Simulation Game: Crisis Management

Chapter 612 - 278: The 3.24 Incident

It’s finally coming.

This was the common thought in the hearts of Gu Ji and his team.

The meeting room is located at the innermost part of the top floor of the administrative building. After returning their equipment, everyone placed their phones in the locker outside the door and queued to enter one by one.

As elite special forces in Ningzhou, the hardware facilities of the Dragon and Tiger Assault Team far exceed those of ordinary SWAT teams.

The entire meeting room is rectangular, with a rectangular solid wood table in the center, surrounded by a circle of laptops and microphones, and two circles of black office chairs around it.

The wall at the main position of the meeting room is a whole LED split screen used for presentations or displaying documents.

Li Ruilin and Lei Wanshan had long been seated in the main positions.

Zhang Wenjun and Bi Xin each led their team members to sit on both sides of the long table.

When Gu Ji sat down, he immediately noticed the red "Confidential" words on the file folder on the table, indicating that this was a confidential meeting.

The confidentiality level of a national secret is the lowest level; its disclosure can harm national security and interests.

Li Ruilin still wore a stern expression.

It should be noted that Gu Ji usually saw him with a kind demeanor.

Not to mention, now suddenly becoming serious, his dark skin and age-etched wrinkles truly exuded intimidation and pressure.

"Let’s begin since everyone is here."

As Li Ruilin’s deep voice sounded, Lei Wanshan pressed the control button in his hand, and a picture of the crime scene suddenly appeared on the LED screen behind them.

A male corpse, covered in blood, lay in the roadside bushes, surrounded by black and yellow police tape.

Gu Ji’s pupils dilated.

He had just seen this picture last night; it was precisely the "Thai Tourist Murder Case" that recently caused a huge sensation in trending news.

However, he was somewhat puzzled.

Wasn’t the deceased a man from Jingzhou? Logically, it should fall under the jurisdiction of the Jingzhou City Public Security Bureau; why was the case handed to the Ningzhou City Bureau?

"The March 24 Thai Tourist Death Incident, you should all be aware of it."

While pressing a PPT file, Lei Wanshan started explaining: "The Ministry of Public Security attached great importance to this case. At the first instance, the major crimes squad of the Jingzhou City Bureau’s Criminal Investigation Division organized a special task force to conduct a joint investigation with the Thai police, discovering that this case was not an ordinary murder case."

"Through multi-faceted clue analysis and a missing tourist report received by the embassy, it is initially determined that this is a vicious kidnapping case targeting Xia Kingdom tourists, orchestrated by the Myanmar North Gold Yuan Group. According to the current clues in our hands, about seven tourists have been kidnapped."

After he finished, the LED screen displayed photos of the seven missing tourists.

There were three men and four women, including two couples.

"So many from Ningzhou?" Gao Bo suddenly noticed that among the seven people, two were locals from Ningzhou, and the remaining couple studied at a university in Ningzhou.

The others immediately understood.

No wonder this case fell to their Ningzhou City Bureau. After all, Jingzhou also has the "Blue Sword Assault Team" among the nation’s top ten counter-terrorism SWAT teams; the reason was precisely related to this.

And it was only now that Gu Ji realized.

No wonder his mother had emphasized repeatedly that he should be careful while carrying out exercises; at the time, he thought she was just saying it casually.

Now it seemed she must have known the details of the case beforehand and speculated that the Ministry of Public Security would hand part of the kidnapping case to the Ningzhou City Bureau, which made her worry about his safety.

Because his mother already knew that he had been transferred into the Dragon and Tiger Assault Team by the city bureau.

Thinking of this, Gu Ji couldn’t help feeling a warmth in his heart.

His mother was always like this, sharp-tongued but soft-hearted; in fact, she was the one who cared for him the most at home.

After viewing the photos of the missing tourists.

Lei Wanshan pressed the control button again, and a young-looking person with tawny skin and a few traces of arrogance in his eyes, of Southeast Asian descent, appeared on the screen.

Gu Ji also recognized this person.

It was Bai Mingliang.

"Bai Mingliang, the son of Bai Maoliang, chairman of Jinyuan Group, and one of the masterminds behind the 3·24 case. According to the Thai police’s investigation, he colluded with some local Thai gang members and debt-ridden gamblers, using allurements such as wealthy heirs, luxury cars, and beautiful women to lure Xia Kingdom tourists, especially inexperienced university students, into kidnapping and extortion."

"The Thai police have already focused their efforts on monitoring and cracking down on entertainment venues, and Bai Mingliang and his subordinates have disappeared in Bangkok, suspected of fleeing back to Northern Myanmar."

As soon as he finished speaking, the PPT behind him transformed into a mind map showing the entire organizational structure and personnel information of the Jinyuan Group.

"The Ministry of Public Security contacted the Myanmar Government at the first moment, and the National Police Bureau Chief Kun Manrui provided us with the organizational information of the Jinyuan Group. It is a highly organized and violent large criminal syndicate."

"Their main target is in the domestic scene, exploiting young people’s curiosity and adventurous spirit to entice them to Northern Myanmar for work, using high salaries as bait to make them throw caution to the wind and rush to Northern Myanmar. But once they arrive, they find themselves forced into participating in indescribable criminal activities such as fraud, eroticism, gambling, or even human trafficking for organ trade."

"The chairman Bai Maoliang, a Kokang from Myanmar, claims to be a ’Myanmar refugee’ to garner sympathy, but is in fact a lieutenant colonel with a local Kokang warlord. Dissatisfied with his profits being exploited by the warlord, he broke away with the support of several benefactors to establish the Jinyuan Group."

"The internal structure of the Jinyuan Group is complex, divided into departments like tele-fraud, gambling, erotica, and medicine. However, the most crucial is this Supervisory Department, responsible for overseeing the group and managing security and armed control. The current head of the Supervisory Department is Wa Xueming."