I don't like to drive at night, especially at high speed, it's not safe. The highway at night is one of the best places to commit crime, and you can always encounter the following three situations:

1. Throwing stones: In the process of high-speed driving, throwing stones at the owner causes parking, and when the owner gets out of the car to check, the owner steals or even robs. The cost of committing a crime is extremely low, and many suspects will commit crimes in this way.

2. Barricades: Scatter thumbtacks, branches, and bumpers on the highway - basically used to force vehicles to stop. If the tire is broken, many people will immediately stop in the emergency lane, get out of the car to check and replace the tire, and then the criminal gang will appear, steal or forcibly take the owner's belongings.

Pay attention to the road conditions when driving, and call the police for help in time if something happens

3. Touching porcelain: The "porcelain party" uses rented high-end cars to find high-end cars to commit crimes in sections with fewer vehicles - after tailgating the target vehicle, they seek an opportunity to let the other party overtake, use a slingshot to hit stones and other items to the rear of the target car, and then brake urgently, so that the other party thinks that an accident has occurred. Then, turn on the double flash and force the other party to stop the blackmail.

Although I didn't like it, I had to drive on the highway at night because I was tracking down the suspect in the "missing girl" case.

Based on the information I have on missing persons, I am pretty sure that such girls are being targeted. On November 7, I got the tip and started the investigation. On the evening of November 8, I followed the suspect in the girl's abduction, a van driver, and got on the highway.

I hate running high speeds at night, but it's still good – it's easy to track. Because the headlights are dangling, the car in front can't see the car behind at all. Like tracking this van now, the driver can only see the lights from the rearview mirror, and he can't see what kind of car I'm driving. But I'm careful to keep my distance away. Sometimes I need to slow down, stay away from it, make the driver lose sight of me, and wait for a few cars to pass and then catch up again - he will think that there is a new car behind him. When he gets off the highway, we don't arouse suspicion when we follow, because there are only a few exits, and it's too normal to get off the highway at the same exit.

Zhou Yong yawned: "Brother Xu, why do you want to do so much with him?" Why don't you just intercept him and make a quick decision! ”

I said that if he was involved in the disappearances of dozens of girls, he must have quite a few accomplices. Follow him, find a den or something, and you'll be able to catch them all.

Zhou Yong nodded: "Then I'll sleep for a while, and you can call me later." ”

We didn't arouse any suspicion from the van, and followed it off the highway and into Tianqiong City. The van drove into a bustling-looking area, stopped in front of a building, and the driver got out of the car and went upstairs.

I also put out the fire and looked around.

There are tall buildings here, the streets are clean, the street lights are bright, but the strange thing is that there is no one here, not a single pedestrian on the street, there are very few lights in the buildings, and there are only two or three lights in a building. Not only that, but if you look behind you over the buildings in front of you, you can see many unlit or unfinished buildings. Like a bustling city, everyone evaporated overnight.

I've known this place for a long time, but this is the first time I've seen it in person, and it looks a little bit – magical reality. If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, it is hard to imagine that Tianqiong City, which is less than 300 kilometers away from Yan City and has an economic development that is okay, has such a place.

I woke up Zhou Yong, and he was startled when he saw the surroundings: "Brother Xu, are we - crossed?" Is this going to be "The Walking Dead" or "I Am Legend"? ”

I told him that this was Xianghewan, and he said "oh": "No wonder, ghost town!" ”

Xianghewan is a project developed by Tianqiong City, with an investment of more than 60 billion yuan. Ten years later, some of the buildings and facilities have been completed, but they are still sparsely populated and are known as "ghost towns".

Zhou Yong rubbed his eyes: "I'm too sleepy, how is the van we are tracking?" "I said stop, and the people were already upstairs.

Zhou Yong: "Why don't you follow him?" ”

I said, "You are stupid, there is no one on this street, and I don't even dare to turn on the headlights when I drive after him." Get out of the car and go into a building with him, and you will be found out at once! ”

Zhou Yong nodded: "Yes, then let's squat here?" ”

I said squatting and then pointed it out to him: "There was only one light on in the whole building just now, and the driver went upstairs and turned on another one." I've taken a picture and I'll see where he lives tomorrow. ”

Zhou Yong: "Then what are we going to do now?" ”

I said find a place to sleep. We drove to the northernmost hotel in Xianghe Bay, and after checking in, Zhou Yong sighed with emotion: "The five-star hotel here is cheaper than the express hotel in Yan City, with a business standard room of 300 yuan, and two tickets to the scenic spot!" I nodded, indeed, because there was no one.

