Super Time Detective

Because of the quick "husband", Yin Jiaming received an elbow from Ye Huairui.

"Ow!"

Young Master Yin pretended to cover his left chest, "It hurts, it hurts, the ribs seem to be cracked again!"

Ye Huairui glanced at him, unmoved at all, "Your broken rib is clearly on the right."

Yin Jiaming stopped pretending, and quickly made amends:

"Remember my injury so clearly, it seems that you really love me, A Rui!"

"Come on, don't be poor."

Ye Huairui stood up and pulled Yin Jiaming's bangs behind his ears, "I'll take a shower first, and then we'll talk about the case."

Young Master Yin's hair hasn't been cut for three months. His forehead hair droops over his eyelids, and his hair ends cover his ears. Every day he dangles a fluffy, fluffy hair with a proud volume, like an unruly vagabond Poets, occasionally appearing in trendy styles with two colored hairpins on their heads and a small tuck in the back of their heads, which makes Ye Fayi very disgusted.

Ye Huairui always thought that he would take Yin Jiaming to get a haircut when he was free, but he was really busy recently, so he procrastinated day after day until now.

Yin Jiaming rubbed his nose, got up with a smile, and started to clear the dining table.

Half an hour later, Yin Jiaming came out of the kitchen, and when he returned to the living room, Ye Huairui had finished washing and was sitting on the sofa waiting for him. There were two cups of freshly brewed black tea on the coffee table.

Yin Jiaming unceremoniously sat down next to Ye Huairui, stretched out his hand to wrap his shoulders, and gave him a loud slap on his forehead, which was still slightly steamy, before smiling and saying:

"Okay, let's start."

"Where do we start?"

Ye Huairui habitually took out a pen and paper, and drew a vertical line on the loose-leaf paper, indicating that this was a timeline.

"correct……"

About a third of the way up the vertical line he wrote a date:

"July 1982, 7, at 21:52 in the morning, the time when the alarm sounded at the Fushou branch of Dah Sing Bank."

Yin Jiaming asked:

"Is this the time for Yuan Zhiqiu and others to break into the vault?"

As a theoretical scapegoat who has been blamed for 39 years, Young Master Yin already has a good understanding of the case, but he still doesn't go into every detail.

"Do not."

Ye Huairui shook his head:

"Back then, the Fushou Sub-branch had already installed a camera monitoring system, but the accuracy of the picture was of course incomparable to what it is now, and there was no sound."

He quickly drew the floor plan of Fushou Branch of Dah Sing Bank on the paper:

"Here, here, here and here, surveillance is installed, but the coverage is limited, and there are dead spots everywhere."

Ye Huairui marked an "X" at the corner of the lobby on the floor plan, "At that time, the robbers dug through the sewer and directly entered the lobby, which happened to be a blind spot that the surveillance could not cover."

He paused, and added:

"And they kidnapped the manager of the sub-branch, She Fang. Manager She is very familiar with the internal environment of the Fushou sub-branch, and led them around the main entrance and the lobby to take pictures...until they came here."

Ye Huairui's pen tip clicked on the word "vault" on the floor plan, "There is a surveillance camera at the entrance of the vault, and they can't get around it no matter what."

Yin Jiaming asked:

"So that's when the alarm went off?"

Ye Huairui shook his head.

"It was already late at night, and the security guard in the surveillance room was dozing off, so he didn't pay attention to the surveillance at all. She Fang used the password and key to open the door of the vault, and the robbers passed through the barrier in a very short time."

Yin Jiaming curled his lips and couldn't help complaining:

"What a security system full of loopholes!"

Ye Huairui thought that this person has been a little drifting lately. He has watched too many Hollywood blockbusters, and his mind is full of 007 Mission: Impossible and Extreme Agent. He actually started to look down on the security equipment back then!

"There's also a surveillance camera in the vault, around here."

He drew a circle on the floor plan and simply marked the monitoring location:

"It was directly in front of the bank's lattice safes, which at the time held the stolen jewellery, jewellery, gold coins and bars."

In the past few days, special personnel from the task force have checked the investigation records and monitoring archives of the year, and confirmed each detail one by one.

On the day of the incident, at 47:[-] a.m., three armed robbers held bank manager She Fang hostage and appeared on surveillance outside the vault gate.

About 1 minute later, She Fang opened the door of the vault and was taken into the vault by three gangsters.

After entering the vault, the robbers confirmed the location of the target safe to Manager She, and probably feared that She Fang would run away or sound the alarm while they were opening the safe, so Yuan Zhiqiu quickly shot two shots at She Fang.

And at this moment, the alarm sounded—their actions in the vault finally alarmed the security guards in front of the monitoring screen.

