Chapter 38: Suspected Kidnapping

"I'm sorry, excuse me...... Is there any surveillance here?"

"Hmm?...... Hey!"

"Can you take me over and have a look?"

"But ......"

Seeing the other party's slightly hesitant expression, Lin Xiuyi immediately took out the police account from his pocket and showed it to the other party, seeing that Lin Xiuyi was indeed a policeman, the clerk couldn't say anything to refuse.

Lin Xiu first sent a message to Kanako with his mobile phone, and then he followed the clerk who had just picked up the phone to the staff area behind the café, and after explaining the situation to the person in charge here, the staff in charge of security here quickly retrieved the surveillance video of the relevant time.

As the progress of the video continued to roll forward, Lin Shuichi and Kanako, who came here later, were all engrossed in the images that appeared on the screen.

When the time gradually advanced to about 15 minutes before Ryoma Chiba left his seat. In the picture, a freight vehicle with no license plate suddenly stopped in front of the originally closed back door. Immediately afterwards, I saw that after the back door was pushed open from the inside, three figures appeared, and the one in the middle of them was Chiba Ryojin, who was still drinking coffee with Lin Xiuyi more than half an hour ago.

"Wait a minute, can you play this scene again, and besides, please slow it down a bit!"

Lin Xiuyi explained a few more words to the person in charge of Cafe 1894, and the other party nodded obediently, and then according to Lin Xiuyi's request, he began to replay the scene of Chiba Ryojin's appearance.

In the picture, Ryoma Chiba was carried out of the back door of Cafe 1894 by two other guys wearing masks, and then was pushed into the car with unclear license plates, because of the angle, it could only be seen that the car should have driven to the nearby main road at the intersection not far away. Chiba Ryozhen in the picture didn't seem to make any resistance, and Lin Xiuyi couldn't be sure if Chiba Ryojin was taken away by these people while he was conscious.

"Officer Lin, how's the situation?"

After watching the surveillance video, Kanako, who still felt a little confused about the situation, asked Lin Xiuyi anxiously.

"Although I can't be sure yet, I don't think Chiba-kun left with these people voluntarily!"

Lin Xiu's eyes stared at the screen for a while, then he turned his head and said to the person in charge here, please notify the police immediately.

"Huh...... Police?"

"Yes, police! there's a good chance there was a kidnapping here!"

After Lin Xiuyi left this sentence, he immediately left the monitoring room, he picked up his mobile phone, and relied on the shortcut dial function on the mobile phone to directly dial Miki's phone.

"Police, what's the matter?"

"Miki, please call Kamiurashima-kun to Cafe 1894 in Marunouchi, I just seem to have witnessed a kidnapping case with my own eyes!"

"I know, please wait a minute, I'll rush over as soon as possible!"

After Lin Xiuyi put down the phone, he immediately took out a certificate bag from his pocket, and put the mobile phone that belonged to Chiba Ryozhen that he had just obtained from the clerk into the evidence bag, and then tried to check the contents of the phone, but unfortunately because of the password. Lin Xiuyi couldn't see who Chiba Ryojin was talking to before he disappeared.

Twenty minutes later, when the nearest mobile search team arrived, they immediately took over the investigation and evidence collection at the scene. After Lin Xiuyi informed the other party of his identity, he immediately participated.

"Police, I'm sorry, we came here so late......"

When Miki and Urashima arrived here under the guise of a search lesson, the two immediately ran to Lin Shuichi's side to report to him.

"It doesn't matter, the colleagues from the machine search team have just arrived. They were still interrogating the guests in front of them. As for you, Kamajima-kun, I have a mobile phone here, so you can take it back to my colleagues in the forensics class first, and see if you can find out who made the last call from the owner. ”

"Hey, I understand the police department, I'll do it!"

Pu Dao lowered his head and saluted Lin Xiuyi, and then took the mobile phone that Lin Xiuyi handed him. And Miki's side was left behind by Lin Xiuyi, and Lin Xiuyi immediately said to her:

"Miki, now because of time, we can't confirm that Ryoma Chiba was indeed kidnapped. In order to find out the safety of the victim as soon as possible, it is best to contact the office to which Ryoma Chiba belongs and his family. I'd like to visit HORIPRO Hori Productions to see if there's any news about Ryojin Chiba, and then we'll check it out at Ryojin Chiba's residence......"

After making a little arrangement, Lin Shuichi first said goodbye to Kanako Kimura, and then left Cafe 1894 early with Miki. Urashima, on the other hand, rushed back to the Metropolitan Police Department in the car of a colleague from the Mobile Search Unit and handed over the mobile phone to the Forensic Division to unlock it.

On the way to the HORIPRO Hori production office, Miki asked Lin Shuichi about the situation when Ryoma Chiba disappeared with some curiosity.

"Police, what the hell happened at that time?"

"I asked Chiba Ryoma to come out today, originally to ask about him and Reina, because the conversation was relatively pleasant at the beginning, so I gradually let go of those preconceived impressions at that time. But then, Chiba-kun suddenly received a phone call, and he left the table to answer the phone after saying a word to us. And I just sat where I was and chatted with Kanako for a while. It wasn't until later, Chiba-kun never came back, that we wondered if something had happened......"

"What happened later, as I described at the scene just now, a café clerk picked up Chiba-kun's mobile phone, so we looked for Chiba-kun in the vicinity. It wasn't until I found a broken flower pot at the back door that I instinctively thought that maybe it wasn't that simple......"

"According to the details shown on the surveillance route, it was really two people who took Ryo Chiba away, and the flower pot was accidentally touched when they left through the back door. However, because there was also a car that picked up Ryojin Chiba at the scene, I can't be sure how many people were involved in this operation......"

Lin Xiuyi drove the car while introducing the information he had known so far to Miki.

Miki took out a notebook and carefully wrote down the key points in Lin Xiuyi's narrative. By the time the car headed southwest along the Meguro Line of the Capital Highway No. 2 and arrived at HORIPRO's office in Shimomeguro-i-chome-2, Meguro Ward, Miki had already written down most of the information provided by Hayashi Shuichi.

"So, let's go and ask together, I hope my guess is wrong!"

Lin Xiuyi unbuckled his seat belt and said to Miki.