After Lu Bai reminded him, Fang Qianhu couldn't remember it anymore.
He went back to his room and brought over a case book. As he rummaged through it, he said, "I have investigated the cases of missing children in the past ten years. Among them, child ogres accounted for 30% of all missing children."
Lu Bai frowned, "Thirty percent?"
Fang Qianhu nodded, "Yes."
He had already made rough statistics when investigating the case earlier, "Thirty percent of the cases were attributed to the parents or neighbors who knew that the ogre devil had committed the crime, and later the child was not found and his whereabouts were unknown."
In at least one-half of the remaining cases, the children were missing.
"That is, the parents don't know whether it was the work of the ogre demon, or they are inclined to believe that the ogre demon did it, but they can't provide a clear witness, they haven't seen it with their own eyes or there are no neighbors to testify."
Although many of the Jinyi guards below attributed these cases to Ouer Mo, Fang Qianhu still picked them out carefully.
"Most of the remaining cases were witnessed and found out that the children were taken away artificially."
Some of the remaining cases were solved, and some were not.
The child in the unsolved case disappeared and has not been found to this day.
"Oh, that's right." Fang Qianhu saw that Lu Bai was very concerned about the ogre demon, so he hurriedly mentioned: "There are some people here who used the name of ogre demon to do something. Later, after solving the case, they found out that it was man-made."
It's just that the ogre demon this person pretended to be was not the real ogre demon after all. The Jinyi Guards had already checked it out. They just wanted to use the name of the ogre demon to cover up their crimes.
Lu Bai tapped his fingers on the table, "What about time? Are there any patterns in time? For example, has the number of missing children increased in recent years?"
Fang Qianhu rummaged around, "In terms of number, there was an explosive increase in missing children nine years ago, and then it has been stable at the high level since the outbreak, until this year..."
Fang Qianhu raised his head and glanced at Lu Bai in surprise, "It has only been more than three months since this year, and it has almost caught up with the number of missing children in previous years."
Of course, these data are traceable patterns under a fluctuation.
Lu Bai nodded.
He took a sip of tea and said, "I want to sort out the case of the ogre demon. In addition, you should focus on screening those people caught in the past ten years who abducted and trafficked children in order to redeem the children from the ogre demon.
to use other people’s children in exchange for one’s own children.”
"Get your child back from the ogre demon?" Fang Qianhu thought thoughtfully, "Do you want to start from here to find out the ogre demon?"
Fang Qianhu had actually paid attention to the rumors about the food demon - for a well-informed Jin Yiwei, it was difficult not to hear such news, not to mention that Fang Qianhu was still an old Jin Yiwei.
Since Lu Bai wants to investigate the case of the ogre demon, the rumor that he exchanged other people's children for his own child kidnapped by the ogre demon is undoubtedly a breakthrough.
He rummaged through the files in his hand, and finally found a file from the last stack of shabby files, "Someone really checked..."
He handed the dossier to Lu Bai.
"Oh, has anyone checked?" Lu Bai was surprised.
Fang Qianhu nodded.
He pointed at the file and told Lu Bai, "This is a very old file. It came from Ming Zhengsi of Langya City almost five years ago."
"Huh?" Lu Bai raised his eyebrows.
Why did this case file reach the Mingzheng Division?
"Hey, it's an old tradition of our Jinyi Guards. In addition to collecting some exercises, Ming Zhengsi's Sutra Pavilion also collects some files for the Jinyi Guards to borrow and study."
Despite Fang Qianhu's words, with the decline of Ming Zhengsi, these things were actually sent to Ming Zhengsi's Sutra Pavilion and shelved. If it weren't for Lu Bai who became Nanzhen Fusi and revitalized Nanzhen Fusi,
Having elevated Ming Zhengsi's status in the entire Jinyiwei system, these files may not see the light of day again.
"I thought of this when I was sorting out the files, and by the way, I asked them to transfer the relevant files that were backlogged in the Mingzheng Sijing Pavilion." When Fang Qianhu said this, there was a hint of pride in his tone.
In fact, this was not what he thought of, but what the old Jin Yiwei of Nanzhen Fusi thought of.
But this does not prevent him from taking the credit himself.
"good."
Lu Bai praised him and opened the file, "Zuo Peiyang? Who is this man and where is he now?"
This dossier was recorded by a man named Zuo Peiyang.
Only the files are inconvenient. If we can find the person investigating the case, we may be able to get more detailed information.
"Zuo Peiyang was the general banner of Langya City's Jinyiwei before his death, and was affiliated to Nanzhen Fusi. He later disappeared. I heard from the old Jinyiwei of Langya City that Zuo Peiyang was probably killed by the Ogre Demon when he was tracking it.
.”
"oh?"
Lu Bai was thoughtful.
He opened the file and browsed briefly, and saw that Zuo Peiyang also regarded exchanging the kidnapped children for the children abducted by the ogre demon as the focus of tracking down the ogre demon.
The difference is that Zuo Peiyang believes that this child-eating demon is getting higher and higher as it continues to eat children. Now it has reached the point of high IQ and knows how to use people's hearts to get more children.
Therefore, although Zuo Peiyang was in Nanzhen Fusi and was an unpopular and incompetent general, he had the world in mind and decided to catch this evil eater who was causing serious harm.
Earlier in the file, Zuo Peiyang mentioned that the child-eating demon has become more and more rampant in recent years. If it is not punished, the demon will appear in the world and it will be too late to regret it. The source of the rampage lies in taking other people's children.
Replace yourself with your own son.
Zuo Peiyang pointed out that it took more than half a year since he decided to investigate this case.
He found that although many child traffickers had been caught, some of these traffickers tried to exchange other people's children for their own children, so he now went to jail to investigate these people.
To his expectation, these people rarely spoke, and never even mentioned that they wanted to exchange other people's children for their own children. If Zuo Peiyang hadn't found out that their children had been kidnapped by the child-eating demon, he would have known that they had
The motive for committing such a crime could really be obscured by them.
Later, the investigation took a long time, and finally someone told Zuo Peiyang why the arrested people did not speak out - because once they spoke, their abducted children would never come back.
In other words, someone is using their children to threaten them into silence.
"Ah."
When Lu Bai saw this, he sat up straight and became energetic.
He pointed to this record in the file and asked Fang Qianhu to find out who was responsible for these cases.
There's something very fishy here.
Where is Jinyiwei?
A place where innocent people lose their skin even when they come in. Those traffickers who kidnapped children in an attempt to exchange for their own children were caught without success. If the Jin Yiwei wanted to pry open their mouths, it would be easy to learn the clues about the child eater from their mouths.
so easy.
Lu Bai didn't believe that all these people who were captured could withstand the torture of Jin Yiwei for the sake of their children.
People are selfish.
Especially in the face of life and death torture, sometimes family ties can be abandoned.
Fang Qianhu agreed and said he would check it out now.
"Wait!"
Lu Bai stopped him, "It won't be too late after I finish reading the dossier."
Lu Bai felt that Fang Qianhu still needed to be used in the process of reading the files. (To be continued)