Of course, now is not the time to rest assured. After all, there is still a missing child case waiting for him in Binhai. But when Chen Bai returned to Binhai, it was already the next morning. Chen Bai had slept in the car all night.
Bai felt like his whole body was falling apart, but Chen Bai found Da Binzi immediately.
"How's it going? Have you done all the things I asked you to collect?"
"Don't worry, Teacher Chen, I've taken care of everything. And I've also sorted out a few very suspicious people."
With that said, Da Binzi placed the information he collected in front of Chen Bai.
"The first is the resident in 502 on the fifth floor. This family is located directly below the victim's house. As early as a month ago, Zhao Xiang of 602 needed to practice piano every night, and the 502 family is a newlywed couple. The wife is pregnant and needs to take care of herself.
rest, so the two families once had a quarrel over this matter, and a week ago, the 502 family came to take care of an elderly person. The elderly person believed that WiFi would affect the health of their daughter’s fetus, and insisted that everyone in the building turn off WiFi.
At this time, 602 was the first to object. On the day of the incident, there was only one male owner of the 502 house. I asked the questions you asked me to ask. The man said that he only knew that a child was missing after seeing the police.
He was playing games when the child was lost, and he thought Zhao Xiang was a selfish child who only cared about himself and did not want to care about others."
Chen Bai nodded and carefully looked through the information of the 502 family.
"Tan Haopeng, male, 28 years old, corporate executive, moved here three years ago."
"Wu Rui, female, 26 years old, unemployed, married Tan Haopeng a year ago, is due to give birth in three months, and is currently waiting at home for delivery."
Chen Bai did not read the old man's information later. Except for Tan Haopeng, everyone else in 502 had alibi evidence at the time of the crime. Although there had been irreconcilable conflicts between 502 and 602, Chen Bai just put the information in
On the other hand, upon seeing this, Da Binzi quickly handed over his next piece of investigation information.
"The next one I think is more suspicious is the one in 501. The resident of 501 is a woman who lives alone. The woman doesn't leave the house all the year round. As far as I know, the woman is an Internet writer. Since women often sleep during the day and write at night, so in this house
Years ago, when Zhao Xiang started practicing piano, the woman also raised objections, and a quarrel broke out between the two parties. The woman was sleeping at the time of the incident, and it was only when we came to the door that the woman knew something had happened. She did not answer my question, but said that Zhao Xiang
It's his parents' fault that Xiang didn't manage things well."
Chen Bai nodded and picked up the information at hand.
"Ruan Ling, 25 years old, is a contracted writer with Yangtze Literature Network and a famous online writer. She usually lives in seclusion and doesn't like to go out."
Chen Bai thought for a while and shook his head. Although he didn't see what happened when Da Binzi asked, it was impossible for the child to make no sound if he started on the fifth floor, not to mention that these two families were related to Zhao Xiang's family.
Contradictory, there should be no way for them to abduct Zhao Xiang.
"The next person I think is more suspicious is 302. The 302 family has several teddy dogs. Their dogs have a problem, that is, they will bark wildly whenever they hear the footsteps of someone going upstairs. Almost every time they live in the house, they will bark.
People above have heard the barking of their dogs. The people in 302 even specifically told the people upstairs to try to be gentle when going upstairs, because there are elderly people in 302 and sometimes someone comes upstairs just in time to catch up at noon.
When the elderly people in 302 take a nap, the barking of the dogs can easily disturb their rest. Every time Zhao Xiang passes by the third floor when he goes to school in the afternoon, the dogs will bark. For this reason, the residents of 302 have talked to 602 more than once.
To reflect on this matter, 302 accidentally let one of his dogs bite Zhao Xiang’s left leg while walking his dog a year ago, and the two families had a long-standing quarrel.”
Hearing this, Chen Bai frowned. So far, 602 has had conflicts with three families, and the conflicts all occurred a year ago. Is this a coincidence? Or is there a deeper meaning here?
"Are there any others? Is there anyone else who you think is more suspicious?"
"No, I didn't find anything suspicious after that."
After Chen Bai carefully studied the information of everyone in this building, he also shook his head. In fact, you can't tell anything just by looking at these, so if you want to know the truth of the matter, you have to go to that residential building again.
.
"Let's go! Come and see with me!"
When Chen Bai took Da Binzi to the residential building, he heard two old people downstairs discussing the matter of losing their child.
"Tell me, what evil has this family done? Tell me how you can survive if your child is lost at such a young age!"
"Who says it's not the case? The child disappeared just as soon as you went downstairs. Who else could have done it if it wasn't someone from this building?"
Chen Bai heard the two old men talking and hurriedly walked over.
"Old man, are you talking about building 602?"
"Yes, it's their house. Tell me, my father was waiting downstairs, and the child came downstairs. In just a short while, the child disappeared. Do you think this is a sinister thing? Don't even think about it. It must be this building.
The people inside.”
Chen Bai nodded. The old man didn't know whether he was talking to Chen Bai or just talking to himself.
"Actually, the 602 family is quite pitiful. I heard the old lady on the fifth floor say that she wanted the people on the sixth floor to turn off the Internet. The people on the sixth floor didn't turn off the Internet, so the old lady took pliers to cut the network cable.
