<h4>Chapter 1216: Chapter 1146: The Clumsy Method</h4><h4></h4>


    Yuan Bomian furrowed his brows, wanting to say something, but then stopped, saying, "The clues we currently have are pretty much exhausted when it gets to Redface. Catching Redface was already a bit of a stroke of luck..."


    Yuan Bomian exined as best he could: "Redface distributes goods by car. Moreover, before distributing, he should always privately confirm the situation with these small vendors. Then he’d drive to the side of a vendor, use a disposable phone to call the vendor below, connect the call, agree on a ce, say how long it takes to get there, and he must arrive within that time."


    Liu Jinghui immediately realized the difficulty involved, saying, "Then as long as he monitors the vendor in advance to ensure there’s no problem and only then makes the call, arranging for a ce without cameras, he’s basically not going to be exposed. So, how did you catch the person?"


    "We had just caught Longsword at the time and were still interrogating him when Redface called. It basically hit a sweet spot when we already had someone at the agreed location. We went over and discovered Redface, then tracked him all the way. We initially hoped to catch a few more, but Redface didn’t meet Longsword, didn’t even return to his own base, and was heading straight out of town. We blocked him at the highway entrance. If we hesitated slightly at that moment and let him out of the city, it would have been very hard to find him." Yuan Bomian recounted with a lingering sense of trepidation.


    Liu Jinghui could vividly picture the scene in his mind and couldn’t help but say, "Drug dealers have money, and they’re heartless; that’s the hardest part about catching them."


    "Indeed, you are absolutely right!" Yuan Bomian deeply resonated, his emotions showing signs of spilling over.


    Wealthy criminals are extremely difficult to catch because money paves the way, providing a lot of convenience. Just speaking of transportation, when high-speed trains and flights are strictly monitored, poor criminals can only take buses or crawl onto slow, cramped trains. Better ones might carpool or rent a car, but it’s still not very safe. However, if they have money, buying a shadow car minimizes exposure risk significantly.


    But, shadow cars with unclear origins typicallye with GPS, and every ce has professional car-finding teams searching for these vehicles. So, if it’s an escape, buying such a shadow car is a one-time thing, costing anywhere from thousands to tens of thousands, making it a high-end business ss in the field of criminal offenses.


    As for staying in hotels, eating, delivering goods, and even addressing sexual needs, wealthy criminals and poor criminals live in two separate worlds. You could say poor criminals are the wealth of wealthy criminals, a realistic reflection in the real world.


    Yuan Bomian appeared somewhat anxious, saying, "Otherwise... otherwise..."


    He wanted to propose a second solution, but matters of life and death for the undercover agent stopped Yuan Bomian from saying anything more.


    Jiang Yuan picked up the conversation at this point, saying, "Then let’s start from scratch."


    "Start from scratch... how?" Yuan Bomian was a bit rushed.


    Jiang Yuan said: "I’m not very familiar with drug enforcement, but they mainly follow a hierarchical structure, right? Junkies buy from small dealers, above the small dealers are small distributors like Longsword, thenrger distributors like Redface, and even above that are bigger ones? Your undercover agent is effectively among the superiors of Redface now?"


    "That’s about right, but individuals like Longsword and Redface aren’t considered distributors. Redface’s superior Brother Li is considered a small distributor. As they’re known in Hong Kong and Taiwan, small distributors are called ’disassemblies’; they can receive packages of high-purity drugs and then add substances in their drug kitchens to increase profit. There might be big distributors above small distributors, depending on who’s above them. But at the distributor level, it’s tough to catch them because transactions are often non-contact." Yuan Bomian exined the intricacies of the drug trade with enthusiasm.


    Though it wasn’t considered a clue, Yuan Bomian still hoped Jiang Yuan would understand more to avoid talking impractically, so he continued, "Above distributors, there are typically drug manufacturingbs. Abroad, theye through smuggling channels; sometimes, there are several levels of distributors in between. Domestic drug manufacturingbs frequently change locations, since getting enough industrial products is easy, and with favorable chemical machinery, a few individuals can set up a small workshop. With proficiency, they can produce a few thousand kilograms of products in a few weeks."


    Liu Jinghui said, "In Breaking Bad, Heisenberg could produce a batch in a week, assembling in different vis each time and leaving promptly after production."


    Yuan Bomian: "Almost the same, it depends on what they’re producing. In Breaking Bad, it was meth; domestically... there are too many chemicals that can be used as drugs now, and many precursor chemicals aren’t hard to acquire, mainly relying on registration and filing systems. But this system... traffickers always find loopholes..."


    "Understood, so our goal is to find the manufacturingb and the undercover agent, right?" Jiang Yuan began to organize his thoughts.


    "No... the manufacturingb can’t be found... I mean, using this bottom-up investigation, it’s generally very hard to pinpoint the manufacturingb." Yuan Bomian hurriedly said a few words, then calmed down a bit, saying, "To find manufacturingbs, we usually adopt other methods, such as quantitative analysis of chemicals... In any case, our primary goal is to find the undercover agent first!"