National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 216 - 216 208 Inborn Nature

216: Chapter 208 Inborn Nature 216: Chapter 208 Inborn Nature The dormitory of the Longli County Criminal Police Brigade is not fixed in terms of the number of occupants.

They have several dorm rooms and bunk beds, usually there’s someone to clean and change the bedding.

Whoever wants to sleep just sleeps, and leaves when they wake up, not needing to worry about a thing, like the vibe of a youth hostel.

Jiang Yuan was also busy all day, he and Wang Zhong took a bunk bed together.

There were other detectives sleeping in the dormitory too, with snoring resounding everywhere.

The case had been going for almost 60 hours, and for some detectives, this was their first sleep in days, so it was normal for them to sleep deeply.

Moreover, it wasn’t just the dormitory that Jiang Yuan chose, a row of several dorms were filled with people snoring, each snore unique, like a concert, with the snoring traveling from the dorms to the hallway, then back into the dorms from the hallway.

To be honest, a youth hostel with such conditions, a dog wouldn’t even stay.

But within the Criminal Police Brigade, it felt quite luxurious.

Because he was so tired, even if Jiang Yuan had the money, he was too lazy to leave the compound to find a hotel.

The dorm environment didn’t offer any washing or bathing facilities, Jiang Yuan, smelling the stench of others, simply took off his shoes and dropped onto the bed to sleep.

Stink filled the air; whatever suffering came later, no one was to pity anyone else.

The next day.

The intermittent snoring, combined with the jarring alarms and phone rings, woke Jiang Yuan up.

Jiang Yuan sat up groggily, listening to the noises around him, and lost any desire to go back to sleep.

He kicked Wang Zhong to wake him up, “Let’s go, see what’s going on.”

Cybersecurity is easier to get along with and more flexible than technical investigation.

Jiang Yuan guessed that since neither he nor Wang Zhong were woken up, everything must be progressing smoothly.

In their rush, Hou Le’s house even sold off the working hours of the police dogs.

They wouldn’t just leave Jiang Yuan and the others to comfortably endure the smell of feet.

Downstairs, he indeed saw detectives looking spirited.

“What’s the situation now?” Jiang Yuan encountered Hou Xiaoyong and asked.

“We’ve pinpointed the location.

He’s gone to Pingjiang.” Hou Xiaoyong’s expression was as if he was about to make a move.

It had been three days since the case started, it wasn’t surprising if the person had left the province.

Although running back to one’s hometown may seem low, it’s a common behavior for criminals.

This is really about who the board hits.

If the board hits someone else, everyone likes to teach them what to do: why don’t you just Abracadabra, babble on as a mouth warrior…

If the board hits oneself, with over a hundred professional police officers after them, day and night, where would one run to if being caught means getting executed?

Places one has never been to in their entire life, nine out of ten people wouldn’t dare to take such risks at this point.

Just this fact alone limits most people’s escape routes to a few provinces.

Unless they’re a drop-dead gorgeous man or woman from nowhere, for most people in their twenties or thirties, their circle of life is likely limited to where they live, work, study, where their grandparents are, and maybe one or two places they’ve traveled to.

Where to run at such a time?

For many, childhood images start to emerge in their minds, scenes from playing hide and seek, and familiar environments from their hometowns, casual chats during those gaming days: if I hide there, not even gods could find me.

If a person could hide in a hollow tree or a cave for years on end, they truly would be hard to find.

However, in reality, most ordinary people can’t stand to be in such an environment for even ten or fifteen days – the thing is, those with such determination and execution likely wouldn’t have had the time to commit crimes, as society would’ve recruited them with high positions and rich rewards, luxury cars, and beautiful women.

The few left behind often end up stumbling over logistics like stockpiling necessary supplies.

In history, those significant criminals who managed to evade capture for a long time had overcome human nature and acted contrarily.

Take the century’s drug lord Liu Zhaohua, with a Ministry-level A-list warrant on his head, in the face of relentless pursuit by thousands of officers, he traveled through six or seven provinces and evaded capture for nine years, even marrying two wives, always moving against the task force’s assumptions, heading to places he was unfamiliar with.

As for Liu Zhaohua’s sociability, it dates back to when he was 13 in 1979 when he won second prize in the provincial chemistry competition for middle-school students.

But because his family was poor, he eventually dropped out of school, and later…

later Liu Zhaohua self-taught and succeeded in the chemical total synthesis of methamphetamine in the 80s, akin to the new drug production method in “Breaking Bad”, predating Heisenberg by 20 years.

If 80s Liu Zhaohua had been teaching in a school with that achievement, he could’ve been appointed a professor directly, published a paper or two in top world journals, and at least have been a reserve bigshot in the provincial chemistry community.

By the way, if a society can’t recruit talented individuals with high positions, rich rewards, luxury cars, and beautiful women, then failures like Hong Xiuquan, who missed the Imperial examinations, or Huang Chao, who failed repeatedly, and Li Zicheng who was laid off, certainly have something to say.