The old lady said that if pregnant women were exposed to the Internet, the radiation would cause fetal malformation. In fact, there is such a large amount of radiation on the Internet, but we are not involved and can't say anything."
Chen Bai chatted with the two old ladies for a while and asked a lot of things.
"Teacher Chen, do you really think someone who has lived together for such a long time would do something like this?"
Da Binzi was a little confused, Chen Bai smiled and said helplessly.
"What? Do you still have doubts now? Have you seen too few cases like this? Although we don't have any evidence now, the child disappeared from the corridor and this one did not escape."
Chen Bai went upstairs and knocked on the door of House 502 first.
"Who?"
A man's voice came from the house. Chen Bai motioned to Da Binzi to take out his ID. After the man opened the door, Chen Bai said.
"Hello, we are here to investigate the missing children of the 602 family. I..."
Before Chen Bai finished speaking, Tan Haopeng showed an impatient look.
"What are you doing? How many times has this happened? How many times has this happened? Is it over yet? I know it's very pitiful for their children to lose their children, but this has nothing to do with us. We just want to live a good life.
That’s all, the fact that their child has been lost has already made the whole building restless, what else do they want to do!”
Chen Bai watched the man finish complaining seriously, then smiled and said.
"I know, I know, you are indeed a little upset by this matter, but I know that your child is about to be born, and you are also a family about to have a child. I believe you can understand this feeling. Think about it from my perspective.
If your child was lost, you would be very anxious."
Tan Haopeng sighed and said helplessly.
"Okay! My wife isn't at home anyway, so come in!"
Chen Bai and Da Binzi entered the house. Although the building was very dilapidated, the small house was very warm and tidy. Chen Bai even saw a crib in a corner of the living room.
"Isn't the baby not born yet? Why did you buy the crib so early?"
"Officer, it seems that you are not married and have no children. Of course, the sooner you buy this kind of thing, the better. How can anyone buy this kind of thing right after the child is born? These are all bought in advance. My wife said these things
You need to buy it in advance and let the baby live in it as soon as possible after the baby is born."
Chen Bai nodded, and Tan Haopeng took out two bottles of Coke from the refrigerator and handed them to Chen Bai and Da Binzi.
"Thank you. You can sit down and we can ask a few questions before leaving."
Tan Haopeng sat down, Chen Bai looked at the environment around the house and then asked.
"Were you the only one at home when the accident happened?"
"Yes, my mother-in-law took my wife to the hospital for a check-up. The last check-up said that the child in my wife's belly had an umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. This is not to check again to see if there is any problem. I originally wanted to go with her.
Yes, but my wife asked me to clean up at home. I had just finished playing games when I heard someone knocking on the door. Then I saw the family from 602 standing at the door of my house and asked me if their children had come to our house. I said
After that, they left. Later I found out that the child of the 602 family was missing, and they disappeared when they went downstairs."
Chen Bai nodded and continued to ask.
"I heard that you don't have a good relationship with the guy upstairs?"
When Tan Haopeng heard this, he sighed helplessly and said.
"Actually, you can't blame me for this. My wife is pregnant and we really need to be quiet. Their children practice piano every night from eight o'clock to nine o'clock. My wife is very sleepy after being pregnant, but she sleeps really lightly. I just hope
The people above could be quieter, but they said they didn't sleep at that time, and they were free to do whatever they wanted. We quarreled several times, and once I was not in a good mood, and my wife was woken up again,
I will go up and argue with them."
As soon as Tan Haopeng said this, he was interrupted by Chen Bai. Chen Bai looked at the information in his hand and said with a smile.
"Isn't it right? It seems that you didn't just go up and argue. You called the police and said that your neighbor was making noise. However, the police used a noise detector to detect that the sound of the child practicing piano did not cause any noise. Moreover, the police still came from your house.
The test was conducted and found that although this is an old building, the sound from upstairs is basically inaudible from downstairs.”
"Yes, Comrade Police, what you said is correct, but isn't my wife pregnant? I don't know why. She always says that she can hear the child making a particularly loud noise and practicing the piano. What can I do?
I can't get angry at my pregnant wife, right? So, I can only ask the people upstairs to keep their voices down."
Next, Chen Bai asked a few more questions, and Tan Haopeng also answered them. Chen Bai left without finding any doubts.
"Teacher Chen, do you think there is something wrong with this person?"
Chen Bai shook his head. Actually, it's hard to tell at this time. After all, Tan Haopeng's alibi is not perfect, but there is no evidence to prove that Tan Haopeng did it. This case is strange and more evidence is needed now.
"We're looking at this 501!"
Chen Bai and Da Binzi knocked for a long time, but no one opened the door.
"What's going on? Is there no one?"
Chen Bai lay on the door and listened carefully. There was indeed no sound in the room. Chen Bai had no choice but to go to 302 with Da Binzi first.
"Huhuhu, are you leaving?"
Ruan Ling heard that the sound at the door was gone. She walked slowly to the door and listened. She was relieved when she found that there was indeed no sound.
