The weather in Binhai finally started to cool down, and this time the temperature dropped so much that people changed from short sleeves to long sleeves.
"Teacher Chen, you must participate in this autumn sports meeting!"
Chen Bai shook his head, and I sighed helplessly.
"No, the police force has something to do with me. We will definitely not be able to participate in this sports meeting."
Chen Bai was a little helpless. Just three days after the middle school case ended, Tan Shan's beatings escalated again. Although all nine of the attackers were caught, interrogating these people was quite laborious. Chen Bai was sure that this
There must be something else that these people are hiding from them. But these people are so stubborn that they don't speak at all.
"Okay! It seems that our teacher Chen is a busy man!"
After getting off work, Chen Bai quickly rushed to the police station. When Chen Bai arrived, Bai Hongwei and others were sitting in the office with helpless expressions.
"What's wrong?"
"The people above took the person away, and the case no longer belongs to us."
Chen Bai took Bai Hongwei's water glass and drank it in one gulp.
"Then it's okay. Since the higher authorities have taken over this matter, we don't have to work hard."
Just as Chen Bai was about to leave, Mu Bai grabbed his clothes.
"Chen Bai, I beg you to help me. The last two people were arrested in Binhai. They threatened that if I didn't let them go, they would make us regret it."
"Are you okay? Do you believe what these criminals say?"
Chen Bai was a little confused as to why Mu Bai was so nervous about several crimes.
"Chen Bai, just a week ago the second team took over a missing child case. A woman called the police and said that when she was taking her child for a walk in the park, she met a woman who talked to her. The woman also had a five or six-year-old boy with her.
, the woman didn’t pay attention and just watched the two children playing while chatting. Then the woman excused herself to leave for a while and asked the woman to help look after the children. However, after the woman left, she discovered that her daughter and the woman were together with her.
All the children are gone.”
Chen Bai frowned after hearing this. This is a typical scam. Generally, they find women who are alone with children, because most people will relax their vigilance when they see people with children, but it is because of so many
Traffickers take advantage of this gap to commit crimes.
"But, what does it have to do with those two people?"
Chen Bai still didn't understand how even if there was a kidnapping case, it had anything to do with the two people who beat Tan Shan.
"Actually, it was the two people we caught in Binhai who knew about this, but they were taken away by the people above us before we could ask what happened."
Chen Bai rubbed his head and said helplessly.
"Okay! I don't understand this aspect of things. I don't know how you communicate with the people above, but since you opened your mouth, how about I help you?"
Chen Bai saw that Bai Hongwei also wanted to help Mu Bai, so he could only nod helplessly.
"Okay, now that I'm here, I must help with this case. Is there surveillance in the park? I'll take a look first!"
When Mu Bai heard this, he stood up from his chair and said excitedly.
"I said that Chen Bai can definitely help me. Just wait and I will get you all the information on the case right now."
After Mu Bai left, Bai Hongwei looked at Chen Bai sheepishly.
"Thank you for your hard work. It's only been a few days since the last case was completed, so it's going to be hard for you again."
"What are you talking about? Since I have promised to help, I will not go back on my word."
Bai Hongwei nodded when he heard Chen Bai's words, but his expression was hesitant to speak.
"Okay, if there's anything else you want to say, just say it all at once."
"Chen Bai, actually we also received a report of a missing child here yesterday, but this thing is a bit too bizarre. I have never figured out what happened. But you were in class yesterday, so I didn't talk to you.
explain."
After Bai Hongwei finished speaking, Da Binzi turned on the computer and showed Chen Bai a record of the crime report.
"Yesterday afternoon we received a report. A couple said their child was lost. But this loss was a bit strange, because before the child was lost, the wife was playing with the child at home, and then the father drove downstairs to wait for the child.
I came down to send the child to cram school. Just as I was going downstairs, the child disappeared."
Chen Bai was lighting a cigarette at this time, but when he heard Da Binzi's words, he stopped lighting his cigarette.
"Wait a minute? What did you say? The person just disappeared when I went downstairs?"
Chen Bai was a little confused, could he just go downstairs and disappear?
"Yes, we were a little confused when we received the report, but after we saw the scene, we had to believe it. Their family lived on the sixth floor, and the child's father was waiting downstairs. In such a short period of time, the child died
Disappeared."
Chen Bai frowned. Since this is an old-fashioned community, there is no surveillance in the corridors at all, so now they don't know where the child went.
"They disappeared in the corridor. Did their neighbors check it out?"
Chen Bai knew that if those children disappeared from the corridor, the most suspect would be the children's neighbors.
"We are investigating, but we don't have evidence right now so we can't knock on doors and search door to door, but we have found out everyone's details."
Just as Da Binzi was about to put information on the big screen, Mu Bai walked in with a stack of information and a laptop.
"Are you busy?"
"It's okay, Da Binzi, please check the information first, and then show me your case information!"
