Lang Qiao hadn't finished making a fuss, and was about to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and with his colleagues, he continued to encircle and suppress Luo Wenzhou, but unexpectedly, he happened to look at the portrait that fell to the ground, and she was so scared that her alcohol flew out of her pores.

There are technicians in the public security system who specialize in making simulated portraits, many of whom are masters, and in comparison, the painting skills of this portrait painting are really at the beginner level. But it is very strange that the charm of the person in the painting is unexpectedly vivid, and the face seems to have been repeatedly described countless times in the painter's heart, and he can't bear it, so he puts it on paper with a stiff pen.

Lang Qiao: "What is this?" ”

Tao Ran was kicked over by Luo Wenzhou, sobered up a little, realized that he had said the wrong thing, he stood up on the sofa, went out to wash his face, and came back to clean up the things on the ground with Luo Wenzhou: "It's the Lotus Mountain incident, right?" The old man has been talking about it all his life. ”

"Lotus Mountain" is not a mountain, it is the place name of the northern suburbs of Yancheng, which belonged to the county seat under the jurisdiction of Yancheng in the early years, and has been included in Yancheng City more than ten years ago and has become a development zone.

In that page of the notebook, in addition to the expressive portrait, there are also a few yellowed old photographs, which are pasted between the pages with transparent adhesive strips, and the time is too long, and they fall down when you touch them.

Some of them are blurry photographs of life, as well as photo studio works with strong period characteristics - all of them are background cloths of Dutch windmills, exaggerated lighting, and the smile of a girl on them is a little stiff, as if they have been exposed for too long.

There are six photos in total.

If the person in the photo is happy, the yellowed old traces will have a long aftertaste, and the years will be quiet, but if the person in the photo is later mishap, others will look back at his voice at that time, but they can always see a little weird and gloomy atmosphere, as if the owner's resentment and unwillingness are attached to the static picture, as if something is revealed in the dark.

"Is it Elder Yang?" Lang Qiao asked, "How can he take care of the affairs of the development zone?" ”

"At that time, the city bureau had a policy that everyone under the age of 35 had to go down to the grassroots level for training -- either to the police station or to several counties at that time, and my master and they went to Lianhua Mountain, where they stayed for more than half a year." Luo Wenzhou carefully pinched the edge of the photo and clipped it back into his notebook, "Not long after I went, I came across that case - you may not have heard of it, I was still a preschooler." ”

"At first, a man came to report the crime, saying that the child was lost." Tao Ran flipped through the notebook, in addition to the photos and portraits, most of the content on the notebook was purely handwritten, the old criminal policeman's words were quite beautiful, delicate and powerful, tangible and physical, the word "Guo Heng" was written on the page in front of the photo, and three lines of key lines were drawn under the name, "Yes, the informant is this Guo Heng, and the one who lost it was his eleven-year-old daughter, whose nickname is 'Fei Fei'." ”

When Luo Wenzhou heard this, he put his hand on a thick textbook, and looked up at Tao Ran in wonder: "You have drunk like this, do you remember what the girl's name is?" ”

Tao Ran lowered his head to avoid his gaze: "I've listened to the old man for many years, and I can memorize the ins and outs." ”

Chang Ning is usually busy with work and has little time to watch TV, so it is rare to listen to the stories told by the people of the criminal police team up close, and he can't help but ask curiously: "What happened later?" ”

"At that time, parents were generally not as attentive as they are now, eleven or twelve-year-olds, who were already older children, usually went to school or went to play with their classmates, and generally ran away after saying a word to their parents, and adults would not circle around them all day long."

But Guo Fei, a little girl, belongs to a very honest and well-behaved girl, there are fixed clocks when she goes to school and after school, she can say a valid reason when she comes back five minutes late, she never has to worry about studying at home, and there is nothing special on the day of her disappearance, her classmates said that Guo Fei did not stay at school after school that day, and returned home on time, from school to her house, it is about fifteen minutes away, and the child is lost in these fifteen minutes. My master and they stepped back and forth dozens of times along the road she usually walked, there was not so much monitoring on the road in those years, but there was no special 'back' place on the way home for the child, it was summer at that time, and it was not very dark in the evening, and there were a lot of people coming and going outside, it stands to reason that such a big girl was taken away from the street, even if there was a little bit wrong, it was impossible for no one to notice it at all. leenu/books/37/37759/

