Chapter 443: Going Abroad to Investigate
Xia Tianhuo said into the phone a little nervously: "Mom! I'm ...... I'm Huohuo! I'm calling so late to tell you something important...... What's that...... We were kidnapped. I'm ...... in Myanmar now."
Halfway through speaking, he was hit on the head, and his mobile phone almost came out of his hand, Xia Tianhuo hurriedly said: "I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers asked for five million dollars in cash." By the way, you can't call the police...... Wait a minute, two old brothers, does this call refer to the police here or the police in China?"
Xia Tianhuo's mobile phone was taken by Zhu Bajie's mask, and he said in Mandarin with a thick accent: "Prepare the money within three days, and tear up the ticket if you dare to call the police." ”
The person on the other side of the phone finally spoke: "Where are you going to hand over, in China, so many dollars can't be ready in three days......"
But before she could finish her sentence, the call had been cut off.
Xia Tianhuo hurriedly said: "If you don't tell her about the ransom in China or abroad, she can't prepare!"
"Less nonsense!" Zhu Bajie's mask slapped him on the head again.
"Bajie, go and prepare, prepare to leave. Tang Seng said with a mask.
"Okay Brother Kui...... Uh, good master. Zhu Bajie's mask leaked his mouth and subconsciously shrank his neck.
Tang Seng cursed, took off his mask and smashed it on Zhu Bajie's mask, kicked him, and then walked out of the room.
The kicked Zhu Bajie mask was unhappy, looked at Xia Tianhuo who was tied to the chair, and after stuffing the rag into his mouth again, he directly raised his foot and kicked him to the ground with the chair, and then helped him up, put on a hood, and left satisfied.
Xia Tianhuo was kicked so much that he almost lost his breath, but he didn't have the time to get angry with the kidnappers at this time, he was thinking back to what he had just said to Lao Xia, and he didn't know if the message he wanted to convey had been passed on?
But now, I can only believe in Lao Xia.
......
When Xiang Kun rushed back to the rented house in Chongyun Village, he saw Xia Libing sitting in the living room on the first floor with a tired face, and one after another "Napoleon cakes" appeared in front of him, some of which persisted, and some disappeared with the appearance of new cakes.
After hearing that the door was opened, and looking back to see Xiang Kun, who was still barefoot and carrying a bag of shoes and clothes, Xia Libing stopped "fantasies", those cakes all disappeared, and the fatigue that came from the invasion almost made her fall asleep directly.
But after closing her eyes for a second, she quickly opened them again, took out her mobile phone, and played a recording to Xiang Kun, which was the recording that Xia Tianhuo called before.
After receiving Xia Tianhuo's call and hearing him shout "Mom" abruptly, Xia Libing immediately realized the abnormality and directly pressed the record button to record the entire call.
So except for the first sentence in this call, everything else is there. Of course, Xia Libing also told Xiang Kun about the content of the first sentence.
After listening to the recording, Xiang Kun naturally understood what Lao Xia's emergency was.
However, he did not immediately express any opinions, but continued to listen to Lao Xia's briefing:
"Judging by my cousin's personality and consistent behavior pattern, he didn't call my uncle and aunt, and called me 'Mom' despite his shame, because he must have realized something and thought that only I could detect it and I could save him. ”
Xia Libing played the recording again and said: "He calls himself 'Huohuo', but in fact, his nickname is 'Tian Tian', and he was only called when he was a child, and he didn't want to be called by this nickname when he grew up." If you just want me to know who he is, it is more appropriate to sign up directly, so these two words should have the information they want to convey in it, but it shouldn't be too complicated, I guess it may be the meaning of '100,000 urgent', what details should he realize through what details that the person who kidnapped him is very cruel, and it is likely that he will tear up the ticket regardless of whether the ransom is given or not;
"And you listen here, he says 'a very important thing', and then he says 'we have been kidnapped', although the word 'we' he says very lightly, but it obviously has a prominent intention, probably to imply that he was not alone when he was kidnapped, or that the person who kidnapped him had intersected and had contact with him before;
"He said 'call temporarily', the wording is very strange, and this 'temporary' is most likely a reminder of something. He dared to use my number instead of my aunt, and it can be seen that he knew that the kidnapper did not know much about him and our family, so it was likely that the other party was kidnapped on the impromptu initiative;
"My cousin was kidnapped in Myanmar and was still in Myanmar at this time, but when the other party asked for ransom, he only asked him to prepare, but did not mention whether the place to pay the ransom was in China or Myanmar, it is likely that they did not take this into account before;
"The kidnappers spoke Mandarin, but they had a strong accent, judging by the accent, it should be from Guihai.
