Chapter 21 Three Possibilities
Wei Feng is a police officer in Fujin Garden Community. He always smiles when he sees people and will take the initiative to help anyone who is in trouble. He is a warm-hearted person who is eager to help others and is loved by the residents. Some retired grandpas and grandmas who are at home are keen to find him a partner all day long, and he never gets discouraged even if he is rejected many times.
But today, Wei Feng frowned, with a heavy heart, and walked hurriedly on the road with his head down, and did not hear anyone greeting him. He walked out of the community, looked around, saw a white BYD, walked over, opened the door and got in.
"Brother, you're here." Wei Feng greeted him.
"Yeah." The middle-aged man sitting in the driver's seat responded in a muffled voice. His name is Wu Zhiping, and there is no blood relationship between him and Wei Feng. It's just that he has been teaching Wei Feng step by step since he joined the company. They are like brothers, so he calls him that.
Wu Zhiping said: "Tell me, what exactly is going on?"
Wei Feng took out his cell phone: "It's like this, I received a text message this morning, brother, take a look."
Wu Zhiping took the call and took a look. The call code was not displayed, but the content was very horrifying, pointing out that the gatekeeper in charge of the community, Wei Feng, was a wanted fugitive who beat two villagers to death.
"What? Can you confirm this news?" Wu Zhiping asked. He knew that if it had not been confirmed, Wei Feng would not call him over just because of a text message from an unknown source.
"I checked online according to the time and place he said," Wei Feng said, "It really happened. The wanted photo released by the local police... I think he looks a bit like him, but not quite... His hairstyle has changed a lot, and he even has a beard now."
Wu Zhiping asked again: "What kind of person is he usually? Do you know him?"
Wei Feng shook his head and said, "This guy doesn't like to talk much. He usually keeps to himself and doesn't interact much." He thought for a while and then said, "But I heard that he has been working here for such a long time and he doesn't even have a cell phone. No one has seen him call his family... I haven't heard that he has any relatives or friends."
Wu Zhiping thought for a moment and made a decision: "How about this, the two of us go and test it out. If we find him suspicious, we can arrest him and send him to the police station. If we are wrong, at most we can treat him to a meal and apologize. It's not a big deal."
As a result, Wei Feng called out the wanted criminal's original name, and the guard was startled for a moment and ran away. Wu Zhiping surrounded him from the front and caught him red-handed. They escorted the man to the Public Security Bureau, but found it incredibly lively. Dozens of people from different professions were crowded in the not very spacious office, and the noise was as loud as a vegetable market. The usually lazy staff were so busy that their feet hit their heads, and the clerk who answered the phone ran so fast that she caused a gust of wind.
"What happened? Has a major case occurred?" Wu Zhiping grabbed an acquaintance who was running past him and asked.
"Another one?" The acquaintance took a look at the man sandwiched between the two of them, as if he immediately understood what was going on, and turned around and shouted: "Xiao Wang, come and lock this man up in the interrogation room." Then he said to the two of them: "We are all in the same industry, I won't greet you, find a place to sit..." Then he thought about the current situation in the Public Security Bureau, and said: "...Maybe there is no place to sit, just find a place to stay, and when you are called later, you will be called to make a statement. I have something else, so I'll leave first!" After that, he left in a hurry.
Wu Zhiping and Wei Feng had no choice but to hand the man over to the policeman named "Xiao Wang" and handcuff him. Then they registered him. Seeing that there was almost no room for people to stand in the hall, the two looked at each other and simply walked outside and sat down on the steps.
Wu Zhiping had just lit a cigarette when he saw a bus stop at the gate of the Public Security Bureau. A dozen or so children, only about 11 or 12 years old, happily surrounded a fat man and walked into the Public Security Bureau. The fat man, who was squeezed in the middle of them, had a swollen nose and face, walked with a limp, and his hands were tied behind his back, looking particularly pitiful.
Wu Zhiping's cigarette fell from between his fingers.
"Brother...what's going on?" Wei Feng asked blankly as he watched the group of people rush into the Public Security Bureau.
"How would I know!" Wu Zhiping said unhappily.
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The efficiency of the Public Security Bureau of City A has always been very high. When the number of wanted criminals arrested and served this morning showed an explosive growth trend, the Criminal Investigation Corps quickly set up a special task force for this purpose. The leader of the special task force was Ouyang Rui, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Team 1, and many people were transferred from various detachments to support. Even so, everyone was still busy like a spinning top.
Ouyang Rui stood in the office on the second floor and could see through the transparent glass window that the lobby on the first floor was crowded with people.
