Chapter 916 - 372: Brazenly Delayed Updates!
As soon as the words were spoken.
Captain Shen saw a few court bailiffs walk into the police station, holding a thick stack of documents in their hands.
If he remembered correctly...
These documents were exactly the ones he had handed over to the court in the morning.
It had only been a few hours.
Yet...
All of them were returned.
"Captain Shen, it’s like this, when they saw the defense of Tang Suiming and Liao Xiangming in the pretrial court, they all claimed to have a lot of criminal facts and wanted to report and expose..."
The bailiff walked up and explained with a bitter smile.
Shen Dao’s mouth twitched: "..."
Report and expose, my ass.
You have to understand.
These defendants weren’t just one or two, but over two hundred and eighty!
If each person reports and exposes two or three cases...
That adds up to over a thousand cases!
It had already exceeded the annual workload they usually encounter at the station!
Moreover.
This includes all those trivial civil disputes!
"Ahem, I’ve already delivered the people, next... I’ll leave it to you, Captain Shen."
The bailiff cleared his throat.
And decisively turned around, leaving the police station.
Leaving Shen Dao in a swirl of bewilderment.
"Captain... Captain Shen, if we don’t eat the meal now, it will get cold."
A police officer beside him saw Shen Dao still in a daze and pointed at the boxed meal as a reminder.
"To hell with eating!"
Shen Dao rolled his eyes, couldn’t help but curse.
Then he took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Notify everyone in the station, have them assemble, and prepare for a meeting!"
His instincts told him.
They were about to face an unimaginably large workload.
With just their station...
They probably couldn’t handle all these cases and would have to request assistance from other departments.
What he worried about the most now...
Was actually those being reported and exposed.
If they were also stimulated after being brought in and started a wave of copying...
It would be endless.
He would have completed decades worth of work.
...
The next day.
Jin City.
Nursing home.
"Xiao Qin, when will the trial start? There are still over two hundred defendants. It shouldn’t be too long, right?"
Qin Mu had just arrived at the nursing home when he was surrounded by several elderly people.
These elders, with not much entertainment...
Kept talking about the remaining two hundred plus "feasts".
"I... I don’t really know, it should be soon."
Qin Mu chuckled, giving a perfunctory answer.
He truly didn’t know how long it would take to try.
Wu Guangquan had confessed to several cases, if there was enough evidence, they should be solved quickly.
With the efficiency of the Jin City police...
It definitely wouldn’t take long.
However...
In the afternoon, Shen Dao suddenly gave him a call.
"There’s something I need to tell you, the defendants in this case have implicated another batch of people, making it increasingly complex. The next court date might take a while."
After the notification was completed.
Shen Dao hurriedly hung up, seemingly very busy.
Qin Mu: "..."
Shen Dao didn’t say much.
But he could already guess roughly.
It seems...
Not only Wu Guangquan, but the rest of the defendants, upon learning that reporting and exposing could reduce their sentences, all chose to report.
And these people all held criminal facts about others.
As a direct involved party and witness in the case.
Shen Dao was responsible for informing him of the next court date.
"I estimate next time in court... the number of new defendants won’t just be one or two."
Qin Mu sighed, feeling the situation slipping out of control.
His target...
Was actually just Tang Suiming and Liao Xiangming.
Who knew that Tang Suiming would be involved with so many defendants, and it kept escalating, growing exponentially.
If everyone reports one or two defendants...
The number of defendants could reach over a thousand in no time!
...
At the same time.
The trial of this major case also caught the attention of numerous news media.
Although the trial had stopped abruptly, the sheer number of two hundred eighty-seven defendants was enough to grab attention.
Various media outlets were vying to report.
Soon, everyone in Jin City knew about it.
"Breaking News!! Jin City Welcomes Another Major Criminal Case, Nearly Three Hundred Defendants!"
"A Blood Case Triggered by a Forum!"
"Shocking! One Man Exposed Over Two Hundred Defendants, Greatly Increasing the Pressure on Jin City’s Judiciary!"
