Breaking Through The Clouds

Chapter 78

"Was there a mass murder in 701 or is it a forgotten unjust case?" This was Yan Xie's first reaction.

Jiang Ting glanced at him with a cigarette in his hand, seeming a little helpless: "It's none of that."

"Then..."

"First of all, you need to know why others aren't willing to tell you some things, no matter how simple and irrelevant they seem; no matter from what point of view it's told, it's an answer that's harmless even if it were leaked." Jiang paused and said, "Because the truth has twisted roots and intertwined joints[1]. The truth of this society is like a crime, as long as you tear open a small corner, experienced criminal investigators can follow the clues and dig out countless inside stories from the eighteen layers of hell, especially you."

"A front-line criminal policeman with a large capital force behind him, who presides over the criminal investigation work of public security in the provincial capital and at the same time has a strong desire to solve cases - it's very rare for a person to meet any of the above three conditions, but you meet all three of them? Who can guarantee that you'll always be in a stable condition and will not fall ill? In case you rampage across the battlefield like a flaming tank, who can control the situation?"

Yan Xie was a little stunned by these rhetorical questions, and immediately pointed to himself: "Do I look like a person who can get sick at any time?"

Jiang Ting raised his eyelids to look at him and sighed.

"Hey-" Yan Xie took a deep breath in disbelief, "Then tell me what happened in 701, and why didn't Qi Sihao dare to continue investigating Wang Xingye's fall from the building? I promise that I won't insist on getting to the bottom of this matter."

Jiang Ting lowered his head and flicked the cigarette ash. The action was very subtle, and then he said: "I didn't investigate this matter myself, but rather made some inquiries and someone informed me about it. The person who told me about it also took a great risk, because it happened three years ago after the Gongzhou Plastic Factory Explosion."

-Yan Xie was stunned for a moment.

At that time?

Then how did Jiang Ting find out about it?

"After the failure of the operation, the bureau set up an investigation team. The most important task was to investigate whether the information about the location of the drug traffickers' dealings, which the undercover agent 'Rivet' ventured to pass to the police, was true. Before the operation began, the police confirmed that the information was transmitted to Rivet by the Queen of Hearts through a certain encrypted network. After Rivet was sacrificed, the investigation team got his electronic equipment. After a series of complex decryption, tracking, and positioning, the technical team finally narrowed the scope to this community, followed by this building, and finally to room 701."

"In other words, if the information received by Rivet really came from the Queen of Hearts, then it was first sent by her from room 701 of this apartment building." Jiang Ting suddenly looked at Yan Xie in the smoke: "Don't you think that if they could track all the people entering and leaving this community from the monitoring system, they would be able to find the Queen of Hearts?"

This is indeed what happens normally. 80% of modern criminal investigation work relies on various types of surveillance cameras, so it often leads to a large number of detection tasks, which also shows the reality of a criminal policeman's boring and tedious daily routine of solving cases.

But Yan Xie knew that since he asked this question, it meant that the Gongzhou Investigation Team hadn't been able to use this method.

"After the surveillance was obtained, it was found that some of the vehicles entering and leaving this unremarkable community were registered under the names of private enterprises, and these private enterprises were inextricably linked with the families of officials at different levels: some relationships were far-fetched, but some were also ambiguous. If the monitoring time was further extended to check, then several seniors of the higher-ups would also be found in the community, even the Deputy Mayor of Gongzhou, Yue Guangping, who just retired at the time. "