Mu Bai nodded and placed the information and laptop in his hands on the table.
"Three days ago in the afternoon, we received a report. A woman called the police saying that her child was missing. We immediately dispatched, but by the time we arrived, it was definitely too late. I immediately mobilized all available police forces to deal with the incident.
A blanket search was conducted within a radius of one kilometer, but nothing was found in the end. After that, the woman told me how the child was lost. As far as I understand, this is a new type of scam, but the problem now is that people are wearing masks.
, even if I retrieved the surveillance video, I couldn’t see the woman’s face clearly. And according to the park’s surveillance, the little boy followed the little girl he was playing with into the park’s surveillance blind spot, and what happened next
We don’t know what happened.”
Chen Bai watched the surveillance camera carefully and had to say that this trafficker was very smart. She knew that women would not take their eyes away from their children easily, so the trafficker first struck up a conversation with the victim and waited until the victim saw his child having fun with his children.
I let my guard down, and my child was taken away step by step.
"Wang Xin, can you draw it?"
Chen Bai looked at Wang Xin beside him, but Wang Xin shook his head.
"It's useless, Chen Bai, don't you think this woman looks a little strange?"
"strangeness?"
Chen Bai looked at the woman carefully, but he really didn't see anything.
"Chen Bai, this woman appeared in front of everyone after disguising herself."
After Wang Xin said this, everyone was stunned. Because they had only heard the word disguise in novels. In reality, can anyone really change their face completely without surgery?
"Actually, this is one of your misunderstandings. Plastic surgery hospitals can change people's appearance through silicone, and can change their body shape through filling or liposuction. Among the things that people can easily obtain, the easiest thing to obtain is pigs.
Trotters. Pork trotters can be boiled for a long time to obtain gelatin, and this gelatin can be used to easily make masks like human faces."
"So what you're saying is that even if you draw this person's appearance according to the footage on the surveillance camera, it's useless, right?"
Wang Xin nodded, Chen Bai sat on the chair and lit a cigarette thoughtfully. At this time, Chen Bai also happened to look up at the big screen.
"Wait a minute, why does this place look so familiar?"
Chen Bai suddenly felt that the place where the couple who lost their child lived looked familiar, but everyone was a little confused when they saw Chen Bai's unconventional way of solving the case. Could it be that Chen Bai wanted to solve the two cases together?
"This is a large building located on Canton Road. It is called a large building because it was very old. When this building was built, there was no concept of a community. At that time, this building just stood here naked.
That’s why we named it Dabanlou.”
Chen Bai smiled, took Da Binzi's laptop, opened the map of Binhai City and drew circles in two places.
"Look, this is where the children were lost in these two cases. What do you think is the probability of two cases of missing children occurring within three days?"
Bai Hongwei reacted immediately, looked at Chen Bai and asked.
"Chen Bai, are you saying that the people who kidnapped the children in the park and those who took the children away from the residential buildings are actually the same group of people?"
"Even if they are not a group of people, they should be acquaintances. There have been consecutive kidnappings at such a close distance and in such a short period of time. Anyway, I don't think it is such a coincidence."
Bai Hongwei and Mu Bai looked at each other. Could it be that Chen Bai planned to combine the two cases for investigation?
"Mu Bai, did you visit the people in the park at that time?"
"I visited, and although many people saw an eight- or nine-year-old girl playing with a five- or six-year-old boy, there were so many children in the park that it was impossible for those people to think so much at that time.
"
Chen Bai nodded. Kidnapping cases are divided into crimes committed by acquaintances and crimes committed by strangers. Chen Bai believed that this woman must come to this park with her children at a fixed time every day or every week. The traffickers must have targeted this woman early.
But this time they found the best time to take action, so they took action directly.
"But as soon as we didn't find the child, we ordered all means of transportation out of the city to be blocked, released the child's portrait to conduct interrogations at various service areas and toll stations out of the city, and ordered the grassroots police stations to pay close attention to children aged eight or nine.
woman."
"Oh? Why would you do this?"
Chen Bai was a little curious, because if we follow the general method of handling kidnapping cases, we should pay close attention to the victim now, because the kidnapper is likely to call at this time.
"Teacher Chen, in the past few days, one or several children have been lost in Dagang, Xinhe, Development Zone, and Lingang areas. The youngest lost child is two or three years old, and the oldest is eight or nine years old. We exchanged
After some thought, I thought this was probably done by a huge criminal organization, and they were likely to commit crimes in the coastal area."
Chen Bai nodded. He had to say that Mu Bai's judgment was reasonable. It couldn't be a coincidence that there were so many kidnapping cases in one city in a short period of time.
"And more importantly, these kidnappers did not ask for ransom after taking the children, they just took the children away."
Chen Bai frowned. If this was the case, things would be a bit troublesome. An organized crime would never reveal its flaws so easily, and there are almost no clues to investigate now.
