RBCT Chapter 81 yielded further gains.
Chapter 81 yielded further gains.
"I guarantee the mission will be accomplished!" Wu Song raised his hand in salute.
"Okay! Get back to work!" Director Qi Dagong raised his hand and patted Wu Song on the shoulder. "Try to catch another suspect, just like you caught Shen Fang this time. When that happens, you'll be the hero who solved this case."
"Director Qi, may I take a look at the surveillance footage from that time? That way I can get a preliminary impression of the physical characteristics of those suspects."
That bank branch has surveillance cameras facing directly towards the main entrance.
We should be able to capture something, at least.
It's always more reliable to know more information than to just look at who has black mist on them.
"No need to look at the surveillance footage anymore! Our provincial experts have already summarized the height and build of these six people based on the surveillance footage, reference objects in the footage, and eyewitness testimonies. Xiao Li, get him a document with the estimated height and build of the six suspects."
"Yes, Director Qi!" A police officer in his thirties immediately took a stack of documents and handed them to Wu Song.
"I will certainly live up to the expectations of Director Qi and the task force!" Wu Song said as he took the document and walked out.
After meeting up with his partner Liu Shutong, he looked down.
The image above is likely a screenshot taken from surveillance footage.
That's quite vague.
Wu Song felt that even if the robbers weren't wearing masks, the surveillance footage wouldn't be able to clearly show their faces.
But there's nothing we can do; that's the quality of the surveillance footage.
Having something is better than being completely clueless and having nothing at all.
Moreover, you can still guess whether a person is tall or short, fat or thin from the image.
Below are the judgments given by relevant experts based on the surveillance footage.
The first suspect is about 1.65 meters tall and of medium build.
The second suspect is 1.55 meters tall and has a slender build.
Suspect number three...
After watching the whole thing, apart from the driver who sat in the car the whole time and whose height was not obvious, the other five people were about 1.65 meters tall, 1.55 meters tall, 1.6 meters tall, and 1.78 meters tall.
Overall, the number of members in this gang is not very high.
"Xiao Song, this is the list of suspicious individuals we've gathered over this period."
A familiar voice reached his ears, and Wu Song looked up to find Xu Bin standing in front of him.
Holding a few sheets of paper, he patted Wu Song on the chest. "Good job! You really made our team proud this time. If we find another one, given the fact that these people are listed in the ministry, your first-class merit award is practically guaranteed!"
"Brother Bin, I solve cases not for credit, but simply for the sake of solving them!" Wu Song replied.
"Alright, kid, stop trying to show off in front of me."
"It's the truth!"
Upon hearing this, and seeing Xu Bin's expression that seemed to say, "Let's see how many more polite words you can say to me," Wu Song smiled helplessly.
Why don't they believe their own truth?
He wasn't doing this for any merit or honor; he just wanted to solve the case, light incense sticks, and hope to see his older brother from his past life as soon as possible.
It's not that complicated.
"Alright, it's the truth, I believe you, okay? Go ahead and get busy, I'll wait for good news."
"Wait for my good news!"
Wu Song led his follower Liu Shutong downstairs, straddled the motorcycle, and let Liu Shutong sit in the back. The two of them took the addresses on the suspect list and planned out a clue from near to far before starting the motorcycle and checking the addresses on the list.
As a result, they couldn't get anyone to answer the door at the first house they checked.
"Um?"
Raising an eyebrow, Wu Song did not give up and continued knocking.
"Is anyone home? The police are here to check household registrations!"
While tapping, Wu Song explained to Liu Shutong, "My master once told me a story about a murder suspect who was hiding in a residential area, but they couldn't find him even after three searches."
Later, a rather stubborn detective found out. He kept knocking on the door for more than 20 minutes until the suspect inside felt that he would be suspected if he didn't come out. He had no choice but to open the door.
His clever tactic for dealing with the first three checks was to play dead, pretending he wasn't home and ignoring all the knocking.
Three minutes later...
"Okay, this person might not be home. Remember, come back tonight."
Wu Song temporarily gave up, loudly instructed Liu Shutong, went down the stairs, and then looked at the door of the house he had just knocked on from the corner of the stairs.
After watching for about five minutes without seeing anyone come out, Wu Song assumed that the person was not at home and immediately went to check another house.
Don't linger in front of this house for too long.
Let's check again after dark. If no one is there by then, report it and have others conduct a more detailed investigation.
In order to investigate this case, we don't have much of anything except a lot of people!
The task force alone has over a hundred members, nearly two hundred people.
In addition, there are several thousand police officers from various branches, special police, and armed police who have been temporarily mobilized to investigate this group.
There are plenty of people available.
Fortunately, when Wu Song returned from his investigation that evening, the family was already home. The couple had gone to work that afternoon, and since they didn't have any black mist on them and their information matched the household registration, the family was basically ruled out.
……
This investigation took two days.
They did not encounter the person shrouded in black mist again.
"Brother Song, you have to admit, Shen Fang is really stubborn!" Liu Shutong, who had been running around various neighborhoods for two days straight, working at least eighteen hours a day, couldn't help but complain. "She's already been arrested. If she confessed sooner, she would suffer less. What's the point of stubbornly sticking out? Just because she has the gun that the security guards lost in the armored truck robbery, she's destined not to get out. Isn't she deliberately making things difficult for us?"
"That means the crime he committed is punishable by death. And it's possible that even if he kills the rest of the people to gain merit, he'll still be sentenced to death. Since he's going to die anyway, he might as well stick to it to the end. As long as those people aren't caught, they can't convict him, and he can live on."
As they were talking, Wu Song suddenly saw a family of three walk out from behind a building fifty meters away in this residential area.
A group of young couples around thirty years old, plus a child who looks only two or three years old, sitting between the couple, with his hand outstretched and holding their hands.
The man was clearly surrounded by black mist.
"Shutong, hold my arm and pretend to be my lover." To avoid startling the other party, Wu Song immediately used the trick of pretending to be a lover.
"Oh!" Liu Shutong didn't react at first, but after a second she realized what was happening. She grabbed Wu Song's wrist with one hand and twisted his arm with the other. "Tell me, who was the woman you were shopping with that day?"
Thinking to himself that Liu Shutong was quite clever, Wu Song realized that this conversation provided a reasonable motive for the two of them to turn around and change their direction from facing each other to walking in the same direction as the family of three. Wu Song immediately cooperated with Liu Shutong and began to act.
"Nobody's here. Are you sure you're not mistaken?"