Film and Television World Life Record

Li Dawei said dejectedly, "Yes! It's been two days!" There's still no word from the other party. Could it be that the scammers have given up on Sister Fan? As long as they saw his message, with over six million yuan in demolition compensation, they wouldn't just let it go like that. They'd have to try their luck, even if there's no guarantee of success.

Zhao Jiwei said, "Brother Li told us to be patient and wait a little longer!"

Li Dawei nodded, about to say something, when his phone rang. He picked it up and saw that the scammer had actually replied. However, the message made Li Dawei question his own intelligence.

"Sister-in-law, I'm so sorry, I only noticed your message now. So much has happened these past two days, it's really confusing for our whole family."

“Sister-in-law, do you believe in the dead coming back to life? This happened in our family. Simply put, my brother came back to life three days after he was buried.”

“Sister-in-law, we have a custom here of burning paper money for the dead after burial. This morning I went to burn paper money for my brother and suddenly heard a noise from the grave. I was terrified, but when I listened carefully, it was indeed my brother's voice. He was asking what time it was and whether it was dawn yet.”

“I rushed home and called people to dig up the grave. As soon as the coffin was opened, my brother sat up in it. He was alive! The first thing he said was that he was hungry and wanted to drink some porridge.”

Zhao Jiwei couldn't help but laugh: "These scammers are hilarious. They really treat people like children. They might as well just greet Sister Fan."

Li Dawei said excitedly, "Don't panic, keep watching."

"Sister-in-law, my brother asked about you afterwards. He said he felt sorry for you because you lost money investing last time, and he's had several dreams about it lately. In his dreams, he's thinking about how to make up for your losses and help you recover your losses. He also said he's found a way. Sister-in-law, even I, your sister, am jealous of my brother's true feelings for you."

The message was sent here, paused for a few minutes, and then started sending again.

"Sister-in-law, I showed the message you just sent to my brother. He is currently weak and cannot reply to you in person. But he asked me to tell you that your compensation for the demolition is yours and you should not give it to anyone. He will definitely help you make up for the losses he incurred in helping you with your previous investments."

After finally reading the message, Li Dawei was speechless for a moment, then said in an exaggerated tone, "Listen to this, how touching! It's enough to make anyone who hears it weep and feel heartbroken."

"How should we reply to her? I can't think of anything so cheesy."

Zhao Jiwei said, "If you can't come up with something this melodramatic, then naturally I can't either."

"However, we don't need to worry about it. He came back from the dead, and from Sister Fan's perspective, it's impossible for her not to have any doubts, otherwise she would be too naive. We can appropriately express our doubts and let him prove that he is alive."

Zhao Jiwei said, "That's one way, we can give it a try."

With support in hand, Li Dawei immediately started sending messages: "Are you really Tong Lei? Are you really alive? Where are you now? How are you? Can I come see you?"

The other party's reply was still incredibly melodramatic; they probably watched too many melodramatic dramas.

"Don't come. I don't want you to see me like a living dead. My dear, if love between two people is meant to last, why should they be together every day?"

"I need to recover my health to make up for what I caused you last time, and then appear before you in the best possible condition. Darling, that day is not far away."

Zhao Jiwei continued reading the scammer's message: "I was able to get out of bed today, though my legs are still a little weak. When I took my first step with my sister's help, I felt so grateful to be alive!"

“Darling, don’t worry. As soon as I recover a little, I’ll go to Macau to find my uncle. I’m determined to get your money back in person.”

I had just finished reading this message when the other party sent their next one.

“Honey, this is a picture I took from the window of my hospital room.”

Upon seeing this, Li Dawei's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "We've got a lead!"

With a startled cry, Li Dawei immediately picked up the video and showed it to Li Mu. The video was filmed from upstairs, showing the shops across the street. With the shops as a reference point, it was easy to find the exact address.

Li smiled and said, "Send it to the Haiming Public Security Bureau immediately. With this video, they should be able to find the location."