"I have already called to tell my third uncle about the situation, and he will judge how to contact the police, whether to ask Interpol for help, when to tell my aunt and uncle, and how to prepare the ransom. I also told them my judgment, because the kidnappers may continue to call my mobile phone number to contact, so I will immediately go to Thorn Tong and the third uncle They will be with them, you can drive me over, I am very sleepy now, I can't drive. ”
"Okay. Xiang Kun nodded, took a simple and quick bath, changed his clothes, and then got into a pickup truck and drove Lao Xia out of the village.
Sensing that Lao Xia, the co-pilot, was about to fall asleep, Xiang Kun quickly said, "You sent me the recording file, and do you know which city in Myanmar your cousin was kidnapped?"
Xia Libing said while posting the recording file: "According to the entry situation and his consumption records found by my third uncle, I arrived in Montamira City, Myanmar yesterday. ”
Xiang Kun nodded, and said after a few seconds: "If you look at the flight from Jianzhou City to Nande City, what is the earliest time?" Nande City is a city very close to the border with Myanmar.
Xia Libing was stunned for a moment and asked, "Are you going to Burma?"
"Well, according to your analysis, your cousin should be very dangerous now, yes, those kidnappers are very likely to be extremely vicious, and even if the ransom is paid, it is very likely to tear up the ticket. Most crucially, he was kidnapped in Myanmar, and the help that the domestic police can provide will be relatively limited, and the time will be delayed, which will increase his danger. Since he has come to you for help, thinking that you have what it takes to save him, then we must do everything we can to save him. Xiang Kun said.
Xia Libing said: "I remember that you don't have a passport, and you will reach the blood-drinking period the day after tomorrow...... Are you going to enter the country in an unconventional way?"
Yes, Xiang Kun, a little dirt bun, has never been abroad, and he has never even been to HK, so he has no passport at all. Although it is very fast to get a passport now, and it is not difficult to get a tourist visa to Myanmar, he does not have time to do it.
"There should be 40 hours left before my normal blood drinking period, and if everything goes well, it should be in time. And now I can't suppress the violence by sensing your rationality through the 'love infusion', and it should be no problem to hold up for another 20 hours. Xiang Kun said.
If an unknown person is kidnapped in Myanmar, or a distant relative of Lao Xia who Xiang Kun doesn't know is kidnapped, Xiang Kun will definitely not hesitate to save him in China, but he may not be willing to risk crossing thousands of miles into other countries to rescue.
But he had seen Xia Tianhuo, and he had a good impression of this old cousin Xia, who was half a head taller than him, and he was like a big child. And Xia Tianhuo directly called the ransom call to Lao Xia's mobile phone for a vague "call for help", Lao Xia has been deeply bound to this matter, so he has no reason to stand idly by.
Xia Libing naturally didn't think that Xiang Kun would plan to go directly to Myanmar to save people, she just wanted Xiang Kun to give some advice through his perspective, help her check and fill in the gaps, and see if there was anything inconsiderate and inappropriate, after all, Xiang Kun's brain deduction and calculation ability is already superhuman. But it is precisely because of this that she knows that Xiang Kun must have made this decision after careful thinking and a certain plan and plan. So she nodded and said:
"So what do you need me to do for you?"
