Chapter 011: Frivolity (Three Thousand Chapters)

Pang Jitong stepped out of the elevator and finally arrived at the 22nd floor of the Police Administration Building at the Wan Chai Police Headquarters.

The name of the department in silver on a blue background catches your eye

Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau (CSTCB).

Whenever you change to a new position, you will need to listen to a briefing from the HR department on the contract, job benefits, holidays and other matters arranged on the morning of reporting to the new department. It was almost 11 o'clock after the briefing, and the people at the same table were not necessarily transferred to the same posts or departments, so after the briefing, they dispersed, leaving Pang Jitong alone.

At this moment, Pang Jitong was still holding a large stack of documents in his hand, all of which were documents such as the contract and the precautions for civil servants that he had just obtained at the briefing.

"Senior brother, I just used the usual method to accurately obtain complete copies of all the multimedia files from Lu Shangzhi's mobile phone, but I only succeeded in obtaining some of these images and videos. That's a lot different from the results of the previous manual tests." A confused female voice came from behind Pang Jitong, but Pang Jitong turned around and saw no one.

Pang Jitong then shouted tentatively into the aisle where the voice came from, "If you are sure that the method you are using can intercept multimedia files stored outside of the preset storage folder, it is probably because that mobile phone used a micro SD card as a storage medium.

If the micro SD card cannot be found among the known evidentiary items, it may mean that there was an omission in the identification process, then it is necessary to try to locate the micro SD card before we can obtain copies of the remaining files." There was the sound of him chewing gum in between his words.

I saw a man and a woman turn out of the aisle following the sound, and the two looked at Pang Jitong with inquiry. The man's eyebrows and eyes were ordinary, tall, and he stood by the aisle in a suit similar to that of Pang Jitong. And the woman's medium stature, wearing a skirt, stood beside the man vividly, only lightly powdered, which made people unforgettable.

The woman frowned at Pang Jitong with big watery eyes, and her chestnut-brown slightly curly long hair swayed gently with its subtle movements, making people fascinated, making Pang Jitong stop chewing gum. It just so happened that Pang Jitong also wanted to find someone to ask for directions, so he asked with a smile, "Where is Room 2214?"

The man took a step forward without a trace, pointed to the aisle behind him, and replied preemptively, "Go down the aisle, and turn the second room on the right."

Pang Jitong thanked them and walked over them into the aisle.

When Pang Jitong passed by them, the woman glanced at the document in Pang Jitong's hand and asked, "Newcomer? Is it our legal forensic group?" Pang Jitong knew that the other party's interlocutor was not him this time, so he didn't answer again.

I heard the man's voice answer, "No, right...... Isn't Room 2214 the room of the Operation 2D Team?" After saying that, he paused, and then said, "No, right...... Did the newcomer misremember the room number?"

Pang Jitong walked down the aisle to the outside of 2214 and pushed open the hidden door. The room was quiet, the documents were piled up, and at first glance, Pang Jitong really couldn't see anyone there.

"Newcomer?" But I saw a man with thick eyebrows with a flat head poking his head out of the corner and asked in a deep voice. Pang Jitong was about to answer, but the man said in another direction, "Ah Yu, do we have a new person to report today?"

"Newcomer? Impossible, right? I don't know, the boss hasn't explained it anyway!" Another male voice came directly in front of Pang Jitong, and the man known as Ah Yu raised his head from the document wall he was in and helped his black-rimmed glasses.

The two looked at Pang Jitong, and they all felt that this big-eyed young man with a peach-colored ear on his neck and chewing gum didn't feel very stable.

Ah Yu muttered to himself, "Even the original people of our team are always borrowed and transferred, at this time, it is not bad if we don't transfer people away, how can there be new people coming? Forget it, the boss is coming back soon......

After that, Ah Yu pointed to an empty table in the room and said to Pang Jitong, "Newcomer, you can sit there for a while! The boss is coming back soon, and he should know about you...... If it's really our team, it's not too late to introduce it when the time comes."

Pang Jitong walked towards the empty table that Ah Yu pointed to as he said.

There was only one empty table in the room, and the other tables were also surrounded by a wall of documents, both high and low, so it was easy to recognize the empty table. The two of them had already buried their heads in the document wall again, and there didn't seem to be anyone else buried in the other document walls, and there were really only the three of them in this room.

Pang Jitong was browsing the news on his mobile phone, and after about ten minutes, there was a conversation behind him, and he turned to look at the person.

"Ah Tao, look at it, I always said that I transferred your people, didn't I send you a new one this time?" The person Pang recognized was Superintendent Hui Ho-pang, the head of the Technology Crime Unit (TCD).

"Let's use it first, I don't know if it's easy to use...... You must know that it takes time to train newcomers, and you are all my favorite generals......" Fu Liangtao replied, his tone sounding a little casual, but it didn't seem like there was any dissatisfaction.

Pang Jitong listened to the tone of this person's speech, and thought that he was the assistant here, so he looked at the man twice. I saw that the man was wearing a well-cut light gray black-collared shirt and black trousers, and was holding a document folder in his hand. His slender figure gives people a clean and neat feeling, and has an elegant temperament that is rare for police officers.

Superintendent Xu smiled and said, "Look, what you said is just a temporary loan from your people, won't they all have to come back to report to you in a few days?" Besides, you're so experienced, it's not a big deal to bring one or two new people with you once in a while......

