Chapter 50: Humbert Humbert XVII
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"At half past eight o'clock in the evening of the 27th, Xu Wenchao was indeed at home," Tao Ran first followed to the hospital, said a few words to Chenchen, who gradually regained consciousness, and hurried back, receiving news on the way, so he went to verify Xu Wenchao's alibi, "I also checked his takeaway order for nearly half a year, it is very regular, basically a few, and everyone who delivers takeaway knows him."
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A criminal policeman next to him asked, "Is it possible that the person who delivered the food was bought?" β
"Let's check the personal relationship between the witness and Xu Wenchao a little, but I don't think it's very likely," Luo Wenzhou said, "The people who deliver food are all children, they don't work for long, they will change a batch in three or two months, and they are familiar with customers at most, and it is unlikely that they will do such perjury for a customer who orders food, and not everyone dares to talk nonsense in front of the police...... One more point. β
"What?"
"My shoes are forty-two," Luo Wenzhou stomped his foot gently, "Xu Wenchao was wearing sneakers when he came in the afternoon, I didn't see it too much, but judging from the pair of leather shoes he wore just now, it seems to be smaller." β
There was an uproar in the conference room.
At this time, Lang Qiao was the last to walk into the conference room and threw himself on the chair: "Boss, hurry up and change someone, I'm out of trouble with that child, I get furious when I look at her." β
Luo Wenzhou asked, "How is Su Luozhan?" β
"People are very comfortable, they should eat and sleep," Lang Qiao shook his head and took a can of coffee thrown by his colleague, "She is not afraid of adults or police, and I don't know how this works now." It may be too young and don't understand the consequences of what you do, or it may be too cunning and knows that you are small, so you are not afraid. You talk to her, she pretends to be confused and acts with you, you scare her, and she looks at you with a smile - yes, she asked me for a bottle of sweet milk, and after drinking it, she asked me, 'I'm sleepy, can I sleep for a while,' and then she really fell asleep. To be honest, if I was caught by someone and caught in the public security bureau when I did something bad, I would be scared to death, and I would definitely not be able to sleep, is this child still human? β
Luo Wenzhou didn't say a word, he lit a cigarette with a very solemn expression, and didn't bother to stuff it into his mouth, so he came to his senses.
Xu Wenchao, there is no doubt that he must have played some role in this matter, otherwise there could not have been so many coincidences.
He connected the case more than 20 years ago and now, he has a close relationship with Su Xiaolan's mother and daughter, Su Luozhan called him twice in a row at the crime scene, and did not hesitate to identify him when the police asked.
And his two attitudes towards entering the palace in one day are also very interesting, the first time, his attitude is gentle and polite, but he is not at ease, often sacrificing amnesia*, and even being forced a little embarrassed by Tao Ran, as if he didn't expect this extraneous branch, somewhat panicked.
The second time he was sharp, calm, methodical, and spoke without leakage. In the middle of the night, he was suddenly detained by the police who broke into his home, and he turned out to be neatly dressed.
When Xu Wenchao came over for the first time, he said that he heard the radio and knew about Qu Tong's case, and of course the information disclosed to the public did not involve specific details, but the two key words "night of the 27th" and "Xiling District" were there, and he clearly had such a clear alibi, why didn't he mention it at that time?
Was he unprepared, panicked and forgetful, or did he not realize that he was being suspected by the police?
Or...... He's just testing the police's reaction?
If it's the latter, it's terrible.
However, in any case, it is also an objective fact that people cannot be divided into two, and cannot appear in two places at the same time.
Luo Wenzhou pondered for a moment, then reached out and knocked on the table: "Come, everyone listen, I need you to help me count one thing in a while......"
At this time, the door of the conference room was pushed open from the outside, and the attendant of their communication room came in and interrupted Luo Wenzhou's words: "Team Luo, it's the takeaway you ordered, and someone sent it over."
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Luo Wenzhou was stunned for a moment, and before he could speak, several young men who had been running for most of the night had already pounced on him with green eyes, and then took it and looked dumbfounded.
I saw that what I drove late at night was neither kebabs nor Malatang, or even McDonald's and KFC.
A total of two large bags were delivered, one was an insulated lunch bag, and the other was a cooler bag with dry ice, both with a very luxurious logo, and the tableware was wrapped in a special cardboard box, which was not like a disposable one.
When I opened it, there were Chinese and Western food, cold and hot food, and there were a few boxes of very fresh ice cream in the cooler bag, which seemed to be the cafeteria of a luxury hotel!
Luo Wenzhou choked to death by his own puff of cigarette.