"Is it the Distortion of Humanity or the Decline of Morality, That Man Strikes Again!"
...
One report after another emerged like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.
All of a sudden.
The local residents of Jin City were bombarded with these reports, sparking their interest immediately.
Because.
Since Jin City was rated as a civilized city, explosive cases like this rarely occurred.
Especially...
This case is related to Qin Mu!
"I just found out that it’s because these people attacked a forum, and then Qin Mu reported them."
"They are really bold to dare provoke this troublemaker?"
"Didn’t they inquire in Jin City? Which industry doesn’t avoid Qin Mu now?"
"Actually, there is one—the legal industry is eager to meet Qin Mu every day!"
"Over three hundred defendants, do you think that man wants to break a record this time?"
"Breaking a record is unlikely; last time there were over ten thousand defendants, that’s too hard."
"..."
On the streets and alleys of Jin City.
After meals and during tea breaks.
Everyone was suddenly discussing this case related to Qin Mu.
On one hand, they were shocked by the criminals’ "audacity" and "recklessness".
On the other hand, they wanted to see just how outrageous this case could get!
Ever since Qin Mu swept through various industries in Jin City...
It hasn’t been this lively in a long time.
...
A week later.
Jin City.
A local police station.
"Captain Shen, we’ve been working overtime overnight for a week. If we keep this up, we’re afraid we won’t hold out."
An old police officer, with dark circles, looked exhaustively at Shen Dao.
In his hands...
He had just finished organizing a complete file.
In these seven days.
Apart from the police dispatched to make arrests.
The rest...
Were cooped up in the office, staying up all night organizing files, working overtime day and night.
Even made of iron...
They were about to give out.
"And there’s also the issue that the defendants have confessed to so many cases... there’s no end in sight."
A young policeman next to him, with a mournful face, couldn’t help but complain.
If there was an end in sight, it wouldn’t be much.
The key is...
Even with such sleepless overtime, they’ve only clarified over a hundred cases.
But in the records.
The defendants’ confessed "criminal facts" have accumulated to a thousand!
Involving up to thirteen hundred individuals!
Of course.
This is just a preliminary judgment, the specific number of people involved needs verification to be confirmed.
"I know everyone has worked hard, give it an extra push, I’ve already assigned part of the cases to other divisions, and the workload should be reduced later."
Shen Dao looked at everyone and encouraged them.
He was equally exhausted.
But since he chose this profession, he must bring all the criminals to justice!
As long as these defendants confess, he must find ways to investigate.
Without wronging good people.
And without letting any suspicious criminal go!
After giving a morale boost to everyone.
A policeman hurriedly approached him: "Captain Shen, Zhang Chaolin, who we just finished interrogating, said he remembered something else to confess."
Shen Dao slightly furrowed his brow.
This Zhang Chaolin has already confessed to five cases.
He’s already considered "prolific".
Unexpectedly...
He can still rack his brain to find a new criminal fact.
"Let’s go to the interrogation room."
Then.
He took a deep breath and walked towards the interrogation room.
...
At the Study Law Alliance Forum.
Since Tang Suiming was brought to justice.
The forum resumed normal operation and never crashed again.
And in the forum...
Every day people ask about the progress of Tang Suiming’s trial, and the number of discussions keeps increasing.
"It’s already the seventh day, why haven’t we heard about the trial? Didn’t they say it would happen in a few days?"
"My roommate wanted to see Tang Suiming sentenced before he died, why is it so hard?"
"Seven days and seven more, at least release some information, setting the next trial date would suffice."
"I wasn’t surprised, cases related to up are never simple!"
"I just want to watch up’s next video, but the material has no conclusion, and up can blatantly delay updating."
"..."
For seven consecutive days.
There has been no result.
The netizens are becoming impatient.
However...
This case doesn’t transform with Qin Mu’s will, there’s no way to urge an update.
Qin Mu’s delay is logical.
"Do you think... this has unearthed another major case?"
Before long.
A post in the forum sparked much discussion among netizens.