The day after Easter.

Bonnie is a young police officer, and when she walks into the police station, she passes by an old woman, who is clutched tightly in her hand, and her good eyesight makes her recognize the girl in the photo at once.

The same photograph was nailed to the cork wall of the police station's poster, a little over a month ago, when the eight-year-old girl rode her bicycle from her home to a convenience store on another block less than 500 feet to buy ice cream and eggs, and never returned. Her grandmother asked everything she knew, the girl's classmates, friends and teachers, and no one had ever seen her. A neighbor said he saw her riding into the park, but no one saw her come out of the park.

They found bicycles abandoned in the bushes in the middle of the street park.

The police immediately released the girl's personal information to the whole country through various channels such as radio, television, email, traffic alerts, text messages, K, Google, etc., and the early warning system, which had saved thousands of children for five years, failed completely. The girl disappeared silently like dew that had been exposed to the sun and had evaporated without a trace - police and community volunteers helped her grandmother print and distribute 150,000 missing person notices everywhere, and before the daily weather forecast, a short video was inserted on the television station, where the girl's grandmother begged people to help her find the only relative in the world — her husband died on the battlefield at a young age, her son became a police officer and died in the line of duty less than a year after marriage. The girl's mother committed suicide because of depression - little Sarah was her last hope.

The gray-haired old woman showed the audience the Purple Heart medal that her husband had received, and he had saved five people on the battlefield; Her son's medal of honor, which was personally awarded by the president, is a photo of her husband in a military uniform, a photo of her son in a police uniform, a photo of him at his wedding, and a photo of the girl from childhood to adulthood. She begged the criminal who took the girl - if you haven't hurt her, please don't hurt her, if you have already hurt her, don't kill her. As long as her granddaughter is able to return to her, she is willing to pray to God that he will not be punished in any way for this.

As long as she can come back.

The girl's father's former partner, who was now sitting next to Bonnie, gulping down a strong black coffee, was handsome, but after a month, the heavy work and the ever-present stress had tormented him enough.

Bonnie also poured herself a cup of coffee, and she asked no less than 300 people today with a picture of her children, restaurant hostesses, and itinerant vendors. The doorman of the hotel, the homeless man in the subway station, the staff of the gas station, the volunteer of the almshouse...... Unification has come to nothing.

She nailed the picture in her hand back to the cork bulletin wall, except for the girl. There is also a boy, blonde and blue-eyed, who is seven years old.

The boy's disappearance was only a few days away from the girl's, and her mother was a member of the House of Representatives, Vera. Davis.

Vera. Davis, a single mother, was on a business trip and placed her son in the care of her niece, who reported the disappearance.

Her niece said to the police at first. The child ran out on her own while she was sleeping at night, but the police soon found evidence to the contrary in the surveillance footage that she had taken the child out, and she was finally forced to tell the truth - her boyfriend accidentally found two tickets to the Black Pound Club in the mailbox. The club's resident band was her favorite, so when her boyfriend came to ask her out on a date, she said yes without much thought.

She bribed the boy who was about to go to bed with a piece of chocolate. He bribed the doorman of the club for twenty dollars and brought the child into the club.

The band was noisy, but the child soon began to fall asleep, so she put him in a chair and put him to sleep and danced with her boyfriend by herself. How long has it been? She didn't remember very well, all she knew was that as soon as she returned to her seat, she found that the child was gone.

The F.B.I. stepped in the case that day, and with permission, they installed listening devices on the congressman's office and home telephones, as well as nearby public telephones, formed a rapid response team, and arranged for two heavily armed surveillance vehicles. They sincerely hope that this is a ransom-demanding case of professional kidnapping, which is very likely, if nothing else, the two Black Pound tickets alone will show that the kidnappers were premeditated rather than improvised.

The House of Representatives prepared ransom payments of about $2 million, all in small bills of $10, $20 and $50.

Thirty-two days have passed now, and they haven't received a single phone call.

Bonnie finished the cup of coffee that was getting bitterer and worse, and went to the pantry to wash the cup, and when she returned to the office, she saw that her former partner was answering the phone, she had thought that his face was bad enough, but she didn't expect it to continue to decay so quickly.