"Finally gone!"
Ruan Ling looked at the old man lying on the floor of the living room. The old man had a peaceful face and a peaceful expression. Ruan Ling walked up and took out a blanket to cover the old man.
"It doesn't matter. Don't worry, no one will disturb you here."
Chen Bai knocked on the door of room 302, and as expected, he heard a bunch of dogs barking before he heard anyone's voice.
"Who, who? It's noon, if you don't take a break, others will have to take a break!"
The woman who opened the door was a woman in her forties. She was holding a puppy in her arms. The moment she opened the door, several dogs barked wildly behind the woman. The woman turned around and scolded the dogs before they shut up.
"We are the police, here to investigate the disappearance of the 602 children."
When the woman heard that Chen Bai was here to investigate the 602 incident, she reluctantly stepped aside to let Chen Bai and the others in.
"Two police officers, I know it's not appropriate for me to say this, but think about it. It's been a few days, and it's not appropriate to keep asking us again and again like this! We all have our own jobs, and some
I really don’t have time to do these things. Their child is lost, but it actually has nothing to do with us.”
Chen Bai nodded. Just as he was about to ask something, the woman continued.
"Officer, actually their family doesn't have a good relationship with this whole building. Take our family as an example. Their children know that we have a dog, but they still move so much every time they go up and down the stairs. Our children
The dog barks every time when their children go downstairs. Sometimes at noon when our family is resting, we hear the dog barking, and we know that their children have gone upstairs again. Sometimes their children go upstairs.
I came back very late from the cram school. After I came back, there was a lot of noise going upstairs. Our elderly people go to bed early. Sometimes, as soon as their children go upstairs, our dog wakes up and barks wildly again."
Chen Bai was a little helpless. In fact, what this woman said was not a problem with other people's children at all. Isn't the problem because you have too many dogs? If you had fewer dogs, or educated your dogs well, then
This kind of problem won't happen.
"I heard that your dog bit the 602 family's children. Is that true?"
When the woman heard Chen Bai ask this, she looked a little embarrassed.
"Yes, it does happen, but you really can't blame me! You said, when I went out to walk the dog, their child came downstairs, and you said you couldn't just walk properly, and insisted on reaching out to pet our dog.
, our dog is afraid of being born, so it was scared at this time and bit their child. We also apologized afterwards and treated their child, and let’s talk about how this matter has anything to do with the disappearance of their child.”
Then Chen Bai asked a few more questions, but the woman answered them all. Before Chen Bai and Da Binzi left, the woman's dog barked at Chen Bai and Da Binzi again. This time Chen Bai
He was so polite and just a look made the three dogs quiet down.
"Teacher Chen, do we still want to see other schools?"
Chen Bai shook his head. In fact, he still had the same reason he had before going to Yangcheng. Zhao Xiang was kidnapped. If something happened, it would probably have happened long ago. Zhao Xiang's parents have not received any threats or calls from the kidnappers so far. This is enough
It proves that the person who kidnapped the child was definitely not doing it for money, and the most important point of this case is that the child disappeared from the corridor, so the person who kidnapped the child must be someone from this building. And he is very familiar with the child.
Otherwise, the child would not have been taken away without saying a word.
"Let's go to 602 again!"
But Chen Bai knocked on the door for a long time, but no one opened the door at 602. Chen Bai had no choice but to go back with Da Binzi first.
"How's it going? Do you have any clues?"
Bai Hongwei knew that Chen Bai would start investigating the case in their hands as soon as he came back, but Chen Bai shook his head and said there was no progress.
"The most critical issue now is that we don't know how this child disappeared. Even if he is just a child, it would take more than ten minutes to walk from the sixth floor to the first floor. There is someone within these ten minutes.
He took the child away and hid it in his own home, but we don’t know whether the child was taken away after that or whether he is still in this building.”
Of course, the case would not be shelved like this. Bai Hongwei cooperated with the nearby police station to conduct interviews and investigations on the surrounding people, and the Zhao Xiang family also printed a missing person notice for the child. They also knew that what they were doing might be in vain, but they don't want to do it now.
Know what else to do.
"Sir, actually we can help you deliver the goods and complete the decoration for you."
"No need, we have already found people for these ourselves."
The man wearing black-rimmed glasses and a suit smiled and put the tiles in the trunk of the car.
"Okay! Then, besides these tiles, do you need anything else?"
The clerk was a little unwilling to give up. He had never seen such a stubborn person buying ceramic tiles for redecoration. He obviously had this business here, but this person just didn't use it himself. He probably thought it was too expensive and wanted to do it himself. It was so good.
My car wears such nice clothes, but I can’t bear to spend the money.
"If I say no, don't use it. These are just fine."
The man was a little angry. After installing the tiles, he quickly got in the car and left.
The man parked the car and laboriously moved the tiles out of the car. When he arrived at the door, before he could knock on the door, the door opened.
"come on in!"
After the man entered the door, the woman looked at the door uneasily. The man saw the woman's cautious look and quickly pulled her in.
"Don't worry, no one will see you at this time. Your appearance at the door will attract others' attention."