After leaving Qiushui Manor, Chen Shaodong's mood did not improve much, but became even more depressed.
If the hermit really planted a bomb and could not seek help from the police, it meant that he had to deal with all the pressure alone.
Once the bomb is detonated, there will be hundreds or thousands of casualties.
When Chen Shaodong was a sniper, he had never carried out the mission of killing kidnappers and rescuing hostages.
But that has already happened and there is no choice.
And now he has a chance to nip the crisis in the bud.
'I advise you to follow the hermit's request honestly. Under normal circumstances, he will not hurt innocent people, and you'd better not think about catching him or killing him, otherwise you won't even have a chance to regret it.
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In Chen Shaodong's mind, Yue Chongshan's warning before leaving was played on a loop.
That posture seemed to confirm that no one could benefit from the hermit.
There is only one outcome for going against him - death.
Yes, at the beginning, Chen Shaodong thought of taking this opportunity to snipe Ai Liang halfway and force him to find out the location of the bomb.
This can not only solve the bomb problem, but also improve one's prestige in the black zone, killing two birds with one stone.
But Ai Liang disappeared without a trace as soon as he left the house, forcing him to give up the idea.
Chen Shaodong is not a native of Nevada City. He came to Nevada City only in the past two years.
Just like a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.
People who have not experienced the darkest times cannot understand the pressure brought by the hermit.
It is impossible to truly understand the fear of standing on the opposite side of the hermit based on his deeds.
"Have you contacted the private investigators?"
Chen Shaodong, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, asked abruptly.
"We have sent people to contact them. The specific results will depend on how their preliminary investigation goes," the subordinate responded.
These two subordinates were the team assigned to Chen Shaodong by his superiors, and they were regarded as bounty hunters who had been recruited.
It was also a somewhat famous presence in Neihua City back then.
Chen Shaodong nodded and warned: "Tell them not to waste time and tell those people that the more information they check and the faster they check, the higher the commission will be.
If you want to deliberately slow down the progress of the investigation and collect more money, then don't blame me for being rude."
Chen Shaodong is now racing against time.
His plan is this: the sooner he gets the information the hermit wants, the sooner the bomb can be deactivated.
Only then can you free up your hands to properly deal with the hermit.
The subordinate responsible for the task of connecting with the detective agency carefully wrote down: "I understand."
Chen Shaodong nodded with satisfaction, closed his eyes and leaned on the back seat to take a nap.
In recent months, Chen Shaodong has been busy taking over the connections and resources left by Mus. However, the more he takes over, the more he fears the black areas in Nevada City.
The dark side of other cities is nothing more than interest disputes in some companies, which may lead to car accidents or trace element poisoning and murder.
But Nevada City is different.
The black area here can no longer be called a gangster. Judging from the list of special businesses it has taken over, it is not much different from the terrorist organizations he knows.
Even if the most ruthless people are almost dead, the ones left are enough to make people terrified.
Chen Shaodong has not had a good sleep for a long time because of this.
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Two days passed in a blink of an eye.
Under the temptation of huge rewards, the detective company is really powerful.
They used their connections in various ways, and apart from not knowing about the Hai Xin Society and the strange things, all the other secrets of the deceased were revealed.
Chen Shaodong held the memory card in his hand that contained all the information about the deceased and dialed the contact number left by Ai Liang.
"Found it?" An extremely indifferent voice came from the mobile phone.
Chen Shaodong responded coldly: "I don't know what information you want to get from that person, but I have listed here all the people that that person has met recently.
Should the things be placed in a place for you to pick up, or should I take the initiative to deliver them to you?"
"To be honest, your actions are a bit slow."
Ai Liang was drinking herbal tea in a breakfast shop near the deceased's home while waiting for the bait to bite.
slow?
Hearing this, Chen Shaodong looked unhappy: "Do you know how much manpower and material resources it takes to check a person from beginning to end?
Even if the official ends the game in person, it may not be faster than us."
As a former member of the special forces, Chen Shaodong is well aware of the difficulty of obtaining intelligence.
In movies, it is often said that all information about a person must be obtained within ten minutes.
Or not long after a certain boss finished speaking, the person under his command came in with a file bag, which even recorded how many times the target peed on the bed as a child.
To put it simply, the speed at which the state machine exerts its full power is terrifying.
In fact, it's complete nonsense.
In ten minutes, at most, you can only get identity information, social security records, criminal records, network bad records and other information entered into the database.
It only takes more than ten minutes to transfer these things from the database to the computer, summarize them, classify them and indicate them in sections, and then print them out with a printer and send them to the office.
If you want to find out a person's living habits, personality traits when getting along with others, and specific whereabouts during a certain period of time, it is impossible to find out without spending a day or two in person to conduct surveillance.
Generally criminal and civil investigations that follow procedures are not necessarily faster than private investigators.
In order to introduce the results, Chen Shaodong took the initiative to reveal the intelligence part: "Due to your previous reminder, we specially investigated his identity.
His citizen card was forged by someone else at a high price. Among the people who had a divorce with him, we also found another person whose identity certificate was also forged. She should be the one you are looking for..."
"That person's name is Lydia, right?"
Ai Liang said the person's name in one breath.
Chen Shaodong's pupils shrank for a while.
They spent a lot of manpower and contacts, and after many rounds of screening, they finally determined that Lydia's identity was forged.
But now it was revealed by Ai Liang.
"Have you known about her existence for a long time?"
Chen Shaodong instinctively suspected Ai Liang and already knew this person's false identity.
Ai Liang denied this question: "No, I don't know, otherwise I wouldn't have paid you to investigate."
Ai Liang looked out the window and stirred the tofu buns carelessly, quoting a sentence from the Old Testament of the Bible: "The wicked flee even though there is no one to chase them, but the righteous are as bold as a lion."
"...Are you spying on us?"
"Don't I have the right to stay and observe the decoration process if I hire someone to decorate my house?"
Ai Liang told the truth: "I didn't expect you to investigate the matter clearly. I just wanted to let some people know that she is under investigation now. This is enough."