Then he turned around and instructed, "Also, you guys get ready. We shouldn't delay, we'll be heading to Haiming County soon."

Zhao Jiwei, Li Dawei, and Yang Shu replied in unison, "Yes!"

Watching the group leave the office with excited expressions, Li Mu smiled and shook his head. Actually, there was no need to pry information or have Haiming County identify the specific address from the video, because he already knew the exact address.

The moment the other person logged into QQ and replied to a message, they were trapped. As a cybersecurity expert, he cracked the other person's IP address and located them in a very short time.

However, Zhao Jiwei and Li Dawei's idea was indeed quite good, successfully luring the person out. Li Mu was too lazy to argue with them about the credit, and besides, it wouldn't be easy to explain why he had suddenly become a cybersecurity expert.

Let's just grant them their dreams of solving the case.

The following morning, in Haiming County, Li Dawei compared the scene in the video with the actual location and pointed ahead, saying, "This should be the place."

The group looked ahead and saw a narrow street. Across the street were the shops that had appeared in the video.

Reaching the shop, they glanced back and saw a residential building across the street, with someone seemingly acting as a lookout. The group didn't alert the suspect; they simply pretended to be passing by, circled around, and then followed Officer Zhao back to the county police station to discuss the case in the conference room.

Officer Zhao said, "We can now confirm that the person who posted the video is in unit 602 of that building. Before you arrived, we conducted a secret reconnaissance of the building. We found that about a dozen men and women were renting rooms in units 601 and 602. In addition, in the past month or so, they have rented the entire fifth floor, where about 40 people live."

“There are often slogans and lectures coming from inside. Based on this, I suspect that the fifth floor is a fraud training class.”

Zhao Jiwei was stunned: "What? The scammers have already started running a school?"

Officer Zhao smiled wryly, "Most of the scammers here have studied in Southeast Asia. At the end of last year, we busted a gang. The scammers had specialized training institutions and materials, and the tuition was exorbitant. After graduation, the school would take a large cut of the money earned through fraud in the first two years."

"At the same time, the trainees' personal safety is controlled by the fraud group. In short, with Southeast Asia as the leader, telecom fraud has become an industry, or a centipede with a hundred legs. If we take down one of them now, it's just one claw of this centipede, and it won't hurt its core. To curb this black industry, we need international cooperation."

As he spoke, Officer Zhao suddenly became serious and said, "Chief Li, because this involves a large number of people, in order to avoid any oversights and to bring everyone under control, you don't have enough manpower. We must draw on a large number of police officers to participate."

Li Mu nodded.

Officer Zhao continued, "In this way, we must take the lead in the arrest operation, and the case and the suspect must remain with us."

Li Mu also knew that, except for a few special cases, this was the case everywhere. Using police from other places and causing so much trouble for them, it was only right to share the credit with them.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "No problem, but there is a suspect who drove a young girl from our area to the brink of suicide. We must take this person with us."

Officer Zhao hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay!"

At 10 p.m., there were few pedestrians on the street, and it was deserted. Hundreds of police officers, fully equipped, gathered downstairs.

At this moment, Officer Zhao suddenly came over and whispered to Li Mu, "Chief Li, we are in charge of this operation. Please cooperate with us and do not act rashly."

Li Mu nodded: "Don't worry, we'll follow behind you."

Officer Zhao said, "That's good. Their men have just finished eating and are going upstairs. We'll coordinate our actions after their classes start and arrest the lookout first."

At this moment, the room on the fifth floor of the residential building was filled with smoke, and the ground floor was full of people, both men and women, numbering about thirty or forty.

Each person held a thick textbook with four large characters on the cover: "Pig Slaughtering Guide." Their eyes gleamed with eager anticipation as they listened, taking notes in their notebooks as they went.

A middle-aged man was spitting as he lectured on deception techniques: "We talk about understanding customer psychology. How do we do that? Simply put, in ten words: pressure, appreciation, ambition, motivation, enjoyment..."