Born special forces. ”

"But after a big visit, I found nothing. They turned the neighborhood around the school upside down, and didn't even find a single hair of the girl—didn't Holmes famously say, 'Eliminate the impossibility of one, and the rest is inconceivable, and it is also the truth', so it was said at the time that either an acquaintance committed the crime, or the child ran away from home on his own. ”

Following the idea of an acquaintance committing the crime, the police investigated again and again, the school's teachers, school workers, relatives and friends of the Guo family, and even the stationery store and small supermarket that the child usually went to...... Hundreds of people were arraigned, but nothing was found. ”

Tao Ran said this, and his voice paused: "Just when their investigation was in trouble, the girl's father Guo Heng suddenly received a phone call, and no one spoke when he answered it, only heard a little girl screaming hoarsely, and the child's mother fainted when she heard it, and the police immediately found the location of the phone through the guò number - it was a very remote phone booth. ”

Lang Qiao asked strangely, "No surveillance?" ”

"No, the phone booth itself is next to the garbage station, it looks like an abandoned one, and many people don't know that the phone can still be used," Luo Wenzhou said, "A little blood was found next to the phone booth, which was consistent with Guo Fei's blood type, but at that time, the DNA could not be tested, and it was impossible to determine whether it was her or not, and there were no fingerprints." ”

No one spoke in Tao Ran's living room for a while.

After a while, Fei Du, who had been silent, interjected and asked, "No other calls?" No extortion, no ransom? ”

"No," Tao Ran said, "after that phone call, the kidnappers never contacted the girl's family again." No money was asked, and no requests were made. ”

Fei Du held the wine glass and shook it gently, sniffing the aroma of the wine as if it were not a dry red bought casually in the supermarket, but a Romanée Conti.

"That's strange," he said, "it sounds like the kidnappers weren't going to target the kids, but to torture the adults in the family—what did the girl's parents do?" ”

Guo Heng himself is a middle school teacher, and the child's mother is a civil servant, and her family background was not bad at that time, but she was also an ordinary well-off, and she was an ordinary person who received a dead salary every month. Both of them have gone to school, they are usually well-informed people, they have little ambition at work, and they have a good relationship with their colleagues, there are no conflicts of interest, and extramarital affairs are ruled out. ”

Ordinary people, ordinary parents, ordinary girls - not even a pretty child, living a well-behaved life. As lackluster as the casual people walking by on the street, no special story can be unearthed even if the police dig three feet into the ground.

As the folk proverb goes, "flies don't bite seamless eggs", but the police have repeatedly combed through the people related to the Guo family, and even individuals* have dissected them with a magnifying glass, and found that the girl Guo Fei and her family are "seamless eggs".

Time passed, the silent kidnapper never spoke again, both the police and the girl's family knew that the child's chances of getting back were slim, and the best outcome was to be trafficked to some remote place, but it was more likely to be ......

The kidnappers chose the girl for what reason, and the police had no clue.

It's as if he's throwing dice on the street, and whoever he clicks on is whoever he wants.

For no reason.

No one in this world is safe.

Lang Qiao asked, "What about ...... What about the other five? ”

"All the clues in Guo Fei's disappearance case were interrupted, there was no way, so I had to stop it, and then the master was transferred back to the city - at that time, it was in the criminal investigation team of the Xitai District Bureau, and there was another case of missing children in the jurisdiction, it was still a girl, twelve years old, and she also disappeared unknowingly on the way out of school, and the kidnappers still didn't say a word, and the most terrible thing was that two days after the girl's disappearance, the family also received a call from a child crying."

"My master immediately realized that something was wrong and reported the situation to his superiors, and the person in charge of Xitai District at that time decided to report it to the Municipal Bureau, and it turned out that there had been six similar cases of missing children in the entire Yancheng City, including the surrounding counties and districts.leenu/books/37/37758/

Rebellion and Demons. ”

"Seven incidents," Luo Wenzhou added, "The last surviving girl has a special family situation, she has no father, her mother is a rotten drunkard, fooling around all day long, she didn't know that the child had been lost for several days, and she didn't call the police at all." The city bureau took the lead in this matter, transferred manpower from various districts, and set up a task force, and Lao Yang was later transferred to the city bureau because of this opportunity - but there was no progress, and there was no intersection between several missing girls, except for ......"

