Diary of a Criminal Investigator

Chapter 501: Immediate Action

Diary of a Criminal Investigator

Chapter 501: Immediate Action

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Chapter 501: Chapter 501: Immediate Action

Crime Scene Investigation Lab, Lu Chuan successfully matched Wu Lei’s information and immediately informed Zhang Hui of the relevant news.

Meeting Room No. 4.

Zhang Hui, Lu Chuan, and Yang Lin were reporting to Qin Yong.

The case of Wang Feng’s disappearance is highly confidential, and no one else in the Criminal Investigation Team is involved. The three-man team reports directly to Qin Yong.

"We found some clues at Wang Feng’s residence. Lu Chuan and Yang Lin collected some fingerprints inside."

"And just now, the match was successful. The stranger’s fingerprints found at Wang Feng’s home belong to someone named Wu Lei."

"On the night Wang Feng disappeared, this person, Wu Lei, was the last person to meet with him. After the two left the back gate of Huijia Garden District at 12:30, Wang Feng disappeared."

Zhang Hui began reporting on the situation of the case investigation.

"After the two left Huijia Garden District that night, they took a gray Jetta sedan and left the area."

"I have already asked a friend in the traffic police to trace the exact location of this vehicle."

Qin Yong nodded, the efficiency of the three was still very high.

In less than half a day, there was such significant progress.

"What’s the situation with this Wu Lei?"

Zhang Hui looked at Yang Lin: "Yang, this person also falls under your precinct’s jurisdiction, so why don’t you give an introduction."

"Yes, yes."

Yang Lin was somewhat nervous, as usually no high-ranking leaders came to the precinct.

In the past year or two, the highest-ranking official he had seen was the director, and he felt nervous reporting to the director. Now facing Qin Yong, the captain of Haizhou City’s Criminal Investigation Team, Yang Lin was even more nervous.

"Yes, yes... here’s the situation: this Wu Lei, male, 26 years old, is a local of Haizhou City."

"This person lost his parents early on and is an orphan. In his early years, he grew up in an orphanage and was later caught for theft."

"But at that time he was still a minor, so he wasn’t sentenced."

"Three years ago, he started working in a bar and has been there ever since."

Qin Yong frowned slightly.

Wu Lei’s information...isn’t very complete.

"How does he know Wang Feng?"

"Currently, we don’t know, the time was too short, we just checked Wu Lei’s file information."

Zhang Hui continued: "But I suggest maybe contacting the Haizhou City Public Security Bureau Anti-drug Detachment?"

"What do you mean?"

Zhang Hui nodded: "Since Wang Feng was on an undercover mission, was his acquaintance with Wu Lei deliberately arranged by their side, or perhaps did Wang Feng actively approach him?"

"In the morning when we were in contact with Wang Feng’s parents at the police station, we learned that after Wang Feng was expelled, he had been frequenting bars and similar places."

"Also, if we find the other party’s location, should we act directly?"

This case, strictly speaking or fundamentally speaking, shouldn’t really count as a disappearance case.

Once Wang Feng is found, should we rescue him? This is very important.

Qin Yong earlier only asked the trio to quickly find Wang Feng’s whereabouts, but he didn’t say what to do after finding him.

"Alright, let me contact Captain Cai Yongqiang, you all first quickly determine Wang Feng’s exact location."

"It would be best to confirm whether the other party is safe; I’ll inform you about the rest."

"Okay."

After a brief report meeting, Zhang Hui led the two straight to the traffic police sub-team.

"Found the car?"

"Yes, the traffic police sub-team just called, saying that after the car left Huijia Garden District that night, it drove into the underground parking lot of the Northern Building and hasn’t come out since."

"Northern Building?"

"The unfinished building from ten years ago?"

In Haizhou City, Northern Building is quite well-known, not because of its height or as a landmark building.

Rather, it’s because the construction cycle of the Northern Building was very long; ten years ago, it was the tallest building at the time in Haizhou City, and the hype was immense.

Many people invested and bought offices in Northern Building.

But after the top was sealed at the time, Northern Building suddenly was left unfinished, and it was shelved for five years.

Afterward, someone else took over, and it was finally put into use three years ago.

"Yes, that building. When we get there, first go to the monitoring room to see if we can find out which floor Wu Lei took Wang Feng to."

Underground parking lot.

The three of them walked around, finding the car Zhang Hui mentioned in a corner of Area A.

"The car in the corner!"

"Let’s go, to the monitoring room."

Facing the car head-on was an elevator lobby with surveillance cameras inside.

In the monitoring room, after Zhang Hui presented his credentials, the security cooperated very well.

They quickly retrieved the surveillance footage from the night three days ago.

"18th floor!"

Inside the elevator, Wu Lei and Wang Feng went from basement level -1 straight to the 18th floor.

"What’s on the 18th floor?"

"Hold on, let me check..."

The building’s property manager next to them flipped through his phone, approximately two minutes later: "It’s an office rented by Antu Transportation Company."

Antu Transportation Company?

"The entire floor is theirs?"

"Yes, it was rented by them when the building first opened three years ago; they were one of the first tenants."

"Should we go up and take a look?"

It was 2 PM now, just four hours since the trio started tracing Wang Feng’s whereabouts.

"We don’t yet know what’s going on up there; rushing up might alert the enemy, might it?"

"How about this: cut off the power to that floor; we disguise ourselves as maintenance workers, going up under the guise of checking the lines, allowing us to investigate openly."

Lu Chuan’s idea... was good!

But since there were no new instructions from Qin Yong, the trio moving rashly might not be appropriate.

"We’ll act on both fronts, I’ll call Captain Qin and seek his opinion."

"Got it."

Qin Yong was on a call with Cai Yongqiang.

"Old Cai, hold on a second, don’t hang up, another call is coming in."

"Captain Qin, ..."

Zhang Hui roughly reported the situation.

"Yes, our idea is to pretend to be property staff, cut off power to the 18th floor, and then go up under the pretext of checking the lines to see if we can find out anything."

This plan...

Qin Yong was using the landline to call Cai Yongqiang; when Zhang Hui’s mobile call came in, he had it on speaker.

"Old Cai, these are your people, what’s your decision?"

Cai Yongqiang didn’t hesitate for a moment.

"Rescue them!"

"Regardless of the other party’s situation, the primary task is to rescue people. Even if Wang Feng’s undercover mission fails, nothing should happen to him!"

The case not being solved can be figured out later, but if something happens to Wang Feng...

How will Cai Yongqiang explain it to his parents?

"Zhang Hui, you heard, right?"

"Yes! We’ll take action right away!"

Monitoring room.

"What did Captain Qin say?"

Yang Lin was getting anxious.

In this situation, when they don’t know what condition the person inside is in, the sooner they act, the better.

In fact, Yang Lin felt they should directly send people up to search.

Of course, the premise is to be sure that Wang Feng is inside, otherwise it might put Wang Feng in danger.

"Captain Qin agreed with Lu Chuan’s plan, and told us to act now."

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