She already had a hunch.

The girl's father's partner put down the phone and turned to face her: "They found Sarah," he said in a choked voice, "She...... He's dead. ”

There was a series of car accidents on Highway 8, fortunately there were no casualties, and the damage was not very large, when the police questioned them, one of the men and women behaved very suspiciously, the police suspected that they were stealing drugs, and when they searched the vehicle, they found the body of a girl in the trunk.

What happened next probably no one could have imagined, and in further interrogation, the man and woman confessed that they were working for the owner of a children's boxing betting tournament, and their job was to adopt orphans from several northern regions, and then sign an agreement to send them to the boxing ring, and once the child died, they were responsible for taking the body and going to a designated hospital to issue a death certificate - but they did not believe that they had abducted and kidnapped Sarah, they gave a phone number - it was the person who gave the child to them.

The police quickly found the person according to this phone number, the guy was indeed from the north, originally a pimp in charge of "chicks", he also firmly denied the charge of kidnapping, he admitted that there was a group of orphans in his hands, but they were indeed orphans, he looked at the picture of Sarah shown to him by the police, and was at a loss, in his impression, there was no such little girl at all.

But that girl was indeed Sarah.

The FBI, who had also been tormenting in vain for more than thirty days, pounced like wild boars smelling truffles, and they were more familiar with these guys from the north than the Lafayette Police Department, and they dug down the line and dug out Abby and his gym without much effort.

They found Rep. Davis's son, the blonde boy, who was dead, just on Easter night.

Abby was charged with kidnapping and murder, and his sentence would have lasted two hundred years.

***

"Congressman Davis has submitted the latest proposal, and if it can be passed, then the entire Western Continent Federation, 56 regions, and 320 communities will completely ban children's boxing." "This proposal was put forward and Councillor Davis voted against it because she thought it would affect Lafayette's taxes," Sasha said. ”

"Then she must be crazy to get this bill through now." Beelzebub said: "The people also expressed their support, including the people of Lafayette. ”

"They are willing to pay a hundred dollars to watch other people's children being beaten to death," Sasha said indifferently, "but they will not be happy to see their own children disappear one day inexplicably, only to be found in the hospital morgue beyond recognition." ”

Just as the three missing children led to the eventual creation of the nationwide Code Adam mall child safety alert system and the Prologis warning system, Sarah and the boy's misfortune will be the cornerstone of the bill.

The faces of girls and boys are appearing on TV screens in turn.

Sasha. Hopkins picked them, and they were sacrifices and sacrifices. These children are certain to be murdered, and only a few people can see them, the pimp, the coach, Abby, and Sasha, who is one of the collaborators and investors. Hopkins could see them all, and it was very easy for him to confuse their senses now.

And the two children.

"I'll remember them," Sasha whispered, "and every night, when I close my eyes, these two faces must appear." ”

***

Abby was sentenced to 267 years and was to serve his sentence in one of the toughest prisons in the region, and six months later, he had the misfortune to provoke a dangerous fellow.

He wailed in the toilet for hours, and when people dragged him out of the toilet, they found every bone in his body crushed.

The Clovin family and the Bisandi family were finally able to sit down and divide the hundred and twenty large gyms in peace of mind - because of this accident, even adult boxing and betting matches were forced to stop for a while, but it doesn't matter, humans are easily forgetful creatures, and when things calm down, the resilience will be stronger.

"Did Clovin do it himself?"

"But no," Chegar said, "what if a children's boxing match is found illegal?" His adult boxing and gambling matches are also illegal, all illegal, and of course he can continue to do it...... Aha, look at this, I gotta say, I'd love to see the faces of those two little bastards...... Yo oh honey, you're doing it for nothing! ”

"Boys are always going to have this stage," said Anthony. "It's a pleasure to watch them sneak around and work so hard to do something stupid," Hopkins said. ”

"And," he leaned forward and touched Bisandi's cup, "we must say this – the goal is wrong, but the means are right." ”

(To be continued)