The bar near the Harchers police station was still at the same table, and Brad, Du Fair, and Zorro sat looking at each other.

It was morning, it was morning, and apart from the workers hired by the bar to clean up in the morning, there were a few guys who had drunk too much last night and hadn't woken up. The cleaning workers didn't pay attention to these people, anyway, by noon, the boss had to clean up after he came, and it wasn't their job to call out the drunken man. So, the bar is very crowded and quiet.

Brad, "It's very difficult!"

Since there was no waiter, let alone a boss, Brad could only go to the service desk by himself, take 3 empty cups, take 3 glasses of white water, and deliver them to 3 people.

Brad, "Du Ping, you know that there is office politics in the police department. If there is no progress, it may be good to gossip, and I am afraid that someone will start talking about it. ”

Du Pingping nodded, "You won't say this, I understand." But is it really not going well?"

Brad, "No progress has been made, I should say. I have been running for two nights and one day in a row, and there are more than a dozen wanderers who have asked, and none of them can know the situation. If it continues like this, it will be very troublesome. We're going to have a hard time riding tigers. ”

Du Pingping smiled, "Since I have decided to stay here, I must help you get through." Tell me, how did you do the investigation?"

Brad glanced at Zorro and motioned for him to speak. When you want to drink water, you may feel that this white water is tasteless, so you get up and run to the bar to find wine. Du Fair looked at Zorro with a smile.

"It seems that Brad already has a grudge against you. ”

Zorro bowed his head, frustrated, "I'm sorry! ”

"It's useless to say this!" Since Susan has asked me to help you, I will definitely do my best. So tell me first, how you've been working for the past two days. In detail, this is important. ”

Zorro spoke in detail, and it wasn't until Brad came back, listened to the two talk, drank the wine, and added two more glasses, that Zorro finished speaking.

Du Ping, "Zorro said it very well, in fact, you have made a lot of progress in the past two days. ”

After waiting for Zorro to finish, Du Ping thought for a moment, and then looked at Brad next to him with a smile.

Brad, "Are you kidding? There's progress there?"

"Okay! I'll give you an analysis." First, you have truly established one thing, and that is that there are young homeless people missing. Although we have known about this situation for a long time, it turned out that it only existed in Zorro's data, and it was only a change in the data that was discovered through the government's food relief to the homeless, etc. And now we're turning that speculation into real testimony through actual interviews. That's very important, right, Brad?"

Brad nodded, "Although this is understood, there is nothing wrong with that. But it doesn't help solve the case. There were no witnesses, no physical evidence, no bodies, no video footage...... , nothing. When the time comes, it will be attacked, or it will be attacked. Cases that should be dismissed will still be dismissed. ”

Du Fair, ""Second. This can be said to be a result, or it can be said to be a mistake. The people you visited in the past two days were all elderly people, women, and so on that Zorro was familiar with. They don't know, they don't know. This shows that they are not under attack as a group. And the young and strong white people who have been attacked, because they are not easy to deal with, Zorro, you choose to avoid it, which is not right. So this can be said to be an achievement, confirming that the target of the attack is indeed a group of young and strong white vagrants. It was also a mistake, and you should focus on investigating this group.

Brad nodded, "Du Pingping, what you said is very right! We will show up now to visit and investigate this group." ”

Du Ping shook his hand at Brad.

"Don't be in a hurry! There is an old saying in China that 'you want to be quick but not reach', and I think it is very important to conduct a simple research and analysis of the existing information and data if you want to have higher efficiency, shorter time, and produce results." In the past two days, after research and analysis, I have already had some ideas, I hope it can be helpful to you. ”

Brad," you say. ”

Du Pingping, "One, any crime can't be a perfect crime from the beginning, so this serial disappearance case is the same, there must have been people who have been attacked before, but he escaped for some reason. If there is such a person, he is very important to us. He must be found! Second, there must be a safe, fixed, and convenient place for such a serial crime to be committed. This location will definitely be convenient for committing crimes, and it will also be convenient for dealing with the beginning and the end. Also pay attention to the places that have such conditions. ”

Brad, "You're right. However, it is more important to find someone first, so that we have enough human and physical evidence, so that we can officially file a case and not be attacked. ”

"If that's the case, I have one more suggestion that you can refer to. ”

Brad," you say. ”

"According to Zorro's theory, wanderers are actually like animals, they have their own fixed areas and places to move. Then they should also be like animals, if frightened, they will definitely change their original inherent areas and places of activity. You can look at it from this angle, and you may find something. At the same time, I noticed Zorro's data curve, which did not disappear in July last year, but the data recovered after August, and I thought that something must have happened at that time that made it impossible for the criminals to carry out their work. So it's best to figure this out as well, what's going on. ”

Brad took out his notebook, jotted it down, nodded, and dragged Zorro into the bar again.