At noon the next day, Zhou Yong and I came to the place we tracked last night.

Zhou Yong got out of the car: "It's hot!" Brother Xu, hurry up and take a look at the photos taken last night, take a look at the units and floors, hurry up and go in, it's too sunny! ”

I shouted to him: "Go in, go in." In case there are about 20 people on it, they will press us there when they come up, and we will also become missing persons! ”

Zhou Yong: "What should I do?" ”

I said, "Look for the sales office." Look at the type of house he lives in and how large it is, and you can roughly guess how many of them are. If it's just two or three people, we'll go up, and if it's too many, call the police. ”

Zhou Yong nodded: "Yes, it's decided!" ”

The sales office was very deserted, there were only three sales ladies and a security guard inside, and all four of them were playing with their phones when I walked in. Seeing me and Zhou Yong, a sales lady greeted me: "Hello sir, do you look at the residential or the bottom business?" ”

I said residential.

She took me to the sand table in the lobby and began to show me the floor plan and price of the house. I asked her which building had an existing house, and she was honest: "Everything." ”

Zhou Yong shouted beside him: "Ho, this occupancy rate is low enough!" ”

I pointed to the building where the van driver lived and asked her what kind of apartment they had and how they sold it.

She took a look: "Sir, this is an apartment building, and it is all hardcover apartments, with bags to move in, there are studios, there are also two bedrooms and one living room, one flat and one thousand." ”

I said, "Then you can show me the next room." ”

The sales lady took the keys and key cards and took us to see a few rooms, all of which were simple European style, decoration was OK, and the furniture such as beds was also complete. After looking at the house, the sales lady asked me how I was, and I gave Zhou Yong a look.

Zhou Yong understood: "Brother Xu, I think, the house is good, but is the occupancy rate a little too low?" ”

I pretended to hesitate and said to the sales lady: "I really want to live here, quiet, but I'm afraid that there will be security problems if there are too few people." ”

The sales lady assured me that there were a lot of people, and I offered to look at the entrance information of this building, and she thought about it and agreed. She took out a tablet, opened the document and gave it to me, saying that all the information that had been entered was here. The building has six units and thirty-three floors. There are more than 100 households in total, and the occupancy rate is not even one-tenth, but in the "ghost town", the occupancy rate is extremely high.

The room where the driver turned on the lights after going upstairs last night should be the twenty-seventh floor of the second or third unit.

I found the information of the head of the household in the "household information" - there is no one on the 27th floor of the second unit, and there is a household in 2701 of the third unit, Zhu Chenling, male, 36 years old, from Tianqiong City, ID number ×××××××. I said to think about it again, took the business card of the sales lady, and went out of the sales center with Zhou Yong.

When I went out, I said to Zhou Yong: "2701 is a forty-square-meter studio, the decoration is in the style of a single apartment, and the same floor is sold in this one - it is unlikely that he will live with his accomplices." ”

We were wrong in our previous thinking, and his first choice after the accident was not to find an accomplice, but to hide.

Zhou Yong: "Brother Xu, did you say that this house was rented or bought?" ”

I'll just look it up.

Zhou Yong wondered: "How to check, search on the Internet?" ”

I said that before the van driver went upstairs last night, he changed the license plate, and he should have replaced the real license plate with a fake one, and it turned out that he had been using a fake license plate to prevent being photographed. We now have the license plate number and Zhu Chenling's information, and we can check the vehicle violations on the website of the vehicle management office.

Zhou Yong: "You have to use the engine serial number to check violations online, where can we do it?" ”

I said this is easy to do, I know a back door, as long as the front information is correct, the engine serial number can be queried by filling in this set of codes.

Zhou Yong sighed: "Brother Xu, how do you know everything?!" "I'll let him study hard, I also asked Lao Jin that back then.