Lang Qiao was the first to come back to his senses, and quickly grabbed a box of ice cream and hugged it into his arms: "My mother, the boss is too polite!" β
Tao Ran was shocked: "What are you doing here, the second half of the month is over?" β
"Boss, did you buy a lottery ticket and win?"
"The European Cup bet must have won a big one!"
"What are you talking about, can our captain do that? Hey, Team Luo, did your parents suddenly send you pocket money? β
"What pocket money is there to give? If you have nothing to do, it won't be that the second elder wants to give birth to a second child and take care of you first, right? β
Luo Wenzhou: "...... Fuck you, fuck off! β
What a bunch of dear colleagues.
He flipped through the bag and saw the familiar hotel logo on itβhe had just returned from someone's door.
The corners of Luo Wenzhou's eyes suddenly jumped wildly.
"Hey, this seems to be the local tyrant hotel in the north," Lang Qiao said suddenly, "Isn't their cafeteria so cold or something, why is it still open in the middle of the night, and it's still ...... Also delivering takeaways? So close to the people! β
"I can't stop your mouth from eating," Luo Wenzhou's forehead burst out with two small green tendons, "Why the have so many problems?" If you don't want to eat, go to work! β
Lang Qiao looked at Luo Wenzhou's expression, and the girl who had been dead for many years cheated on the corpse without warning.
She thought about it carefully, such a "Mandarin Duck Butterfly Pie" supper didn't seem to fit the home style of Team Luo's "pancake fruit hot soy milk", a new idea poured into her mind, Lang Qiao blurted out: "Wait, it won't be someone who wants to soak you and specially sent a love dinner...... Ouch! β
Her head was smashed by Luo Wenzhou with a paper ball.
Luo Wenzhou pretended to be deaf and dumb and forcibly ignored the topic of supper, and in the smell of food, he picked up his interrupted voice without changing his face: "You are eating me and saying, I need you to divide into two groups now, the first group from the missing children information platform to sort out all the files of the missing children's cases in all districts and counties of the city, mainly focusing on the gender, age, physical characteristics of the missing children, and the brief description of the case at the time. The time limit is limited to the last two years. β
Tao Ran asked: "Do you doubt that Qu Tong is not the first?" β
"The suspect's long tracking did not show a trace, and he took Qu Tong away without panic in an emergency, which shows that their goal at that time was very clear, that is, to track and kidnap, there was no sudden and passionate impulse, I think Qu Tong is definitely not the first
γ Luo Wenzhou said in a deep voice, "Since we can't find the current evidence, let's find the previous - the second group, I want you to dig up all the information of the two generations of Su Luozhan, Su Xiaolan and Xu Wenchao, all the information of the two generations, transcripts, accounts, communication records, personal computers and other equipment, all of which must be thoroughly investigated." β
These two tasks are like two mountains, you can hear the huge pressure with your feet and neck, the five elements of the mountains are like a town above everyone's heads, for a while take notes and take notes, and eat with your head down, even the delicious supper is painful, and no one cares to explore the truth of this meal anymore.
Luo Wenzhou grabbed a roasted chicken wing through a napkin, and gnawed the chicken wings like locusts flying over the rice field: "It's all physical work, act after replenishing your physical strength, and Xiaolang will summarize it." β
"Boss, isn't that Su Luozhan no longer trying for trial?"
"It's useless," Luo Wenzhou said, "to deal with adults, you can provoke him, scare him, and deceive him, but that Su Luozhan ...... You sit across from her, and she doesn't think of you as your own kind at all, maybe in her eyes, people are no different from sheep, they are just prey and food. Besides, she is too young, and the testimony can only be used as a reference. The family of the victim of the case 20 years ago is still in the hallway, and no one wants to drag this matter until we retire -- faster. β
This kind of boring text sorting work is completely incapable of stimulating people's adrenaline, especially in the early hours of the morning, and it is necessary to rely on low-quality coffee to boost the spirit. All the information about the lost children is very concise, the boys and girls, how old they are, where they were lost, how they were lost...... What kind of child it was, what he liked, what his temper was, and who in the family woke up every day in nightmares and planned to spend the rest of his life immersed in hopeless searchesβit would not be on paper.
Listing all the tragedies together is like an inscription of the victims of a disaster, shocking and lengthy.
In the blink of an eye, it was dawn, and the conference room was filled with empty coffee cans and cigarette butts.
