Diary of a Criminal Investigator

Chapter 705: Chapter 705: The Son’s Delivery

The people in the Criminal Investigation Team are all night owls.

If you can’t handle staying up late, don’t think about working in the Criminal Investigation Team.

Lu Chuan went to bed relatively early last night. After the case analysis meeting, he went home, thought for a bit, and then fell asleep.

But the other action groups weren’t so lucky.

Wang Chuanzhi’s interpersonal relationship investigation hadn’t been completely sorted out, and this needed to be done quickly.

The Criminal Investigation Team’s effort to sort out the victim’s interpersonal relationships is just a general term; it actually includes call records, courier information, bank transfer records, legal records, tax records, and so on.

In the past, checking these records meant personally visiting various departments.

Now it’s much better; they can be queried via computer, as long as there’s system access.

In this respect, Lu Chuan thinks the benefits brought by digitization are very convenient.

In the past, they’d say when investigating a case, according to Old Yang, it was like begging and pleading.

A murder case, deemed important by the police, might be nothing for the bank.

For a bank, so many people die every day; those who come to close accounts, transfer money, get certificates, and do other things are endless.

It’s just a regular business activity.

So, you just line up.

It’s not like when the police arrive, they can cut in line and check whenever they want.

The same goes for other departments.

The police have their work, and they have theirs.

They’re not going to drop everything to assist the police.

Now, it’s much better; most information can be found in the system as long as you have access rights.

Zhang Hui’s group was busy all night, and before dawn, they found a new lead and went out to verify it.

Only a few of the older comrades stayed behind to hold down the fort.

Age-wise, the Criminal Investigation Team is relatively young overall.

Especially the action group, mostly made up of strong young men in their 30s.

There are quite a few experienced detectives in their 40s, but hardly anyone in their 50s.

Even if there are, they’re usually not sent out on missions; they’d stay back and keep watch.

It’s not that the action team members won’t age.

It’s just that generally, the team adjusts the positions of action group members who have reached a certain age.

Some go into public relations, others into the legal department, or logistics.

The action group of the Criminal Investigation Team isn’t suitable for older people.

Their bodies can’t handle it.

In the restroom, several people squeezed in together to brush their teeth.

Each one bending over, spitting foam from their mouths.

Why are the colleagues in the criminal department so close? When a case arises, they’re together for dozens of hours, days, and nights. Sometimes they don’t go home for half a month, forging naturally strong relationships.

And being a bunch of roughhouse men, after mixing for a few years, they’re almost like family.

"Director Lu? Come, come, there’s a spot here!"

Someone spotted Lu Chuan in the mirror, squeezed a space beside a brother, and made room for Lu Chuan in front of the sink.

This is not the time to refuse, and Lu Chuan wouldn’t refuse.

"Thanks."

He squeezed in, squeezed toothpaste, wet his brush, and started brushing.

"Where did Old Zhang...go..."

"Yesterday...discovered a...package, went to verify it."

"Oh..."

Gurgling...

Men’s morning routines are much quicker than women’s; in just a few minutes, the sink area had new faces.

At the entrance of Wang Chuanzhi’s residential community, Dongfeng Street 138, at the Cainiao courier station.

"I forgot the exact time; I need to check the pickup records..."

This Cainiao outlet is inside a supermarket at the community entrance.

The boss runs it as a sideline, operating the supermarket and the outlet, earning two incomes.

"It was picked up on the 15th around 1:30 PM."

Saying this, the boss handed the courier information on his phone to Zhang Hui.

Cheng Feng has been running this Cainiao station for two years.

He often deals with the police as the officers occasionally come to check the courier records.

So, he’s quite familiar with the process.

"Officer, I’ve pulled up the surveillance for you; you can check it at the back later."

First, you get the courier information, then check the surveillance; both steps are essential.

Zhang Hui carefully cross-referenced the courier information on the phone with his colleagues and became increasingly serious.

After the case analysis meeting early this morning, Zhang Hui held another meeting for his action sub-group.

The main focus was on further analyzing and investigating the situation at Wang Chuanzhi’s home, and establishing clear divisions of labor.

At 5:30 in the morning, a team member investigating the courier situation at Wang Chuanzhi’s home discovered something.

There had been an unusual increase in the number of couriers sent to Wang Chuanzhi’s house recently.

In the past, they typically received one to two packages per month.

And the recipient for purchases was always Wang Chuanzhi’s wife, Xu Qianqian.

But starting this month, there was an abnormal increase in the frequency, with 1-2 packages arriving each week.

And the purchaser of these packages was Wang Chuanzhi himself.

They also checked the courier situation at Wang Chuanzhi’s office address.

It had been stable, and no packages in Wang Chuanzhi’s name were found there.

This indicates that Wang Chuanzhi doesn’t have the habit of online shopping.

So, it couldn’t be a case of changing the delivery address from the office to home.

Then why did the number of packages at home increase suddenly this past month?

Upon discovering this lead, Zhang Hui immediately brought people over to verify it.

Of course, asking the Cainiao station’s boss wouldn’t yield any valuable clues.

Hundreds of people pick up packages there daily.

Men, women, adults, children—he couldn’t possibly remember them all.

Luckily, there’s surveillance at the supermarket entrance.

"Is it him?"

Cross-referencing with the pickup timestamp on the boss’s phone, Zhang Hui’s side identified the person who picked up the package via surveillance.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t Wang Chuanzhi who collected the package.

It was his son, Wang Ruihao.

Why was Wang Ruihao picking up his father’s packages?

"Whose phone number was given?"

"It’s Wang Chuanzhi’s; all packages have his phone number."

"Check Wang Ruihao’s phone number to see if any packages are sent to him!"

Zhang Hui suddenly had a hypothesis in his mind...

But, is it possible?

However, the query results came out quickly.

"We found Wang Ruihao’s phone number; it was used for sending packages, but the most recent one was a month ago."

A month ago?

Zhang Hui’s mind raced.

Although Wang Chuanzhi didn’t have a habit of online shopping, for some reason, several packages were sent to his home this past month.

Did he ask his son to buy items for him?

That doesn’t make sense.

He could’ve just used his own phone and bought them himself.

"Let’s go back and take Wang Chuanzhi’s phone out from the evidence room."

"Yes!"

An hour later, Zhang Hui had Wang Chuanzhi’s phone in his possession.

But no online shopping app was found.

The tech team took a look and found that the Taobao app was uninstalled three days ago in the app removal records.

Reinstalling it showed that the shopping components weren’t missing, and it could be logged into directly.

Then, Zhang Hui saw twelve online shopping records!