Zhu Chenling's information coincides with the license plate number, and he is the person we are looking for.

Zhou Yong: "Brother Xu, you must already have a plan, right?" ”

I said, "Go straight to his house and knock on the door and block him in the house." However, on the twenty-seventh floor of his house, there is no door card to swipe the elevator, so we have to climb the twenty-seventh floor. ”

Zhou Yong smiled, I asked him what was wrong, Zhou Yong took out a card: "The sales lady's access card 'accidentally dropped'." ”

I said, "Okay, Zhou Yong, you've learned to steal." ”

Zhou Yong shook his head: "Brother Xu, you can't talk nonsense, she accidentally dropped it herself, right, I just didn't have time to return it to her!" ”

When I got to the door, I leaned on the door and listened, and there was the sound of a TV inside. Zhou Yong glanced at me, I nodded, Zhou Yong raised his hand and knocked on the door four or five times. After knocking on the door, the sound of the TV suddenly stopped, and the people inside asked who it was. I said Zhu Chenling's courier. There was silence for a while: "I haven't bought anything. ”

Zhou Yong smiled: "Brother Xu, there are times when this trick doesn't work, I already knew that I would check the water meter, and I have always wanted to say this line." ”

I said, "Dude, we followed you all the way from Yan City to Tianqiong City, so why don't you invite us in and sit down?" ”

Of course, Zhu Chenling didn't open the door: "Are you policemen?" ”

I said, "If the police weren't so polite, we'd like to talk to you." If you don't talk, we'll call the police, and you can do it yourself. ”

Zhu Chenling's tone was very flat: "Are you here to kill me?" ”

Zhou Yong was curious: "Someone wants to kill you?" ”

Zhu Chenling didn't answer, I answered for him.

I said, "Definitely." You think, it's not to hide from things, it's not to invest in advance - who would buy a house in a place that can't be searched by any food delivery software. ”

And the house was bought in his real name, and it was certainly not to hide from the police - the police were able to find all the properties in his name. He foresaw that he might be in other dangers, and bought a shelter in this deserted place.

After I explained to Zhou Yong, I knocked on the door twice: "Brother Zhu, am I right?" ”

Still no response inside. I said, "Brother Zhu, let's do this, we will stand at the door, and we won't go in and visit the door." You tell me what you know through the door, and we will leave after speaking, and we will never call the police! ”

Zhou Yong also persuaded him: "Think about it, your accomplices have all fallen into the hands of the police, what's the use of you hiding with us?" ”

Zhou Yong and I kept promising that we would not call the police or disclose information. Ten minutes later, he spoke.

"I didn't study well when I was a child, and I dropped out of high school before I finished it, and I mixed in society. My dad thought I couldn't go on like this, so he sent me to Yan City and stayed at my cousin's house, so that my cousin could watch me. My cousin was an arranger, he was very famous in the industry, and he made a lot of money, and my dad thought he was a successful person, so he shoehorned me into him. As soon as I arrived in Yan City, my cousin sent me to a driving school, and I have been driving for him since I finished learning. Usually the two of us talk about everything, and I also told him some things about my mixed society, mainly bragging, but he still likes to listen. One day he suddenly asked me, dare to kidnap, I blew so many cowhides before, of course I dare. As a result, he really asked me to tie up someone, and I went with my head on. ”

Zhou Yong: "If you want to tie you up, you will go!" ”

Zhu Chenling ignored Zhou Yong, and continued: "The first time was in a hotel, and someone went with me - not the bald head who was arrested. We don't know each other's names and don't ask each other, so we don't betray each other if we are arrested. ”

I asked Zhu Chenling what the process of their actions was.

"I'm usually in charge of driving, and every time someone cooperates with me and is responsible for arresting people. My cousin would tell me where to tie people up. It's usually done in the dead of night, in front of a hotel or somewhere. Strangely, every girl who was tied up came out at night with something in her hand, as if they wanted to be tied up. After dragging the girl to the car, we stunned her, stuffed her in a suitcase, and then handed her over to another person at the agreed place. ”

I asked Zhu Chenling how much money his cousin gave each time. He said fifty thousand yuan.

