now they planned to walk back to digest their food.

They had just reached an uphill section when a motorcycle sped down from it.

Upon seeing this, Luo Rui's gaze sharpened, and the others also turned sideways, staring intently at the motorcycle.

Two men were riding on the motorcycle, both wearing helmets.

Luo Rui and the others were on high alert, instinctively pressing their lower backs.

But the motorcycle didn't stop beside them; instead, it drove downhill and came to a fork in the road.

A black sedan drove out of the intersection, followed closely by a red motorcycle.

Immediately afterwards, two motorcycles flanked the car from the left and right.

The men sitting on the back of the two motorcycles simultaneously pulled out handguns, released the safety, and fired them through the car window.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

(End of this chapter)