Chapter 169: Chapter 82: Tracking and Stakeout (Requesting Subscriptions and Monthly Tickets)
After dealing with Luo Hao, Luo Fei returned to his room and chatted with Yang Mei for a while, then as usual, read for half an hour before going to bed.
He slept well through the night. The next morning, at 7:30, he arrived at the Criminal Investigation Team right on time, carrying a bag of breakfast.
Remembering Zhao Donglai’s instructions from yesterday, he took out paper and pen, sat at his desk, and began writing the summary report and interrogation records for Wang Wenbin’s case.
When Wang Yong and a few others walked into the office and saw Luo Fei, they were already used to it, greeted him, and then went on with their business.
At 7:50, estimating that Yang Mei should have arrived by now, he stopped writing and took the breakfast to the technical office.
During this period, Luo Fei insisted on bringing her breakfast every day, so Yang Mei was accustomed to his punctual feeding.
After handing her the breakfast, the two exchanged a few words, then Luo Fei returned to continue writing the report.
The situation of Wang Wenbin’s case was rather complicated, so this time it took him a full two hours to finish the two reports. Afterward, he took the reports and the USB drive Sun Jun gave him yesterday to find Zhao Donglai.
Passing by the offices of Group One and Group Two, he glanced inside and found that apart from Xia Zheng and Wang Lei from Group One, no other people were present.
Especially in Group Two’s office, there wasn’t a single person.
Strange?
Where did they all go?
With this question in mind, he knocked on Zhao Donglai’s office door.
"Captain Zhao, this is the case summary report and interrogation records for Wang Wenbin."
"Alright, give it to me." Zhao Donglai took it, then, as usual, praised and affirmed his efficiency and dedication in handling the work.
After finishing his words, Luo Fei finally had the chance to speak, "By the way, Captain Zhao, where did Team Leader Yang and Team Leader Zhang go?"
"Oh, their visits yesterday didn’t go well. Several victims were adamant about not identifying Wang Wenbin, so they continued working on those people’s thoughts."
"No wonder, that’s why I didn’t see them in the office just now. Well, Captain Zhao, I’ll head out first."
"Alright, go ahead. I’ll organize these things so we can submit them together later."
...
With Wang Wenbin’s case, there was basically nothing left for Luo Fei to do, so he suddenly found himself with some free time.
But this didn’t mean he could relax, after all, there was still another case, Yang Dawei’s, waiting for him.
So, after leaving Zhao Donglai’s place, he immediately retrieved Yang Dawei and Chen Chahua’s information from the public security system’s household registration files and began studying it carefully.
However, there were only some basic personal identity details, and the useful clues were pitifully few. After looking through it for a while, he gave up.
He simply sat at his workstation alone, restructuring the whole case.
In fact, the current situation was very clear. Whether Chen Chahua was missing or murdered, Yang Dawei was definitely implicated in a death.
The main problem now was that they had no evidence or items to support this point, and he had also checked all the police reports received in Ningjiang County over the years since Chen Chahua’s disappearance.
There wasn’t a single report of an unidentified or unexplained female corpse.
This way, he couldn’t even summon Yang Dawei for questioning.
"This is really troublesome..."
Luo Fei leaned back with a bit of helplessness, resting his head on the chair, looking troubled.
"What’s troublesome, Team Leader, what’s the matter?"
Wang Yong was surprised. What could possibly trouble him this much?
"Isn’t it still this Yang Dawei matter causing trouble? By the way, how’s the thing I asked you to check?"
"Team Leader, you didn’t mention it, and I almost forgot. Last night, my friend called me, saying he had checked Chen Chahua’s financial transactions over the years and found that since her disappearance, there have been no changes or updates."
Luo Fei wasn’t surprised, "It seems more likely that Chen Chahua met with foul play."
Nowadays, the country is vigorously promoting the real-name system, so how could a normal person have no financial transactions for five years, unless they were living in some remote mountain forest?
But that’s obviously impossible.
"Team Leader, what should we do now?"
"Alright, let me go find Captain Zhao and report this situation."
Luo Fei then went to Zhao Donglai to discuss this matter.
With Zhao Donglai’s many years of experience as a detective, he also felt that it was highly likely that Chen Chahua was no longer alive.
But there’s no way around it. Police investigations require evidence, not intuition.
So, without concrete evidence proving that Chen Chahua is no longer alive, he couldn’t start an investigation.
"I remember you said yesterday that Yang Dawei’s job was suspicious. Maybe you could start from there and see if any leads turn up?" He thought for a moment and said.
"I’ve thought about that too, but I asked Village Chief Yang, and they only know Yang Dawei has a boss, but not specifically who or where. Where should we even start looking for this person? We can’t just ask Yang Dawei directly, right? That would alert him."
"You’ve got a point, and if things really don’t work out, we’d have to just follow him for a few months..."
When solving cases, they can’t always break them open quickly or easily. Sometimes when encountering particularly tricky subjects, they use methods such as surveillance to gather evidence.
Zhao Donglai spoke, thinking, "The most experienced in our police team for such tasks is Yang Su. Okay, once he returns from his visits, I’ll arrange for him to handle it."
"Forget it, Captain Zhao, let me do it instead."
Luo Fei had actually thought of this plan long ago, but he felt it was too passive. What if Yang Dawei didn’t go out for months, would they really have to monitor him for months?