You're supposed to be a security officer, what case are you solving?

Chapter 419 Crocodiles Under the Surface!

seven in the morning.

An'nan City Criminal Investigation Detachment.

After resting for a night, Yao Weihua, Maozi, Cai Ting, and others rushed to the conference room.

Yang Jinwen had returned from Bai Ying's house. He sat in a chair, his eyes slightly narrowed, his body motionless.

After putting down his briefcase, Yao Weihua asked, "Captain Yang, I heard there was another shooting in Qincheng?"

Because they had a mission during the day, Yao Weihua and the others went back to rest after the meeting last night and were unaware of what had happened that night.

The only people in the Third Brigade who knew about it were Feng Xiaocai and Wu Daqing.

Cai Ting frowned and asked, "Old Yao, where did you hear that from?"

Yao Weihua clicked his tongue: "Old Ma called me. Their team searched all night yesterday. The incident happened at the Dafuhao Nightclub in Qincheng. The dead person was Cao Xuan, the second boss of the Golden Age Dance Hall."

"Oh my God."

Even Cai Ting, who had experienced so many cases, was shocked.

Criminal investigators fear shootings the most, and this gunman who committed two consecutive crimes is undoubtedly a ruthless and desperate criminal.

This is different from ordinary cases. Arresting suspects in ordinary criminal cases already poses a huge risk to the police, let alone when the murderer is armed.

Yao Weihua said, "I heard from Lao Ma that the Provincial Department organized a meeting with our Municipal Bureau and all its branches early this morning after the incident. They also notified armed personnel. Now, criminal police, traffic police, and police station personnel throughout the city are setting up roadblocks everywhere in preparation to apprehend this notorious criminal."

The cat asked, "Do you know who did it?"

Yao Weihua shook his head: "We know the clothes and height of the person who fired the shot last night, but that's all we have."

"How do we investigate?"

"But it's a little different."

Cai Ting said, "Stop keeping me in suspense."

“When the shooting happened last night, shell casings were left at the scene, so it wasn’t a revolver that was used.”

Cai Ting paused for a moment, then analyzed, "Two murderers?"

"Either there were two murderers, or it was the same murderer who switched guns."

After saying this, Yao Weihua looked at Yang Jinwen, who had remained silent, and asked, "Captain Yang?"

Yang Jinwen raised his face, his eyes sharp, and slowly asked, "Old Yao, how do you know so much?"

Seeing that his eyes looked a little unnatural, Yao Weihua quickly said, "Didn't I just say that? Old Ma and Ma Hui from the First Brigade told me."

"Ma Hui?"

"Yeah, this guy was trying to trick me. He wanted to know what clues our Third Brigade had found, so he told me what happened last night."

"You have a good relationship with him?"

"It's not a good thing either. He admires my charm and I'm always leaning on him."

Cai Ting laughed and said, "You have no charm whatsoever."

Yang Jinwen's eyelids twitched twice, his eyes sharp.

Yao Weihua and Cai Ting noticed that something was wrong with him, and Maozi also sensed it: "Captain Yang, what's wrong? Why don't you go and rest for a while? Leave the rest of the investigation to us."

Yang Jinwen stood up, glanced at the conference room, and saw Feng Xiaocai, wearing Wu Daqing's coat, resting on the table.

Wu Daqing was also lying in the chair, head drooping, snoring. The two of them had stayed up all night with him and were exhausted.

Only Yang Jinwen sat in the chair, his eyes never closing.

"You all stay in the conference room for now, I'm going to make a few phone calls."

As he turned to leave, he left one last sentence: "Old Yao, think about it carefully. In the 105 shooting case, Zhu Gui and his lover were killed, and just one day later, Cao Xuan was suddenly killed as well. The guns used by the shooters were different. Why is that?"

After Yang Jinwen left, Yao Weihua and Cai Ting exchanged a glance.

The cat asked, "Why is that?"

Yao Weihua and Cai Ting looked away from each other, but a few seconds later, their eyes met again, both of them filled with shock.

Yao Weihua yelled, "Holy shit!"

Cat heard him cursing and was puzzled, but then he suddenly realized the problem and froze for several seconds.

Li Yang stood there dumbfounded, completely bewildered.

"Wait, Cat Bro, what does Captain Yang mean?"

Cai Ting swallowed hard: "It's nothing. Um, Xiao Li, could you go to the cafeteria and get us some breakfast?"

Li Yang wasn't stupid; he knew this was a way of getting rid of him, so he nodded and said, "Okay."

After he left, Yao Weihua took out a cigarette and prepared to go downstairs to the courtyard.

Cai Ting and Maozi followed him in perfect unison.

The three of them found a corner in the courtyard. Yao Weihua took out a cigarette and offered it to Cai Ting, but Maozi took it instead. Yao Weihua looked around and, seeing that no one was nearby, whispered, "Captain Yang really has some nerve."

Cai Ting nodded: "Old Yao, do you think Director Wen has realized the problem?"

Yao Weihua shook his head: "I don't know, I guess Captain Yang just went to call him."

Cat said, "If that's the case, is it Annam or Qincheng that leaked the news?"