In the next few minutes, the robbers used the keys they got from She Fang to hastily opened a total of twelve safes, swept the treasures inside into black woven bags, and put them together In the big backpack of the mastermind Yuan Zhiqiu.

Speaking of this, Ye Huairui specifically explained.

"The first safe that the gangsters opened was the one with 'Tears of the Arctic Ocean'."

He said:

"And they did get the box of 'Arctic Tears' out of the safe on camera."

Yin Jiaming suddenly spoke:

"Wait a minute."

Ye Huairui: "?"

Yin Jiaming asked: "Why do you emphasize the 'box'?"

"Because the more expensive jewelry is packed in an exhibition box with a combination lock."

Ye Huairui drew the size of a small biscuit box with his hand, "The alarm had already sounded, and Yuan Zhiqiu and others probably didn't have time to pry the box."

"That……"

Yin Jiaming frowned slightly, and slowly and carefully proposed a plan:

"Do you think it is possible...there is no 'Tears of the Arctic Ocean' in that box?"

Ye Huairui asked:

"Do you suspect that Dah Sing Bank took the opportunity to defraud insurance?"

Yin Jiaming nodded.

In fact, such cases did happen before, and more than once.

Not long before the Jincheng robbery, Midi once had a bank that was not doing well, hired a group of robbers to "rob" itself, and then exaggerated the loss to defraud insurance.

Yin Jiaming read about this news in a gossip magazine and remembered it deeply.

"No, this possibility is relatively small."

Ye Huairui shook his head.

"First of all, Dah Sing Bank was doing well before the accident, and there was no financial crisis; secondly, it was not the bank that insured the jewelry, but the exhibitor who lent the jewelry. In the hands of the new bank, the bank's reputation was greatly damaged due to the robbery, the stock fell to the limit for three consecutive days, and even the CEO resigned."

Yin Jiaming understood:

"Cheating insurance doesn't pay off, right?"

Ye Huairui: "Yes."

"Then, let's change our thinking."

Yin Jiaming still did not give up on his hypothesis just now:

"If it wasn't for the bank, what else could have allowed a $400 million gem to disappear before the robbery happened?"

Ye Huairui didn't answer immediately.

He just turned his head and stared at Yin Jiaming with an indescribably complicated expression.

Yin Jiaming was confused: "What's wrong?"

"nothing……"

Ye Huairui raised his hand and gently rubbed his forehead, a self-deprecating smile appeared on the corner of his lips:

"I just suddenly realized... Your thinking may make sense."

After finishing speaking, Ye Huairui picked up a pen and drew a horizontal line on the timeline just drawn, dividing July 7, when the crime happened, into two halves:

"Because, according to the original plan, this batch of jewelry will be transferred to the exhibition hall on the afternoon of the 21st."

The tip of his pen poked under the date:

"Yuan Zhiqiu's robbery has been planned for more than half a month, and they rushed to do it on the last day. This is very delicate!"

"That's right!"

Yin Jiaming swipe the timeline on the paper with his finger:

"Using the 21st as the dividing line, if 'Tears of the Arctic Ocean' was really well kept in the box, after the robbery, the diamond should have fallen into Yuan Zhiqiu, Xie Taiping, Jie Qianchou or Situ Heroes in the hands of someone..."

He paused, then said slowly and word for word:

"But if there was a 'mistake' before the 21st, then...'Tears of the Arctic Ocean' should probably be in the hands of 'someone' who can touch the diamond openly!"

Ye Huairui fell silent.

He was thinking quickly about how big this possibility was and how to realize it.

The Fushou branch of Dah Sing Bank 39 years ago had Jincheng's top anti-theft equipment at that time.

Not to mention the newly installed surveillance cameras and the alarm system directly connected to the police station, their vault door alone is claimed to be the thickest multi-layer composite steel in the city, which is said to be able to withstand small blasts.

But at that time, biometric identification was not yet popular, and the door locks of bank vaults were still mechanical locks that were opened by physical methods. The password keyboard must be rotated correctly before the key was used to unlock the lock.

The password of the bank vault has twelve digits, which was already the top configuration of the mechanical combination lock at that time, and the password will be reset once a week.

There are two sets of keys to the bank vault, one is in the hands of the branch manager She Fang, and the other is kept by the security manager Dai Junfeng.

These two are also theoretically the only two people who can open the door of the vault during non-business hours.

The task force asked Yuan Jiangxue, the sister of the mastermind Yuan Zhiqiu. It stands to reason that as long as they got the key and password, the robbers could open the door of the vault smoothly. Why bother to take people to the scene?

Yuan Jiangxue replied that there was no mobile phone back then, and it was inconvenient to communicate. His brother was afraid that She Fang would use a fake password to fool him.