Fu Liangtao listened, his eyebrows were peached, and he did not rush to answer, but leaned back to the door, and said to Superintendent Xu slowly, "Take a look for yourself...... We don't have any less work than other teams......

Without Fu Liangtao blocking his view, Superintendent Xu was immediately silent when he saw the piles of documents in the room. Superintendent Xu touched his nose with a little weakness and said with a smile: "The newcomer doesn't know how long he's been waiting, you get to know him first, I'll go and get busy first......

Fu Liangtao watched Superintendent Xu walk away with the fox's tail between his legs, and then turned around and walked into the room.

"Boss......" The flat-headed man and Ah Yu stood up slightly to greet Fu Liangtao, Fu Liangtao nodded to them, and turned to look at Pang Jitong who was sitting on the side.

Fu Liangtao's gaze stopped at the earpiece on Pang Jitong's neck for a moment, and then he squinted his eyes before he said to Pang Jitong, "I am the assistant here - Senior Inspector Fu Liangtao. Everyone else calls me Ah Tao or Tao sir, you can call me whatever you like!"

After finishing speaking, Fu Liangtao put the folder in his hand in front of Pang Jitong and said, "You take a look at this first." Then, he turned around and shouted to the other side, "Brother Cong, you can tell him a brief introduction to the work of our team later, and ask him to fill in the personnel information and so on."

Listening to the flat-headed man's answer, Fu Liangtao returned to the office behind him.

Pang Jitong opened the folder in his hand and saw that it was a case referred by the Miscellaneous Investigation Team (ME) in Tsing Yi.

It is important to know that ME is part of the Uniform Division of the Divisional Police Station, and the cases they are responsible for are non-emergency cases that do not involve criminal elements, including but not limited to no suspicious deaths, suicide attempts, chronic noise problems, nuisances, family problems that do not involve serious domestic violence, unlicensed doctors, etc. Even, in some areas, assisting in the search for wild boars is one of the jobs of the ME.

In Pang Ji's heart, this is relatively not worth mentioning.

Pang Jitong couldn't help but pursed his lips disdainfully, and muttered in a low voice: "The other teams are not responsible for hacker attacks and extortion, or cyber fraud and other cases that everyone pays attention to, and the case we are responsible for is actually referred by ME?"

Pang Jitong thought that he was speaking very quietly, but he didn't think that everything he said fell into Fu Liangtao's ears word for word. However, Pang Jitong's voice was still too small for Fu Liangtao to hear whether it was disappointment, disdain, or surprise.

After a while, Brother Cong put a few forms in front of Pang Jitong. Seeing Pang Jitong start filling out the form, Brother Cong began to introduce him on the side.

Brother Cong pointed to himself and Ah Yu behind him and said, "We are Brother Cong and Ah Yu, you have already met just now. Now, it's your turn, what's your name?" Brother Cong speaks to give people a straightforward feeling, not dragging mud and water.

"My name is Pang Jitong, and people who are familiar with me call me...... ......As soon as Pang Jitong finished speaking, Brother Cong, Ah Yu, and even Fu Liangtao, who was standing in the office, couldn't help laughing, and Pang Jitong seemed to be surprised by their reactions.

Because "Lao Tong" is also another name for addicts.

Brother Cong laughed loudly, patted Pang Jitong on the shoulder, and said, "Fortunately, it doesn't look like ...... Thankfully, it doesn't look like ...... Don't blame us......

Pang Jitong naturally understood what Brother Cong meant, shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'm used to it."

After the joke, Brother Cong said, "This is the TCD Operation Group 1 Operations 2D team, which was only created in 2018. We are mainly responsible for following up on the investigation of cyberbullying and cyber harassment cases."

Hearing Brother Cong's words, Pang Jitong opened the folder in his hand, and while scanning the contents, he asked, "It's difficult to file this kind of case, right?"

Brother Cong nodded and said, "You also know that what is needed for an investigation is evidence. However, in cybercrime cases, often when the victim finds out, the opportunity to collect evidence has already been missed, resulting in difficulties in adducing evidence.

Generally speaking, TCD is perennially understaffed, and it is difficult to successfully file a cybercrime if it does not involve monetary loss, or even if the amount involved is too small, let alone cyberbullying and cyberharassment. Without technical support, victims are generally unable to find evidence on their own."

Pang Jitong looked at the walls of documents that filled the room, high or low, and he knew very well that there was no contradiction between these walls of documents and Brother Cong's words. As you can imagine, due to the proliferation of smartphones and social media in recent years, and the public's general concern about cyber security, the number of such cases requiring investigation continues to multiply, even though it is difficult to file such cases.

Brother Cong pointed to the folder in Pang Jitong's hand and said, "Sometimes, cybercrime is hidden in inconspicuous cases, or even ordinary daily life."

"Can you see that?" Pang Jitong couldn't help but ask suspiciously, he felt that this might just be Brother Cong's words to make him not to despise these cases.

"When you get in touch with it, you'll understand what's going on." Brother Cong replied.

Pang Jitong began to understand why there were so many jobs here, and the team members were always borrowed and transferred. This is because even if such cases are successfully filed, the success rate of prosecution is not high due to the difficulty of adducing evidence.

Pang Jitong's eyes drooped slightly, as if he was looking at the text in the Chinese folder in his hand, but he couldn't see a word in his eyes.

Seeing this, Brother Cong pinched Pang Jitong's shoulder and asked, "Are you disappointed?"