"Girls, aged between 9 and 14 years old, who have gone missing for no reason and have not been heard from since, excluding cases of those who left letters and ran away from home and those who later found their bodies and confirmed their deaths, were 32 last year and 31 the year before. Taking into account the physical characteristics, excluding children who developed earlier and looked more like adults, as well as children who had not yet entered the pre-adolescent stage and looked like they had just finished their teeth, there were a total of 26 cases last year, compared with 20 cases the year before. β
Luo Wenzhou poured the tea on the wet wipes and wiped his face: "What about the feature of a floral skirt?" β
"There were seven last year, and eight the year before last." Lang Qiao raised her head, and the colleagues around her yawned all kinds of times, only she was pale from the fluorescence of the computer screen, and there was no sleepiness in her bloodshot eyes, "Team Luo, do you want to take a look?" β
She connected her notebook to the projector in the conference room, and a dozen of the collected photos were typed on the white cloth, and Tao Ran yawned half of it alive.
Fifteen girls, maybe taken out separately, who and who don't look alike, but listed together, their characteristics are strangely infinitely diluted, only the subtle temperament between girls and girls is highlighted, extraordinarily unified, at first glance it is impossible to tell who is who!
Tao Ran muttered in a low voice, "No......"
Those girls were like a handful of dried flowers sprinkled on the ground, drowning in the massive amount of information about the disappearance of children, and gradually became part of the backlog of unsolved cases in the pile of old papers, without a trace, if it were not for chance, no one would have found that it was a vine that grew.
It was a poisonous rattan hidden in the dense forest under the bright sun, its roots were huge, its branches were quiet, like an invisible net, only the tip of the iceberg was exposed, which was already chilling
"Turning forward," Luo Wenzhou said, "check the first ten years...... No, the first twenty years have been traced back to the serial kidnapping case in Lotus Mountain! β
Fei Du called someone to bring a change of clothes early in the morning, tidied himself up, and asked the assistant to drive him to Teacher Bai's house, but it was a middle-aged man who opened the door.
The man was of medium stature, with a Chinese face, broad shoulders, a pair of glasses, and a simple dress to the point of being inconspicuous, but the gaze that came over made Fei Du frown inexplicably.
His eyes are not strong or sharp, but they have a special sense of presence, like an extremely thin needle that can silently penetrate a person's pores.
Fei Du was stunned, and then said very politely: "Hello, I am looking for Teacher Bai, and I made an appointment yesterday." β
"Oh," the middle-aged man tugged at his glasses, "I know, it's Mr. Tip, right?" Bai Qian is my lover, please come in. β
While speaking, Teacher Bai had already greeted him, and the man seemed to be in a hurry to go out, so he greeted Teacher Bai gently, picked up his briefcase and left.
"He works at Yancheng Public Security University," Teacher Bai noticed that Fei Du glanced back at the man, and introduced him casually, "In fact, he is a nerd who can only drop his book bag, he doesn't know anything, and he knows how to teach and write articles all day long - the book you want to borrow this time is made up by him." β
Fei Du's eyes fell on the book "Research on the Psychology of Victims in Criminal Cases (Third Edition)" in his hand, and lingered for a moment on the three words "Pan Yunteng" by the editor.
"How's it going?" Teacher Bai poured tea for him, "You told me last time that you wanted to be a graduate student?" It's really shocking to me, the first time I've heard that a successful person like you has such an unrelated life plan, it can't be because I have turned over too many academic materials, right? β
"I was originally a mascot," Fei Du said disapprehantly, "My father left me a very good team of professional managers, who can cooperate and check and balance each other, and I don't need to do everything myself, and the other shareholders are even more eager for me to point fingers and honestly take dividends. β
Teacher Bai said strangely: "With your conditions, wouldn't it be more helpful to go abroad to study for an MBA?" We're too far off the beaten track, aren't we? β
Fei Du laughed: "Teacher Bai, many losers like me are studying 'Psychic Studies' and 'Beatles Major', and my hobbies are no longer niche in comparison. β
Teacher Bai smiled: "Indeed, you don't worry about employment anyway - which aspect are you more interested in, maybe I can introduce you to a mentor." β
"It's interesting." Fei Du shook the thick book in his hand.
Teacher Bai was stunned for a moment, and saw that the young man's face showed a little half-joking self-ridicule: "I heard that there are many beauties with a good image in the public security system, what if I can get close to the water?" β
When Fei Du said goodbye to Teacher Bai and left, it was already afternoon, and the fully charged mobile phone had been lying quietly in his pocket without ringing. β
The assistant was stunned: "Mr. Fei, something happened, do you want to report the case?" β
Fei Du smiled at her, the assistant had followed him for several years, and he had learned to recognize the meaning of this playboy's various smiles, and he suddenly shuddered, feeling that this young master's taste was getting heavier and heavier.