Zhou Yong: "Dude, your father must know that your cousin took you to be a human trafficker, and he regretted sending you to Yan City." ”

Zhu Chenling: "My cousin is not a human trafficker, he is already very rich, and he can't commit human trafficking, isn't he sick?" ”

I said, "Do you know what happened to the girls who were tied up?" ”

Zhu Chenling obviously hesitated, and I could hear that he was also a little confused: "Once, just that time, there was no contact. My cousin asked me to take the girl's suitcase to a villa in the suburbs. I dragged my suitcase and rang the doorbell. After a while, my cousin opened the door, and as I handed him the suitcase, I glanced into the room a few times. Inside, it's like a party. Strange music was playing, and everyone was wearing masks, animal masks. ”

Zhou Yong: "What the hell! And then what? ”

Zhu Chenling: "I know so much. ”

Zhou Yong: "You know this, are you still worried about being wiped out?" ”

Zhu Chenling didn't speak.

I asked him if he didn't do it late at night, and why did I block Parkview Green Park during the day that day?

Zhu Chenling said he didn't know: "That day, my cousin suddenly called me and asked me to go to Tiantai Road and kidnap the girl who was with Wang Min. ”

Zhou Yong: "Do you know Wang Min?" ”

Zhu Chenling said "um": "Yes, my cousin works part-time at the Conservatory of Music, and Wang Min is his student. ”

I asked him if he knew that Wang Min was also a participant in the kidnapping of the girl, and Zhu Chenling said he didn't know. After going downstairs and getting into the car, Zhou Yong asked me: "Brother Xu, are you really not calling the police?" ”

I said, "Yes, just don't call the police until the whole thing is resolved." ”

Zhou Yong: "So you have to go back to check on Wang Min next?" ”

I said I'd go find the girl we rescued first. The other girls were kidnapped in the dead of night, so why was she only kidnapped during the day? There must be a special reason for violating the norm, and that reason may be our breaking point.

Zhou Yong: "Then let's go home?" ”

I nodded. There was still no one on the road, and Zhou Yong kicked the accelerator and ran out.

After returning to Yan City, I called Ju You and asked if he could help me contact the girl I rescued at Fangcao Lake. She said yes, but there was no guarantee that the girl would say yes. I asked Ju You to give her a mouthful, I was the one who saved her. Ju Yu agreed.

Probably because she couldn't get rid of her life-saving benefactor, she agreed to meet me. In the criminal investigation detachment, I Guan Juyou borrowed an empty house and chatted with Zhou Yong. She is in a good state, and she gets straight to the point as soon as she comes up: "Thank you for saving me that day, just ask if there is anything, I know everything." ”

I said, "Can you ask what your relationship with Wang Min is?" ”

She said: "I am Wang Min's ex-girlfriend. ”

I asked again what happened to her and Wang Min before they were kidnapped.

She muttered: "The two of us have been talking for three years, and he was very good at the beginning, not attentive, and warm, but slowly changed. ”

Zhou Yong interjected next to him: "Men are not like this!" I told him to shut up and motioned for her to continue.

"He started to spend less time at school, and he was out when he was looking for him, and he didn't go back to school at night. I usually go out together and don't let me touch his phone. He changed his phone to a new password, and we had several fights about it. I suspect he's cheating. ”

Zhou Yong sneered: "It's not just ......" I stepped on him and motioned for the girl to continue.

"Later, when he entered the password on his phone, I stared at it and wrote down the new password. One night, while he was sleeping, I took his phone to the bathroom, secretly opened it, and flipped through his call logs and messages. ”

Zhou Yong and I were both trembling.

I asked him if there was anything unusual in his phone?

"Yes, he's got a lot of girls."

"And then?"

Then I flipped through his photo album and found some people in animal masks, what they were doing at the party. The last WeChat I checked, I didn't have an appointment with a girl, but there was a weird group, chatting about some ayahuasca and the like. I was confused, and just about to take a closer look, he suddenly appeared behind me and asked me what I was doing. It almost didn't scare me to death. When he saw me flipping through his phone, he started scolding me. As soon as I had evidence of his cheating, and he scolded me, I broke up with him. Two days later, he suddenly came to me and said he wanted to talk to me. After all, after several years of affection, I agreed. You all know what's next. ”

Dreamcatchers, now mostly used as decorations

I asked her if the thing she was wearing on her hand was given by Wang Min?