Moreover, the robbers had inquired beforehand that the Fushou branch had newly installed surveillance cameras not long ago, and the way to open the vault door was quite complicated.

They were not familiar with how to operate, and they were afraid that if they waited for a long time in front of the vault, it would delay their robbery plan.

Now Ye Huairui can basically confirm that Dai Junfeng, the security manager, is an "inner ghost".

Details about the basic situation inside the bank, details of the vault, surveillance cameras, where the jewelry is stored, and even when it will be taken away are likely to be disclosed to the robbers by Dai Junfeng.

——Is it really that simple?

Just as Yin Jiaming reminded him, taking July 7 as the dividing line, if "Tears of the Arctic Ocean" was indeed in the safe at that time, then it should have fallen into the hands of one of the four robbers—but What if something went wrong with "Tears of the Arctic Ocean" before the robbery happened?

His mind raced to a possibility he hadn't even imagined before.

"...But these are just speculations."

Ye Huairui tapped his knees unconsciously with his fingers, and murmured:

"... Where can I find the evidence?"

Wednesday, September 2021, 9, at 15:[-] am.

Inside the Jincheng Judicial Police Station.

"Do you want to re-examine the physical evidence?"

After hearing Ye Huairui's request, the rest of the task force were very surprised.

Ye Huairui nodded.

In view of the fact that the case of the Jincheng robbery is very complicated, with a large number of people involved, a huge time span, and a large number of complex scenes, there are dozens of boxes for the relevant evidence collected 39 years ago, not to mention the newly added ones. up.

The physical evidence is like mountains and seas, but unfortunately most of them are of little significance to solve the case at this stage, and because of the rough preservation methods back then, most of the biological traces have been polluted or damaged, and have lost re-identification the value of.

But Ye Huairui has no other choice now.

After all, this is an old case from 39 years ago, and all the people involved in the case are dead. To prove his conjecture, he can only use the most old-fashioned and most inefficient method to investigate.

And the most helpless thing, he is still not sure whether this will really work.

The people in the task force didn't care.

Anyway, now they have almost finished the case back then, and everything is ready, except for the whereabouts of "Tears of the Arctic Ocean".

It would be great if we could find new clues, but if we couldn't find them, there was nothing we could do. We could only leave an unsolved mystery and let time solve it.

Ye Huairui got the other people's consent, so he plunged into the pile of physical evidence, and started to look for a needle in a haystack, looking for the needle in his hypothesis that he didn't know whether it existed or not.

Ouyang Tingting put several cardboard boxes one by one on the shelf against the wall, and said to Ye Huairui:

"Forensic Ye, everything you want is here."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

Ye Huairui numbered the boxes one by one with post-it notes, from 1 to 7, so simple that there was nothing fancy about them.

Then he picked up the carton numbered 1, put it on the inspection table, put on gloves, and took out the contents one by one.

"Next, we're going to check everything carefully."

Ouyang Tingting nodded and sat opposite him.

"However, I don't quite understand why you want to check She Fang's belongings?"

Ye Huairui took out a soft-cover copy from the evidence bag.

According to the label on the bag, this should be She Fang's personal notepad in her briefcase.

He turned over the first page of the softcover copy and began to carefully review the content on it.

At the same time, Ye Huairui focused on two purposes, and said to his assistant:

"Tingting, if you wanted to kill someone, but you were afraid that you might be caught if you did it yourself, what would you do?"

Ouyang Tingting answered almost without thinking:

"Buy fierce!"

After she finished saying this word, she froze for a moment, and seemed to understand something, and couldn't help but widen her eyes in surprise:

"Do you think those robbers were all hired?"

"Do not."

Ye Huairui shook his head.

"That robbery is not like a hired 'acting'. The robbers really went for the jewels."

He paused, and added:

"And they must think that they have obtained the 'Tears of the Arctic Ocean'... Otherwise, Yuan Zhiqiu's son Yuan Jingqian would not have tried to recover the gem from the survivors of several other robbers after more than 30 years."

Ouyang Tingting: "Then you...?"

"Security manager Dai Junfeng is the 'inner ghost' in the bank, equivalent to the robbers' eyeliner or accomplice."

Ye Huairui focused on two tasks, while checking the notebook, while explaining his thoughts clearly:

"In a sense, Dai Junfeng, the security manager, can be regarded as self-stealing, right?"

Ouyang Tingting gave a "hmm".

Ye Huairui said:

"But what if Dai Junfeng is not the only one who guards and steals?"

Ouyang Tingting opened her eyes wide:

"You mean, the manager of the Fushou branch, She Fang, has a problem?"

"I can only say that there is a possibility."

Ye Huairui pursed his lips and said very cautiously:

"So, now I want to try to verify this conjecture."