In a room on the sixth floor of a residential building, a row of tables were set up with seven or eight computers on them, and several men and women were chatting with customers on the computers.

In the stairwell, two police officers swiftly apprehended and subdued the lookout swindler. Meanwhile, another group of officers quietly made their way up the stairs.

Officer Zhao instructed his men: "Leave two people here and don't let the residents on the fourth floor come up. Xiao Qi, you go to the seventh floor and don't let the residents above the seventh floor come down."

Soon, about ten police officers arrived at the fifth-floor entrance. Inside, the lecture was in full swing, with the speaker speaking with great enthusiasm.

The police officers outside rushed in with a loud shout, and the lecturer's smile was still on his face, not yet gone.

Seven or eight policemen, guns drawn, rushed in, shouting, "Don't move! Police!"

The arrest went smoothly. Li Mu called Wang Shouyi to give him a brief update, and Wang Shouyi asked, "Can the money be recovered?"

Li Mu said, "I think it's unlikely!"

Wang Shouyi said, "We should at least let the other party get something back, even if it's just a very small portion. It would be some consolation for the victim."

Li Mu said, "I'll give it a try!"

As she spoke, she suddenly remembered something and asked, "How is Wu Yu doing over there?"

Wang Shouyi sighed and said, "He tried to commit suicide by cutting his wrists again today, but he was rushed to the hospital in time and it's nothing serious. Sigh!"

Li Mu instructed, "In that case, Chief, there is a possibility that she may attempt suicide again. I have already arranged to take the suspect who deceived her over to her place, to repent and apologize, and to change her current suicidal mindset."

"You need to be careful on your end too. Send a couple more police officers to keep an eye on Wu Yu and make sure she doesn't try to commit suicide again."

Wang Shouyi said, "Okay, I will send someone to keep an eye on her. Nothing will go wrong."

Li Mu said, "Okay, let's do it this way."

……

At this moment, in the courtyard of the Haiming County Public Security Bureau, forty or fifty swindlers were squatting with their heads in their hands, guarded by several armed special police officers.

Li Mu mentioned the matter of recovering the defrauded funds.

Officer Zhao smiled wryly at Li Mu: "As you can see, what we've frozen right now is only the money they swindled yesterday that they haven't had time to transfer yet, just over a million yuan."

"It will probably take a lot of time to find out exactly how much they swindled. I estimate that this 100 million or so is probably not even a fraction of what they swindled."

Li Mu said, "I know it's impossible to fully recover the losses, but our victims have all reached the point of suicide. Helping them recover some of their losses might also encourage them to live."

Officer Zhao said, "The case hasn't been heard yet, so that's unlikely. However, I'll inquire for you, but don't get your hopes up."

Li Mu nodded: "Okay!"

The following day, Li Mu and his group escorted the criminal suspect on their way home.

……

At the airport, as soon as the group got off the plane, Li Mu received a call from the director.

He sighed, "Just now, Wu Yu had another suicidal thought and wanted to jump off the building. Luckily, you reminded her and arranged for two policemen to watch over her beforehand, which prevented a tragedy from happening."

Li Mu said, "The young lady is quite resolute."

Wang Shouyi sighed and said, "Who says it isn't?"

Then he added, "I just comforted her, saying that the person who lied to her has been caught and will be brought to the hospital soon to repent and apologize to her. Don't go back to the station yet, just bring her to the hospital."

Li Mu nodded: "Okay, let's take a taxi there."

Half an hour later, in a hospital ward, Wu Yu looked at the completely unfamiliar swindler in front of her, listened to that familiar voice, listened to the various scam tactics the other party used, and heard all kinds of confessions and apologies. Her mind was filled with a thousand thoughts.

Finally, she sighed softly, lay on the hospital bed, and stared quietly at the ceiling. After a long while, she said, "Don't worry, I've figured it out. I won't commit suicide again. It's not worth it for someone like that."

Two hours later, Wu Yu and her mother completed the discharge procedures and went straight home.