She was surprised: "How do you know? ”

I guessed.

On the way back, Zhou Yong asked me, "Brother Xu, what's the matter with the person wearing the animal mask?" I said, "I have a little idea, do you see what she is wearing?" ”

Zhou Yong nodded: "Wang Min gave her that bracelet?" I've seen it, dreamcatcher, I bought it when I went to the Philippines to play. ”

I said, "Yes, that's a dreamcatcher, but it has nothing to do with the Philippines, which is used to scam tourists." ”

Dreamcatchers were used by the American Indians to catch nightmares. It is common in the United States that Native Americans have one.

Zhou Yong was puzzled: "But what does this have to do with the mask man?" ”

I asked him if he remembered, and Wang Min's girlfriend said that Wang Min had a strange group on his phone, which was chatting about ayahuasca or something.

Zhou Yong nodded: "I have an impression, but what does it have to do with the mask man?" ”

I said, "Can you hear me first—ayahuasca is a medicinal plant of the Amazon and its decoction, a sacred symbol, and only shamans in each tribe have mastered the method of mixing ayahuasca." Like drugs, ayahuasca has hallucinogenic properties and is popular with some shamans and people who like witch culture. ”

"And the animal masks that you keep asking, animal masks are related to shamanic culture and witch culture. Ayahuasca, animal masks, and dreamcatchers should be related to the religion of a certain witch culture. ”

Zhou Yong was dumbfounded: "Didn't Wu Culture die early?" ”

I said, "Not yet, what I told you before was told to me by Lao Jin." Forget it, I'll call him directly and let him tell you! ”

Zhou Yong: "Is it really fighting?" He didn't have a good temper when he came back from the south, and he said it several times to make us bother him less! ”

I said that although he was menopausal, he had to be asked. I took out the phone and called Lao Jin. Lao Jin was not in a high mood, but after listening to me, he still explained it to us.

"The witch culture has not been completely extinguished, and some northern minorities, especially those of the Tungusic language family, still believe in shamanism. Taoism has also inherited some things from Wu culture, such as divination, talismans, etc., which are no different from Wu. What you have found this time should be a sect related to 'witches', or a collective fanatic. ”

I asked Lao Jin if this situation was easy to deal with?

Lao Jin said: "There are two kinds of fanatics, the wise madmen and the ignorant fools - if it is a group of fools, it is fine, if it is a group of madmen, you can easily be forced into fools!" Lao Jin's voice was a little hoarse, it should be that he hadn't slept well recently.

Zhou Yong: "Why did they kidnap girls?" ”

Lao Jin said: "I don't know, it's possible to do anything." Based on the information you have now, it is likely that this is a new pluralistic denomination. Historically, this sect has been the most unpredictable and controllable. ”

Zhou Yong: "Uncle Jin, do you still need to talk about it?" The key is where to start? ”

Lao Jin: "If it were me, I would try to get something out of Wang Min's mouth." ”

I said, "Okay, Zhou Yong, you go and keep an eye on Zhu Chenling's cousin, and I'll see if I can talk to Wang Min." Zhou Yong said okay.

I called Ju You and asked if I could see Wang Min, and Ju You was silent for a while: "I'll tell you one thing, don't reveal it, Wang Min is dead, take poison." ”

I asked her if the detention wasn't a body search. Ju You said: "I searched it, but the day before yesterday I let him see a lawyer, and he died when he went back." The lawyer is already being investigated. ”

Wang Min's clues were broken, and there was only one way left to spy on Zhu Chenling's cousin.

Zhu Chenling's cousin's home is in an apartment on a busy commercial street. Zhou Yong and I stared at him for four days, and he walked around the park near the commercial street every day, and then went home to stay. Monday, November 16. Finally, he left his home and drove north.

I asked Zhou Yong to follow him, and then went upstairs to Zhu Chenling's cousin's house, took a moment to open the door lock, put on the shoe covers and gloves that had been prepared, and entered the house. There are many photos of him and celebrities in the house, and it seems that he has a wide range of connections. I turned on my computer and searched around, but I didn't find anything, there were no useful things in the drawers, wardrobes, and there was no safe at home. I sat on the couch and pondered for a while, then stood up and lifted the photos of him and the stars on the wall one by one, and found a hard drive behind the photo of him and a big celebrity.