When Luo Wenzhou said this, he suddenly remembered something, and his eyes fell on Chenchen, who was used to biting the drink and listening intently, and after a pause, he changed his voice stiffly: "Except for the kidnappers, the modus operandi is almost the same." ”

"After Guo Fei's father heard about it, he took a long-term leave without pay, and went to the city to wait for a result from the task force, but unfortunately he was finally disappointed." Tao Ran put the old criminal policeman's notebook into a cardboard box very preciously, "Later, the task force also dispersed, and those who still remember this case are the victim's family and my master, who handled it from the beginning." After more than half a year, Guo Heng suddenly found the master, saying that he had found the suspect, a teacher, named Wu Guangchuan - that is, the person on the portrait, Wu Guangchuan is the teacher of 'Splendid Middle School', Splendid was the earliest private junior high school at that time, boarding system, for the city's enrollment, high tuition fees, high teaching quality, many parents in the far suburbs of the county feel that the local middle school is not good, all send their children to Splendid Fair, when Guo Fei disappeared, Wu Guangchuan happened to be in the enrollment team of Splendid Middle School to the Lianhuashan area. ”

Chang Ning held his breath: "Is that him?" ”

"Wu Guangchuan was six years old Chinese New Year's Eve, divorced and living alone, he did have the conditions to commit the crime, Lao Yang went to follow him in private, and he also used some illegal means, but nothing was found. This Wu Guangchuan has a gentle temper, good popularity, is a well-known good person, usually works often with children, and has never crossed the line. Lao Yang followed him for a while, thinking that it was not him, but Guo Heng was like a ghost, and decided that Wu Guangchuan was the kidnapper, and later Lao Yang withdrew, and Guo Heng himself found Wu Guangchuan with a watermelon knife and stabbed the person. ”

Lang Qiao said "ah": "Dead? ”

"Well, when they got to the hospital, they found the seventh missing girl in Wu Guangchuan's basement, as well as the clothes of the previous six girls - the clothes were all cut into strips, and there were blood stains on them that matched the blood types of several victims. The serial child kidnapping case of that year was solved in this way, but the clothes were there, but no one could be found, no one was dead, no body was found, and there was no evidence that the suspect died. Luo Wenzhou stood up and stretched, "Guo Heng intentionally killed people and was also sentenced." This matter has always been unbearable in Lao Yang's heart, he always feels that it was his own misjudgment that led to the later tragedy, and he has been talking about it all his life - don't mention this, the suspect's bones and scum are cold, eat. ”

Everyone made a fuss at Tao Ran's house until the afternoon, and those who took the taxi and the subway all dispersed, and they drove to stay to help Tao Ran clean up their new home, and sobered up by the way, Chang Ning and Chenchen also went home.

Tao then came and was poured a few cups, and when he washed the dishes, he couldn't stand still, and he was "broken and safe", and was driven away by Luo Wenzhou.

Team Luo cleaned a bunch of plates and bowls three times by five, and when he returned to the living room, he saw Fei Du with his back to him, flipping through the notes of the old criminal policeman one by one.

As if he had eyes behind his back, he said to Luo Wenzhou: "Did you just say a word less, the missing girls must have one thing in common - is it clothes?" ”

Luo Wenzhou leaned against the wall of the foyer and smiled dumbly: "How do you know that you won't be the reincarnation of the murderer, right?" ”

"You glanced at Chenchen, and then swallowed the words," Fei Du turned around, "The clothes found in this Wu Guangchuan's basement can't be all floral skirts, right?" ”

As soon as Luo Wenzhou saw him, he remembered the unlucky game console, and avoided his gaze a little uncomfortably: "You can teach your child to be wary of strangers and be vigilant, but you can't make her afraid of wearing floral skirts, otherwise what do you want us to do?" ”

"Hmm," Fei Du nodded slightly, "Team Luo is right. ”

Luo Wenzhou rarely heard a few good words from his mouth, and his liver trembled at this point, and sure enough, in the next second, his ominous premonition came true.

Fei Du asked quietly: "Except for the little white flower, the game console...... What else? ”