Cai Ting sighed: "At least Captain Yang believes in us."

Yao Weihua and Maozi dared not respond, like two thieves, warily watching their surroundings.

Beside them, the top of an osmanthus tree grew up to the second-floor window.

Yang Jinwen's face appeared behind the window, hidden behind the dappled treetops. He held his mobile phone and dialed Wen Mo's number.

His mind was filled with what Bai Ying had said the night before.

"Xiaowen, I advise you not to investigate this case. Even if you do, let someone else handle it. You're your father's only son. What will he do if something happens to you?"

“I know that you police officers have beliefs and serve the people, but I still want to remind you that you’d better think it through.”

"As an elder, I've already said what I needed to say. If I didn't tell you these things, your father would blame me later."

If you want to know about Wu Mingyu, I'll tell you, but once you leave this study, I won't acknowledge him.

I admit, Zhu Gui is my kept man. Who can blame me for looking a bit like your dad? But he's not as romantic as your dad, nor is he a better dancer.

Zhu Gui's father used to be a worker at Danan Coal Mine. He was considered a child of coal miners. When he was young, he served a few years in prison for fighting. After he got out, he worked at my cement factory for a while.

He was lucky; he was good-looking and met me, so I took him under my wing and had him help me resolve problems when I was out in the world.

Running a company and doing business will bring all sorts of problems and involve dealing with all kinds of people. I need help dealing with troublemakers, especially some local thugs.

The only way to deal with someone like that is to beat them up, give them a beating and then give them some benefits, and they'll know how many eyes the boss has.

Zhu Gui did a great job and helped me a lot. Later, he asked me for money, hoping to start a small business.

I asked him what he wanted to do, and he said that there was a state-owned coal mine in Tenom that was undergoing restructuring. Private investors could invest and obtain the mining and operating rights of the coal mine, which would make them very rich. However, he said that there were many complexities involved and that it would require navigating many shady dealings.

Moreover, at this time, something happened at my cement factory. A worker accidentally broke his hand. This worker caused trouble for me, gathered a lot of people, and surrounded my cement factory.

I know Zhu Gui orchestrated this; he's using it to pressure me.

I had no choice but to agree to lend him the money, since Zhu Gui had a group of men who were not afraid of death.

To share the risk, I introduced him to Cao Kuan.

Initially, Cao Kuan disagreed because lending out a large sum of money would involve too many connections and incur too many favors.

But somehow, Zhu Gui ended up getting in touch with Wu Mingyu through Cao Xuan.

Once Zhu Gui gained power, he sidelined me. In other words, Zhu Gui was able to obtain the mining and operating rights of coal mines, including the 'Panying Coal Mine' next to Chenjia Village, all through Wu Mingyu's connections.

At that time, because of Wu Mingyu's father's connections, Zhu Gui naturally treated him like a father.

However, no matter how shrewd Wu Mingyu was, he had a trick up his sleeve. After all the connections were made and Zhu Gui had given him a lot of money, Wu Mingyu suddenly disagreed.

He wanted his childhood friend, Cao Xuan, to take over the coal mine business, leaving Zhu Gui as the second-largest shareholder, which essentially sidelined him.

Zhu Gui wasn't having it, so he remembered me and started complaining, asking if I knew anyone who could help Wu Mingyu.

What can I do? There's nothing I can do.

I thought Zhu Gui wouldn't be able to pull this off in the end. Did he really think that someone as wealthy as Wu Mingyu would be willing to play along with him?

Making money isn't that easy, but what I couldn't understand in the end was that Zhu Gui actually managed to get the operating rights to the coal mine.

He became a coal mine owner overnight, and through Wu Mingyu's connections, he acquired the Panying Coal Mine, which has a high coal content underground, making him a multi-millionaire.

Moreover, Zhu Gui's relationship with Cao Xuan and Wu Mingyu grew better and better, and they would get together for drinks almost every month.

It was usually Zhu Gui who entertained them. He spent hundreds of thousands a year at the Golden Age nightclub; this was to give Cao Xuan face, and also to entertain Wu Mingyu.

At this point in Bai Ying's story, Yang Jinwen asked, "So, Zhu Gui was killed because there was some kind of deal involved?"

Bai Ying shook her head. She took a cigarette out of the cigarette case, lit it with a silver lighter, and took a deep drag.

Smoke drifted slowly in the study. Bai Ying leaned back in her black leather chair, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Girl."

"girl?"

"Yes, it's a girl, not a woman."

Bai Ying's eyes flickered a few times: "I'm just guessing, because Zhu Gui took me to a place, a private villa in Dannan County, where I played for two days. Cao Xuan and the others were there at the time."

On the second night, as I was about to leave, I saw one of Zhu Gui's underlings take a girl from the backyard to Wu Mingyu's room.

The girl was about eighteen or nineteen years old. She seemed to have been given some kind of drug and was not quite in her right mind. She was helped upstairs by Zhu Gui's two henchmen.

As I was driving away, I suddenly heard a loud bang. I stopped the car and got out to take a look.

At that time, Wu Mingyu was standing by the third-floor window, naked, looking down. The girl he had brought upstairs must have jumped from that building!

(End of this chapter)