Chapter 2047: What Was That?

Qian Yikun asked Lil Zhao to put away the recording. “Are you sure?”

“Of course I’m sure. It’s this person!” Lin Xuan screeched.

Qian Yikun asked someone to bring Lin Xuan away. Lil Zhao looked at Qian Yikun and said, “Boss, didn’t that number appear overseas? Ding Junchi hasn’t traveled overseas recently.”

Qian Yikun knew this, but looking at Lin Xuan, she did not seem to be lying.

“Boss, the computer that Zhao Fangyu reported missing has been found. It’s in a trash can in the suburbs. Should we tell him?” Qian Yikun heard someone informing him of this news the moment he returned to the office.

“Trash can in the suburbs?” Qian Yikun asked.

“That’s right, it’s a trash can in the suburbs. A fellow police officer found it when he was patrolling, and he asked if it was the same one in the report I filed earlier.”

Qian Yikun lowered his head and looked at the photo. He turned around and looked at the vice-captain and Lil Zhao. “Come with me.”

When Qian Yikun and the others arrived at the police station in the suburbs, someone had already retrieved the computer. It was placed on the ground.

“Hey, Captain Qian, why are you here personally?” The person-in-charge in the police force came over to shake Qian Yikun’s hands. He wondered why the captain of the criminal investigation unit would come over personally just for a small theft.

After Qian Yikun shook hands with him, he lowered his head and scrutinized the CPU and computer screen on the floor. The screen had long cracked. It looked like it cracked from the impact of getting thrown.

So, someone had stolen it and thrown it into the trash can?

“Has anyone touched the computer?” Qian Yikun asked.

“No, we left it here after retrieving it.” There were only a few people in this police station, and they were all patrolling outside. Thus, it was true that n.o.body moved it after bringing back the computer.

After Qian Yikun thanked him, he asked the vice-captain to move the computer to the car. Then, he looked at the surveillance cameras for the past few days. He found what he was looking for nonetheless.

It was a white van. The license plate was covered under a piece of paper, but one could clearly see that the computer had been thrown off the van.

Did someone steal the computer just to discard it?

After watching the video, Qian Yikun thanked the man again. “Old He, thanks for going through the trouble this time. We’ll take our leave now.”

Qian Yikun got into the car. Lil Zhao was sitting at the back. He took out the hard disk and checked its contents.

The vice-captain drove. “What’s the meaning of this?”

Lil Zhao was still reading the contents of the hard drive. “Captain, there’s an encrypted folder in this hard drive. It seems like a huge file too.”

“Crack into it,” Qian Yikun said calmly.

“Boss, aren’t we invading their privacy?” the vice-captain reminded Qian Yikun.

“That person went through so much trouble to tell us that there’s a problem here. If we don’t go and take a look, wouldn’t we be wasting the person’s good intentions?” Qian Yikun said as he turned to look at Lil Zhao. “It’s just an old desktop computer. Is there a need to lodge a police report?”

“Maybe that person needs money,” the vice-captain suggested. Nothing makes him happier than trying to be cheeky once in a while.

Lil Zhao, who sat at the back, cracked the pa.s.sword and exclaimed, “Great!” Then, he handed his laptop to Qian Yikun.

Qian Yikun reached out and took it. He looked at the decrypted folder. Most of the doc.u.ments were about diamagnetic fields along with some research reports.

“Boss, what’s this?” Lil Zhao leaned on the pa.s.senger seat and looked at the computer. “What are these things? What’s a diamagnetic field?”

“I’ve heard about magnetic fields before. However, what’s this diamagnetic field?” The vice-captain glanced at it, indicating that he did not understand it.