"How many people have been sent here so far?" Ouyang Rui asked.
"Twenty-three... no, twenty-four." The person who answered was his deputy captain Jiang Quan. As he spoke, he saw a group of children escorting a fat man in. "The interrogation room is almost full."
"Send all wanted criminals who can be basically confirmed to the detention center, and detain them for interrogation first. Let the general citizens make a statement, write down their information and let them go back first. The information they know is limited." Ouyang Rui ordered.
"But..." A young female police officer standing nearby said with some embarrassment, "A few people said they wanted to collect the reward and would not leave unless you gave them the reward."
"You can't just claim the bounty, you have to identify the suspect first. Be tougher..." Ouyang Rui said, looking at his subordinate's frail expression, he changed his words abruptly, "Let Lao Li go, he has experience dealing with that kind of people. You follow Deputy Captain Huang to take the statement."
"Yes, I'll do it right away." The policewoman agreed, turned around and trotted away.
Ouyang Rui sighed and picked up several copies of the transcripts on the table. Although he had read them several times, he still read them from the beginning again word by word, with a lot of comments written next to them.
"The wanted criminal who has not been caught for many years has finally been arrested. You should be happy! Why are you so worried?" Jiang Quan poured him a glass of water and persuaded him.
Ouyang Rui rubbed his forehead, looked at the crowded crowd outside, frowned and said: "These people are all pawns. There must be a mastermind behind them, or one or more powerful people, or a mysterious organization with considerable power. How can I feel at ease if I don't find out the guy behind the scenes?"
"I think that no matter whether the other party is an individual or an organization, at least it seems to be on the side of justice for now." Jiang Quan also poured himself a glass of water, took a sip and said, "You are pursuing too closely, be careful not to force people to the opposite side."
Ouyang Rui disagreed and said: "It doesn't matter whether it is just or unjust. The point is that a peaceful and stable city does not need this level of strength. It is a time bomb that threatens the safety of the city. Otherwise, when he wants to be kind, it will be gentle and kind. If he does evil, the harm he causes will be hundreds or thousands of times greater than those scum below!"
"It doesn't matter whether one has criminal consciousness or not. Is it wrong as long as one has the ability to commit a crime?" Jiang Quan rolled his eyes and said, "Boss, if you say that, you should castrate all men in the world, otherwise they may all commit rape. You should also confiscate all the knives and guns in the world, otherwise someone may kill someone with a weapon. It would be best if you sew up people's mouths and chop off their hands, otherwise there will always be the possibility of committing a crime."
"Don't give me any nonsense!" Ouyang Rui picked up the file bag and patted Jiang Quan on the head. "Come here and analyze it for me. At least you need to know what this time bomb is trying to do! If it is accidentally detonated, how destructive will it be!"
"Yes, Sir!" Jiang Quan saluted lazily, then asked with a smile: "Boss, have you noticed that all the people sent here are wanted criminals with bounties on their heads?"
"A wanted criminal with a bounty?" Ouyang Rui was stunned. He quickly flipped through the transcript and found that it was true. He asked himself, "There are so many criminals on the run. Why are all these people wanted criminals with a public bounty offered by the police?"
Without waiting for Jiang Quan to answer, Ouyang Rui gave his answer while pacing.
"The first possibility is that the other party has limited means of obtaining information. It is difficult to obtain confidential documents within the police, so all information is public. This is inconsistent with the means used to search for many wanted criminals... But perhaps the other party's power is not as pervasive as imagined."
"The second possibility is that the other party is taking advantage of the wanted criminals and the citizens' desire to raise the bounty as soon as possible to consume the police force of City A, lure the tiger away from the mountain, and take this opportunity to do something."
"The third possibility is that the other party is not a large organization, but a small number of people. They have the technology and ability, but lack funds. So they have adopted the method of hiding in the forest and blending in with these ordinary citizens to collect the bounty of wanted criminals."
"And if it's the third possibility..." Jiang Quan interrupted, "then these small shrimps are just stones testing the waters. The real big fish will definitely appear in the next few days. We just need to see who receives the highest bounty."
Ouyang Rui had exactly the same thought. He dropped the notes, stood in front of the window, and looked at the new wanted criminals who were still pouring in from below. His eyes were sharp, like an eagle soaring in the sky ready to hunt.
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The afterglow of the setting sun dyed the sky a fiery red. Rong Yuan, wearing a blue-gray baseball cap, followed Wandou's guidance and followed Wang Chunshan, who was out shopping, several dozen meters away.
