Chapter 14 - 2.2 The Professional Hunter

Zhang Qinsheng skillfully ordered two combos and then started chatting with Chen Yu. His words were carefully designed; what seemed like casual small talk was actually a professional background check."So, Xiao Chen, who's in your family?" Zhang Qinsheng asked casually while elegantly eating his fries."Just me and my parents, and a cousin who works in another province," Chen Yu answered honestly."How are your parents' health? Do you have any way to contact them usually?""They're okay, just some old ailments. There's no phone at home, we communicate by writing letters."Zhang Qinsheng nodded to himself. No phone meant inconvenient contact. Even if Chen Yu disappeared, his family wouldn't find out immediately. This was the ideal condition."Do you have a girlfriend?" Zhang Qinsheng asked with a smile, his tone like an elder concerned about a younger relative.Chen Yu's face turned red again. "No... not yet.""Haha, for young people, career comes first," Zhang Qinsheng patted Chen Yu's shoulder, advising him like an experienced senior. "Once you have a good job, what kind of girl can't you find?"This sentence precisely hit a sore spot in Chen Yu's heart. He instantly recalled the painful memory of not daring to confess his feelings due to his poor family background.Zhang Qinsheng continued to probe: "Did you have any particularly close friends in school? Do you still keep in touch after graduation?""I had a few classmates I got along with, but after graduation, everyone was busy looking for jobs, so we don't contact each other much.""What about your teachers? Do they know about your current situation?""The teachers are very busy, and I feel embarrassed to always bother them."Zhang Qinsheng was secretly pleased. This young man was a perfect target tailor-made for them: from a remote family, inconvenient to contact, simple social relationships, introverted personality. Even if he vanished off the face of the earth, not many people would notice.As a professional "human resources consultant," Zhang Qinsheng actually ran a huge criminal network. His so-called "Jiangxi Nanchang Human Resources Consulting Co., Ltd." was just a front. The real core business was providing two services for Dan Tun's transnational criminal group:First, recruiting young people like Chen Yu. They specifically chose rural youths from poor families who were in urgent need of work and had simple social connections. These people were easily lured by high salaries, and their disappearance would not attract much attention.Second, collecting information on targets for telephone fraud. Zhang Qinsheng's "company" had insiders in banks, real estate agencies, the Administration for Industry and Commerce, and law firms, specializing in collecting information on people who had suddenly acquired large sums of money—demolition compensation recipients, inheritance heirs, business owners, investors. These people were the real targets of the fraud.The two businesses complemented each other: using the first group of people to defraud the second, forming a well-defined and efficient criminal industry chain.