Xiang Kun said: "Feel free to inform me of the latest news you get, the kidnappers and your cousin's information. ”
"Good. ”
Xiang Kun originally wanted to briefly introduce to Lao Xia what happened tonight in the northern mountains of Wushu Mountain, but found that she was indeed very tired and haggard, and she didn't speak for two seconds, so she dozed off in the co-pilot, so she didn't say anything.
When she arrived in Jianzhou City, it was already more than seven o'clock in the morning, Xiang Kun directly drove Lao Xia to the bus station, and then helped her buy the latest bus to Thorn Tong, then said goodbye to her and went to the airport.
After buying the latest flight and waiting for check-in, Xiang Kun asked Alice to deal with the call guide sent to him by Lao Xia, trying to distinguish the background sound inside. Unfortunately, the background is quiet, and there are no special sounds that can be discerned.
Then he asked Alice to search through the Internet for Xia Tianhuo's trip in Montamira yesterday, Myanmar, to see who he had contacted, what services he had used, how his location had changed, and tried to investigate the number that called Lao Xia's mobile phone, and whether there was any information to find.
At this time, Xiang Kun naturally gave Alice the highest authority and freedom, anyway, according to her previous experience, Alice is basically invincible on the Internet and in the data world.
Arriving at a city on the southwestern border at noon, Xiang Kun began to walk down the paved road with his backpack on his back, took off his shoes, and traveled barefoot to a rugged and difficult area.
He had also studied before, and knew that there were those places separated by cliffs and deep mountains that were more convenient to enter, and those places were tantamount to moats to ordinary people, but they were not obstacles at all, and there was no pressure at all.
Coupled with his super senses, he was able to avoid others in the mountains and soon entered the territory of Burma.
He was moving at full speed in the mountains, moving very fast, but when he got out of the mountains, he could no longer run on the road openly, so he put on his shoes and hitched a ride.
On this trip, he changed his image slightly, he didn't wear glasses, he wore a dark cap, and judging from his dress, he looked like an ordinary tourist.
For the convenience of tourists, people from all walks of life in Myanmar can directly collect RMB, so Xiang Kun does not need to exchange for Kyat.
In order to keep in touch with Lao Xia and get Alice's information support, Xiang Kun also opened the international roaming function on his mobile phone.
In the evening, when he arrived at Montamila, the city where Xia Tianhuo appeared before he was kidnapped, Xiang Kun also got some latest news from Lao Xia.
Xia Tianhuo decided to go to Montamira yesterday on the impromptu basis to meet with a client named Tengli and discuss some temporary business problems.
This customer himself is the son of a wealthy businessman in Myanmar, but judging from the latest news today, Tengli actually died in a car accident last night.
Xiang Kun asked Alice to help him find some translations of relevant news and folk discussions on the Burmese Internet for him, and found that someone mentioned that when Tengli left the casino he frequented last night, he seemed to be with a big guy, and when he drove his two-door sports car, the co-pilot was also the big one. But after the car accident, the big one is gone. So I suspect that Tengli may have been killed by the big one, and that big man was some kind of killer or something like that, who deliberately caused the car accident.
Xiang Kun doesn't have to guess the authenticity of this information, because Alice actually got the surveillance video of the casino, and it turned out that the big guy who left the casino with Tengli was Xia Tianhuo.
The two of them seemed to be talking happily, and they probably didn't drink either, and they both acted sober.
However, it can be seen from the video at the entrance of the casino that the young man from Burmese Tengli is driving quite fast.
Xiang Kun checked the photos of the accident again, it was in a relatively narrow lane, and it was difficult to drive the car fast even if he was furious in Tengli.
In fact, judging from the photos, his car hit the wall next to a small open space, the deformation is not serious, under normal circumstances, there is a pop-out airbag protection, and the person will not be injured.
After the car broke the steel pipe, there happened to be a steel pipe, which bounced to the hood, one end pressed against the wall, briefly horizontal, and the other end was stabbed into the cab and into Tengli's head, killing him on the spot.
Judging from the description of the news and the photos of the scene, it is almost like a clip from "The Grim Reaper".