Common portable hard drives

Plugging the hard drive into the computer, just about to turn it on, Zhou Yong called: "Brother Xu, he entered Wolong Villa in the north of the city, and I followed up." They drew the curtains, but when he went in, I saw people in the room wearing animal masks. ”

I asked him to notify me immediately of any news, and then I clicked on the hard drive, which contained some video files and a text document. I opened the text document, which was the diary of Zhu Chenling's cousin, and I recorded some life events and insights in bits and pieces. I flipped through it quickly and got a rough idea of what he had written.

Zhu Chenling's cousin has the habit of smoking, especially in the literary and artistic circles, especially those who are engaged in music, and there are not a few people who smoke **. They often have some intimate little salons, chatting together and sucking ** or something. While attending an intimate event, he came into contact with ayahuasca. After drinking it, he saw some hallucinations that made him feel a lot, and he wrote a song with these feelings, which turned out to be a great success.

He became obsessed with ayahuasca and came into contact with the person who offered ayahuasca, who told him a lot about witch culture and recommended him to join a sect. As he grew more senior, he became involved in some of the more profound activities of the sect—sacrificial rituals.

There is an old senior member, who has been in the Amazon tribe, and has mastered a supreme recipe for ayahuasca, which can merge the soul of a young girl into ayahuasca through rituals, and when you drink it, you can see your ancestors and your own soul.

After reading the diary, I think Lao Jin is right, these people are either stupid or crazy.

[1] I picked one of the clicks in the video, and it shows a group of people wearing animal masks partying in the house, and the table is full of Don Perignon[1]

, they danced to the sound of strange music and drank wine. After a while, without warning, the music stopped.

People spread out in both directions, and a man wearing a deer's head mask pushed out a girl in a wheelchair, wearing a white skirt and a rattan ring, sobbing incessantly. The man in the deerhead mask took a bowl of water from the table, I guessed ayahuasca, and poured it down on the girl. After a few minutes, the girl began to convulse all over. The onlookers in animal masks began to applaud, and then they s** the girl. After that, the deerhead said something in his mouth and slit the girl's throat......

I closed the video with trembling hands, and called Zhou Yong to ask him to call the police quickly, I know that now is not the best time, but I am afraid that there is another girl in the villa who is suffering the same thing.

The police arrived quickly and walked quickly - nothing, they said they were holding a masquerade ball, and even the villa was rented.

I gave Ju You Zhu Chenling's cousin's hard drive, and she said that the police would investigate the matter. But I know that no one is mentioned in the diary, and no one in the video shows their faces, and this matter is very tricky, and there will be no results in the short term.

The next morning, when I turned on my phone to watch the news, I found the news of a dead person in a commercial street apartment. With a bad premonition, I clicked on it - the deceased was Zhu Chenling's cousin, and like Wang Min, he committed suicide by taking ***.

My name is Zhou Yong, I drove to Xianghe Bay, and I knocked on Zhu Chenling's door for a long time but there was no response. I picked the lock and went in, Zhu Chenling was not in the house, and there were a few faint blood marks on the floor.

As we drove back, it was getting dark. I don't like to run at high speed at night, so I let Zhou Yong drive and sit in the passenger seat.

The two of us didn't talk much along the way, and when we were about to enter Yan City, Zhou Yong suddenly asked me: "Brother Xu, is this case closed?" ”

I said it wasn't over, it was just that the timeline was stretched.

Zhou Yong turned his head to look at me: "Are we nothing?" ”

I said, "Of course not, knowing that they are being targeted, they will not dare to show their heads in a short time, and no one will be harmed." ”

Zhou Yong: "Will these people come out after avoiding the limelight?" ”

I nodded, "When you reappear, it's time to catch them all in one go." ”

[1]

Don Perignon, referring to the Don Perignon dry type champagne king, only the plump grapes of the old vines can be used to make this champagne, named after the "father of champagne" Don Perignon, commonly known as the "Champagne King".