Before the robbery, theoretically speaking, there were two people who could come into contact with "Tears of the Arctic Ocean" openly and aboveboard. One was the branch manager, She Fang, and the other was the security manager, Dai Junfeng.

Now it has been proven that Dai Junfeng colluded with the robbers, so... what about She Fang?

Ye Huairui put himself into the perspective of She Fang or Dai Junfeng, and thought about it for a while—if he wanted to get the piece of "Tears of the Arctic Ocean", what would he do?

Stealing it directly, no matter whether it is a bag drop or other methods, will not work.

As the people most likely to come into contact with the gems, as long as the gems are stolen, the two of them must be the first to be suspected.

Under the strict investigation of the police, no matter how clever the thief is, it is impossible to completely show his flaws.

So, is there no other way?

Yes, one of them is the most common, and it is also the method adopted by Dai Junfeng-becoming the "inner ghost" of a gang of robbers, providing inside information and allowing them to steal gems.

But in this way, even if the matter is successful, the "inner ghost" can only get part of the stolen money.

——But what if I want to have it all to myself?

When Ye Huairui thought about this question, he had an answer.

——Yes, I have a better way.

Ye Huairui thought, if it were him instead, he would let the robbery happen, and find a way to remove the most valuable gems before the robbery, or just keep a "wooden tree", or use other "fish" Eyes" to mess with that "pearl", and then let the robbers take the blame.

The robbers opened the safe and took away the contents under surveillance, and the police would treat the case as a "bank robbery".

In fact it is.

If Ye Huairui hadn't discovered that there was something strange about the strangle mark on Dai Junfeng's neck, and thus found out that the security manager had contact with the robber, the police might not be able to confirm that the "suicide" guy was related to the robbery. .

And She Fang, as the victim of the robbery, his whole family died under the gun of the robber, and the police have never suspected him.

But what if She Fang learned of the robbery plan in advance through some means, so what did she do in it?

……

"I understand."

After hearing Ye Huairui's explanation of his doubts, Ouyang Tingting couldn't help frowning.

To be honest, she felt that Ye Fayi's hypothesis could only be regarded as a "hypothesis" without any real evidence, but...it was not unreasonable.

Ouyang Tingting said:

"You're looking for evidence that She Fang was connected to the robbery, right?"

Ye Huairui nodded, thinking that Ouyang Tingting is really a smart girl, quick thinking, and she can understand everything.

So the two stopped talking, and began to carefully look through the physical evidence related to She Fang.

Wednesday, September 2021, 9, at 15:45pm.

When you are concentrating on doing things, time always goes by very fast.

The "physical evidence" that Ye Huairui and Ouyang Tingting are examining are basically bits and pieces collected by the Jincheng police from She Fang's home 39 years ago.

Back then, the robbers broke into the villa where She Fang lived late at night and quickly took control of She Fang, his wife and two underage children.

Then the robbers killed their wives and children who were just a burden to them, and kidnapped She Fang.

Later, when the police searched She Fang's home, they took away everything they thought might be useful.

This includes things stained with blood, and any objects that may have fingerprints on them, as well as briefcases and paper products in She Fang's study room, which are filled with several boxes.

But Ye Huairui doubted whether the Jincheng police had looked through these things carefully.

Because Ye Huairui and Ouyang Tingting only checked for most of the day, and they already discovered the suspicious point—or, more precisely, it should be the motive.

"It seems that at the time of the incident, She Fang's financial situation was not very good."

Ouyang Tingting said:

"His futures and stocks are in a mess. It seems that he must have lost a lot of money, right?"

Yes, in She Fang's portable notebook, in addition to some work memos, there are also many messy numbers recorded.

Ye Huairui and Ouyang Tingting didn't quite understand it at first, but after careful study, they discovered that these are the trading codes of some futures and stocks, as well as their trading prices.

In the era when personal computers were still scarce resources, people often had to rely on pen and paper to remember things and do business, and She Fang was no exception.

Ouyang Tingting sorted out the futures and stock data in the notepad according to time, and after some conversions, she came up with the important information that She Fang had lost at least 80 million within two years.

Even in Jincheng, which was considered quite wealthy back then, 80 million is a terrible number.

You must know that a bank manager with 15 years of service at that time had a pension of only 8 yuan.

Obviously, based on She Fang's salary level back then, it must be very difficult to make up such a large gap unless the family has a mine.

What's more, he has to support his family, and if he doesn't want to go bankrupt, Manager She has to figure out what to do.

For example, "Tears of the Arctic Ocean", which had a market value of 400 million US dollars at the time.

But these are still just "motives" and not empirical evidence.

They had to find more conclusive evidence.