Due to some traffic jams on the road, it was almost eight o'clock in the evening when Gu Song and Huo Yan arrived at the Jinshui County Public Security Bureau.

At this time, four and a half hours had passed since the whereabouts of Director Xie's granddaughter, Concubine Ye, were unknown. In order to save time, the two of them only ate a few biscuits on the way here, and before their stomachs were full, they threw themselves into the work of racing against time.

The first case of disappearance occurred on the afternoon of August 17, 2017, and the missing person was a five-year-old girl named Li Xiaolan, who studied in the kindergarten class of Baiyun Kindergarten in Jinshui County.

Li Xiaolan's parents run a mahjong parlor, and their business is usually busy, and the two of them are very addicted to playing mahjong, so they neglect to take care of their children, so they create an opportunity for criminals to take advantage of.

On the afternoon of the incident, Li Xiaolan's mother picked up the child from kindergarten and immediately threw herself into the intense card game. Li Xiaolan was playing in front of the mahjong parlor as usual, in an unsupervised state. Because Mother Li has always been accustomed to this way of "free-range" children, she never thought that her children would be targeted by bad people.

When it was almost six o'clock, Li's mother finished playing a round of mahjong and was about to take the child home to make dinner, but when she came to the door, she found that the child was gone. She and her husband searched for a long circle near the mahjong parlor, but their daughter was never seen. When I asked the neighbors, no one noticed the whereabouts of the child.

At around 7 p.m., Li Xiaolan's parents went to a nearby police station to report the case, and the police station mobilized several police officers to help them search for their children, but to no avail. The case has been pending.

The second disappearance occurred on the afternoon of September 4, the missing person is named Jiang Qianqian, seven years old, studying in the second grade of Jinshui County No. 1 Experimental Primary School, and is also a cute and beautiful little girl. Because her parents are not around all the year round, Jiang Qianqian lives with her grandmother for her life, she is more mature and self-reliant than children of the same age, and she goes to school alone at a young age.

On the afternoon of the incident, Jiang Qianqian's grandmother never saw her granddaughter come home, so she first went to her granddaughter's school in a hurry, and then searched all the way along the route of her granddaughter's return home from school, but unfortunately never saw her again.

On the afternoon of September 22, Yu Jiao, a six-year-old girl in the first grade of Jinshui County No. 1 Experimental Primary School, disappeared not far from her home. On October 16, that is, this afternoon, Director Xie's granddaughter Ye Fei disappeared near the Wumenqiao Market due to inadequate nanny supervision.

Analyzing these four cases together, it is not difficult to find that they have a lot in common.

First, the missing children were all girls around six years old.

Second, children are almost always missing between 3 and 5 p.m.

Third, the location of the child's disappearance is relatively concentrated. With the exception of Li Xiaolan, the other three missing children all attend Jinshui County No. 1 Experimental Primary School, which ends at almost the same time, lives not far from the school, and has overlapping routes home. If you circle this area, you will find that Li Xiaolan's mahjong parlor just falls within this circle.

After grasping the basic information of the four missing children, Huo Yan's mood became extremely heavy.

"These children ......," she stole a glance at Director Xie, who insisted on participating in solving the case no matter what, and carefully considered the words. Before she could speak, Zhao Hongshan asked anxiously: "Teacher Huo, have these children been abducted by traffickers?" ”

"If that's the case, it's fine." Gu Song said bluntly, "At least they are abducted and trafficked by traffickers, and their lives can be guaranteed to some extent." ”

"Xiao Gu, what do you mean by that?" Director Xie looked at Gu Song with a painful expression and asked. In fact, after so many years of criminal investigation work, he had vaguely guessed what Gu Song wanted to say, but deep down he still refused to accept such a cruel fact.

"Xie Ju, Team Zhao, take a closer look at these four children." Gu Song said and put the photos of the four missing girls side by side on the desk, and explained to them, "The physical development of several little girls is about the same, they are all about one meter two tall, well-proportioned, not fat or thin, and they all belong to the type that looks cute and cute. In addition to this, they also have a very obvious thing in common: they both like to wear two pigtails, and their hair has serious natural curls.

"If it's a human trafficker, they don't stick to these inconsequential characteristics, but for some people with special fetishes, this may be the criterion for choosing their victims.

In other words, these little girls must have been abducted by some pedophile, and the murderer's purpose in doing so does not need to be explained. If you haven't found the children's bodies, the killer hasn't done anything to dump them. He either hid the body in his own house or buried it nearby, in short, the hope that the three children who disappeared in front of him should still be very slim......

As soon as Gu Song's words fell, Huo Yan analyzed from a professional point of view: "According to statistics, after children are abducted by perverted murderers, most of them will be brutally murdered. More than 40 per cent of those children who were murdered were killed within one hour; More than 70 per cent were killed within three hours; More than 90 per cent are killed within 24 hours; And once 24 hours have passed, the hope of the child being rescued is very slim. ”

"That means ......" Zhao Hongshan glanced at his watch eagerly, "More than five hours have passed since Concubine Ye disappeared, and we don't have much time left." ”

Although Director Xie tried his best to restrain his emotions, after all, it was his granddaughter who he regarded as a treasure that had happened, and he felt as uncomfortable as a knife when he thought about some of the cases he had come into contact with or heard of. He didn't dare to imagine what kind of torture his granddaughter would go through if she fell into the wrong hands, let alone what his family would become if he lost his family's pistachios, and how his daughter and son-in-law would live in the future.

As the director of the Jinshui County Public Security Bureau, he should have bravely taken responsibility for such a bad case on the territory under his jurisdiction, but now he really has more than enough heart and less power.

Looking at the photo on the desk, the lovely granddaughter smiled sweetly at him like a little angel, and suddenly there was a sharp pain in his chest. "No, I can't just fall like this......" He stubbornly contended with his incompromising body, but his eyes went dark, and he soon lost consciousness.

He never dreamed that when he woke up again, the case had developed to a terrifying situation that even Gu Song and Huo Yan couldn't control.