"Let me think!"
Chen Bai leaned over, folded his hands and rested his arms on his knees. No one dared to disturb Chen Bai when they saw him deep in thought.
"No, this case in the residential building is probably not related to Mu Bai's case. There are only two families on one floor of this old building. This family lives on the top and sixth floor. The mother of the child watched the child go downstairs.
, so the person opposite the door should have no chance, and the child's father parked his car at the door of the building. This kind of old-fashioned residential building does not have unit doors, and what is going on on the first floor can be seen completely, so it is not the same.
People on the upper floors took action. Neither the couple heard the child's screams, so the murderer did not take the child away by force. The child knew the murderer and might have a good relationship with them. What methods did they use to get the child to enter?
Later, because the police did not have a search warrant, they could not enter the house to search immediately. Is the child dead? Is there any irresolvable hatred between them? "
Chen Bai shook his head. Although everyone was anxious at this time, no one bothered Chen Bai.
"The kidnapping case in the park is also weird. Unlike before, there are surveillance everywhere now. Although they did avoid surveillance, is their purpose really just to kidnap children? But they made such a big fuss
What is it for? For general criminal organizations, one kidnapping case in one city is enough, because unlike before, there is no need to wait 24 hours for a minor to go missing. After they kidnap the child, if the victim reports the crime in time
, their chances of escaping are slim."
Chen Bai rubbed his head. There were too many uncertain factors in these two cases, and it was definitely useless to think about it here.
"Let's go! Take me to the residential building where the child was lost first. These two cases cannot be delayed. I will try to help you as soon as possible."
There was no words all the way. When Chen Bai arrived at the residential building, Bai Hongwei took Chen Bai up directly.
"Comrade police, is there any news about our child?"
The person who opened the door was a woman. Chen Bai saw that the woman's eyes were blood red, her hair was disheveled and she looked haggard. It was obvious that she had not slept well for a long time.
"Not yet, but this is Chen Bai, the consultant of our criminal police team. Please tell our consultant what happened that day again. He has solved many major cases and will definitely be able to help you."
Chen Bai nodded, and the woman let Chen Bai into the room. Chen Bai saw that the room was very messy, and there was a stack of A4 papers neatly stacked on the table. Chen Bai knew without looking that it must be the missing person notice printed by the child's parents.
"I'm sorry, I lost my child and don't have time to clean up the house, so you can just sit there!"
The woman simply tidied up the sofa, and Chen Bai found a place to sit down and looked at the woman.
"You are telling me in detail what happened that day."
"It was at noon two days ago. The child had to go to a cram school after lunch. I usually take the child there, but that day the child's father was off work and the child also wanted to take his father's car to work, so that day I sent him to a cram school.
I let the child go downstairs by himself and I was cleaning up upstairs. I watched the child go downstairs, but twenty minutes later, the child’s father called me and asked why the child didn’t come downstairs. The cram school was going to be late.
, but the child had already gone downstairs by that time. I hurried downstairs to look for it, but found nothing."
The woman covered her face in pain when she said this, but Chen Bai heard something wrong from the woman's description.
"Wait a moment. How do you know that twenty minutes have passed?"
"I checked my watch when the child left home. Because it was still early at that time, I thought there was no need to leave so early, but the child's father insisted on sending the child off early. He came back later and wanted to go watch a movie with me."
Chen Bai nodded and motioned for the woman to continue.
"I searched the corridor, but I didn't see the child. I was already a little anxious at that time. The child's father's car was parked at the door of the building. If the child came out, it would be impossible not to see him. He was treating the child
He was very serious about this aspect. He never looked at his mobile phone when picking up the child, so there was no possibility of the child slipping away from his eyes. After that, I asked the child’s father to guard the door of the building. I knocked on the door one by one to ask, but everything
People told me that they didn't see the child, and several people even asked me to go into the house to look for it, but I still couldn't find the child. At this time, many neighbors came out to help us look for it, but after searching for a long time, we still couldn't find it.
Child, we called the police after that.”
Chen Bai nodded. Although there is no evidence yet, Chen Bai is probably sure that the people in this building must know something. But Chen Bai, who has no evidence now, cannot conduct a search.
"Ma'am, I know this question is a little rude, but I still want to ask, have you known the residents of this building before?"
The woman shook her head. She didn't understand why Chen Bai asked this.
"Okay, if you're sorry for disturbing us, let's go first. Don't worry, we will do our best to help you find your child."
After Chen Bai went out, Bai Hongwei couldn't help but ask.
"How's it going? Did you find anything?"
Chen Bai lit a cigarette and said helplessly.
"I'm not a god, I can't know everything just by looking at the scene, but I really found something, but I don't know if it has anything to do with this case."
"Say, you can find anything!"
Bai Hongwei was a little anxious. After all, he lost his child and now he had to race against time.
"Their relationship as husband and wife is not very good and has reached the point of divorce."