There was no surveillance in the alley, and no witnesses could be found, but it can be seen from the traces of tires at the scene that the car driven by Tengli first braked sharply at the place where it was about to exit, then reversed, and then turned into the clearing, and then crashed into the wall, causing a tragedy.
Xiang Kun found that on the scene of the car accident, the body was removed from the front of the car, and when the driver's door was still closed, the co-pilot's door was open.
He speculated that Xia Tianhuo was in this place, after a car accident, and was taken away by the kidnappers.
Xiang Kun arrived at the scene of the accident and took a quick look. Although the vehicle involved in the accident has been removed, many traces can still be seen.
However, Xiang Kun didn't stay there for too long, and soon left. For he found that there were a lot of sturdy young Burmese men over there, like him, wandering around while observing, apparently looking for something. There are also Burmese police checking the documents of tourists, and some police officers even noticed him and walked over to him, but fortunately he borrowed the terrain to get rid of it.
It seems that there is no need for the Xia family to call the police, the police in Myanmar and some local forces have already taken action.
In this case, his investigation may become more difficult.
According to what Alice has gathered and what he has observed in Montamira, it is likely that Brother Xia Tianhuo is just an unlucky ghost who has been affected by the pond fish.
The real target of those kidnappers is most likely not him, but the deceased who drove the car, Teng Li, the son of a wealthy Burmese businessman.
Xia Tianhuo's arrival at Montamira yesterday was a temporary decision, and his meeting with Tengli was not planned in advance, his appearance in Tengli's car, his appearance in that alley, before last night, was unpredictable.
And the choice to do it in that alley is obviously carefully designed and stepped on.
Not only is it remote and uninhabited, but the terrain is convenient to do, blocking both ends of the alley, you can't escape at all, and it is the road that Tengli often takes after leaving the casino, and those kidnappers are obviously going to Tengli.
Xiang Kun seems to be wandering aimlessly in Montamira, but in fact, he is using his super sense of hearing and smell to search for Xia Tianhuo, and he is also searching for Mandarin with Guihai accent, trying to find traces of the kidnappers.
Alice is also using her strengths, searching for surveillance videos that can be found around, trying to find the car that kidnapped Xia Tianhuo and left.
Judging from the time, the car accident happened at about 12:50 last night, and the kidnappers called Lao Xia at 4:11 in the morning, a difference of about three hours.
In other words, the place where Xia Tianhuo was taken would not be more than three hours away from the alley.
And according to Xiang Kun's speculation, since their original planned kidnapping target died unexpectedly and temporarily tied up Xia Tianhuo, after arriving at the place, they should not make a decision so quickly, so the actual distance is definitely far from a three-hour drive.
Xiang Kun speculated that there was a high probability that the kidnappers stayed in Montamira last night, and there was a certain probability that they had arrived in a nearby city.
However, this can only be limited to when they called Lao Xia last night, and after most of the day today, maybe they will move to other places.
For Xiang Kun, as long as he finds a clue and a connection point, he has a way to use his various means to deduce and find the location of Xia Tianhuo and the kidnappers at this time.
If he could find the place where Xia Tianhuo was kidnapped last night, even if they were no longer there, it would be of great help to his tracking.
At about nine o'clock in the evening, Xiang Kun walked into a small restaurant on the street, disguised himself as a backpacker, ordered a few dishes, and said a few words to the boss in his imitation of Guihai Mandarin.
Just now, Xiang Kun searched through auditory information and found out that the owner of this small restaurant is a compatriot, and he speaks Guihai Mandarin and part of Guihai dialect.
Of course, this boss is not the kidnapper who talked to Lao Xia.
However, Xiang Kun still planned to get some information through him.
The boss doesn't need to go to the back kitchen by himself, there is a chef in the kitchen to watch, so Xiang Kun asked him to chat about Hara, but he didn't refuse, after all, Xiang Kun is not only a compatriot, but also a fellow Guihai, and he is very skillful in speaking, and he can always scratch the itch of the boss, causing the boss to talk about sex, and he can't stop talking.
Xiang Kun actually didn't speak Guihai dialect, he just imitated the accent, so the boss said that he was happy, and occasionally popped out a few words of pure Guihai dialect, which he couldn't understand at all.