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Hotel, Du Pingping's room, the moment Du Pingping opened the door, he was still thinking about the case, but of course after he opened the door, he couldn't concentrate. From the door to the bed, a woman's clothes slowly changed from tunics and skirts to stockings, bandeau tops, and finally bras and black thongs like strings.

You don't have to think about it to know that it's the woman named Mary again. Except for this woman, no one around Du Pingping could do such a thing. Du Pingping couldn't immediately pull out the internal phone of the hotel and call the hotel security guard. But at the last moment when he had already picked up the telephone and microphone, considering that he could not be so serious with a woman, especially with such a woman, Du Pingping gave up his impulsive idea.

Du Ping calmed his breath, closed the room, bent down, picked up the clothes all over the floor one by one, and came to his bed. There, under the blanket wrapped in a white sheet, a slender body was writhing. The body covered all over the body, unable to see the body or face, can only clearly know that below is a person, a person who is likely to be a woman.

Du Ping sighed and pulled back the blanket.

"Mary, what do you want to do?"

And then

Then, it was Du Ping who was stunned.

Du Ping was stunned, it was the body of a woman who was artistically bound by red ropes, and that kind of binding not only tied the woman's hands and feet together like a baby, forming a shape like a newborn baby. And all the most attractive parts of the woman are presented in front of Du Fair without resistance.

Du Fair was a man, and he was stunned. Du Ping is a man, and he has the same normal, beastly impulses as normal men.

The body began to heat up, the blood began to flow rapidly, and the hand unconsciously wanted to touch it.

Impulsiveness is the devil!

At the moment when his hand was about to touch the woman's body, Du Ping suddenly withdrew it and covered the original blanket back on the woman's body. Then he sat on the sofa next to the small table next to him, unable to calm his mind for a long time.

Impulsive, sensible. Rational, impulsive.

Flames and cold, collisions, battles, for a long time, neither can defeat the other.

Du Pingping lowered his head and touched the engagement ring on his left hand, and his eyes finally cleared. Standing up, he came to the bed again, and pulled back the blanket wrapped in white sheets.

"Mary, what do you want to do?"

Mary couldn't answer. Because her whole body was flushed and her eyes were misty. It's not a normal state at all! There is a pink mouth ball sealed in the mouth, and the lower body is .......

Du Ping closed the blanket again. The temptation is too great, and even Du Ping can't completely restrain it.

What should I do? Not to mention the beautiful body that seems to be completely unguarded, is to liberate Mary, who is now completely on what medicine, Du Ping knows if something will happen to Mary uncontrollably.

Du Ping also doesn't think that he can have no reactions, no human reactions of any normal men. Even if you untie the rope that binds your whole body, how should you untie it? Stand on her side, ride on her, climb on top of her?

Mary really had a huge problem for Du Ping.

Du Ping sat back on the couch, took out his phone, and pulled out Susan's number. I didn't know what to do for a long time.

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City, in the middle of the night.

It is an alley that is frequented by wanderers in the city. Just as many people think that wanderers are the dark side of the city, this garbage-strewn place is like the shadow side of the city.

A half-new black car was parked near the entrance of the alley, and there were people who didn't know what kind of car they were trying to get close to, and then they were chased away by Brad who got out of the car.

Zorro, "They just wanted to see if they could remove some parts from the car for some money." ”

Brad, "I know. ”

"So when they get closer, we honk the horn and tell them there's someone in the car, and they'll naturally leave." ”

Brad, "I know. ”

"You don't have to get out of the car and drive away. ”

Brad, "I like it. By the way, when will the person you are talking about come back? ”

Zorro, "It should be soon." This time period is the time period when he harvests, he collects enough garbage, and he will come back after changing the food. ”

Brad, "You know very well. ”

Zorro, "Most of the wanderers in the city are like this, eating one meal is a meal, and they don't want to accumulate anything for the next meal. The more you see, the clearer it will be. ”

Brad, "Don't they have any plans for life?"

Zorro, "There may have been before, but now it must be gone." The more people rest, the lazier they become, so the more they will be like this. We have a statistic that as long as they become a wanderer for 3 months, they will get used to such a life. After more than 2 years, it will be difficult to return to normal human society. Therefore, statistically speaking, 3 months to 2 years is an important period of time, as long as there is effective help and intervention, the homeless person will still become a useful person to society......"

Brad, "Don't tell me that, okay! I'm just concerned about when that Dorals you spoke of will come back." ”

Zorro, "He's back." ”

Not far away, a figure with a cart slowly appeared in Brad's eyes. Dirty clothes, dirty long hair, and an unsightly face made Brad doubt Zorro's judgment.

