The 37 people were divided into groups of two by Miwako Sato, making a total of 18 groups, with the last person joining the last group, forming a group of three to take action.
Including Miwako Sato, there were a total of six detectives, which happened to be one person responsible for the safety of three groups of bait.
However, Miwako Sato also had to take on the job of commanding, so the three groups of bait she was responsible for could only move back and forth around her.
"If I had known you could call so many people, I would have applied for more tracking devices even if the police chief scolded me."
On the quiet street, Miwako Sato and Lin Yi were sitting in the red Mazda, and she sighed.
She stared at the tracking signals on the screen, grasping their movements, and every five minutes, the bait would send a text message to report their safety.
Considering that they might be threatened, each of them had their own predetermined route, and once they deviated from the predetermined route, she would know which group had an accident.
And now, the thing to do is to wait patiently.
Miwako Sato glanced at Lin Yi and said, "I didn't expect you to be so popular, that you could so easily call so many people to help."
Lin Yi knew that he just needed to smile at this time.
"If every time we solve a case, we have so many citizens assisting us, then our investigation work will be greatly reduced."
Miwako Sato sighed incessantly.
This made Lin Yi a little curious: "What? Is it difficult to get citizens to assist?"
"It's especially difficult."
Miwako Sato felt a headache coming on as soon as she mentioned this: "As far as they are concerned, as long as these things don't happen to them, they won't pay attention…"
"Is that so?"
Lin Yi was puzzled and said: "When I was investigating at the scene of the murder before, I found that they were quite cooperative."
"You said it was the scene of a murder."
Miwako Sato sighed: "People have already died at the scene of the murder, and they will definitely cooperate with the police investigation, otherwise the police will have to find them later."
"But if it is some serial murder case or a murder case that has been going on for a long time, when the police ask them about the situation, they often choose to avoid it, and only cooperate with the police investigation when there is really no way to avoid it, but after the cooperation is over, they will ask us not to look for them again."
"… … … …"
Lin Yi raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect it to be this kind of situation… However, according to the Japanese collectivism, that is, "whoever is different from everyone will be rejected", this is also reasonable.
However, Lin Yi can mostly understand what these people are thinking.
They finally returned to their peaceful lives, and they don't want to be involved in other things anymore, and they have said everything they know, if the investigation doesn't turn up anything, it's your police's problem, what does it have to do with me?
"I can hear… your police work is really not easy," Lin Yi said with emotion.
"Lin Yi, why did you become a detective?"
Miwako Sato asked curiously, and unknowingly, she began to want to understand this young man.
Why? Of course, it's to make it easier for me to pick up girls…
"In order to reveal the truth to the world!" Lin Yi said righteously.
"That's really a great reason."
Miwako Sato smiled.
"What about you? Officer Sato, why did you become a police officer?"
Lin Yi knew the answer, but he had to ask.
"Why? Because of my father."
Miwako Sato said: "Influenced by him, I also became a police officer."
When she mentioned her father, Miwako Sato didn't show any sadness, obviously her long career as a detective had taught her a lot.
"I see…"
Lin Yi nodded.
Even without opening the favorability level, Lin Yi could still judge roughly where Miwako Sato's favorability level towards him was.
Miwako Sato didn't say that her father had died in the line of duty, nor did she say that she wanted to catch the murderer that her father hadn't caught back then.
Lin Yi estimated that her favorability level towards him should be in the range of 50-60, there may be deviations, but it won't be too big.
The reason why it is so low is that Lin Yi feels that Miwako Sato and Eri Kisaki are the same kind of people, and handsome appearances are not very attractive to them.
After all, the work they do allows them to have a deeper contact with human nature.
Whether a person is handsome or not has no necessary connection with whether he commits a crime.
While talking, they observed the changes in the tracking signal.
Every five minutes, they also had to pay attention to the safety reports coming back from the decoys.
They didn't know when the Miyano Wolf would strike, or if he would strike today, or even if he would strike within the decoy's activity range.
In short, catching the Miyano Wolf was not an easy task.
Therefore, patient waiting was absolutely necessary.
And Lin Yi was very willing to wait.
Because this meant that Lin Yi had more time to spend alone with Sato Miwako.
When a man and a woman are alone together, unless they really dislike each other, it's inevitable that their attraction will increase.
But how much that attraction increases depends on whether you can seize the opportunity.
Lin Yi was a very good at seizing opportunities.
He took this opportunity to learn more about Sato Miwako.
Still following the same routine.
Starting with work, then slowly transitioning to her personal life.
"Is being a detective... hard?" Lin Yi asked a question that was very easy to answer, but not so easy at the same time.
Waiting was boring, just like being on a long-distance bus.
Sato Miwako was very happy to chat with people, as it was a great help in staying awake.
"As far as I'm concerned, it's not hard at all. From finding clues, piecing them together, identifying suspects, then finding evidence, to getting an arrest warrant and arresting the target... every step is very interesting."
Speaking of her area of expertise, Sato Miwako talked non-stop without Lin Yi having to guide her: "But most of the time, this process doesn't go so smoothly. Instead, problems arise at some point, such as insufficient clues; having clues but not being able to piece them together; the suspect's whereabouts are unknown; no evidence can be found, and so on..."
"Let me give you some examples..."
Sato Miwako told several examples of the difficulties she encountered while handling murder cases, chattering on and on. Lin Yi didn't interrupt, listening to her silently.
It was easy to see that Sato Miwako usually didn't have the opportunity to interact with people outside the police force, otherwise she wouldn't be unaware that monopolizing the conversation was a major taboo.
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