But it doesn't matter if you don't understand, Xiang Kun can directly deduce from the context and the boss's personality and expression state, make appropriate responses, and even deal with it naturally in the Guihai dialect he has learned.
Because Xiang Kun's imitation accent was very authentic, and he dealt with it very properly, the boss completely regarded Xiang Kun as his fellow Guihai countryman, and he had no doubts at all.
The information that Xiang Kun inquired from the boss was about where the Guihai people of Montamira had gathered, and the boss had been in Myanmar for ten years, so he was naturally quite clear about the situation of his compatriots and fellow villagers.
Of course, it is very likely that those kidnappers are not people who have been begging for a living in Myanmar for a long time, and they may not have been in Myanmar for a long time to enter Myanmar and enter Montamira.
But Chinese people have a characteristic, that is, they like to go out in groups, find friends, and find helpers, and the starting point is generally fellow countrymen, relatives and friends.
Xiang Kun asked which Guihai people were doing catering in Montamira, which Guihai people were doing engineering, and which were doing business in the gray area.
Recently, due to the relatively relaxed policy of Myanmar, many domestic people have gone to Montamira to do some underground online casinos or live broadcasts of side balls, and some gray industries that have been severely cracked down on in China and have no room for survival have been moved here, forming a circle of interests.
Overall, the conversation with the restaurant owner was very rewarding, and it was in vain that he ate a lot of things by relying on the stones in his stomach.
After leaving the hotel, Alice's search also yielded some results, giving video screenshots of four possible suspect vehicles, three of which were vans and one was a minivan.
Alice's work efficiency was so strong that Xiang Kun was a little hesitant, because he knew very well that the server resources he configured for Alice were not enough to support such a large amount of data processing.
However, now was not the time to think about those issues, he decided to focus on finding Xia Tianhuo first.
Xiang Kun went to the hotel owner and said that some Guihai people who did not have legal identity lived in the area of Montamira, and the boss reminded him not to go to those places.
But for Xiang Kun, that's where he wants to focus his search.
After Xiang Kun arrived all the way to that area, a young man with dark skin and wearing flip-flops leaned up and said in a thick Guihai accent Mandarin: "Handsome guy! It's Chinese, right? Come on, follow me, we have fun here, cheap, safe! Don't look at the outside broken, the inside is very well decorated! Baccarat, Depo, there are all kinds of play, and there is a beautiful sister to accompany you!"
Xiang Kun was about to say a few words, but the young man was pulled by a companion next to him, dragged to the side, and let him leave.
After walking away, Xiang Kun heard the man who pulled away the young man whispering: "That guy is not easy to mess with at first glance, obviously he is not here to play, the wind is not right during this time, be careful." ”
This reminded Xiang Kun of the awakening, so he slightly stiffened his back, so that when observing the surroundings, he was also more hidden, so that he looked obscene and careful, and began to avoid the obvious eyeliner on the street as much as possible.
Xiang Kun didn't check those underground casinos first, because in his judgment, these gray locations to collect money are very profitable in themselves, and they are inextricably linked with local forces, so they are not very likely to directly participate in this kind of table-flipping thing.
As he passed through an area full of various garages, Xiang Kun focused on exploring through his senses for a while, because he found that this was a good place to deal with crime vehicles and prepare crime vehicles. And a large part of the conversation of people in the car repair shop here is Guihai dialect or Mandarin with Guihai accent.
After standing in a dark corner of the street for more than twenty minutes, Xiang Kun couldn't find useful information through his sensory information search, so he continued to walk inside.
Seeing that this area had been almost explored, just when Xiang Kun thought that he had found the wrong direction and planned to leave here and start from other directions, he found it at a scrap yard not far from a number of car repair shops.
In Xiang Kun's sensory information exploration, although Xia Tianhuo was not in it, there was some smell of Xia Tianhuo remaining, and it could basically be judged that this was a transit station for the kidnappers, and even when he called Lao Xia yesterday, he might have been here.