Brad, "Are you sure?"

Zorro, "Do you see the necklace on his hand?"

Brad, "See. ”

Zorro, "It was a cross necklace, he would always hold it in his right hand, no other wanderer would do that." That's right, it's him!"

Brad, "You're in the car!"

Brad decided to believe the one who had always called him not very fond of having Zorro, pushed the car door open, and got out of the car. Slowly walked towards the wanderer. Within a few steps, the wanderer had stopped, and shot a wary gaze at Brad from under his dirty hair.

Brad pulled out his badge and flashed it at the wanderer.

Brad, "I'm a Harchers police officer, and I want to have a few words with you. ”

The two were separated by 7 or 8 meters, but in order not to irritate the wanderer, Brad still chose to show kindness as much as possible.

Homeless, "Are you really a cop?"

Brad, "Yes. ”

Brad held up his badge and motioned for him to see it better.

Homeless, "I don't have any affection for the police. ”

Brad, "It's normal, a lot of people in this city don't have a good idea of the police. But it cannot be denied that it is we who guarantee the basic order and safety of the city. ”

Tramp, "That's for those who have money. The police were not polite to us. ”

Brad, "It's normal for the police to serve taxpayers, and I think you can understand that." ”

Homeless, "Why should I help you?"

Brad, "I happened to bring a bottle of vodka. Are you interested? You see it's so cold, drink some vodka to warm up?"

The homeless man will add a lip of his own to the tip of his tongue.

Tramp, "vodka?"

Brad, "Yes, Finnish, very good wine! In this weather, a small sip will soothe your whole body." ”

Homeless, "You're a cop?"

Brad, "Of course. You may check my police badge, and pretending to be a police officer is a felony. ”

Tramp, "Okay! for vodka, not because you're a cop." ”

Brad, "Of course. Just because of vodka. ”

The homeless man slowly pushed the cart to Brad's side, looked carefully at the police badge in Brad's hand again, and then took the vodka in his hand and carefully put it into his arms.

Homeless, "The badge can be put away, the police are not a popular place here." I don't want to be seen with the police. ”

Brad, "No problem. ”

Brad was very cooperative and put away his badge.

Tramp, "What's the matter with you?"

Brad, "I'm investigating a series of wanderers' disappearances, and I heard you have some information here, right?"

Homeless, "When did the police start to care about the lives of the homeless?"

Brad, "It's just a job, you know. I'm just wondering, do you know something?"

Tramp, "What do you want to know? I've heard what you're saying, but I don't know anything. ”

Brad, "Were you attacked last year? Did anyone try to kidnap you?"

Homeless, "I don't know what you want to know. You must know that as a homeless person, it is normal to be attacked by some people, and some young people on the street always like to bully homeless people for fun. Beating a wanderer, destroying a wanderer's nest, or stealing a wanderer's belongings are all common. I have nothing to tell you. ”

Brad, "It's weird, it's not the same as normal, isn't it?"

Homeless, "You say so, at the beginning of last year, there was a guy who tried to pull him into the car, and I escaped. ”

Brad, "Can you elaborate on this?"

The Tramp, "Last March ......"

Brad, "It's March. ”

Homeless, "yes, what's wrong?"

Brad, "Nothing, please keep talking." ”

Homeless, "I was walking on the side of the street pushing a small car, and a small white van pulled up to my car and stopped. A man rolled down the window and asked if I wanted a hot coffee. At that time, the weather happened to be cool down in spring, and I was a little cold, so I said yes. As you know, wanderers can encounter anything. When you meet a good Samaritan, it is possible to give you something to eat, something to drink, or even ask you to take a bath or have a meal. I didn't think much of it before I agreed. Then, the man handed out a thermos flask from the car. I drank only two sips and my head was a little dizzy. When I woke up, I found that the man had gotten out of the car and was moving me into the back of the car. ”

Brad, "And then?"

"He seemed startled when he saw me wake up, so he ran back to the car and ran away. ”

Brad, "That's all?"

Tramp," that's all. ”

Brad, "Don't you think it's a little weird?"

Tramps, "There is nothing strange about them, some people like to get homeless people drunk, beat them up, and strip them naked." It's nothing. ”

Brad, "What happened next?"

Tramp, "Nothing. After the car left, I sat on the passerby, and after a long time, I slowly came to my senses. I went back home. ”

Brad was amazed for a long time. If the same thing had happened to ordinary people, it would have become a sensational case a long time ago, and here, in this world, it is as if a stone fell into a quiet lake, and then the lake was still again.

Brad, "Okay!"

Brad decided to accept this reality.

Brad, "Can you tell me more about what that car looks like?" What does that man look like. ”

Wanderer, "Yes. ”