Going home late at night was already a common occurrence for Li Xiangnian. He opened the door and went in as usual, first poured a glass of hot water, and then sat back in a chair to meditate.
His home was very tidy and lifeless. After thinking for a while, Li Xiangnian opened the cabinet and took out several boxes of medicine, poured out a few pills one by one and ate them.
"Hmm..." Li Xiangnian rubbed the bridge of his nose and picked up a photo frame placed on the table. The photo in the photo frame was of him and his wife holding their five or six-year-old daughter together.
When looking at this photo, Li Xiangnian's frown gradually relaxed.
He subconsciously pulled out a cigarette from the cigarette case, and when he was about to light it, he coughed violently again. After finally calming down, he gave up the idea, stuffed the cigarette back into the cigarette case, washed himself and went to sleep.
…
May 9th, early morning, seven o'clock sharp
Li Xiangnian returned to the Yudong Branch of the Public Security Bureau.
"Uncle Li, are you here?" A young policeman who happened to be passing by said hello to Li Xiangnian.
Li Xiangnian smiled and nodded with him, and walked towards his work station.
"By the way, Uncle Li, have you found the child who ran away from home yesterday?" the young policeman followed up and asked casually.
"Not yet." Li Xiangnian replied.
"Uncle Li, you are so old, there is no need to force yourself into this kind of thing. It is better to have one less thing than one more thing. Anyway, this is not enough to file a case. Besides, we still have a lot of things to do. We will help find it when the time comes.
That's okay, but if we don't find someone to help, they will definitely point their fingers at us and scold us for taking money and not doing things for the people." The young policeman seemed to have a lot of resentment.
Li Xiangnian returned to his seat, took out the contents of his bag, then raised his head and smiled at the young policeman: "Use your remaining energy before retiring."
When the young policeman saw this, he said nothing more and went about his own business.
Li Xiangnian lowered his head and thought about the problem of Lu Tao disappearing during the surveillance. In fact, it is not necessary to go to the local area to investigate one by one, but Li Xiangnian still likes to spend so much time. He felt that while adjusting the surveillance, he would conduct on-site inspections.
Yeah, you might have some unexpected gains.
Not long after, Liu Yimin, captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Yudong Branch, arrived. Li Xiangnian stood up and walked forward: "Captain Liu."
"Old Li." Team Liu greeted him with a smile.
In fact, Team Liu is several years older than Li Xiangnian, but between the two of them, Li Xiangnian looks older.
"I want to take half a day off tomorrow morning," Li Xiangnian said, "to see a doctor."
"Okay, how long have you been having this cough? Why hasn't it healed yet? Check it out tomorrow. If you have any questions, tell me. At this age, don't hold on." Team Liu agreed readily.
Li Xiangnian explained: "It's just a small cold. I'll get some medicine tomorrow."
"Well... you know your own body best, don't be too tired... I heard that you had a busy day yesterday. How was it? Is there any news about the child?"
"There has been some progress." Li Xiangnian said.
Captain Liu didn't seem to care very much. He patted Li Xiangnian and said, "Don't worry too much. We don't see this kind of thing very often. Aren't all the children running away for a few days, spending all their money and then coming back dejected?"
Li Xiangnian was noncommittal.
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May 9th, early morning, eight o'clock
Li Xiangnian came to the school for the second time. The purpose of this visit was to find out if there were any classmates or friends of Lu Tao living in Yonghe Community. If so, Lu Tao might not be in Yonghe Community now.
The head teacher of Zhang Yichi's class actively assisted Li Xiangnian in the investigation. The final result was that there were classmates living in Yonghe Community, but none of them had met Lu Tao. As for whether Lu Tao had any friends outside the school who lived in Yonghe Community, this
No one knows at all.
So Li Xiangnian rushed to Yonghe Community to retrieve the surveillance video inside the community, trying to find traces of Lu Tao.
…
Zhang Yichi was lying on the table. His mind was a little confused now. After unlocking the second memory last night, the direction of things changed a lot. He tried to clarify the relationship here, but he still had no clue.
He checked his phone carefully last night, but still didn't get any more useful information. And strangely, Zhang Yichi's phone was very 'clean'. There were almost no photos and no useful text messages or chat software.
The chat history has also been cleared.
He hid Lu Tao's mobile phone at home. To avoid being located, he had already pulled out the SIM card and turned off the phone. Now if he wants to unlock the secret behind it, it seems that he can only wait for the next time the memory is unblocked or Lu Tao's mobile phone is unlocked. But he
I was worried that if I opened Lu Tao's mobile phone, I would be located. Once Li Xiangnian noticed it, it would be difficult to give a reasonable explanation.
Is it possible that we have to wait for the next memory to appear?
Zhang Yichi's intuition told him that things must not be as simple as he currently thought.
Moreover, Li Xiangnian's progress exceeded his expectations. On the first day, he had already figured out the escape route of his disguised Lu Tao. At this rate, I am afraid that this morning he can completely rule out the idea that Lu Tao turned over from the blind spot of surveillance that he proposed last night.
Possibility of wall entering Yonghe Community'.
When this search route is blocked, God knows where Li Xiangnian will go.
…
The surveillance in Yonghe Community is very intensive, and there are almost no blind spots. Li Xiangnian roughly guessed a time period and checked all the contents of the relevant cameras during that time period, so the workload became a bit huge. By noon, he was overwhelmed
Checked the monitoring.
The final result was that Lu Tao did not climb over the wall or enter Yonghe Community through any means.
Ideas are blocked and progress returns to the starting point.
If he didn't enter Yonghe Community, where did Lu Tao go? Although there are blind spots in surveillance, these blind spots are caught in various cameras. In other words, even if Lu Tao can walk through a blind spot to avoid the camera, it is impossible.
Avoid all of them.
Is it possible that he really disappeared from the world? Of course it’s impossible.
After lunch, Li Xiangnian came to the woods on the side of Yonghe Community with huge doubts. He still planned to take Lu Tao's place and think about how to disappear from the surveillance camera from Lu Tao's perspective.
At the same time, 'Why did Lu Tao disappear from surveillance?' leads to 'Why did Lu Tao avoid surveillance?'
Li Xiangnian decided to first try to solve the problem of "Why did Lu Tao avoid surveillance?" If this question could be explained, then it would not be too difficult to find the answer to how he disappeared from surveillance.
It's a pity that he didn't gain anything in the woods.
In the afternoon, he contacted Lu Tao's class teacher and asked some questions about Lu Tao's close friends in the class, including Zhang Yichi. He needed to get to know Lu Tao in depth, his background and his character.