Chapter 172.1 Diary
“The police over in the U.S. were extremely cooperative with us, because they had similar scholar-murder cases on their side too, and in the end it was proven—
just as the intelligence you provided at the very beginning suggested, all of those cases were indeed carried out by the Mutual Aid Society of Regrets.”
A few days later, inside the Donghai City Public Security Bureau, in the police office, Jiang Ran sat face-to-face with Officer Liu.
“The mastermind behind all of this was also the target we had previously locked onto—that billionaire tycoon and top scholar—
Wu Yuanzheng.”
Officer Liu leaned back against his chair. “Across the entire world, the Mutual Aid Society of Regrets probably has over twenty thousand members. But the core members—the ones qualified to meet the Priest and receive missions—number fewer than a hundred.”
“So their secrecy work was excellent. Under normal circumstances, the investigation should never have gone this smoothly. But the unexpected part was that on that private jet at Jiaxing Nanhu Airport, there happened to be an investigation report on Wu Yuanzheng aboard it. It gave us a lot of key clues, which is how we were able to crack the case so quickly.”
At that, Officer Liu sighed. “Still, I have to admit, a cunning rabbit has more than one burrow. We had been secretly tracking Wu Yuanzheng the whole time, but in the end they still played us. They used a Rolls-Royce to lure us to Pudong Airport and pulled a classic diversion.”
“This really was our oversight. Thinking about it carefully, if Wu Yuanzheng had already decided to flee and had already noticed we were investigating him, why would he continue using his own private jet and apply for an air corridor under his own name?”