Chapter 116 — Troubled Qiu Lingshan [Eighth Update, Summoning Monthly Tickets]
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After hesitating again and again, Qiu Lingshan decided to call Yang Huaijun for advice. Otherwise she truly had no clue. She had already signed a military pledge—if the case was not solved within ten days, the bureau chief would not dismiss her, but it would be a severe loss of face. If word reached the Song family, not only would she be humiliated, but her father would also be unable to hold his head up before his uncles and brothers...
"Brother Yang, it's me..." Qiu Lingshan was a little uneasy. After all, calling him like this made her seem somewhat incompetent. She had followed Yang Huaijun and learned from him for so long, yet had made no progress, which left her with little face...
In the past, Yang Huaijun had always taken command while she spearheaded the action. With her experience as an instructor in the special forces, no matter how savage the suspect, she would beat him until he was on the ground hunting for his teeth. Dangerous arrest missions were Qiu Lingshan's forte, and that was acknowledged throughout the police station—otherwise a female captain would never have won everyone's easy submission.
"Xiao Song, is something the matter?" Yang Huaijun had a meeting at the provincial department in the afternoon, but had nothing to do in the morning, so he planned to go to the old Chinese medicine doctor who treated him for a follow-up check. A few days ago he had suffered another attack. Though it had been brought on by anger at Wei Zhao, over the past few months his health had clearly been worsening day by day, and Yang Huaijun could sense it.
"Captain Yang... the 313 bank robbery case still has no leads... Two suspects are dead, and the others' fate is unknown..." Qiu Lingshan said cautiously.
"Heh—" Yang Huaijun naturally knew Qiu Lingshan's difficulty and understood her. After all, she had not come from a criminal investigation background and had received no systematic training. So he offered his view: "I already know about this. Let me give you my opinion. I think the possibility of them being silenced is relatively low. If it were silencing, it would be impossible for only two of the gang to die while the others were left untouched..."
"Then... what if they were silenced by the others? What if only these two weren't one of their own?" Qiu Lingshan asked humbly.
"Is that necessary? If they're all their own people, why would they bring two who aren't along? Isn't that just asking for trouble? Either they're all reliable men, or none of them are..." Yang Huaijun smiled. "So I think the likelihood of an internal falling-out is greater. The most probable scenario is an uneven split of the loot, with disagreements within the group. That's why Lv Jieyan and Ma Liu were eliminated by their own accomplices..."
"Yes, that makes sense... It must have been something like that." Qiu Lingshan nodded emphatically in agreement.
"In that case, we simply need to scale up the search. They're carrying such a massive pile of cash - unless they're willing to abandon it, they can hardly move quickly enough. Our people are stationed along every major transportation route conducting checks, so the chances of them leaving Songshan are slim. If we search outward from the site where those two corpses were found, we may well turn up something..." Yang Huaijun said.
"Yes, understood." A sudden sense of clarity washed over Qiu Lingshan...
"Heh, Xiao Song, I heard you and Wei Zhao have been seeing each other?" Yang Huaijun paused for a moment, then broached the question anyway. Word had already been going around the police station about Qiu Lingshan's formidable exploits... serving her boyfriend... in the hospital...