And by the way, Liu Zhaohua’s final fate was that, under his wife’s persuasion, he returned to the “darkness beneath the lamp” of his old home in Fu’an, only to be discovered and arrested three months later.

The husband faced the death penalty, while the wife got five years.

——In summary, men who listen to their wives’ advice will die.

Making billions was useless.

…

Li Weibin was at the lower end of the criminal hierarchy.

Far from overcoming his humanity, he couldn’t even control himself.

Otherwise, with the income he had obtained from multiple break-ins, he wouldn’t have needed to be frugal; if he hadn’t squandered it, he could’ve accumulated substantial capital and started a new life.

Even if he hadn’t given in to his beastly impulses and stabbed the victim to death during the break-ins, if he had merely injured them or even stopped his crime and fled after the victim was hurt, he wouldn’t have drawn Jiang Yuan from another county.

But Li Weibin just blatantly indulged his nature.

And the criminal investigators naturally took advantage of this nature.

Cross-provincial tracking might be somewhat troublesome, but when it comes to handling homicide cases, it’s not really a problem.

Funding for homicide investigations was never in short supply.

The money scrimped and saved by other special task forces was meant to serve murder cases anyway.

Manpower was also plentiful; for current murder cases, mobilizing hundreds or even thousands of people was common.

Technical support could be escalated from the county level all the way to the ministry, and as long as there was a real need, avenues for requesting assistance were clear.

This mechanism had its pros and cons.

On the bright side, its strong warning message probably deterred a number of criminals and saved some lives.

Li Weibin had ignored the deterrence, thereby plunging himself into a very difficult situation.

Jiang Yuan sat in the conference room for a while, catching up to the current situation through various phone calls and reports.

Soon, Hou Lejia found a map of Pingjiang Province, hung it on the wall, and pretended to pin some flags on it to indicate the current progress.

Actually, it wasn’t necessary; capturing a person wasn’t like conducting military maneuvers, and the effect of deploying forces was just so.

Not to mention that the situation on the front lines was directed by the commanders there, well beyond the reach of Hou Lejia’s remote guidance.

Of course, this didn’t prevent Hou Lejia from bringing in a map with an inappropriate scale, nor did it spoil the comrade Hou Lejia’s own enjoyment.

“Doctor Jiang, let’s grab something simple for lunch.

If we crack the case tonight, we’ll have a good meal,” Hou Lejia’s attitude had improved a bit from yesterday.

A night’s sleep had cleared his mind and made him rational, and he gradually realized that Jiang Yuan was not just a leading fingerprint expert from the province and a proven bloodstain analyst but also ranked provincially alongside Heizi in various fields.

In short, Hou Lejia felt he had made a good trade by swapping Heizi for Jiang Yuan.

At this moment, treating Jiang Yuan to a good meal seemed particularly appropriate.

Jiang Yuan, who had just woken up, agreed to Hou Lejia, and then asked, “Is the kid with Li Weibin?”

“We don’t know yet,” Hou Lejia’s gaze patrolled the map as he said, “Judging by his speed to Pingjiang, it seems he didn’t spend too much time on the kid, but… it’s hard to say.”

The suspicion was that suspect Li Weibin had kidnapped the child to sell for money, which was a common line of thought.

Escaping surely required money, and indeed, money might be more important than a pre-planned escape route.

Just look at those spy movies; when a spy is on the run, all they need is money and identification documents.

Weapons aren’t necessary.

Moreover, how long a person can stay on the run is directly related to the amount of money they have, as lodging, food, and transportation all cost money.

Without funds during an escape, one not only risks poor sleep and nutrition, increasing the chances of illness but also increases the risk of exposure through increased contact with others.

Many thieves are caught while attempting to obtain money.

Whereas economic criminals with money, even if inexperienced, often manage to escape easily because they have the money, which can heal wounds.

For instance, when taking a taxi, a penniless escapee might pull out a weapon to avoid payment, whereas one with money could take a nap during the ride, wake up to chat warmly with the driver, tip generously, and upon a coordinated search, might receive the driver’s silence out of simple kindness, while the other may have changed their appearance, but still be betrayed by a disgruntled driver to the task force.

However, such useful knowledge comes either from experience, from learning under a mentor, or from education.

The special case team wasn’t worried about Li Weibin being well-read or having mentors; they were concerned he knew nothing, had no money yet acted big, and feared the child might cry out on the way, forcing a desperate Li Weibin to take extreme measures.

The group sitting in the conference room didn’t have to speculate wildly for long before the informative phone call came through:

“We’ve captured Li Weibin.”

“The child wasn’t found.”

“Li Weibin refuses to confess.”

The task force members’ mood shifted from elation to anger, and then to deep worry.

The worst they had feared had happened.

At the same time, the system interface flashed in front of Jiang Yuan:

Task: Find Liu Yiyi

Task description: Find Liu Yiyi, who was kidnapped by Li Weibin.

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